Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Professionals

Anthony Ngumah

Screened

Junior Embedded Software Engineer specializing in robotics, firmware, and AI-enabled systems

Boston, MA4y exp

“Robotics-focused engineer with co-op experience building and debugging embedded C++/Python drivers for time-of-flight sensing on a Flex Stacker product, plus automation of large-scale test data collection via Google Drive/Sheets APIs to enable parallel robot testing. Also has ROS2 sensor-driver experience (GPS/RTK/IMU with custom messages/ROSbags) and is building a side project integrating Whisper-based live transcription with chunked abstractive summarization in a latency-aware pipeline.”

Rushir Bhavsar

Screened

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and distributed training

1y exp

“Founding AI engineer (June 2024) at Talon Labs who built and productionized an LLM-powered chatbot for interacting with proprietary supply-chain documents, deployed at large scale (25–100,000 users). Experienced with RAG/LLM orchestration (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Groq AI) and production ops tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, Kubeflow, Airflow), with a metrics-driven approach to evaluation, observability, and stakeholder alignment.”

Tuukka Luolamo

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI, cloud, and distributed platforms

Remote14y exp

“Engineering leader who stays hands-on in high-leverage technical areas (architecture, scalability, reliability) while operating at an executive level. Led StagePilot’s shift from a tightly coupled legacy system to a cloud-native, event-driven real-time platform proven at 1M+ concurrent users, and previously scaled multiple SRE teams at McGraw-Hill with SLOs, on-call, and blameless ops practices.”

Chandra Shekar Akkandra

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection and risk analytics in Financial Services

Newark, CA5y exp

“Finance-domain ML/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems including a RAG-based financial insights assistant with a custom post-generation validation layer that verifies atomic claims against retrieved source text to prevent hallucinations in compliance-critical workflows. Also built large-scale MLOps automation on AWS using Kubeflow + MLflow + CI/CD for fraud detection and credit risk models processing 500M+ transactions/day with a 99.99% uptime goal, and partnered closely with JP Morgan risk/compliance stakeholders on NLP-driven compliance monitoring.”

Utkarsh Chandel

Screened

Senior Security Engineer specializing in detection engineering, cloud security, and DFIR

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“LLM workflow/agentic systems practitioner who has helped customers harden an LLM-based incident triage prototype into a trusted daily-use production system by adding observability, audits, confidence gating, and deterministic fallbacks. Brings an SRE-style approach to real-time debugging (trace replay, rollback/canary, safe toggles) and is experienced running developer-centric demos/workshops and partnering with sales on technical qualification and security/architecture artifacts.”

Chakravarthy V P

Screened

Executive AI Consultant/CTO specializing in Agentic AI, GenAI, and cloud-native data platforms

Texas, USA21y exp

“Bootstrapped founder and CTO of C4Scale, a 2.5-year-old services-led company delivering MVP-to-scale product/platform builds for high-value clients across 5+ countries (10+ projects). Strong fit for roles blending scalable SaaS platform engineering, technical org leadership, and practical AI adoption, with clear awareness of the operational and GTM challenges of scaling into enterprise.”

“Hands-on implementation-focused candidate with experience owning cloud deployments and putting LLM/RAG workflows into production. They stand out for combining customer-facing deployment ownership with practical AI systems work, including retrieval tuning, hallucination mitigation, production incident response, and document-processing pipelines for messy real-world inputs.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant that let analysts query company documents in natural language, using LangChain/LangGraph with Pinecone and a FastAPI service for integration. Emphasizes reliability in production through hallucination mitigation (retrieval tuning + prompt guardrails) and measurable evaluation/monitoring (accuracy, latency, task completion, hallucination rate), iterating based on user feedback.”

“Built an enterprise RAG-based document intelligence system at Freddie Mac for regulatory and financial documents, helping analysts cut search time from hours to minutes while improving retrieval accuracy by ~30%. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with compliance-grade auditability, production monitoring, and scalable Python/FastAPI service design.”

“Built production AI systems in high-stakes domains, including a medical RAG chatbot focused on reducing hallucinations and a document-processing workflow that automated manual PDF extraction. Demonstrates strong end-to-end ownership across backend services, APIs, LLM integration, and iterative reliability improvements based on real usage and failure analysis.”

“Built and deployed an AI-driven expense categorization workflow integrating OpenAI API and PGVector to automate general ledger coding. Stands out for combining LLM/embedding architecture with finance operations context, stakeholder-facing deployment ownership, and measurable impact of roughly 30%+ reduction in manual coding effort.”

