Vetted Semantic Search Professionals

“AI/full-stack engineer who has built a production-style LLM knowledge assistant from scratch, combining FastAPI, LangChain, FAISS, semantic retrieval, and a user-facing chat interface. Stands out for owning both the technical architecture and the product usability layer, including latency optimization, prompt refinement, and source-backed responses to improve trust for non-technical users.”

Jared Alonzo

Screened

Mid-level Customer Engineer specializing in enterprise search and technical delivery

New York, NY7y exp

“Search-focused technical consultant/customer success engineer with 6+ years in B2B SaaS, supporting government, higher ed, mid-market, and enterprise customers including Fortune 500 brands like Mondelez, Hasbro, and Sanofi. Particularly strong in enterprise search architecture, personalization data design, and expansion use cases, with hands-on experience shaping solution decisions for retailers such as Snipes and Rue Gilt Groupe.”

“Banking-focused full-stack engineer who has owned products from requirements through deployment, including a transaction review dashboard and an AI-assisted search tool for internal support teams. Brings a strong mix of React/TypeScript, Spring Boot, database performance tuning, and practical LLM/RAG experience with human-in-the-loop safeguards for regulated workflows.”

Katha Naik

Screened

Intern software engineer specializing in AI, cloud, and full-stack systems

Fremont, CA2y exp

“Engineer with experience at Fox Corporation and Qualcomm, focused on production automation and AI-powered systems. At Fox, they built a serverless Bedrock Operations CoPilot for broadcast/media operations that centralized fragmented operational data and cut incident investigation time by 50-60% across distributed teams and stations. They also bring applied LLM experience from Qualcomm, where they worked on a safer RAG-based learning assistant for children with autism spectrum disorder.”

“LLM/RAG engineer with production deployments in highly regulated domains (Frost Bank and GE Healthcare). Built secure, explainable document-grounded Q&A systems using LoRA fine-tuning, strict RAG with confidence thresholds, and citation-based responses; also established evaluation/monitoring (golden QA sets, hallucination tracking, drift) and achieved ~40% latency reduction through retrieval/prompt tuning.”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on data visualization, extending Chart.js/React with custom plugins for real-time streaming dashboards. Designed an end-to-end telemetry pipeline using Apache Kafka and Azure Cosmos DB, optimizing partitioning, batching, caching, and client throttling to keep latency low and support thousands of concurrent users. Demonstrates strong ownership in fast-changing environments, including building full-stack AI applications and ingestion/ETL pipelines at Robotics Technologies LLC.”

“Built and productionized a HIPAA-compliant LLM+RAG Clinical AI assistant at Optum, fine-tuning GPT/LLaMA on de-identified patient notes and integrating FAISS/Pinecone for sub-second retrieval; reported to cut diagnosis time by ~20 minutes per case. Experienced in orchestrating ML pipelines (Airflow, AWS Step Functions, Azure Data Factory) and in reliability techniques for LLM systems (grounding, citations, confidence filters, monitoring) while partnering closely with clinicians and compliance teams.”

“Built and deployed a GPT-based RAG enterprise search system for healthcare clinicians, emphasizing low-latency performance and reduced hallucinations while maintaining end-to-end HIPAA compliance. Demonstrates deep applied experience with PHI-safe data governance (detection/redaction/de-identification), secure Azure ML deployment patterns, and orchestration of production LLM workflows using LangChain and Airflow.”

“ML/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG systems (LangChain + HF Transformers + FAISS) with hybrid retrieval and cross-encoder re-ranking, deployed via FastAPI/Docker/Kubernetes and monitored with MLflow. Also partnered with wealth advisors at Edward Jones to deliver a client retention model with SHAP-driven explanations and a dashboard that improved trust, adoption, and reduced high-value client churn.”

“GenAI/ML engineer who has shipped production agentic systems in highly regulated and high-throughput environments, including an AWS Bedrock-based fraud/compliance workflow at U.S. Bank with PII redaction and hallucination detection that cut investigation time by 50%+. Also built and evaluated RAG and recommendation systems at Target, using RAGAS-driven testing, hybrid retrieval with re-ranking, and SHAP explainability dashboards to align model behavior with merchandising business KPIs.”

“Built and deployed a production compliance automation RAG system (at Citi) that generates citation-backed, schema-validated risk summaries for regulatory document review. Emphasizes regulated-environment reliability with retrieval-only grounding, abstention, confidence thresholds, and immutable audit logging, plus orchestration using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow. Reported ~60% reduction in compliance review effort while maintaining high precision and traceability.”

“AI engineer with hands-on production experience building an end-to-end RAG system that reduced document-answering time from hours to minutes, improving accuracy through chunk overlap and hybrid BM25+semantic retrieval. Also built a LangGraph-based agent that researches company financial news via web search (Google Serper), using Pydantic structured outputs and checkpointing for reliability; experienced collaborating with non-technical stakeholders at JPMC and communicating ROI.”

