Vetted Software Development Engineers in Illinois

Jacqueline Zhang

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, fairness, and healthcare ML

Illinois, USA4y exp

“ML/NLP practitioner with a master’s thesis focused on domain-adaptive knowledge distillation for LLMs (LLaMA2/sheared LLaMA), showing improved perplexity and ROUGE-L on biomedical data. Also built real-world data linking and search systems: integrated ClinicalTrials.gov with FAERS using fuzzy matching + embeddings, and delivered an LLM-powered FAQ recommender at Hyperledger using sentence-transformers, FAISS, and fine-tuning to mitigate embedding drift.”

Rohit Vibhu Channananjundarya

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and full-stack platforms

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Engineer who treats AI as a force multiplier rather than a replacement for judgment, with hands-on experience using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Codex across planning, coding, testing, and review. Particularly notable for building a multi-agent PR review system that automated summarization, risk scanning, schema validation, and test suggestions, helping the team shift reviewer time toward architecture and business logic.”

Prashant Salunke

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”

“Pragmatic AI-focused builder who uses tools like ChatGPT and Claude to accelerate development while maintaining strict review, testing, and architectural ownership. Has hands-on experience designing lightweight multi-agent workflows, including a RAG-style system with separate retrieval and response roles, and approaches new AI trends through direct experimentation rather than hype.”

“Built and shipped LLM-enabled decision systems focused on real production reliability rather than chatbot demos, including a multimodal radiology retrieval platform with 28% relevance gains and 35% lower latency. Also architected a 4-agent employee analytics workflow with structured outputs, traceable orchestration, and strong safeguards for messy real-world data.”