Vetted Vector Search Professionals

“Red Hat ML/LLM engineer who designed and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support automation system using RAG, improving latency by 30% via PEFT and vector search optimization. Built security and governance into retrieval (access-level filtering, encrypted Pinecone/ChromaDB) and delivered SHAP-based explainability via a dashboard for non-technical stakeholders. Experienced orchestrating distributed ML/RAG pipelines across AWS SageMaker and OpenShift with Airflow/Prefect, plus multi-agent workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG document intelligence/Q&A system for healthcare prior authorization, reducing manual medical document review time and improving decision efficiency. Strong in end-to-end LLM application engineering (LangChain/LangGraph), retrieval quality improvements (hybrid search, embedding tuning, chunking strategies), and rigorous evaluation/monitoring for reliability.”

“Software engineer with experience at Molina Healthcare and Target, owning production features end-to-end across backend, data pipelines, and UI. Built an event-driven claims validation system (Python/Java/Spring Boot/Kafka) with strong observability, and shipped embeddings-based semantic product search with evaluation loops (CTR/top-k + human review) and guardrails like keyword-search fallback.”

Sanjana Duvva

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, LLMOps, and MLOps

5y exp

“Built and deployed an AWS-based LLM/RAG ticket triage and knowledge retrieval system (Pinecone/FAISS + Step Functions + MLflow) that cut support resolution time by 20%. Demonstrates strong production focus on hallucination reduction, PII security, and low-latency orchestration, with measurable evaluation improvements (e.g., ~25% grounding accuracy gain via re-ranking) and proven collaboration with support operations stakeholders.”

Jen-Hung Chang

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems

Hsinchu, Taiwan4y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built an AI RAG system on FastAPI/Postgres/AWS with 10+ microservices, vector search optimization (ANN + two-stage re-ranking), and GitOps-driven CI/CD that cut deploy time from hours to minutes. Also deployed Java identity services on Kubernetes at TSMC for 200K+ users using ArgoCD/Azure Pipelines, and built a reliable real-time IoT pipeline (MQTT/Node/MongoDB) with strong consistency controls.”

Ishaan Nanal

Screened

Intern-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI/ML

Ithaca, NY1y exp

“Built and shipped an LLM-powered RAG research copilot used by 20+ users across biology, physics, and ML, cutting literature review from days to minutes. Strong focus on production reliability—iterated on chunking/retrieval/prompting, added validation and modular pipelines for debuggability, and is now containerizing and scaling the system with Docker and GCP.”

“Data platform engineer focused on large-scale, real-time fraud systems, with hands-on ownership of streaming architectures using Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks. Stands out for combining performance tuning and platform automation with LLM/RAG-based enrichment, delivering measurable gains in latency, fraud accuracy, false positives, and analyst decision speed.”

“Built an end-to-end AI resume tailoring system in Python/FastAPI with strong emphasis on reliability, validation, observability, and regression-based quality control. Also demonstrates thoughtful browser and workflow automation skills, especially around brittle UIs, resumable state, and turning ambiguous manual processes into production-ready automated pipelines.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production GenAI and computer vision systems, spanning experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for shipping an enterprise RAG platform that cut manual review by 50% and a defect detection pipeline that reduced report generation from 15 minutes to under 1 second while maintaining high uptime and strong operational discipline.”

“Full-stack/AI-focused builder who shipped a production Career Advisor app using LLMs + RAG + vector DB (React/Node/MongoDB/Claude API) and grew it to 2000+ users, handling real deployment issues and CI/CD on Vercel/Render. Also developing an AI-powered iOS “3D World Explorer” (text-to-3D) and has cloud experience across Azure and AWS (S3/SageMaker/EC2).”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience at Charles Schwab building a RAG-based assistant to help 5,000+ reps answer complex financial policy questions. Implemented a multi-layer anti-hallucination approach (GNN-driven ontology/graph retrieval + citation-only answers) and compliance-focused guardrails (Azure AI Content Safety) in partnership with audit/compliance stakeholders.”

“GenAI Engineer at Infosys who built and deployed a production multi-agent RAG system for a top-tier bank, scaling to ~50,000 queries/day with 99.9% uptime. Drove measurable gains (45% accuracy improvement, 30% API cost reduction) through open-source LLM fine-tuning, Pinecone indexing/retrieval optimization, and AWS-based MLOps/monitoring, and has experience enabling adoption via developer workshops and customer-facing collaboration.”

“McKinsey data/ML practitioner who led production deployment of an entity resolution + semantic search platform for unstructured finance and healthcare data, integrating with legacy systems under HIPAA constraints. Deep hands-on stack across transformers (spaCy/HF BERT), embeddings + FAISS, and production MLOps/workflow tooling (Airflow, Docker, CI/CD, Prometheus/Grafana), with reported gains of +30% decision speed and +25% search relevance.”

