Vetted XGBoost Professionals

Alankrit Srivastava

Screened

Intern Data Engineer specializing in Snowflake pipelines and AI/ML analytics

Houston, TX3y exp

“Built and operated an end-to-end TypeScript/Node AI agent platform for high-volume financial data that generates explainable investment signals and automates execution via resilient Playwright browser automation. Uses Postgres + pgvector/Prisma for RAG retrieval, Redis for async orchestration, Zod-based boundary validation as a circuit breaker, and OpenTelemetry for tracing/latency monitoring; also designed a TypeScript SDK with semver, scoped bearer-token auth, CLI key rotation, and interactive Swagger docs.”

Hari Billa

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in machine learning, NLP, and healthcare AI

USA3y exp

“Senior data scientist with hands-on ownership of production ML and GenAI systems across enterprise churn, clinical Q&A, and real-time fraud detection. Stands out for combining strong MLOps discipline with measurable business impact, including $2M+ retained revenue, 10K TPS low-latency fraud infrastructure, and a clinician-reviewed RAG system that improved retrieval accuracy by ~38%.”

Ruturaj Dixit

Screened

Junior Data Scientist specializing in AI/ML and product analytics

New York, NY2y exp

“Applied ML/data scientist who has owned backend-heavy AI systems end-to-end, including a market-signal platform on FastAPI/AWS and rapid MVP delivery in medical computer vision. Particularly interesting for teams needing someone who can combine model development, backend APIs, production debugging, and pragmatic low-latency architecture decisions.”

SREYAS GANGJI

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML backend systems

Chicago, IL4y exp

“AI/data engineer at ZS Associates focused on production-grade agentic systems, FastAPI microservices, and cloud-native ETL/RAG pipelines at significant scale. They’ve built multi-agent validation and diagnostic workflows inspired by their Copilot/KUBEPILOT AI work, supporting 500K+ records per day while improving ML inference performance by ~30% and cutting manual troubleshooting by 60%.”

Nidhip Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack development

United States3y exp

“Backend Java engineer with strong platform/DevOps experience: modernized an insurance claims legacy monolith into DDD-aligned microservices, deployed containerized services on Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and static analysis gates, and implemented GitOps using ArgoCD. Also led major AWS migration planning with dependency mapping and network monitoring to uncover hidden dependencies, and built Kafka-based real-time event streaming with schema-registry-driven evolution.”

“AI Backend Engineer in MetLife’s claims technology group who built and deployed a production LLM-based decision support system that helps claim adjusters quickly find relevant policy rules from long PDFs and historical notes. Designed it as multiple production-grade services with retrieval-first guardrails, continuous validation, and Airflow-orchestrated pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, and vector index updates to keep the system reliable as policies and data evolve.”

“Built a production RAG-based healthcare chatbot to retrieve patient medical documents spread across multiple platforms, reducing manual and error-prone searching. Implemented semantic search with custom embeddings (Hugging Face) and Pinecone, deployed via FastAPI/Docker on AWS SageMaker with MLflow tracking, and optimized fine-tuning cost using LoRA while orchestrating retraining pipelines in Airflow.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG system for enterprise document search and decision support, cutting manual lookup time by 40%+. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect for ingestion and incremental reindexing, with a strong focus on reliability (testing, observability) and stakeholder-driven metrics.”

“Built and deployed a production AI “term explainer” agent that adapts explanations to beginner/intermediate/expert users by combining multi-step LLM reasoning with grounded Wikipedia retrieval. Owns end-to-end agent orchestration (smolagents/Python), reliability patterns (fallback across LLM providers, retries, guardrails), and observability/metrics-driven evaluation; also partnered with a non-technical researcher to deliver a plain-language research assistant agent.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped a production RAG-based technical documentation assistant (FastAPI) cutting manual review by 45%, with deep hands-on retrieval optimization in Pinecone/LangChain (HNSW, hybrid + multi-query search, caching). Also brings healthcare domain experience—building Airflow-orchestrated EHR pipelines and delivering FDA-auditability-friendly predictive maintenance solutions using SHAP/LIME explainability surfaced in Power BI.”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building a compliant RAG-based virtual assistant at Intuit, optimizing embeddings and FAISS retrieval (including PCA) for low-latency, privacy-controlled search and deploying via AWS SageMaker containers. Also built scalable Airflow+MLflow pipelines using Docker and KubernetesExecutor, cutting training cycles by 37%, and partnered with civil engineers/project managers at Aegis Infra to deliver predictive maintenance for construction equipment.”

“Backend/data engineer who builds Python (FastAPI) data-processing API services for internal analytics/reporting, emphasizing modular architecture, async performance tuning, and reliability patterns (health checks, retries, observability). Also migrated legacy on-prem ETL pipelines to Azure using ADF/Data Lake/Functions and implemented a near-real-time ingestion flow with Event Hubs plus watermarking to handle late events and deduplication.”

