Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

“Built and deployed a production GenAI internal support agent at Bank of America (“Ask GPS/AskGPT”) using RAG on Azure, focused on reducing escalations and improving response quality for repetitive knowledge-based queries. Demonstrates strong production LLM engineering: custom LangChain orchestration, retrieval tuning to reduce hallucinations, rigorous offline/online evaluation, and model benchmarking with dynamic routing (e.g., GPT-4 vs Claude).”

“Early-career (fresher) candidate who built and deployed a production AI medical document chatbot using a RAG architecture (LangChain + Hugging Face LLM + Pinecone) with a Flask backend on AWS EC2 via Docker. Has experience troubleshooting real deployment constraints (model dependencies, disk space, container stability) and setting up continuous-style evaluation with fixed query test sets tracking relevance, latency, and error rate.”

“AI/ML engineer with HP experience building and productionizing an LLM-powered document intelligence platform (LangChain + Pinecone) to deliver semantic search and contextual Q&A across millions of enterprise support documents. Demonstrates strong MLOps and scaling expertise (Airflow, Kubernetes autoscaling, Triton GPU inference, monitoring with Prometheus/W&B) plus a structured approach to evaluation (A/B tests, shadow deployments, failover) and effective collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Built and shipped 'PetPulse,' a production AI pet-health note system that records voice notes, transcribes them, converts transcripts into structured symptom/event data, and supports grounded Q&A over a user’s notes and vet PDFs. Demonstrates full-stack LLM product execution (FastAPI + GPT-4 + Firebase), with concrete reliability/performance work (async endpoints, caching, RAG/embeddings, function calling) and user-centered iteration with a non-technical product stakeholder.”

“Internship experience building a production RAG+LLM pipeline to map messy card transaction descriptions to merchant brands, including a custom modified-ROUGE evaluation approach for weak/variant ground truth. Improved scalability and cost by moving from a managed LLM endpoint (e.g., Bedrock) to self-hosted vLLM, and orchestrated massive embedding backfills (5,000+ files, 10B+ rows) using an Airflow-triggered SQS + ECS worker architecture with robust retry/DLQ handling.”

“Edtech/education-focused engineer who took an accessibility-critical LLM/vision feature from concept to production: built an OpenCV-gated whiteboard capture pipeline feeding Gemini Vision for handwriting-to-LaTeX, improving math transcription 80% while cutting inference costs 60%. Also built RAG observability and retrieval fixes that stabilized inconsistent answers, and partnered directly with sales to reshape demos and open a new K-12 revenue pipeline aligned to California Digital Divide grant requirements.”

“Built and deployed a secure, production LLM-based document summarization and risk-highlighting tool for financial auditors, running inside a private Azure environment to protect confidential data. Focused on reliability (hallucination mitigation via retrieval-based prompts and source citations) and validated performance through comparisons to auditor summaries plus a user pilot, cutting review time by about half.”

“GenAI/ML engineer with production experience building multilingual LLM systems (English/Spanish) and RAG-based clinical documentation summarization at Walgreens, combining prompt engineering, structured output validation, and rigorous evaluation (ROUGE + pharmacist review). Also orchestrated end-to-end ML pipelines for demand forecasting using Apache Airflow, PySpark, and MLflow with scheduled retraining and production monitoring.”

“Built and shipped an end-to-end podcast recommendation system exposed via a Flask API and React UI, explicitly balancing relevance, diversity (MMR), and safety constraints while meeting ~200ms latency targets. Also implemented a production-style RAG/information-extraction pipeline using web retrieval, spaCy NER, and fine-tuned SpanBERT with guardrails and evaluation loops (precision/recall/F1) to tune confidence thresholds and improve reliability.”

“Early-stage founder building an engineering alpha product and planning a structured path to pilot and general availability. Active mentor in TechStars and MassChallenge with a strong VC network, emphasizing PMF, MVP-in-market feedback, and early sales while maintaining a sustainable approach to entrepreneurship.”

“Founding software engineer who built an autonomous-vehicle 3D digital twin using Unreal Engine 5 and CARLA, owning core simulator logic (traffic/scenarios/weather) and a ROS 2-based pipeline to record synchronized multi-sensor data (RGB/depth/segmentation/LiDAR/IMU/GPS). Also implemented distributed synchronization patterns (server + client prediction) using FastAPI and WebSockets; seeking roles with H1B transfer and targeting ~$110k.”

