Vetted Education Professionals

Manaswini Gogineni

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and full-stack web development

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Backend engineer at Electric Hydrogen who built a serverless device-log ingestion and processing platform in Python/Flask, scaling throughput (4x peak ingestion) while keeping sub-300ms API latency. Strong in Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance (partitioning, materialized views) and production ML integration (ONNX model served via FastAPI microservice with async batch inference, Redis feature caching, and drift monitoring via S3/Lambda). Experienced designing secure multi-tenant systems with schema-per-tenant isolation and KMS-backed encryption.”

“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.”

Rashi Agrawal

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native microservices

Novi, MI4y exp

“Backend engineer (4 years) who built an end-to-end Python backend for a patent-pending in-car massager/heater system, including GraphQL data modeling and Bluetooth integration with an ESP32 microcontroller (reverse engineered a niche protocol). Also has strong platform experience: on-prem Kubernetes/CI-CD (Jenkins/GitLab, exploring ArgoCD GitOps), Terraform-based infra workflows, a RabbitMQ messaging library used across microservices, and an on-prem migration of ~30 critical applications with rollback/parallel-run strategy.”

“Robotics/embedded builder who trained an aviation-specific LLM and deployed it offline on an NVIDIA Jetson for an in-flight voice assistant, solving performance and cabling constraints with NVMe storage and Bluetooth. Also has hands-on Raspberry Pi/Arduino robot builds (including a cigarette-butt picking prototype with hydraulic actuation) plus Docker-based FEA work using FEniCS/Gmsh and strong CI/CD + automated testing practices.”

Het Maheshkumar Sekhalia

Screened

Entry-level Robotics Researcher specializing in autonomy, motion planning, and control

Pittsburgh, PA1y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on simulation-first autonomy and learning: implemented TD3 and CLIP-guided pretraining for physics-based humanoid skill learning in Isaac Gym/DeepMimic. Also built a ROS2 + dual-Docker closed-loop stack for an autonomous wheel loader in Isaac Sim, combining global planning, B-spline smoothing, and real-time NMPC control.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based semantic search and summarization system for large legal/technical document sets, owning the full backend (embeddings, vector store, chunking, prompting) and driving a reported 40–60% reduction in manual review time. Experienced with LangChain/LlamaIndex plus Airflow/Temporal-style orchestration, and applies rigorous evaluation/monitoring (A/B tests, drift detection, staged rollouts) to keep agentic systems reliable. Also partnered with a supply-chain manager at TE Connectivity to deliver an AI inventory recommendation tool projected to drive millions in value.”

“Robotics software lead on a safe human-robot interaction project for search-and-rescue and at-home physical therapy using a Franka Emika Panda, Azure Kinect, and 3D pose estimation. Built ROS-based vision-to-control pipelines that fuse homogeneous transforms with wrench feedback, and implemented max-manipulability/null-space strategies (QP + manipulability Jacobian) to avoid singularities and improve real-time trajectory behavior.”

“Recent internship project at Google Workspace building an LLM-driven Python backend pipeline to extract/enrich NLP features from messy customer web domains and integrate them into a Domain Feature Store for personalization and promotions. Also has hands-on Kubernetes/Docker deployment experience for a Digital Signage SaaS backend with GitHub Actions CI, plus strong streaming-systems knowledge (Kafka exactly-once, schema evolution, Flink scaling) and built an information retrieval system handling 30,000+ cases.”

“Robotics software engineer with Stanford coursework and Georgia Tech research experience, focused on end-to-end autonomy for mobile manipulation and real-time planning under uncertainty. Built a ROS 2 LoCoBot system combining Gemini speech-to-text, YOLO-based RGB-D perception, navigation, and grasping with robust synchronization/TF fixes, and developed an information-theoretic UGV planner for radiological source localization validated via Monte Carlo simulation.”

“Robotics software engineering intern at Bell Labs who overhauled indoor mobile robot localization in a ROS 2 stack, combining EKF + particle filtering with a neural network to handle BLE multipath disturbances. Delivered a major accuracy gain (~50 cm to sub-20 cm), earned a company Innovation award, published a paper, and saw the approach adopted across the company’s robot fleet.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 experience building an audio conversion node and integrating Whisper LiveKit for streaming speech-to-text in a simulated hostile (outer space) robot environment. Also worked on a 2023 LiDAR + ML vision obstacle-detection project for a hospital-nurse-assistant robot, and has strong large-scale CI/CD deployment experience from AWS (2022–2024) across alpha/pre-prod/prod stages.”

“Robotics software engineer who built and tuned a contact-implicit MPC controller for a full planar pushing manipulation pipeline (“Push Anything”), including a key fix for complementarity violations that eliminated “ghost pushes” and cut time-to-goal from 40s to 25s. Hands-on with ROS/MoveIt on real robot pick-and-place, improving hardware grasp reliability through TF/frame debugging, and uses Drake/URDF for simulation, contact detection, and MPC development.”

“Talent acquisition leader who built and scaled the recruiting team at Houlihan Lokey, ultimately leading ~10–12 recruiters across campus and experienced hiring while partnering closely with HR on offers/comp. Also brings healthcare HR experience from Ketter Medical Center, working with external recruiters to hire physicians, nurses, and administrative staff, and has implemented process improvements tied to DEI/MBA engagement.”

Seongjae Ahn

Screened

Intern/Junior Robotics & Controls Engineer specializing in simulation, teleoperation, and diffusion policies

Berkeley, CA2y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on simulation-to-teleoperation pipelines in NVIDIA Isaac Lab/Isaac Sim, including custom Dynamixel motor control integrated with USD/physics for dataset collection. Has hands-on ROS2 Humble + MoveIt2 integration for UR + Robotiq in Omniverse and builds Docker/CI workflows for GPU-enabled robotics stacks; also brings MPC coursework and multi-robot ocean drone comms experience (XBee/I2C).”