Vetted SHAP Professionals

“Analytics professional with healthcare and operations experience who turns messy enterprise data from platforms like Teradata, GCP, SQL Server, and Snowflake into trusted reporting layers and reproducible analysis workflows. They combine SQL, Python, PySpark, Power BI, and Tableau to improve reporting accuracy and performance, including a 30% dashboard refresh improvement and 20-25% accuracy gains in healthcare reporting.”

“ML/AI engineer with production experience at S&P Global and Accenture, focused on regulated, enterprise-grade systems. Built end-to-end financial risk and credit default models with >90% precision and 12% fewer false positives, and is currently developing secure RAG pipelines on AWS SageMaker for enterprise insight extraction.”

“ML/AI engineer at PNC who has shipped enterprise-grade RAG and document intelligence systems for compliance and policy workflows. Stands out for combining LLM product thinking with production rigor—owning FastAPI/Kubernetes deployments, monitoring, evaluation, and human-feedback loops that drove measurable gains like 40% faster policy search and 30% faster compliance review.”

ASHISH DONDAPATI

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI for Financial Services

San Francisco, USA6y exp

“ML/AI engineer with strong financial-services domain experience who has built production systems spanning trade anomaly detection, investment-research RAG, and agentic LLM workflows. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can take ML/GenAI from prototype to monitored production while balancing compliance, latency, cost, and reliability.”

“Built and owned an enterprise LLM/RAG document intelligence platform for PNC Financial Services in a compliance-heavy environment, focused on grounded answers over internal finance and policy documents. Stands out for combining GenAI product delivery with production engineering discipline, delivering 60% faster document review and materially better answer quality while creating reusable FastAPI-based AI services for multiple teams.”

“AI automations intern at a lean US-based marketing agency who works directly with founders and builds practical GTM systems end-to-end. He combines ML/LLM tooling with outbound execution, including a clustering-based recommender that improved client lead generation by 30% in two weeks and a personal cold outreach engine that achieved a 12%+ reply rate.”

“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.”

“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.”

“AI/ML engineer with healthcare domain depth who led a HIPAA-compliant, production LLM system at McKesson to automate clinical document understanding—extracting entities, summarizing provider notes, and supporting authorization decisions. Hands-on across Spark/Python ETL, Hugging Face + LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, RAG, and cloud-native MLOps (Airflow/Kubernetes/Step Functions, MLflow, blue-green on EKS/GKE), with explicit work on PHI handling and hallucination reduction.”

“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.”

“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 a production internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (Python, LLM APIs, cloud services) that answers employee questions with sourced, grounded responses from internal documents. Demonstrates strong practical depth in retrieval tuning (chunking/metadata filters), orchestration with LangChain, and production reliability practices (latency optimization, automated embedding refresh, evaluation metrics, logging/monitoring) while partnering closely with non-technical operations teams.”

“Built and shipped a production browser automation LLM agent with a structured 4-stage workflow (plan/browse/extract/verify), emphasizing reliability via schema validation (Pydantic), constrained tool use, and contextual retry loops. Reports ~60% accuracy on the WebArena benchmark and monitors runs via console output and the Agno framework GUI, prioritizing accuracy over speed.”

Uday kumar swamy

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in MLOps and NLP/GenAI

Chicago, USA9y exp

“Built a production LLM-agent framework for a startup that performs daily financial/trading analysis by combining live market data with internal tools, including a centralized memory module to prevent context drift and reduce hallucinations. Also implemented an Airflow-orchestrated retail price forecasting pipeline deployed to AWS endpoints, scaling parallel workloads via Kubernetes Executor and validating systems with rigorous functional + LLM-specific metrics and cross-team collaboration.”

“Built and deployed a production long-form article summarization system using BART/T5/PEGASUS, tackling real-world constraints like token limits, latency/quality tradeoffs, and factual drift via chunking/merge logic and constrained decoding. Uses pragmatic Python-based pipeline orchestration (scheduled jobs, modular scripts, logging/retries) and iterates with stakeholder feedback to make outputs genuinely useful for content workflows.”

“LLM/ML platform engineer with hands-on experience taking an LLM document summarization prototype into a production-grade service on AWS EKS, emphasizing low-latency inference, drift monitoring, and safe CI/CD rollouts (canary + rollback). Strong in real-time debugging of agentic/RAG systems (tracing, retrieval/index drift fixes) and in developer enablement through practical workshops (Docker/Kubernetes/FastAPI) plus pre-sales support via demos and benchmarks to close pilots.”

“ML/LLM practitioner who has deployed a production RAG-based trouble-call identifier using multiple datasets (device, network, past complaints). Experienced in end-to-end MLOps (FastAPI + Docker + Kubernetes with HPA) and in evaluating/monitoring LLM behavior to reduce hallucinations, with additional applied work in forecasting/anomaly detection and churn prediction for retention campaigns.”

Sana Khan

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, LLMs, and real-time inference in FinTech

Oklahoma, USA4y exp

“ML/LLM engineer who has deployed a production LLM-powered assistant for intent classification and query routing (order recommendation/support deflection), combining BERT fine-tuning with an embedding-based retrieval layer and optimizing for low-latency inference. Experienced with end-to-end reliability practices—Airflow-orchestrated ETL, data validation/alerting, MLflow experiment tracking, and iterative improvements driven by user feedback and monitoring.”

Abdul Mohammed

Screened

Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in healthcare and financial analytics

USA3y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered clinical documentation and insights pipeline at Cardinal Health using LangChain + GPT-4 with RAG to summarize long clinical notes, extract medication/dosage entities, and generate structured SQL-ready outputs for downstream analytics. Emphasizes clinical reliability via labeled benchmarking (precision/recall/F1), shadow deployments, clinician human-in-the-loop review, and ongoing monitoring/orchestration with Airflow, Lambda, S3, Postgres, and Power BI.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant that let analysts query company documents in natural language, using LangChain/LangGraph with Pinecone and a FastAPI service for integration. Emphasizes reliability in production through hallucination mitigation (retrieval tuning + prompt guardrails) and measurable evaluation/monitoring (accuracy, latency, task completion, hallucination rate), iterating based on user feedback.”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on performance and maintainability in data visualization libraries—refactored legacy ES5 into modular ES6, added tests/docs, and delivered ~30% faster load times with positive community adoption. Also optimized a React dashboard (~40% load-time reduction) and took ownership in an ambiguous AI product initiative by setting milestones, standing up an initial ML pipeline, and shipping a prototype in ~6 weeks that became the basis for production.”

“ML/LLM practitioner who has shipped production RAG systems (summarization + Q&A) and end-to-end Airflow-orchestrated demand forecasting pipelines at NEON IT. Strong focus on reliability—uses evaluation scripts, retrieval/chunking tuning, validation/retries/alerts, and stakeholder-driven iteration to make AI workflows consistent and usable.”

“Built production LLM systems including a real-time customer feedback analysis and workflow automation platform using RAG and multi-agent orchestration with confidence-based human escalation, addressing privacy and legacy integration challenges. Also automated ML operations with Airflow/Kubernetes (e.g., daily churn model retraining) cutting retraining time to under 30 minutes, and demonstrates a rigorous testing/monitoring approach plus strong non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”