Vetted Education Professionals

Edgar GranadosOsegueda

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Researcher specializing in kinodynamic motion planning

Rutgers, USA7y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on real-time estimation/control and motion replanning, currently integrating a factor-graph-based estimation/control stack with sampling-based replanning in a ROS environment validated on both MuSHR hardware and MuJoCo simulation. Strong in distributed-system debugging (rosbags/logging, controlled test scenarios) and ROS performance patterns (nodelets, TF/TF2), with prior multi-robot experience from SSL RoboCup using custom UDP protocols.”

Hari Chandana Kasula

Screened

Entry Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and recommender systems

New York, NY0y exp

“Built and shipped an end-to-end podcast recommendation system exposed via a Flask API and React UI, explicitly balancing relevance, diversity (MMR), and safety constraints while meeting ~200ms latency targets. Also implemented a production-style RAG/information-extraction pipeline using web retrieval, spaCy NER, and fine-tuned SpanBERT with guardrails and evaluation loops (precision/recall/F1) to tune confidence thresholds and improve reliability.”

“Analytics professional with experience spanning HSBC and the University of Buffalo, combining banking risk/portfolio analytics with reproducible Python and SQL reporting workflows. Stands out for cleaning complex multi-source data, standardizing business metrics across dashboards, and delivering measurable impact including an 80% reduction in manual reporting and an estimated GBP 1.2M profit contribution from scorecard redevelopment.”

“Built a Flask-based web application for NCAA Men's gymnastics and also worked on a survey-question collection and normalization project for UC Berkeley's Cameron Institute. Shows a clear reliability mindset through validation, testing, logging, and error handling, and is comfortable turning ambiguous, messy data workflows into stable applications.”

“Robotics software engineer with autonomous driving lab experience at UCSD, building and optimizing ROS2 perception and control pipelines (camera-based real-time object detection) with a strong focus on low-latency performance and robust message interfaces. Also brings production deployment experience from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, using Docker and Kubernetes for containerized environments and deployment pipelines.”

“Robotics engineer with a 2024 internship building an end-to-end software stack for an autonomous humanoid robot that follows natural-language audio commands to make coffee and deliver snacks, including perception (OpenCV), mapping, and ROS Navigation. Also contributing to a robotics foundation model effort by building data preprocessing pipelines using GroundingDINO and SAM2, and has multi-robot coordination experience with algorithms designed to handle real-world communication drops.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher with hands-on real2sim experience for deformable manipulation: led real-world data collection and diffusion policy deployment on an Aloha robot, then built a MuJoCo + Gaussian-splat digital twin with point-cloud alignment. Also brings 3 years of production software engineering experience, including Docker/CI/CD and a zero-downtime Blue-Green upgrade of a core API router, plus ROS/ROS2 work spanning autonomous vehicles and UR20 pick-and-place with MoveIt2.”

“Research-focused AI engineer who built an agentic pipeline to automatically extract Sphinx-based API documentation/changelogs and generate synthetic tasks for a dynamic LLM code benchmark targeting real-world API evolution and deprecations. Experienced with multi-agent orchestration (AutoGen, LangChain, CrewAI) and rigorous evaluation methods, and has prior multi-agent work from a Microsoft Research internship.”

“Chief of Staff at DataDome and Onna (founding-team experience) who built executive operating cadences, planning processes, and finance-backed dashboards to drive alignment across fast-scaling orgs (200+ global). Led major transformations including a single-product to multi-product platform shift (improving retention and enabling new market entry) and a sales-led to product-led (PLG) transition, and managed fundraising from Seed through Series B with outside counsel.”

“Operations leader/consultant for early-stage, VC-backed and fast-growth companies with hands-on experience spanning NetSuite finance ops, product prioritization, and People Ops/HR systems. Notably overhauled internal communications at a Bay Area home health company by centralizing to HIPAA-compliant Slack integrated with ClickUp, driving ~30% faster project completion and ~25% higher retention, using ADKAR-based change management and rigorous adoption tracking.”

“Infrastructure-leaning engineer who has built real-time ML systems end-to-end: a Jetson-deployed adaptive Whisper ASR service (Flask + WebSockets, React/TS UI) and a high-throughput Postgres schema for live transcription. Also delivered customer-facing AI billing/OCR improvements for a dental startup (Dentite), boosting OCR performance by 38%, and has experience instrumenting open-source ML deployment stacks to add infrastructure visibility.”

Barath Kumar Jayachandran Kanchanamalini

Screened

Junior Robotics & Controls Engineer specializing in UAV autonomy and embedded systems

New York, NY1y exp

“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.”

