Vetted Vector Databases Professionals

“Uber engineer who has owned internal products end-to-end across backend (Spring Boot microservices, MySQL) and frontend (React), including performance optimization and secure JWT-based auth. Also shipped a production internal RAG/embeddings LLM support assistant over policy docs and support tickets, with guardrails (confidence thresholds, human review) and an evaluation loop that directly reduced hallucinations.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered healthcare support agent at UnitedHealthGroup, using LangChain + FAISS RAG on AWS SageMaker with CloudWatch monitoring and human-in-the-loop fallbacks for safety. Strong focus on reliability engineering (confidence gating, retries/timeouts, caching) and continuous evaluation loops; reported ~40% improvement in query resolution efficiency while reducing manual support workload.”

Pooja Dokuri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG pipelines, and cloud MLOps

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM + vector search clinical decision support system at UnitedHealth Group, retrieving medical evidence and patient context in real time for prior authorization and risk scoring. Strong in end-to-end RAG architecture (Hugging Face embeddings, Pinecone/FAISS, SageMaker, Redis) plus orchestration (Airflow/Kubeflow) and rigorous evaluation/monitoring, with demonstrated ability to align solutions with clinical operations stakeholders.”

Utkarsh Srivastava

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and medical imaging

New York City, USA3y exp

“At Fileread, the candidate built and deployed an LLM-powered legal document classification and retrieval layer for an agentic extraction system that turns unstructured legal PDFs into structured tables with line-level citations. They productionized a RAG-style pipeline (ingestion, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, generation) and report 95%+ F1 across 70+ legal categories, emphasizing rigorous evaluation and close collaboration with legal domain experts for high-stakes precision.”

Sragvi Vadali

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and real-time systems

2y exp

“Backend/AI engineer who built a real-time vector database system for high-frequency financial data using Kafka/Flink on Kubernetes, achieving sub-100ms similarity search at 10k+ concurrent load and resolving tricky duplication issues with idempotency/versioning. Also shipped an end-to-end LLM-based travel itinerary feature (profiling + prompt workflows + APIs) with a focus on quality consistency and low latency.”

Sai Charan Kolla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps on AWS

TX, USA5y exp

“LLM engineer who built a production document intelligence/RAG pipeline to extract structured data from thousands of unstructured PDFs, cutting manual review time by 60%. Experienced with LangChain and Airflow orchestration plus rigorous evaluation (labeled datasets, prompt testing, HITL review, monitoring) to improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations while partnering closely with non-technical operations stakeholders.”

Ganesh Bandi

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

USA6y exp

“LLM engineer who has deployed production RAG systems for regulated document QA (PDFs/knowledge bases), emphasizing grounded answers with citations, RBAC, monitoring, and continuous feedback. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval quality (semantic chunking, hybrid BM25+embeddings, re-ranking), reliability (guardrails, deterministic workflows), and measurable evaluation (golden sets, log replay, A/B tests) while partnering closely with compliance/operations stakeholders.”

Divyam Agrawal

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and NLP classification systems

Seattle, WA4y exp

“Internship experience building a production RAG+LLM pipeline to map messy card transaction descriptions to merchant brands, including a custom modified-ROUGE evaluation approach for weak/variant ground truth. Improved scalability and cost by moving from a managed LLM endpoint (e.g., Bedrock) to self-hosted vLLM, and orchestrated massive embedding backfills (5,000+ files, 10B+ rows) using an Airflow-triggered SQS + ECS worker architecture with robust retry/DLQ handling.”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer who built production-grade orchestration systems for hardware security verification at Silicon Assurance (Nextflow/Python/Postgres) and a multi-agent LLM-driven regulatory code checking system at the University of Florida. Emphasizes reliability: strict plan/execute/verify boundaries, queue-based isolation, and strong observability/auditability with Prometheus/Grafana and persisted prompts/tool calls.”

Anirban Ghosh

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in data science and cloud systems

Seattle, WA4y exp

“ML engineer who independently pitched and built a recommendation engine at Danske Bank in a legacy fintech environment, creating compliant data pipelines and deployment infrastructure from scratch and delivering a 62% engagement lift with 70%+ advisor adoption. Also worked at AWS on classification and GenAI-powered reporting systems, with strengths spanning production ML, platform setup, monitoring, and research-to-production optimization.”

Farhan Shahbaz

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer with deep experience in security and access-management platforms at JPMorgan Chase, including owning automation for migrating 50+ engineering teams from CyberArk to HashiCorp Vault. Stands out for combining regulated-environment rigor, infrastructure automation, and production operations with practical AI integration in internal access workflows.”

