Vetted Vector Databases Professionals

“Backend/cloud engineer from Resilient Tech with hands-on experience deploying REST APIs and database migrations into a live ERP used by real customers while maintaining 99% uptime. Has debugged intermittent AWS container timeouts down to security group/load balancer misconfigurations, and has extended Python in an ERPNext system to meet GST/e-invoicing compliance requirements with strong customer collaboration.”

“LLM/agent systems builder who deployed a production hybrid router for immerso.ai that dynamically selects retrieval vs reasoning vs generative pathways, achieving an 82% factual-accuracy lift. Deep hands-on experience optimizing local Mistral 7B inference (4–5 bit GGUF quantization, KV-cache reuse) and building reliable RAG/agent workflows with LangChain/LangGraph/AutoGen across GCP Cloud Run and AWS (ECS/Lambda).”

“Software engineer with experience across edtech, live gaming, and an AI document intelligence platform, delivering end-to-end customer-facing features and production backends. Built secure, automated live-session scheduling integrating Zoom and TalentLMS (JWT/RBAC, idempotency, transactions) cutting setup time from ~3 minutes to under 1 minute, and optimized real-time gaming dashboards/APIs with query tuning, caching, and CDN improvements (~60% latency reduction under peak load) on AWS.”

Pranav Mishra

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and MLOps

Charlotte, NC2y exp

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped production systems across computer vision and conversational agents: built a YOLOv8-based wheel fitment pipeline at a Techstars-backed automotive startup, focusing on sub-second latency, monitoring, and robust fallback mechanisms that drove 2–3x page view growth and +5–6k users. Also built a voice-based interview platform orchestrating Deepgram + GPT-4 Mini + OpenAI TTS with FSM-driven reliability, and has hands-on RAG experience (LangChain, hybrid retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, custom pseudo-query generation).”

Varun Mahankali

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React, Node.js, AWS, and Generative AI

3y exp

“Built and production-deployed a Streamlit-based PDF RAG chatbot using LangChain (FAISS, embeddings, prompt templates) and OpenAI, optimizing Streamlit’s stateless behavior by caching vector DB + chat history to cut latency and API cost. Demonstrates a rigorous evaluation mindset (gold datasets, unit tests, LLM-as-judge, groundedness KPIs) and has experience communicating privacy/accuracy safeguards (RBAC, data masking, citations) to a non-technical client at Kalven Technologies.”

Taruni Reddy Ampojwala

Screened

Mid-level GenAI Engineer specializing in LLM agents and RAG systems

Brooklyn, NY4y exp

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM assistant that answers day-to-day operational questions from internal PDFs/SOPs, with strong emphasis on data consistency (metadata versioning, confidence thresholds, conflict handling) and low-latency retrieval at scale. Experienced designing and orchestrating multi-agent LLM workflows (retrieval/validation/generation) and pipeline orchestration for ingestion/embedding/vector-store updates, plus iterative delivery with non-technical operations/business stakeholders.”

Yashwant Gandham

Screened

Junior Machine Learning & Backend Engineer specializing in LLM systems and ML infrastructure

Boulder, CO1y exp

“Built and deployed production RAG-based document search/Q&A systems (DocChat and an internship marketing RAG), using a React + FastAPI stack on GCP with docs stored in GCP buckets and retrieval via embeddings/vector DB. Emphasizes cost/performance tradeoffs (reported ~40% cost reduction) and ships via Docker (Railway), with load/API testing using JMeter and Swagger; regularly collaborates with a CEO stakeholder to iterate and push changes to production.”

Gomathy Selvamuthiah

Screened

Junior Data/AI Engineer specializing in MLOps, real-time pipelines, and LLM applications

Portland, US2y exp

“Built an LLM-driven MLOps agent at SBD Technologies that automated an EV-charging prediction workflow end-to-end, integrating with real-time Kafka/FastAPI systems supporting 120K+ chargers at 99.99% event delivery. Addressed frequent schema drift by implementing SQLAlchemy/Flyway validation (60% reduction in drift issues) and deployed as Kubernetes microservices with GitHub Actions CI/CD; also has Airflow-based ingestion/crawling experience into Snowflake and stakeholder-facing delivery via a Fleetcharge PWA.”

Srikar Tharala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

Remote, USA4y exp

“Currently at ProShare and reports building an AI/LLM-powered system deployed to production, aimed at helping with status-related difficulties and reducing misunderstandings across transactions. Also cites prior collaboration at Porsche with marketing teams, focusing on translating marketing goals into technical requirements and communicating solutions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.”

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.”

“Senior backend/data engineer who has built and maintained HIPAA-compliant, real-time clinical FastAPI services on AWS, orchestrating ML/LLM and vector DB calls with strong reliability patterns (auth, timeouts/retries, graceful degradation, idempotency). Also delivered AWS IaC/CI-CD (Terraform/Helm/GitHub Actions) across EKS/Lambda/SageMaker and built Glue/Spark ETL with schema evolution and data quality controls, plus demonstrated large SQL performance wins (15 min to <9 sec) and hands-on incident ownership.”

