Vetted Education Professionals

Jeongeun Lee

Screened

Mid-level AI/Robotics Engineer specializing in autonomous systems and perception

San Diego, CA4y exp

“Robotics software engineer in an Autonomous Vehicle Lab building an end-to-end ROS 2 autonomous golf cart stack (sensor integration, SLAM, planning, and camera+LiDAR perception). Demonstrated strong systems-level debugging by fixing a FastLIO2 LiDAR timestamp/IMU-window issue that restored mapping quality, and stabilized real-time GigE camera perception by diagnosing backpressure and tuning ROS 2 QoS plus compressed transport.”

Divyansh Agarwal

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and LLM applications

New York, NY3y exp

“Built and led an autonomous driving software effort for Formula Student, owning the full autonomy stack (perception, planning, control) orchestrated in ROS. Implemented stereo depth + YOLO object detection, RRT/RRT* planning, and a robust SLAM pipeline (Kalman filter, submapping) while leveraging Gazebo simulation and modern deployment tooling (Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions CI/CD).”

Utkarsh Gupta

Screened

Junior Robotics & ML Engineer specializing in perception, navigation, and VLA models

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on AGV/AMR experience at ERIC Robotics, building ROS2-based LiDAR perception and localization on NVIDIA Jetson for real-time deployment. Improved unstable localization in challenging environments (e.g., tunnels/bushes along rail tracks) via scan-matching, filtering, and consistency checks, and cut latency by moving from rclpy to rclcpp and leveraging CUDA. Comfortable across the stack from simulation (MuJoCo/Isaac Sim/Gazebo, domain randomization) to deployment tooling (Docker, basic CI) and distributed ROS2/DDS systems.”

Dan Sorensen

Screened

Executive CISO specializing in cybersecurity strategy, AI governance, and enterprise risk

Denver, CO10y exp

“Founder of Nexus Security Advisors, an early-stage cybersecurity consulting firm focused on supporting small and mid-sized businesses with practical security needs. Brings cybersecurity leadership plus AI governance and compliance focus, and has experience designing and delivering hands-on cyber threat intelligence training by validating needs with leadership and partnering to build a practical curriculum.”

Kunal Mahato

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI, full-stack systems, and platform engineering

Virginia, USA6y exp

“Full-stack/AI engineer with experience spanning supply-chain product deployments, biomedical agentic search, and research-grade RAG evaluation. Stands out for owning customer-facing migrations at scale (including 216,000 historical shipments), building measurable LLM systems, and pairing AI experimentation with rigorous evals, rollout controls, and auditability.”

Spencer Stewart

Screened

Mid-level baseball development coach specializing in analytics and player development

San Francisco, CA7y exp

“Former high-achieving pitcher and collegiate club All-American who translated his playing background into professional development coaching and collegiate baseball analytics leadership. He combines lived baseball experience, Trackman-driven evaluation, and a trusted West Coast mid-major coach network to guide athletes on recruiting, development, and college decision-making.”

“Master’s robotics candidate at Northeastern (Silicon Synapse Lab) who built and tuned an NMPC for the M4 multi-modal morphobot to achieve high-speed (>10 m/s) aggressive flight maneuvers and even hover under a full rotor failure, using MATLAB/CasADi/Simulink/Simscape with IPOPT. Also has ROS/ROS 2 experience spanning SLAM/navigation on a UGV and GPS/IMU sensor-fusion + dead-reckoning with custom ROS 2 nodes/messages, with a strong simulation-first and real-time debugging approach.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI voice-driven calendar assistant using Python/Flask with a multi-agent architecture (CrewAI + OpenAI), including agent-specific memory management and summarization to handle token limits. Also has production performance optimization experience at Trendyol, adding Redis caching to speed up an advertisement retrieval endpoint and improve page load experience.”

Anthony Ngumah

Screened

Junior Embedded Software Engineer specializing in robotics, firmware, and AI-enabled systems

Boston, MA4y exp

“Robotics-focused engineer with co-op experience building and debugging embedded C++/Python drivers for time-of-flight sensing on a Flex Stacker product, plus automation of large-scale test data collection via Google Drive/Sheets APIs to enable parallel robot testing. Also has ROS2 sensor-driver experience (GPS/RTK/IMU with custom messages/ROSbags) and is building a side project integrating Whisper-based live transcription with chunked abstractive summarization in a latency-aware pipeline.”

