Vetted Schema Validation Professionals

“Machine learning lab assistant at Eastern Illinois University who productionized a voice-enabled conversational AI system: redesigned it with RAG, LoRA fine-tuning (including text-to-SQL), and safety guardrails, then deployed a scalable API supporting ~1,000 daily queries. Also partnered with customer-facing teams during a BlueFi internship by building demos/APIs and accelerating releases via Terraform + AWS CI/CD automation.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned a real-time manufacturing insights streaming service, building FastAPI async microservices with Kafka-style queue buffering, batching/backpressure, and a low-latency snapshot store. Led a serverless-to-Kubernetes (EKS) migration at UGenomeAi using GitOps-style GitHub Actions pipelines, standardized config/secrets, and improved deployment consistency with pinned dependencies and multi-stage Docker builds.”

“ML/NLP engineer who has built production systems end-to-end: a real-time recommendation platform (100k+ profiles) using BERTopic-style clustering and a RAG-based news summarization/recommendation stack with ChromaDB. Strong focus on scaling and reliability (GPU batching, Redis caching, Kafka ingestion, Docker/Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana) and on maintaining model quality over time via drift monitoring and retraining triggers.”

“Full-stack developer who owned and shipped an end-to-end web application for LeafNBeyond (React/Node/Postgres), deployed to production at leafnbeyond.com, with reported 35% sales growth and strong UX feedback. Also built Azure-based ETL pipelines using lakehouse/medallion architecture with validation and retry logic, and has AWS fundamentals from a master’s coursework (EC2, RDS, IAM, load balancing).”

Dhwani Patel

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Python Developer specializing in AI/ML and backend APIs

BC, Canada15y exp

“Python/Django backend engineer with open-source experience upgrading Archivematica to Django 4.2 LTS, including resolving a tricky breaking change in datetime parsing by implementing a preservation-safe legacy timestamp conversion layer. Also built a cost-efficient, reproducible Small Language Model (Microsoft Phi-3) fine-tuning pipeline that turns CSV product data into a domain-specific searchable Q&A chatbot, with emphasis on memory optimization and overfitting prevention.”

Venkata Bayarapuneni

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in JavaScript, Python, and cloud-deployed web apps

Remote, USA1y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered travel assistant (Globe Trote) that automates end-to-end trip planning using a multi-step agent pipeline with RAG, external API calls, and enforced structured JSON outputs. Focused on reliability (validation, retries, fallback prompts, logging) and reported a ~30–40% reduction in irrelevant/generic responses after adding retrieval grounding.”

SaiDheerajReddy Gadikota

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems and enterprise LLM platforms

USA, USA4y exp

“Current AI engineer at a startup who has spent the last year architecting multi-agent systems for software development workflows. Stands out for combining LLM speed with engineering discipline—using tools like Pydantic, LangGraph, and LangChain to build reliable, production-ready agent workflows with validation, routing, and retry logic.”

“Built and shipped production AI features in the automotive dealership domain, including an end-to-end computer-vision damage detection system for trade-ins and a tool-calling, RAG-enabled LotSync AI Agent that answers inventory/VIN questions using strict schemas and internal APIs to avoid hallucinations. Also developed a Dagster + Oracle automated reporting pipeline as a Graduate Research Assistant, supporting 15+ university departments with normalized, reliable ETL workflows.”

“LLM/RAG engineer at Connex AI who built and deployed a production healthcare agent to extract clinical insights from medical data/notes. Strong focus on real-world reliability—hallucination mitigation (citations, schema validation, confidence thresholds, rejection logic), custom LangChain orchestration (query rewriting, fallback paths), and production evaluation/observability—while collaborating closely with clinical SMEs to ensure clinical fit and time savings.”

Dhairya Gajjar

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Healthcare Data Platforms

Remote2y exp

“Backend/ML engineer with healthcare domain experience building secure Medicare/Medicaid data APIs and real-time patient risk scoring. Shipped an end-to-end ML pipeline (scikit-learn/XGBoost) served via SageMaker and integrated into Flask APIs, with strong production reliability practices (Kafka schema validation, regression replay, observability, drift monitoring, and human-in-the-loop guardrails).”

Sai Vamsee Bandaru

Screened

Entry-level Data Analyst and AI Engineer specializing in machine learning and LLM systems

New York, NY1y exp

“Founding-engineer-oriented full-stack product engineer who built an AI tutor system end-to-end, spanning React UI, FastAPI backend, retrieval/LLM pipelines, and Postgres optimization. Stands out for combining product thinking with deep systems work: improving onboarding and activation, shipping quickly with beta users, and abstracting reusable retrieval infrastructure for multiple use cases.”

