Vetted Education Professionals

“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).”

“Backend engineer who evolved the X-Ray gaming analytics platform, leading a zero-downtime MongoDB→AWS DocumentDB migration with dual-write, checksum-based validation, and Kubernetes canary rollouts while maintaining real-time monitoring for millions of concurrent sessions. Strong in FastAPI/Python API scaling and performance tuning (cut latency from ~2s to <150ms and reduced DB load 90%) plus production-grade auth/RLS security patterns (JWT, Supabase Auth, PostgreSQL RLS).”

Andrew Liang

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI/ML systems

2y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Amazon and Agora building end-to-end systems: a knowledge-base AI chatbot (React/TypeScript UI + retrieval/response backend + Docker deployment) and an internal approval governance platform using AWS Step Functions and DynamoDB. Emphasizes fast iteration without sacrificing trust via feature-flag rollouts, citation-required answers, abstention on low-confidence retrieval, regression query sets, and strong observability (request IDs, structured logs, latency/error monitoring).”

“Early-career engineer (internship background) who built a production-style notes product using Next.js App Router with Server Components/Server Actions and a Postgres-backed analytics model. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability instincts—measured DB latency improvements via indexing and cursor pagination, plus durable orchestration with Temporal using idempotency and deterministic workflows.”

Saikrishna Swaminathan

Screened

Entry-level Aerospace/ADCS Researcher specializing in spacecraft controls and simulation

Kanpur, India1y exp

“Robotics/control-focused candidate with hands-on ROS2 + Gazebo experience implementing MPC with online state identification on a Crazyflie drone, including camera-based position determination fixes. Also worked on multi-agent spacecraft formation control and constellation optimization, debugging numerical drift and redesigning leader-follower control laws to handle delayed/outdated updates; uses Docker to ensure reproducible simulation results across machines.”

Likhitha Bethi

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, distributed systems, and applied AI

Stony Brook, NY4y exp

“Goldman Sachs engineer who owned end-to-end features for an internal onboarding and case management platform, spanning React/TypeScript UI, a GraphQL gateway, and Node + Spring WebFlux microservices. Built and operated a Kafka-based ingestion and search pipeline with DLQs, retries, idempotency, and strong observability, and improved developer experience via backward-compatible GraphQL API design and schema-driven documentation.”

“Robotics software engineer from Ati Motors who brought a Linear MPC approach (based on Kuhne et al.) into production, rebuilding parts of the planning stack to eliminate oscillations and safely double AMR speed from 0.8 m/s to 1.6 m/s. Also delivered an end-to-end point-cloud detection pipeline (PointPillars) including synthetic data generation in Isaac Sim and TensorRT deployment for real-time human/trolley detection, with a strong focus on production reliability via iterative hardening and nightly SIL.”

Meredith Ma

Screened

Entry-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in generative AI and computer vision

Pittsburgh, PA2y exp

“Built and owned a production RAG coding assistant at Magna International used by 200 engineers, with hands-on work across React/TypeScript, retrieval infrastructure, and Postgres observability. Also brings an unusual blend of product UX thinking from AR game onboarding work, showing strength in both technical systems reliability and user activation.”

“CMU IoT coursework project builder who implemented an end-to-end TinyML gesture recognition system on a Particle Photon + ADXL345, streaming data via MQTT/Node-RED to a real-time Node.js frontend and deploying a quantized logistic regression model on-device. Also explored multi-drone coordination, implementing leader-follower offset control and a pivot/arc turning strategy to avoid collisions, and brings practical Docker/Kubernetes plus CI/CD workflow experience from internships.”

“Built and productionized a dual-agent LLM invoice-processing system for GFI Partners, adding guardrails and audit trails to earn stakeholder trust and drive adoption while cutting operational burden by 75%. Uses LangSmith observability to diagnose real-time workflow regressions and has experience teaching agentic AI concepts (e.g., at Carnegie Mellon) through hands-on, scaffolded demos.”

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership of scientific and AI-powered systems, including neuron imaging pipelines at Monell Chemical Senses Center and an LLM-based structured information extraction platform for Wharton and PSG. Stands out for turning messy, compute-heavy workflows into reliable production backends with measurable impact, including saving researchers over 50 hours per week.”