“Growth-focused B2B SaaS operator with hands-on experience improving enterprise adoption for a cloud governance and FinOps platform. They combine customer discovery, ROI-driven messaging, automation, and funnel instrumentation to improve conversion and handoffs, citing an 18% lift in enterprise adoption and roughly $200K-$3M in influenced pipeline.”

“Built an internal RAG assistant for financial documents using FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and vector search, improving document search speed and reducing manual effort for the business team. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI engineering: uses AI heavily for productivity, but keeps human judgment central and has designed retrieval, validation, and summarization workflows end-to-end.”

“AI and platform engineer with 5 years of experience who built a production knowledge assistant for Verizon end-to-end, from architecture through deployment, monitoring, and incident hardening. Stands out for combining modern LLM/RAG systems with enterprise-grade rigor, including validation layers, observability, versioning safeguards, and measurable impact on technician productivity and retrieval quality.”

“Currently building a DBC (Digital Birth Certificate) agentic AI system to speed root cause investigation for quality issues at their company. They bring hands-on experience designing and leading multi-agent workflows, including orchestrator/root-agent patterns, evaluation agents, clarification agents, and practical guardrails for hallucination, bias, and rate-limit management.”

Yash Priyadarshi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure

Bengaluru, India2y exp

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer who built a Golang distributed key-value store on AWS using Multi-Paxos, WAL, and non-blocking gRPC replication (cutting write latency ~40%) and proactively addressed tricky failure modes like leader-election livelock. Also developed a Python/Kubernetes cost-optimization scaling engine deployed with Helm/Terraform, delivering ~$40K annual savings while sustaining 99.99% uptime, and drives contract-first API development (OpenAPI/Swagger) to speed frontend integration.”

“Early-career software/AI intern with startup and hackathon experience who blends backend engineering with product communication and user-feedback-driven iteration. Worked in a fast-paced SaaS environment at Airmeet and has experience pitching technical products, refining onboarding/workflows, and thinking beyond pure implementation toward adoption and growth.”

“AI/full-stack engineer in gaming analytics who joined Omnic.ai at a 2-person stage, helped grow with the company, and built both backend and frontend for real-time gameplay analysis products. He combines computer vision production experience with LLM/RAG systems work, and has already led 4 employees while shipping 12 models in a fast-moving startup environment.”

MohmmadHussain Syed

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in customer-facing web platforms

USA4y exp

“Full-stack product builder who described owning an AI-powered journaling platform end to end using React/Vue, FastAPI, Supabase, PostgreSQL, and Hugging Face APIs. Also shipped a customer-facing document upload feature for First National Bank by solving micro frontend integration issues with web components, and has built internal tooling such as a GitHub PR review app.”

Namrata Shivshankar patil

Screened

Mid-level Backend/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and distributed systems

Arlington, TX6y exp

“Built and shipped internal AI support systems spanning Angular/TypeScript frontends, Java/Spring/AWS backends, and Claude-powered troubleshooting workflows. Stands out for combining full-stack product delivery with practical LLM engineering, including RAG, structured outputs, production evals, and careful human-in-the-loop safety decisions. Has shipped systems serving 150-800 daily sessions at 99.5% availability while reducing repetitive support burden.”

“Dell engineer with hands-on full-stack and AI-powered internal platform experience, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Python microservices, Kafka streaming, and AWS/Kubernetes deployment. They’ve owned monitoring and anomaly-detection products end to end, including a dashboard that reduced manual log review and helped teams detect issues roughly 30% faster, while also translating complex AI outputs into intuitive experiences for non-technical users.”

Saumay Killa

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI SaaS and web applications

New York, NY3y exp

“Built a career platform feature end-to-end that generates tailored resumes and cover letters using a React/TypeScript frontend, Postgres, and AWS Lambda/SQS backend. Strong in event-driven, serverless architecture and pragmatic product iteration, with a quantified 60% improvement in onboarding completion after redesigning the UX with resume parsing and a multi-step flow.”

Ashok Canchi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AdTech systems

Sunnyvale, CA4y exp

“Front-end engineer with nearly 2 years of React experience who independently owned a revamp of an internal ad tech platform as the sole front-end engineer. Stands out for handling complex conditional UI flows, collaborating across product/design/backend, and proactively improving usability and performance through techniques like debouncing, virtualization, and TypeScript.”