Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation Professionals

Nikhil Soni

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and retrieval-augmented generation

New York, NY2y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered market intelligence and decision-support platform for noisy, real-time financial data, using a high-throughput embedding + vector DB RAG architecture to reduce hallucinations while keeping latency and cost low. Operated it at scale with GPU-backed inference (continuous batching/quantization), FastAPI on Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated ingestion/embedding/retraining workflows, with strong schema-based reliability and monitoring.”

Manasa Mangipudi

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and computer vision

3y exp

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered resume-to-job matching and feedback product using RAG, with a strong focus on latency, hallucination control, and scalable deployment. Experienced orchestrating ML inference and backend services on Kubernetes and applying rigorous evaluation/guardrail practices; also partnered with business/product stakeholders at Walmart to improve an NLP-based supplier support system.”

Jhansi Bendi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and event-driven systems

Antioch, CA18y exp

“Senior engineer/tech lead with 18+ years building large-scale distributed applications, specializing in performance and reliability improvements. Recently owned multiple apps on an email personalization team, shipping major optimizations (including a push-update feature and audience-count architecture redesign) that reportedly lifted system performance from ~50% to ~99% while also leading code standards, reviews, and mentoring.”

Ruthvik Bacha

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in financial data pipelines and reliability

North Carolina, USA7y exp

“Systems/robotics-oriented software engineer focused on real-time orchestration and reliability: built a central control layer coordinating multiple concurrent agents with safe state machines, failure isolation, and recovery. Has hands-on ROS/ROS 2 integration experience in simulation (DDS/QoS, lifecycle, nodes in Python/C++) and emphasizes observability (structured JSON logs, correlation IDs) and low-latency control-loop performance under load.”

Sanjana Duvva

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, LLMOps, and MLOps

5y exp

“Built and deployed an AWS-based LLM/RAG ticket triage and knowledge retrieval system (Pinecone/FAISS + Step Functions + MLflow) that cut support resolution time by 20%. Demonstrates strong production focus on hallucination reduction, PII security, and low-latency orchestration, with measurable evaluation improvements (e.g., ~25% grounding accuracy gain via re-ranking) and proven collaboration with support operations stakeholders.”

Nishantkumar Asodariya

Screened

Mid-level Supply Chain Analyst specializing in global logistics automation and forecasting

USA4y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered recruiting workflow that ranks resumes against job descriptions, generates evidence-based justifications, and finds "hidden fit" candidates using embeddings + RAG. Demonstrates strong production engineering around hallucination control, latency, and predictable LLM cost management (budget checks, top-K pruning, tenant caps), plus orchestration experience with Airflow/Prefect/Kubernetes and a structured evaluation/monitoring methodology for AI agents.”

Sri Harshitha Yannam

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud platforms

Austin, TX2y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who shipped a production "Memory Assistant" at HydroX AI, building a LangChain/LlamaIndex RAG memory pipeline on ChromaDB/FAISS with robust fallbacks (BERT/BART), prompt-injection mitigation, and 99.9% uptime monitoring. Also built a multi-step customer support agent using Rasa + OpenAI Assistants API with structured tool calling, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop escalation, and has experience hardening agents against messy ERP data via Pydantic validation, idempotency, and transactional outbox patterns.”

Ishaan Nanal

Screened

Intern-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI/ML

Ithaca, NY1y exp

“Built and shipped an LLM-powered RAG research copilot used by 20+ users across biology, physics, and ML, cutting literature review from days to minutes. Strong focus on production reliability—iterated on chunking/retrieval/prompting, added validation and modular pipelines for debuggability, and is now containerizing and scaling the system with Docker and GCP.”

Harrishkumar Loganathan

Screened

Mid AI/Machine Learning Engineer specializing in FinTech and Generative AI

Remote, USA3y exp

“AI/ML engineer with hands-on ownership of enterprise LLM deployments at Freshworks, including a large-scale RAG chatbot serving 15,000+ users across six departments. Stands out for combining deep production engineering skills—AWS microservices, Kubernetes, observability, retrieval quality, and faithfulness evaluation—with strong cross-functional stakeholder leadership and prior large-scale fraud data pipeline experience at Socure.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production computer vision, speech, and legal RAG systems. Notably improved a key-duplication CV pipeline enough to unblock commercial launch and remove specialist manual measurement, and also shipped a live Quran recitation detection feature for a product with 1M+ users.”

“Candidate takes a disciplined, developer-in-the-loop approach to AI-assisted coding, using AI primarily for brainstorming, suggestions, and optimization while retaining full ownership of architecture and final code decisions. They also actively stay current on AI developments through research papers, communities, and emerging tools.”

