Vetted SQL Professionals

Christian Alcala

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in LLM-powered analytics

Redwood Shores, CA4y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI development, emphasizing verification, observability, and system design over hype. Built LLM-driven features and automated regression/validation pipelines, including quality measurement work at Oracle, and uses hands-on projects to test how AI fits into real business workflows.”

“Machine learning/AI engineer focused on agentic product experiences, including a parts-finding assistant and other AI-driven tools. Has worked on reinforcement learning projects, agent state management, and making AI understandable for non-technical users through visuals and simplified explanations.”

Omri Galor

Screened

Mid-level quantitative analyst and startup founder specializing in predictive analytics and FinTech

New York City, NY7y exp

“Analytical operator with an unusual mix of public-sector strategy, startup investing, Deutsche Bank quantitative risk work, and hands-on startup cofounding. He has operated from institutional finance to zero-to-one execution, including driving a model improvement that reduced unnecessary loss impact by tens of millions and helping convert startup partnership outreach into a formal acquisition review.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based semantic search and summarization system for large legal/technical document sets, owning the full backend (embeddings, vector store, chunking, prompting) and driving a reported 40–60% reduction in manual review time. Experienced with LangChain/LlamaIndex plus Airflow/Temporal-style orchestration, and applies rigorous evaluation/monitoring (A/B tests, drift detection, staged rollouts) to keep agentic systems reliable. Also partnered with a supply-chain manager at TE Connectivity to deliver an AI inventory recommendation tool projected to drive millions in value.”

“Recent internship project at Google Workspace building an LLM-driven Python backend pipeline to extract/enrich NLP features from messy customer web domains and integrate them into a Domain Feature Store for personalization and promotions. Also has hands-on Kubernetes/Docker deployment experience for a Digital Signage SaaS backend with GitHub Actions CI, plus strong streaming-systems knowledge (Kafka exactly-once, schema evolution, Flink scaling) and built an information retrieval system handling 30,000+ cases.”

“Fintech/neobank CTO (5+ years across US and UK markets) now building Payzo Money, a fintech copilot for SMBs covering expenses, accounting, invoicing, and payroll. Pre-revenue and seeking a $5M seed round, with active Bay Area conversations and a clear focus on bank sponsorship plus compliance/operations readiness; leverages Claude-based AI agents to accelerate building with limited resources.”

“Co-founded academic-index (10,000+ users) and built a full-stack Next.js 14 document upload + client-side OCR + Gemini-powered analysis pipeline with strong production reliability (custom monitoring, retries, quality gates) and measurable gains (accuracy ~94%→98.5%, failures down ~60%). Also owns end-to-end biometric data visualization and a data-driven brand/UX overhaul at pre-seed health/performance startup Absolute Rest, with a background running a multi-client dev studio (Zen Digital).”

Amrita Pritam

Screened

Senior Backend Engineer specializing in distributed microservices and event-driven systems

Fremont, CA10y exp

“Backend engineer with production experience building a high-scale notification pipeline (~20M/day) using Java/Dropwizard with Kafka and Azure Queue, including DLQ/poison-message handling and the outbox pattern for reliability. Also led a batch-based migration of Yammer Messaging user data from PostgreSQL to Azure Cosmos DB for global multi-region scale, addressing throttling and network failures via retries, escalation policies, and dynamic throughput tuning.”

Dexin Huang

Screened

Junior AI Engineer specializing in LLM systems, RAG, and full-stack automation

Guilford, CT1y exp

“Built and deployed an AI receptionist product for field-service businesses (HVAC/electrician), including real-time Jobber scheduling integrations and Twilio-based calling. Combines hands-on customer/operator shadowing with strong production engineering (queueing to handle API limits, rigorous testing/mocking, mirrored prod environment) and cross-layer troubleshooting, driving user adoption through review/override workflows.”

Shuvam Mitra

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in anomaly detection and production ML

Pittsburgh, PA4y exp

“Interned at Backblaze building production AI systems for incident response and security operations, including an internal LLM-powered incident triage assistant that used Snowflake + RAG over historical tickets/postmortems and delivered results via Slack and a web UI. Emphasizes reliability (PII filtering, grounding, schema validation, fallbacks) and rigorous evaluation/observability (offline replay, partial rollouts, time-to-first-action metrics, Prometheus/Grafana).”

