Vetted Education Professionals

Aswin Jojo

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development and machine learning

Houston, TX3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience owning products end-to-end in both insurtech/financial workflows and AI-enabled IT operations. Built scalable React/Node and FastAPI systems, improved reliability under peak transaction load with SQS/Redis, and shipped an AI ticket-classification platform that cut response times from 3 days to 1 day.”

“Built an end-to-end automated trading system for Polymarket, including Go/Python execution services, Terraform-scheduled ETL/feature pipelines, and monitoring on modest hardware. Also shipped a production LLM+RAG signal verifier/explainer that grounds trade decisions in external context (news/social) with vector DB retrieval and guardrails, plus a lightweight RAGAS-style eval loop on ~50 resolved markets that improved signal faithfulness by ~15%.”

“Junior Unreal Engine developer who owned end-to-end UI implementation for a UE5 horror-game vertical slice, building production-minded subtitle and interaction UI with responsive UMG layouts and polished transitions. Demonstrates strong UI architecture instincts (MVVM-style separation, layered screen ownership, cross-input focus behavior) and uses Unreal profiling tools to diagnose and reduce redundant UMG updates.”

Shivani Sharma

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and MLOps

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and productionized a recommendation system from notebook prototype into a low-latency, scalable Cloud Run service using Docker, FastAPI, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and MLOps tooling (Vertex AI, MLflow). Experienced diagnosing real-time workflow issues using structured logging/ELK and GCP metrics, including resolving intermittent 504s by fixing unbounded SQL and adding caching. Also partners with sales/customer teams (Wasabi) to deliver tailored demos, troubleshoot, and drive onboarding/adoption.”

“Former Cincinnati Reds coach with hands-on experience in player development, scouting, and international amateur evaluations. He combines lived playing experience, Trackman-based talent analysis, and trusted guidance for athletes and families on major decisions like draft positioning, role changes, and college-versus-pro pathways.”

Adhiraj Chadha

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, data, and full-stack applications

Amherst, MA3y exp

“Builder with a mix of backend engineering, product instinct, and startup execution: they shipped a legal BI platform from scratch that handled 1,000+ cases, cut reporting time 80%, and saved $30K annually. They also move quickly in ambiguous environments, from launching a roommate app across iOS/Android after user discovery to building a RAG system with a 50+ case evaluation suite and a cloud dev environment in under 48 hours.”

“DXArts PhD researcher and recent UW capstone contributor building autonomous robotics systems with ROS2 (SLAM Toolbox, Nav2) and Gazebo simulation. Currently focused on integrating a 9-DOF SparkFun IMU with motor controls on Raspberry Pi, and developing OpenCV ArUco-marker tracking for an automated BlueROV that can locate and retrieve underwater targets in collaboration with mechanical engineering.”

Omkar Tulsidas Parab

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps, data pipelines, and ML

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Software engineer who owned an Order Management System end-to-end at Reliance Jio, improving large-table performance via UI virtualization shipped behind feature flags and refined through direct ops-user observation. Also built an OCR automation tool at Piramal Realty using Python/Tesseract with validation and manual correction fallbacks, driving adoption by operations teams. Experienced integrating with Kafka-based microservices and improving observability using structured logging and correlation IDs.”

Daniel Berhane Araya

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in production-grade LLM systems for regulated finance

Fairfax, VA9y exp

“AI/LLM engineer with published work who built FinVet, a production financial misinformation detection system using multi-pipeline RAG, confidence-based voting, and evidence-backed outputs (F1 0.85, +37% vs baseline). Also built NexusForest-MCP, a Dockerized Model Context Protocol server exposing structured global deforestation/carbon data via SQL tools for reliable LLM tool use. Previously delivered borrower risk-rating (PD) models at BMO Financial Group that were validated and integrated into an enterprise credit system through close collaboration with credit officers and portfolio managers.”

Brian Cho

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Researcher specializing in robot learning and surgical robotics

Salt Lake City, UT7y exp

“Robotics software/ML engineer who led an end-to-end transformer-based real-time 3D shape prediction system for a tendon-driven continuum robot on a KUKA arm, including ROS2 multi-camera RGB-D data collection, multi-view calibration, and optimized ICP point-cloud registration. Also optimized an online sensing + motion planning loop for robot-assisted surgery using Bayesian Hilbert maps and A* search, and has Gazebo + RL experience for a robotic salamander.”

“Has production deployment experience delivering computer-vision systems on AWS (Docker + S3) including a GDPR-focused face/license-plate obfuscation pipeline and a semantic-segmentation project aimed at reducing annotation time. Worked closely with DevOps and frontend teams and partnered with CEO/CMO to present an AI-driven annotation workflow to non-technical VC stakeholders.”

