Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

“AI-focused engineer who treats models as tightly controlled collaborators rather than autonomous replacements. Built and led a LangGraph-based multi-agent research system with separate stages for decomposition, retrieval, synthesis, and validation, emphasizing modularity, debuggability, and robust failure handling.”

“Engineering leader who has operated effectively in both a VC-backed startup and SAP, combining director-level org leadership with day-to-day technical depth. Notable for re-architecting integrations that produced a 3x revenue gain, leading a 90-engineer matrixed organization, and staying hands-on in GenAI, infrastructure, and full-stack problem solving.”

Krishna Guda

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI-native FinTech systems

Mountain View, CA23y exp

“Fintech product engineer working on a large-scale credit monitoring platform (tens of millions of users) with deep experience in regulated banking integrations, PII security, and step-up/MFA flows. Has shipped customer-facing React/TypeScript experiences driven by Optimizely experimentation and built reliable partner-facing microservices/SDKs on AWS, including resolving production traffic loss caused by edge security (DataDome/CAPTCHA) conflicts with payment providers.”

“Full-stack engineer from early-stage startups who has owned AI products end to end, from B2B document intelligence platforms on AWS to an HVAC voice assistant and a GCP-based RAG research system. Stands out for combining hands-on backend/infra depth with team leadership in lean environments, and for shipping scalable AI systems that contributed to roughly 1 million yuan in sponsorship.”

“Analytics-to-product leader who has repeatedly turned messy, high-stakes data problems into scalable business outcomes—from modernizing American Express merchant risk scoring to helping build Meesho's influencer commerce channel into a meaningful revenue driver. Currently prototyping an enterprise GenAI platform for Sikich, where they shaped the architecture, privacy controls, and deployment standards for AI on sensitive client documents.”

“Undergraduate robotics researcher who built a crowd-aware motion planning system to navigate safely and efficiently through dynamic pedestrian environments, implementing the full pipeline in ROS (move_base, global planning, SLAM/localization) and validating via 2D crowd simulation. Also brings modern software delivery experience from web apps, including Docker/Kubernetes-based cloud deployment and CI/CD with automated testing.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG fraud investigation system to replace manual investigator workflows, combining transaction data, historical cases, and policy documents with agent-style steps and LoRA fine-tuning. Demonstrates strong reliability engineering (grounding, citations, abstention paths), performance optimization (retrieval/indexing/caching), and end-to-end MLOps orchestration using Azure ML Pipelines/MLflow plus Kubernetes/Argo with canary and rollback deployments.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped production systems for complaint intelligence and contact-center NLU, including LoRA/RLHF-tuned LLaMA models deployed on GKE with vLLM and Vertex AI batch pipelines to BigQuery. Demonstrates strong practical focus on hallucination control, data imbalance mitigation, and production monitoring (Langfuse) with regression testing and canary rollouts, plus experience orchestrating complex workflows with AWS Step Functions.”

“AI/ML engineer (Cognizant) who built a production, real-time credit card fraud detection platform combining deep-learning anomaly detection with an LLM-based explanation layer. Strong focus on regulated deployment: addressed class imbalance and feature drift, and added guardrails (SHAP/structured inputs, fine-tuning on analyst reports, rule-based validation) to keep explanations accurate and compliant. Orchestrated the full pipeline with Airflow + Databricks/Spark and used MLflow/Prometheus plus A/B and shadow deployments for measurable reliability.”

Vivek Reddy

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist/Data Engineer specializing in ML pipelines, insurance and healthcare analytics

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Built a production assistive-vision iPhone app to help visually impaired users find grocery items, training a custom YOLO detector on 2,000+ self-collected/annotated images and deploying via CoreML with a cloud multimodal LLM for navigation instructions. Brings hands-on AWS serverless + ECS container deployment (CDK/GitHub Actions) and a disciplined approach to AI workflow reliability (state-machine design, offline evals, stress tests, logging/metrics), plus experience communicating model insights to non-technical stakeholders (MOTER Technologies).”

“Backend/data-systems SWE (2 years) who has built production ETL/streaming workflows (Kafka, Debezium, Elasticsearch) and troubleshot real SQL performance regressions caused by indexing/type issues. Also ships full-stack personal projects in Next.js App Router + TypeScript with Postgres, emphasizing reliability via constraints, idempotency, and strong observability (Grafana/Kibana).”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered multi-agent system that autonomously generates and publishes YouTube videos end-to-end (trend discovery, script writing, image/caption generation, timestamped video assembly). Emphasizes production readiness with extensive automated testing, Redis/Postgres/TimescaleDB state orchestration, and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, reporting ~100x faster content production and improved engagement/viewership.”

