Vetted Web Scraping Professionals

Yash Priyadarshi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure

Bengaluru, India2y exp

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer who built a Golang distributed key-value store on AWS using Multi-Paxos, WAL, and non-blocking gRPC replication (cutting write latency ~40%) and proactively addressed tricky failure modes like leader-election livelock. Also developed a Python/Kubernetes cost-optimization scaling engine deployed with Helm/Terraform, delivering ~$40K annual savings while sustaining 99.99% uptime, and drives contract-first API development (OpenAPI/Swagger) to speed frontend integration.”

“Engineering Manager/player-coach leading Data Infrastructure, ML/DS, and AI Engineering pods who recently shipped multiple production agentic GenAI features. Built privacy-preserving LLM workflows (PII redaction via Microsoft Presidio) and drove an AI expense-approval agent from ambiguous ask to GA, cutting approval time from ~2.5 days to <4 hours with >85% accuracy. Also owned a major LLM cost overrun incident and implemented cost observability plus circuit breakers to prevent runaway agent loops.”

“Data engineer focused on reliable, scalable analytics pipelines and external data collection. Has owned end-to-end pipelines processing 5–10M records/day, serving Snowflake data marts to Power BI/Tableau, and reports ~99% reliability through strong validation/monitoring. Also shipped versioned REST APIs for curated data with query optimization and caching.”

“Built an NYU software engineering capstone called “Smart Cash AI,” a multi-agent LLM-powered web app that curates offline-ready podcasts/articles/videos/news based on user preferences and commute schedules. Architected agent orchestration (discovery/downloader/summarizer), real-time progress via WebSockets, and an ETL normalization layer across RSS/YouTube and other sources with GUID-based deduplication, retries, and failure isolation to keep the system predictable.”

Kunal Kulkarni

Screened

Intern AI/ML Researcher specializing in computer vision and data engineering

Palo Alto, CA1y exp

“Built a production-oriented multimodal RAG "Fix Assistant" with FastAPI, Tavily search, BM25 + cross-encoder reranking, and a local Phi-3.5 model, emphasizing strict grounding and fallback/verification modes to prevent hallucinations. Also has hands-on federated learning experience using STADLE to orchestrate edge-node training and aggregation for EV telemetry data, plus experience communicating AI results to non-technical stakeholders (traffic RL/congestion outcomes).”

Hadi Jaffery

Screened

Junior Data Engineer specializing in Snowflake and investment data platforms

Boston, MA3y exp

“Private markets/private credit data engineer owning core Snowflake/AWS data infrastructure (S3 → ActiveBatch → Snowflake) with automated iceDQ quality checks and curated datasets for internal Power BI/React reporting. Drove major reliability and delivery improvements, including cutting DB CI/CD deploy time 50% and reducing downstream table errors by 90%+, and also built an internal React/FastAPI app to visualize the team’s data infrastructure in an ambiguous early-stage environment.”

“Data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines processing a few million records/day, using Python/Airflow/SQL/PySpark with Snowflake serving to BI (Power BI). Built resilient external web data collection systems (anti-bot, schema-change detection, backfills) and shipped versioned REST APIs for internal consumers, improving pipeline success rates to 99% through monitoring, retries, and idempotent design.”

“Data engineer focused on reliability and data quality, owning end-to-end pipelines processing ~100k–300k records/day. Implemented robust validation and monitoring that cut reporting issues by ~30%, and built stable external data collection with anti-bot measures, backfills, and schema-change detection while maintaining backward-compatible internal data services.”

“Lead engineer/designer behind The Washington Post's internal live-tracker tooling and election coverage interfaces. They combine cloud architecture, frontend/data-viz craftsmanship, and close newsroom stakeholder collaboration to ship real-time, high-traffic journalism products that improved internal efficiency and supported major audience and subscriber outcomes.”

“Early-stage investor from Manchester Stories with a strong sourcing engine, generating 500-600 deals per year through referrals, events, thematic research, and AI-driven stealth startup discovery. Particularly differentiated in private payer healthcare and founder relationship-building, with examples of converting value-add outbound outreach into investments through hands-on market guidance and rigorous diligence.”

“Built and deployed LLM-powered agentic systems including a multi-agent travel planning assistant using LangChain, RAG (FAISS), real-time APIs, and a supervisor agent to manage coordination and reduce hallucinations. Also developed a Text-to-SQL system with schema-aware validation guardrails, and collaborated with drilling domain experts at CNPC USA to build an ML model predicting rate of penetration (ROP).”

“Built a production, agentic multi-agent pharmaceutical intelligence system for US oncology (breast cancer) conference/news intelligence, automating MSL-style information gathering and summarization for pharma and healthcare stakeholders. Uses CrewAI + LangChain orchestration, custom scraping across ~15 pharma newsrooms, and a grounding-score evaluation approach (sentence transformers/cosine similarity) to mitigate hallucinations.”

