Vetted Scala Professionals

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 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.”

“Data/ML platform engineer with ~6 years in financial services and enterprise data platforms, building regulated fraud/credit-risk pipelines on AWS (Airflow, EMR/Spark, MLflow) and an Azure lakehouse ingesting 50+ sources and serving ~100M records/day. Also led an early-stage deployment of a RAG-based internal AI search tool using AWS Bedrock and LangChain with automated evaluation to validate LLM accuracy.”

Vengalarao Pachava

Screened

Junior AI Data Engineer specializing in Azure Databricks lakehouse and GenAI RAG systems

Irving, TX2y exp

“Backend/applied AI engineer from Cloud Rack Systems who built production GenAI/RAG and data platforms on Azure/Databricks at enterprise scale (2.5M records/day). Known for making LLM systems behave like deterministic services via strict retrieval contracts, citation-based validation, and strong observability—shipping a knowledge assistant used daily by 50+ users while driving hallucinations near zero and materially improving latency and cost.”

Yuhao Lin

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web platforms and cloud-based systems

Boulder, CO1y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on document extraction experience: built an end-to-end handwritten OCR pipeline using OpenCV + EasyOCR with spellcheck post-processing and a Tkinter-based manual correction workflow. Also brings practical distributed-systems and e-commerce reliability experience (REST orchestration, retries, logging, Stripe idempotency), and is candid about not yet shipping LLM agents to production.”

Annie Suzan Edwin Arokiaraj Caroline

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and data pipelines

Tempe, AZ1y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building distributed data and API platforms (Kafka + Neo4j on Kubernetes), including processing 3M+ NYC taxi trip records and achieving sub-second graph analytics queries. Strong focus on reliability and performance in Python/FastAPI systems—async refactors, caching, timeouts/retries, feature-flagged rollouts, and JWT/RBAC security for production services.”

Mayank VYAS

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG retrieval, and IoT ML systems

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Built production LLM-driven products including a job-hunt AI (job ranking + resume optimization) and an InterviewAI agentic pipeline using LangChain. Focused on practical deployment concerns like securing OpenAI usage via rate limiting and tiered quotas, and demonstrates an applied approach to choosing models, retrieval methods (RAG), and prompting strategies.”

“Built a production multi-agent RAG assistant using LangChain/LangGraph with OpenAI embeddings and FAISS, focusing on retrieval quality and latency (Redis caching, parallel retrieval, precomputed embeddings). Experienced orchestrating ETL/ML pipelines with Airflow and Databricks Workflows, and has delivered an AI assistant for business ops to extract insights from policy/compliance documents through close non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”

“Co-op engineer who owned and shipped a Python/Flask backend for automating architecture reviews and system metadata processing, including ingestion from multiple internal APIs, RBAC, testing, and deployment. Has hands-on Kubernetes + GitOps (ArgoCD) experience, built Kafka-based real-time ingestion, and supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration with phased cutover, smoke tests, and performance tuning.”

Rizwana Shaik

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native apps and AI copilots

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Internship project building and deploying a LLaMA-based, RAG-enabled copilot inside a Professional Services Automation platform, enabling natural-language navigation, text-to-SQL reporting, and project/resource/budget insights across multiple modules. Addressed real production issues like context drift and vague queries with hybrid search, metadata enrichment, and an intent classification/rewriting layer, orchestrated via Apache Airflow—ultimately cutting PMO reporting time by 40%.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience building healthcare and fraud-detection systems from experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and retraining. Stands out for combining real-time IoT pipelines, cloud-native MLOps, and GenAI/RAG in regulated healthcare settings, with reported impact including reduced emergency response times and a 25% reduction in manual diagnosis time.”

“Cloud infrastructure/DevOps engineer focused on AWS/Azure production environments, with hands-on experience running EKS-based platforms, Terraform-driven IaC, and secure Jenkins/GitLab CI pipelines. Has led real-world migrations from EC2 to Kubernetes using blue/green cutovers and executed multi-AZ failover testing with documented same-day recovery and no data loss; does not have direct IBM Power/AIX ownership experience.”