Vetted Snowflake Professionals

Eugene Nelepko

Screened

Executive growth leader specializing in AI-powered SaaS, marketplaces, and e-commerce

San Francisco, CA13y exp

“Growth leader with strong zero-to-one and systems-building experience across e-commerce and retail media. Most notably, they proposed and launched a new retail media division from scratch, presold demand before product build, and scaled it to $1.5M ARR with 85% margin, while also building data-driven lifecycle and acquisition systems that materially improved activation and CAC efficiency.”

“Growth-focused B2B SaaS operator with hands-on experience improving enterprise adoption for a cloud governance and FinOps platform. They combine customer discovery, ROI-driven messaging, automation, and funnel instrumentation to improve conversion and handoffs, citing an 18% lift in enterprise adoption and roughly $200K-$3M in influenced pipeline.”

“Full-stack/product-minded engineer with strong React/TypeScript depth who has owned systems end-to-end, from UI architecture to backend services and data design. At Qualcomm, they built both a telemetry dashboard and an ML model drift monitoring platform for 20+ edge models, including post-launch tuning that cut false positives by 60%. They also demonstrate 0→1 startup execution by solo-building a production RAG document Q&A platform with JWT auth, Stripe gating, and sub-300ms retrieval.”

“At KPMG, built and productionized a secure RAG-based LLM assistant that lets business and risk stakeholders query data warehouses in natural language, reducing dependence on data engineers for ad-hoc analysis. Demonstrates strong production rigor (Airflow orchestration, CI/CD, containerization), retrieval/embedding tuning (rechunking, semantic abstraction for structured data), and reliability controls (confidence thresholds, refusal behavior, monitoring and canary evals).”

“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.”

“Software engineer who owned end-to-end delivery of customer-facing agricultural forecast reporting (crop yield/health) and iterated quickly via rigorous edge-case testing and customer feedback. Also built an internal ML training platform (TypeScript/React + Flask/Python + MongoDB) used by every developer, with architecture designed to stay responsive under heavy compute load.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered governance layer that summarizes verified drift/performance signals into validation reports and release notes, designed for regulated environments with de-identification and non-blocking fallbacks. Strong Airflow-based orchestration background across healthcare and finance, integrating Databricks/Spark and MLflow for scalable retraining/monitoring. Demonstrated ability to partner with non-technical healthcare operations teams to deliver actionable risk-scoring outputs via dashboards and automated reporting.”

“Developer with experience across Drupal and Java/Spring Boot applications using React/jQuery for UI and API-driven features. Has handled production issues by tuning reverse proxy timeouts for login problems and troubleshooting data pipeline inaccuracies by fixing database queries, with a focus on performance and careful verification before changes.”

“Small-team builder of Promethium’s “Mantra” next-gen agentic text-to-SQL engine, using vector DB + LangGraph tooling and SQL validation/evaluation to improve query accuracy. Experienced in diagnosing production LLM workflow failures via LangSmith traces and in running hands-on developer workshops and pre-sales POCs with live debugging and real customer data.”

“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.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with recent CVS Health experience building a production RAG system over unstructured financial/research documents using LangChain, FAISS, and Pinecone, plus LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning of GPT/LLaMA for domain-aware summarization. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps and data engineering skills (Airflow/Prefect, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLflow) and measurable impact (sub-second retrieval, ~40% better context retrieval, ~25% entity matching improvement).”

“Healthcare-focused data engineer/ML practitioner with experience at Lightbeam Health Solutions and Humana building production entity-resolution and semantic similarity pipelines across EMR, lab, and claims data. Uses NLP/ML (spaCy, scikit-learn, BioBERT/LightGBM) plus Snowflake/Airflow and vector search (Pinecone) to improve linkage accuracy (reported 90%) and semantic match quality (reported +12–15%), while reducing manual cleanup by 40%+.”

