Vetted Vector Databases Professionals

Kaiqi Zhang

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native SaaS and AI applications

Bellevue, WA13y exp

“ML/LLM engineer with hands-on experience shipping production RAG systems at Google Clinical Search and GenAI recommendation/summarization features in Meta Ads. Stands out for combining research-to-production execution with rigorous grounding, evaluation, safety checks, and reusable Python platform components that improved both reliability and team velocity.”

Jesse Olson

Screened

Executive AI technology leader specializing in agentic AI and enterprise transformation

22y exp

“Candidate is exploring a startup in the autonomous agentic AI space and is approaching it with a disciplined founder mindset. They are evaluating market opportunity, competition, customer pain, ROI, technical feasibility, and MVP options while already speaking with potential customers across verticals to validate needs and buying processes.”

Christopher Sipola

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and recommendation systems

New York, NY11y exp

“ML/GenAI engineer who owned major parts of Spotify’s AI DJ from offline experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration. They combine recommender systems, RAG, real-time feedback loops, and LLM safety/orchestration to ship consumer-facing personalization features that drove double-digit engagement and deeper listening sessions.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM conversational AI system at OpenAI supporting chat, summarization, and semantic search at 1M+ requests/day, driving major latency (40%) and accuracy (25%) improvements through Pinecone optimization and tighter RAG with re-ranking. Also has Amazon experience improving recommendation systems by translating ML metrics into business terms to boost CTR and conversions, with strong MLOps/orchestration depth (Airflow, MLflow, SageMaker, Kubeflow).”

“ML engineer with 5 years at Stripe building and productionizing real-time fraud detection at massive scale (3M+ transactions/day; $5B+ annual payment volume). Delivered measurable impact (22% accuracy lift, 18% loss reduction, +3–5% authorization rates) and has strong MLOps/orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow, CI/CD, monitoring/rollback) plus a structured approach to LLM agent/RAG evaluation.”

Muneendra M

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in event-driven backend and AI-enabled systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at Stripe who owned a webhook monitoring and retry platform end-to-end, spanning backend services, React dashboards, and production operations. Stands out for combining strong distributed-systems judgment with product polish, including a reported 31% improvement in webhook delivery reliability and UI improvements that reduced support burden.”