Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

“Recent master’s graduate who led a team project building an LLM-based chatbot with RBAC-controlled information disclosure and a focus on reducing hallucinations. Also has hands-on embedded robotics experience (Arduino obstacle-avoiding robot using ultrasonic sensors) and practical DevOps/cloud deployment exposure with Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, and AWS (EKS/ECS/CodePipeline).”

“Forward-deployed engineer who built a production AI drone-control chatbot that lets users fly a drone via natural language while viewing a real-time feed. Implemented RAG over drone SDK documentation (vector DB + top-k retrieval) and LoRA fine-tuning, with a focus on latency, token efficiency, and cost reduction, and regularly works with non-technical clients to integrate and explain AI system architecture.”

“Built a production RAG-based healthcare chatbot to retrieve patient medical documents spread across multiple platforms, reducing manual and error-prone searching. Implemented semantic search with custom embeddings (Hugging Face) and Pinecone, deployed via FastAPI/Docker on AWS SageMaker with MLflow tracking, and optimized fine-tuning cost using LoRA while orchestrating retraining pipelines in Airflow.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG system for enterprise document search and decision support, cutting manual lookup time by 40%+. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect for ingestion and incremental reindexing, with a strong focus on reliability (testing, observability) and stakeholder-driven metrics.”

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent personal financial assistant at AlphevaAI on AWS ECS, combining FastAPI microservices, Redis/SQS orchestration, and Pinecone-based hybrid RAG (semantic + BM25) to ground financial guidance. Improved routing accuracy with an embedding-based SetFit + logistic regression intent classifier feeding an LLM router, and optimized UX with live streaming plus cost controls via model tiering and caching.”

“LLM/agent builder who shipped a live consumer AI-agent app (kalpa.chat) that visualizes complex reasoning as interactive graphs and abstracts multi-provider model usage via a unified wallet. Professionally has applied LangChain/LangGraph to IVR parsing and to scaling a football video-generation pipeline at DAZN, including shipping a VAR-specific retrieval/order fix via SQL after iterating with a non-technical PM.”

“Built and shipped a production LangGraph-based multi-agent LLM analytics/decision copilot that answers questions across SQL/BI systems and unstructured docs, emphasizing grounded, tool-verified outputs with citations and confidence gating. Deep hands-on experience with orchestration (LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Assistants, MCP) plus real-world latency/cost optimization (vLLM batching/KV caching, speculative decoding, quantization) and rigorous eval/observability. Partnered closely with business/ops stakeholders to deliver explainable reporting automation, cutting manual reporting time by 50%+.”

“Senior/Lead Frontend/Full-Stack engineer in Toronto with proven experience shipping high-stakes, real-time and regulated products across healthcare, legal/compliance, and fintech. Built a real-time compliance dashboard that survived a 400% data spike and a no-code workflow builder supporting 500+ nodes, with strong emphasis on performance engineering, type-safe architecture, and automated quality/rollout practices.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based AI assistant for sales reps to unify access to product info, pricing, and internal documents across multiple systems. Implemented ETL pipelines for normalization/chunking/embeddings, integrated the assistant into internal React/TypeScript UIs with user-specific context, and enforced security with private vector storage and permission-filtered retrieval.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped a production RAG-based technical documentation assistant (FastAPI) cutting manual review by 45%, with deep hands-on retrieval optimization in Pinecone/LangChain (HNSW, hybrid + multi-query search, caching). Also brings healthcare domain experience—building Airflow-orchestrated EHR pipelines and delivering FDA-auditability-friendly predictive maintenance solutions using SHAP/LIME explainability surfaced in Power BI.”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building a compliant RAG-based virtual assistant at Intuit, optimizing embeddings and FAISS retrieval (including PCA) for low-latency, privacy-controlled search and deploying via AWS SageMaker containers. Also built scalable Airflow+MLflow pipelines using Docker and KubernetesExecutor, cutting training cycles by 37%, and partnered with civil engineers/project managers at Aegis Infra to deliver predictive maintenance for construction equipment.”

“LLM engineer/data engineer who has deployed production RAG systems for internal-document Q&A, building end-to-end ingestion, embedding, vector search, and FastAPI serving while actively reducing hallucinations and latency through rigorous retrieval tuning and caching. Also experienced in orchestrating cloud data pipelines (Airflow, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory) and partnering with non-technical business teams to deliver AI solutions like automated document review.”

