Vetted Education Professionals in Texas

“Hospitality entrepreneur who founded and launched Hotel Lucine, a hotel resort in Galveston, TX, raising approximately $30M and opening in 2023. Led the venture end-to-end—from business model and investor pitches to entity structuring, deal docs, design/construction (including acting as primary general contractor), and ongoing operations spanning service standards, finance/capital strategy, brand, and event bookings.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a smart loan approval workflow for a Goldman Sachs hackathon (React/Node/Express/Postgres) including KYC handling, reviewer queues, and an ML-based pre-scoring/auto-reject step. Also has Amazon internship experience driving a customer-facing long-polling change that reduced empty requests by 84%, and demonstrates strong system design depth in real-time voice + LLM streaming architectures.”

“Robotics engineer who built a 6-axis force-torque sensor system end-to-end at ROAM Lab, including electronics, low-level drivers, and ROS2 live inference with time-series deep learning (ultimately a 1D ResNet) to handle highly noisy, session-shifting signals. Also upgraded tactile manipulation models to time-series inputs by modifying long-standing ROS architectures, and has prior experience in defense (L3Harris) with production-grade testing and code review practices; published work: arxiv.org/abs/2410.03481.”

“Robotics software engineer who led an end-to-end learning-based UAV controller project, addressing oscillation issues through simulation, gain tuning, and a shift to geometric control. Has ROS experience spanning UAV mocap-based perception and an autonomous driving stack (LiDAR, mapping, AMCL, controller), plus real-world distributed ROS communication over WiFi with performance troubleshooting.”

“Capgemini engineer with 4+ years building and deploying high-availability, low-latency fraud detection APIs and multi-cluster distributed systems for a Fortune 20 bank, including zero-downtime production rollouts and multi-layer (SQL/network/hardware) performance debugging. Also built a Python + OpenAI/LangChain LLM-powered grading workflow for Austin School for Women, cutting feedback time from 90 minutes to 5 minutes per submission for 200+ learners.”

“Growth creative/performance marketer from BYJU'S (India) who runs disciplined creative experimentation across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Notably shifted messaging from feature-led to outcome/testimonial-led creative, delivering CPA down 27%, ROAS up 35%, and +11% trial-to-paid conversion, and has experience leading a small creative pod (editors + writer) with a rapid-iteration production system.”

“Master’s student and Deep Learning teaching assistant who teaches LLM/VLM fine-tuning (including LoRA) and built a Hugging Face LLM fine-tuned for unit conversion, improving reliability by analyzing synthetic data and filling missing number-system conversion examples. Also implemented the Raft consensus protocol using gRPC in a distributed systems course with correctness validated by unit tests.”

“Master’s CS candidate with backend internship experience modernizing live operational workflows at NatWest/NetWess, focusing on reliability improvements, safer CI/CD deployments, and incremental refactors using feature flags and rollback paths. Built FastAPI-based APIs with strong security patterns (JWT + 2FA/TOTP, centralized authorization, RLS) and demonstrated attention to edge cases like idempotency and data consistency in a Netflix-clone project.”

“ML/NLP practitioner focused on knowledge-graph-based retrieval for LLM question answering, including an urban/autonomous-vehicle decision-making use case. Built a hierarchical GraphRAG + vector database system and an entity-resolution pipeline that blends spatial and semantic similarity, validated using LLM-generated synthetic datasets; uses Python tooling like RDFLib, GraphDB, OpenAI APIs, and LangChain.”

“Worked at AMD on Vivado tool releases, focusing on adding and integrating new IP/SoC functionality into the Vivado flow and validating expected behavior through testing. Comfortable engaging with customers and open to travel for hands-on customer-facing work.”