Pranav Hariharane

Screened

Mid-Level Backend Engineer specializing in REST APIs and AWS

SF Bay Area, CA3y exp

“Backend engineer who built a new REST eligibility service at Barclays that unified siloed account logic (card/loan/deposit) and integrated with web/mobile, ultimately serving millions of users daily. Also built an end-to-end LLM-based pharmaceutical care-plan generation tool in a rapid Columbia startup competition, emphasizing configurable design, strict validation, persistence, and robust error handling.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production computer vision and GenAI systems, spanning real-time public safety video analytics and RAG-based knowledge assistants. Stands out for translating research-oriented approaches into scalable, monitored production systems with clear business impact, including 50% latency reductions, 25% faster response times, and 40% lower document search time.”

Kunj Amrutbhai Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend systems on AWS

Seattle, WA4y exp

“Built production systems in the AWS ecosystem, including an internal AI assistant for diagnosing account transfer and permissions issues and an end-to-end account transfer workflow used by enterprise customers. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG design with strong distributed systems reliability practices, emphasizing guardrails, fallbacks, and operational trust in high-stakes workflows.”

“Product leader with notable experience launching Uber's first support chatbot, scaling it through localization, richer self-serve UX, and platform investments while driving measurable gains in CSAT and automation. Also brings regulated-industry experience from Eaze, where they led a seed-to-sale compliance integration, plus people management experience mentoring PM interns into full-time roles.”

Steve Palley

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in marketplaces, consumer products, and health-tech

Los Angeles, CA21y exp

“Product leader with a rare mix of zero-to-one marketplace building, AI product development, and mission-driven consumer experience work. Led the creation of StoryLoom at Pixelberry/Nexon as a 'Roblox for writers,' is currently building a privacy-conscious AI concierge for a first responder coaching marketplace, and previously co-founded ApplyMap to deliver free AI-powered college guidance for underserved students.”

“Healthcare systems leader with unusually broad provider-side experience spanning operations, finance, revenue cycle, supply chain, and strategic planning. Combines executive finance exposure—M&A support, bond offerings, debt reporting, IPO-related work, and FEMA/DOH coordination—with hands-on operating leadership, including recovering $350M in COVID relief funds and helping drive a turnaround that produced $90M in revenue plus $45M in savings within 6 months.”

Kartheek Pathuri

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in frontend and full-stack platforms

14y exp

“Frontend/UI engineer with strong ownership of complex browser applications, including leading SentinelOne's in-app notification center from conference prototype to production. Brings deep React/TypeScript and browser performance expertise, plus a track record of integrating heterogeneous backend services and improving UX for demanding technical users.”

“Product Manager at Amazon focused on recruiting technology and AI/ML, owning ATS experiences at massive scale across 24M annual applications. Stands out for driving a vision to turn Amazon's ATS into an AI-native platform, with measurable business impact including $10M+ in savings, major recruiter efficiency gains, and strong experimentation-driven product decisions.”

“Robotics software engineer who built the behavior-tree orchestrator for the Vulcan Stow robotic system, migrating from a state machine to significantly improve testability. Experienced with ROS 1 and Baidu Apollo workflows (rosbag, LiDAR/image extraction) from self-driving simulation work at LG Silicon Valley Lab, and currently focused on stable Docker/docker-compose-based deployments with disciplined QA and hotfix processes.”

“Robotics software engineer with Stanford coursework and Georgia Tech research experience, focused on end-to-end autonomy for mobile manipulation and real-time planning under uncertainty. Built a ROS 2 LoCoBot system combining Gemini speech-to-text, YOLO-based RGB-D perception, navigation, and grasping with robust synchronization/TF fixes, and developed an information-theoretic UGV planner for radiological source localization validated via Monte Carlo simulation.”

“ML/LLM engineer who built a production RAG system (GPT-4 + FAISS + FastAPI) to deliver fast, grounded answers from proprietary documents, optimizing for sub-200ms latency and high-concurrency scale. Strong MLOps/observability background: drift monitoring with Prometheus + Streamlit, automated retraining via Airflow, Kubernetes autoscaling, and MLflow-managed model lifecycle, plus inference cost reduction through quantization and structured pruning.”

“ML/NLP engineer focused on production-grade data and search/recommendation systems: built an end-to-end pipeline that connects unstructured customer feedback with product data using TF-IDF/BERT, Spark, and AWS (SageMaker/S3), orchestrated with Airflow and monitored for drift. Also has hands-on experience with entity resolution at scale and improving search relevance via BERT embeddings, FAISS vector search, and domain fine-tuning validated with precision@k and A/B testing.”

“Software engineer at Intel who owns a production Go/Kubernetes backend for supply-chain transparency and end-to-end hardware integrity verification in a hybrid cloud setup (AWS control plane + Azure data plane). Also built and shipped an AI agent workflow for real-estate due diligence that turns raw Excel spreadsheets into structured investment outputs and auto-generated PowerPoint insights using LangGraph, with strong emphasis on verification, observability, and reliability guardrails.”