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Parham Hamouni

RLHF Specialist
UTC-05:00
Canada
Toptal Member Since March 14, 2022

Parham is a senior LLM engineer and PhD researcher with 6+ years of shipping production AI systems across manufacturing, legal, and finance. At Toronto Metropolitan University, his PhD applies DPO and RLHF to temporal graph reasoning, achieving 83% pairwise accuracy and outperforming baselines by 12–15pp. In production, Parham works with RAG pipelines, fine-tuned transformers (FinBERT, Qwen, LLaMA-2), and full MLOps stacks. At Kraft Heinz, his RAG system cut troubleshooting time by 30%.

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Erfan Miahi

RLHF Specialist
UTC-05:00
Canada
Toptal Member Since October 5, 2026

Erfan trained in the RLAI Lab of Richard Sutton (Turing Award winner and a founding father of RL) and has collaborated with Google DeepMind. A reinforcement learning scientist and engineer with extensive experience, he owns LLM pre-training, post-training, and inference end-to-end. He co-authored Covenant-72B, history's largest decentralized LLM pre-training run, and created PULSE, now in Hugging Face TRL. His research has 260+ citations in venues such as EMNLP, AIJ, and TMLR.

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Raven Nicole Roberts

RLHF Specialist
UTC-05:00
United States
Toptal Member Since May 29, 2026

Raven is an ML engineer with three years of production experience building systems where the math actually has to work. She specializes in geometric deep learning, quantum ML, and physics-informed architectures, i.e., problems where off-the-shelf solutions don't fit and you need to build the right primitives from scratch. Comfortable across PyTorch, JAX, PennyLane, and embedded TinyML deployment, Raven also shipped ML systems for robotics and AI infra companies in Singapore and Vienna.

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Abdelkader Hannache

RLHF Specialist
UTC-05:00
Canada
Toptal Member Since April 24, 2026

Abdelkader is a penetration tester with a background in software engineering. He specializes in penetration testing, threat modeling, risk analysis, and secure web application and API design. Skilled in OWASP, secure code review, and black-box, grey-box, and white-box testing, he bridges the gap between attacker and developer perspectives. Abdelkader also builds security scanners and aligns designs with ISO 27002 and COBIT to deliver end-to-end protection against evolving threats.

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Sergio Berrospi Vergara

RLHF Specialist
UTC-05:00
Peru
Toptal Member Since June 2, 2026

Sergio is a senior data scientist with 6+ years of experience building end-to-end machine learning systems for business impact. He has delivered production recommender systems generating USD 27 million in incremental revenue, segmentation and propensity models lifting marketing ROI by 25%, and LLM-powered Text-to-SQL agents for complex data querying. He works across Python, SQL, Databricks, GCP, and TypeScript, and excels at translating analytical findings into measurable business outcomes.

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Amir Moghadam

RLHF Specialist
UTC-03:00
Brazil
Toptal Member Since September 30, 2025

Amir is an experienced AI/ML engineer with 10+ years of experience building production-grade AI and ML systems. He specializes in LLM-powered applications, RAG architectures, multi-agent workflows, and AI copilots across WhatsApp, web, and internal platforms using OpenAI, LangChain, and modern MLOps stacks. Amir has led high-impact initiatives in pricing, forecasting, and telemetry, delivering multi-million-dollar revenue and productivity gains through AI-native automation.

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Piotr Kuczynski

RLHF Specialist
UTC+01:00
Germany
Toptal Member Since February 19, 2016

Piotr is a highly motivated, proactive, and ambitious software engineer with outstanding technical skills and over 20 years of experience. As an entrepreneurial professional and Agile evangelist, he has a strong personality and experience managing international and distributed teams. Piotr specializes in web development, performance optimization, and architecture design and is interested in usability and slick user interface designs.

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Evgeniy Salskiy

RLHF Specialist
UTC+04:00
Armenia
Toptal Member Since April 6, 2026

Evgeniy is a senior machine learning engineer with 12 years of experience shipping production-ready systems. At Yandex, he guided a team of 10 to develop a real-time content classification platform processing millions of events per day and integrated LLMs into production, reducing annotation costs by 97%. Previously, Evgeniy also built anti-fraud and credit scoring systems in fintech from scratch, handling real-time inference, feature engineering on financial streams, and model monitoring.

