Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

“AI/LLM engineer at GPT integrators who built a production multi-agent enterprise workflow integration system, tackling hard problems in agent orchestration, layered memory, and custom RAG over enterprise/user data. Also built an education-focused agent solution integrating with Canvas, Zoom, and email to automate classroom admin tasks, and is currently applying agentic AI to insurance underwriting workflows in collaboration with underwriters.”

“Software engineer (Yellow.ai) who built and productionized an AI-driven resume tailoring system using embeddings + Chroma RAG + QLoRA fine-tuning, deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD on a CPU-only Oracle VM. Demonstrates strong reliability/evaluation rigor (custom hallucination/coverage/relevance metrics) and measurable business impact, including a 60% user satisfaction lift from improving chatbot intent accuracy with product and support teams.”

“Cloud/ML engineer with production deployment experience on Azure (Dockerized models, managed APIs, data pipelines) who has repeatedly stabilized unreliable systems—e.g., taking an API-driven analytics pipeline from ~60% to 98% reliability and an Azure ML service from ~80% to 97% by addressing rate limits, container memory, and gateway timeouts. Also built an explainable contract-risk model for entertainment bookings (Transformers + SHAP) and integrated it into a legacy booking system via a Flask REST API, plus prior IoT work at Nissan processing CAN bus sensor streams for diagnostics/anomaly insights.”

“Built and deployed a production enterprise LLM-powered RAG assistant for the construction domain, enabling natural-language querying across PDFs/reports and structured sources (SQL/CSV). Implemented an agent-based routing and multi-agent orchestration approach (LangChain/LangGraph) to reduce hallucinations, improve latency, and deliver actionable, structured responses based on stakeholder feedback.”

“Internship project at Builder Market: built an end-to-end production multimodal LLM application that estimates renovation/replacement costs from appliance photos (CLIP embeddings) or text descriptions, combining fine-tuning with agentic RAG. Focused heavily on real-world performance constraints—latency and cost—using parallel agent workflows, model routing to smaller/open-source models, re-ranking, and retrieval chunking, and collaborated closely with CEO/co-founders to deliver the solution.”

“Built and productionized an agentic LLM automation system for an insurance client to determine medication eligibility, using prompt-chaining plus a RAG pipeline over policy rules and deploying on AWS (Lambda/Step Functions, Bedrock) with a serverless architecture. Addressed major data/schema mismatch issues via a semantic matching pipeline and validated performance through human agreement scoring, A/B testing, KPI monitoring, and confidence-based human-in-the-loop review.”

“Built and deployed a RAG-based student/faculty support chatbot at a university that answers from official syllabus/policy documents and now supports 4,000+ students while reducing repetitive support requests. Hands-on with LangChain, LangGraph, and CrewAI to orchestrate reliable agentic workflows, with a strong focus on testing/monitoring in production and cross-functional delivery (e.g., marketing analytics automation at Steve Madden).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered phone assistant for a healthcare clinic, combining streaming STT/TTS with RAG over approved clinic documents and strict safety guardrails to prevent unverified medical advice, plus seamless human handoff. Also has hands-on Apache Airflow experience building robust daily ML/data pipelines with data validation, retries/timeouts, monitoring, and metric-gated model deployment, and iterates closely with clinic staff using real call reviews.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG system for financial/compliance teams using GPT-4, Claude, and local models to retrieve and summarize thousands of internal documents with strong security controls (role-based retrieval, PII masking). Drove significant operational gains (30+ hours/week saved, ~35% productivity lift, ~45% faster responses) and orchestrated end-to-end ingestion/embedding/index refresh pipelines with Airflow, S3, and SageMaker while partnering closely with compliance stakeholders on auditability and traceability.”

“Built and deployed an AI agent to help patients navigate complex housing information by scraping and normalizing unstructured data across all 50 U.S. states, then layering a LangChain RAG system with MMR re-ranking to reduce hallucinations. Experienced in orchestrating multi-agent workflows (LangGraph/CrewAI) and production reliability practices (Pydantic-validated outputs, LLM-as-judge evals, tracing). Also delivered stakeholder-facing explainability via SHAP dashboards for a loan-approval predictive model at Welspot.”

“Built and deployed NeuroDoc, a production-grade RAG system for PDF Q&A that delivers citation-backed answers with strong anti-hallucination guardrails. Experienced in orchestrating and scaling ML/LLM pipelines with Kubernetes, Airflow/Prefect, and PyTorch Distributed, and in building rigorous evaluation and citation-verification tooling to ensure reliability in production.”

