Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation Professionals

“Built GoEngineer’s first production AI systems, including an end-to-end RAG pipeline for SolidWorks technical support using Azure Blob Storage, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI, plus an AI summarization feature adopted by sales/customer success. Strong in productionizing LLM workflows with evaluation harnesses (golden sets, LLM-as-judge, red teaming, shadow deploys) and Azure infrastructure integrations (Redis, Service Bus, App Insights), and has also implemented a custom MCP server for agentic monitoring.”

“Built and shipped production LLM/RAG systems at Mayo Clinic, including a conversational AI assistant for patient pre-consultation and a clinical-trial matching tool for doctors. Implemented HIPAA-compliant de-identification and guardrails, plus real-time feedback logging and fine-tuning that improved response accuracy by 15% and reduced admin workload by 25%.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered customer support triage/resolution agent that automated ~60% of tickets, cutting response times from hours to seconds and improving first-response resolution by ~40%. Experienced designing multi-tenant, tenant-isolated agent architectures with RAG, schema-based tool calling/strict JSON validation, and strong reliability practices (guardrails, retries, fallbacks, monitoring), including safe integration with messy ERP-like data.”

“Data engineer at Capital One building AWS-based real-time and batch pipelines and backend data services for financial/fraud use cases. Has owned end-to-end pipelines processing millions of records/day, implemented dbt/Great Expectations quality gates, and tuned Redshift/Snowflake workloads (cutting query latency ~22–25% and reducing pipeline failures ~30–40%) while supporting 15+ downstream consumers.”

“Recent graduate with internship experience at Bausch + Lomb building Copilot Studio HR chatbots that reduced HR time spent on repetitive inquiries. Strong focus on conversational flow design, prompt-based steering for predictability, and thorough technical/end-user documentation; also building a personal YouTube AI SEO analyzer.”

Jayanti Lahoti

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI and cloud-native systems

San Diego, USA2y exp

“Backend/systems-oriented engineer focused on building production-constrained LLM agent workflows that automate repetitive operator tasks via intent/entity extraction, retrieval grounding, and structured action recommendations with human-in-the-loop review. Emphasizes reliability through deterministic orchestration, strict tool/function schemas, observability, and disciplined evaluation/feedback loops, with strong experience handling messy multi-service operational data and idempotent execution.”

Dinesh Kumar Patibandla

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG for finance and healthcare

Texas, USA4y exp

“ML Engineer with recent Goldman Sachs experience building and deploying a production RAG/LLM assistant for summarization, drafting, and internal knowledge retrieval across financial, risk, and compliance documents. Designed for heavy regulatory constraints and scaled to 10,000+ concurrent users using Kubernetes-based orchestration, dynamic LLM routing, and rigorous testing (adversarial prompts, A/B tests, load simulations) with privacy controls like differential privacy.”

Pavan Kumar Malasani

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial risk, fraud detection, and GenAI

Remote, USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer in Citigroup’s finance environment who has deployed production RAG systems for investment banking under strict privacy and model-risk constraints. Built an internal-VPC Llama2 + Pinecone + LangChain solution with NER redaction and citation-based verification to prevent hallucinations, delivering major time savings, and also partnered with global finance executives to ship an AI early-warning indicator for treasury/liquidity risk.”

HEMANTH KUMAR KOTTAPALLI

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GPU-accelerated LLMs and MLOps

GA, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered decision-support system for supply-chain planners that explains demand forecast changes using grounded retrieval from sales, promotion, inventory, and supplier data. Implemented strict anti-hallucination guardrails and latency optimizations, deployed as a real-time AWS API with monitoring, and reported ~15% forecast accuracy improvement and ~12% supply-chain risk reduction. Experienced orchestrating data/ML/LLM workflows with Airflow, LangChain/LangGraph-style patterns, and AWS Step Functions while partnering closely with non-technical business users via demos and example-based requirements.”

Anishkumar Mahalingam Iyer

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML infrastructure and applied machine learning

Palo Alto, CA2y exp

“Interned at Rivian where they built and deployed a production Whisper-based ASR + LLM real-time event labeling pipeline to help autonomous-vehicle engineers diagnose failures and route issues to triage teams. Also built a stateful multi-agent "Code Partner" developer assistant using LangGraph/LangChain (planner/router/coder/critique/tester) with evaluation, adversarial testing, and stakeholder-friendly communication practices.”

