Vetted Semantic Search Professionals

“Interned at Zonda where he built an AI-driven semantic search solution over ~280M housing/builder records. Iterated from local LLMs via llama.cpp quantization to a vector-embedding retrieval system, then boosted semantic accuracy with a custom spaCy NER layer and re-ranking, optimizing for latency through precomputation. Collaborated with economics-focused stakeholders to reduce manual document/paperwork time by enabling natural-language search over internal data.”

“GenAI Engineer at Infosys who built and deployed a production multi-agent RAG system for a top-tier bank, scaling to ~50,000 queries/day with 99.9% uptime. Drove measurable gains (45% accuracy improvement, 30% API cost reduction) through open-source LLM fine-tuning, Pinecone indexing/retrieval optimization, and AWS-based MLOps/monitoring, and has experience enabling adoption via developer workshops and customer-facing collaboration.”

“Researcher from the University of South Dakota who built a production medical RAG system to help interpret model predictions by retrieving relevant clinical notes and medical literature, overcoming retrieval accuracy and imaging-dataset challenges through semantic chunking and metadata-driven indexing. Also has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and Azure Data Factory, plus a pragmatic approach to LLM evaluation and stakeholder-driven iteration.”

“McKinsey data/ML practitioner who led production deployment of an entity resolution + semantic search platform for unstructured finance and healthcare data, integrating with legacy systems under HIPAA constraints. Deep hands-on stack across transformers (spaCy/HF BERT), embeddings + FAISS, and production MLOps/workflow tooling (Airflow, Docker, CI/CD, Prometheus/Grafana), with reported gains of +30% decision speed and +25% search relevance.”

“Data/ML practitioner with experience applying NLP and classical ML to large-scale customer data (2B+ records) for segmentation, prediction, and survey-text classification, delivering measurable business impact (~18% engagement efficiency). Has hands-on entity resolution across multi-source datasets and has built embedding-based semantic search using SentenceBERT + a vector database with domain fine-tuning (~20% relevance improvement), plus production workflow experience with Spark/Airflow and cloud tooling (AWS/Azure).”

“Unreal Engine UI engineer focused on scalable, production-ready UI architecture (C++/Slate/UMG/CommonUI) with strong designer enablement via decoupled, interface-driven patterns and MVVM. Demonstrated measurable performance wins: replaced 200+ per-frame Blueprint bindings to cut UI prepass/paint from 4.2ms to 0.5ms and reduced VRAM by ~120MB using texture streaming proxies.”

Monish Sri Sai Devineni

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in financial AI, NLP, and MLOps

Boca Raton, FL5y exp

“AI/ML engineer with experience at Accenture and Morgan Stanley, building production LLM systems (GPT-3 summarization) and finance-focused ML models (credit risk and trading anomaly detection). Combines MLOps depth (Docker/Kubernetes, AWS SageMaker/Glue/Lambda, MLflow, A/B testing, drift monitoring) with practical domain adaptation techniques like few-shot prompting and RAG/knowledge-base integration.”

Harshavardhan Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Data Scientist specializing in NLP, computer vision, and risk analytics

Albany, NY5y exp

“ML/AI engineer with Capital One experience building production-grade customer segmentation and fraud detection systems combining NLP (transformers) and anomaly detection. Strong MLOps and orchestration background (PySpark ETL, MLflow, Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, Azure ML) with real-time monitoring/alerting and performance optimizations like quantization and caching, plus proven ability to deliver business-facing insights through Power BI/Tableau for marketing stakeholders.”

pavan kalyan padala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in predictive and generative AI

Daytona Beach, Florida4y exp

“AI/ML engineer with production LLM experience in regulated financial services (J.P. Morgan Chase), building a customer response engine to automate first-contact resolution while addressing privacy, bias, compliance, and scale. Strong MLOps/orchestration background (Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS Step Functions, Azure ML/SageMaker) plus proven ability to integrate with legacy systems and drive stakeholder adoption through dashboards, auditability, and training.”

Atharva Bhide

Screened

Entry Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and multimodal systems

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Built and shipped a production healthcare AI platform for a clinic in Brea, LA that combined LLM-based clinical report generation, voice agents for appointment workflows, and camera-based patient monitoring. Stands out for pairing multimodal AI architecture with production-grade reliability and compliance practices, while delivering concrete business results including 90% workflow automation, 200 hours saved per month, and a 60% improvement in customer retention.”

