Vetted XGBoost Professionals

“Built and deployed a GPT-4-powered medical assistant for clinical staff to reduce time spent searching guidelines and EHR information, with a strong emphasis on safety and compliance. Uses strict RAG, confidence thresholds, and fallback behaviors to prevent hallucinations, and runs production-grade workflows orchestrated with LangChain/LangGraph plus Docker/Kubernetes/MLflow and monitoring for reliability and cost.”

“Built a production real-time anomaly detection platform for high-frequency trading at HSBC, using a streaming stack (Pulsar + Spark Structured Streaming + AWS Lambda) and a transformer-based model combining time-series and numerical signals. Experienced in MLOps and safe deployment (Kubernetes, canary releases, MLflow/Grafana monitoring) and in aligning model performance with risk/compliance expectations through SLA-driven tuning and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“ML/NLP engineer who built a RAG-based technical assistant for Caterpillar field engineers, transforming PDF keyword search into intent-based semantic retrieval across manuals, logs, sensor reports, and technician notes. Strong in productionizing data/ML systems (Airflow, PySpark) with rigorous preprocessing, entity resolution, and evaluation—delivering measurable gains in accuracy, relevance, and duplicate reduction.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM system that scraped Google Maps menu photos, extracted structured prices via OpenAI, and cross-validated them against website-scraped data to automate data-quality verification at scale (replacing costly manual contractor checks). Demonstrates strong reliability instincts—precision-first prompting, output gating with image-quality metadata, and fuzzy matching/RAG techniques—plus solid orchestration (Dagster/Airflow) and observability (Sentry, Prometheus/Grafana).”

“Applied NLP/ML in healthcare and financial services, including fine-tuning BERT on unstructured EHR text and building embedding-based similarity search for clinical concepts. Also redesigned a Wells Fargo fraud detection data pipeline using modular Python + AWS Glue/Step Functions, cutting runtime ~40% with improved monitoring and reliability.”

“AI/ML engineer at Cigna Healthcare building a production, HIPAA-compliant LLM-powered clinical insights platform that summarizes unstructured medical notes using a fine-tuned transformer + RAG on AWS. Demonstrates strong end-to-end MLOps and cloud optimization (distillation, Spot/Lambda/Auto Scaling) with quantified outcomes (~28% accuracy lift, ~40% less manual review, ~25% lower ops cost) and strong clinician-facing explainability via SHAP and dashboards.”

“Currently at Huntington Bank, built a production-grade RAG system that helps business/operations teams get grounded answers from large volumes of internal enterprise documents. Owns ingestion and FastAPI backend, tuned hybrid BM25+vector retrieval and chunking for relevance, and evaluates reliability with metrics and observability (LangSmith, CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana) while partnering closely with non-technical stakeholders.”

Cristian Vega

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG

California, null9y exp

“ML/NLP practitioner at Morf Health focused on unifying fragmented healthcare data by linking structured patient/encounter records with unstructured clinical notes. Has hands-on experience with transformer embeddings, vector databases, and domain fine-tuning, plus rigorous evaluation (precision/recall) and human-in-the-loop validation with clinical SMEs to make pipelines production-grade.”

Nikitha Kommidi

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection, NLP, and MLOps

6y exp

“Built a production real-time fraud detection and customer-support automation platform at Citibank, tackling extreme class imbalance (reported ~1:5000) and strict latency constraints. Combines hands-on MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow; Snowflake/Spark/S3 integrations; CI/CD model promotion) with cross-functional delivery to Risk & Compliance focused on interpretability and reducing false positives.”

Kasireddy Kumar reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare, fraud detection, and recommender systems

Missouri, USA6y exp

“Healthcare-focused applied ML/LLM engineer who has deployed production systems including an LLM medical documentation assistant that summarizes unstructured EHR notes into physician-ready structured outputs. Experienced building secure, compliant pipelines (PHI minimization, RBAC, encryption) and scaling via Docker/Kubernetes/Azure ML, plus orchestrating ETL/ML workflows with Airflow and Kubeflow; also built an LLM-driven clinical coding assistant at Centene with measurable performance metrics.”