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Muhammad Abubakar

RLHF Specialist
UTC+05:00
Pakistan
Toptal Member Since May 29, 2026

Muhammad is a full-stack developer with 6+ years of experience building high-performance web apps. He's strong in back-end systems, APIs, workflow automation, and AI integration, with hands-on experience using LLMs to solve real business problems. He's skilled in creating responsive, user-friendly solutions and collaborating across teams to deliver reliable products.

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Vikram Kaviya

RLHF Specialist
UTC+05:00
India
Toptal Member Since June 2, 2026

Vikram is a senior data scientist and ML engineer with 8 years of experience leading end-to-end AI initiatives. He specializes in LLM alignment (DPO, GRPO), custom LLM orchestration, and extreme multi-class classification (100,000+ categories). Backed by a strong data engineering foundation, Vikram excels in inference efficiency, deploying optimized generative models and scalable search solutions using vLLM, Triton, and Elasticsearch.

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Leonardo dos Santos Pinheiro

RLHF Specialist
UTC+10:00
Australia
Toptal Member Since July 4, 2019

Leonardo is a senior AI engineer with 10+ years of experience shipping production AI, including six years delivering engagements through Toptal. He specializes in LLM agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and LLM evaluation and LLMOps, working end-to-end from prototype to deployed services. At Microsoft, Leonardo built an LLM evaluation infrastructure. On recent Toptal engagements, he built RAG copilots and automated MLOps pipelines.

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Within days, we’ll introduce you to the right RLHF specialist for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
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  • Typically, you can hire RLHF specialists with Toptal in about 48 hours. For larger teams of talent or full end-to-end project delivery, timelines may vary. Our talent matchers are highly skilled in the same fields they’re matching in—they’re not recruiters or HR reps. They’ll work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics, and match you with ideal candidates from our vetted global talent network.

    Once you select your RLHF specialist, you’ll have a no-risk trial period to ensure they’re the perfect fit. Our matching process has a 98% trial-to-hire rate, so you can rest assured that you’re getting the best fit every time.

  • To hire the right RLHF specialist, it’s important to evaluate a candidate’s experience, technical skills, and communication skills. You’ll also want to consider the fit with your particular industry, company, and project. Toptal’s rigorous screening process ensures that every member of our network has excellent experience and skills, and our team will match you with the perfect RLHF specialists for your project.

  • At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our RLHF specialists to ensure we only match you with the highest caliber of talent. Of the more than 200,000 people who apply to join the Toptal network each year, fewer than 3% make the cut.

    In addition to screening for industry-leading expertise, we also assess candidates’ language and interpersonal skills to ensure that you have a smooth working relationship.

    When you hire RLHF specialists with Toptal, you’ll always work with world-class, custom-matched RLHF specialists ready to help you achieve your goals.

  • You can hire RLHF specialists on an hourly, part-time, or full-time basis. Toptal can also manage the project end-to-end based on your specific requirements as part of our Consulting and Services offerings. Whether you hire a RLHF specialist for a full- or part-time position, you’ll have the control and flexibility to scale your team up or down as your needs evolve. Our RLHF specialists can fully integrate into your existing team for a seamless working experience.

  • We make sure that each engagement between you and your RLHF specialist begins with a trial period of up to two weeks. This means that you have time to confirm the engagement will be successful. If you’re completely satisfied with the results, we’ll bill you for the time and continue the engagement for as long as you’d like. If you’re not completely satisfied, you won’t be billed. From there, we can either part ways, or we can provide you with another RLHF specialist who may be a better fit and with whom we will begin a second, no-risk trial.

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    Our talent network is composed of thoroughly vetted professionals who ramp up quickly, function as essential team members, and deliver results.

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    Our experienced talent matchers specialize in identifying talent that fits your needs. They work to understand your exact requirements and hand-select the best professionals for your project.

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    Seamless Hiring

    We handle all aspects of billing, payments, and NDAs, streamlining the hiring process so you can focus on innovation, not overhead.

  • No-risk Trial Period

    No-risk Trial Period

    We want to be sure your engagement is a total success, so we offer a no-risk trial period. Work with your new hire for up to two weeks and pay only if you’re satisfied.

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    Effortless Scaling

    We help you scale your team up or down as needed, with quick and efficient hiring in under 48 hours.

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    Flexible Engagements

    Our flexible engagement models allow you to choose the engagement type that suits your needs and adjust it anytime: hourly, part time, or full time.

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