Vetted UNIX Professionals

Pranava Reddy Kothapally

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Data Engineer specializing in Azure, CRM data pipelines, and marketing personalization

Hyderabad, India2y exp

“LLM/AI engineer who has deployed production RAG conversational analytics and Text-to-SQL systems over Snowflake and curated data marts, emphasizing enterprise-grade guardrails for accuracy, security, and cost. Notable for a structured approach to reducing hallucinations (curated metric/table registry, SQL validation, RBAC, and citation-backed responses) and for building resilient, observable multi-step agent workflows using LangChain/LlamaIndex and Airflow.”

“Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader with 22 years of experience managing large onsite/offshore teams (100+ at peak) and running VMS-driven delivery for multi-industry accounts (telecom, health insurance, retail). Has implemented ATS-based resume databases and reporting dashboards to improve turnaround time, productivity tracking, and coverage planning across multiple client/vendor relationships.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built production-grade intelligence systems in high-stakes domains including tax/legal document analysis and brain tumor MRI workflows. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG product delivery with strong engineering rigor around retrieval evaluation, grounding, validation, observability, and safe fallbacks—turning impressive demos into systems users could actually trust.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built Matchable, an end-to-end AI-powered workforce matching platform using FastAPI, transformer-based NLP, PostgreSQL, and AWS, with a strong focus on practical system design tradeoffs. Also brings research-oriented experience from Los Alamos/ASU simulation work and has built multi-agent LLM workflows with schema validation and auditability, suggesting a thoughtful approach to reliability in AI systems.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built an academic AI voice assistant with a Python microservice-style backend (speech recognition, spaCy-based NLP, and Kafka-driven automation) optimized to sub-500ms latency. Also has Sodexo internship experience deploying containerized services across Kubernetes/AWS ECS/Azure using ArgoCD GitOps, including solving config drift and secret-management challenges and supporting cloud-to-on-prem migrations with blue-green rollouts.”

lakhtar singh

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in JavaScript, cloud microservices, and scalable web apps

St. Thomas, Canada11y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end warehouse and support tooling products, including a Raspberry Pi/Arduino-driven sorting UI that guides staff via bin LEDs. Built a React+TypeScript internal support dashboard with real-time order/shipping updates and AI-assisted ticket response suggestions (integrating models like OpenAI, Grok, Veo, and Google Gemini for image understanding), plus a voice-command workflow to create/search tickets hands-free.”

“Candidate is actively using AI-assisted development tools, including MCP server integrations with Copilot, to generate boilerplate test scripts, validate code standards, and handle package updates. They also have hands-on experience choosing different agents based on task requirements and serving as an admin for AI tool access.”

Sampath Achalla

Screened

Mid-level Python Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI microservices and cloud data platforms

USA3y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer in fintech/payments who shipped an end-to-end Stripe payments + webhook system for a financial microservices platform, emphasizing ledger accuracy via idempotency, transactional writes, retries, and DLQs. Also delivered a real-time React/TypeScript payment status dashboard informed by user interviews, and improved production performance by 35% p95 latency through PostgreSQL tuning and Redis caching on AWS.”

“Software/product engineer who has owned a consumer iOS dating app from customer discovery through roadmap execution, while also shipping an in-app LLM-powered support/feedback bot. Brings a mix of product sense and backend systems experience, including rebuilding a race-condition-prone event orchestration system and designing microservices to handle arbitrary black-box production data.”

Shuchi Shah

Screened

Senior Applied AI Engineer specializing in RAG and full-stack systems

San Jose, CA13y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building an end-to-end civic tech AI platform that ingests city council meeting videos, transcribes them with Whisper, and enables natural-language Q&A via a LangChain/FAISS RAG pipeline. Demonstrated strong systems thinking by tuning retrieval for accuracy/latency/memory (cutting response time ~3s→1s and memory ~500MB→25MB) and by safely migrating an ERP from monolith toward services using dual writes, reconciliation, and idempotency to protect financial workflows.”

“Union College robotics graduate with hands-on ROS experience building an independent “waiter bot” that took spoken orders (Mozilla DeepSpeech), used OpenCV, and navigated via SLAM on a TurtleBot with LiDAR. Also led the Union College Robotics crew for four years and implemented PID control for micromouse maze robots; has additional software deployment experience with Dockerized FastAPI and CI/CD from coursework.”

Revanth P

Screened

Mid-level DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and GenAI infrastructure

Walnut Creek, CA4y exp

“Database/platform engineer with stronger hands-on experience in AWS and Azure than GCP, but able to speak credibly about cloud database architecture, automation, and reliability engineering. They led an on-prem MySQL to RDS/DynamoDB migration, built Terraform/Python-based zero-touch database operations, and described a performance incident where latency dropped from 2s to under 300ms while supporting 2x traffic.”

“Analytics professional with experience spanning infrastructure, energy, and digital engagement data. They have built SQL and Python workflows to turn messy operational data into trusted reporting assets, and led a wind turbine SCADA analysis that quantified roughly $1M in cumulative performance loss and translated findings into actionable Power BI dashboards.”

“Unity VR developer who has shipped Meta Quest titles both independently (handling art, engineering, marketing, and self-publishing) and on teams focused on architecture and code. Recently worked on a multi-user VR experience using haptic gloves and holopotation, solving Photon multiplayer bandwidth issues by compressing high-volume data and implementing custom sync strategies. Also experiments with integrating LLMs into Unity for NPC interaction and uses AI tools pragmatically for straightforward tasks.”

“Built and shipped production LLM agents for real-time, high-concurrency conversational systems, including a RAG-based pipeline with dynamic multi-provider routing and failover that achieved 99.99% reliability and sub-800ms latency. Also architected a UAV telemetry chatbot with tool-calling (anomaly detection/summarization), strict schema validation, and robust eval/monitoring loops, cutting tool-call errors by 30% and reducing operational costs by 90%.”

Riya Stanly

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in machine learning, NLP, and LLM fine-tuning

2y exp

“Built a production-style AI meeting summarization and action-item extraction system (Azure Speech-to-Text + transformer summarization/NER) exposed via a Flask REST API, with explicit guardrails to prevent hallucinated tasks. Strong focus on reliability: modular agent/workflow design, precision-first evaluation with human-validated golden notes, and practical orchestration patterns (tool-augmented agents; ready to scale into Airflow/LangGraph/Prefect).”