Vetted Snowflake Professionals

Mounika Nadendla

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

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

5y exp

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade data systems end-to-end: batch and real-time pipelines (Airflow/Kafka/Spark) with strong data quality, monitoring/alerting, and incident response. Has experience integrating external API/web data with retries, throttling, and schema-change handling, and serving curated datasets to analytics (Power BI) and backend consumers with performance optimizations like Redis caching.”

Aldric Pinto

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level AI product and data lead specializing in analytics and healthcare AI

New Haven, CT4y exp

“Product-minded software engineering lead with a blend of backend, data engineering, cloud observability, and AI product experience. They’ve owned systems end-to-end, from ETL job builders that cut setup time 70% to hybrid-cloud observability workflows that reduced monitoring effort 80%, and also drove an AI marketing feature that improved conversion from 2% to 6%.”

“Full-stack product engineer who owned a live-events digital ticketing platform end-to-end, including blockchain-based ticket validation and high-traffic booking flows. Stands out for combining Angular/React frontend work with Java/Spring Boot backend architecture, plus strong production reliability practices around concurrency control, queues, observability, and UX optimization.”

“Backend engineer who replaced an Excel-heavy forecasting workflow with a secure, auditable FastAPI system (React UI + relational model + async workers), emphasizing deterministic processing, idempotency, and versioned ledger-style ingestion. Led a monolith-to-FastAPI migration at Bounteous using a strangler approach, feature-flagged incremental rollout, and data reconciliation/shadow-compare to protect integrity while scaling onboarding workflows.”

“AI engineer who built a production e-commerce system that analyzes product images alongside sales and demographic data to generate actionable creative recommendations, now used by 20+ clients. Also built orchestrated document/agent pipelines (Airflow, LangGraph) including a compliance drift detector auditing 401 compliance documents, with an emphasis on traceability, logging, and production integration.”

“ML/AI practitioner in healthcare (Syneos Health) who has deployed production clinical NLP and risk models. Built a BERT-based physician-note information extraction system on Docker + AWS SageMaker (reported ~42% retrieval improvement) and automated retraining/deployment with Airflow and drift detection, while partnering closely with clinicians to drive adoption (reported ~18% readmission reduction).”

“Built and deployed a GPT-4-powered medical assistant for clinical staff to reduce time spent searching guidelines and EHR information, with a strong emphasis on safety and compliance. Uses strict RAG, confidence thresholds, and fallback behaviors to prevent hallucinations, and runs production-grade workflows orchestrated with LangChain/LangGraph plus Docker/Kubernetes/MLflow and monitoring for reliability and cost.”

“LLM/agentic workflow specialist with healthcare deployment experience who has taken LLM-based automation from prototype to production using operator-in-the-loop validation, RAG-style retrieval, RBAC, and monitoring for sensitive data compliance. Demonstrated real-time incident resolution (retrieval timeouts due to network/proxy misconfig) and strong GTM support—hands-on developer workshops and sales demos translating technical safeguards and real-time ETL into measurable ROI (70% ops reduction, ~$200K/year savings).”

“LLM/agentic systems practitioner focused on taking customer prototypes to production by hardening reliability (APIs, monitoring, security) and adding guardrails, evals, and incremental rollouts. Experienced diagnosing RAG/agent failures via structured tracing and fixing retrieval-quality issues (freshness checks, filters, schema enforcement). Also supports pre-sales by leading developer demos/workshops and building targeted POCs to address scalability/reliability objections and drive adoption.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based document Q&A system on Azure OpenAI to help business teams search thousands of PDFs/Word files, using Qdrant vector search, MongoDB, and a Flask API. Demonstrates strong production engineering (streaming large-file ingestion, parallel preprocessing, monitoring/retries) plus systematic prompt/embedding/chunking experimentation to improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations, and has hands-on orchestration experience with ADF/Airflow/Databricks/Synapse.”