“LLM/agent engineer who shipped a two-stage AI recruitment screening platform at Foursquare that automated resume ingestion through behavioral assessment, delivering an 85% reduction in screening time across 5,000+ applications with auditability and confidence-gated decisions. Also built a multi-agent benchmarking framework using MCP tool interfaces and a RAGAS + LangSmith evaluation/observability stack, including async re-architecture that cut production latency by 50%.”

“Full-stack engineer who has built both a TypeScript-based HR/payroll platform and a production agentic AI support system end to end. Stands out for combining strong product judgment with deep LLM systems thinking: RAG architecture, confidence-based routing, evals, observability, and human-in-the-loop design in a greenfield environment.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical decision support system that enables real-time semantic search over unstructured EHR notes and delivers patient risk insights. Strong in healthcare-grade MLOps and compliance (HIPAA, PHI handling, encryption, RBAC, audit logs) and scaled embedding/retrieval pipelines using Spark/Databricks and Airflow. Partnered with clinicians via Power BI dashboards and explainability, contributing to an 18% reduction in patient readmissions.”

“Built and deployed an enterprise GenAI knowledge assistant over thousands of internal PDFs/reports using a RAG stack (GPT-4 + Hugging Face embeddings + vector DB) to reduce manual search and SME escalations. Uses LangGraph/LangChain to orchestrate modular agent workflows with relevance filtering and fallback handling, and applies rigorous evaluation (golden datasets, edge cases, A/B tests) with production monitoring metrics.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience at Charles Schwab building a RAG-based assistant to help 5,000+ reps answer complex financial policy questions. Implemented a multi-layer anti-hallucination approach (GNN-driven ontology/graph retrieval + citation-only answers) and compliance-focused guardrails (Azure AI Content Safety) in partnership with audit/compliance stakeholders.”

“Interned at Zonda where he built an AI-driven semantic search solution over ~280M housing/builder records. Iterated from local LLMs via llama.cpp quantization to a vector-embedding retrieval system, then boosted semantic accuracy with a custom spaCy NER layer and re-ranking, optimizing for latency through precomputation. Collaborated with economics-focused stakeholders to reduce manual document/paperwork time by enabling natural-language search over internal data.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered PDF document Q&A system to eliminate manual searching through long documents, focusing on scalability and answer reliability. Implemented semantic chunking (using headings/paragraphs/tables), overlap, and preprocessing/quality checks to reduce hallucinations, and orchestrated the end-to-end pipeline with Airflow using retries, alerts, and parallel tasks.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using embeddings, a vector database, and a RAG pipeline to reduce time spent searching PDFs/manuals. Experienced in orchestrating end-to-end LLM workflows with Airflow/LangChain, improving reliability via monitoring/error handling, and driving measurable quality through retrieval and hallucination-focused evaluation metrics.”

“New grad who has shipped a production vision-language recommendation feature for a pet camera/mobile app, including building a tagged video dataset with human annotators and optimizing inference by FPS downsampling under device compute limits. Also built a multimodal MLLM benchmark using an LLM-as-judge (GPT-5-thinking) with a feedback loop, validated against human scoring, and measured post-feedback quality gains (12% average score improvement).”

“Built and deployed an LLM + RAG + memory system on a Furhat social robot, adding continuous face/voice recognition embeddings over WebSockets to enable persistent, natural conversations across sessions. Experienced working around real-world hardware/latency constraints and uses Datadog plus structured debugging/rollback practices for stabilizing customer-facing LLM workflows.”

“GenAI Engineer at Infosys who built and deployed a production multi-agent RAG system for a top-tier bank, scaling to ~50,000 queries/day with 99.9% uptime. Drove measurable gains (45% accuracy improvement, 30% API cost reduction) through open-source LLM fine-tuning, Pinecone indexing/retrieval optimization, and AWS-based MLOps/monitoring, and has experience enabling adoption via developer workshops and customer-facing collaboration.”

“Researcher from the University of South Dakota who built a production medical RAG system to help interpret model predictions by retrieving relevant clinical notes and medical literature, overcoming retrieval accuracy and imaging-dataset challenges through semantic chunking and metadata-driven indexing. Also has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and Azure Data Factory, plus a pragmatic approach to LLM evaluation and stakeholder-driven iteration.”

“McKinsey data/ML practitioner who led production deployment of an entity resolution + semantic search platform for unstructured finance and healthcare data, integrating with legacy systems under HIPAA constraints. Deep hands-on stack across transformers (spaCy/HF BERT), embeddings + FAISS, and production MLOps/workflow tooling (Airflow, Docker, CI/CD, Prometheus/Grafana), with reported gains of +30% decision speed and +25% search relevance.”