“Built and shipped "OnCall Copilot," a production Slack-based RAG assistant that answers on-call questions from runbooks and postmortems with citations using a FAISS vector index. Emphasizes reliability and measurable performance via strict guardrails ("no evidence, no answer"), evaluation metrics, drift monitoring, and operational hardening with Docker, logging, health checks, and offline fallback.”

“Graduate-school lab engineer who built and owned the final architecture of a Microservices Hub that integrates REST APIs, issues API keys, monitors 10+ Linux servers, and visualizes service dependencies via a topology graph. Strong in bridging legacy and modern stacks (Dockerized and non-Dockerized services like Apache/screen) using deep Linux/networking knowledge, plus practical real-time audio streaming for STT/TTS and experience mentoring others.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned the full backend build of an AI-driven platform for UK golf clubs, including FastAPI microservices, vector search, and a tuned LangChain+Pinecone RAG pipeline focused on cost and hallucination reduction. Experienced deploying Django/FastAPI/Flask stacks on AWS-backed Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD-style delivery, plus executing legacy-to-AWS migrations and building Kafka-based real-time analytics pipelines.”

“Software engineer (internship experience) who built and owned an AWS serverless multi-user “challenge” feature end-to-end (UI + REST APIs + DynamoDB + deployment), delivering measurable gains in latency (-30%), debugging time (-50%), and join drop-offs (~-30%). Also productionized a multilingual RAG-based QA system with vector retrieval and guardrails, improving accuracy to ~85% and driving ~20% DAU growth.”

“Built and owned a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant end-to-end, from experimentation through cloud deployment and monitoring. Demonstrated strong practical GenAI judgment by choosing prompt optimization and retrieval tuning over fine-tuning for dynamic data, driving a 40% to 50% reduction in time to answer while improving relevance, lowering hallucinations, and increasing productivity.”

“Built an end-to-end agentic population health strategy copilot for healthcare leadership, turning broad chronic disease questions into structured, evidence-backed strategy briefs. Stands out for combining healthcare domain knowledge with production-grade GenAI implementation, including LangGraph orchestration, Databricks/MLflow deployment, human review, and quality gates focused on citations, metrics, risks, and safety.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built an enterprise RAG chatbot over 40,000+ technical documents, owning the system from ingestion and retrieval design through launch, optimization, and incident prevention. Stands out for treating LLM reliability as a data, retrieval, and observability problem—delivering 90%+ benchmark accuracy, ~50% fewer hallucinations, and major gains in lookup speed and latency.”

“Built a production multi-agent RAG assistant using LangChain/LangGraph with OpenAI embeddings and FAISS, focusing on retrieval quality and latency (Redis caching, parallel retrieval, precomputed embeddings). Experienced orchestrating ETL/ML pipelines with Airflow and Databricks Workflows, and has delivered an AI assistant for business ops to extract insights from policy/compliance documents through close non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”

“Built production LLM/agent systems for procurement and contract spend controls, including a proactive contract value leakage detection platform that moved an organization from reactive audits to pre-payment rejection. Combines multi-agent orchestration (Semantic Kernel/LangChain/AutoGen), document AI benchmarking (Textract vs Azure DI), and MLOps/testing (MLflow, QTest/Pytest) with strong security practices (RAG-grounded responses to prevent prompt injection). Integrated anomaly alerts directly into SAP SES workflows and Power BI dashboards, citing ~$38M leakage addressed across large spend environments.”

Ahmad Alomari

Screened

Senior Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and production ML

Cleveland, OH7y exp

“PhD in computer engineering who has built production-oriented ML/NLP systems for space-weather prediction using Spark-based ETL on noisy satellite sensor logs. Strong in entity resolution and semantic search—fine-tuned E5 embeddings with contrastive learning and deployed to Pinecone, improving top-5 retrieval precision by 25%—and emphasizes scalable, observable pipelines with Airflow, Docker, and CI/CD.”

Ramya Jonnala

Screened

Principal/GenAI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

Plano, TX9y exp

“Built a production AI-powered university marking system that automates question generation and grading from PDF course materials using a RAG pipeline (S3 + Pinecone) orchestrated with LangChain/LangGraph and deployed on AWS ECS via Docker/ECR and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Addressed a key real-world LLM challenge—grading consistency—by implementing rubric-based scoring, retrieval re-ranking, and standardized context summarization, validated against human instructors.”

“Built and productionized an AI-assisted merchant onboarding automation workflow for Kort Payments, replacing slow manual underwriting document review with structured extraction, cross-document validation, and human-in-the-loop guardrails. Emphasizes reliability via scenario-based testing, repeatability checks, and deep observability (timestamped logs), plus incremental rollout with legacy fallback to prevent regressions.”