Vetted SHAP Professionals

Sharanya Rao

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and RAG for finance and healthcare

Remote, USA3y exp

“Built an AI lending assistant (RAG + DeBERTa) used by credit analysts to retrieve policies and past loan decisions, tackling real production issues like hallucinations, document quality, and sub-second latency. Deployed a modular, Dockerized AWS architecture (ECS/EMR + load balancer) with load testing, caching/precomputed embeddings, and CloudWatch monitoring, and used Airflow to automate scheduled data/embedding/vector DB refresh pipelines with retries and alerts.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned end-to-end production services for a fleet analytics/GenAI platform, spanning FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS + Lambda) event-driven workloads. Strong in reliability/observability (OpenTelemetry, circuit breakers, idempotency), data pipelines (Glue/Airflow/Snowflake), and measurable performance/cost wins (SQL 10s to <800ms P95; ~30% compute cost reduction).”

“GenAI engineer who has deployed production LLM/RAG chatbots for internal document search, focusing on reliability (hallucination reduction via prompt guardrails + retrieval filtering) and performance (latency improvements via caching). Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph orchestration for multi-step agent workflows and iterates using monitoring/logs and benchmark-driven evaluation while partnering closely with product and business teams.”

“GenAI/ML engineer with production experience at Cognizant and Ally Financial, building end-to-end LLM/RAG systems and ML pipelines. Delivered a domain chatbot trained from 90k tickets and 45k docs, improving intent accuracy (65%→83%), scaling to 800+ concurrent users with 99.2% uptime and sub-150ms latency, and driving +14% customer satisfaction. Strong in Azure ML + DevOps CI/CD, Dockerized deployments, and explainable/PII-safe modeling using SHAP/LIME to satisfy stakeholder trust and GDPR needs.”

“Data scientist with hands-on experience building an XGBoost-based customer segmentation/churn risk scoring model used by sales and marketing teams. Emphasizes production-grade practices—efficient SQL for large-scale data pulls, rigorous data validation/testing, and scalable, modular Python code designed to support multiple customer types.”

“ML/NLP engineer with experience at Charles Schwab building an NLP + graph (Neo4j) entity-resolution system to unify fragmented user/device/transaction data and improve downstream model quality and analyst querying. Has applied embeddings (SentenceTransformers + FAISS) with domain fine-tuning to boost hard-case matching recall by ~12% while maintaining precision, and has a track record of hardening scalable Python/Spark pipelines and productionizing fraud models via A/B tests and shadow-mode monitoring.”

Rohan Varma Bandari

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist & Generative AI Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG

USA4y exp

“Built production LLM + hybrid RAG and multi-agent orchestration systems at Wells Fargo to automate complaint document/audio transcript understanding and categorization, addressing vocabulary drift via embedding + vector index updates instead of frequent retraining. Strong in LLM workflow reliability (testing/benchmarks/observability) and stakeholder-facing delivery with explainability (citations/SHAP-style justifications) and Tableau dashboards.”

Harideep Balusa

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech risk, fraud detection, and GenAI/RAG systems

USA6y exp

“Built and productionized Azure-based LLM/RAG systems for regulatory/compliance use cases, including automating analyst research and compliance report generation across large unstructured document sets. Demonstrates strong practical depth in hallucination mitigation, hybrid retrieval tuning (BM25 + embeddings), and production MLOps (Databricks, Cognitive Search, AKS, Airflow/MLflow), plus proven ability to deliver auditable, explainable solutions with non-technical compliance teams.”

“BNY Mellon engineer who has built and operated production AI systems end-to-end: a LangChain/Pinecone RAG platform scaled via FastAPI + Kubernetes to 1000 RPM with 99.9% uptime, supported by monitoring and data-drift detection. Also deep in data/infra orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Terraform on AWS/EMR/EC2), processing 500GB+ daily and delivering measurable reliability and performance gains, plus strong compliance-facing model explainability using SHAP and Tableau.”

“Analytics-focused candidate with internship and project experience at Recotap and CoUnderscore, combining SQL, Python, and BI dashboards to turn messy marketing and engagement data into decision-ready reporting. Stands out for tying analytics work to business outcomes, including ~15% CTR improvement, identifying ~40% misattributed spend, and enabling a ~$75K budget shift through better targeting.”

“Built a production, real-time clinical documentation system at HCA that converts doctor–patient conversations into structured clinical summaries using speech-to-text, LLM summarization, and RAG. Demonstrated measurable gains from medical-domain fine-tuning (clinical concept recall +18%, ROUGE-L 0.62 to 0.74) while meeting HIPAA constraints via PHI anonymization and encryption, and deployed via Docker/FastAPI with CI/CD and monitoring.”

