Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation Professionals

“IBM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM assistant using LangChain/FAISS with a fine-tuned LLaMA model, served via FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes, achieving 99%+ uptime. Demonstrates strong practical expertise in reducing hallucinations (semantic chunking + metadata-driven retrieval) and managing latency, plus mature MLOps practices (Airflow/dbt pipelines, MLflow tracking, monitoring, A/B and shadow deployments) and effective collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Built a production multimodal LLM-based vendor risk assessment platform that ingests SOC reports and other documents, uses a strict RAG pipeline with grounded evidence (page/paragraph citations), and dramatically reduces analyst review time. Experienced with LangGraph/LangChain/AutoGen for stateful, fault-tolerant agent workflows, and emphasizes reliability (schema validation, guardrails) plus low-latency delivery (~1–2s) through hybrid retrieval, reranking, caching, and model tiering.”

“At CVS Health, the candidate productionized a RAG-based LLM solution in a regulated healthcare setting, emphasizing reliable data pipelines, LoRA fine-tuning, monitoring, safety guardrails, and A/B testing. They have hands-on experience troubleshooting real-time RAG failures (e.g., chunking/embedding issues) and regularly lead developer-focused demos/workshops while translating technical architecture into business value for stakeholders.”

“Built and productionized an AI NL-to-SQL capability inside legacy accounts receivable software (React + Spring Boot + Postgres/pgvector RAG), adding semantic caching and a SELECT-only validation layer to satisfy infosec. Achieved measurable impact (3 days to seconds turnaround, 60% token cost reduction, 50% latency reduction) with strong adoption (40 analysts, 50+ queries/week) and documented/monitored via Confluence + logging and user feedback loops.”

“Research Assistant at the University of Houston who built and live-deployed a production RAG system for 1000+ research documents, using hybrid retrieval (dense+BM25+RRF) with cross-encoder reranking and RAGAS-based evaluation; reported 66% MRR, 0.85+ faithfulness, and 68% lower LLM inference costs. Also built a deployed LangGraph multi-agent research system (Researcher/Critic/Writer) with tool integrations (Tavily, arXiv) and dual memory (ChromaDB + Neo4j), plus freelance automation work delivering a WhatsApp chatbot and n8n workflows for a wholesale clothing business.”

“Built and deployed a live production LLM document Q&A platform (DocumindAI) with an adaptive RAG pipeline (Claude + Cohere embeddings + pgvector), source-cited structured outputs, and engineered fallbacks for reliability and sub-2s latency. Also has enterprise integration experience at Tech Mahindra working with messy IFS ERP XML integrations, using validation/normalization and JTA transactions to prevent partial writes and data corruption.”

Srikanth Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and financial risk & compliance analytics

Plainsboro, NJ7y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered financial risk and compliance platform to reduce manual trade exception handling and speed up insights from regulatory documents. Implemented a LangChain multi-agent workflow with structured/unstructured data integration (Redshift + vector DB) and emphasized hallucination reduction for regulatory safety using Amazon Bedrock. Strong MLOps/orchestration background across Kubernetes, Airflow, Jenkins, and monitoring/testing with MLflow, Evidently AI, and PyTest.”

sarah robert

Screened

Staff RPA & Automation Engineer specializing in Financial Services

Baton Rouge, LA11y exp

“Blue Prism RPA developer in a small FinTech-aligned team who owned ~20 production bots and drove both delivery and reliability. Built a shared VDI/locking design that cut infrastructure cost ~20–30% and routinely handled ServiceNow-driven production incidents end-to-end, including hotfixes and longer-term SDLC fixes. Also acted as a player-coach, training junior hires and maintaining high bot success rates (up to 99% within SLA).”

Sanskruti Raut

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML & Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM agents and medical RAG systems

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup building an agentic AI application for enterprise systems, combining customer-facing Next.js/React UI work (30% faster load times) with backend/workflow orchestration using FastAPI + n8n, Redis, and RabbitMQ. Previously at Deloitte USI, built BDD Selenium/Java automation and managed 200+ defects end-to-end using JIRA/JAMA to support on-time production releases.”

Michael Chaves

Screened

Senior Creative Technologist & Full-Stack UX Engineer specializing in Generative AI and XR

Los Altos, CA12y exp

“Design engineer/product designer who built an end-to-end creator + review/moderation system for a UGC platform, spanning automated checks, human QA, final review, and creator feedback. Comfortable working directly with HTML/CSS/TypeScript and component systems, using prototyping and field observation to reduce reviewer hesitation, improve consistency, and prevent creator errors upstream.”

Rayyan Alam

Screened

Junior Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in autonomy and RAG systems

Arlington, VA1y exp

“New-grad robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 autonomy experience (Nav2, SLAM Toolbox, AMCL) and a strong track record debugging real-world instability (QoS, lifecycle timing, sensor dropouts). Built an HRI speech system on a Stretch 3 robot with deterministic, context-aware templates to manipulate trust/competence/emotion conditions, and integrated an LLM high-level planner that outputs PDDL for classical task planning and replanning.”

