Vetted Engineering Professionals

Seyi R. Afolayan

Screened

Mid-level Robotics & Controls Engineer specializing in safe autonomy and perception-aware motion planning

Itasca, IL4y exp

“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.”

Shivam Udeshi

Screened

Intern Robotics/ADAS Engineer specializing in perception, sensor fusion, and state estimation

2y exp

“Robotics software engineer who built a multi-agent dense warehouse mapping system in ROS 2, including LiDAR-camera fusion SLAM, timestamp-based synchronization, and DDS-based inter-robot pose/keyframe exchange under bandwidth constraints. Also applied Gaussian Splatting for selective photorealistic dense reconstruction and optimized real-time performance with node composition, bounded queues, and QoS tuning; experienced with Gazebo/CARLA/Unity simulation and Dockerized ROS 2 deployments.”

Swathi Sankaran

Screened

Senior Python Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud, data engineering, and ML/GenAI

New York, NY10y exp

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI services on AWS and implementing strong reliability/observability (CloudWatch, ELK, correlation IDs, alarms). Has delivered serverless + container solutions with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform) and Jenkins CI/CD, and built AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution and data-quality safeguards; demonstrated large-scale SQL tuning (45 min to 3 min on a 500M-row workload).”

Sandeep Mekala

Screened

Director-level Mobile Engineering Manager specializing in Generative AI and agentic mobile experiences

Remote13y exp

“iOS player-coach who led end-to-end development of real-time customer support chat and unified notification systems for T-Mobile’s iOS app using SwiftUI, Firebase, WebSockets, and Core Data (including offline handling). Drove measurable reliability/latency gains (~30%) through a major notification refactor and owned a high-severity push-notification incident from rollback through RCA and backward-compatible hotfix, while also scaling team process and people management.”

Guojian Wang

Screened

Entry-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React/Next.js and Node.js

United States0y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building and owning production e-commerce features in Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript, including SSR-driven category browsing with pagination and region-specific pricing. Strong focus on post-launch reliability and performance—optimizes React rendering (lazy loading/Suspense), tunes Postgres queries with indexes/explain plans, and supports durable order-processing workflows with idempotency, retries, and structured logging.”

Shrey Kumar

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in web platforms and AI workflows

Dallas, TX1y exp

“Software engineer who built and shipped “Counsellor AI,” a production LLM-powered academic advising agent for college students using AWS Bedrock and grounded RAG over official university catalogs/policies. Emphasizes reliability through structured JSON outputs, multi-step orchestration with shared state, and strict intake/validation gates to prevent hallucinations and invalid academic plans; also has experience hardening messy telecom operational data pipelines with normalization, permissions, fallbacks, and idempotent patterns.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered “Vet agent” that automates pet symptom intake across multimodal inputs (images/files/text/speech) and provides analysis/home-care guidance, reaching thousands of daily active users within two months. Demonstrates strong agent engineering fundamentals: state-machine orchestration with structured JSON, tool/schema validation, high-availability routing/failover, and rigorous offline/online evaluation loops with trace-driven reliability improvements.”

“Candidate is not currently pursuing a startup and has no familiarity with the VC/accelerator ecosystem, but shows a thoughtful founder mindset centered on building from scratch, evaluating user impact and implementation feasibility, and avoiding financially reckless entrepreneurship.”

Abhishek Adinarayanappa

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and machine learning systems

Miami, FL3y exp

“Built Digipulse, a university project that ingested and clustered Bluesky tweet data at scale and used Gemini to generate near-real-time topic summaries, processing 1M+ tweets per day. Also brings Intel experience with Prometheus and Kubernetes, including production monitoring and incident troubleshooting.”

Vidhi Chhatbar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and FinTech

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience across enterprise (AIG, MSCI) and an early-stage startup (Job Map), owning production systems end-to-end. Built secure insurance microservices on Spring Boot with JWT/RBAC and AWS-based CI/CD/observability, plus Kafka streaming pipelines for financial data. Also shipped a GenAI personalization MVP using FastAPI and LLM APIs in a high-ambiguity startup environment.”

John Krikorian

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AR, UI/UX, and interactive applications

12y exp

“AR/Unity-focused engineer who built a multi-user whiteboarding app for smart glasses, including vector-based collaborative drawing, spatial object persistence, and a voice-driven AI assistant that could manipulate the scene through custom tools. Their work spans real-time networking, spatial UX, and LLM integration, with systems robust enough that some features were reused by other developers internally.”