“Backend engineer who built and scaled a FastAPI-based backend for an AI-driven maintenance system automating vendor sourcing/bidding/communication. Emphasizes async, message-driven architecture with strong observability and state-machine-driven workflows, plus robust webhook/idempotency patterns to prevent duplicate/out-of-order events from causing bad bids or state changes.”

“Python backend developer from Larix Technologies who built and scaled microservice APIs for an omnichannel messaging SaaS (WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook) and led production performance fixes during peak traffic, cutting webhook latency ~50%. Also shipped applied AI products end-to-end: a RAG-based PDF assistant (LangChain + Mixtral via Groq + React) and a BI agent that plans/executes/verifies multi-step analytics with strong guardrails and auditability.”

“Senior frontend engineer who led the end-to-end build of ConvoCore’s AI agent stress-testing UI, handling non-deterministic AI outputs and high-frequency streaming logs. Emphasizes quality and scalability through schema-driven module contracts (Zod), shared hook/component libraries, and Playwright E2E tests, plus performance work like virtualization and code-splitting. Ships quickly with feature-flag rollouts, Sentry monitoring, and tight user-feedback loops (contextual bug reports with attached logs).”

“Frontend/full-stack engineer who has built and scaled multiple national/government platforms in Ethiopia, including an unemployment registration system and a national ID (Fayda) admin/billing dashboard handling contracts, tariffs, inventory, and high-concurrency billing workflows. Strong in React/TypeScript architecture (atomic design, Context/hooks, strict typing) and in integrating identity verification/biometrics-driven business logic with phased rollouts and audit-driven iteration.”

“Full-stack AI engineer who has built and deployed multiple end-to-end LLM products, including an AI interview assistant, a multi-agent market research platform, and a policy document explainer. Particularly strong in productionizing agentic workflows, integrating tools like Whisper, Tavus, LiveKit, CrewAI, and LangGraph, and hardening messy real-world AI/document pipelines with validation, memory isolation, and fallback handling.”

Jaiden Kettleson

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Entry-Level Full-Stack & AI Engineer specializing in chatbots and web apps

1y exp

“Data Science honors graduate (Maryville University) who has built Python/SQL backends and a capstone website handling sensitive user data. Emphasizes secure data handling (password encryption, secure database updates) and uses Git/GitHub Pages with CI/CD-style practices for managing and deploying changes.”

“Built and shipped an AI-powered journaling app feature that analyzes user text for emotions in real time, owning everything from React/TypeScript UX (dynamic theming + Framer Motion) to a FastAPI backend integrating Hugging Face. Has hands-on production experience deploying Dockerized services on AWS (EC2/RDS/S3/CloudWatch) with GitHub Actions CI/CD, and resolved a real latency/scaling incident by converting blocking external API calls to async with retries/timeouts.”

“Data engineer who has owned end-to-end ELT pipelines on Airflow + AWS (S3/Glue/Lambda) with Snowflake/Redshift, processing millions of records per day and tens of GBs via PySpark. Built strong data quality and reliability practices (40% quality improvement, 99%+ uptime), and also designed a resilient web-scraping system with anti-bot defenses and schema-change versioning plus REST APIs for serving curated data.”

“Built production-style backend and AI systems across internship and project work, including a real-time sports platform backend and a Smart Email Assistant using GPT-4. Stands out for combining classic backend performance engineering with practical LLM workflow design, including measurable latency improvements, high uptime, and debugging of non-deterministic model behavior.”

Mohammad Khaja Faizan

Screened

Junior Backend Software Engineer specializing in API-driven systems

Corpus Christi, TX2y exp

“Backend engineer focused on Python/FastAPI who has designed and evolved an API-driven platform with an emphasis on clean contracts, data integrity, and scalable service boundaries. Demonstrated production-minded reliability work by addressing partial writes/retry failure modes with idempotency and validation, eliminating duplicate/corrupted records, and has implemented layered security including Supabase-managed auth, RBAC, and row-level security.”

Hitha Sunkara

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in web apps and machine learning

Long Beach, CA3y exp

“Built and organized SQL databases for a grocery pricing update backend and has hands-on experience designing FastAPI/Python APIs with security controls like authentication, RBAC, and strict validation. Also brings research experience identifying real-world failure modes (weather-driven sensor/model inaccuracies in MSE wall corrosion work) and adapting models to improve robustness, plus UI design support on an email-restricted campus hackathon enrollment flow.”