Vetted Vector Search Professionals

Rozaliia Russkikh

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI systems

5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience leading early AI product initiatives, including a RAG dashboard prototype and a production-ready agentic workflow integrating Front, Airtable, and Slack. Stands out for combining Angular/TypeScript frontend leadership with FastAPI backend work, plus a strong focus on evals, observability, and hardening LLM systems before launch.”

“Backend/data engineer who built a production-ready multi-agent financial intelligence system (Mycroft) that orchestrates specialized AI agents to analyze real-time market data using FastAPI and Pinecone vector search. Brings strong security/reliability instincts (rate limiting, JWT/OAuth2, retries/backoff, health checks) and has caught high-impact data integrity issues in financial migrations (timezone normalization across global legacy systems).”

“ML/NLP engineer (Beyond Identity) who built production semantic search and entity-resolution systems over internal security documentation, using LDA + BERT embeddings with FAISS/Pinecone to cut search time by 30%. Also scaled a real-time anomaly detection pipeline to millions of events/day with Spark and AWS Lambda, with strong emphasis on measurable validation (Precision@k, MRR, F1, ARI).”

“Consulting-style LLM practitioner who builds enterprise knowledge assistants using RAG and takes them from prototype to production with guardrails, evaluation, and full-stack observability. Experienced partnering with IT and customer-facing teams to demo solutions, build tailored prototypes, and drive adoption through API-based integration.”

Sai Krishna Mallikanti

Screened

Mid-level AI & Data Scientist specializing in LLMs, RAG, and healthcare NLP

TN4y exp

“Built a production LLM/RAG solution for healthcare operations teams to query large policy and care-guideline repositories in natural language. Improved domain alignment using vector retrieval plus parameter-efficient fine-tuning and prompt optimization, validated through internal user testing and metrics, cutting manual lookup time by ~40%. Also has hands-on experience orchestrating automated ML pipelines with Apache Airflow.”

SREYAS GANGJI

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML backend systems

Chicago, IL4y exp

“AI/data engineer at ZS Associates focused on production-grade agentic systems, FastAPI microservices, and cloud-native ETL/RAG pipelines at significant scale. They’ve built multi-agent validation and diagnostic workflows inspired by their Copilot/KUBEPILOT AI work, supporting 500K+ records per day while improving ML inference performance by ~30% and cutting manual troubleshooting by 60%.”

Ramya Sree Kanijam

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, cloud, and AI pipelines

Remote, USA3y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end AI-driven content enrichment pipeline for a news workflow, using n8n, LLM agents, and external APIs to automate ingestion, deduplication, categorization, and approval routing. Stands out for production-minded AI systems work: they improved reliability with schema validation, retries, idempotency, and monitoring, while automating 90% of processing and cutting duplication errors by 95%+.”

“Built a semantic search portal for a fellowship department and an AI-driven PR review pipeline, using AI selectively for boilerplate while retaining full ownership of architecture, security review, testing, and deployment. Has hands-on experience with multi-agent systems, monitoring, and security validation, with a notably disciplined approach to catching false positives and rewriting weak AI output.”

Nidhip Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack development

United States3y exp

“Backend Java engineer with strong platform/DevOps experience: modernized an insurance claims legacy monolith into DDD-aligned microservices, deployed containerized services on Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and static analysis gates, and implemented GitOps using ArgoCD. Also led major AWS migration planning with dependency mapping and network monitoring to uncover hidden dependencies, and built Kafka-based real-time event streaming with schema-registry-driven evolution.”

Sairam Prasad

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered web platforms

United States4y exp

“Fullstack engineer focused on AI-powered customer-facing products, with hands-on experience building semantic search, document intelligence, and story-analysis platforms from scratch. Stands out for owning architecture and implementation across React/Next.js frontends, GraphQL/FastAPI backends, and async AI pipelines, while also shaping product direction through direct customer feedback in ambiguous startup environments.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building AI-powered document search and analytics products, including RAG-based knowledge retrieval interfaces with citations, filters, and document previews. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript architecture with production performance tuning using profiling tools, memoization, lazy loading, and debounced data flows to keep complex, document-heavy UIs responsive.”

“Built a production RAG-based healthcare chatbot to retrieve patient medical documents spread across multiple platforms, reducing manual and error-prone searching. Implemented semantic search with custom embeddings (Hugging Face) and Pinecone, deployed via FastAPI/Docker on AWS SageMaker with MLflow tracking, and optimized fine-tuning cost using LoRA while orchestrating retraining pipelines in Airflow.”

