Vetted XGBoost Professionals

“AI/ML engineer who shipped a production blood-test report understanding and personalized supplement recommendation product, using a LangGraph multi-agent pipeline on AWS serverless with OCR via Bedrock and RAG over vetted clinical research. Also built end-to-end recommender system pipelines at ASANTe using Airflow (ingestion, embeddings/features, training, registry, batch scoring/monitoring) with KPI reporting to Tableau, with a strong focus on safety, evaluation, and measurable reliability.”

“Data science/AI intern at University at Buffalo Business Services who built and deployed production systems spanning classic ML and LLM assistants. Delivered real-time competitor intelligence for a Cornell-partnered, $1B beverage launch by scraping/cleaning 5,000+ SKUs and deploying models via API, then built a domain-aware LLM assistant to modernize Excel-based workflows with strong grounding, privacy controls, and sub-5s latency.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a startup data-processing backend (Express.js/MySQL) handling millions of user data points, with a microservices pipeline integrating multiple social media APIs. Emphasizes reliability and security through comprehensive testing, robust error/retry handling for sequential pagination constraints, and tight IAM/JWT/OAuth-based access controls.”

“ML engineer with hands-on experience taking a Gaussian Process Regression-based intelligent survey timing system from build to real-world deployment, including a 3-week RCT on 120 participants and measurable improvements (15% response rate, 23% data quality). Also served as a key technical resource at CData for customer-facing demos and debugging hundreds of production issues, bridging engineering with Sales and Customer Success.”

Serge Alhalbi

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Robotics & AI Engineer specializing in autonomous systems

Tulsa, OK4y exp

“Robotics software engineer with deep ROS2 experience who owned the perception stack for an automated C. elegans manipulation system—building YOLO-based worm segmentation plus OCR label reading and integrating it into a MoveIt2 pipeline with real-time latency constraints. Also deploying ROS2 on an AgileX Tracer with ZED depth camera for vision-based person following and working on SLAM/sensor fusion, with additional production-style ML deployment experience (Dockerized FastAPI + PyTorch on AWS EC2 with CI/CD).”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems end-to-end, including a note-taking product (Notey) combining audio/image capture, ASR, summarization, and a semantic chat agent over past notes. Also has applied ML experience in healthcare, collaborating directly with doctors to validate an EEG seizure-detection pipeline, and uses Kubernetes to optimize GPU usage for LLM training.”

Diya Wadhwani

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in MERN, AWS, and secure authentication

4y exp

“Application-layer full-stack engineer who has shipped enterprise-facing integrations and developer tooling, including an end-to-end Slack integration for automated ticket creation and a real-time feature-flag dashboard (React/TS + GraphQL/Apollo + NestJS) with audit trails. Has hands-on AWS container operations experience (ECS Fargate/ALB/RDS) and has improved product performance (35% faster dashboards) while building auth and RBAC for 500+ users.”

“Hands-on LLM/RAG engineer with production experience improving retrieval quality and stability by addressing messy data, vector DB inaccuracy, and top-K issues—ultimately redesigning to hybrid search with tuned keyword/semantic weighting and MCP-based data supplementation. Also brings strong AKS/Kubernetes deployment experience, optimizing CI/CD speed via lightweight local Docker validation and decomposing pods to avoid full rebuilds, plus a metrics-driven approach to agent/workflow testing and traceability.”

“AI Engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered conversational scheduling assistant (rules-based + OpenAI GPT agents) and improving responsiveness by ~40% through architecture optimization. Strong in orchestration (Airflow), containerized deployments, and data quality (Great Expectations/PySpark), with prior work automating population health reporting pipelines (Azure Data Factory → Snowflake) and delivering insights via Tableau to non-technical stakeholders.”

Tejas Belakavadi Kemparaju

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend, microservices, and ML systems

Newark, NJ3y exp

“Primary designer/implementer/maintainer of an open-source JavaScript library for programmatic SSML generation and validation in text-to-speech pipelines. Focused on safety-by-default APIs with vendor-specific extension adapters, strong backward compatibility/deprecation practices, and measurable performance gains by removing redundant validation stages. Emphasizes developer experience through example-driven documentation and systematic community issue triage.”

Sakethram Marpu

Screened

Junior Investment Analyst specializing in AI & DeepTech

Bengaluru, India2y exp

“VC-style founder sourcer who uses technical signals (GitHub) and niche communities (Elpha/Indie Hackers/Discord) to identify early-stage opportunities, including thesis-driven sourcing in applied AI infrastructure/observability from YC W24. Emphasizes value-first LinkedIn outreach and long-horizon relationship building (e.g., built a personal relationship with Snitch’s CTO who later reached out first about a new startup).”

“Senior AI/ML engineer with hands-on experience building production LLM systems in healthcare, including RAG-based clinical question answering and end-to-end MLOps on Vertex AI and Kubernetes. They combine strong platform engineering with applied GenAI work, citing a 35% improvement in factual accuracy and a 30% boost in internal team productivity through modular Python services and CI/CD.”

Sri Mounika Jammalamadaka

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and data platforms

Fairfax, VA6y exp

“Built and helped deploy a production RAG-based LLM assistant for HVAC anomaly diagnostics, partnering closely with field engineers and operations teams to make AI outputs trustworthy in real workflows. Stands out for practical post-launch optimization work—improving retrieval quality, reducing hallucinations, and stabilizing non-deterministic behavior—which contributed to roughly a 40% reduction in diagnosis time.”

“AI Engineer at Humanitarian AI who has built and productionized both a LangGraph-based multi-agent workflow system and a RAG pipeline (OpenAI embeddings + vector DB) with rigorous evaluation/guardrails. Reports strong measurable impact (60% faster workflow delivery, 40% fewer incidents, 70% reduced research time) and has prior enterprise modernization experience at Infosys migrating ETL to microservices with zero production incidents.”

“Backend engineer who has designed and evolved high-traffic event/activity management systems using Node/Express and PostgreSQL, prioritizing scalability and reliability with a layered architecture. Has led zero-downtime refactors/migrations using parallel runs, dual writes, and rigorous validation/monitoring, and brings a security-focused API approach (JWT, RBAC/ABAC, rate limiting, DB-enforced tenant/RLS filters).”

“Built and deployed an agentic RAG platform at Centene Health to support healthcare claims and complaints workflows (Q&A for claims agents, executive complaint summarization, and compliance triage/classification). Experienced in LangChain/LangGraph orchestration, production deployment on AWS with FastAPI/Docker/Kubernetes, and implementing HIPAA-compliant guardrails to reduce hallucinations and ensure explainable outputs.”