Vetted Snowflake Professionals

Praveen Nutulapati

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic systems

New York, NY6y exp

“Built and deployed a production multi-agent RAG system at JPMorgan Chase to automate regulated credit analysis and compliance clause discovery across large internal policy/document libraries. Implemented LangGraph-based supervisor orchestration with structured state management (Azure OpenAI) to support long-running, resumable workflows, plus hybrid retrieval + re-ranking and guardrails for reliability. Strong at evaluation/observability (trace logging, LLM-judge, HITL) and at communicating results to non-technical stakeholders via Power BI embeds and Streamlit prototypes.”

Kunal Singh Pundir

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud microservices and GenAI systems

USA, USA5y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end AI-driven decisioning platform at Uber, combining LLM orchestration with typed tool contracts and a Snowflake-based RAG pipeline to make decisions fully auditable. Delivered large-scale measurable impact (120k requests/day, 18k cases auto-resolved/month) while improving ops SLA from 3 days to 6 hours and cutting incident response time nearly in half. Previously led a high-risk strangler-fig modernization of a legacy insurance platform across 120+ microsites at Accenture, coordinating across multiple squads with feature-flagged parallel cutovers.”

Sunil Parikh

Screened

Executive enterprise architect specializing in cloud, cybersecurity, and platform modernization

Plano, TX26y exp

“Architect with early startup experience (1999-2000) who later worked with Capital One evaluating startup products, strategy, and roadmaps. Brings a structured approach to innovation through market research, competitor analysis, risk assessment, gap analysis, and proof-of-concept thinking.”

“Built Baioniq, an enterprise LLM platform for automating extraction from massive unstructured documents like contracts and insurance claims. They demonstrate unusually strong production depth in agentic AI—scaling to 100k+ requests/day, processing 1M+ claim documents, and improving extraction accuracy through rigorous RAG architecture, evaluation, and fallback design.”

Sirisha Maddikunta

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in enterprise LLM and healthcare AI solutions

O Fallon, MO6y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end LLM-powered fraud investigation assistant that automated case summaries and risk analysis, cutting analyst investigation/documentation time by 40%. Stands out for translating RAG concepts into a production-grade internal platform with strong evaluation, monitoring, and reusable Python service architecture that improved both analyst trust and engineering velocity.”

“Built and owned a production conversational AI platform for a healthcare contact center, including RAG-based agent assist, hybrid retrieval, safety guardrails, and production monitoring. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with strong operational rigor, driving a reported 25-30% improvement in handling time in a sensitive healthcare environment.”

“Data engineer with healthcare (CVS Health) experience who migrated production PySpark workloads to native BigQuery SQL and built a Great Expectations-based validation microservice on GKE (Flask + REST) integrated into Cloud Composer. Has operated high-volume pipelines (~300–400GB/day) and designed external vendor ingestion on AWS (Lambda/Step Functions/Glue) with schema-drift detection, alerting, and backfill-safe controls to protect downstream Snowflake/BigQuery tables.”

Shriya Bannikop

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and distributed systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-assisted job-matching dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, keeping LLM logic server-side and improving performance via deduplication, caching/revalidation, and streaming (35% fewer duplicate LLM calls; 40% faster first render). Also has strong data/backend chops: designed Postgres models and optimized queries at million-record scale (1.8s to 120ms) and built durable AWS multi-region telemetry workflows with idempotency, retries, and monitoring.”

David Zeibert

Screened

Junior Development Analytics Analyst specializing in QSR growth and automation

Miami, FL3y exp

“Data-driven economy/incentives designer with experience across QSR brands (Popeyes and Burger King), spanning franchise development incentive systems and in-app game economies. Built live scorecards (Snowflake/SQL/Tableau) and regression-based sales forecasting models on thousands of restaurant records, and used app telemetry to tune progression loops and improve retention while aligning ops and business KPIs.”

Bhanu Chander

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and real-time pipelines

New York, NY6y exp

“Data engineer focused on reliability and observability, building end-to-end pipelines processing millions of records/day from sources like S3 and Kafka. Has hands-on experience with Airflow-based data quality automation, PySpark/Databricks transformations, and shipping versioned Python REST APIs deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD (Jenkins) and monitoring (CloudWatch/Azure Logs).”