Fnu Pallavi Sharma

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in ML, NLP, and MLOps for healthcare and enterprise AI

Madison, WI1y exp

“Built a production multi-cloud LLM-driven IT ticket automation system using LangGraph, Azure + Pinecone RAG, and an Ollama-hosted LLM on AWS, with Terraform-managed infra and PostgreSQL audit/state tracking for reliability. Also partnered with UW School of Medicine & Public Health students to deliver a glioma survival risk-ranking model, translating clinical feedback into practical pipeline improvements (imputation, site harmonization) and stakeholder-friendly visualizations.”

shivapriya pillalamarri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial analytics and production ML systems

Boston, MA4y exp

“Analytics candidate with experience in financial transaction and fraud detection projects, combining SQL data preparation, Python-based automation, and dashboarding. They have owned projects from stakeholder alignment and metric definition through rollout, with emphasis on reducing false positives, improving operational efficiency, and making analytics outputs easy for business teams to adopt.”

Pavan Punna

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and healthcare-fintech AI

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Built and owned a production GPT-4 RAG assistant for clinical and enterprise query resolution, taking it from initial experiment to deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Their work cut resolution time from 45 minutes to under 2 minutes, achieved roughly 95% accuracy, and scaled to thousands of additional monthly queries while emphasizing safety and trust in a sensitive clinical domain.”

“ML/AI engineer with production experience at S&P Global and Accenture, focused on regulated, enterprise-grade systems. Built end-to-end financial risk and credit default models with >90% precision and 12% fewer false positives, and is currently developing secure RAG pipelines on AWS SageMaker for enterprise insight extraction.”

“ML/AI engineer at PNC who has shipped enterprise-grade RAG and document intelligence systems for compliance and policy workflows. Stands out for combining LLM product thinking with production rigor—owning FastAPI/Kubernetes deployments, monitoring, evaluation, and human-feedback loops that drove measurable gains like 40% faster policy search and 30% faster compliance review.”

premkumar narla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG, and enterprise ML systems

Chicago, IL5y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience at Morgan Stanley building production fraud detection and enterprise RAG systems. Stands out for owning systems end-to-end—from experimentation and deployment to monitoring and iteration—and for delivering measurable impact, including an 18% reduction in fraud false positives, 40% lower inference latency, and internal tooling that reduced model deployment time from days to hours.”

“Wayfair ML/AI engineer who has shipped and operated production LLM systems for both internal analytics and customer-facing assistants. Stands out for combining strong RAG/retrieval engineering with production-grade platform work—improving trust, reducing latency by ~30%, and cutting ad hoc reporting demand by ~50%.”

“LLM/agentic systems practitioner who specializes in moving demo-only assistants into reliable, observable, cost-controlled production services. Strong in real-time diagnosis of complex agent workflows (including tracing, loop detection, and guardrails) and in customer-facing enablement—running workshops, building tailored PoCs, and partnering with sales to close deals by proving reliability in high-risk pilots.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a Python/FastAPI results API and deployed it on Kubernetes with Helm and GitHub Actions-driven CI/CD. Demonstrates strong production operations mindset across performance tuning, monitoring, safe rollouts/rollbacks, and phased migrations, plus hands-on Kafka streaming experience focused on ordering and idempotency.”

“Verizon engineer who productionized an LLM-based personalization capability for a customer-facing digital platform, owning the path from success metrics through scalable APIs, A/B validation, and post-launch monitoring (latency/accuracy/drift). Experienced in diagnosing and fixing real-time LLM/RAG workflow issues under peak load, and in enabling adoption via tailored technical demos/workshops and sales support materials.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on ROS 2 localization/SLAM: built a particle-filter (Monte Carlo) localization system in Python with likelihood-field modeling to handle noisy LiDAR and dynamic environments. Strong in debugging ROS 2 integration issues (tf2 frame sync, DDS/QoS message reliability) and in profiling/optimizing pipelines to reach real-time performance (~10 Hz) using precomputation and KD-trees.”

“Built and productionized a HIPAA-compliant LLM+RAG Clinical AI assistant at Optum, fine-tuning GPT/LLaMA on de-identified patient notes and integrating FAISS/Pinecone for sub-second retrieval; reported to cut diagnosis time by ~20 minutes per case. Experienced in orchestrating ML pipelines (Airflow, AWS Step Functions, Azure Data Factory) and in reliability techniques for LLM systems (grounding, citations, confidence filters, monitoring) while partnering closely with clinicians and compliance teams.”

“AI/ML engineer with healthcare domain depth who led a HIPAA-compliant, production LLM system at McKesson to automate clinical document understanding—extracting entities, summarizing provider notes, and supporting authorization decisions. Hands-on across Spark/Python ETL, Hugging Face + LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, RAG, and cloud-native MLOps (Airflow/Kubernetes/Step Functions, MLflow, blue-green on EKS/GKE), with explicit work on PHI handling and hallucination reduction.”