“GenAI/ML engineer with hands-on experience building production financial intelligence and document summarization systems at Citibank. Stands out for combining LLM fine-tuning, hybrid RAG, multi-agent workflows, and strong MLOps/observability practices to deliver measurable business impact, including 60% faster analyst retrieval, 31% higher precision, and 99%+ uptime.”

“Healthcare-focused LLM engineer who deployed a production triage and clinical knowledge retrieval assistant using RAG and LangGraph-orchestrated multi-agent workflows. Emphasizes clinical safety and compliance with robust hallucination controls, HIPAA/PHI protections (tokenization, encryption, audit logging, zero-retention), and human-in-the-loop escalation; reports a 75% latency reduction in a healthcare agent system.”

“Built a production multi-agent orchestration platform to automate healthcare claims and HR workflows, combining LangChain/CrewAI/AutoGPT with RAG (FAISS/Pinecone) and fine-tuned open-source LLMs (LLaMA/Mistral/Falcon) in private Azure ML environments to meet HIPAA requirements. Emphasizes rigorous agent evaluation/observability (trajectory eval, adversarial testing, LLM-as-judge, drift monitoring) and reports measurable outcomes including 35% faster claims processing and 40% fewer chatbot errors.”

“Has production deployment experience delivering computer-vision systems on AWS (Docker + S3) including a GDPR-focused face/license-plate obfuscation pipeline and a semantic-segmentation project aimed at reducing annotation time. Worked closely with DevOps and frontend teams and partnered with CEO/CMO to present an AI-driven annotation workflow to non-technical VC stakeholders.”

“Telecom (Verizon) AI/ML practitioner who built a production multimodal system that ingests messy customer issue reports (calls, chats, emails, screenshots, videos) and turns them into confidence-scored incident summaries with reproducible steps and evidence links. Also built KPI/alarm-to-ticket correlation to rank likely root-cause domains (RAN/Core/Transport), cutting triage from hours to minutes and improving MTTR.”

“AI/ML engineer with forensic analytics and healthcare claims experience (Optum), building production LLM/RAG systems to surface context-driven fraud patterns from unstructured claim notes and explain risk to investigators. Strong in large-scale retrieval performance tuning, legacy API integration with reliability patterns (SQS, circuit breakers), and MLOps orchestration on Airflow/Kubernetes with rigorous testing, monitoring, and stakeholder-friendly interpretability.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production recommendation and RAG systems at Northern Trust. They combine transformer modeling, latency optimization, cloud deployment, and monitoring with measurable business impact, including 14% accuracy gains, 12% engagement improvement, and 19% better query relevance.”

“Healthcare ML/AI engineer at Cigna who has owned a clinical RAG pipeline from prototype through production, monitoring, compliance, and iteration. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with healthcare-grade safety and explainability, driving a 38% retrieval precision gain, 42% hallucination reduction, and meaningful improvements in team velocity and system reliability.”

Sree Damineni

Screened

Mid AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial and insurance analytics

USA3y exp

“Senior AI/ML engineer focused on production ML, LLMs, and MLOps, with concrete experience shipping fraud detection and enterprise RAG systems. They combine strong deployment and monitoring discipline with measurable business impact, including 31% precision improvement in fraud detection and 37% better answer relevance in a financial-document QA system.”

“Built end-to-end ML and GenAI systems at Northern Trust, including a production RAG-based document intelligence platform for financial reports and contracts. Stands out for combining strong MLOps execution with practical product judgment—improving forecast accuracy by 22%, document review accuracy by 38%, and cutting deployment time by 45% while keeping latency and reliability production-ready.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for healthcare teams (care managers/support) to answer questions from clinical and policy documentation, emphasizing trustworthiness via improved retrieval, reranking, and strict grounding prompts to reduce hallucinations. Also has hands-on orchestration experience with Apache Airflow for end-to-end ETL/ML workflows and applies rigorous testing/metrics (hallucination rate, tool-call accuracy, latency, cost) to ensure reliable AI agent behavior.”

“ML/AI engineer with healthcare payer experience (Signal Healthcare, Cigna) who has shipped production fraud/claims prediction systems using Python/TensorFlow and exposed them via FastAPI/Flask microservices integrated with EHR and Salesforce. Emphasizes operational reliability and trust—Airflow-orchestrated pipelines with data quality gates plus SHAP-based interpretability, A/B testing, and drift/debug workflows—backed by reported outcomes of 22% lower false payouts and 17% higher model accuracy.”

“Built production LLM/RAG platforms for financial services to enable natural-language Q&A over large policy/compliance document sets stored in Snowflake and SharePoint. Strong in MLOps and orchestration (Airflow, ADF, Step Functions, MLflow) and in solving real production issues like stale embeddings and model performance, including an incremental Snowflake Streams sync that cut processing time from hours to minutes.”