Vetted Semantic Search Professionals

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production content-generation system for nursing education, combining multimodal RAG over proprietary PDFs (including images) with structured Cosmos DB data and external sources. Strong focus on production reliability—prompt-chaining with LangChain, validation/guardrails, and Azure-based monitoring/observability—plus experience designing Azure AI agents with tool integrations like Bing Search.”

“LLM/GenAI engineer with US Bank experience building a production financial-document intelligence platform using LangChain/LangGraph, GPT-4, and Amazon OpenSearch. Delivered a RAG-based assistant for compliance/audit teams with grounded, cited answers, focusing on reducing hallucinations and latency, and deployed securely on AWS (SageMaker/EKS) with CI/CD and evaluation tooling (LangSmith, RAGAS).”

“At HPE, led and deployed an enterprise-grade LLM document intelligence platform for an insurance client, automating extraction from highly variable PDFs/scans/emails and raising field accuracy from 74% to 93%. Built a LangChain/Pinecone/OpenSearch RAG framework to cut hallucinations by 37% and operationalized LangSmith evals in CI, driving a 41% triage accuracy lift and >33% fewer incorrect resolutions while partnering closely with claims operations via HITL workflows.”

“Built and shipped LLM/RAG systems in finance and startup settings, including a Goldman Sachs document intelligence platform that indexed ~8TB of regulatory filings and delivered cited, conversational answers with <2s latency—cutting compliance research by ~4.5 hours per batch. Also developed LangChain-based agent workflows at Finta to automate CRM enrichment and investor lookup with strong testing, tracing (LangSmith), privacy guardrails, and auditability.”

“Full-stack Java engineer (4+ years) who led end-to-end modernization of high-latency order management systems into cloud-native reactive microservices (Spring WebFlux) and built real-time React/Redux dashboards, reporting 99.98% uptime and 22% infra cost savings. Also headed a production RAG-based Order Support Bot at Dell Technologies with embeddings + MongoDB semantic search, automated validation and human fallback, plus CI/CD-driven LLM eval loops to reduce hallucinations.”

“Built and shipped production systems spanning real-time operational dashboards and an LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using RAG (embeddings + vector DB). Demonstrates strong focus on reliability and iteration: implemented guardrails and evaluation loops (human review, hallucination tracking, regression prevention) and improved performance/scalability through query optimization, caching, and retrieval tuning.”

Joshua Hewitt

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI product development

San Francisco, USA9y exp

“AI product builder at Padlet who shipped multiple production LLM features for education workflows, including an AI document generator (AI Recipes) and a RAG-enabled in-product chat assistant. Built an AI microservice layer (LangChain) to swap model providers easily and created automated + human-in-the-loop evaluation systems (including ~100-test runs) to iterate on prompts and quality.”

Jax Diagana

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in forward-deployed voice agents and incident-response automation

San Francisco, CA7y exp

“FDE at Bland.ai and founder of Fi (incident-response agent) who routinely takes LLM/agentic concepts from prototype to production. Has hands-on experience reverse-engineering undocumented systems to deliver integrations, building LLM testbeds for voice-agent reliability, and rapidly shipping RAG/semantic search solutions (e.g., Confluence runbooks) after deep customer discovery with DevOps/SRE teams.”

Saikrishna Vallala

Screened

Mid-level QA Automation Engineer / SDET specializing in Financial Services and Healthcare

USA5y exp

“Fintech-focused engineer who built an end-to-end KYC verification pipeline for advisor onboarding using Flask microservices, Celery/Redis, and AWS (Lambda/ECS/EC2) with CloudWatch-driven scaling and latency optimizations. Also shipped a production internal knowledge assistant using RAG + embeddings/vector search with guardrails (similarity-based fallback, prompt-injection protections) and an evaluation loop with compliance specialist review that drove measurable retrieval improvements.”

Chandra Shekar Akkandra

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection and risk analytics in Financial Services

Newark, CA5y exp

“Finance-domain ML/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems including a RAG-based financial insights assistant with a custom post-generation validation layer that verifies atomic claims against retrieved source text to prevent hallucinations in compliance-critical workflows. Also built large-scale MLOps automation on AWS using Kubeflow + MLflow + CI/CD for fraud detection and credit risk models processing 500M+ transactions/day with a 99.99% uptime goal, and partnered closely with JP Morgan risk/compliance stakeholders on NLP-driven compliance monitoring.”

“Built an enterprise RAG-based document intelligence system at Freddie Mac for regulatory and financial documents, helping analysts cut search time from hours to minutes while improving retrieval accuracy by ~30%. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with compliance-grade auditability, production monitoring, and scalable Python/FastAPI service design.”