Hamza Ahmed

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer and Full-Stack Developer

Fremont, CA1y exp

“Generalist troubleshooter with experience debugging across C (memory leaks with Valgrind), Python (bug tracing to meet deadlines), and VHDL (hardware-related issues), plus some exposure to production deployments and networking issue resolution. Has supported customers remotely and emphasizes calm, patient communication during incident resolution.”

“Robotics software candidate with experience spanning simulation (MuJoCo, Gazebo, Webots) and ROS1/ROS2 development, including hardware-oriented work on a hexapod and a Mecademic Meca500 R3 arm. Built a visually guided interactive indoor robot system using a CV pipeline plus POMDP + imitation learning with PPO-based residual RL, and has practical debugging experience improving LiDAR SLAM stability and migrating sensor interfaces from ROS1 to ROS2.”

“Built and deployed LLM-powered agentic systems including a multi-agent travel planning assistant using LangChain, RAG (FAISS), real-time APIs, and a supervisor agent to manage coordination and reduce hallucinations. Also developed a Text-to-SQL system with schema-aware validation guardrails, and collaborated with drilling domain experts at CNPC USA to build an ML model predicting rate of penetration (ROP).”

“Built an NYU software engineering capstone called “Smart Cash AI,” a multi-agent LLM-powered web app that curates offline-ready podcasts/articles/videos/news based on user preferences and commute schedules. Architected agent orchestration (discovery/downloader/summarizer), real-time progress via WebSockets, and an ETL normalization layer across RSS/YouTube and other sources with GUID-based deduplication, retries, and failure isolation to keep the system predictable.”

Anirudh Raghavan

Screened

Entry-level Computer Vision/Autonomy Engineer specializing in perception and object detection

West Lafayette, IN0y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 + Autoware perception experience, focused on building benchmarking infrastructure for object detection models inside a real-time autonomous driving stack. Strong in evaluation rigor (synchronization, deterministic playback, format standardization) and practical ROS2 debugging/validation workflows using RViz and Gazebo.”

Kaitlyn Silver

Screened

Junior HR analytics and business student specializing in people data and strategy

Atlanta, GA3y exp

“Early-career candidate and current college senior who serves as a TA for an entrepreneurship class, where they teach structured outbound sales methods. While they lack direct sales-role experience, they demonstrate unusually strong conceptual knowledge of cold calling, stakeholder mapping, qualification, and data-driven messaging optimization, plus hands-on performance marketing experience from running a social media account.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who led a major redesign of a hybrid streaming+batch analytics platform processing 10+ TB/day (Airflow/Hive/BigQuery) with strong data-quality automation. Also built a production RAG PDF assistant with concrete mitigations for hallucinations and prompt injection (re-ranking, grounding, verifier step) and has deep experience executing low-risk migrations (dual-write, blue-green, rapid rollback) and implementing JWT-based row-level security.”

“Robotics/AV engineer with strong ROS2 and autonomy stack integration experience, including bringing Autoware Universe up on a real Lexus autonomous vehicle platform. Also built a hierarchical reinforcement learning proof-of-concept for Boston Dynamics Spot (navigation + manipulation) and tackled sim-to-real challenges by implementing PD torque conversion for Jetson-based hardware; improved localization accuracy via GNSS+EKF fusion with a reported 28% drift reduction.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on ROS2 autonomy, with hands-on work building a monocular visual odometry system on KITTI (including GPS-based scale correction and RViz trajectory visualization) and an end-to-end Gazebo simulation integrating URDF, slam_toolbox, and Nav2. Demonstrates strong practical debugging skills around TF frames, lifecycle nodes, and Gazebo plugin/version compatibility.”

“Backend/API engineer with ~4 years experience building production services in .NET Core/PostgreSQL/Redis/Docker and optimizing real-world latency issues (claims ~60% response-time improvement). Also built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI assistant using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and Pinecone, plus agentic workflows with reliability guardrails (retries, confidence thresholds, monitoring). Currently pursuing a master’s degree and targeting a $150k base salary.”

Shivam Goel

Screened

Senior Robotics Researcher specializing in neurosymbolic robot learning and manipulation

Medford, MA9y exp

“Robotics software researcher who led a Boston Dynamics SPOT project on non-prehensile manipulation of heavy boxes, combining MuJoCo-based RL, ViT-based perception, and SPOT SDK control; the work is under review for ICRA 2026. Also built a ROS planning-and-learning stack on a LoCoBot using PDDL task planning, RTAB-Map SLAM, MoveIt motion planning, and RL to recover from execution failures.”

Sujith Julakanti

Screened

Junior MLOps Engineer specializing in LLMs and cloud infrastructure

College Station, TX3y exp

“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.”