“AI Engineer Co-Op at Northeastern University who built a production Patient Persona Chat Bot to help nursing students practice clinical interactions, fine-tuning Llama 3 and integrating a LangChain + Pinecone RAG pipeline deployed on Amazon Bedrock. Emphasizes clinical accuracy and reliability with guardrails, retrieval filtering, and continuous evaluation, and also brings strong data engineering/orchestration experience (Airflow, EMR/PySpark, ADF, dbt, Databricks, Snowflake).”

“LLM/GenAI engineer who built a production AI-powered credit risk policy summarization and compliance alerting platform at HCL Tech, focused on factual accuracy and auditability for a financial client. Implemented a multi-retriever LangChain RAG architecture with citations-only prompting, fallback agents, and human-in-the-loop legal review—cutting manual review time by 35% and scaling to 12 teams.”

“AI/NLP-focused practitioner who built a zero-/few-shot LLM event extraction system on the long-tail Maven dataset, combining prompt-structured outputs with LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning and rigorous F1 evaluation. Also implemented entity resolution/data cleaning pipelines and embedding-based semantic search using Sentence-BERT + FAISS, and has healthcare experience delivering a multilingual speech/translation mobile prototype using HIPAA-compliant Azure Cognitive Services.”

“Built and launched “Language AI,” a Next.js/TypeScript app that clones a user’s voice (via ElevenLabs) to deliver language lessons in their own voice, using Supabase for auth/Postgres/storage and hosting backend on Render. Post-launch, identified ElevenLabs voice-clone limits after initial users and reworked the pipeline to store audio assets and delete clones to support more concurrent users; also added Google auth to improve adoption. Previously worked in a high-growth startup environment (Study Park) taking concepts from ideation to production.”

Santhoshi Priya Sunchu

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP and predictive modeling

Massachusetts, USA5y exp

“AI/ML practitioner in healthcare/insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield) who built and deployed a production NLP system to classify patient risk from unstructured clinical notes. Experienced in end-to-end pipeline orchestration (Airflow, AWS Step Functions/Lambda/SageMaker) and real-time optimization (BERT to DistilBERT on AWS GPUs), with strong clinician collaboration to drive adoption.”

Surya Danturty

Screened

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in computer vision and time-series forecasting

Riverside, CA0y exp

“Undergrad who built a production RAG chatbot for a messy college website using OpenAI embeddings + FAISS, overcoming hard-to-crawl/non-selectable site content and strict API budget limits. Applies information-retrieval best practices (section-based chunking with overlap, precision/recall evaluation) and reliability techniques (edge-case testing, similarity thresholds, fallback responses), and has experience scaling similar indexing work to ~300,000 Wikipedia pages.”

Farida Poor

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and multimodal transformers

Bay Area, CA3y exp

“Built and deployed LLM-powered agentic chatbot and text-to-SQL systems using LangGraph/LangChain (and Bedrock), structuring workflows as DAGs with planning/replanning and validation to improve tool-calling reliability and reduce hallucinations. Operates production feedback loops with online/offline metrics, drift detection, and LangSmith-based evaluation pipelines, and regularly partners with business stakeholders and clinicians using slide decks and visual charts.”

“Built and shipped a widely adopted, production-grade RAG internal search assistant that unified scattered engineering knowledge, deployed as a FastAPI service on Kubernetes with FAISS + LangChain. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval tuning (chunking, hybrid search, re-ranking) and in making LLM workflows reliable in production via guardrails, monitoring, and evaluation, plus strong cross-functional delivery with non-technical operations teams.”

“Founding/early engineer experience across Asante and a Series A startup (Adgency), shifting from data science/ML into owning production full-stack systems end-to-end. Built core product flows (registration, business profiles, map service), AWS-deployed gRPC microservices with CI/CD, and operated low-latency agent/video ad generation workflows with retries/fallbacks and PostHog-based observability.”

“Data analyst with cross-industry experience spanning insurance analytics at L&T Infotech and experimental imaging analytics at Mylyser. Stands out for building scalable SQL/PySpark data pipelines, standardizing business-critical metrics like claims lifecycle and policy retention, and delivering measurable impact such as 50%+ faster query performance and a 15% reduction in claims settlement time.”

David Alvarado

Screened

Junior Business Analyst specializing in data analytics and BI

Orlando, FL3y exp

“Analytics candidate with insurance domain experience at Chubb, combining strong SQL/Python data engineering for claims reporting with business-facing metric design in Power BI. Also built an MLB game outcome predictor that beat Vegas implied probabilities using public data, showing strong product thinking and applied modeling ability beyond standard BI work.”

“Built end-to-end AI products across fintech and healthcare, including a real-time loan risk prediction system and a patient feedback insights platform. Stands out for combining full-stack delivery, production ML/MLOps on AWS, and pragmatic human-in-the-loop safeguards; reported a 22% improvement in prediction accuracy.”