Butchi Venkatesh Adari

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM platforms and robotic perception

NewYork, NY4y exp

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent personal financial assistant at AlphevaAI on AWS ECS, combining FastAPI microservices, Redis/SQS orchestration, and Pinecone-based hybrid RAG (semantic + BM25) to ground financial guidance. Improved routing accuracy with an embedding-based SetFit + logistic regression intent classifier feeding an LLM router, and optimized UX with live streaming plus cost controls via model tiering and caching.”

Akshay Katageri

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in multi-agent systems and RAG

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Built and shipped a production LangGraph-based multi-agent LLM analytics/decision copilot that answers questions across SQL/BI systems and unstructured docs, emphasizing grounded, tool-verified outputs with citations and confidence gating. Deep hands-on experience with orchestration (LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Assistants, MCP) plus real-world latency/cost optimization (vLLM batching/KV caching, speculative decoding, quantization) and rigorous eval/observability. Partnered closely with business/ops stakeholders to deliver explainable reporting automation, cutting manual reporting time by 50%+.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end fintech product, FinSight, for bank statement analysis and financial Q&A using a production-style RAG architecture. Stands out for combining FastAPI, OpenAI embeddings, FAISS, hybrid SQL/vector retrieval, and practical reliability work like chunking optimization, validation, and low-latency performance tuning.”

Chaitanya Annabathana

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI pipelines and enterprise integrations

USA5y exp

“Candidate has 4 years of experience and appears strongest in customer-facing implementation and AI-enabled workflow automation. They describe owning deployments end-to-end, putting an LLM support assistant with RAG and function calling into production, and improving support operations with a 30% reduction in resolution time and 25% gain in agent productivity.”

“Backend-focused engineer with hands-on experience deploying AI-driven document processing and RAG-based workflows using Python, LangChain, FAISS, and REST APIs. Has owned projects from requirements through post-launch monitoring, including debugging production retrieval issues and building reliable pipelines for messy PDFs/scans and compliance-oriented document analysis.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup-style ownership across backend, frontend, and AI systems, spanning Java/Spring, React, Node/TypeScript, and LLM-powered retrieval. Shipped a workspace intelligence layer using LangChain, OpenAI, and Pinecone to paying customers, while also improving core product metrics like workspace creation success (+30%), latency (450ms to 280ms), and deployment cycle time (-40%).”

“Healthcare AI/ML engineer with Epic experience who built and deployed a HIPAA-compliant GPT-4 RAG clinical assistant over large medical document sets, emphasizing privacy controls and low-latency performance. Also automated end-to-end retraining and deployment of patient risk models using orchestration/CI-CD (Jenkins, SageMaker, MLflow), cutting deployment time from hours to minutes while improving reliability.”

“Built and shipped a production agentic LLM analytics platform that lets non-SQL business users query relational databases in plain English via a RAG + LangChain/LangGraph workflow and FastAPI service. Emphasizes safety and reliability with guardrails (validation/access control), testing/evaluation frameworks, and performance optimization (caching, monitoring, Dockerized scalable deployment), reducing dependency on data teams and speeding analytics turnaround.”

“ML/AI engineer who deployed a real-time, edge-based computer-vision pipeline for produce recognition in retail self-checkout to reduce shrink. Demonstrates strong end-to-end production chops: multi-camera data calibration/sync, ranking-based modeling for fine-grained classes, latency-focused optimization, and continuous A/B testing/monitoring with guardrails. Experienced with ML orchestration (Kubeflow Pipelines, Airflow) and CI/CD via GitHub Actions, and collaborates closely with store operations to make interventions usable in the checkout flow.”

“Worked on large financial analytics datasets combining complaint text, transaction logs, and demographics; built end-to-end NLP/ML pipelines (TF-IDF + Random Forest) and data integration in BigQuery with Tableau reporting, citing ~95–98% accuracy. Also implemented entity resolution with fuzzy matching and semantic linking using BERT sentence-transformer embeddings stored in FAISS, including fine-tuning on labeled pairs to improve search/linking relevance.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG assistant using GPT-4, LangChain, and Pinecone/FAISS to search 50K+ institutional documents, with a strong focus on groundedness and hallucination reduction through retrieval optimization and re-ranking. Pairs this with a metrics-driven evaluation/monitoring approach (BLEU/ROUGE, manual sampling, logging) and workflow automation via Airflow, and has experience translating stakeholder needs into iterative AI prototypes.”

Meghana Nandivada

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in production ML systems and MLOps

2y exp

“ML/AI engineer (TCS) who built and productionized a customer segmentation and personalized-offer recommendation pipeline end-to-end (data cleaning/feature engineering/clustering through Flask API deployment in Docker with monitoring). Emphasizes reliability and operational rigor via validation checks, periodic retraining, model/API versioning, and latency optimization, and has experience translating marketing KPIs into usable dashboards for non-technical teams.”