Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

“Backend-focused engineer who uses AI tools pragmatically for rapid development while staying deeply attentive to concurrency, deadlocks, and system reliability. Built foundational AI retrieval architecture for MastadonTutorAI using ChromaDB and RAG pipelines, and is especially interested in applying multi-agent systems to automate complex backend testing and root-cause analysis.”

“LLM/agentic systems practitioner who specializes in moving demo-only assistants into reliable, observable, cost-controlled production services. Strong in real-time diagnosis of complex agent workflows (including tracing, loop detection, and guardrails) and in customer-facing enablement—running workshops, building tailored PoCs, and partnering with sales to close deals by proving reliability in high-risk pilots.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a Python/FastAPI results API and deployed it on Kubernetes with Helm and GitHub Actions-driven CI/CD. Demonstrates strong production operations mindset across performance tuning, monitoring, safe rollouts/rollbacks, and phased migrations, plus hands-on Kafka streaming experience focused on ordering and idempotency.”

Vineet Jujjavarapu

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native data platforms

College Park, MD3y exp

“Software engineer with hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and LangChain-based agent workflows in RAG/LLM projects. Stands out for combining practical multi-agent experimentation with strong grounding in system design, distributed systems, and production-minded validation of AI-generated outputs.”

Aditya Rao

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, AI, and distributed systems

San Jose, CA5y exp

“Software engineer with 4.5 years of startup experience across programmatic advertising, health tech e-commerce, and automobile diagnostics, plus both bachelor's and master's degrees in CSE. Built an agentic global supply chain platform in a hackathon using a highly structured AI-first workflow, and has hands-on experience designing multi-agent debate systems, rollout safeguards, and observability-driven production fixes.”

“AI automations intern at a lean US-based marketing agency who works directly with founders and builds practical GTM systems end-to-end. He combines ML/LLM tooling with outbound execution, including a clustering-based recommender that improved client lead generation by 30% in two weeks and a personal cold outreach engine that achieved a 12%+ reply rate.”

Robbie Harol

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Principal Product Leader specializing in AI-native, civic, and climate tech

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“Product leader with unusually broad experience spanning adtech startups, consumer rewards, political-tech nonprofits, and consulting for operational automation. Stands out for pairing strong UX and monetization instincts with practical AI product work, including building a RAG-based chatbot and consistently using user research to drive measurable outcomes like 400% conversion growth, higher satisfaction, and faster onboarding.”

Vik Krane

Screened

Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI-powered SaaS and FinTech

12y exp

“Product leader and startup co-founder who has been shipping AI-powered products since 2020 across creative tools, expert knowledge products, and financial compliance workflows. Particularly notable for building Shotcraft from zero to scale, using AI to turn scripts into executable shot lists, and for a nuanced human-centered AI philosophy that emphasizes user control over critical outputs.”

“AI/full-stack engineer who has built a production-style LLM knowledge assistant from scratch, combining FastAPI, LangChain, FAISS, semantic retrieval, and a user-facing chat interface. Stands out for owning both the technical architecture and the product usability layer, including latency optimization, prompt refinement, and source-backed responses to improve trust for non-technical users.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer focused on data instrumentation and tracking-plan automation. They built an end-to-end publish architecture plus an MCP/agent workflow that turns PRDs, Figma files, and meeting transcripts into tracking plans and implementation-ready code, reportedly shrinking work from 4-5 days to minutes. They also show strong judgment around productionizing LLM systems, with tool-centric prompt design, backend guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls for high-risk actions.”

“Built internal product features at Sysco's Collab Cafe across React/TypeScript frontend and Spring Boot/PostgreSQL backend, including a full project invite flow and an early AI-style project matching capability. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, improving React dashboard performance with profiling and component refactoring, and making pragmatic 0→1 tradeoffs to ship quickly.”

Vinay K Naidu

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Healthcare IT and FinTech

5y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered incident assistant integrated with monitoring, logs, and metrics systems that reduced triage time by 30–40% and improved MTTR. Stands out for a strong reliability-first approach to agent design, including deterministic orchestration, strict schemas, fallback flows, grounding checks, and safeguards for messy operational data.”

“Banking-focused full-stack engineer who has owned products from requirements through deployment, including a transaction review dashboard and an AI-assisted search tool for internal support teams. Brings a strong mix of React/TypeScript, Spring Boot, database performance tuning, and practical LLM/RAG experience with human-in-the-loop safeguards for regulated workflows.”

