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Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Yash Priyadarshi
Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure
“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.”
David Abbondanzio
Executive AI Platform & Product Leader specializing in commercialization and multimodal AI
“Entrepreneur building an applied-AI tool for geological resource exploration (critical minerals, oil & gas) that overlays proprietary and public data from reports/logs/maps to generate evidence-based greenfield profiling insights. Has spent ~2 years on industry research, built a POC, validated demand with purchasing signals, and developed partnerships/network including USGS, DARPA, and ESRI.”
Keerthana Priya
Mid-level Data Analytics & ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and cloud data platforms
“At KPMG, built and productionized a secure RAG-based LLM assistant that lets business and risk stakeholders query data warehouses in natural language, reducing dependence on data engineers for ad-hoc analysis. Demonstrates strong production rigor (Airflow orchestration, CI/CD, containerization), retrieval/embedding tuning (rechunking, semantic abstraction for structured data), and reliability controls (confidence thresholds, refusal behavior, monitoring and canary evals).”
Sravan Kumar Jajam
Mid-level Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in streaming ML systems for healthcare and IoT
“ML/GenAI engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered governance layer that summarizes verified drift/performance signals into validation reports and release notes, designed for regulated environments with de-identification and non-blocking fallbacks. Strong Airflow-based orchestration background across healthcare and finance, integrating Databricks/Spark and MLflow for scalable retraining/monitoring. Demonstrated ability to partner with non-technical healthcare operations teams to deliver actionable risk-scoring outputs via dashboards and automated reporting.”
Owen Marcione
Intern Software Engineer specializing in embedded systems and full-stack AWS/React apps
“Robotics software developer building an ESP32/FreeRTOS wheel-encoder driver for a differential-drive robot with PID velocity control and ROS2 odometry publishing. Has implemented vision-based human tracking (DepthAI) and an obstacle map + EKF sensor fusion using IMU and LiDAR, with a simulation-first debugging workflow (Gazebo, Foxglove) and Dockerized environments; plans to extend to Nav2 + SLAM Toolbox for building-scale mapping.”
Ralish Routray
Mid-level Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in fraud and forecasting
“ML/LLM practitioner who has shipped production RAG systems (summarization + Q&A) and end-to-end Airflow-orchestrated demand forecasting pipelines at NEON IT. Strong focus on reliability—uses evaluation scripts, retrieval/chunking tuning, validation/retries/alerts, and stakeholder-driven iteration to make AI workflows consistent and usable.”
Sowmya Sree
Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and MLOps
“Built production LLM systems including a real-time customer feedback analysis and workflow automation platform using RAG and multi-agent orchestration with confidence-based human escalation, addressing privacy and legacy integration challenges. Also automated ML operations with Airflow/Kubernetes (e.g., daily churn model retraining) cutting retraining time to under 30 minutes, and demonstrates a rigorous testing/monitoring approach plus strong non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”
“ML/GenAI engineer with recent CVS Health experience building a production RAG system over unstructured financial/research documents using LangChain, FAISS, and Pinecone, plus LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning of GPT/LLaMA for domain-aware summarization. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps and data engineering skills (Airflow/Prefect, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLflow) and measurable impact (sub-second retrieval, ~40% better context retrieval, ~25% entity matching improvement).”
Ansh Harjai
Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, RAG systems, and backend development
“Built an NYU software engineering capstone called “Smart Cash AI,” a multi-agent LLM-powered web app that curates offline-ready podcasts/articles/videos/news based on user preferences and commute schedules. Architected agent orchestration (discovery/downloader/summarizer), real-time progress via WebSockets, and an ETL normalization layer across RSS/YouTube and other sources with GUID-based deduplication, retries, and failure isolation to keep the system predictable.”
Rishitha reddy katamareddy
Mid-level Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems
“Built and deployed a production agentic LLM knowledge assistant that answers complex questions over internal documents, APIs, and databases using a RAG architecture (FAISS/Pinecone) and LangChain/LangGraph orchestration. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and hallucination control through grounding, confidence thresholds, validation, retries/fallbacks, and full observability (logging/metrics/traces) with continuous evaluation and feedback loops.”
