Vetted SQL Professionals

“Robotics-focused engineer who built a non-holonomic self-driving car on Raspberry Pi 5 using ROS 2, implementing sensor fusion (robot_localization EKF), 2D SLAM (slam_toolbox), custom Hybrid A*/RRT* planners, and MPC trajectory tracking. Demonstrated strong real-time debugging and performance tuning (timestamp sync, CPU contention mitigation) and is extending the platform toward CV-based plant identification and autonomous plant watering.”

“Co-founded and led the business side of Plasma Nutrition for a decade, commercializing atmospheric-plasma technology to improve protein efficacy/absorption. Bootstrapped for 5 years before raising venture funding, leveraged FoodX accelerator validation, and navigated a major go-to-market pivot (B2C to B2B). Drove growth by renegotiating out of an exclusive manufacturing arrangement and scaling to roughly six brand partners within a year.”

“Internship experience building a production LLM-powered podcast operations agent that automated lead intake (HubSpot), guest research, scheduling (Calendly), meeting-summary evaluation (Gemini), and human approval via Slack bot—while retaining rejected candidates for future outreach. Also contributed to ideation of a multi-agent orchestration framework with parsing and task routing, and emphasized reliability via structured prompts, HITL feedback, and prompt-based test sets.”

“Built a production LLM-powered analyst assistant at Discern Security to speed up SOC investigations using a RAG pipeline over security vendor documentation (Python PDF ingestion, vector search). Demonstrates deep, security-critical LLM engineering: structure-aware chunking with custom table parsing, grounded/cited responses, prompt-injection defenses, and post-generation validation, validated via golden datasets and adversarial testing; tool is used daily by analysts.”

“Software engineer who owned customer-facing, high-traffic TypeScript/React + TypeScript backend systems end-to-end, emphasizing safe velocity through feature flags, staged rollouts, observability, and rollback-ready incremental delivery. Reports shipping more frequently with fewer production incidents and faster recovery due to these guardrails.”

“Built and deployed a production healthcare medical review agent that automates call-transcript summarization and medication reconciliation using a hybrid deterministic + LangGraph-orchestrated LLM workflow. Demonstrates strong reliability engineering (guardrails, schema validation, confidence thresholds, golden/adversarial eval, Langfuse monitoring) in a regulated environment, delivering 60% lower latency and 70%+ efficiency gains while partnering closely with care managers and operations.”

“Software engineer with experience at PayPal and JPMC building large-scale onboarding/account setup systems using React/TypeScript with Spring Boot/Node microservices and Kafka. Also built an Ignition-based SCADA monitoring tool at Mainspring Energy that became the default for manufacturing/test engineers by aggregating real-time telemetry and historical test data.”

“Backend-focused software engineer (4+ years) across e-commerce, banking, and healthcare who owned mission-critical checkout/order management end-to-end and improved peak-traffic success rates via resiliency patterns (timeouts/retries/caching) and data-driven iteration. Also built and shipped real-time operational dashboards (React/TypeScript + Spring Boot) using WebSockets and event-stream integrations, with strong experience in Kafka/RabbitMQ-style messaging at scale.”

“Full-stack engineer (~4 years) who has owned and shipped customer-facing SaaS onboarding and a role-based real-time analytics dashboard using TypeScript/React with a modular backend. Experienced in microservices with RabbitMQ and strong observability practices (correlation IDs, structured logging, queue metrics), and built an internal deployment tracker integrated with CI/CD that replaced manual spreadsheet/Slack processes.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered investor research feature for a fintech product, focused on grounded answers and minimizing hallucinations. Implemented retrieval-quality and evidence-coverage gating with clear refusal fallbacks, and evaluates systems with regression tests and metrics like correct-refusal rate, hallucination rate, and latency. Comfortable orchestrating workflows with LangChain or custom Python depending on production needs.”

“Backend engineer focused on cloud/distributed systems, deploying Java 17/Spring Boot microservices on AWS EKS with RDS and Kafka. Demonstrated strong production readiness work (DB lock mitigation, Kafka idempotency, gradual rollouts) and delivered a major latency improvement (~400ms to ~100ms). Also has proven cross-layer troubleshooting skills, isolating intermittent API timeouts to a specific Kubernetes node’s network interface issue, and partners closely with ops teams to build dashboards and workflow automation (including Python scripts).”

“AI/LLM engineer at Capital One who deployed a production RAG-powered fraud analysis and document intelligence platform using LangChain, OpenAI, Pinecone, Kafka, and AWS. Focused on reliability in real-time investigations via hybrid retrieval, schema-validated outputs, and LLM verification loops, reporting review-time reduction from hours to minutes and ~99% fraud detection precision.”