“At Dreamline AI, built and productionized an AWS-based incentive intelligence platform that uses Llama-2/GPT-4 to extract eligibility rules from unstructured state policy documents into structured JSON, then processes them with Glue/PySpark and serves results via Lambda/SageMaker/API Gateway. Designed state-specific ingestion connectors plus schema validation and automated checks/alerts to handle frequent policy/format changes without breaking the pipeline, and partnered with business/analytics stakeholders to deliver interpretable eligibility decisions via explanations and dashboards.”

“ML practitioner with hands-on experience in healthcare time-series modeling (CGM-based blood glucose prediction) including a novel ICA-based blind source separation approach and robust data-cleaning for noisy, missing sensor data. Also built an embeddings + LLM-powered podcast recommendation workflow using YouTube transcript scraping and Vellum AI document indexing, with a strong emphasis on production-grade engineering practices (TDD, monitoring) and realistic rolling validation for forecasting.”

“Backend/API engineer with ~4 years experience building production services in .NET Core/PostgreSQL/Redis/Docker and optimizing real-world latency issues (claims ~60% response-time improvement). Also built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI assistant using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and Pinecone, plus agentic workflows with reliability guardrails (retries, confidence thresholds, monitoring). Currently pursuing a master’s degree and targeting a $150k base salary.”

Yuvraj Singh Chauhan

Screened

Entry-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and DevOps automation

Bangalore, India1y exp

“Built and owned a production-scale AI-driven software release/version intelligence platform orchestrated via GitHub Actions that tracks 1000+ upstream repositories and automatically generates SLA-bound JIRA upgrade tickets for hardened container images. Replaced brittle regex/PEP440 parsing with an LLM-based semantic filtering layer plus deterministic validation to handle noisy/inconsistent GitHub tags at scale, with monitoring for coverage, latency, and correctness validated against upstream ground truth.”

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade pipelines and external data collection systems on AWS (S3/Lambda/SQS/Glue/EMR) using PySpark/SQL, serving curated datasets to Snowflake/Redshift for finance and fraud teams. Has operated a large-scale crawler ingesting millions of records/day with anti-bot tactics, schema versioning/quarantine, and CloudWatch/Datadog monitoring, and also shipped a versioned REST API with caching and query optimization.”

“Data/ML platform engineer with healthcare (Cigna) experience owning an end-to-end pipeline spanning Airflow + Debezium CDC ingestion, PySpark/SQL transformations, rigorous data quality gates, and feature-store/API serving for ML training and inference. Worked at 10+ TB scale and cites a ~30% latency reduction plus stronger reliability via idempotent design, monitoring, and backfill-safe reprocessing; also built pragmatic early-stage data pipelines at Frankenbuild Ventures.”

“Data engineer/platform builder who has owned production pipelines end-to-end processing millions of records/day, with strong emphasis on data quality (quarantine workflows) and reliability (monitoring, retries, incremental loads). Also designed large-scale external data collection/crawling with anti-bot handling and backfills, and shipped versioned REST data services optimized for performance and developer usability in an early-stage environment.”

Sujith Julakanti

Screened

Junior MLOps Engineer specializing in LLMs and cloud infrastructure

College Station, TX3y exp

“Built a production multimodal LLM system (Gemini on GCP) to automate behavioral coding of family-involved science experiment videos, including preprocessing for inconsistent lighting/audio and LangGraph-orchestrated parallel workflows. Also developed rubric-based AI grading workflows and partnered closely with non-technical education stakeholders through explainability-focused walkthroughs and manual-vs-AI evaluation alignment.”

Shweta Gupta

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices, Kafka, and AWS

Seattle, WA6y exp

“AI engineer who shipped a production chat assistant for a storage company by building the underlying RAG-style knowledge base (document ingestion, chunking/embeddings, FAISS vector store) and an admin update interface to keep content current. Also has full-stack delivery experience (Python REST APIs + React/TypeScript UI) and AWS operations using Terraform/Jenkins, including handling a real production performance incident by optimizing DB queries and adding auto-scaling.”

Akhilesh Babu Tumati

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native and AI-integrated systems

3y exp

“Built and deployed a Virginia Tech CS department blog/archive application using a MERN/Next.js stack and a fully serverless AWS architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, Route 53), including CI/CD via the Serverless Framework. Implemented RBAC for student/faculty/admin users and added an article export feature backed by MongoDB.”

Nikitha Margadi

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud lakehouse, streaming, and MLOps

Texas, USA5y exp

“Data engineer at AT&T focused on large-scale telecom (5G/IoT) data platforms, owning end-to-end pipelines from Kafka/Azure ingestion through Databricks/Delta Lake transformations to serving analytics and ML. Has operated at very high volumes (~50+ TB/day) and delivered measurable performance gains (25–30% faster processing) plus improved reliability via Airflow monitoring, robust data quality checks, and resilient external data collection patterns (rate limiting, retries, dynamic schemas).”

“Candidate approaches AI-assisted coding like a senior developer supervising junior contributors: they define precise technical requirements, enforce code quality and documentation, and review outputs before approval. They also actively lead multi-agent workflows using OpenClaw and a Kanban-style AI project management setup, coordinating both coding and non-technical agents.”