“VR/social platform engineer with experience at AltspaceVR, Mozilla Hubs, and Dopple, spanning Unity/C#, custom engine networking, and early voice-agent systems. Particularly compelling for roles at the intersection of multiplayer, XR, and AI: they’ve built data-driven avatar systems, ownership-based netcode, VR replay capture, and a custom real-time voice->LLM->voice stack integrated with hardware and computer vision.”

“Backend engineer who led the end-to-end modernization of FleetView into a scalable, event-driven system supporting 1,000+ users and 13,000+ assets, cutting API latency by ~40%. Also built an AI-powered exit interview analytics pipeline on Azure using GPT-4o with strong guardrails, validation, and evaluation practices, showing a rare mix of production backend rigor and applied LLM workflow experience.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning an SEL internship and Walmart, combining backend/data pipeline work (Python, Kafka, relational DBs) with DevOps practices (Docker, Grafana, GitHub/Jenkins CI/CD, GitOps). Notably contributed to a REST-to-GraphQL migration aimed at reducing cloud utilization and implemented testing strategies to validate the transition.”

“Built and deployed an AI-powered insurance claims fraud platform end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, OpenAI, pgvector, and AWS EKS. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG architecture with production-grade scalability and observability, delivering measurable impact including 62% less manual review, 40% better fraud precision, 37% higher throughput, and 99.95% uptime.”

“Senior software engineer with hands-on experience leading multi-agent AI workflows in financial trading infrastructure. Most notably, they applied a specialized agent setup on a high-frequency trading backend to cut delivery time from three weeks to ten days while improving validation against risk, performance, and compliance requirements.”

Neeshma Narahari

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in backend microservices and cloud platforms

Irving, TX6y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with strong React and TypeScript depth who has owned dashboard features end-to-end, from UI architecture and rendering optimization through Spring Boot APIs and database query tuning. Particularly compelling for startup or high-growth teams: they’ve shipped 0→1 internal operations platforms, prioritized MVP workflows effectively, and iterated post-launch using user feedback, logs, and usage metrics.”

“Python backend engineer with experience combining traditional API/microservices development and GenAI integrations, including healthcare claims workflows. Particularly compelling for teams building production AI systems: they pair hands-on work with LLMs, RAG, LangChain-style orchestration, and AWS deployment with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and engineering discipline.”

“Built end-to-end financial workflow platforms at Citi spanning React frontends, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, and Oracle. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can modernize legacy systems into real-time architectures—the candidate cites a 48x throughput improvement from a batch-to-Kafka modernization effort.”

Ming Wang

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech

Hong Kong, Hong Kong1y exp

“Recent college graduate and software engineer who relies heavily on AI-assisted development, reporting that roughly 85% of code in a recent initiative was AI-generated and then manually reviewed. Has built customer-facing AI features including personalized recommendations and an internship chatbot tied to product advertising, with exposure to API communication, database checks, and conversation monitoring.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building event-driven Java/Spring Boot and Kafka systems, plus AI-assisted document-classification workflows in enterprise environments. Stands out for a thoughtful, risk-aware approach to AI: uses it to accelerate delivery, but emphasizes validation layers, confidence thresholds, observability, and human review before AI can affect downstream business actions.”

Saurabh Kumar

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Developer specializing in MERN and AI applications

Kanpur, India1y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer with hands-on experience building sophisticated browser UIs, including a real-time WebRTC video chat platform for IIT Kanpur students and a high-performance NBA analytics dashboard. Stands out for deep browser performance knowledge, expert-user interface design, and competition-level execution that helped earn a global rank 2 finish.”

“Player-coach engineering leader currently running a Solution Architecture/FDE team responsible for both presales and postsales delivery. Stands out for combining enterprise systems thinking with hands-on AI product work: they built configurable tooling that sped delivery by ~30%, drove a Kafka-to-Pulsar architecture shift for scale, and spent the last two years building LLM-based document extraction and RAG inference pipelines shaped directly by user feedback.”

“Deloitte technical implementation lead who functioned like a pre-sales/solutions engineer for ABBYY's intelligent document processing within the Argus GenAI platform. They supported enterprise-scale rollouts across 10+ countries, tailored deployments for local market needs, and combined integration, compliance, and Python automation work to deliver 95%+ extraction accuracy.”