Vetted Engineering Professionals in Illinois

“Serverless-focused backend/data engineer who has delivered production Python services on AWS (FastAPI on Lambda/API Gateway) plus Glue-based ETL pipelines from S3 to relational databases. Strong in operational reliability (timeouts, retries, monitoring/alerts) and modernization work, including parallel-run parity validation for migrating legacy batch logic to Python services. Demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (15 min to under 3 min).”

“Backend/ML platform engineer from Snapsheet who owned production Python services and data pipelines for insurance claims, including an AI document classification/summarization FastAPI service on ECS/Fargate processing 1M+ documents/year. Strong in AWS infrastructure (Terraform, CI/CD, secrets/IAM, autoscaling), Glue/PySpark ETL with schema evolution controls, and legacy SAS-to-microservices modernization with safe, feature-flagged rollouts and measurable performance wins.”

“Robotics student who built a fully autonomous "Pacman" robot car using ROS 2, integrating LiDAR/IMU sensing with localization, autonomous driving, and a custom RRT + A* planner. Demonstrated practical embedded optimization on an RP2040 by balancing replanning frequency with safety via rapid collision checks.”

“Aspiring AI product builder interested in LLMs and deep learning, exploring forming a team (including fresh graduates) and leveraging crowdsourcing to develop ideas. Has not raised capital and has no VC/accelerator experience yet, but is thinking ahead about funding needs and partnering with an operational co-founder while potentially joining an existing team.”

“Built and deployed a retail customer review intelligence platform by fine-tuning BERT for sentiment/topic extraction and pairing it with a recommendation component. Demonstrates strong production ML rigor (error analysis, relabeling/active sampling, thresholding/guardrails, OOD checks) and AWS-based orchestration at scale (Lambda + SageMaker with batching and concurrency controls), plus proven ability to align non-technical stakeholders on measurable outcomes.”

“MSR robotics candidate who led a 4-person project building a ROS2 MoveIt wrapper for a Franka Emika arm and integrating a RealSense-based vision pipeline for color-based object tracking/sorting. Also building a quadruped with ROS on Raspberry Pi, bridging ROS commands through a motor driver to TTL-controlled motors, and expanding from Python ROS development into C++ for navigation/LiDAR/SLAM work on TurtleBot3.”