Manasa Mangipudi

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and computer vision

3y exp

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered resume-to-job matching and feedback product using RAG, with a strong focus on latency, hallucination control, and scalable deployment. Experienced orchestrating ML inference and backend services on Kubernetes and applying rigorous evaluation/guardrail practices; also partnered with business/product stakeholders at Walmart to improve an NLP-based supplier support system.”

Yui Chang

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Engineer specializing in autonomous navigation, SLAM, and MPC control

Ann Arbor, MI5y exp

“Autonomous marine surface algorithms engineer at CURLY contributing across the full autonomy stack in ROS 2 (C++/Python), from GNSS-IMU InEKF localization (100 Hz) and GTSAM object-level SLAM to semantic mapping and A*/Lie-group MPC planning/control. Strong focus on real-time optimization for constrained embedded hardware, with disciplined debugging/validation using ros2_tracing, rosbag2 replay, and Gazebo, and reproducible deployment via Docker/CI.”

“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.”

“UCLA RoMeLa research assistant (since Oct 2025) building an embedded control and sensor-data platform for multi-robot coordination in a simulated warehouse. Deep hands-on experience with ROS on NVIDIA Jetson under RTOS constraints, secure MQTT/TLS telemetry, and SLAM performance optimization (including ORB-SLAM3) validated in Gazebo and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD.”

“Autonomous robotics student who built an end-to-end ROS2 semantic goal navigation system as a solo course project, integrating CLIP-based vision-language understanding with SLAM Toolbox and Nav2 to execute natural-language commands in Gazebo/RViz. Also implemented and tuned an RRT planner from scratch in Python and uses Docker plus GitHub workflows for reproducible, tested robotics codebases.”

“Robotics software contributor with hands-on experience building a Gazebo/ROS(2) Mars rover simulation integrating LiDAR and image segmentation for autonomous navigation and SLAM (Nav2). Comfortable debugging low-level sim/model integration issues (URDF/XML) and building sensor-data pipelines, and has also shipped a real-world telemetry setup streaming vibration data over UDP with packet-loss mitigation.”

“Cornell master’s student (CS/Stats) focused on research-heavy ML projects: implemented a sparsity-driven RL approach (DAPD + Soft Actor-Critic) that maintained stable learning even with ~95% of weights removed in OpenAI Gym continuous-control tasks. Also worked on diffusion-based computer vision with conditioning and latency-focused U-Net choices, and scaled unsupervised community detection on a 50k-node/800k-edge Reddit graph via BFS subgraph sampling.”

“Built and owned "Cortex," an AI agent that helps users understand large GitHub repositories by mapping architecture and relationships between files/folders in minutes. Implemented an agentic, multi-stage prompt decomposition approach and validated it across open-source repos, while also doing legacy service modernization work involving dependency upgrades and refactors.”

Shao Rong Su

Screened

Senior AI Research Engineer specializing in LLM agents and predictive maintenance

5y exp

“At Delta Electronics, partnered with automotive firmware teams to productionize an LLM-based coding assistant for identifying safety standard violations and generating bug-fix guidance. Built an agentic workflow with stepwise context extraction, similarity search, and a separate judge model for scoring reasoning/retrieval, and drove internal adoption through pain-point discovery and tailored technical demos using real firmware code.”

Jackson Dike

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in Machine Learning and AI

Remote1y exp

“Master’s-level candidate with an academic project portfolio, including ownership of a Python-based video game recommendation system using unsupervised clustering. Has hands-on experience designing the system approach and validating recommendation quality with test cases, plus teaching assistant experience instructing Git/GitHub workflows; limited exposure to Kubernetes, GitOps, and large-scale infrastructure.”

Daniel Wahab

Screened

Junior Embedded/Robotics Software Engineer specializing in autonomous drones

Ithaca, NY2y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on simulation-heavy development, recently building a 6-robot swarm in Gazebo with custom terrain and per-robot A* path planning while researching PSO-based swarm algorithms. Experienced with ROS 2 multi-node communication patterns and autonomous drone simulation using ArduPilot (ap_dds), with a track record of debugging real-time behavior issues through disciplined isolation and incremental testing.”

Samikshya Satpathy

Screened

Mid-level UI/UX & Product Designer specializing in e-commerce and enterprise SaaS

Ann Arbor, MI4y exp

“Product/UX designer with large-scale consumer and omnichannel experience across Nykaa and Swiggy (100M+ users), combining deep research with high-polish UI and scalable design systems. Demonstrated measurable business impact across ops efficiency (1500 hrs/year saved), app quality (4.3→4.8 rating), and e-commerce conversion (48% uplift), and has owned a growth pod while collaborating closely with UA/growth and engineering.”