“ML/NLP engineer who built a RAG-based technical assistant for Caterpillar field engineers, transforming PDF keyword search into intent-based semantic retrieval across manuals, logs, sensor reports, and technician notes. Strong in productionizing data/ML systems (Airflow, PySpark) with rigorous preprocessing, entity resolution, and evaluation—delivering measurable gains in accuracy, relevance, and duplicate reduction.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM system that scraped Google Maps menu photos, extracted structured prices via OpenAI, and cross-validated them against website-scraped data to automate data-quality verification at scale (replacing costly manual contractor checks). Demonstrates strong reliability instincts—precision-first prompting, output gating with image-quality metadata, and fuzzy matching/RAG techniques—plus solid orchestration (Dagster/Airflow) and observability (Sentry, Prometheus/Grafana).”

“Applied NLP/ML in healthcare and financial services, including fine-tuning BERT on unstructured EHR text and building embedding-based similarity search for clinical concepts. Also redesigned a Wells Fargo fraud detection data pipeline using modular Python + AWS Glue/Step Functions, cutting runtime ~40% with improved monitoring and reliability.”

“AI/ML engineer at Cigna Healthcare building a production, HIPAA-compliant LLM-powered clinical insights platform that summarizes unstructured medical notes using a fine-tuned transformer + RAG on AWS. Demonstrates strong end-to-end MLOps and cloud optimization (distillation, Spot/Lambda/Auto Scaling) with quantified outcomes (~28% accuracy lift, ~40% less manual review, ~25% lower ops cost) and strong clinician-facing explainability via SHAP and dashboards.”

“Azure cloud platform engineer with strong enterprise Linux operations background who designs multi-region HA/DR on Azure (and AWS) using Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, AKS autoscaling, and geo-replicated Azure SQL. Built secure Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for .NET/Python microservices to AKS/VMs and provisions full environments via Terraform modules with remote state, drift checks, and staged rollouts; has not directly owned IBM Power/AIX at scale.”

“Cofounded a travel app and built a production place recommendation + review system end-to-end using Next.js App Router and TypeScript, including Postgres-backed APIs and post-launch monitoring. Uses structured logging with Sentry and Vercel Analytics to diagnose issues and validate performance improvements, and has some exposure to Temporal-based workflow orchestration with retries/idempotency.”

“Data engineer focused on high-volume transaction pipelines (2M+ per day) using Snowflake/Snowpipe, Spark/PySpark, Kafka, and Airflow, with a strong emphasis on schema/data-quality enforcement and reliability improvements. Also built a greenfield compliance-focused RAG solution, using CloudWatch monitoring and adding ingestion validation to prevent malformed OCR documents from degrading search quality.”

“Data engineer in healthcare (HCA) who owned end-to-end Azure-based pipelines at very large scale (50M+ daily claims/patient records). Strong focus on reliability: schema-drift fail-fast validation, quarantine layers, and Python/SQL data quality checks that reduced issues ~25%, plus performance tuning in Databricks/PySpark and versioned serving in Synapse for downstream consumers.”

Nikitha Kommidi

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection, NLP, and MLOps

6y exp

“Built a production real-time fraud detection and customer-support automation platform at Citibank, tackling extreme class imbalance (reported ~1:5000) and strict latency constraints. Combines hands-on MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow; Snowflake/Spark/S3 integrations; CI/CD model promotion) with cross-functional delivery to Risk & Compliance focused on interpretability and reducing false positives.”

Prithviraju Venkataraman

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and Computer Vision

Long Beach, CA5y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered text extraction/classification system that converts messy unstructured reports into searchable insights, running on AWS SageMaker with automated retraining and monitoring. Strong in orchestration (Step Functions/Kubernetes/Airflow patterns) and reliability practices (gold datasets, prompt/tool unit tests, shadow/canary/A-B testing, guardrails/rollback), and has experience translating non-technical stakeholder needs into an NLP workflow plus dashboard.”