Vetted Engineering Professionals in Illinois

“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.”

“Software engineering intern at China Telecom who built and continuously evolved a real-time transaction platform ("Smart Tangerine") focused on strong consistency and peak-hour concurrency. Implemented microservices with Redis and RabbitMQ to decouple heavy processing and cut latency (~80ms to ~30ms), and led a zero-downtime migration from a monolith using strangler pattern, dual-write, and traffic shadowing.”

“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.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on autonomous surface vehicles, specializing in dynamic collision avoidance and regulation-compliant navigation. Extended ROS2 Nav2 by implementing a Velocity-Obstacle-based safety filter (as a DWA critic) and encoding COLREGs, plus built an end-to-end Gazebo+ArduPilot SITL stack and a ROS2 bridge translating Nav2 commands to ArduPilot for real-world deployment.”

“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.”