Vetted Swift Professionals

“Software engineer with experience at Google and the City and County of San Francisco building production AI systems, including a RAG-based internal support chatbot and ML-driven ticket priority tagging. Has scaled data/ML platforms with Airflow on GCP (1M+ records/day, 99.9% SLA) and deployed multi-component systems with Docker and Kubernetes (GKE), using modern LLM tooling (LangChain/CrewAI, Claude/OpenAI, Pinecone/ChromaDB, Bedrock/Ollama).”

“LLM/agentic workflow practitioner (Continuum AI) who productionized an LLM system for manufacturing RMA intake and warranty claims by moving from a brittle prompt to a modular pipeline with RAG, function-calling extraction, deterministic validation, and strong observability. Also diagnosed and fixed an agentic ticket-triage misrouting issue by tracing failures to retrieval timeouts, adding guardrails/fallbacks, and implementing retries plus continuous evaluation—bringing misroutes near zero while creating a repeatable debugging playbook.”

“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.”

Harsh Sanas

Screened

Intern-level Software Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG, and backend systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“AI/LLM engineer focused on shipping production-grade agents that automate support, sales intake, and ERP-connected workflows. Stands out for combining strong orchestration and guardrails with measurable business outcomes, including 45% faster support handling, ~$1.2M annual savings, 18% higher customer satisfaction, and 99.5%+ reliability in production.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered clinical assistant at a healthcare startup, re-architecting a prototype into a robust RAG system on AWS with guardrails, citations, monitoring, and automated tests for clinical reliability. Works closely with clinicians to convert workflow feedback into evaluation criteria and iterative system improvements, and has hands-on experience debugging agentic systems in real time (including during live client demos).”

“Frontend-focused engineer with 5 years at Shopify building and maintaining internal tooling. Led modernization from ERB/jQuery to React/TypeScript/GraphQL and improved performance on large datasets with server-side pagination. Also delivered an end-to-end search feature with filters, URL-driven state, pagination, and error correction, using strong review/testing and zero-downtime rollout practices.”

Venu Venkata Surendra reddy Erusu

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and Cloud-Native Microservices

Syracuse, NY4y exp

“Research assistant at Syracuse University who owned a Python/FastAPI analytics backend for user-uploaded large datasets, using S3 streaming uploads and background workers for heavy processing. Has hands-on experience deploying Dockerized Python/Java microservices to AWS EKS with Jenkins-based CI/CD, plus Kafka-based event-driven pipelines and practical migration patterns (dependency mapping, dual-write, reconciliation) to minimize downtime.”

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 an emergency drone-pilot dispatch platform for fire departments, law enforcement, and FEMA, owning it end-to-end from product concept through iOS app, backend dispatch logic, and ongoing iteration. Particularly strong in designing mission-critical, regulation-aware workflows that combine FAA/LAANC compliance, geolocation, flight planning, and even autonomy/computer-vision systems into a reliable operational product.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building end-to-end internal products at State Farm, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, AWS Lambda serverless backends, and Postgres data layers. Stands out for combining strong systems thinking with product sense: they improved a policy rerate platform with measurable performance gains, built a reusable rerate API adopted across teams, and also shipped an internal LLM chatbot MVP with built-in user feedback loops.”

“AI-focused engineer who treats models as tightly controlled collaborators rather than autonomous replacements. Built and led a LangGraph-based multi-agent research system with separate stages for decomposition, retrieval, synthesis, and validation, emphasizing modularity, debuggability, and robust failure handling.”

“Summer SDE intern at AWS who built and deployed a column-lineage debugging tool for on-call engineers, using AWS Bedrock to parse SQL and generate a column DAG. Integrated the tool into an existing validation system and hardened it against real-world SQL format differences via flexible parsing and testing with queries from multiple upstream teams.”

Vivek Reddy

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist/Data Engineer specializing in ML pipelines, insurance and healthcare analytics

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Built a production assistive-vision iPhone app to help visually impaired users find grocery items, training a custom YOLO detector on 2,000+ self-collected/annotated images and deploying via CoreML with a cloud multimodal LLM for navigation instructions. Brings hands-on AWS serverless + ECS container deployment (CDK/GitHub Actions) and a disciplined approach to AI workflow reliability (state-machine design, offline evals, stress tests, logging/metrics), plus experience communicating model insights to non-technical stakeholders (MOTER Technologies).”