Vetted Retrieval-Augmented Generation Professionals

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered document Q&A system using a strict RAG pipeline (LangChain-style orchestration + FAISS) to help users query large internal document sets. Demonstrates strong reliability focus through hallucination mitigation, curated offline evaluation with grounding checks, and production monitoring (latency/fallback rates) plus stakeholder alignment via demos and business metrics.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved Python/FastAPI services (including AWS-deployed ML prediction APIs) for real-time profitability and risk insights at TenXengage. Emphasizes pragmatic architecture, strong validation/observability, and secure access controls (RBAC + row-level filtering), and has led safe migrations via parallel runs and incremental rollouts; reports ~20% forecasting accuracy improvement.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered clinical decision support and risk monitoring platform for mental health at Valuai.io, emphasizing low-latency, evidence-grounded responses and crisis-safe behavior with clinician escalation. Strong production agent-orchestration background (LangChain/CrewAI) plus rigorous evaluation (clinician-in-the-loop + evaluator agent) and large-scale synthetic testing; also applied multi-agent workflows to document verification and fraud detection during an AI internship at Nixacom.”

“AI/back-end engineer at Canon who helped build and operate an internal production LLM platform that acts as a secure middle layer between users and models, defending against jailbreaks/prompt injection while enabling RAG, memory, and grounded responses over company data. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph orchestration, vector DB retrieval, and reliability practices (testing, monitoring, adversarial prompts) to run high-throughput, low-latency AI workflows in production.”

“Built and deployed LLM-powered features for a startup organizational management application, focusing on real-world deployment constraints like latency and cost. Implemented RAG with FAISS and improved retrieval quality by switching embedding models (OpenAI/Hugging Face) and fine-tuning embeddings on medical corpora for a medical-report UI feature. Uses LangChain and LangGraph to orchestrate multi-node LLM API workflows and evaluates systems with metrics like latency, cost per request, and error taxonomy.”

Pranava Reddy Kothapally

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Data Engineer specializing in Azure, CRM data pipelines, and marketing personalization

Hyderabad, India2y exp

“LLM/AI engineer who has deployed production RAG conversational analytics and Text-to-SQL systems over Snowflake and curated data marts, emphasizing enterprise-grade guardrails for accuracy, security, and cost. Notable for a structured approach to reducing hallucinations (curated metric/table registry, SQL validation, RBAC, and citation-backed responses) and for building resilient, observable multi-step agent workflows using LangChain/LlamaIndex and Airflow.”

“ML/NLP practitioner who has delivered production systems in regulated domains, including a healthcare compliance pipeline using RAG (GPT-4/Claude) plus TF-IDF retrieval that increased document review throughput 4.5x. Also has hands-on experience improving fraud detection data quality via entity resolution (Levenshtein, Dedupe.py) validated with A/B testing, and building scalable, monitored workflows with Airflow, CI/CD, and AWS SageMaker.”

“Built a LangGraph-based, tool-routing LLM chatbot to deliver fast, trustworthy investment-stock insights (including tariff impact) and deployed it to production on Snowflake after initially developing in Azure with AI Search and the Microsoft Agent Framework. Improved routing robustness by moving from LLM-based decisions to a deterministic router backed by schema-relationship graphs and YAML metadata, and ran the project iteratively with non-technical stakeholders over an 8-month engagement.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered text-to-SQL/document intelligence chatbot on AWS that lets non-technical business users query complex enterprise databases in plain English. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in schema-aware prompting, embeddings-based schema retrieval, SQL safety/validation guardrails, and rigorous offline/online evaluation with human-in-the-loop approvals for risky queries.”

Ronald Forte

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in AI APIs and RAG systems

0y exp

“Junior/entry-level AI/LLM engineer who built a production-oriented RAG onboarding and knowledge assistant that ingests GitHub repos and internal sources (e.g., Confluence/Jira) using ChromaDB, with reliability features like retrieval fallbacks, retries, caching, and monitoring. Currently implementing a LangGraph-based multi-agent workflow with intent routing and Pydantic/Magentic-validated structured outputs, plus CI/CD offline evals and online metrics (Grafana/Prometheus) to improve predictability and reliability.”

Priyank Jhaveri

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Junior AI/ML & Mobile Engineer specializing in LLMs, synthetic data, and React Native

New York, United States1y exp

“Currently at Uplift AI shipping production LLM features that generate personalized growth insights from user reflections using BERT + embeddings + RAG, with strong safety/guardrail practices for sensitive contexts. Also built an end-to-end React Native UGC challenge submission/moderation system that improved repeat submissions and 7-day retention, and has applied rigorous clinical-style evaluation methods on a dental X-ray disease detection project to reduce false negatives.”

“Built and deployed an LLM product called "Content Craft" combining BART-based summarization with a RAG Q&A chatbot using LangChain, embeddings, and a vector database. Has hands-on MLOps experience containerizing and serving models with FastAPI and running them on Kubernetes with monitoring, self-healing, and autoscaling, and has practical experience reducing hallucinations through structured prompting.”

“LLM/agentic AI builder who deployed a production ITSM automation agent on Google ADK integrating ServiceNow and FreshService, with strong safety guardrails (human-approval gating and runbook-only command execution) and rigorous evaluation (500 synthetic tickets; 80%+ false-positive reduction). Also partnered with finance to deliver an AI agent that automated invoice/SOW retrieval and monthly reporting to account managers, reducing manual back-and-forth.”

“Built and deployed a production-grade, multi-agent Text-to-SQL assistant that lets non-technical stakeholders query large enterprise databases in natural language. Uses Pinecone-based schema retrieval + LLM reasoning (Gemini/Claude/GPT) with a dedicated validation agent (schema/syntax checks and safe dry runs) to reduce hallucinations and improve reliability, while optimizing latency and cost via async execution and embedding caching.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-based appointment management agent, implementing RAG with Redis and LangGraph plus multi-agent intent handling and rule-based conflict guardrails to prevent double-booking under high load. Experienced in real-time diagnosis of agentic workflow failures using logs/traces and state inspection, and in driving adoption via interactive developer demos and sales-aligned custom customer scenarios.”

“Data/ML practitioner who has built a production RAG-based knowledge assistant integrated into Microsoft 365/internal dashboards to help employees query internal documents in plain English. Experienced orchestrating and hardening ETL pipelines with Airflow and Azure Data Factory (validation, retries, monitoring) and running end-to-end model evaluation and production performance tracking via Power BI.”

“Software engineer with enterprise CPQ/CRM/ERP integration experience (Argano) who owned an end-to-end pricing preview capability deployed on AWS Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and full observability (Prometheus/Grafana). Also built an AI-native research agent using LangChain + Chroma to filter academic papers, reporting ~15 hours/week saved for a professor.”