Vetted Education Professionals in the Greater Phoenix

“Robotics software engineer working on GNSS-denied UAV localization using 5G PRS (OpenAirInterface + USRP B210) and multi-sensor fusion, with a published AIAA SciTech 2026 result achieving 1.5m RMSE on low-cost hardware. Also integrating a Vision-Language-Action model (SmolVLA) onto the Stretch 2 platform for language-assisted manipulation, leveraging ROS 2, imitation learning data collection with RGB-D, and simulation in Gazebo/MuJoCo for sim-to-real deployment.”

Prithvi Jai Ramesh

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Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in AI, perception, and autonomous navigation

Tempe, AZ1y exp

“Robotics software engineer with 2+ years of ROS/ROS2 experience who built a mobile robot stack from scratch (Fusion 360 → URDF → ROS) and integrated teleop, SLAM, and navigation. Worked in an ASU lab applying deep learning for person tracking on a TurtleBot setup, and solved real deployment issues like Raspberry Pi video-stream latency via compression and on-board processing. Also reports experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins) and Kubernetes.”

Yash Dorshetwar

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Junior Data Science and AI professional specializing in Python, machine learning, and analytics

Tempe, AZ2y exp

“Built AI-EDU, an AI/LLM-powered learning platform created for a Technology Entrepreneurship class that predicts student engagement and generates personalized learning insights. Emphasizes strong data preprocessing/feature engineering on noisy student data, and has experience operationalizing workflows with basic Airflow/Prefect plus reliability practices (edge-case testing, metrics, logging, guardrails) and stakeholder-friendly dashboards/summaries.”

Annie Suzan Edwin Arokiaraj Caroline

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and data pipelines

Tempe, AZ1y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building distributed data and API platforms (Kafka + Neo4j on Kubernetes), including processing 3M+ NYC taxi trip records and achieving sub-second graph analytics queries. Strong focus on reliability and performance in Python/FastAPI systems—async refactors, caching, timeouts/retries, feature-flagged rollouts, and JWT/RBAC security for production services.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on SLAM, ROS2, and distributed multi-robot systems experience. Improved MAST3R-SLAM loop-closure place recognition by changing the ASMK/ASMKS retrieval similarity metric (L2→L1) and validated on 9 TUM sequences, keeping near real-time performance despite a 25–30% retrieval cost increase. Also tuned MoveIt motion planning for a 6-DOF arm (12% higher maze completion rate) and built MQTT mesh communications for ESP32-based AMRs, using Gazebo+Docker and CI-style automation for reproducible testing and deployment.”

“Robotics engineer focused on simulation, modeling, and control, with hands-on sim-to-real experience from a soft, foldable “grasshopper” robot where friction/contact physics and servo dynamics drove real-world performance gaps. Built a ROS 2 voice-operated TurtleBot system integrating YOLOv5 + stereo depth for object picking with an attached arm, and debugged AMCL/SLAM to cut localization error from 10–13 cm to ~5 cm. Currently developing a quadruped in MuJoCo with a 3-layer control stack (RL + MPC + PD) and an RL training pipeline in JAX ahead of hardware.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with hospitality tech experience who owned and scaled a multi-region guest verification/check-in workflow (ID/passport scanning, OCR, and government submissions) and built internal tools that cut manual entry up to 80%. Also built a React/TypeScript + FastAPI RAG “second brain” with async ingestion workers and an event-driven e-folio email microservice hardened with idempotency and retries.”

“AI/backend-focused builder who has shipped two distinct applied AI products: a game discovery platform with vector search + RAG chat, and an AI accounting platform for small businesses. Stands out for combining product discovery with hands-on system design, including sub-100ms retrieval performance, privacy-conscious financial workflows, and measurable impact like 58% compute-time reduction and support for 24,000+ user profiles.”