Vetted Semantic Search Professionals

Ganesh Bandi

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

USA6y exp

“LLM engineer who has deployed production RAG systems for regulated document QA (PDFs/knowledge bases), emphasizing grounded answers with citations, RBAC, monitoring, and continuous feedback. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval quality (semantic chunking, hybrid BM25+embeddings, re-ranking), reliability (guardrails, deterministic workflows), and measurable evaluation (golden sets, log replay, A/B tests) while partnering closely with compliance/operations stakeholders.”

“Built and shipped a production-grade agentic RAG system at CVS Health for patient adherence and medication recommendations, processing 20k+ patient records/day. Strong focus on real-world reliability: hybrid retrieval tuned with re-ranking (<400ms latency), strict JSON/schema validation and tool guardrails, and monitoring/drift detection that reduced MTTD from 6 days to 18 hours while improving recommendation accuracy (+8%) and cutting escalations (~23%).”

Farhan Shahbaz

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer with deep experience in security and access-management platforms at JPMorgan Chase, including owning automation for migrating 50+ engineering teams from CyberArk to HashiCorp Vault. Stands out for combining regulated-environment rigor, infrastructure automation, and production operations with practical AI integration in internal access workflows.”

“Frontend-focused product engineer from TrialTrace who owned features end-to-end across product decisions, architecture, implementation, and testing. Strong in TypeScript/React applications with complex data visualization and dashboarding, including refactoring core coordinate logic, building filter-state architecture, and shipping fast user-driven features.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of both a marketplace discovery product and a zero-to-one AI document intelligence assistant. Brings a strong blend of React/Node/MongoDB product engineering and production RAG/LLM system design, with clear experience turning technically complex AI capabilities into usable experiences for non-technical users.”

“Full-stack engineer whose strongest hands-on work is a self-built real-time collaborative code editor spanning React, Node.js, Express, and WebSockets. They stand out for owning both product UX and backend synchronization challenges, with a clear bias toward simplicity, low-latency collaboration, and modular architecture in early-stage product building.”

Charles Chung

Screened

Director-level AI product leader specializing in enterprise AI strategy

Norwood, NJ10y exp

“Executive-level product and digital transformation leader in the SLED space who both shapes strategy and personally builds AI-native solutions using Claude Code. Led an internal sales intelligence platform targeting $5M/year EBITDA improvement and 75% adoption in 90 days, with additional hands-on work in proposal generation, semantic search, and AI-driven workflow modernization under regulated data constraints.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG chatbot at Wells Fargo for securely querying regulated financial and compliance documents, emphasizing low hallucination rates, explainability, and strict governance. Experienced with LangChain multi-agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, evaluation, and retraining, and partnered closely with compliance/operations to drive adoption through demos and feedback-driven retrieval rules.”

“Backend engineer with strong AWS/CI/CD experience (multi-repo deployments, Lambda + core app, immutable ECR and image promotion) and a published master’s thesis building an ML framework for Solar PV energy prediction and CO2 reduction impact modeling using ensemble and meta-learning approaches benchmarked against SAM.”

“Applied AI/ML Engineer at JPMorgan Chase who led a banker-facing LLM chatbot from an OpenAI-API POC to a production RAG workflow, including hallucination mitigation, automated evaluation in SageMaker, and operational monitoring with Dynatrace. Also delivers external technical education—hosted a hands-on Grace Hopper Celebration 2025 workshop teaching LangChain/LangGraph agentic workflows.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with experience building a transformer-failure prediction system that combines sensor signals with unstructured maintenance comments using LLM-based extraction and similarity validation. Strong emphasis on production readiness—data leakage controls, SQL-driven data quality tiers, and rigorous bias/fairness validation (including contract/spec evaluation across diverse company profiles).”

“Red Hat ML/LLM engineer who designed and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support automation system using RAG, improving latency by 30% via PEFT and vector search optimization. Built security and governance into retrieval (access-level filtering, encrypted Pinecone/ChromaDB) and delivered SHAP-based explainability via a dashboard for non-technical stakeholders. Experienced orchestrating distributed ML/RAG pipelines across AWS SageMaker and OpenShift with Airflow/Prefect, plus multi-agent workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph.”

