Vetted XGBoost Professionals

“LLM-focused customer-facing engineer who repeatedly takes document Q&A and agentic prototypes into secure, monitored production systems. Experienced in reducing hallucinations via RAG + guardrails, diagnosing retrieval/embedding issues in real time, and partnering with sales to run metrics-driven PoCs that overcome accuracy/security objections and drive adoption.”

“Data engineer with eBay experience owning end-to-end pipelines for real-time order and user behavior analytics at 10M+ records/day. Strong in PySpark/SQL transformations, Airflow reliability patterns, and production observability (CloudWatch), with measurable outcomes including improved data quality and 30–40% query performance gains. Also built Python data APIs for analytics/ML consumers with versioning and backward compatibility.”

Travoy Spelling

Screened

Senior Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and NLP

Texarkana, TX10y exp

“ML/NLP engineer focused on production GenAI and data linking systems: built a large-scale RAG pipeline over millions of support docs using LangChain/Pinecone and added a LangGraph-based validation layer to cut hallucinations ~40%. Also built scalable PySpark entity resolution (95%+ accuracy) and fine-tuned Sentence-BERT embeddings with contrastive learning for ~30% relevance lift, with strong CI/CD and observability practices (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana).”

Byron Pineda

Screened

Staff/Lead Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, NLP/LLMs, and MLOps

Pascagoula, MS10y exp

“Lead Data Scientist (10+ years) with recent work in healthcare data: built production pipelines that unify EHR, genomics, and clinical notes using NLP (spaCy/BERT/BioBERT) and scalable Spark-based processing. Also led development of domain-specific LLM/NLP systems for chatbots and semantic search, deploying models via FastAPI/Flask and improving retrieval with FAISS-backed, fine-tuned clinical embeddings and RAG-style workflows.”

Ranganayak Meravath

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in RAG, agentic copilots, and regulated AI

5y exp

“Senior engineer who built and productionized an Azure-based Enterprise AI Copilot for financial/compliance teams, focused on grounded, auditable answers with citations to reduce hallucinations in regulated workflows. Experienced designing multi-step agent orchestration and improving reliability through targeted iterations (e.g., fixing chunking/parsing to materially improve citation accuracy), plus building defensive pipelines for messy ERP/operational finance data.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning Amazon IMDb and Northeastern’s NeuroJSON portal, combining consumer product work with complex scientific data applications. Built IMDb’s streaming providers feature—described as the company’s most impactful feature of 2023—and has hands-on experience with React/Angular, GraphQL, AWS, Python services, and production monitoring.”

“Built end-to-end LLM/RAG systems for biological data and scientific literature analysis in a drug discovery setting, helping researchers explore disease insights and treatment hypotheses faster. Combines applied GenAI product work with strong production engineering, including monitoring, retrieval optimization, reusable Python services, and scalable deployment on AWS/Kubeflow.”

“Internship experience building a production LLM-powered podcast operations agent that automated lead intake (HubSpot), guest research, scheduling (Calendly), meeting-summary evaluation (Gemini), and human approval via Slack bot—while retaining rejected candidates for future outreach. Also contributed to ideation of a multi-agent orchestration framework with parsing and task routing, and emphasized reliability via structured prompts, HITL feedback, and prompt-based test sets.”

“Built and deployed a production healthcare medical review agent that automates call-transcript summarization and medication reconciliation using a hybrid deterministic + LangGraph-orchestrated LLM workflow. Demonstrates strong reliability engineering (guardrails, schema validation, confidence thresholds, golden/adversarial eval, Langfuse monitoring) in a regulated environment, delivering 60% lower latency and 70%+ efficiency gains while partnering closely with care managers and operations.”

“AI/LLM engineer at Capital One who deployed a production RAG-powered fraud analysis and document intelligence platform using LangChain, OpenAI, Pinecone, Kafka, and AWS. Focused on reliability in real-time investigations via hybrid retrieval, schema-validated outputs, and LLM verification loops, reporting review-time reduction from hours to minutes and ~99% fraud detection precision.”

“Built and productionized a RAG-based analytics Q&A assistant for a financial analytics team, enabling natural-language querying across 200+ datasets (SQL tables, PDFs, compliance docs, wikis) and cutting turnaround time by 60%. Deep experience delivering regulated, audit-ready LLM systems on Azure (Azure OpenAI + LangChain) with strict grounding/citations, hybrid retrieval, and AKS-based low-latency deployment, plus strong collaboration with compliance analysts and auditors via iterative Gradio demos.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based multi-agent chatbot during an internship to help consultants answer client questions and guide users through new IT systems with step-by-step instructions. Demonstrates hands-on experience with LangGraph/LangChain/Google ADK, unstructured document parsing and chunking for RAG, and a reliability-first approach to agent workflows (metrics, fallbacks, human-in-the-loop, guardrails).”