Sudhan Louis

Screened

Director of Enterprise Architecture specializing in digital transformation, AI, and API strategy

Rolling Hills Estates, CA26y exp

“Hands-on architect/technology leader who builds prototypes (including Agentic AI wellness/biomarkers) and then scales teams to execute. Led a ~$400M global e-commerce transformation spanning 95 countries with active-active US/EU multi-region resilience, microservices/MFE (MACH), and strong security patterns (service mesh + API gateway + Ping Identity), plus modern data foundations (customer hub/MDM/Snowflake, data fabric/medallion).”

Sachin Reddy Kunta

Screened

Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in payments, fraud systems, and AI agent infrastructure

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Early-career engineer who owned an end-to-end objective assessment/coding contest platform at an edtech startup, using Postgres + S3 and Redis (queues + ZSET) to decouple and scale code submission processing with worker sandboxes. Also implemented idempotency controls and set up monitoring and CI/CD while the rest of the team focused on curriculum.”

Qice Sun

Screened

Junior GenAI Software Engineer specializing in multimodal RAG and agentic workflows

Sunnyvale, CA2y exp

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building a multimodal RAG agent for Walmart driver support, combining hybrid retrieval (dense+BM25) and fine-tuned Llama 3 served via vLLM on Azure AKS to reach sub-second latency. Drove measurable impact (25% fewer escalations, 60% lower token costs, 33% lower storage costs) and also built Kafka-based microservices that cut batch runtime from 2 hours to 15 minutes and reduced DB load by 80%.”

Pandari G

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

San Francisco, USA5y exp

“GenAI/LLM engineer with production deployments in both fintech and retail: built an AI-powered mortgage document analysis/automated underwriting pipeline at Fannie Mae (OCR + custom LLM) cutting underwriting review from 3–4 hours to under an hour with privacy-by-design controls. Also helped build Sephora’s GenAI product advisory bot using LangChain-orchestrated RAG (Azure GPT-4, Azure AI Search, MySQL HeatWave vector search), focusing on grounding, evaluation, and compliance-aware architecture choices.”

Shram Kadia

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, cloud-native apps, and AI platforms

Santa Clara, CA4y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a Dockerized Node.js/TypeScript probabilistic fault-tree analysis service for nuclear safety research deployed on AWS. Also built and operated a FastAPI-based RAG pipeline over 200+ PDFs using FAISS, focusing on low-latency, idempotent workflows and strong observability; experienced with API design and Playwright E2E automation across React/Angular projects.”

“Built internal production LLM tools for engineering and support, including a customer-health assistant and a RAG-based incident explainer grounded in logs, metrics, and deploy data. Stands out for combining strong GenAI safety/evaluation practices with pragmatic backend engineering, delivering measurable impact like a 40% drop in data-help requests and answers in seconds instead of minutes or hours.”

“AI product leader working at TAU Ventures Innovation Lab and previously at Verint and NYSHEX, with a track record of turning legacy and ambiguous AI opportunities into shippable, human-centered products. Notably led Verint’s evolution into a low-code AI orchestration platform with 20+ capabilities and measurable gains in CSAT, handle time, and recurring revenue, while consistently emphasizing trust, workflow fit, and human-in-the-loop design.”

Vasudev Konde

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in APIs and cloud microservices

Phoenix, AZ5y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped a production document-intelligence agent that automated internal support workflows using RAG, tool calling, and robust fallback controls. Stands out for combining hands-on architecture with measurable business impact: 85% faster query resolution, 35% lower LLM cost, 40% fewer LLM calls, and enough automation to avoid adding 2-3 support engineers.”

Harshal Sawant

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps on multi-cloud

8y exp

“Built and productionized a secure internal RAG-based AI assistant (LangChain/FastAPI/FAISS on GCP), tackling real-world issues like latency, retrieval speed, and hallucinations—delivering 25% faster retrieval and 99.9% uptime. Also implemented scalable, reliable ML retraining orchestration with AWS Step Functions/SageMaker/Lambda and partners closely with compliance analysts to iteratively refine prompts and outputs to meet governance standards.”