“Machine Learning Intern at Docsumo who delivered a customer-facing fraud-detection solution end-to-end: rebuilt the pipeline, deployed a Random Forest model, and shipped a Python/Flask microservice on AWS SageMaker. Drove measurable production impact (precision +30%, processing time cut in half, manual review -60%, customer satisfaction +15%) and demonstrated strong customer integration and live-incident response skills.”

“Graduate student researcher on the EARTH project (college collaboration with Moog) working on robotics for an arm/bucket system. Implemented waypoint-based path planning, built an Apriltag data pipeline, and developed ROS 2 tooling including a joystick-to-DeltaCAN teleop node; exploring reinforcement learning policies trained from Tera simulator + ROS 2 bag data to optimize trajectory planning under varying pressure/load conditions.”

“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.”

“Full-stack engineer with payments-domain experience from ACI Worldwide who shipped an end-to-end MFA system for payment workflows (React/TypeScript + backend APIs + Postgres), then owned it in production with logging/monitoring and client adoption tracking. Also improved checkout responsiveness across Apple Pay/PayPal flows via React performance profiling, component refactors, and state/network optimizations.”

“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.”

Bhakti Patel

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in .NET, Python, and cloud-native systems

Worcester, MA11y exp

“Full-stack engineer who owned an end-to-end production feature for a Piraeus Bank stock exchange module, spanning React/TypeScript, backend services, and cloud operations with Docker + CI/CD, delivering reported 90% faster API responses and improved uptime. Also built a Smartwound research MVP on AWS, creating a Python image-processing/scoring pipeline to ship despite unclear image-analysis specs.”

Alex D'Souza

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Researcher specializing in healthcare AI and security

Davis, CA2y exp

“Research-focused AI/ML candidate who built an fMRI-based classifier to predict schizophrenia treatment effectiveness under small-dataset constraints. Demonstrated pragmatic model selection by moving from a complex GNN to graph-summary feature engineering with logistic regression, significantly improving accuracy and AUC; primarily works in Google Colab with script-based workflows.”

João Barbosa

Screened

Junior Computer Science Engineer specializing in AI-driven game dialogue systems

Oeiras, Portugal4y exp

“Unity generalist who has shipped a solo VR tangram game for Meta Quest, handling everything from asset art to mechanics and multi-level logic. Built an original 2D top-down pixel-art game (“Mental Twist”) combining campus exploration with puzzle-based courses and a time/HP/XP-driven progression and grading system; prefers structured production environments and is currently seeking a 9-to-5 schedule.”

Sai Venkata Sathwik Golla

Screened

Mid-level Backend & Applied ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and scalable APIs

Palo Alto, CA3y exp

“Backend engineer who significantly evolved an internal analytics/reporting platform (Python API + Postgres) powering self-service dashboards for product/business teams, focusing on reliability under heavy concurrent load and fast query performance. Demonstrates strong production engineering practices across API design (FastAPI), observability, incremental rollouts with feature flags, and data security using JWT/RBAC plus Postgres row-level security.”

“Serial founder with experience across both bootstrapped and venture-backed startups, including scaling Aloa past $1M in first-year revenue and raising $1.3M for Bracketology, a fantasy gaming platform for reality TV now in sale process. Combines sales, marketing, product, automation, and AI implementation experience, with exposure to WeFunder, Newchip, and 1871 as both participant and mentor.”

“Early-career engineer from BNP Paribas who drove a large-scale observability modernization—selecting and implementing Prometheus/Grafana for a 2000+ server estate, then productionizing it on Kubernetes via Docker/Jenkins. Known for hands-on demos, strong documentation/templates, and pragmatic troubleshooting (including custom Python metrics) that improved visibility and cut debugging time by ~60%.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned an AI-driven healthcare staffing matching service, rebuilding the model inference/data pipeline to eliminate blocking bottlenecks and cutting API latency by ~33%. Experienced running Python services on Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD, and has executed a cloud-to-on-prem rollout under tight resource and tooling constraints while also building event-driven streaming updates via a message broker.”

“Robotics engineer who built an autonomous driving mobile robot software stack at Boston University using ROS on an NVIDIA Jetson Nano, integrating LiDAR + stereo vision with YOLOv5 and a probabilistic occupancy grid for planning. Demonstrated real-time systems rigor (multi-rate ROS nodes, 50ms sync, profiling/instrumentation) and optimized YOLOv5 with TensorRT, citing ~30% accuracy improvement; also taught ROS workshops to 50+ students.”