Vetted Scala Professionals

“Data engineer with Cigna experience building and operating an end-to-end AWS-based healthcare claims pipeline processing ~2TB/day, using Glue/Kafka/PySpark/SQL into Redshift. Strong focus on data quality and reliability (schema validation, monitoring/alerting, retries/checkpointing/backfills), reporting improved accuracy (~99%) and reduced latency, plus experience serving real-time Kafka/Spark data to downstream analytics with documented data contracts.”

Harideep Balusa

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech risk, fraud detection, and GenAI/RAG systems

USA6y exp

“Built and productionized Azure-based LLM/RAG systems for regulatory/compliance use cases, including automating analyst research and compliance report generation across large unstructured document sets. Demonstrates strong practical depth in hallucination mitigation, hybrid retrieval tuning (BM25 + embeddings), and production MLOps (Databricks, Cognitive Search, AKS, Airflow/MLflow), plus proven ability to deliver auditable, explainable solutions with non-technical compliance teams.”

“Built and productionized an enterprise retrieval-augmented generation platform for internal knowledge over large unstructured corpora, emphasizing trust via strict citation/grounding and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + FAISS + cross-encoder re-ranking). Demonstrates strong scaling and cost/latency optimization through incremental indexing/embedding and index partitioning, plus disciplined evaluation/observability practices. Has experience operationalizing pipelines with Airflow/Databricks/GitHub Actions and partnering closely with risk & compliance stakeholders on auditability requirements.”

“BNY Mellon engineer who has built and operated production AI systems end-to-end: a LangChain/Pinecone RAG platform scaled via FastAPI + Kubernetes to 1000 RPM with 99.9% uptime, supported by monitoring and data-drift detection. Also deep in data/infra orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Terraform on AWS/EMR/EC2), processing 500GB+ daily and delivering measurable reliability and performance gains, plus strong compliance-facing model explainability using SHAP and Tableau.”

“LLM/agentic workflow engineer with healthcare domain experience who built a HIPAA-compliant multi-agent RAG system for clinical review automation at UnitedHealth Group, achieving 92% precision and cutting latency 40% through async orchestration and Redis semantic caching. Also has strong data engineering orchestration background (Airflow on AWS EMR with Great Expectations) and a proven clinician-in-the-loop feedback process that improved model faithfulness by 18%.”

Bala Venkateswarlu K

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and MLOps

USA5y exp

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered claims-document summarization system (insurance domain) that cut agent review time from 4–5 minutes to under 2 minutes and saved 1,200+ hours per quarter. Hands-on across orchestration and production infrastructure (Airflow retraining DAGs, Kubernetes, SageMaker endpoints, FastAPI) and recent RAG workflows using n8n + Pinecone, with a strong focus on reliability, cost, and explainability for non-technical stakeholders.”

“Built a production, real-time clinical documentation system at HCA that converts doctor–patient conversations into structured clinical summaries using speech-to-text, LLM summarization, and RAG. Demonstrated measurable gains from medical-domain fine-tuning (clinical concept recall +18%, ROUGE-L 0.62 to 0.74) while meeting HIPAA constraints via PHI anonymization and encryption, and deployed via Docker/FastAPI with CI/CD and monitoring.”

John Chance

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in conversational AI and healthcare ML

Greenwood, LA9y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of both classical recommender systems and safety-sensitive LLM agent platforms. They combine production MLOps depth with behavioral health domain experience, including clinical safety validation, explainability, and multi-agent orchestration, and cite measurable impact in both business metrics and latency reduction.”

“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.”

“Data engineer (~4 years) with full-stack delivery experience (Next.js App Router/TypeScript + React) building a real-time operations monitoring dashboard backed by Kafka and orchestrated data pipelines. Strong production focus: Airflow + CloudWatch monitoring, automated Python/SQL validation (99.5% accuracy), and CI/CD with Jenkins/Docker; has delivered measurable improvements in latency, pipeline reliability, and query performance (Postgres/Redshift).”

“Data engineer focused on sales/marketing analytics pipelines, owning ingestion from CRMs/ad platforms through warehouse serving and dashboards at ~hundreds of thousands of records/day. Built reliability-focused systems including dbt/SQL/Python data quality gates with alerting, a resilient web-scraping pipeline (retries/backoff, anti-bot tactics, schema-change detection, backfills), and a versioned internal REST API with caching and strong developer usability.”

“Data engineer with Wells Fargo experience owning an end-to-end lakehouse ETL pipeline on Databricks/Azure Data Factory, processing ~480GB daily and implementing robust data quality/reconciliation across 40+ tables to reach ~99.3% reliability. Strong in performance optimization (cut runtime 5.5h→3.8h), CI/CD and monitoring, and resilient external/API ingestion with retries, schema validation, and backfills.”