“Consulting-background AI practitioner who led a production LLM pipeline on Snowflake Cortex to map hundreds of thousands of messy OCR/form-based contract fields into standardized Salesforce fields, including confidence scoring and an LLM-driven feedback loop. Strong focus on real-world constraints—token limits, cost control, and evaluation without ground truth—paired with frequent stakeholder-facing progress reporting.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-based PDF extraction pipeline for Medicaid policy documents by fine-tuning Gemini Flash 2.0 and deploying via Vertex AI, adding validation/guardrails to improve trust and reliability. Also built and scaled a SaaS platform (cnotes) for cable operators and regularly partners with customers and sales teams through interactive demos, rapid iteration, and real-time workflow debugging.”

“GenAI/ML engineer from Lucid Motors who built and productionized an LLM-powered RAG diagnostic assistant for manufacturing and maintenance teams, deployed on AWS with Docker/Kubernetes and MLflow. Demonstrates end-to-end ownership from retrieval/prompt design to scalability, monitoring, and workflow integration via APIs, plus production ML pipeline orchestration with Kubeflow (Spark/Kafka + TensorFlow) for predictive maintenance use cases.”

“Backend engineer at Goldman Sachs who deployed internal LLM-powered utilities to summarize operational logs/tickets, with a strong emphasis on data sensitivity and reliability. Built deterministic workflows with template-based prompts, confidence checks, and rule-based fallbacks, and used monitoring plus failure-rate metrics to tune performance; also has hands-on Temporal orchestration experience for resilient async backend jobs.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered market intelligence and decision-support platform for noisy, real-time financial data, using a high-throughput embedding + vector DB RAG architecture to reduce hallucinations while keeping latency and cost low. Operated it at scale with GPU-backed inference (continuous batching/quantization), FastAPI on Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated ingestion/embedding/retraining workflows, with strong schema-based reliability and monitoring.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for semiconductor manufacturing failure analysis, reducing engineer triage effort by grounding outputs in retrieved evidence and gating responses with SPC + ML signals (LSTM anomaly scores, XGBoost probabilities). Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph to ship reliable, observable multi-step agents with branching/fallback logic, and evaluates impact using both technical metrics and business KPIs like mean time to triage and downtime reduction.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG chatbot at Wells Fargo for securely querying regulated financial and compliance documents, emphasizing low hallucination rates, explainability, and strict governance. Experienced with LangChain multi-agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, evaluation, and retraining, and partnered closely with compliance/operations to drive adoption through demos and feedback-driven retrieval rules.”

“Software engineer working on an e-commerce platform, currently building a RAG-based recommendation system with a team new to the technology. Has delivered an end-to-end React/TypeScript website for a local car dealer and built an internal "encryption as a service" tool to secure sensitive data across repositories and through release/UAT, with experience debugging microservices integration issues.”

“Internship experience building production-oriented AI systems, including a real-time voice scam/spoof detector (RawNet + AASIST) hardened for noisy audio via aggressive augmentation and Zoom-based noise simulation, evaluated with EER on clean and wild datasets. Also built an LLM-driven UI automation agent using Playwright for apps like Linear/Notion with modular tool design, unit tests, and replayable scripted scenarios, and has AWS Step Functions experience orchestrating Lambda/Cognito workflows.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG knowledge assistant integrating internal docs, wikis, and ticket histories to reduce tribal-knowledge dependency and repetitive questions. Emphasizes reliability via grounding + a validation layer, and achieved major latency gains (>50%) through vector index optimization, caching, quantization, and selective re-validation. Comfortable orchestrating end-to-end LLM/data workflows with Airflow, Prefect, and Dagster, including monitoring and alerting.”

“Founder/builder of an EdTech startup (robograde.io) who personally conducted on-site classroom discovery with teachers and rapidly iterated the product based on real-world feedback. Implemented a Canvas LMS integration and refined it through weeks of in-person testing, and handled a live production grading failure by quickly debugging and deploying a fix, then adding fault-tolerant/backup API design.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built an AI RAG system on FastAPI/Postgres/AWS with 10+ microservices, vector search optimization (ANN + two-stage re-ranking), and GitOps-driven CI/CD that cut deploy time from hours to minutes. Also deployed Java identity services on Kubernetes at TSMC for 200K+ users using ArgoCD/Azure Pipelines, and built a reliable real-time IoT pipeline (MQTT/Node/MongoDB) with strong consistency controls.”