“ML/LLM engineer building production, real-time fraud detection for financial transactions using a two-tier architecture (fast ML + GPT) to deliver both low-latency decisions and analyst-friendly risk explanations. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end retraining, drift monitoring, and automated model promotion with Databricks Jobs/Workflows and MLflow, and partnering closely with fraud analysts to tune alerts, thresholds, and dashboards.”

“ML/LLM practitioner with production experience building a healthcare review sentiment pipeline (RateMDs) using Hugging Face Transformers plus a LangChain+FAISS RAG layer for interactive querying. Also led orchestration-driven optimization of Nike’s Fusion ETL pipeline, improving runtime efficiency by 20%, and has experience translating ML outputs into Tableau dashboards for non-technical healthcare stakeholders (e.g., readmission risk).”

“Built an "AskMyVideo" system that turns YouTube videos into queryable knowledge graphs by transcribing audio (Whisper), chunking and embedding content, and enabling traceable answers back to exact timestamps. Strong in entity resolution (rules + fuzzy matching + TF-IDF/cosine with PR-curve thresholding) and modern retrieval stacks (FAISS, hybrid dense/sparse, domain fine-tuning with ~12% precision gain), with a production mindset using Airflow/Prefect, Docker/FastAPI, and LangSmith/Prometheus/Grafana observability.”

“Worked on payments and wallet transactions, with an emphasis on observability and root-cause analysis. Delivered end-to-end A/B testing optimization and implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD automation that reduced manual implementation to 35% and cut deployments to ~2 minutes, with attention to operational considerations like on-call/call rotations.”

Shanmukha Koganti

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in recommender systems and edge computer vision

Bay Area, CA6y exp

“ML/AI engineer with production experience at Shopify and Intel, building a deep learning product ranking system that lifted add-to-cart ~14% and serving real-time similarity search via FAISS+Redis under <20ms latency at massive scale. Also deployed computer vision models to 100+ retail edge locations using Docker/Ansible/k3s with zero-downtime rollouts, and applies strong MLOps practices (A/B testing, canary/shadow, observability) plus performance optimization (OpenVINO, INT8).”

Pratima Singh

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech, cloud microservices, and blockchain

Tempe, AZ10y exp

“Python/ML engineer with strong DevOps depth: built an end-to-end regime-aware stock prediction system (custom fine-tuned FinBERT sentiment + technical/macro features) delivering a 12% accuracy lift. Also implemented Kubernetes/Helm + Jenkins/GitHub Actions pipelines (including GitOps-style workflows for multi-cloud Hyperledger Besu) and improved deployment speed/stability by ~50% while addressing race conditions and image drift.”

Amit Sharma

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI/LLM platforms, payments, and healthcare systems

San Francisco, CA25y exp

“Engineering player-coach who recently shipped an agent-based workflow to extract key info from unstructured web data (browser agents + CDP) and populate daily digests/calendars, owning architecture through testing. Also built a Flask-based LLM evaluation and regression testing system using G-Eval/Confident AI dashboards, and applies a rigorous, research-driven approach to selecting third-party tools with stakeholder buy-in; has healthcare ops/onboarding workflow experience at Vivio Health.”

“Built and owned end-to-end production systems for a healthcare platform, including a predictive task recommendation feature (React + FastAPI + ML on AWS ECS) that cut backlog 20% and saved coordinators ~10 hours/week. Also productionized an AI-native RAG system (vector DB + LLM) delivering 40% faster query resolution, and led phased modernization of a monolithic FastAPI service into async microservices using feature flags and canary releases.”

“Backend-focused AI engineer with enterprise experience building startup-style internal products at JPMorgan Chase. He helped create an AI-powered financial research platform for analysts, leading retrieval and multi-agent orchestration work that cut research prep from hours to under 20 minutes while scaling across large volumes of SEC filings and earnings transcripts.”

“Frontend engineer with experience building real-time trading operations dashboards in React and TypeScript, focused on dense operational data, performance tuning, and maintainable component design. They have production experience optimizing large-data UIs and academic exposure to map-based weather applications using Google Maps and Mapbox, while currently requiring future H-1B sponsorship.”

“Built a production LLM-powered RAG agent for healthcare/insurance operations that retrieves and summarizes patient medical documents with grounded citations, scaling to ~4.5M records. Addressed medical shorthand and terminology by fine-tuning ~120 lightweight DistilBERT models by specialty and validating entities against SNOMED/RxNorm, while using SHAP/LIME and human-in-the-loop review to make decisions explainable to stakeholders.”