Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation Professionals

“Former Walmart Director of Software Engineering who left in March 2025 to build products for clients. Recently delivered an LLM/RAG-based UNSPSC classification solution for an MRO client using a multi-stage retrieval + web search + prompt-engineering workflow, and has led large-scale retail forecasting initiatives and high-severity cloud-migration incidents end-to-end.”

“Built and productionized enterprise LLM/RAG systems, including a Boeing internal solution that gave 400+ program managers conversational access to 1M+ rows of schedule data, with strong emphasis on governance, reliability, and reducing hallucinations in tabular domains. Also has experience running developer-focused workshops (UC Berkeley computer architecture) and partnering with customer-facing stakeholders to drive adoption of a compliance-sensitive NLP product (SEC-aligned) at Penserra.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production AWS experience spanning serverless APIs (Chalice/Lambda/API Gateway/Cognito) and data pipelines (Glue PySpark + Step Functions). Has modernized a legacy SAS reporting system into AWS microservices and implemented schema-drift detection and incident prevention for ETL workflows, plus measurable SQL tuning wins (30 min to <10 min runtime).”

“Cofounder at MeowyAI who shipped a production multimodal (vision/voice/text) AI task manager using Gemini, tackling real-world issues like hallucinations, tool-calling safety, and RAG-based preference memory. Also built a production multi-agent RAG system orchestrated with LangGraph (and contributes to LangChain), with strong emphasis on latency optimization, observability (OpenTelemetry), and rigorous testing/evaluation including A/B tests and adversarial prompting.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM pipeline for nursing home Medicare reimbursement (PDF OCR + fact extraction + keyword RAG + QA) that reportedly increased payouts by ~$1K/month per patient. Strong in LLM ops/benchmarking (ground truth, LLM-as-judge, cost/I-O tracking) and pragmatic optimization—swapped retrieval approaches, fine-tuned a small model to cut OCR cost 90%, and migrated workloads to Azure/Temporal to scale nightly processing 10x.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered risk assistant for KPMG and Freddie Mac that lets analysts query a confidential Neo4j risk graph in natural language (no Cypher), turning multi-day analysis into minutes with traceable, cited answers. Implemented rigorous guardrails, deterministic verification, RBAC/security controls, and a full eval/observability stack, cutting query error rate by ~50% and iterating through weekly UAT with non-technical risk analysts.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience across Magna, C3.ai, and Amazon, building GenAI-enabled products and finance transaction systems. Has shipped Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript features backed by Go/Python RAG pipelines, and emphasizes production quality via load testing, Selenium regression coverage, LLM-aware integration testing, and Azure observability. Also built LangGraph-orchestrated multi-step content generation workflows with robust retry/idempotency strategies.”

“Global talent acquisition leader and player-coach with 15+ years managing recruiter teams (up to 25–30) across multiple regions. Has personally delivered executive searches (including CIO and engineering leadership) and driven enterprise-wide recruiting improvements, including building a global structured interview/assessment program at NASDAQ. Partnered directly with CEO/CFO/CHRO to shift compensation strategy during a high-attrition period (50%) to stabilize hiring and retention.”

“Built a production internal knowledge assistant using a RAG pipeline over large spreadsheets, PDFs, and support documents, using transformer embeddings stored in FAISS. Focused on real-world production challenges—format normalization, retrieval quality, hallucination reduction (context-only + citations), and latency—using hybrid retrieval, quantization, and containerized deployment, and communicated the workflow to non-technical stakeholders using simple analogies.”

“Built a production RAG-based natural-language-to-SQL system at Global Atlantic to replace slow, expensive manual analytics ticket workflows, focusing heavily on retrieval quality and measurable evaluation (200-question ground-truth set; recall@5 improved 0.65→0.78 via semantic chunking). Also built a custom MCP-style agent orchestrator for a personal project (arxiv-ai) to improve flexibility and Langfuse-aligned observability, and has hands-on experience with LangGraph, CrewAI, and n8n.”

“Built a production LLM-driven archival assistant that turns large, low-quality scanned handwritten files (120+ pages) into structured datasets, overcoming context-window and hierarchy challenges with a two-phase LLM + rules pipeline and reaching 98.1% accuracy (Gemini-2.5 Flash). Also orchestrated a large human-in-the-loop effort with 78 archivists, producing 2,400 high-quality annotations in 4 days via detailed rubrics and support.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-driven multi-agent platform (ciATHENA) at CustomerInsights.AI to automate analytics/ML/compliance workflows in healthcare and life sciences. Implemented LangGraph/LangChain orchestration with strong backend-style rigor (schemas, Pydantic validation, retries, auditability) and optimized latency/cost while keeping the system usable for non-technical users via guided natural-language interactions and structured/visual outputs.”

“Machine learning software engineer intern experience at Amazon, where they built a production testing framework to inject frames/videos onto devices to measure embedded CV model inference and ensure broad model compatibility via automatic NNA metadata handling. Also built side projects spanning LLM/RAG orchestration (LangChain/LangGraph with reranking and citations) and applied CV/healthcare work (nail disease detection, medical retrieval chatbot).”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building a multi-GPU LLM inference platform using TensorRT and vLLM, achieving ~40% p95 latency reduction through batching/KV caching, quantization, and CUDA/runtime tuning. Also has end-to-end orchestration experience (Kubernetes, Airflow) and has delivered real-time fraud detection systems at Accenture in close collaboration with non-technical risk and product stakeholders.”

“Built a production RAG-based "knowledge copilot" for support/ops using LangChain/LangGraph, implementing the full pipeline (ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector DB retrieval/rerank, guarded generation with citations) and operating it as monitored microservices with CI/CD. Also designed an event-driven, streaming backend for real-time inventory ordering predictions that reduced stockouts by 25%, and has hands-on incident response experience stabilizing LLM API latency/5xx spikes using Datadog/APM and resilience patterns.”