Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

“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.”

“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.”

Daniel Jeong

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in real-time platforms and AI tools

Cambridge, MA3y exp

“Early-career full-stack engineer with unusual depth in mission-critical environments: helped build a cybersecurity operations platform from scratch as the third engineer and shipped it to the National Election Commission of South Korea. Also worked on defense-focused situational awareness software, combining React/WebGL frontend performance work with backend data transformation for real-time weather and map overlays.”

“Recent Cornell graduate with roughly 18 months of unusually high-impact Solutions Engineering experience, already owning enterprise AI engagements for Citi and Samsung at WorldLink US. Stands out for combining technical pre-sales with hands-on prototyping and delivery, including local on-device AI for Samsung QA and helping take an AI security product from architecture to first $100K close.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end agentic RAG chatbot platform for Baptist Health that helped clinicians access policy and clinical documents faster, reducing manual lookup by 80% and delivering about $2M in annual savings. Brings strong healthcare GenAI production experience, including HIPAA-aligned governance, PHI redaction, observability, evaluation, and scalable Python/Kubernetes deployment practices.”

Praneeth Regonda

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and AI platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with 3 years of AI/ML experience who has shipped production LLM workflows, including a Bloomberg triage dashboard that cut manual processing by 35%. Combines React/TypeScript product sense with AWS/Spring/Lambda backend architecture and unusually strong practical judgment around evals, trust, retrieval, latency, and UX for real-world AI systems.”

“Solutions architect/technical consultant with experience across Intuit, Deloitte, and CodeNest Solutions, focused on enterprise data modernization, AI adoption, and real-time streaming in B2B environments. Particularly strong in regulated financial use cases, where they combine hands-on POC building, security/compliance diligence, and modern data stack expertise to help clients modernize legacy systems and close complex enterprise deals.”

“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.”

“Built a production-grade agentic document intake system that converts PDFs into structured records with strict schema validation, confidence-based retries, and a human review UI. Demonstrates strong practical judgment around making LLM systems reliable in enterprise workflows, including custom orchestration, observability, and continuous evals rather than relying on off-the-shelf abstractions.”

Sarthak Chauhan

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered backend and full-stack systems

San Francisco Bay Area, CA2y exp

“Built production AI agents at HubSpot for sales teams, including Next Best Action, Deal Risks, and Deal Plans. Combines frontend React/TypeScript implementation with backend prompt engineering, evaluation in Braintrust, caching, and generation pipeline work, and has experience shipping fast with beta feedback and gated rollouts.”

Michael Prospero

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in AI/ML and data products

Remote15y exp

“GenAI product owner and longtime financial-services product professional who helped stand up a new AI function at Royal Caribbean Group as one of its earliest hires. They combined enterprise intake, governance, and rapid prototyping with hands-on product leadership, including a fraud detection initiative projected to save $16M annually and AI solutions shaped across highly regulated environments.”

“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.”

Rahul Kushwaha

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and scalable microservices

Texas, USA5y exp

“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.”

Ayush Gupta

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in Agentic AI and Generative AI

6y exp

“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.”

Hongxi Chen

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and backend infrastructure

Beijing, China0y exp

“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.”

“ML engineer with production experience across healthcare and fraud domains, including end-to-end ownership of a telecare patient deterioration system at Oracle Health and a GPT-4/RAG fraud reporting solution at Cognizant. Stands out for combining scalable data/ML infrastructure, clinical NLP, and GenAI delivery with measurable gains in model quality and workflow efficiency.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered internal developer tool that accelerated code reviews by about 30% while maintaining reliability through modular orchestration, validation, and monitoring. Demonstrates strong practical depth in agent architecture, backend workflow orchestration, and observability for non-deterministic AI systems, with concrete examples of reducing agent errors by 60%.”

“Healthcare ML/AI engineer at Cigna who has owned a clinical RAG pipeline from prototype through production, monitoring, compliance, and iteration. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with healthcare-grade safety and explainability, driving a 38% retrieval precision gain, 42% hallucination reduction, and meaningful improvements in team velocity and system reliability.”

“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.”