Katha Naik

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Intern software engineer specializing in AI, cloud, and full-stack systems

Fremont, CA2y exp

“Engineer with experience at Fox Corporation and Qualcomm, focused on production automation and AI-powered systems. At Fox, they built a serverless Bedrock Operations CoPilot for broadcast/media operations that centralized fragmented operational data and cut incident investigation time by 50-60% across distributed teams and stations. They also bring applied LLM experience from Qualcomm, where they worked on a safer RAG-based learning assistant for children with autism spectrum disorder.”

“Product leader from Convosocial/Verint with hands-on experience integrating AI into customer service workflows, including a RAG-powered assistant that improved agent efficiency by 33%. Combines enterprise product strategy, UX instincts, and people development, with a strong human-in-the-loop perspective on AI and a track record of mentoring team members into product and data-focused roles.”

Jahid Hasan

Screened

Mid-level AI Product Leader specializing in agentic systems and developer platforms

Ames, IA4y exp

“Cofounder of Tometo AI who built a multi-agent engineering manager platform aimed at giving startup founders FAANG-style team visibility and blocker detection. Stands out for combining product leadership, AI evaluation rigor, and user-driven UX pivots, with tangible traction including a #2 Product Hunt launch and 150+ customers onboarded.”

Ravi Gairola

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Executive engineering leader specializing in AI platforms and cloud infrastructure

San Francisco, CA15y exp

“Engineering leader and hands-on architect with experience managing three teams spanning product, internal tooling, and ML, while also building AI chat and digital twin systems. Particularly notable for a patented memory architecture used to impersonate users in meetings/chat, plus prior delivery of a consumer digital payments system for Razer under tight deadlines and heavy tech debt.”

Pallavi Thorat

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Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and AI systems

USA, USA3y exp

“Front-end engineer with strong experience building sophisticated, data-heavy financial dashboards for finance analysts and business stakeholders. Stands out for combining React/Next.js architecture, D3.js visualization, and browser-level performance tuning to deliver measurable impact, including ~40% operational efficiency improvement and ~35% lower session drop-off.”

“Verizon engineer who productionized an LLM-based personalization capability for a customer-facing digital platform, owning the path from success metrics through scalable APIs, A/B validation, and post-launch monitoring (latency/accuracy/drift). Experienced in diagnosing and fixing real-time LLM/RAG workflow issues under peak load, and in enabling adoption via tailored technical demos/workshops and sales support materials.”

“Insurtech R&D leader turned CTO with 25+ years across telecom, DoD, automotive, and commercial insurance. Built patented AI-driven insurance document ingestion (>95% accuracy with 1–3 samples) and led Azure-based backend/service development while managing up to 15 engineers at a commercial P&C MGA that reached a ~$60M book of business (~30 loss ratio) before run-off due to paper issues. Known for hands-on discovery (including field inspections) and rapid MVP delivery, including a risk-inspection iPad app that auto-generated draft reports.”

“Backend engineer with experience evolving a real-time transaction and rewards processing platform from a tightly coupled architecture into domain-based microservices. Uses REST plus Kafka for synchronous vs. asynchronous workflows, and builds Python/FastAPI APIs with Pydantic contracts, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, and JWT/OAuth-based security; has also supported analytics/dashboard use cases (Power BI).”

“LLM/RAG engineer with production deployments in highly regulated domains (Frost Bank and GE Healthcare). Built secure, explainable document-grounded Q&A systems using LoRA fine-tuning, strict RAG with confidence thresholds, and citation-based responses; also established evaluation/monitoring (golden QA sets, hallucination tracking, drift) and achieved ~40% latency reduction through retrieval/prompt tuning.”

“Built and productionized a HIPAA-compliant LLM+RAG Clinical AI assistant at Optum, fine-tuning GPT/LLaMA on de-identified patient notes and integrating FAISS/Pinecone for sub-second retrieval; reported to cut diagnosis time by ~20 minutes per case. Experienced in orchestrating ML pipelines (Airflow, AWS Step Functions, Azure Data Factory) and in reliability techniques for LLM systems (grounding, citations, confidence filters, monitoring) while partnering closely with clinicians and compliance teams.”