“AI/full-stack engineer in gaming analytics who joined Omnic.ai at a 2-person stage, helped grow with the company, and built both backend and frontend for real-time gameplay analysis products. He combines computer vision production experience with LLM/RAG systems work, and has already led 4 employees while shipping 12 models in a fast-moving startup environment.”

Brent Cook

Screened

Director-level product leader specializing in AI-powered search and discovery

Seattle, WA21y exp

“Former high school teacher turned product leader with deep experience in EdTech, scholarly search/discovery, and mobile content platforms. They’ve led complex end-to-end launches, including a direct-to-consumer app storefront delivered on a 7-month timeline and AI-powered research discovery features for a 5-billion-record search platform, while bringing a strong human-centered, accessibility-first perspective to AI products.”

“Dell engineer with hands-on full-stack and AI-powered internal platform experience, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Python microservices, Kafka streaming, and AWS/Kubernetes deployment. They’ve owned monitoring and anomaly-detection products end to end, including a dashboard that reduced manual log review and helped teams detect issues roughly 30% faster, while also translating complex AI outputs into intuitive experiences for non-technical users.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer at Qualcomm who built and operated a drift monitoring platform for 10k+ edge AI models. Stands out for combining strong TypeScript/React/Node execution with production-grade systems thinking across PostgreSQL tuning, Redis caching, ECS deployments, and Kafka-based architectural improvements that measurably improved reliability and release speed.”

“At KPMG, built and productionized a secure RAG-based LLM assistant that lets business and risk stakeholders query data warehouses in natural language, reducing dependence on data engineers for ad-hoc analysis. Demonstrates strong production rigor (Airflow orchestration, CI/CD, containerization), retrieval/embedding tuning (rechunking, semantic abstraction for structured data), and reliability controls (confidence thresholds, refusal behavior, monitoring and canary evals).”

“ML/GenAI engineer with recent CVS Health experience building a production RAG system over unstructured financial/research documents using LangChain, FAISS, and Pinecone, plus LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning of GPT/LLaMA for domain-aware summarization. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps and data engineering skills (Airflow/Prefect, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLflow) and measurable impact (sub-second retrieval, ~40% better context retrieval, ~25% entity matching improvement).”

“Healthcare-focused data engineer/ML practitioner with experience at Lightbeam Health Solutions and Humana building production entity-resolution and semantic similarity pipelines across EMR, lab, and claims data. Uses NLP/ML (spaCy, scikit-learn, BioBERT/LightGBM) plus Snowflake/Airflow and vector search (Pinecone) to improve linkage accuracy (reported 90%) and semantic match quality (reported +12–15%), while reducing manual cleanup by 40%+.”

“GenAI/LLM ML engineer (currently at Webprobo) building an enterprise GenAI platform with document intelligence and automation on AWS and blockchain. Has hands-on experience with RAG, LLM evaluation tooling, and orchestrating production LLM workflows with Apache Airflow, plus deep exposure to reliability challenges in globally distributed/edge deployments. Also partnered with business/marketing stakeholders at a banking client to deliver an AI-driven customer retention insights solution.”

Rishitha reddy katamareddy

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems

USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production agentic LLM knowledge assistant that answers complex questions over internal documents, APIs, and databases using a RAG architecture (FAISS/Pinecone) and LangChain/LangGraph orchestration. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and hallucination control through grounding, confidence thresholds, validation, retries/fallbacks, and full observability (logging/metrics/traces) with continuous evaluation and feedback loops.”

Sai Nekkanti

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in secure GenAI and financial compliance

Mount Laurel, NJ4y exp

“Built a production "sentinel insight engine" to tame information overload from millions of product reviews and support transcripts, combining Azure OpenAI (GPT-3.5) zero-shot classification with a fine-tuned T5 summarizer to generate weekly actionable product insights. Demonstrated strong MLOps/production engineering by adding drift monitoring with embedding-based detection, integrating REST with legacy SOAP/queue-based CRM via FastAPI middleware, and scaling reliably on Kubernetes with HPA.”

Nishad Kane

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist & AI Engineer specializing in RAG, agentic AI, and production ML

5y exp

“AI/data engineer who built a production LLM-powered schema drift detection system (LangChain/LangGraph) to catch semantic data changes before they break downstream analytics/ML. Deployed on AWS with Docker/S3 and implemented an LLM-as-a-judge evaluation framework to improve trust, reduce hallucinations, and control false positives/alert fatigue. Collaborated with non-technical risk/business analytics stakeholders at EY by delivering human-readable drift explanations that improved confidence in financial analytics dashboards.”

Sreelekha Vuppala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms

USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”