“Built a real-time telemedicine clinician dashboard and iterated post-launch by diagnosing lag via logs/metrics and optimizing DB queries/sync logic. Also shipped a production internal RAG knowledge assistant for support teams, including embeddings/vector DB, citation-only answers with abstention thresholds, and an eval loop driven by real ticket data that improved accuracy through chunking/overlap and batching optimizations.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building real-time, event-driven systems at Walgreens, including a Kafka-based prescription status notification service and scalable pipelines for messy prescription/inventory data. Strong focus on reliability patterns (retries, idempotency, DLQs) and iterating based on pharmacist feedback to improve usability.”

“UE5 UI engineer who has shipped production-ready HUD/menu frameworks using C++/Slate/UMG and CommonUI, emphasizing MVVM-style architecture for maintainability and designer-friendly iteration. Strong in UI profiling/optimization (Unreal Insights + Slate Profiler), including Slate list virtualization and event-driven updates that improved UI frame time by ~30% in heavy menu scenarios.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered financial research product end-to-end, using a typed NestJS/GraphQL backend with LangGraph-style agent routing to produce sourced, structured financial analysis. Emphasizes finance-grade correctness (Zod validation, metric registries, unit/empty-result guardrails) while keeping latency low via batching, caching, and fast token streaming, and has led incremental migrations using strangler/feature-flag/shadow traffic patterns.”

“Entrepreneur/fintech product builder who raised a $100K pre-seed from ex-Google/Microsoft execs and built a real-time, direct-to-vendor bill pay micropayments platform. Previously helped scale Norton LifeLock to 1M users (2003) and also created Karma LA, a fraud-resistant, verified donation system (including VA veteran verification) aimed at improving trust and conversion in giving.”

“Backend engineer who significantly evolved an internal Resource Manager platform, moving from a monolith to microservices and improving onboarding speed while reducing integration errors. Has hands-on experience building reliable and secure Python/FastAPI APIs (Pydantic schemas, circuit breakers, caching, metrics/alerts) and leading zero-downtime migrations with strong data integrity patterns (dual writes, idempotency, reconciliation checks).”

“Robotics/embodied-AI practitioner who built a TurtleBot3 LiDAR-fingerprint localization pipeline end-to-end (autonomous data collection + multi-head NN) achieving ~30 cm error in a 10x10 m space. Also has industry experience at Infineon building large-scale production data/AI pipelines and rapidly fixing a deployed recommendation system by correcting upstream data normalization, improving accuracy by 20%+.”

“Production-focused applied ML/LLM engineer who has deployed an LLM-powered RAG assistant and improved reliability through rigorous retrieval evaluation (recall/MRR), reranking, and guardrails that prevent confident wrong answers. Experienced running containerized ML/LLM services on Kubernetes (including AWS-managed layers) with CI/CD and observability, and has delivered a real-time predictive maintenance system using streaming sensor data and time-series anomaly detection in close partnership with maintenance teams.”

“Forward-deployed/solutions-oriented engineer with experience shipping enterprise LLM voice-agent workflows from prototype to production, including variable extraction and API integrations. Demonstrated strong real-time troubleshooting via logs/RCA (e.g., fixing multilingual language-switching by tuning temperature and improving context), and has led technical workshops while partnering with sales/solutions teams to drive customer adoption.”

“Built a production GPT-4/LangChain/Pinecone RAG “AI Copilot” at Northern Trust to automate financial report generation and analyst Q&A over internal structured (SQL warehouse) and unstructured policy data. Focused on real-world production challenges—grounding and latency—achieving major speed gains (seconds to milliseconds) via MiniLM embedding optimization and Redis caching, and implemented rigorous testing/evaluation with MLflow-backed metrics while aligning compliance and finance stakeholders for deployment.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG question-answering system using LangChain/OpenAI, Docker, and FastAPI, then reduced hallucinations through disciplined retrieval tuning and constrained prompting. Also implemented a custom evaluation framework (QA-pair dataset) to measure faithfulness/relevance and deployed containerized ML microservices on AWS ECS/Fargate with ALB and rolling, zero-downtime updates.”

“Built and shipped “LabMate,” a production AI assistant specialized in laboratory hardware, using a weighted multi-source RAG pipeline with reranking and reasoning-focused query decomposition to handle complex user questions. Deployed on a local GPU cluster with vLLM and NVIDIA MPS (plus OCR/VLM components), and established evaluation using synthetic + public reasoning datasets while collaborating weekly with non-technical admins to align requirements and resource constraints.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based enterprise document intelligence platform for financial/compliance/operational documents on AWS (Spark/Glue ingestion, embeddings + vector DB, LangChain orchestration, REST APIs on Docker/Kubernetes). Deep hands-on experience orchestrating multi-step and multi-agent LLM workflows (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI) with strong focus on grounding, evaluation, observability, and cost/latency optimization, and has partnered closely with non-technical finance/compliance teams to drive adoption.”