Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

“Applied AI/ML engineer with hands-on production experience building a RAG-based AI assistant for pharmaceutical maintenance troubleshooting using LangChain + FAISS/Pinecone, including a custom normalization layer to handle inconsistent terminology and duplicate document revisions. Also built Airflow-orchestrated pipelines for document ingestion/embeddings and predictive maintenance workflows (SCADA ETL, drift-based retraining), and partnered closely with production supervisors/quality engineers via Power BI dashboards and real-time alerts.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who built and productionized a 0-1 application (EMULaiTOR at Lumanity) combining qualitative + quantitative data using Postgres/pgvector RAG and prompt engineering, deployed with Azure backend and AWS-hosted frontend. Demonstrates strong production instincts (latency reduction via region alignment, autoscaling/health checks) and hands-on agent/tool-call debugging, plus experience enabling sales and winning a large pharma client.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare and insurance domain experience who has owned production systems end-to-end (React/Next.js, FastAPI/Node, Postgres, AWS SNS/SQS, Docker, CI/CD) and delivered measurable impact (30% faster data processing). Also productionized an LLM-powered clinical data assistant using RAG + a vector database with guardrails and evaluation loops, cutting analyst lookup time by ~30–40%, and has experience modernizing monoliths to microservices with feature-flagged, low-regression rollouts.”

“Full-stack engineer working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, building developer-facing interfaces for AI voice agents in XR/immersive environments plus telemetry-heavy analytics dashboards. Experienced in Postgres telemetry data modeling and performance tuning, and in designing durable multi-step LLM pipelines with idempotency, retries, and strong observability; has operated in fast-moving startup-like teams (Biocom, HandshakeAI).”

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing high-traffic subscription and payment systems (TCS) by moving to event-driven Spring Boot microservices with Kafka, adding idempotency/state management to eliminate duplicate processing. Built and scaled FastAPI services for AI automation workflows (360DMMC) with versioned contracts, JWT security, and strong observability, and has led live refactors using feature flags, parallel runs, and data reconciliation.”

“Backend engineer who built a high-stakes, privacy-first platform at be Still Analytics for survivors of domestic violence, emphasizing anonymity, security, and reliability. Experienced with GenAI backends (LangChain + AWS Bedrock) including RAG to prevent hallucinations, plus cloud-native scaling (Docker/Kubernetes) and cost-saving migrations from legacy VMs to serverless (30% reduction).”

“Built and shipped production LLM systems at Founderbay, including a low-latency voice agent and a graph-based multi-agent research assistant. Strong focus on reliability in real workflows—hybrid SERP + full-site scraping RAG, grounding guardrails, validation checkpoints, and transcript-driven evaluation—plus performance tuning with async FastAPI, Redis caching, and containerization. Also partnered with a non-technical ops lead to automate post-call follow-ups via call summarization, field extraction, and tool-triggered actions.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-driven document understanding pipeline using LangChain/LangGraph, focusing on reliability via step-by-step prompting, validation checks, and monitoring. Also partnered with non-technical marketing stakeholders at Heartland Community Network to deliver an XGBoost targeting model surfaced in Power BI, improving campaign conversion by 12%.”

“At ReferU.AI, designed and deployed an agentic RAG pipeline that automates multi-jurisdiction legal document drafting, emphasizing hallucination reduction through hybrid retrieval, validation agents, guardrails, and iterative regeneration. Experienced with orchestration frameworks (especially CrewAI) and rigorous testing/evaluation practices including human-in-the-loop review, adversarial testing, and production metrics/logging.”

“Robotics/ML engineer who benchmarks and adapts open-source robot action models, building synthetic datasets in Isaac Sim and modifying vendor code to scale training across multiple GPUs. Also built a production-style computer vision pipeline at Zortag—training a tiny YOLO-based classifier for fake-vs-real label detection and deploying it in a real-time iOS app with additional display/spoof detection.”

“Built an OCR backend that trains a custom Tesseract model for proprietary fonts and scales via multi-tenant isolation (tenant-scoped APIs, per-tenant storage, JWT+RBAC). Improved high-load image processing by shifting OCR to async worker queues and adding Redis caching, cutting processing time by ~66%, and also integrated Claude API to auto-generate test cases on code changes.”

“Built a production lead-generation system using AI agents that researches the internet for relevant leads and integrates RAG-based contact enrichment/shortlisting aligned to existing CRM data, enabling sales reps to focus more on selling. Also has hands-on AWS data orchestration experience (Glue, Step Functions) moving raw data into Redshift and evaluates agent performance with human-in-the-loop plus BLEU/perplexity metrics.”

