Vetted Engineering Professionals in the DMV

“Backend engineer who built Polyglot, a large-scale LLM code-translation benchmarking framework, orchestrating translation/compilation/testing with Pytest and storing traceable results for 100,000+ translations. Also built TestForge with FastAPI + LangChain/Ollama and scaled high-throughput evaluation using Celery + Redis, cutting processing time by over 50% through parallelism and batching.”

“Robotics/embedded engineer with hands-on firmware ownership for closed-loop motor/vision systems and strong ROS1 navigation experience (move_base, gmapping, robot_localization), including EKF sensor fusion to eliminate localization drift to sub-10cm accuracy. Also brings IoT distributed pub/sub expertise (30+ devices over MQTT, 99% uptime) plus Unity AR/VR simulation and computer-vision test automation that saved 100+ hours.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS (ROS 1) experience building sensor-processing and state-based control pipelines in Python/C++. Demonstrated measurable reliability and performance gains in autonomous navigation—cut runtime failures by 30%, reduced replanning by 35%, and improved debugging efficiency by 40%—using timing-aware state machines, message/interface discipline, and simulation/testing with Gazebo, rosbag, Docker, and CI/CD.”

“Backend engineer at Esurgi focused on real-time clinical workflow systems, improving API reliability, performance, and security. Has hands-on experience with FastAPI/Pydantic, JWT/RBAC and row-level data isolation, plus Kafka-based real-time processing—including fixing duplicate-processing edge cases via idempotency and offset management and rolling out refactors safely with feature flags and staged deployments.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on AWS serverless and data platform experience: built a Lambda-based reCAPTCHA/token validation + SES subscription workflow and designed Glue ETL pipelines producing Parquet datasets for Athena. Also led a high-traffic multilingual media CMS modernization at Radio Free Asia by migrating to Arc XP using parallel runs, phased rollouts, feature flags, and rollback plans.”

“Python backend engineer (BetterWorld Technology) who owns microservice systems end-to-end on Azure, including Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, and production monitoring/alerting. Has hands-on experience integrating SQL/NoSQL (including Cosmos DB with vector search/graph workflow) and has built a Kafka + Spark Streaming pipeline to Snowflake with a reported 40% latency reduction.”

“Cloud-focused DevSecOps/infra engineer with strong AWS production ownership (EC2/EKS/ECS) and hands-on CI/CD (Jenkins->ECR->Helm on Kubernetes). Demonstrated end-to-end outage recovery (ALB 503s caused by Helm env var misconfig) with rapid rollback plus pipeline guardrails, and deep Terraform experience (modular IaC, remote state with S3/DynamoDB, drift detection) supporting federal cloud modernization efforts.”

“Built multiple systems from scratch at DSSD and Aglint, including an NGO sustainability reporting dashboard and a production LLM-powered phone screening agent using Twilio/Retell AI with RAG grounded in PostgreSQL candidate/job data. Strong focus on real-world reliability: guardrails, monitoring, and lightweight eval/regression loops that reduced recruiter score overrides by ~30%. Currently on OPT through May 2026 (plans STEM OPT extension) and committed to relocating to NYC for in-person work; seeking $90k–$120k base with meaningful equity for founding engineer roles.”