Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

“At PwC, built and productionized an agentic RAG enterprise search assistant over 6M internal documents (8M embeddings), deployed across AWS and GCP. Drove major retrieval gains (72%→92% precision via BM25+dense hybrid with RRF and cross-encoder re-ranking), reduced hallucinations 30%, achieved <2s latency at 50–60K queries/month, and cut support tickets 30%—boosting adoption to 2,500 users by adding source-cited answers.”

“Backend/data platform engineer with production experience at Walmart and Molina Healthcare, building Python microservices on AWS (EKS + Lambda) for real-time inventory and recommendation systems. Strong in reliability/observability and incident leadership, plus modernizing legacy healthcare workflows and building resilient AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines with schema evolution and data quality controls.”

“Hands-on LLM practitioner who built a production document-processing pipeline in Python, tackling long-document handling and latency with chunking/batching and a user-driven correction feedback loop. Experienced operationalizing AI workflows with Kubernetes (CronJobs, autoscaling, scheduled data cleaning and weekly retraining) and applying structured testing/evaluation (E2E, LLM-as-judge, HITL) while communicating solutions clearly to non-technical clients using visual diagrams.”

“Software engineer with experience across enterprise (AIG, MSCI) and an early-stage startup (Job Map), owning production systems end-to-end. Built secure insurance microservices on Spring Boot with JWT/RBAC and AWS-based CI/CD/observability, plus Kafka streaming pipelines for financial data. Also shipped a GenAI personalization MVP using FastAPI and LLM APIs in a high-ambiguity startup environment.”

“AI engineer (2+ years; pursuing an online MS at UIUC) who has shipped an AI-powered voice screening platform end-to-end on GCP with strong production monitoring and measurable hiring-process impact (80% reduction in unqualified pass-through; ~50+ hours saved per role). Also built and deployed an AWS-based context-aware hybrid search system using OpenSearch as a vector store, and has hands-on experience with multi-agent LLM orchestration (ReAct) and structured-output guardrails.”

“Worked on onboarding a Middle East logistics client processing thousands of invoices/month, building a production-ready pipeline that routes known vendor PDFs to deterministic regex parsers via Tax ID matching and falls back to LlamaParse for unknown layouts. Added financial consistency validation plus human-in-the-loop review and logging/metrics to continuously reduce LLM usage and improve template coverage.”

“Backend/event-driven systems engineer who built an end-to-end “software robot” for AI-driven invoice processing: FastAPI ingestion + OCR integration + classification mapping, with strong emphasis on reliability (idempotency, retries) and scalability (background workers, event-driven architecture). Experienced in production-grade distributed systems tooling (Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) and real-time debugging via tracing/telemetry, and expects $10k–$12k/month.”

“Robotics ML/software engineer focused on Vision-Language-Action control for 7-DoF robots, replacing tokenized action decoding with continuous regression heads (including a logit-weighted expectation approach) to improve stability and real-time behavior. Strong in ROS1/ROS2 systems integration and debugging closed-loop manipulation issues via latency instrumentation, QoS-aware distributed messaging, and sim-to-real validation using Gazebo/Unity, Docker, and CI pipelines.”

“At Esri, the candidate is building a production LLM-powered WebGIS AI framework that embeds an AI assistant into web maps and routes natural-language requests into ArcGIS JavaScript SDK functions via a LangGraph-orchestrated, multi-agent system. They emphasize production reliability and scale (strict tool calling/JSON, live schema validation, query guardrails) and rigorous evaluation/observability using LangSmith, offline prompt datasets, and latency/tool-call accuracy tracking.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM Q&A and summarization platform for internal documents, emphasizing grounded answers with structured prompting and citations to reduce hallucinations. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end LLM workflows with LangChain plus cloud pipelines (Azure ML Pipelines, AWS), and runs iterative evaluation using both metrics (accuracy/hallucination/latency/cost) and real user feedback to drive reliability.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience building event-driven logistics systems (orders, warehouse execution, real-time delivery tracking) using Spring Boot/PostgreSQL/Redis and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana). Led a zero-downtime migration from monolithic MySQL to a sharded architecture for ~2M users with dual-write, checksum validation, and fast auto-rollback, and has strong security expertise including PostgreSQL RLS for multi-tenant SaaS and robust OAuth/JWT handling.”

“Built and deployed a live LLM-powered platform that takes a LinkedIn job URL + resume and generates job-specific resumes and personalized outreach at scale, with production-grade logging/monitoring/retries on Vercel + Railway. Experienced with agent orchestration (AWS Bedrock/Strands, LangGraph, CrewAI) and rigorous AI workflow testing, plus stakeholder-facing prototypes like data lineage/metadata and NL-to-SQL + dashboard generation.”

“Backend/platform engineer focused on high-traffic financial systems, owning real-time event-driven ingestion and Kafka streaming pipelines using Python/FastAPI, Avro schemas, and AWS services. Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps/CI-CD experience (ArgoCD/Jenkins) and supported large-scale migrations from legacy VMs to containerized microservices with zero/low-downtime cutovers.”

“FinTech/AI engineer who has shipped an end-to-end discrepancy-detection product for financial managers using Next.js, FastAPI/GraphQL, Pinecone, and AWS (with dev/staging/prod, observability, A/B testing, and documentation). Also built an AI-native “AI Genesis” system with agentic cyclic workflows, routing, and tool use, and has experience modernizing legacy systems via the strangler fig pattern while coordinating with senior stakeholders on a 5G autonomous simulation platform.”

“Backend/ML systems engineer with experience at SDSC, UCSD, and Media.net, building production semantic dataset/model discovery using embeddings + Solr KNN and LLM-based intent/reranking at 5M+ dataset scale. Emphasizes offline/online separation for predictable serving, has delivered measurable gains (23% retrieval accuracy, 38% latency reduction) and helped secure a $3M+ NSF grant.”

“Frontend-focused JavaScript engineer who built Collabsync with real-time chat and file sharing using Socket.io, emphasizing reusable components, clear event contracts, and performance (minimizing React re-renders). Has experience at PwC building internal React/Angular dashboards and documenting insurance APIs, plus a contract role at Capital One delivering in fast-changing, loosely defined environments.”