Vetted Vertex AI Professionals

“AI Engineering Intern at The Etherloop building the backend for a healthcare lifestyle recommendation app, including a multi-agent RAG-based system that uses curated SME data plus web search to generate personalized supplement recommendations from user lifestyle details and blood biomarkers. Evaluates against 500+ SME ground-truth profiles with ranking metrics and focuses on HIPAA-aligned deployment, privacy/security, and guardrails to reduce hallucinations and unsafe outputs.”

“Data/ML engineer in financial services (Northern Trust) who built a production RAG-based LLM system to connect structured transaction/portfolio data with unstructured market and internal documents for risk teams. Strong in end-to-end pipelines (AWS Glue/Airflow/PySpark), entity resolution, and taking models from prototype to reliable daily production with performance tuning (LoRA + TensorRT) and monitoring.”

“Built and productionized an internal GenAI chatbot that makes company policy/SOP knowledge instantly searchable, using a secure RAG architecture on AWS (Bedrock/Titan embeddings/OpenSearch Serverless, Textract/Lambda/S3 ingestion, Claude 3 Sonnet). Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, Step Functions with Lambda/Glue/SageMaker) and a rigorous reliability approach (RAGAS metrics, A/B testing, citation validation, monitoring), including collaboration with compliance stakeholders via review dashboards.”

Shane Weinstock

Screened

Senior Data Scientist & Product Analytics Leader specializing in ML and experimentation

Austin, TX17y exp

“Aspiring founder with ~15 years of experience across varied backgrounds, motivated by frustration with slow, change-resistant large organizations and a desire to bring innovative ideas to market. Familiar with how venture capital/accelerators function (though not directly worked in them) and expresses strong willingness to take entrepreneurial risks.”

Siva Pothuru

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and cloud-native ML

San Antonio, TX5y exp

“LLM/agent engineer at USAA who built a production GPT-4o RAG conversational assistant for financial analysts, focused on regulatory interpretation and internal documentation search. Emphasizes compliance-grade reliability with strict grounding, safe fallbacks, and full auditability via MLflow/DVC plus human-in-the-loop review; reports ~45% reduction in ticket resolution time.”

“Backend engineer with insurance/claims domain experience who modernized legacy claims processing systems to support AI-assisted claim review. Emphasizes production-ready API design in Python/FastAPI (schemas, async, caching, graceful degradation), strong observability with Prometheus, and layered security including JWT auth plus database row-level security (Supabase/Postgres).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered support assistant for customer support agents using a RAG architecture over internal docs and past tickets, with human-in-the-loop review. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering focused on real-world constraints (hallucinations, latency, cost) using routing to smaller models, reranking, caching, and rigorous evaluation/monitoring (offline eval sets, A/B tests, KPI tracking).”

“ML engineer/data scientist who deployed a production credit risk + insurance claims triage platform at Hartford Financial, combining XGBoost default prediction with BERT-based document classification. Demonstrated strong MLOps by cutting inference latency to sub-500ms and building drift monitoring plus automated retraining/deployment pipelines (MLflow, CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, SageMaker) with human-in-the-loop review and SHAP-based explainability for underwriting adoption.”

SREEJA REDDY Konda

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, MLOps, and predictive analytics

Kentwood, MI6y exp

“AI/ML Engineer at Fifth Third Bank who has shipped production fraud detection and risk analysis systems combining ML models with LLM-powered insights/explanations, including real-time monitoring, drift detection, and automated retraining under regulatory explainability constraints. Also built a hybrid-retrieval internal knowledge-base QA system (+20% top-5 relevance) and delivered a customer support chatbot that reduced first response time by 30% through strong stakeholder collaboration.”

sai Pavan

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and real-time ML pipelines

5y exp

“Built a production, real-time insurance claims document-understanding and fraud-detection pipeline using TensorFlow + fine-tuned BERT, deployed on AWS (SageMaker/Lambda/API Gateway) with automated retraining via MLflow and Jenkins. Addressed noisy documents and latency using augmentation and model distillation (3x faster), cutting claims ops manual review by ~50% and reducing fraudulent payouts.”

Sai Bandaru

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in fraud detection and LLM systems

Boston, MA6y exp

“At FiVerity, built and deployed a production LLM/RAG-based Information Gathering Tool for credit union fraud analysts that generates auditable investigation summaries from verified evidence. Focused on high-stakes constraints—hallucination prevention, cross-entity leakage controls, compliance/PII-safe monitoring, and latency—while also shipping customer-facing agentic workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph in close partnership with fraud and compliance stakeholders.”

“Built and shipped production AI features for Aiden, including a natural-language agent and a Knowledge Hub ingestion/retrieval system. Stands out for hands-on debugging of real LLM production issues across providers like OpenAI and AWS Bedrock, improving reliability and achieving 90% response/retrieval consistency through direct LiteLLM integration, validation, monitoring, and async system design.”