Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation Professionals

“AI engineer with hands-on production experience building an end-to-end RAG system that reduced document-answering time from hours to minutes, improving accuracy through chunk overlap and hybrid BM25+semantic retrieval. Also built a LangGraph-based agent that researches company financial news via web search (Google Serper), using Pydantic structured outputs and checkpointing for reliability; experienced collaborating with non-technical stakeholders at JPMC and communicating ROI.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered internal operations automation platform using LangChain RAG (Pinecone) and FastAPI microservices, deployed on AWS EKS, serving 10k+ daily interactions. Implemented a rigorous evaluation/observability stack (golden datasets, prompt regression tests, MLflow, retrieval metrics, hallucination monitoring) that drove hallucinations below 2% and improved reliability, and partnered closely with non-technical ops leaders to cut manual lookup work by 60%+.”

“Built a production internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (Python, LLM APIs, cloud services) that answers employee questions with sourced, grounded responses from internal documents. Demonstrates strong practical depth in retrieval tuning (chunking/metadata filters), orchestration with LangChain, and production reliability practices (latency optimization, automated embedding refresh, evaluation metrics, logging/monitoring) while partnering closely with non-technical operations teams.”

“Software engineer with hands-on ownership of both fintech checkout improvements (saved payment methods/one-click checkout with tokenization and feature-flag rollouts) and production LLM/RAG systems for customer support. Demonstrates strong operational rigor via guardrails, evaluation loops integrated into CI/CD, and scalable data pipelines handling messy PDFs/CSVs/logs with reliability and observability.”

“Distributed-systems engineer applying robotics-style patterns to software: built "Vibecheck," a high-throughput real-time video + OS-telemetry fusion and analysis system (500+ MB/session) with strict latency constraints. Strong in containerization and CI/CD (Docker, GitHub Actions) and in designing fault-tolerant, event-driven architectures (Kafka/RabbitMQ), plus hands-on debugging of multi-agent coordination using blackboard + watchdog/circuit-breaker control patterns.”

Jaideep bommidi

Screened

Senior ML Engineer & Data Scientist specializing in LLM agents, retrieval/ranking, and MLOps

Denton, TX8y exp

“Machine Learning Engineer currently at Webster Bank building an enterprise-scale LLM agent for Temenos Journey Manager/Maestro, using RAG-style multi-stage retrieval with FAISS/Pinecone, hybrid dense+sparse search, and LoRA fine-tuning optimized via NDCG/MAP and A/B testing. Previously handled messy incident/telemetry data at Deuta Werke GmbH with deterministic + fuzzy entity resolution, and has strong production data engineering experience across Spark/Hadoop and Python ETL systems.”

ESHWANTH D. G

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in autonomous perception and sensor fusion

CA, USA4y exp

“Robotics engineer with Honeywell and Tata Motors experience deploying ROS/ROS2 autonomous mobile robot fleets into live factory environments, integrating sensors, safety PLCs, and on-prem services. Known for solving end-to-end latency and stability issues (including network spikes under load) using gRPC, Docker, and improved diagnostics—cutting diagnosis time from hours to minutes and achieving sub-150 ms control response.”

Yaswanth Thota Thota

Screened

Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in financial risk and healthcare analytics

AZ, USA4y exp

“AI/ML engineer focused on real-time, production-grade LLM systems, with a robotics-adjacent mindset around latency/accuracy tradeoffs and modular pipelines. Built a scalable RAG-based assistant orchestrated as microservices on Kubernetes with Kafka async messaging, ONNX/quantization optimizations, and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), citing a ~35% hallucination reduction; has also experimented with ROS Noetic/Gazebo to understand ROS concepts.”

Sai Vamsi

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and cloud-native systems

TX, USA4y exp

“ServiceNow engineer who built an AI-powered ticket summarizer end-to-end (RAG with vector DB + GPT, Redis latency optimizations, fallback summarization, and a React UI widget for agent feedback). Also has hands-on ROS 2 experience building real-time sensor-fusion nodes (LiDAR/IMU), debugging SLAM/navigation issues via rosbag + EKF tuning, and bridging heterogeneous robots by translating ROS 2 topics to MQTT/JSON. Strong DevOps background with Docker, Jenkins CI/CD, and Kubernetes orchestration for scalable deployments.”

Rasika Deodhar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI

Dublin, Ireland6y exp

“Full-stack engineer who shipped an end-to-end speech capability for an LLM chatbot UI, integrating OpenAI APIs and publishing via Google Apigee with client documentation. Has experience operating deployments with Jenkins/Kubernetes/Docker and monitoring with Datadog, and has worked in an innovation-center environment building rapid prototypes under ambiguity with tight stakeholder feedback loops.”

Divyansh Agarwal

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and LLM applications

New York, NY3y exp

“Built and led an autonomous driving software effort for Formula Student, owning the full autonomy stack (perception, planning, control) orchestrated in ROS. Implemented stereo depth + YOLO object detection, RRT/RRT* planning, and a robust SLAM pipeline (Kalman filter, submapping) while leveraging Gazebo simulation and modern deployment tooling (Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions CI/CD).”

