Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Chicago Metro

“Robotics software engineer leading an autonomy stack migration from ROS1 to ROS2, including a custom-built global parameter server to preserve existing infrastructure while shipping continuous production releases. Hands-on across navigation/safety/monitoring packages, control (ROS2 PID for steering/speed), and localization performance work (particle filter optimization), with strong ownership of CI-driven test strategy and release quality.”

“Robotics software engineer who built an open-source, real-time Cartesian controller for Universal Robots UR5/UR5e, targeting sub-mm accuracy at 500 Hz within ROS2/ros2_control. Demonstrates strong real-time debugging skills (timing profiling, singularity handling with Tikhonov regularization) and sim-to-real iteration using Gazebo/Isaac Sim plus physical hardware tuning; also has ROS1 experience building URDF/xacro and EKF configs for an underwater vehicle and has developed drone/robot packages.”

“AI/ML practitioner with experience spanning audio/LLM applications (built "Iota" using Whisper, tiktoken, and a local Ollama-served LLM) and healthcare ML (Facemed.ai; UChicago Radiology). Demonstrates a production-oriented mindset—focus on data/model fit, deterministic field testing, and operational safeguards—and has improved research evaluation workflows via a hash-table-based concurrent model tracking approach.”

“Software engineer at Wrap who built production AWS Lambda services for large-scale Parquet dataset generation (50k+ records) and a synthetic traffic/lead generation system using Python, Playwright, and Jenkins. Also built and deployed a full-stack hobby product (MyAnimeListRanker) that ingests MyAnimeList user data and uses an Elo-based ranking workflow, with operational guardrails like rate limiting and monitoring via Vercel/logs.”

“Built and owned Prism, a real-time collaborative coding platform, making key architectural choices around deterministic event ordering and a backend source-of-truth to improve trust under concurrent edits. Also created a Python-based bug analysis and test automation suite that became part of standard engineering workflow, cutting debugging time by ~95% while improving fault detection coverage.”

“Software engineer with finance-domain experience who built an internal transaction management system end-to-end at Prospect Equities (TypeScript/React Native + Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS), delivering 40% lower query latency and 73% operational efficiency gains. Has also designed Terraform-provisioned, SQS-based distributed systems and scaled workloads to 10,000+ concurrent users, including monolith-to-SOA modernization that cut internal review time by 47%.”

“PhD-trained engineer with ~3.5 years of consulting experience building simulation/ML-driven manufacturing software. Deployed an ML surrogate model as a .NET C# DLL integrated with MES workflows, and resolved a critical pre-production latency issue by redesigning serialization/storage. Also built Python-based integrations across CAD/CAE tools and cloud material databases using an XML data model, with a strong interest in digital twins and real-to-sim/sim-to-real robotics workflows.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with AI infrastructure experience who built an AI-driven video generation platform, focusing on an asynchronous FastAPI-based orchestration layer between user APIs and heavy inference services. Strong in production instrumentation and latency/concurrency optimization; actively learning ROS 2 but has not yet worked on physical robotics or ROS-based deployments.”