Kavya Paluvai

“Data platform engineer focused on large-scale, real-time fraud systems, with hands-on ownership of streaming architectures using Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks. Stands out for combining performance tuning and platform automation with LLM/RAG-based enrichment, delivering measurable gains in latency, fraud accuracy, false positives, and analyst decision speed.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered decision system that replaced a slow, inconsistent manual review process by turning messy text into structured, auditable outputs behind an API. Demonstrates strong end-to-end ownership of reliability and operations (schema validation, retries/fallbacks, latency/cost controls, monitoring for drift) and a disciplined approach to evaluation and regression testing. Experienced collaborating with non-technical reviewers to define success criteria and deliver interpretable outputs that get adopted.”

Tolulope Akinlabi

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Cyber & Cloud Security Analyst specializing in AI/ML and cloud risk

Lanham, MD6y exp

“Built a production AI security compliance assessment system using the OpenAI API that ingests company policy documents, performs RAG over embeddings stored in Supabase/FAISS, and generates executive-level gap and maturity reports mapped to NIST CSF, SOC 2, and PCI DSS. Also developed a multi-agent trading assistant orchestrated with LangChain, combining live market data (Yahoo/Polygon.io), sentiment/technical indicators, LSTM-based forecasting, and LLM-generated recommendations.”

“Robotics engineer who helped bootstrap Meta’s humanoid robotics effort, building simulation training and deployment infrastructure for vision-language-action (VLA) models. Evaluated multiple physics backends (Bullet, MuJoCo, Isaac, internal) to minimize sim-to-real gap and addressed control-loop frequency mismatches via sequence optimization/MPC-like approaches and trajectory-output modifications. Published research that contributed a new addition to ROS 2 and has built ROS2 node stacks spanning control, perception, teleop, tactile sensing, and imaging.”