Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered “Vet agent” that automates pet symptom intake across multimodal inputs (images/files/text/speech) and provides analysis/home-care guidance, reaching thousands of daily active users within two months. Demonstrates strong agent engineering fundamentals: state-machine orchestration with structured JSON, tool/schema validation, high-availability routing/failover, and rigorous offline/online evaluation loops with trace-driven reliability improvements.”

John Ward

Screened

Executive Applications Development & Analytics Leader specializing in enterprise transformation

Chicago, IL30y exp

“Candidate has prior startup experience building systems and has firsthand experience with a venture that lost angel funding. They show thoughtful reflection on why the startup failed—emphasizing unclear success criteria, weak funding planning, and lack of team consensus—and would seek experienced advisors earlier in future ventures.”

Abhishek Adinarayanappa

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and machine learning systems

Miami, FL3y exp

“Built Digipulse, a university project that ingested and clustered Bluesky tweet data at scale and used Gemini to generate near-real-time topic summaries, processing 1M+ tweets per day. Also brings Intel experience with Prometheus and Kubernetes, including production monitoring and incident troubleshooting.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end AV operations automation and dashboarding platform for USC event operations, used daily to coordinate hundreds of live events. Delivered a React/TypeScript full-stack system integrating Smartsheet APIs with strong reliability practices (typed contracts, validation/fallbacks, safe rollouts) and experience with queue-based microservice patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQs, monitoring).”

Devang Shah

Screened

Executive AI and Cloud transformation leader specializing in enterprise GTM and product engineering

San Jose, CA23y exp

“Candidate is interested in building horizontal AI infrastructure capabilities, specifically around observability, and brings exposure to investor evaluation dynamics from experience at PE-backed firm WinWire. They appear strongly motivated by entrepreneurial ownership, creativity, and the ability to drive and pivot ideas in a venture studio or startup environment.”

Vidhi Chhatbar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and FinTech

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“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.”

“Candidate has hands-on experience delivering production data and AI systems, including an AWS-based real-time data platform for a financial client at Deloitte and a production RAG workflow that cut manual search time by 40%. They stand out for combining strong data engineering depth with practical LLM governance, incident debugging, and stakeholder management across business and risk/compliance teams.”

Aarushi Mahajan

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, Generative AI, and MLOps

New York, USA4y exp

“Internship experience shipping production AI systems: built an end-to-end RAG platform (Python/FastAPI + LangChain/LangGraph + vector search) to answer support questions from unstructured internal docs, with a strong focus on hallucination prevention through confidence gating and rigorous offline/online evaluation. Also delivered an AI-driven personalization/analytics feature using an unsupervised clustering pipeline, iterating with PMs to align statistically strong clusters with actionable business segmentation.”

“Built and deployed an AI-powered insurance claims fraud platform end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, OpenAI, pgvector, and AWS EKS. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG architecture with production-grade scalability and observability, delivering measurable impact including 62% less manual review, 40% better fraud precision, 37% higher throughput, and 99.95% uptime.”

Neeshma Narahari

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in backend microservices and cloud platforms

Irving, TX6y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with strong React and TypeScript depth who has owned dashboard features end-to-end, from UI architecture and rendering optimization through Spring Boot APIs and database query tuning. Particularly compelling for startup or high-growth teams: they’ve shipped 0→1 internal operations platforms, prioritized MVP workflows effectively, and iterated post-launch using user feedback, logs, and usage metrics.”

“Python backend engineer with experience combining traditional API/microservices development and GenAI integrations, including healthcare claims workflows. Particularly compelling for teams building production AI systems: they pair hands-on work with LLMs, RAG, LangChain-style orchestration, and AWS deployment with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and engineering discipline.”

“Player-coach engineering leader currently running a Solution Architecture/FDE team responsible for both presales and postsales delivery. Stands out for combining enterprise systems thinking with hands-on AI product work: they built configurable tooling that sped delivery by ~30%, drove a Kafka-to-Pulsar architecture shift for scale, and spent the last two years building LLM-based document extraction and RAG inference pipelines shaped directly by user feedback.”

“Deloitte technical implementation lead who functioned like a pre-sales/solutions engineer for ABBYY's intelligent document processing within the Argus GenAI platform. They supported enterprise-scale rollouts across 10+ countries, tailored deployments for local market needs, and combined integration, compliance, and Python automation work to deliver 95%+ extraction accuracy.”

“AI/ML engineer in financial services who has built both LLM-powered compliance tools and production fraud/credit risk systems at Ally Financial. Particularly strong in regulated, high-stakes environments: combines RAG/LLM architecture, rigorous evaluation, and human-in-the-loop governance, and also helped stand up a unified ML platform from scratch.”

“AI/full-stack engineer who has built both a real-time crypto sentiment platform from scratch and production enterprise RAG search systems at Kore.ai. Stands out for combining strong systems engineering with practical LLM evaluation, retrieval tuning, and careful human-in-the-loop design for high-risk network automation use cases with Cisco.”

“Product leader with experience building a patented demand chain management application inspired by 7-Eleven Japan’s inventory practices and piloting it with strong results: lower inventory, fewer out-of-stocks and waste, and higher sales. Has also shipped early AI features in edtech, including student chat moderation, and brings a notably human-centered perspective on AI’s role alongside tutors rather than as a full replacement.”

“Amplitude contractor focused on AI/ML product development and backend systems, with hands-on experience shipping and improving LangChain-based event classification workflows in production. They combine LLM pipeline design, AWS data infrastructure, and pragmatic human-in-the-loop controls to make analytics systems faster, more reliable, and scalable.”

“Frontend engineer with JP Morgan Chase experience building data-heavy React/TypeScript products, including an AI-powered enterprise search application and workforce analytics dashboards. Stands out for combining reusable component architecture, Redux-driven state flow, responsive CSS, and production performance tuning for large-scale internal enterprise tools.”

Aakash Khepar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in agentic AI systems

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“AI/full-stack builder with hands-on experience shipping healthcare, career-tech, nonprofit, and fintech products, spanning speech AI, browser extensions, agentic RAG systems, and enterprise ML monitoring. Stands out for combining strong technical depth with measurable outcomes, including reducing clinical call WER from 26% to 3%, building safe tool-using agents with rollback/RBAC, and delivering zero-to-one multi-tenant platform features in ambiguous environments.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built production LLM-enabled systems at PRGX, including an interpretable contract opportunity scoring engine (Bradley-Terry pairwise ranking) that reached 0.82 weighted Spearman agreement with SME auditors and was integrated into workflow. Also built a Duke student advisor chatbot and hardened it for real-world reliability/security with schema-driven tool calling, normalization, and off-domain defenses; led staged production rollouts with shadow testing and achieved 0.90 F1 on a new extraction field before shipping.”

“At JP Morgan Chase, built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG knowledge assistant to help fraud investigators and risk analysts quickly navigate regulatory updates and internal policies, reducing investigation delays and compliance risk. Strong focus on secure retrieval (RBAC filtering), reliability (layered testing + observability), and production constraints (latency/SLOs), with Airflow-orchestrated, auditable ML pipelines.”

“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.”