Shashank Venkataramana

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure and data platforms

Scottsdale, AZ4y exp

“Backend/infra-focused software engineer who built an autonomous Python API-orchestration agent using asyncio with strong reliability and observability (trace IDs, structured logs, retries/timeouts) and containerized dev workflow. Experienced deploying Python services to Kubernetes with Helm and running GitOps CI/CD via ArgoCD, plus leading an AWS IAM-to-Identity Center migration using CloudTrail-driven least-privilege role design. Also built and debugged a Kafka/SnapLogic bidirectional pipeline syncing Redshift and HBase, resolving missing-record issues via Kibana-driven investigation.”

“Built end-to-end ML and GenAI systems at Northern Trust, including a production RAG-based document intelligence platform for financial reports and contracts. Stands out for combining strong MLOps execution with practical product judgment—improving forecast accuracy by 22%, document review accuracy by 38%, and cutting deployment time by 45% while keeping latency and reliability production-ready.”

“Built production AI systems for Macy's and Bloomingdale's, including an embeddings-based pipeline to clean trending search queries and an end-to-end 'Ask Macy's' multi-agent chat experience. Brings hands-on experience with real-world agent orchestration, tool integration, quality evaluation, and business-facing safeguards in a large-scale e-commerce environment.”

“Software engineer/product owner experience at UnitedHealth Group owning a high-volume claims eligibility console end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Spring Boot microservices) processing 1M+ transactions/day. Strong in event-driven architecture (Kafka/RabbitMQ), HIPAA-aligned security (OAuth/JWT/RBAC), and building internal observability tools that improve incident triage and production reliability.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI-driven "Smart Feedback Analyzer" API (Flask → FastAPI) that processes user feedback with NLP (Hugging Face + OpenAI) and returns structured insights. Demonstrates strong production-minded architecture: stateless services, Cloud Run + Docker deployment, Redis/Celery background processing, and Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, indexing, N+1 fixes), plus multi-tenant data isolation via JWT/API-key derived tenant IDs.”

Kyle Vo

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in web, mobile, and embedded systems

Davis, CA1y exp

“Software/IoT-focused candidate with startup internship experience building a planner AI service integrating Google Calendar (OAuth/token handling) and connecting AI, backend, frontend, and database. Also has embedded systems + AWS networking troubleshooting experience and has implemented TCP networking projects optimized for throughput and low jitter/latency; collaborates with clients via weekly meetings using Trello/Slack.”

Medi Val

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in AI, digital strategy, and business transformation

Toronto, Canada25y exp

“Candidate reports being highly familiar with the venture capital and accelerator landscape, citing past experience working with VC-related environments at WINR Games and BioSymetrics. The interview ended early when the candidate withdrew their application, so detail is limited.”

“Analytics professional with hands-on experience building SQL/Python pipelines, customer ID mapping logic, and self-serve BI dashboards across marketing/CRM and regulated aviation reporting environments. Particularly strong in turning messy multi-source data into trusted reporting assets, with repeated claims of major efficiency gains, faster decision-making, and high-confidence stakeholder adoption.”

Meet Vyas

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems and AI applications

Tempe, AZ3y exp

“Software engineer with 3 years at Gap Inc. who led a major modernization from monolith/legacy frontend to a React and Spring Boot microservices architecture, delivering 25% cost savings, 30% faster releases, and 50% performance gains. Also built a 0→1 startup product, MealShare AI, using managed cloud services to rapidly launch a real-time food redistribution platform.”

Lokesh Jain

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in supply chain and healthcare systems

Bentonville, AR6y exp

“Built and deployed AcademiQ Ai, a production LLM-based teaching assistant using GPT/BERT with RAG (LangChain + Pinecone) to handle large student notes and generate adaptive explanations/quizzes. Demonstrated measurable retrieval-quality gains (18% precision improvement, 22% less irrelevant context) by tuning similarity thresholds and chunking based on user satisfaction signals. Also orchestrated terabyte-scale, real-time demand forecasting pipelines using Airflow and Kubeflow on GCP with strong monitoring, shadow deployment, and feedback-loop practices.”

Arya Thorat

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

Texas, USA5y exp

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep experience building real-time fraud and credit-risk systems. Shipped an event-driven fraud monitoring platform (Kafka→MongoDB/Redis→WebSockets) delivering sub-200ms updates to 3000+ concurrent internal users, and built a Java/Spring Boot credit risk decisioning API that improved turnaround time by 30–40%. Strong AWS production operations (ECS Fargate/RDS/Redis) with proven incident response and performance tuning.”