“AI Engineer Co-Op at Northeastern University who built a production Patient Persona Chat Bot to help nursing students practice clinical interactions, fine-tuning Llama 3 and integrating a LangChain + Pinecone RAG pipeline deployed on Amazon Bedrock. Emphasizes clinical accuracy and reliability with guardrails, retrieval filtering, and continuous evaluation, and also brings strong data engineering/orchestration experience (Airflow, EMR/PySpark, ADF, dbt, Databricks, Snowflake).”

“LLM/GenAI engineer who built a production AI-powered credit risk policy summarization and compliance alerting platform at HCL Tech, focused on factual accuracy and auditability for a financial client. Implemented a multi-retriever LangChain RAG architecture with citations-only prompting, fallback agents, and human-in-the-loop legal review—cutting manual review time by 35% and scaling to 12 teams.”

“LLM/agentic AI builder who led end-to-end integration of an LLM system into a business intelligence product, creating a scalable, metadata-driven RAG/agent pipeline with an orchestrator that routes queries to specialized agents (including DB-backed quantitative querying). Also built an LLM-to-SQL chatbot and partnered with non-technical stakeholders to capture domain context and improve SQL generation, using automated LLM-based testing to evaluate reliability.”

“Backend engineer with cloud-native Python/Flask experience building high-throughput financial platforms (loan origination intelligent document processing and real-time fraud detection). Has scaled microservices on AKS with event-driven Azure messaging, delivered measurable performance gains (e.g., 700ms→180ms query latency; ~40% API improvements), and implemented strong security controls (OAuth2/JWT, Azure AD RBAC, audit logging, AES-256/TLS) for sensitive regulated data.”

“Founding/early engineer experience across Asante and a Series A startup (Adgency), shifting from data science/ML into owning production full-stack systems end-to-end. Built core product flows (registration, business profiles, map service), AWS-deployed gRPC microservices with CI/CD, and operated low-latency agent/video ad generation workflows with retries/fallbacks and PostHog-based observability.”

“Built and deployed a GPT-4 + Pinecone RAG system that lets users query large internal document collections with grounded, cited answers. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering (chunking experiments, hallucination controls, metadata recency boosting) plus production-minded evaluation/monitoring and performance tuning (rate-limit mitigation via pooling/batching). Also effective at translating complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders through prototypes and live demos, helping secure client sponsorship.”

“CoreAI intern at The Home Depot who improved the Magic Apron Assistant by building a production video ingestion + RAG retrieval system for long videos (uploads and YouTube), including a graph-based retrieval module to speed up and improve relevance. Experienced with Kubernetes orchestration (HPA) and production reliability practices like caching, monitoring, regression testing, and stakeholder-driven requirements.”

“GenAI/NLP engineer with experience building classification and summarization pipelines in PyTorch and deploying multimodal GPT-4-style workflows. Has integrated LLM applications across OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Amazon Bedrock, and uses LangChain/LlamaIndex/Semantic Kernel to orchestrate RAG and agent workflows with production-focused evaluation metrics like task success rate and groundedness.”

“Deployed a real-time LLM-driven call center summarization and agent-assist platform at Fifth Third Bank, combining transformer models (BERT/GPT) with FastAPI inference on AKS and vector storage (ChromaDB/PostgreSQL). Emphasizes production-grade reliability (autoscaling, CI/CD, monitoring) and measurable evaluation (A/B testing), and translates model outputs into business-facing Power BI insights for call center leadership.”

“Built a production LLM-RAG system at McKesson to let internal healthcare operations teams query large volumes of unstructured operational documents via natural language with source-backed answers, designed with HIPAA/FHIR compliance in mind. Demonstrated strong production engineering across hallucination mitigation, retrieval quality tuning, and latency/scalability optimization, using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow plus rigorous evaluation/monitoring practices.”

“Built and shipped a production agentic LLM analytics platform that lets non-SQL business users query relational databases in plain English via a RAG + LangChain/LangGraph workflow and FastAPI service. Emphasizes safety and reliability with guardrails (validation/access control), testing/evaluation frameworks, and performance optimization (caching, monitoring, Dockerized scalable deployment), reducing dependency on data teams and speeding analytics turnaround.”