Sai Venkata Sathwik Golla

Screened

Mid-level Backend & Applied ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and scalable APIs

Palo Alto, CA3y exp

“Backend engineer who significantly evolved an internal analytics/reporting platform (Python API + Postgres) powering self-service dashboards for product/business teams, focusing on reliability under heavy concurrent load and fast query performance. Demonstrates strong production engineering practices across API design (FastAPI), observability, incremental rollouts with feature flags, and data security using JWT/RBAC plus Postgres row-level security.”

“Early-career/new-grad candidate who built TrendScout AI, an evidence-first market intelligence agent that ingests messy news, extracts entities/events, builds a Neo4j knowledge graph, and answers questions via RAG with citations. Achieved ~95% retrieval relevance by combining ChromaDB semantic search with graph-based retrieval and validating outputs through human evaluation and guardrails to prevent hallucinations.”

“Backend engineer who optimized an AI-driven portfolio analytics/insights platform at Fidelity, addressing latency and traffic growth by moving services toward microservices, improving service communication, and tuning API/DB performance. Experienced scaling Python/FastAPI services with Docker + Kubernetes autoscaling, and strengthening security/privacy for sensitive client portfolio data used in LLM-based reporting.”

“Backend engineer from Optum who built and optimized a real-time, Kafka-driven healthcare claims processing platform handling 1M+ claims/month. Strong in reliability, state management, and observability for distributed systems, plus production deployment automation with Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD; no direct ROS/robotics simulator experience yet but frames work in robotics-adjacent real-time principles.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered workflow assistant that automated internal marketing/production business tasks (document summarization, repeated Q&A, status updates). Demonstrates end-to-end applied LLM engineering: modular RAG architecture, hallucination/latency mitigation, automated evals to prevent prompt regressions, and Azure-based orchestration (Functions/Logic Apps) with monitoring and controlled rollouts.”

“LLM/ML engineer who has shipped production systems in legal/financial-risk domains at Wolters Kluwer, including a hybrid OCR+deterministic+LLM extraction pipeline that structured UCC filings at massive scale and drove $6M+ in revenue. Also built LangGraph-based multi-agent “Deep Research” workflows with model routing, tool calls (MCP), persistence, and human-in-the-loop review, and partnered closely with policy writers to deliver LLM summarization that cut writing time by ~60%.”

“Early-career engineer from BNP Paribas who drove a large-scale observability modernization—selecting and implementing Prometheus/Grafana for a 2000+ server estate, then productionizing it on Kubernetes via Docker/Jenkins. Known for hands-on demos, strong documentation/templates, and pragmatic troubleshooting (including custom Python metrics) that improved visibility and cut debugging time by ~60%.”

“LLM/agentic systems engineer who built a production "Agentic AI Diagnostic Assistant" for network engineers, using a multi-agent Llama 2 + LangChain architecture with RAG over telemetry/incident data in DynamoDB and confidence-based deferrals to reduce hallucinations. Also has strong MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, EventBridge, Spark, Docker, SageMaker/ECS) at multi-terabyte/day scale and delivered multilingual NLP analytics (fine-tuned BERT/spaCy) for support operations through hands-on stakeholder workshops.”

“Full-stack engineer with financial services experience (Lincoln Financial) who owned a customer-facing financial portal end-to-end using TypeScript/React and Node/Express. Has hands-on microservices and RabbitMQ event-driven workflows, addressing scale issues like retries/duplicates with idempotency and traceable logging, and built an internal real-time ops/support dashboard to improve monitoring and incident response.”

“Built production LLM/RAG platforms for financial services to enable natural-language Q&A over large policy/compliance document sets stored in Snowflake and SharePoint. Strong in MLOps and orchestration (Airflow, ADF, Step Functions, MLflow) and in solving real production issues like stale embeddings and model performance, including an incremental Snowflake Streams sync that cut processing time from hours to minutes.”

“Built a production internal LLM/RAG assistant at CVS Health to cut time spent searching long policy and clinical guideline PDFs, combining fine-tuned BERT/GPT models with FAISS retrieval and a FastAPI service on AWS. Demonstrates strong real-world reliability work (document cleanup, hallucination controls, monitoring/drift tracking with MLflow) and close collaboration with non-technical clinical operations teams via demos and feedback-driven iteration.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who recently built a production compliance assistant at State Farm for KYC/AML and regulatory teams, using AWS Bedrock + LangChain with Textract/Lambda pipelines to extract fields, tag risk, and summarize long documents. Implemented RAG, strict structured outputs, and human-in-the-loop guardrails, and reports automating ~80% of documentation work while reducing review time by ~40%.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with banking experience (M&T Bank) who has built a GPT-4 RAG system using LangChain and Pinecone to connect unstructured customer data with internal knowledge bases, improving accuracy and reducing manual lookup time by 50%+. Strong in entity resolution and productionizing scalable Python data workflows, including major performance wins by migrating bottleneck joins from Pandas to Dask.”