Yaswanth Thota Thota

Screened

Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in financial risk and healthcare analytics

AZ, USA4y exp

“AI/ML engineer focused on real-time, production-grade LLM systems, with a robotics-adjacent mindset around latency/accuracy tradeoffs and modular pipelines. Built a scalable RAG-based assistant orchestrated as microservices on Kubernetes with Kafka async messaging, ONNX/quantization optimizations, and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), citing a ~35% hallucination reduction; has also experimented with ROS Noetic/Gazebo to understand ROS concepts.”

Jaideep bommidi

Screened

Senior ML Engineer & Data Scientist specializing in LLM agents, retrieval/ranking, and MLOps

Denton, TX8y exp

“Machine Learning Engineer currently at Webster Bank building an enterprise-scale LLM agent for Temenos Journey Manager/Maestro, using RAG-style multi-stage retrieval with FAISS/Pinecone, hybrid dense+sparse search, and LoRA fine-tuning optimized via NDCG/MAP and A/B testing. Previously handled messy incident/telemetry data at Deuta Werke GmbH with deterministic + fuzzy entity resolution, and has strong production data engineering experience across Spark/Hadoop and Python ETL systems.”

Rasika Deodhar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI

Dublin, Ireland6y exp

“Full-stack engineer who shipped an end-to-end speech capability for an LLM chatbot UI, integrating OpenAI APIs and publishing via Google Apigee with client documentation. Has experience operating deployments with Jenkins/Kubernetes/Docker and monitoring with Datadog, and has worked in an innovation-center environment building rapid prototypes under ambiguity with tight stakeholder feedback loops.”

SAITEJA MALLEMPUDI

Screened

Senior Data Scientist and AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and cloud ML

Chicago, IL6y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience owning systems from experimentation through deployment and monitoring, including a Bank of Montreal project that improved timely interventions by 12%. Also brings GenAI/RAG experience with evaluation and safety guardrails, plus clinical NLP pipeline work extracting medication data from notes for patient risk prediction.”

Naveena Musku

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in agentic AI and LLM systems

5y exp

“Backend engineer focused on productionizing LLM systems: built a FastAPI-based RAG and multi-agent automation platform deployed with Docker/Kubernetes, prioritizing safe execution and reduced hallucinations. Experienced in refactoring monolithic ML services with feature-flagged incremental rollouts, and implementing JWT/RBAC plus row-level security (e.g., Supabase) for secure, scalable APIs.”

“AI-focused full-stack product builder from Verizon Applied Research who has shipped internal tools spanning API documentation governance, patent exploration agents, and prompt optimization. Particularly strong at turning unreliable or opaque LLM behavior into structured, trustworthy product workflows that enterprise users can actually adopt.”

“Full-stack/backend-leaning engineer with experience spanning fintech platforms, internal AI/RAG assistants, real-time analytics systems, and a zero-to-one academic web platform. Stands out for combining hands-on backend and infrastructure work with product ownership, team guidance, and measurable impact like cutting troubleshooting lookup time from 30 minutes to under 8 minutes and creating reusable UI components adopted across multiple projects.”

“Engineer with experience in small, high-pressure innovation environments and enterprise healthcare platforms, spanning distributed systems, search, and database optimization. At RJ Lee Group, he helped pivot an Air Force document-processing platform from Pig/MapReduce to Apache Storm, enabling near-real-time results, and also built a full-stack natural-language search application that cut analyst investigations from months to weeks or days.”

“Built an agentic medical coding system at Optum that combined LangGraph, LangChain RAG, Azure OpenAI, pgvector, and TypeScript to automate routine clinical coding while escalating risky cases to humans. The system automated about 40% of routine cases at roughly 92% accuracy, with strong production evals and observability using MLflow, Ragas, and DeepEval.”

Mahima Mannava

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, LLM systems, and full-stack development

San Jose, CA3y exp

“AI/full-stack engineer who built a computer-usage agent end to end, including a split local/cloud architecture that used a vision LLM to drive real Chrome workflows while avoiding bot detection. Stands out for combining product-minded systems design, rigorous evals, and prompt iteration to achieve sub-2-second latency and a 20% reduction in automation failures in an early-stage environment.”

“Backend engineer who built an NL-to-SQL system at Target, using a multi-step LLM pipeline with vector-store schema retrieval and SQL validation to safely answer business questions. Strong in production FastAPI systems (async, Pydantic, Docker/Uvicorn, load balancing) and security (OAuth2/JWT, scopes, and database row-level security), with experience migrating Flask apps to FastAPI + PostgreSQL using strangler/feature-flagged canary rollouts.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production autonomous GenAI content ecosystem that generates short-form scripts, extracts viral highlights from long-form video, and dubs content into 33+ languages. Focused on making LLM outputs production-safe via schema enforcement, token-to-time alignment, critic-agent verification, and scalable async orchestration—cutting manual workflows by ~90% and saving $200k+ annually.”