Vetted Vertex AI Professionals

Jayadeep Nukala

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI platforms and FinTech

USA3y exp

“Built full-stack and AI-driven products spanning banking KYC modernization and enterprise software testing automation. Particularly strong in productionizing LLM workflows in regulated environments, using deterministic orchestration, RAG, and human-in-the-loop controls to improve test coverage to 80% and reduce QA reporting burden by over 50%.”

“Candidate brings an operator-to-founder profile with leadership experience in IT and Business Systems and a strong grasp of how ideas become venture-backable products. They speak fluently about startup evaluation criteria such as TAM, technical defensibility, speed to scale, and AI differentiation, and appear especially motivated by building solutions end-to-end in startup or venture studio environments.”

“Built and deployed a production Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform in a healthcare setting to automate clinical documentation review and summarization, targeting near-real-time, explainable outputs. Emphasizes grounded generation to reduce hallucinations, latency optimizations (chunking/embedding reuse), and PHI-safe workflows with access controls, plus strong orchestration experience using Apache Airflow.”

“Built a production GenAI-powered analytics assistant to reduce reliance on data analysts by enabling natural-language Q&A over Databricks/Power BI dashboards, backed by vector search (Pinecone/Milvus) and a Neo4j knowledge graph, including multimodal support via OpenAI Vision. Demonstrates strong real-world LLM reliability engineering with strict RAG, LangGraph multi-step verification, and Guardrails/custom validators, plus broad orchestration and production monitoring experience (Airflow, ADF, Step Functions, Kubernetes, Prometheus/CloudWatch).”

“Built and shipped a real-time oncology risk prediction system used by doctors during patient visits, trained on clinical data in AWS SageMaker and deployed via FastAPI with sub-second responses. Emphasizes clinician-trust features (SHAP explainability, validation checks) and HIPAA-compliant controls (encryption, RBAC, audit logging), plus Kubernetes-based production operations with autoscaling, monitoring, and drift/retraining workflows; collaborated closely with oncologists at Flatiron Health.”

“Built a production RAG-based GenAI copilot backend at Aetna using Python/FastAPI, GPT-4, LangChain, and Azure AI Search, deployed on AKS with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Owned the system end-to-end (ingestion through deployment) and improved peak-time reliability by addressing vector search and embedding bottlenecks with Redis caching, index optimization, and async processing, plus added anti-hallucination guardrails via retrieval confidence thresholds.”

“LLM engineer who built a production seller-support RAG system at eBay using hybrid retrieval (BM25 + Pinecone vectors) with Cohere reranking, LangGraph orchestration, and citation-grounded answers. Strong focus on reliability: semantic/structure-aware chunking, automated Ragas-based evaluation with nightly regressions, and production observability (LangSmith) plus drift monitoring (Arize). Also implemented a multi-agent fraud pipeline with AutoGen using JSON-schema contracts and explicit termination conditions.”

Anvith Reddy Dodda

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in GenAI, NLP, and MLOps

Remote, USA3y exp

“LLM/agentic-systems engineer with PayPal experience hardening an LLM-powered fraud support assistant from prototype to production, focusing on low-latency distributed architecture, rigorous evaluation/testing, and security/compliance. Comfortable in customer-facing and GTM contexts—runs technical demos/workshops, builds tailored pilots, and aligns sales/CS with engineering to close deals and drive adoption.”

Aashna Kunkolienker

Screened

Junior AI Engineer specializing in agentic workflows and ML platforms

San Ramon, CA2y exp

“Building a production LLM/agent system for a leading US dental provider that extracts rules from payer handbooks/portals and EDI 271 responses to validate and improve patient cost estimates. Combines GCP stack (BigQuery, GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI) with strong agent reliability practices (observability, validator agents, grounding, PII/hallucination guardrails, confidence scoring) and has led non-technical customer stakeholders on enterprise ServiceNow↔Aha sync and AI-powered enterprise search/summarization.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end AV operations automation and dashboarding platform for USC event operations, used daily to coordinate hundreds of live events. Delivered a React/TypeScript full-stack system integrating Smartsheet APIs with strong reliability practices (typed contracts, validation/fallbacks, safe rollouts) and experience with queue-based microservice patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQs, monitoring).”

Aakash Khepar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in agentic AI systems

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“AI/full-stack builder with hands-on experience shipping healthcare, career-tech, nonprofit, and fintech products, spanning speech AI, browser extensions, agentic RAG systems, and enterprise ML monitoring. Stands out for combining strong technical depth with measurable outcomes, including reducing clinical call WER from 26% to 3%, building safe tool-using agents with rollback/RBAC, and delivering zero-to-one multi-tenant platform features in ambiguous environments.”

“AI/ML practitioner with Northern Trust experience who has shipped production LLM systems (internal support assistant) using RAG, vector databases, orchestration (LangChain/custom pipelines), and rigorous monitoring/feedback loops. Also built AI-driven fraud detection/risk monitoring solutions in a regulated financial environment, emphasizing explainability (SHAP), audit readiness, and stakeholder trust through dashboards and clear communication.”

“Full-stack developer (Energywell) who led an internal admin dashboard end-to-end using React/Redux and a Go microservice, emphasizing performance (reduced calls, preload data) and maintainable architecture (modularity, refactoring, PR reviews). Also shipped a Redis-based caching whitelist feature in a fast-paced environment and helped implement a responsive, brand-configurable onboarding/signup frontend.”