Vetted Semantic Search Professionals

Avni Tripathi

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP, RAG, and information retrieval for RegTech

Gurgaon, India5y exp

“Built and deployed a production document Q&A/research platform that combines semantic search (vector DB embeddings) with structured knowledge-graph querying to reduce analyst research time. Used in high-stakes domains like Politically Exposed Person profiling and extracting critical information from ESG/regulatory documents, with a human-in-the-loop evaluation process (precision@k and source-text highlighting) to ensure accuracy.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of production systems, including a Kafka-based notification/alerting platform (Node.js + React) deployed on AWS with Docker/GitHub Actions, achieving ~95% email delivery reliability. Demonstrates strong operational maturity (observability, CI/CD, zero-downtime migrations) and experience shipping in ambiguous environments (SJSU project) with evolving requirements.”

“Backend/AI engineer with production experience in legal tech: built a high-scale licensing/subscription API (FastAPI/Postgres/Stripe) and shipped a RAG-based chatbot for an eDiscovery platform. Designed a robust legal document ingestion workflow that processes thousands of documents into a searchable vector index with clear retry/escalation logic, and has demonstrated measurable Postgres performance wins (200ms to 10ms) using EXPLAIN ANALYZE and composite indexing.”

Shehab mohamed mohamed

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Junior AI Engineer specializing in MLOps, LLMs, and multi-agent systems

Cairo, Egypt2y exp

“ML/AI engineer focused on production-grade systems, with experience building a low-latency multi-agent 'neural concierge' booking platform used across domains like restaurants and hospitals. Also worked on a healthcare computer vision system for nystagmus/eye-movement analysis, showing a mix of scalable LLM infrastructure, MLOps, and safety-conscious medical AI experience.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built and refactored a production RAG system over IRS Form 990 filings for 60 nonprofits, using a dual-path architecture (deterministic financial ranking + TF-IDF semantic retrieval) to keep latency sub-2s and reduce hallucinations. Demonstrates strong API craftsmanship in FastAPI (contract-first, OpenAPI-driven) plus production-grade security for multi-tenant systems (JWT, RBAC, Supabase-style RLS) and careful migration practices (feature flags, traffic mirroring, incremental rollout).”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal document Q&A system using LangChain, vector search, and a dockerized FastAPI LLM service. Focused on reliability by systematically reducing hallucinations and improving retrieval through prompt grounding/abstention strategies, chunking and top-k tuning, and iterative evaluation with logged metrics and manual validation.”

“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.”

“Built a university campus assistant chatbot (BabyJ/WWJ) using RAG and agentic routing with a FastAPI + React stack and JWT auth, focusing heavily on production concerns like latency and reliability. Uses techniques like speculative prefetching, smart intent routing, and rigorous eval/testing (golden sets, regression, edge cases) while collaborating closely with campus admin/advising teams to iterate based on real user feedback.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience delivering large-scale RAG and voice-agent solutions for banking clients. Implemented a SharePoint-based, non-technical content update workflow with incremental hourly ingestion into a vector DB, and actively contributes to Microsoft’s open-source GPT-RAG accelerator while using modern orchestration (Semantic Kernel, LangGraph) and LLM observability/evaluation tooling.”

Sai Vamsee Bandaru

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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.”

Lalith Sagar Kambala

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered SaaS

United States, USA1y exp

“Worked on an AI-adjacent search/results product with a React front end and an API-driven backend, focusing on scalability and performance. Emphasizes decoupled JSON API architecture, React rendering optimizations (useMemo/useCallback), and large-dataset techniques like virtualization, plus strong user-issue triage via log analysis and edge-case fixes in query handling/ranking.”