“Siemens AI engineer who shipped production multi-agent LLM systems across cybersecurity and sustainability, including a vulnerability automation agent that cut manual work 70%. Deep in orchestration (LangGraph supervisor-worker state machines), reliability engineering (async fault tolerance, retries, spike handling), and rigorous evaluation (offline benchmarks, LLM-as-a-Judge improving label agreement 28.9%) with measurable production guardrails.”

“Built and owned "Cortex," an AI agent that helps users understand large GitHub repositories by mapping architecture and relationships between files/folders in minutes. Implemented an agentic, multi-stage prompt decomposition approach and validated it across open-source repos, while also doing legacy service modernization work involving dependency upgrades and refactors.”

“Healthcare GenAI engineer who built a HIPAA-compliant, auditable RAG-based claims decision support system at Molina Healthcare, processing 3M claims and delivering major impact (48% faster manual reviews, 43% higher decision accuracy). Deep hands-on experience with LangChain orchestration, vector search (ChromaDB/FAISS), embedding fine-tuning, and safety controls (confidence scoring, rule validation, human-in-the-loop escalation) for clinical workflows.”

“Financial-services AI engineer who shipped a production investment research assistant using RAG over internal research reports, SEC filings, and meeting transcripts, with a strong emphasis on truthfulness and guardrails. Built a structured evaluation loop (200+ golden test cases, RAG Triad metrics) that directly improved retrieval quality (e.g., fixing year-mismatch retrieval, boosting sensitive-query performance by 18% and cutting hallucinations to near zero) and scaled ingestion to ~10k messy documents with RabbitMQ + OpenTelemetry.”

pavan kalyan padala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in predictive and generative AI

Daytona Beach, Florida4y exp

“AI/ML engineer with production LLM experience in regulated financial services (J.P. Morgan Chase), building a customer response engine to automate first-contact resolution while addressing privacy, bias, compliance, and scale. Strong MLOps/orchestration background (Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS Step Functions, Azure ML/SageMaker) plus proven ability to integrate with legacy systems and drive stakeholder adoption through dashboards, auditability, and training.”

“ML/AI practitioner with hands-on experience shipping production time-series forecasting and RAG-based customer insights platforms in an enterprise setting. At BASF, he improved seed sales forecasting beyond naive baselines using model selection tailored by brand size, and he also led a RAG solution over Salesforce reports, complaints, and surveys that reached 2,000+ users with strong daily engagement.”

Amit Dharam

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud deployment

Tempe, AZ3y exp

“Built multiple end-to-end automation and data systems, including an Accio RAG pipeline combining PDF parsing, FastAPI, Neo4j, and vector search, plus Selenium-based scraping for a virtual try-on product. Stands out for reliability-minded engineering: automated testing, structured logging, validation layers, and a data-driven approach to debugging flaky automation that improved CI pass rates to over 98%.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer who has built AI-heavy systems spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontends, Python/FastAPI backends, queues, databases, and workflow infrastructure. Stands out for combining strong technical depth with UX instincts—improving trust in AI assistants, shipping ambiguous client features quickly, and creating reusable primitives for AI generation and analysis products.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong DevOps/AWS production experience who builds and operates multi-agent AI systems end-to-end (Streamlit/Python through Docker/Kubernetes and ECS/Fargate). Has delivered measurable outcomes: sub-2s latency and ~92% routing accuracy for an AI wellness assistant, shipped an AI-for-BI prototype in under 6 weeks cutting analysis time ~40%, and improved pipeline iteration speed ~35% via modularization and CI/regression checks.”

“Built and productionized an internal LLM-powered document Q&A system at Morgan Stanley using a LangChain-based RAG pipeline (FAISS + OpenAI) with AWS ingestion (S3/Lambda), handling 100k+ pages and cutting lookup time ~35% while keeping responses under 3 seconds. Strong on reliability: automated evals/CI (pytest + GitHub Actions), CloudWatch monitoring, drift detection (prompt drift and fraud-model drift), and security controls (IAM + app-level authorization) in a financial-services environment.”

“Built GoEngineer’s first production AI systems, including an end-to-end RAG pipeline for SolidWorks technical support using Azure Blob Storage, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI, plus an AI summarization feature adopted by sales/customer success. Strong in productionizing LLM workflows with evaluation harnesses (golden sets, LLM-as-judge, red teaming, shadow deploys) and Azure infrastructure integrations (Redis, Service Bus, App Insights), and has also implemented a custom MCP server for agentic monitoring.”