“Data/ML practitioner with hands-on experience building NLP systems from prototype to production: delivered a Twitter sentiment classifier with robust preprocessing, SVM modeling, and Power BI reporting, and built entity-resolution pipelines for messy multi-source customer data (reporting ~95% improvement in unique entity identification). Also implemented semantic linking/search using SBERT embeddings with FAISS vector retrieval and domain fine-tuning (reported ~15% precision lift), and applies production workflow best practices (Airflow/Prefect, Docker, Azure ML/Databricks, Great Expectations).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG document intelligence/Q&A system for healthcare prior authorization, reducing manual medical document review time and improving decision efficiency. Strong in end-to-end LLM application engineering (LangChain/LangGraph), retrieval quality improvements (hybrid search, embedding tuning, chunking strategies), and rigorous evaluation/monitoring for reliability.”

Rui Cheng

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in autonomous driving simulation and 3D mapping

5y exp

“Founding software engineer who built an autonomous-vehicle 3D digital twin using Unreal Engine 5 and CARLA, owning core simulator logic (traffic/scenarios/weather) and a ROS 2-based pipeline to record synchronized multi-sensor data (RGB/depth/segmentation/LiDAR/IMU/GPS). Also implemented distributed synchronization patterns (server + client prediction) using FastAPI and WebSockets; seeking roles with H1B transfer and targeting ~$110k.”

Sanjana Duvva

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, LLMOps, and MLOps

5y exp

“Built and deployed an AWS-based LLM/RAG ticket triage and knowledge retrieval system (Pinecone/FAISS + Step Functions + MLflow) that cut support resolution time by 20%. Demonstrates strong production focus on hallucination reduction, PII security, and low-latency orchestration, with measurable evaluation improvements (e.g., ~25% grounding accuracy gain via re-ranking) and proven collaboration with support operations stakeholders.”

Sri Harshitha Yannam

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud platforms

Austin, TX2y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who shipped a production "Memory Assistant" at HydroX AI, building a LangChain/LlamaIndex RAG memory pipeline on ChromaDB/FAISS with robust fallbacks (BERT/BART), prompt-injection mitigation, and 99.9% uptime monitoring. Also built a multi-step customer support agent using Rasa + OpenAI Assistants API with structured tool calling, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop escalation, and has experience hardening agents against messy ERP data via Pydantic validation, idempotency, and transactional outbox patterns.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production computer vision, speech, and legal RAG systems. Notably improved a key-duplication CV pipeline enough to unblock commercial launch and remove specialist manual measurement, and also shipped a live Quran recitation detection feature for a product with 1M+ users.”

“Candidate brings practical GenAI engineering experience with a disciplined approach to AI-assisted development. They have designed lightweight multi-agent workflows for a RAG-based support copilot, including retrieval, relevance validation, response generation, and groundedness checks to reduce hallucinations.”

Manoj Shinde

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native AI and FinTech systems

San Francisco, CA9y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing reporting products end to end and also helped ship MemberGPT, an AI assistant for financial users. Brings a practical mix of React/TypeScript and Java/Spring Boot experience, plus hands-on LLM integration, retrieval grounding, evaluation, and production monitoring in a higher-trust financial context.”

“Full-stack/AI-focused builder who shipped a production Career Advisor app using LLMs + RAG + vector DB (React/Node/MongoDB/Claude API) and grew it to 2000+ users, handling real deployment issues and CI/CD on Vercel/Render. Also developing an AI-powered iOS “3D World Explorer” (text-to-3D) and has cloud experience across Azure and AWS (S3/SageMaker/EC2).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical decision support system that enables real-time semantic search over unstructured EHR notes and delivers patient risk insights. Strong in healthcare-grade MLOps and compliance (HIPAA, PHI handling, encryption, RBAC, audit logs) and scaled embedding/retrieval pipelines using Spark/Databricks and Airflow. Partnered with clinicians via Power BI dashboards and explainability, contributing to an 18% reduction in patient readmissions.”

“Built and deployed an enterprise GenAI knowledge assistant over thousands of internal PDFs/reports using a RAG stack (GPT-4 + Hugging Face embeddings + vector DB) to reduce manual search and SME escalations. Uses LangGraph/LangChain to orchestrate modular agent workflows with relevance filtering and fallback handling, and applies rigorous evaluation (golden datasets, edge cases, A/B tests) with production monitoring metrics.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience at Charles Schwab building a RAG-based assistant to help 5,000+ reps answer complex financial policy questions. Implemented a multi-layer anti-hallucination approach (GNN-driven ontology/graph retrieval + citation-only answers) and compliance-focused guardrails (Azure AI Content Safety) in partnership with audit/compliance stakeholders.”