“Providing technical guidance to a small team exploring a biomedical startup focused on earlier disease detection, including for remote/underserved areas. The venture is in ideation with initial research completed and is moving toward prototyping while exploring initial investment/support.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a group scheduling SaaS feature with live availability updates using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, owning production reliability after launch (auth debugging, monitoring, polling/backoff tuning). Has hands-on experience with Postgres schema/index design and query optimization (EXPLAIN ANALYZE) and building durable orchestrated backend workflows with retries and idempotency.”

“GenAI/LLM ML engineer (currently at Webprobo) building an enterprise GenAI platform with document intelligence and automation on AWS and blockchain. Has hands-on experience with RAG, LLM evaluation tooling, and orchestrating production LLM workflows with Apache Airflow, plus deep exposure to reliability challenges in globally distributed/edge deployments. Also partnered with business/marketing stakeholders at a banking client to deliver an AI-driven customer retention insights solution.”

“Data engineer focused on reliable, scalable analytics pipelines and external data collection. Has owned end-to-end pipelines processing 5–10M records/day, serving Snowflake data marts to Power BI/Tableau, and reports ~99% reliability through strong validation/monitoring. Also shipped versioned REST APIs for curated data with query optimization and caching.”

Revanth Goli

Screened

Senior Data & Backend Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and LLM/RAG systems

Morrisville, NC6y exp

“Data engineer with end-to-end ownership of large-scale retail and clinical data ingestion/processing on AWS, including real-time streaming and batch pipelines. Delivered measurable outcomes: 20M daily transactions processed, latency cut from 4 hours to 5 minutes, ~70% fewer failures, and 120+ pipelines running at 99.8% reliability with full audit compliance.”

Nishad Kane

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist & AI Engineer specializing in RAG, agentic AI, and production ML

5y exp

“AI/data engineer who built a production LLM-powered schema drift detection system (LangChain/LangGraph) to catch semantic data changes before they break downstream analytics/ML. Deployed on AWS with Docker/S3 and implemented an LLM-as-a-judge evaluation framework to improve trust, reduce hallucinations, and control false positives/alert fatigue. Collaborated with non-technical risk/business analytics stakeholders at EY by delivering human-readable drift explanations that improved confidence in financial analytics dashboards.”

Hadi Jaffery

Screened

Junior Data Engineer specializing in Snowflake and investment data platforms

Boston, MA3y exp

“Private markets/private credit data engineer owning core Snowflake/AWS data infrastructure (S3 → ActiveBatch → Snowflake) with automated iceDQ quality checks and curated datasets for internal Power BI/React reporting. Drove major reliability and delivery improvements, including cutting DB CI/CD deploy time 50% and reducing downstream table errors by 90%+, and also built an internal React/FastAPI app to visualize the team’s data infrastructure in an ambiguous early-stage environment.”

Sreelekha Vuppala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms

USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”

“Data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines processing a few million records/day, using Python/Airflow/SQL/PySpark with Snowflake serving to BI (Power BI). Built resilient external web data collection systems (anti-bot, schema-change detection, backfills) and shipped versioned REST APIs for internal consumers, improving pipeline success rates to 99% through monitoring, retries, and idempotent design.”

“Data engineer with Optum experience building end-to-end healthcare data pipelines for HL7/FHIR, processing millions of records daily across Kafka streaming and Databricks/Spark batch. Strong focus on data quality (schema enforcement/validations), reliability (Airflow monitoring/alerts), and analytics-ready serving in Snowflake powering Power BI/Tableau, with CI/CD via Git and Jenkins.”

“Data engineer focused on reliability and data quality, owning end-to-end pipelines processing ~100k–300k records/day. Implemented robust validation and monitoring that cut reporting issues by ~30%, and built stable external data collection with anti-bot measures, backfills, and schema-change detection while maintaining backward-compatible internal data services.”

“Built and owns the full ProteinMenus AI pipeline end-to-end, spanning the iOS client, FastAPI backend, Gemini integration, Firestore, and Cloud Run deployment. Strongest signal is full-stack product ownership in an AI-driven consumer workflow, including monetization logic via an atomic credit system and architecture choices optimized for fast iteration after launch.”