Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

Amit Sharma

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI/LLM platforms, payments, and healthcare systems

San Francisco, CA25y exp

“Engineering player-coach who recently shipped an agent-based workflow to extract key info from unstructured web data (browser agents + CDP) and populate daily digests/calendars, owning architecture through testing. Also built a Flask-based LLM evaluation and regression testing system using G-Eval/Confident AI dashboards, and applies a rigorous, research-driven approach to selecting third-party tools with stakeholder buy-in; has healthcare ops/onboarding workflow experience at Vivio Health.”

“ML/AI engineer with Goldman Sachs experience building production fraud detection and RAG-based trading insights systems end-to-end. Stands out for combining real-time ML infrastructure, GenAI retrieval systems, and compliance-aware design, with measurable impact including nearly 25% false-positive reduction and improved analyst productivity.”

“Built and owned end-to-end production systems for a healthcare platform, including a predictive task recommendation feature (React + FastAPI + ML on AWS ECS) that cut backlog 20% and saved coordinators ~10 hours/week. Also productionized an AI-native RAG system (vector DB + LLM) delivering 40% faster query resolution, and led phased modernization of a monolithic FastAPI service into async microservices using feature flags and canary releases.”

Sai Karthik Chittamuru

Screened

Senior Salesforce Developer specializing in AI systems and enterprise cloud solutions

Pittsburgh, PA15y exp

“Salesforce-focused engineer with hands-on experience building Sales Cloud and Service Cloud solutions, including a Zoho billing integration for quote/contract workflows and a multi-panel LWC case management dashboard. Stands out for making practical architecture decisions around middleware vs. custom REST, handling idempotency with upsert patterns, and modernizing legacy Aura patterns with Lightning Message Service.”

“Built a production B2C behavioral interview system for job seekers using LangGraph/LangChain on AWS Bedrock with Nova models, plus a FastAPI backend and Vercel AI SDK frontend. Stands out for practical agent reliability work: local stress testing, OpenTelemetry-to-Datadog observability, token/cost monitoring, and guardrails to keep conversations on track and resistant to instruction override.”

“Built production-grade Python systems in a medical/imaging context, including an image feature extraction and survival prediction microservice with strong testing, validation, and observability practices. Also developed a Playwright-based autonomous job application agent that handled dynamic UIs and anti-bot challenges with stealth tooling, proxies, and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

Prakash Bhanu

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in cloud, platform, and FinTech systems

Sunnyvale, CA22y exp

“Senior software engineering leader with broad 0-to-1 product experience spanning web apps, microservices, monoliths, messaging platforms, ML/AI products, and large-scale distributed systems. Notable examples include building a payroll/finance product for cast and crew, a distributed messaging platform, and a Walmart application deployed across multiple CDNs and clouds handling hundreds of TPS, with personal ownership across architecture, design, coding, and support.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at AWS building a global alarm processing platform (Python, Lambda/SQS/DynamoDB) handling traffic spikes and reliability issues; resolved duplicate alerts and latency under load by fixing hot partitions and enforcing idempotency. Previously at Cognizant, built Java/PostgreSQL backend workflows for healthcare dashboards using pre-aggregated summary tables, strong SQL optimization, and state-driven job orchestration with ELK-based observability and production guardrails.”

Srinivas Vasudevan

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech

Durham, NC3y exp

“Built an end-to-end payment fraud monitoring dashboard with a React/TypeScript frontend, GraphQL backend, Redis hot path, and a production RAG chatbot, while solving real-time latency and scaling issues. Also shipped an OCR system on AWS EKS for a live manufacturing line at Troxler, improving production accuracy by 15% with custom preprocessing and model tuning.”

“Backend-focused AI engineer with enterprise experience building startup-style internal products at JPMorgan Chase. He helped create an AI-powered financial research platform for analysts, leading retrieval and multi-agent orchestration work that cut research prep from hours to under 20 minutes while scaling across large volumes of SEC filings and earnings transcripts.”

“Product leader focused on AI-powered, human-centered platforms, including a holistic support product for young female athletes in underserved communities. Has worked across startups and large enterprises on multimodal AI, predictive workflows, and commerce platforms, with experience building teams and shaping products around both user trust and measurable business outcomes.”

Sanjay Santhanam

Screened

Mid-level AI Software Engineer specializing in LLMs and FinTech data systems

San Jose, CA4y exp

“Backend/AI systems engineer focused on productionizing agentic document-processing workflows for large financial PDFs. They describe owning deployments end-to-end, combining Python, Redis, LLM function calling, RAG/ReAct-style orchestration, and strong reliability practices to deliver 80% faster processing, reduce parsing errors from 12% to ~1%, and sustain 99.9% uptime in high-concurrency environments.”