Qichen Zhao
Intern Software Engineer specializing in Applied AI and LLM systems
“Built and deployed a production RAG-based conversational "Yelp for AI tools" at Search-AI Inc., focused on personalized, explainable AI tool recommendations from thousands of options. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and performance (hybrid retrieval, async two-stage pipelines) and is also building a multi-agent orchestration layer (MAgIc) with typed memory and controlled coordination policies.”
Sumit Kothari
Junior AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM apps and RAG systems
“AI engineer who built and shipped a production AI document-understanding/search system at Sumeru Inc, including a full RAG + LLMOps evaluation stack (MLflow, DeepEval, RAGAS) deployed on GCP. Also developed LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent workflows for UAV flight-log analysis and has experience presenting AI solutions to non-technical stakeholders and prospect clients to drive POCs.”
Kunal Kulkarni
Intern AI/ML Researcher specializing in computer vision and data engineering
“Built a production-oriented multimodal RAG "Fix Assistant" with FastAPI, Tavily search, BM25 + cross-encoder reranking, and a local Phi-3.5 model, emphasizing strict grounding and fallback/verification modes to prevent hallucinations. Also has hands-on federated learning experience using STADLE to orchestrate edge-node training and aggregation for EV telemetry data, plus experience communicating AI results to non-technical stakeholders (traffic RL/congestion outcomes).”
Sai Nekkanti
Mid-level Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in secure GenAI and financial compliance
“Built a production "sentinel insight engine" to tame information overload from millions of product reviews and support transcripts, combining Azure OpenAI (GPT-3.5) zero-shot classification with a fine-tuned T5 summarizer to generate weekly actionable product insights. Demonstrated strong MLOps/production engineering by adding drift monitoring with embedding-based detection, integrating REST with legacy SOAP/queue-based CRM via FastAPI middleware, and scaling reliably on Kubernetes with HPA.”
Sreelekha Vuppala
Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms
“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”
Harini Vinu
Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, big data, and test automation
“Internship experience at Qualitest building and deploying an LLM-powered test automation system that reduced manual test creation and improved efficiency (~40%). Demonstrates strong production engineering for LLM systems (timeouts/retries/monitoring/caching, prompt optimization, batching) and has scaled workflows to 100+ concurrent jobs; also has orchestration experience with AWS Step Functions and Kubernetes.”
Prashant Salunke
Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems
“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”
Dhruv Pandoh
Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI, FinTech, and e-commerce
“Built both traditional internal tooling and LLM-powered systems during an internship, including a React/Python/AWS calculator onboarding platform and a production-style ROS2 RAG assistant over 10K+ documents. Stands out for combining full-stack delivery, stakeholder coordination, and practical AI reliability work like retrieval tuning, source-grounded answers, and low-confidence fallbacks.”
Ajay Desai
Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and backend platforms
“Built an AI-native legal research platform that automated analysis across 100,000+ dense legal documents, combining LLM workflows, async backend architecture, and conversational retrieval in production. Also brings cross-domain experience in investment-analysis agents and healthcare claims/billing systems, with a strong emphasis on reliability, deterministic orchestration, and safe handling of messy operational data.”
John Patton
Executive Atlassian and Agile transformation leader specializing in AI-enabled enterprise collaboration
“Product leader with hands-on experience modernizing enterprise internal tooling and shipping AI-enabled support workflows. At Peloton, they led the end-to-end migration of Jira, Confluence, and JSM from on-prem Data Center to cloud; at Atlas Vega, they implemented a RAG-based Slack/JSM support assistant with strong governance, data hygiene, and measurable support outcomes.”
Amaan Mohammed
Entry-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in generative AI and applied ML
“Built and deployed LLM-powered agentic systems including a multi-agent travel planning assistant using LangChain, RAG (FAISS), real-time APIs, and a supervisor agent to manage coordination and reduce hallucinations. Also developed a Text-to-SQL system with schema-aware validation guardrails, and collaborated with drilling domain experts at CNPC USA to build an ML model predicting rate of penetration (ROP).”
Andrew Lawrence
Senior Product Leader specializing in fraud platforms and enterprise SaaS
“Principal-level product leader with deep experience rebuilding complex enterprise platforms in fraud prevention and HR tech. Stands out for unifying siloed acquired products into a single API-driven platform at TransUnion, pairing strong commercial outcomes ($400K early revenue, $2M projected cost savings) with thoughtful human-centered AI work including chatbots, RAG, and an AI copilot for fraud investigators.”