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“Machine learning/NLP practitioner at J.P. Morgan who led development of a production RAG system and an entity resolution pipeline for complex financial data. Deep hands-on experience with embeddings (Sentence-BERT), vector search (FAISS/pgvector), LLM fine-tuning (LoRA/PEFT), and rigorous evaluation (human-in-the-loop + A/B testing) backed by strong MLOps on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes, MLflow, Prometheus/Datadog).”

“Partnerships/integrations leader with experience running multiple simultaneous ISV launches and executive-level cross-functional cadences. Created a CEO-backed, data-driven partner/integration prioritization scorecard that helped increase partnership revenue 13.5x, and has operated in high-confidentiality environments supporting major global product launches (Samsung).”

“Robotics engineering intern and mechanical engineering master’s student who bridges hardware testing and ML/ROS2 software: built a PyTorch model to map motor test data across motor types using electrical specs (Kv/Kt/R/L) and validated it against new motors to meet strict torque/thermal accuracy targets. Also integrated CNN-based perception into ROS2 for real-time navigation and implemented MPC with time-synchronized multi-topic messaging to avoid stale-data control issues.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered investor research feature for a fintech product, focused on grounded answers and minimizing hallucinations. Implemented retrieval-quality and evidence-coverage gating with clear refusal fallbacks, and evaluates systems with regression tests and metrics like correct-refusal rate, hallucination rate, and latency. Comfortable orchestrating workflows with LangChain or custom Python depending on production needs.”

“Built a hackathon "Patient Summary Assistant" backend focused on healthcare workflows, combining RAG-based summarization with HIPAA-minded privacy controls (NER redaction + encryption). Demonstrated strong infra skills by deploying on Kubernetes with Helm/HPA and GitOps (ArgoCD), plus migrating from OpenAI to an on-prem Llama 3 stack (vLLM, quantization, shadow-mode testing) and adding real-time Kafka ingestion for patient vitals/anomaly alerts.”

“Founding engineer for an AI product (“world’s first funny AI”) who designed and implemented the full-stack architecture (React/TypeScript + Node) and migrated production from Vercel to AWS. Shipped a Lambda-based image pipeline that eliminated lag/missing images and brought page load times to under a second, and has hands-on experience integrating multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok) with structured-output and self-check reliability techniques.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on autonomous drones and mobile robotics: implemented a sliding mode inner-loop controller and a RealSense T265 VIO state-estimation pipeline integrated into ArduPilot EKF3 for GPS-denied indoor flight. Strong simulation-to-deployment experience (Gazebo/MAVROS to firmware), ROS2 networking/debugging, and hands-on validation through multi-sensor trials and log analysis.”