“Former President/CEO who led MyGov through a successful acquisition, now on sabbatical building ncognait LLC—an AI-enabled app studio with one product launched (Taistful) and another in private beta (AIDONIS). Focused on startup CTO/founding roles and highly opinionated about using agentic coding to dramatically compress product development cycles and compete with larger incumbents.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience evolving and stabilizing rapidly growing systems using Python/FastAPI. Focuses on incremental refactors (vs. rewrites) to improve API consistency, performance, and debuggability, and has implemented production security patterns including JWT auth, RBAC, and row-level security.”

“Built a production multimodal LLM system (Gemini on GCP) to automate behavioral coding of family-involved science experiment videos, including preprocessing for inconsistent lighting/audio and LangGraph-orchestrated parallel workflows. Also developed rubric-based AI grading workflows and partnered closely with non-technical education stakeholders through explainability-focused walkthroughs and manual-vs-AI evaluation alignment.”

“Recent J&J intern who built a conversational RAG agent and led a shift from a monolithic model to a modular RAG workflow, cutting response time from several days to under a second by tackling data fragmentation, context retention, and embedding/latency optimization. Also worked on a large (7B-parameter) multimodal VQA pipeline for healthcare research and stays current via NeurIPS/ICLR and open-source contributions.”

“Robotics/AI candidate who built an AI-driven landmark location tool during a summer internship at Mobile Drive, combining YOLOv5 object detection with OpenStreetMap-based geolocation to handle dense, cluttered urban environments. Also researched deploying LLM-based agents on constrained hardware using quantization plus LoRA/continuous learning, improving accuracy from ~80% to ~92%, with an emphasis on production logging for reliability.”

“Research Assistant at the University of Houston who built and live-deployed a production RAG system for 1000+ research documents, using hybrid retrieval (dense+BM25+RRF) with cross-encoder reranking and RAGAS-based evaluation; reported 66% MRR, 0.85+ faithfulness, and 68% lower LLM inference costs. Also built a deployed LangGraph multi-agent research system (Researcher/Critic/Writer) with tool integrations (Tavily, arXiv) and dual memory (ChromaDB + Neo4j), plus freelance automation work delivering a WhatsApp chatbot and n8n workflows for a wholesale clothing business.”

“Recent McCombs School of Business (UT Austin) Post Graduate Program graduate in Data Science & Business Analytics with hands-on project experience spanning stock clustering/segmentation and hotel booking-cancellation prediction. Strong in end-to-end analysis workflows (EDA, cleaning, feature engineering) and rigorous model comparison/selection, with exposure to boosting methods and imbalanced-data techniques; limited experience so far with embeddings/vector databases and production deployment.”

“Built and shipped AI-powered workflow automation at Oracle, including an MCP-based agentic workflow with tool-calling and guardrails, plus Grafana monitoring and Confluence documentation. Also led a Django monolith-to-microservices migration at Chamsmobile using blue-green deployment and load balancer traffic splitting to avoid regressions while modernizing production systems.”

“Recent master’s graduate who led a team project building an LLM-based chatbot with RBAC-controlled information disclosure and a focus on reducing hallucinations. Also has hands-on embedded robotics experience (Arduino obstacle-avoiding robot using ultrasonic sensors) and practical DevOps/cloud deployment exposure with Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, and AWS (EKS/ECS/CodePipeline).”

“Robotics software candidate whose thesis focused on multi-robot warehouse coordination using MAPPO reinforcement learning, trained in simulation (LBF environment, Isaac Sim/RViz) and deployed onto three real-time robots. Built custom ROS 2 Humble nodes for multi-robot control with namespaces, TF broadcasting, and an RL pipeline integrating LiDAR odometry and camera observations.”

“Graduate researcher who builds production-grade AI systems spanning LLM security evaluation and on-device RAG. Created HoneyLearner, a self-learning attack framework using GPT-4-class models as structured black-box attackers against honeywords defenses, with rigorous metrics and reproducible orchestration (Airflow/Spark/Kafka/Docker). Also partnered with agriculture scientists at Texas A&M–Corpus Christi to deliver UAV + 3D point-cloud crop-stress maps that cut time-to-insight ~40% and enabled ~30% earlier interventions.”