Vetted SHAP Professionals

“AI/LLM practitioner who has deployed production chatbots across e-commerce, HRMS, and real estate, focusing on retrieval-first workflows for factual tasks like product and property search. Optimized intent understanding and significantly improved latency by using lightweight embeddings and tuning the inference pipeline on Groq (Llama 3.3), while applying modular orchestration and measurable production evaluation.”

Sachin Kulkarni

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, NLP, and AWS MLOps

New York, US3y exp

“Recent master’s graduate in robotics with applied experience across reinforcement learning and ROS 2 autonomy stacks. Built an RL-based drone vertiport traffic controller (PPO) focused on reward design and simulation integration, and has hands-on navigation work in ROS 2 including LiDAR preprocessing, SLAM/path planning, and stabilizing TurtleBot3 wall-following. Also brings deployment experience containerizing robotics nodes and scaling them with Kubernetes on AWS.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a startup data-processing backend (Express.js/MySQL) handling millions of user data points, with a microservices pipeline integrating multiple social media APIs. Emphasizes reliability and security through comprehensive testing, robust error/retry handling for sequential pagination constraints, and tight IAM/JWT/OAuth-based access controls.”

“AI Engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered conversational scheduling assistant (rules-based + OpenAI GPT agents) and improving responsiveness by ~40% through architecture optimization. Strong in orchestration (Airflow), containerized deployments, and data quality (Great Expectations/PySpark), with prior work automating population health reporting pipelines (Azure Data Factory → Snowflake) and delivering insights via Tableau to non-technical stakeholders.”

“Software engineer with startup experience building finance ERP features across invoices, billing, tax updates, and bank reconciliation, now pivoting toward AI/ML through an ML internship and hands-on NLP projects. Brings a mix of full-stack product exposure, early-stage comfort, and practical experimentation with BERTopic, HDBSCAN, LangChain, MongoDB vector search, and sentiment modeling.”

“Built and productionized a clinical NLP + patient risk stratification platform at Dermanture, combining Spark/PySpark pipelines with BERT/BioBERT for entity extraction and text classification and downstream risk models in TensorFlow/scikit-learn. Experienced running regulated, auditable ML workflows with Airflow and AWS SageMaker, emphasizing data validation (Great Expectations), drift monitoring, and explainability (SHAP) to drive clinician trust and adoption.”

“Backend-focused engineer who owned an AI mentoring workflow platform built in Django with LangGraph multi-agent orchestration, optimizing it to stay under 200ms latency while scaling past 1,200 active users using profiling, caching, load testing, and OpenTelemetry-style tracing. Also has hands-on experience containerizing and deploying Python/ML services to AWS ECS via GitHub Actions/GitOps, and building reliable real-time pipelines with webhooks and Redis queues (idempotency, backpressure, DLQ).”

“Backend/AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including an AI request-routing service (FastAPI + BART MNLI + OpenAI/Gemini) that improved accuracy ~25% after launch via eval-driven prompt/category iteration. Also built an enterprise document intelligence/RAG platform on Azure (Blob/SharePoint/Teams ingestion, OCR/NLP chunking, embeddings in Azure Cognitive Search) with PII guardrails (Presidio), confidence gating, and scalable event-driven pipelines handling millions of documents.”

Jaykumar Kotiya

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning & AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and MLOps

Boston, MA6y exp

“Built and deployed production LLM systems for summarizing sensitive legal and financial documents, emphasizing GDPR-aligned privacy controls and scalable hybrid cloud architecture. Experienced with Kubernetes/Airflow orchestration and rigorous testing/monitoring practices, and has delivered measurable business impact (18% conversion lift) by translating AI outputs for non-technical marketing stakeholders.”

Vaishnavi M

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps and Generative AI

5y exp

“At Liberty Mutual, built a production underwriting decision assistant combining LLM reasoning with quantitative models and strong auditability. Implemented a claims-based response verification pipeline that cut hallucinations from 18% to 3% and materially improved user trust/validation scores. Experienced orchestrating ML/LLM workflows end-to-end with Airflow, Kubeflow Pipelines, and Jenkins, including SLA-focused pipeline hardening.”

keerthana bhukya

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cybersecurity

Stockton, CA2y exp

“Salesforce-focused engineer with hands-on depth across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Apex, LWC, and Aura. Stands out for owning end-to-end automation features, making thoughtful async architecture decisions to balance performance and reliability, and designing responsive Lightning interfaces that hold up under large data volumes.”

“ML engineer with hands-on experience building banking AI systems end-to-end, including a customer-targeting model that improved campaign response rates by about 10%. Also shipped a RAG-based banking FAQ/support feature with safety guardrails and production optimizations around retrieval quality, latency, and cost, plus reusable Python services that reduced duplicate work for other engineers.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner who has taken a support-ticket triage automation system from prototype to production, building the full pipeline (fine-tuned models, FastAPI inference services, vector storage, monitoring) and delivering measurable impact (~40% reduction in triage time). Demonstrates strong operational troubleshooting of LLM/agentic workflows (observability-driven debugging, fixing agent routing/looping) and supports adoption through tailored demos and sales-aligned technical communication.”

“Healthcare-focused ML/LLM engineer who built a production hybrid RAG workflow to automate prior authorization by retrieving from medical guidelines/historical cases (FAISS) and generating grounded rationales for clinicians. Strong in operationalizing ML with Airflow/Kubeflow/MLflow on SageMaker, optimizing latency (ONNX/quantization/async), and reducing hallucinations via evidence-only prompting; also partnered closely with clinical ops to deploy a readmission prediction tool used in daily rounds.”

Yash Amre

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in machine learning and NLP

California, USA1y exp

“Analytics-focused early-career candidate with internship experience owning reporting and system performance analysis projects end to end. They combine SQL data preparation, Python automation, and dashboard delivery with measurable impact, including roughly 50% less manual reporting and about 20% better forecast accuracy.”

Shalini Jada

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Applied AI

Bridgeport, CT4y exp

“Full-stack AI engineer focused on operational and healthcare analytics use cases, with hands-on experience building React/TypeScript frontends and Node/FastAPI/Flask backends for agentic systems. Stands out for combining LLM orchestration, retrieval grounding, and human-in-the-loop controls with measurable business impact, including a fraud detection dashboard that achieved 92% accuracy and cut manual review time by 85%.”

vinod yendluri

Screened

Mid-level MLOps Engineer specializing in production machine learning systems

Hyderabad, India3y exp

“Built an end-to-end churn prediction platform at Freddi's Flowers spanning Spark ETL on AWS, model serving, monitoring, and a stakeholder-facing dashboard. Stands out for combining MLOps rigor with product thinking—adding explainability, action-oriented workflows, and config-driven multi-tenant architecture while improving latency and automating drift response.”

“ML engineer with hands-on experience building production AI systems spanning agentic AI, RAG, LLM automation, fraud detection, and predictive analytics. At Origami Risk, they designed and implemented an enterprise RAG platform end to end using LangChain, LangGraph, vector search, and AWS Bedrock to improve internal knowledge retrieval, reduce manual effort, and raise response quality across teams.”