Amit Dharam

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud deployment

Tempe, AZ3y exp

“Built multiple end-to-end automation and data systems, including an Accio RAG pipeline combining PDF parsing, FastAPI, Neo4j, and vector search, plus Selenium-based scraping for a virtual try-on product. Stands out for reliability-minded engineering: automated testing, structured logging, validation layers, and a data-driven approach to debugging flaky automation that improved CI pass rates to over 98%.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of a production LLM/RAG system at Goldman Sachs, focused on workflow automation and large-scale document search for operational teams. They combine strong MLOps and backend engineering skills with practical GenAI evaluation and safety practices, and cite measurable impact including 22% better task guidance accuracy and sub-second search across millions of records.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

Uma mahesh

Screened

Mid-level AI Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI and healthcare automation

NC, USA5y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with 5+ years spanning ServiceNow, Cognizant, and GE Healthcare, where they built agentic AI and RAG systems for safety-critical medical device workflows. Particularly compelling for teams needing production LLM systems in regulated environments: they combine cloud deployment and evaluation rigor with HIPAA-aware privacy controls, explainability, and measurable business impact.”

“Engineering manager leading a 15-person team at FBN on the Gridbull platform, shipping a self-serve pricing/quoting tool for structured commodity products using real-time futures market data. Owns architecture and reliability for third-party data integrations (WebSocket + REST fallback), including resolving a day-one production incident caused by undocumented vendor connection resets. Introduced lightweight Technical Implementation Plans to improve cross-functional alignment and delivery speed in a high-growth environment.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure, including real-time systems (Kafka/Postgres) and observability (Datadog). Built and productionized an AI-native RAG support assistant (OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone) with prompt/guardrail design, achieving 48% agent adoption and 30% faster responses. Experienced in legacy modernization and reliability work using feature flags, event/transaction replay, and rapid embedded delivery.”

Pavan Kumar Malasani

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial risk, fraud detection, and GenAI

Remote, USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer in Citigroup’s finance environment who has deployed production RAG systems for investment banking under strict privacy and model-risk constraints. Built an internal-VPC Llama2 + Pinecone + LangChain solution with NER redaction and citation-based verification to prevent hallucinations, delivering major time savings, and also partnered with global finance executives to ship an AI early-warning indicator for treasury/liquidity risk.”

Dinesh Kumar Patibandla

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG for finance and healthcare

Texas, USA4y exp

“ML Engineer with recent Goldman Sachs experience building and deploying a production RAG/LLM assistant for summarization, drafting, and internal knowledge retrieval across financial, risk, and compliance documents. Designed for heavy regulatory constraints and scaled to 10,000+ concurrent users using Kubernetes-based orchestration, dynamic LLM routing, and rigorous testing (adversarial prompts, A/B tests, load simulations) with privacy controls like differential privacy.”

Yukti Kamthan

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and data systems

Mumbai, India10y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM/AI agent systems including an NL-to-SQL query agent with semantic search and Redis-based caching, using schema-aware prompting and threshold validation to reduce hallucinations. Has orchestration experience running ML microservices on Kubernetes and automating event-driven insurance (P&C) workflows (claims/policy + fraud checks), reporting ~60% manual overhead reduction and ~99% uptime, with strong monitoring/drift-detection and business-facing Power BI reporting.”

Atyab Hakeem

Screened

Junior Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and computer vision

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Software engineer who built and deployed OddPulse, a multi-agent LLM-powered continuous financial auditing system aimed at reducing compliance penalties by catching issues before audit cycles. Experienced with TrueAI-based agent orchestration, Airflow on GCP batch workflows, and rigorous evaluation/benchmarking (hit rate/MRR, latency/TTFT, cost) alongside security controls for sensitive financial data.”

Sachin Reddy Kunta

Screened

Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in payments, fraud systems, and AI agent infrastructure

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Early-career engineer who owned an end-to-end objective assessment/coding contest platform at an edtech startup, using Postgres + S3 and Redis (queues + ZSET) to decouple and scale code submission processing with worker sandboxes. Also implemented idempotency controls and set up monitoring and CI/CD while the rest of the team focused on curriculum.”

Ravi Ada

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in digital health platforms, cloud & AI, and FHIR/HL7 interoperability

Carrollton, TX22y exp

“Healthcare diagnostics/health tech founder building Casandra.ai, an API-driven lab test catalog and ordering platform designed to standardize fragmented test catalogs and integrate into provider workflows via FHIR. Bootstrapped and built a deploy-ready product, drawing on prior startup experience and accelerator participation (Health Box, DreamIt Ventures).”

“Built internal production LLM tools for engineering and support, including a customer-health assistant and a RAG-based incident explainer grounded in logs, metrics, and deploy data. Stands out for combining strong GenAI safety/evaluation practices with pragmatic backend engineering, delivering measurable impact like a 40% drop in data-help requests and answers in seconds instead of minutes or hours.”

“Hands-on engineering leader who has scaled teams quickly (hired 20 engineers in 4 months) and led major architecture shifts including monolith-to-microservices and serverless, async AI-driven medical data ingestion/search. Also drove a versioned-inventory redesign with auditability and rollback that reduced operational errors by 22%, and demonstrates strong incident response with clear stakeholder communication.”