“Built and productionized a RAG-based analytics Q&A assistant for a financial analytics team, enabling natural-language querying across 200+ datasets (SQL tables, PDFs, compliance docs, wikis) and cutting turnaround time by 60%. Deep experience delivering regulated, audit-ready LLM systems on Azure (Azure OpenAI + LangChain) with strict grounding/citations, hybrid retrieval, and AKS-based low-latency deployment, plus strong collaboration with compliance analysts and auditors via iterative Gradio demos.”

“Built a hackathon "Patient Summary Assistant" backend focused on healthcare workflows, combining RAG-based summarization with HIPAA-minded privacy controls (NER redaction + encryption). Demonstrated strong infra skills by deploying on Kubernetes with Helm/HPA and GitOps (ArgoCD), plus migrating from OpenAI to an on-prem Llama 3 stack (vLLM, quantization, shadow-mode testing) and adding real-time Kafka ingestion for patient vitals/anomaly alerts.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based multi-agent chatbot during an internship to help consultants answer client questions and guide users through new IT systems with step-by-step instructions. Demonstrates hands-on experience with LangGraph/LangChain/Google ADK, unstructured document parsing and chunking for RAG, and a reliability-first approach to agent workflows (metrics, fallbacks, human-in-the-loop, guardrails).”

“ML/LLM engineer building production, real-time fraud detection for financial transactions using a two-tier architecture (fast ML + GPT) to deliver both low-latency decisions and analyst-friendly risk explanations. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end retraining, drift monitoring, and automated model promotion with Databricks Jobs/Workflows and MLflow, and partnering closely with fraud analysts to tune alerts, thresholds, and dashboards.”

“ML/LLM practitioner with production experience building a healthcare review sentiment pipeline (RateMDs) using Hugging Face Transformers plus a LangChain+FAISS RAG layer for interactive querying. Also led orchestration-driven optimization of Nike’s Fusion ETL pipeline, improving runtime efficiency by 20%, and has experience translating ML outputs into Tableau dashboards for non-technical healthcare stakeholders (e.g., readmission risk).”

“Software engineer with primary experience in Java and Python who also troubleshoots and optimizes JavaScript/React performance issues. Has handled customer-reported production problems via log-driven diagnosis and backend workflow fixes, and took ownership of simplifying and automating a service region-expansion process through time analysis and process documentation.”

“Engineering leader who has led 100+ engineers at Sainsbury’s Tech and previously scaled an org from 6 to 60+ at AND Digital. Drove a high-impact modernization of a pricing/decisioning platform serving 1,700 stores—moving from batch monolith to real-time Kafka-based event-driven microservices with MLOps, IaC (Terraform), and zero-trust—delivering £18m+ annual profit uplift and 10+ deploys/day.”

“Engineering leader who drove the conception, PRD, architecture, and delivery of MaxCDN’s next-generation CDN platform ("E2"), including control plane work, hardware deployment planning, and observability/billing data processing. Also built Krypton Labs’ engineering team from the first hires, using a flat Agile structure and emphasizing constructive conflict, strong documentation, and remote-team accountability.”

“Cross-functional operator with experience at Amazon and Airbus, known for building executive-facing systems (dashboards, AI-enabled project management, operating cadences) that improve communication and efficiency. Has handled high-pressure, multi-timezone priorities and customer-facing technical escalations using structured documentation and frequent stakeholder updates, while maintaining discretion in sensitive situations.”

“Built an "AskMyVideo" system that turns YouTube videos into queryable knowledge graphs by transcribing audio (Whisper), chunking and embedding content, and enabling traceable answers back to exact timestamps. Strong in entity resolution (rules + fuzzy matching + TF-IDF/cosine with PR-curve thresholding) and modern retrieval stacks (FAISS, hybrid dense/sparse, domain fine-tuning with ~12% precision gain), with a production mindset using Airflow/Prefect, Docker/FastAPI, and LangSmith/Prometheus/Grafana observability.”

“Worked on payments and wallet transactions, with an emphasis on observability and root-cause analysis. Delivered end-to-end A/B testing optimization and implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD automation that reduced manual implementation to 35% and cut deployments to ~2 minutes, with attention to operational considerations like on-call/call rotations.”

“At Citi, helped lead the productionization of an internal LLM-driven automation workflow into a production-ready developer platform, focusing on determinism/reproducibility, security, and cost controls. Implemented prompt versioning/registry, JSON schema validation, sanitization, and deep telemetry (including manual edit-distance) plus human-in-the-loop review and phased rollout—driving major SDLC efficiency gains (e.g., test script creation cut from ~1 week to ~1 day).”