“AI/ML-focused engineer with practical experience building RAG-based and multi-agent systems, including architectures for retrieval, reasoning, context processing, and response generation. Stands out for combining LLM productivity gains with disciplined software engineering practices like validation, monitoring, and reproducibility.”

“Forward-deployed, full-stack/platform engineer who owns production features end-to-end across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure (AWS serverless, Terraform, React). Has modernized critical fintech/payment systems (zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices with Kafka event sourcing) and productionized AI-native support workflows (LLM + RAG on Pinecone) with measurable gains in latency, incidents, CSAT, and support efficiency.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of both a marketplace discovery product and a zero-to-one AI document intelligence assistant. Brings a strong blend of React/Node/MongoDB product engineering and production RAG/LLM system design, with clear experience turning technically complex AI capabilities into usable experiences for non-technical users.”

“Full-stack engineer whose strongest hands-on work is a self-built real-time collaborative code editor spanning React, Node.js, Express, and WebSockets. They stand out for owning both product UX and backend synchronization challenges, with a clear bias toward simplicity, low-latency collaboration, and modular architecture in early-stage product building.”

“Robotics engineer with a 2024 internship building an end-to-end software stack for an autonomous humanoid robot that follows natural-language audio commands to make coffee and deliver snacks, including perception (OpenCV), mapping, and ROS Navigation. Also contributing to a robotics foundation model effort by building data preprocessing pipelines using GroundingDINO and SAM2, and has multi-robot coordination experience with algorithms designed to handle real-world communication drops.”

“GenAI/ML engineer from Lucid Motors who built and productionized an LLM-powered RAG diagnostic assistant for manufacturing and maintenance teams, deployed on AWS with Docker/Kubernetes and MLflow. Demonstrates end-to-end ownership from retrieval/prompt design to scalability, monitoring, and workflow integration via APIs, plus production ML pipeline orchestration with Kubeflow (Spark/Kafka + TensorFlow) for predictive maintenance use cases.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience improving performance and reliability in financial workflows (settlements/loan processing), spanning React/TypeScript and Angular frontends plus Spring Boot microservices. Has delivered measurable latency improvements using PostgreSQL optimization and Redis caching, and has operated Kafka-based systems at scale with idempotent processing and backoff/retry strategies while iterating internal ops tooling with support/finance teams.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG chatbot at Wells Fargo for securely querying regulated financial and compliance documents, emphasizing low hallucination rates, explainability, and strict governance. Experienced with LangChain multi-agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, evaluation, and retraining, and partnered closely with compliance/operations to drive adoption through demos and feedback-driven retrieval rules.”

“Backend engineer with strong AWS/CI/CD experience (multi-repo deployments, Lambda + core app, immutable ECR and image promotion) and a published master’s thesis building an ML framework for Solar PV energy prediction and CO2 reduction impact modeling using ensemble and meta-learning approaches benchmarked against SAM.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG knowledge assistant integrating internal docs, wikis, and ticket histories to reduce tribal-knowledge dependency and repetitive questions. Emphasizes reliability via grounding + a validation layer, and achieved major latency gains (>50%) through vector index optimization, caching, quantization, and selective re-validation. Comfortable orchestrating end-to-end LLM/data workflows with Airflow, Prefect, and Dagster, including monitoring and alerting.”

“Applied AI/ML Engineer at JPMorgan Chase who led a banker-facing LLM chatbot from an OpenAI-API POC to a production RAG workflow, including hallucination mitigation, automated evaluation in SageMaker, and operational monitoring with Dynatrace. Also delivers external technical education—hosted a hands-on Grace Hopper Celebration 2025 workshop teaching LangChain/LangGraph agentic workflows.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with experience building a transformer-failure prediction system that combines sensor signals with unstructured maintenance comments using LLM-based extraction and similarity validation. Strong emphasis on production readiness—data leakage controls, SQL-driven data quality tiers, and rigorous bias/fairness validation (including contract/spec evaluation across diverse company profiles).”

“Data/ML practitioner with hands-on experience building NLP systems from prototype to production: delivered a Twitter sentiment classifier with robust preprocessing, SVM modeling, and Power BI reporting, and built entity-resolution pipelines for messy multi-source customer data (reporting ~95% improvement in unique entity identification). Also implemented semantic linking/search using SBERT embeddings with FAISS vector retrieval and domain fine-tuning (reported ~15% precision lift), and applies production workflow best practices (Airflow/Prefect, Docker, Azure ML/Databricks, Great Expectations).”