Dan Sorensen

Screened

Executive CISO specializing in cybersecurity strategy, AI governance, and enterprise risk

Denver, CO10y exp

“Founder of Nexus Security Advisors, an early-stage cybersecurity consulting firm focused on supporting small and mid-sized businesses with practical security needs. Brings cybersecurity leadership plus AI governance and compliance focus, and has experience designing and delivering hands-on cyber threat intelligence training by validating needs with leadership and partnering to build a practical curriculum.”

Esha Gangam

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer from Deloitte who built and shipped a production RAG-based internal search assistant for support teams, delivering quantified operational gains (20% effort reduction, 35% faster manual lookup). Experienced in enterprise-grade LLM reliability (grounding/hallucination control), compliance/security constraints, and rapid release cycles using CI/CD, MLflow, and orchestration tools (Airflow, Databricks Jobs, LangChain).”

Sri Harsha patallapalli

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning & Data Infrastructure Engineer specializing in MLOps on AWS

Boston, MA5y exp

“Built and deployed a fine-tuned Qwen 2.5 14B model into production at Dextr.ai as the backbone for hotel-operations agentic workflows, running on AWS EKS with Triton and TensorRT-LLM. Demonstrates strong cost-aware LLM engineering (QLoRA, FP8/BF16 on H100) plus rigorous benchmarking/observability (Prometheus, LangSmith) with reported sub-30ms TTNT. Previously handled long-running ETL orchestration with Airflow at GE Healthcare and Lowe's.”

Sai Chatrathi

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare analytics and MLOps

NY, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered lesson adaptation platform for K–12 educators that personalizes content for multilingual and neurodiverse students using RAG and content transformation. Owned the full stack from FastAPI backend and OpenAI integration through reliability/safety controls, latency/cost optimization, and weekly shippable modular APIs, iterating directly with curriculum stakeholders to reduce hallucinations and improve educator trust.”

“Backend/AI infrastructure engineer focused on production-ready LLM systems and distributed workflows. They described building a RAG-based multi-step agent with strong reliability controls, evaluation loops, and graceful degradation that improved latency by 30%, retrieval accuracy by 15%, and reduced support workload by 40%.”

Akhila Kannegari

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech and retail ML systems

Alabama, USA4y exp

“ML-focused candidate with strong Wells Fargo experience building production fraud systems and internal GenAI tools for fraud analysts. Stands out for measurable impact in fraud detection—raising recall from 71% to 88%—while also demonstrating hands-on depth across streaming infrastructure, MLOps, LLM/RAG implementation, and Python service architecture.”

“AI-focused full-stack product builder from Verizon Applied Research who has shipped internal tools spanning API documentation governance, patent exploration agents, and prompt optimization. Particularly strong at turning unreliable or opaque LLM behavior into structured, trustworthy product workflows that enterprise users can actually adopt.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production autonomous GenAI content ecosystem that generates short-form scripts, extracts viral highlights from long-form video, and dubs content into 33+ languages. Focused on making LLM outputs production-safe via schema enforcement, token-to-time alignment, critic-agent verification, and scalable async orchestration—cutting manual workflows by ~90% and saving $200k+ annually.”

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent conversational AI platform (Monitor agent + RAG + 4 additional agents) with enterprise REST APIs, using ChromaDB-grounded WCAG knowledge to keep responses accurate while varying tone via personality modes and conversation memory. Has experience at LinkedIn delivering technical demos and pre-sales guidance to both engineering teams and C-level stakeholders, acting as a translator between sales and technical teams to drive adoption.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production content-generation system for nursing education, combining multimodal RAG over proprietary PDFs (including images) with structured Cosmos DB data and external sources. Strong focus on production reliability—prompt-chaining with LangChain, validation/guardrails, and Azure-based monitoring/observability—plus experience designing Azure AI agents with tool integrations like Bing Search.”

“Built and productionized a multi-agent, LLM-powered document understanding system to replace manual review of long documents, using LangGraph orchestration plus RAG to reduce hallucinations. Implemented layered reliability controls (structured templates, checker agent, and human-in-the-loop feedback) and reported ~40% speed improvement after orchestration; also has hands-on Airflow experience for scheduled data pipelines.”

“LLM/ML platform engineer with hands-on experience taking an LLM document summarization prototype into a production-grade service on AWS EKS, emphasizing low-latency inference, drift monitoring, and safe CI/CD rollouts (canary + rollback). Strong in real-time debugging of agentic/RAG systems (tracing, retrieval/index drift fixes) and in developer enablement through practical workshops (Docker/Kubernetes/FastAPI) plus pre-sales support via demos and benchmarks to close pilots.”

“Built and deployed production LLM-powered document summarization/classification systems using embeddings, vector databases (RAG-style retrieval), and automated evaluation (BERTScore/ROUGE), with a focus on monitoring and scalable cloud pipelines. Also partnered with a fraud analytics team to deliver a transaction anomaly detection solution, translating model outputs into Power BI dashboards and actionable KPIs while iterating on thresholds and alerts based on stakeholder feedback.”