“CloudData engineer who productionized an LLM assistant for a warehouse/logistics customer by wrapping it as a versioned, containerized API with guardrails, deterministic post-processing, and full observability. Experienced diagnosing real-time RAG/agentic incidents (latency spikes and confident-wrong answers) using trace-based isolation, replay in staging, retrieval tuning, and canary releases. Regularly runs technical demos/workshops and partners with sales on security/IAM, SLAs, and pilot rollouts to drive adoption.”

“Built a contract and customer documentation retrieval solution for Urban Studio, designing a RAG + Elasticsearch hybrid search stack (RRF + cross-encoder reranking) with a strong emphasis on chunking/data quality and hallucination reduction. Experienced in diagnosing LLM workflow issues via observability traces and tailoring technical demos to developer concerns like reliability and high concurrency.”

“Full-stack .NET/Azure engineer with end-to-end ownership of policy management microservices (React/TypeScript + C#/ASP.NET Core + Kubernetes) delivering significant performance and quality improvements (e.g., response time -35%, defects -30%, CSAT +18%). Also productionized an AI-assisted analyst workflow using Azure OpenAI with a RAG pipeline on Azure Cognitive Search, including rigorous prompt versioning, guardrails, and measurable impact (review time -40%, errors -55%). Led incremental legacy modernization via Strangler Fig and dual-write migrations with zero production regressions.”

“Full-stack/AI engineer who has shipped production systems spanning real-time analytics dashboards and an internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant. Experienced with RAG pipelines (embeddings/vector DB, semantic retrieval, query rewriting) plus evaluation loops and guardrails, and builds observable Kafka-based data pipelines monitored with Prometheus/Grafana.”

“Full-stack/ML-leaning engineer who has shipped production-grade real-time analytics and an internal AI support assistant using RAG over enterprise documentation. Demonstrates strong systems thinking across scalability, reliability, observability, and LLM safety/evaluation (thresholded retrieval, RBAC, response validation, regression-gated evals), with concrete iteration based on performance metrics and user feedback.”

“Built multiple systems from scratch at DSSD and Aglint, including an NGO sustainability reporting dashboard and a production LLM-powered phone screening agent using Twilio/Retell AI with RAG grounded in PostgreSQL candidate/job data. Strong focus on real-world reliability: guardrails, monitoring, and lightweight eval/regression loops that reduced recruiter score overrides by ~30%. Currently on OPT through May 2026 (plans STEM OPT extension) and committed to relocating to NYC for in-person work; seeking $90k–$120k base with meaningful equity for founding engineer roles.”

“LLM engineer who built and deployed an emotionally intelligent AAC communication system using an emotion-aware RAG pipeline (Empathetic Dialogues + GoEmotions) and a PEFT-adapted model. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph and custom Python orchestration, focusing on reliability (guards, schema validation, fallbacks), latency optimization, and rigorous evaluation (automatic metrics + human-in-the-loop), with a reported 18% user satisfaction improvement.”

“Backend/ML engineer focused on clinical AI transparency who built ShifaMind, an explainability-enforced clinical ML system using UMLS/MIMIC-IV/PubMed data with RAG, GraphSAGE, and cross-attention. Demonstrated strong production engineering via FastAPI API design and safe migrations (feature flags/shadow inference), plus HIPAA-aligned auth/RLS patterns; also delivered a real-time comet detection system reaching 97.7% accuracy.”

“Robotics/AV-focused candidate who contributed to an F1TENTH autonomous vehicle college project, building key autonomy components from raw sensor data to driving commands. Strong in perception and state estimation (visual odometry, particle-filter localization), plus mapping (occupancy grids) and planning/control (RRT, Gap Follow, PID), with hands-on ROS tooling and simulation validation in Gazebo/RViz and ROS environment containerization using Docker.”

“Backend engineer with legal-tech and AI workflow experience: built JurisAI, an end-to-end legal research system using OCR + embeddings + Pinecone vector search to deliver citation-grounded LLM answers with safe failure modes (~90% recall@K). Also led a GW Law metadata migration into Caspio with batch validation and parallel rollout, and has strong FastAPI/GCP production reliability and observability practices.”

“Built and deployed production NLP/LLM systems including a multilingual (5-language) health misinformation detection pipeline with latency optimization (batching/quantization/caching) and explainability (gradient-based attention visualizations). Experienced orchestrating end-to-end AI workflows with Airflow and Prefect, and partnering with customer support ops to deliver an AI agent for ticket summarization and priority classification with clear, measurable acceptance criteria.”

“Built and owned invoice automation and alerting products at Neuralix, automating multi-site electricity invoice ingestion from PDFs into validated JSON with strict schema enforcement and LLM-based validation (reported ~98% compliance). Delivered zero-manual processing at 200+ invoices/month and ~5x faster throughput, and designed a domain-driven alert lifecycle to reduce noisy notifications and improve operational response.”