Yash Nileshkumar Mirani

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI agents, data pipelines, and cloud systems

Sunnyvale, CA5y exp

“Generalist software engineer with recent contract work at Vertex Pharmaceuticals shipping a desktop-integrated RAG assistant for lab scientists (2000+ pages ingested; ~40% support-ticket reduction in pilot). Previously owned Python/AWS financial automation services at Amazon operating at multi-billion-dollar scale, with strong strengths in API design, observability, and database/performance tuning; also built a React/TypeScript AI contract analysis product (ContractsGuy).”

Geetha Sri Kasu

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS

5y exp

“Software engineer who owned an end-to-end self-service reporting workflow (secure APIs, async/batched processing, and React UI), improving report generation performance by ~30–40% and reducing manual support effort. Also built a RAG/embeddings prototype over internal docs and service logs with grounding-focused guardrails, and has a strong reliability/observability mindset (retries, DLQs, CI/CD validation, dashboards/tracing) for distributed workflows.”

Mustafa Ali

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI

Boston, MA4y exp

“Founding/early backend engineer at ATICA Global who built the company's core hotel property management platform from an empty repo into a production system used by 500+ hotel clients. Combines strong backend architecture with pragmatic product execution, including a dynamic pricing engine that increased partner revenue 17% YoY and an AI-powered sentiment pipeline processing 200K+ reviews/month.”

“ML/AI engineer with strong end-to-end production ownership across predictive ML and Generative AI use cases. They built a churn prediction platform that cut churn 12% and preserved about $1.2M in annual revenue, and also shipped a RAG-based support assistant that reduced ticket resolution time 30% while improving agent satisfaction and onboarding speed.”

Yash Patel

Screened

Mid AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps and cloud platforms

Texas, USA3y exp

“ML/AI engineer with strong end-to-end production ownership across classical ML and GenAI systems. Built and deployed predictive analytics and RAG-based internal tools on AWS/Kubernetes with measurable impact on accuracy, latency, deployment speed, safety, and user productivity.”

Abhirup Chakraborty

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI, and search

Champaign, IL3y exp

“Built a complex graph-based search engine to find connections between people and has hands-on experience designing multi-agent coding pipelines that move features through implementation, test generation, testing, and sanity checks. Stands out for treating AI agents like an engineering team, with shared-memory coordination, queue signaling, and completeness-focused guardrails to improve reliability and reduce ambiguity.”

“Senior engineering leader with over 20 years of management experience and a hands-on background leading large-scale SaaS, eCommerce, CRM, and customer data platform systems serving millions of users. Stands out for combining deep technical architecture leadership with org-scale people management, including solving multi-tenant SaaS scaling issues, driving self-service product improvements from support patterns, and building governance models for cross-functional delivery.”

“Engineering leader focused on multi-cloud platform modernization, combining deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and DevSecOps with management of 18-person DevOps/SRE/software teams. Particularly strong in building secure, scalable enterprise SaaS infrastructure and Spark/Databricks data platforms while driving cross-functional standardization, reliability, and faster release cycles.”

Vijayagopalan Raveendran

Screened

Principal Enterprise Architect specializing in AI, cloud, data, and FinTech transformation

Jersey City, NJ20y exp

“Solutions/technical consulting professional with enterprise experience supporting major accounts including Costco, MasterCard, Delta Dental of Michigan, and Fannie Mae. Brings a blend of cloud migration, enterprise architecture, security/IAM integration, and business-case development, plus hands-on automation work in Python and GCP to modernize sales-related data processing.”

“Shopify full-stack engineer focused on AI/LLM-powered merchant automation products. They have hands-on experience building React/TypeScript and Python/FastAPI systems for long-running agentic workflows, including orchestration, guardrails, observability, and customer-facing trust features, with measurable gains in task completion and latency.”

“Senior engineering leader who scaled a global organization from 15 to roughly 100 people and operates comfortably at both executive and hands-on architecture levels. Has led SaaS platform improvements, AI-based compliance workflow automation with LLM observability, and consumer-facing product modernization using analytics-driven UX decisions.”

“Product leader with 10+ years focused on making complex technical systems trustworthy and usable, most recently leading AI agent experience at Zendesk. Distinctive blend of enterprise AI product strategy and regulated health-tech experience, including HIPAA-constrained ML personalization and trust-first deployment design.”