“Built end-to-end AI features across both fitness and insurance domains, including a full-stack personalized workout recommendation system and a production RAG-based insurance QA assistant at Relevance Labs. Stands out for combining backend/distributed systems skills with practical LLM architecture, evaluation, and risk-aware human-in-the-loop design; notably reduced unnecessary LLM calls by 40% while improving latency and answer reliability.”

“Built a production LLM-powered RAG agent for healthcare/insurance operations that retrieves and summarizes patient medical documents with grounded citations, scaling to ~4.5M records. Addressed medical shorthand and terminology by fine-tuning ~120 lightweight DistilBERT models by specialty and validating entities against SNOMED/RxNorm, while using SHAP/LIME and human-in-the-loop review to make decisions explainable to stakeholders.”

“Full-stack AI/LLM engineer who has deployed a production LLM backend (Mistral 14B) on GKE to auto-transform datasets and generate runnable ML training pipelines, addressing hallucinations, schema mismatch, latency, and burst scaling with caching/prompt compression and HPA. Also has internship experience (Splunk, BlackOffer) delivering data automation and 10+ Power BI dashboards for non-technical stakeholders with measurable efficiency gains.”

“Full-stack engineer building real-time internal banking operations dashboards (Java/Spring Boot microservices + React/TypeScript) with Kafka-based streaming and post-launch performance optimizations. Also shipped a production internal AI support assistant using RAG (Confluence/PDF/support docs ingestion, embeddings + vector DB retrieval) with guardrails, evaluation loops, and observability to reduce hallucinations and prevent regressions.”

Vamshikrishna Bandi

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and agentic multi-agent systems

6y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered multi-agent RAG system to automate complex internal support workflows, integrating tool execution (SQL/APIs) with validation guardrails to reduce hallucinations. Optimized for real-world latency and cost via model routing, caching, and async parallel tool calls, and enforced reliability with CI-gated golden test sets derived from anonymized production queries.”

Praveen Nutulapati

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic systems

New York, NY6y exp

“Built and deployed a production multi-agent RAG system at JPMorgan Chase to automate regulated credit analysis and compliance clause discovery across large internal policy/document libraries. Implemented LangGraph-based supervisor orchestration with structured state management (Azure OpenAI) to support long-running, resumable workflows, plus hybrid retrieval + re-ranking and guardrails for reliability. Strong at evaluation/observability (trace logging, LLM-judge, HITL) and at communicating results to non-technical stakeholders via Power BI embeds and Streamlit prototypes.”

Kunal Singh Pundir

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud microservices and GenAI systems

USA, USA5y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end AI-driven decisioning platform at Uber, combining LLM orchestration with typed tool contracts and a Snowflake-based RAG pipeline to make decisions fully auditable. Delivered large-scale measurable impact (120k requests/day, 18k cases auto-resolved/month) while improving ops SLA from 3 days to 6 hours and cutting incident response time nearly in half. Previously led a high-risk strangler-fig modernization of a legacy insurance platform across 120+ microsites at Accenture, coordinating across multiple squads with feature-flagged parallel cutovers.”

Vedant Kharwal

Screened

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and applied machine learning

Mumbai, India1y exp

“New graduate with hands-on LLM work building a RAG pipeline (HNSW, lexical reranking/boosting, ReAct) and optimizing it through ablation to dramatically reduce latency. Also building a modular personal assistant with a custom wake word model, router-driven agent selection, and integrations like Spotify with secrets managed via .env.”

“End-to-end deployment owner for Oracle document delivery/print services in a hospital-like production environment, focused on reliability/performance at scale (thousands of systems). Also describes implementing event-driven RAG/agentic LLM workflows with attention to embeddings/index consistency, latency, and measurable improvements in response relevance and operational efficiency.”

Sirisha Maddikunta

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in enterprise LLM and healthcare AI solutions

O Fallon, MO6y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end LLM-powered fraud investigation assistant that automated case summaries and risk analysis, cutting analyst investigation/documentation time by 40%. Stands out for translating RAG concepts into a production-grade internal platform with strong evaluation, monitoring, and reusable Python service architecture that improved both analyst trust and engineering velocity.”

“Built and owned a production conversational AI platform for a healthcare contact center, including RAG-based agent assist, hybrid retrieval, safety guardrails, and production monitoring. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with strong operational rigor, driving a reported 25-30% improvement in handling time in a sensitive healthcare environment.”