Blake Thomas

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI and EdTech platforms

San Mateo, CA21y exp

“Has been on the receiving end of a VC investment and took responsibility for significant parts of the diligence process, drawing parallels to hands-on work with security compliance and auditors. Approaches entrepreneurship and idea selection with a structured framework (leverage, resources/runway, passion) and a sustainability-first mindset around risk and personal/family well-being.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG fraud investigation system to replace manual investigator workflows, combining transaction data, historical cases, and policy documents with agent-style steps and LoRA fine-tuning. Demonstrates strong reliability engineering (grounding, citations, abstention paths), performance optimization (retrieval/indexing/caching), and end-to-end MLOps orchestration using Azure ML Pipelines/MLflow plus Kubernetes/Argo with canary and rollback deployments.”

“Built a production agentic AI system to automate data science work using a layered architecture (executive-summary handling, tool-based execution, and on-the-fly code generation). Demonstrates strong end-to-end agent development practices including RAG with vector databases, prompt engineering, and multi-method evaluation (LLM-as-judge/human/code-based), plus Airflow-based orchestration for ML data pipelines and close collaboration with business end users.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped production systems for complaint intelligence and contact-center NLU, including LoRA/RLHF-tuned LLaMA models deployed on GKE with vLLM and Vertex AI batch pipelines to BigQuery. Demonstrates strong practical focus on hallucination control, data imbalance mitigation, and production monitoring (Langfuse) with regression testing and canary rollouts, plus experience orchestrating complex workflows with AWS Step Functions.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for enterprise internal document search (PDFs, knowledge bases, structured data), addressing real-world issues like noisy documents, hallucinations, and latency with grounded prompting, retrieval-confidence fallbacks, and performance optimizations. Also partnered with compliance and business teams at JPMc to deliver a solution aligned with regulatory constraints, supported by monitoring, feedback loops, and systematic evaluation.”

“AI/ML engineer (Cognizant) who built a production, real-time credit card fraud detection platform combining deep-learning anomaly detection with an LLM-based explanation layer. Strong focus on regulated deployment: addressed class imbalance and feature drift, and added guardrails (SHAP/structured inputs, fine-tuning on analyst reports, rule-based validation) to keep explanations accurate and compliant. Orchestrated the full pipeline with Airflow + Databricks/Spark and used MLflow/Prometheus plus A/B and shadow deployments for measurable reliability.”

“Data/ML engineer with experience across pharma (Dr. Reddy Laboratories) and financial services (Cincinnati Financial, Capital One), building production NLP and entity-resolution systems that connect messy unstructured text with enterprise SQL data. Delivered semantic search with BERT + vector DB and domain fine-tuning (reported ~35% relevance lift), and builds robust pipelines using Airflow/dbt/Spark with strong validation, monitoring, and stakeholder-aligned rollout practices.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned a production merchant-activity aggregation and event publishing system processing ~500k merchants daily. Built a Snowflake-based daily KPI summarization pipeline orchestrated via AWS Glue/SQS and an ECS Spring Boot publisher that encrypts and publishes events to Kafka, with strong operational monitoring and reconciliation. Drove major scalability wins (10x throughput) via caching around encryption/key-management and designed selective reprocessing to handle late-arriving data cost-effectively.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered multi-agent system that autonomously generates and publishes YouTube videos end-to-end (trend discovery, script writing, image/caption generation, timestamped video assembly). Emphasizes production readiness with extensive automated testing, Redis/Postgres/TimescaleDB state orchestration, and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, reporting ~100x faster content production and improved engagement/viewership.”

Vivek Shrivastava

Screened

Director-level Technology Leader specializing in data platforms, AI, and media/AdTech transformation

Los Angeles, California24y exp

“Technology leader who built a unified platform for Fox live sports production operations starting in 2019, delivering an initial operational system on an ~18-month timeline while simultaneously scaling an in-house engineering team from a service-provider partnership. Led a security architecture for external vendors/partners using a separate Okta instance with zero-trust and passwordless authentication, and drove adoption through strong change management, documentation, and agile execution.”

“Entrepreneurial operator with 30+ years of experience building internal startup-style business cases inside private companies, securing capital/OpEx funding, and turning proposals into delivered technology initiatives. Brings a strong venture-informed mindset, including familiarity with Series A/B/C funding dynamics, combined with hands-on strength in business planning, financial modeling, team building, and execution.”

“Analytics-focused candidate with hands-on experience building SQL reporting tables from messy transactional and master data, plus Python workflows that automate monthly analysis and data checks. They appear strongest in KPI/reporting ownership, metric standardization, and stakeholder alignment, with examples of improving reporting consistency, surfacing issues earlier, and reducing manual reconciliation effort.”

“Performance marketer from Unilever with hands-on ownership of a sizable multi-platform paid media portfolio across Google, Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Stands out for combining rigorous experimentation, LTV-based audience segmentation, and incrementality testing to improve ROAS, lower CPA, and restore growth when campaigns plateau.”