Vetted Graduate Assistants

Dhaval Patel

Screened

Director-level Vaccine R&D leader specializing in clinical immunology and translational biomarkers

Pearl River, NY23y exp

“Operations and clinical-development advisor currently supporting two early-stage biotech companies (vaccines and kidney transplant therapeutics). Brings 20 years of vaccine/clinical development experience from Sanofi and Pfizer, and has directly guided a CEO by connecting them with key clinical scientists and regulatory experts to support IND strategy and clinical advancement decisions.”

Scott Hwang

Screened

Senior Game Designer specializing in multiplayer systems and live service experiences

Irvine, California18y exp

“Gameplay systems designer with shipped AAA experience on Overwatch, including end-to-end ownership of player progression and major systems like matchmaking (role delta system cutting uncertainty/volatility by 50%) and Stadium mode round/shop + MMR/balancing systems (second-highest engaging mode). Strong in KPI/retention-driven design, player research, and telemetry-based balancing, with a UE5 Blueprint prototyping workflow built for modularity, data-driven tuning, and handoff to engineering.”

“Built an AI-powered job outreach application for his own job search and took it from idea to production use, owning architecture, FastAPI backend, retrieval/generation pipeline, frontend workflow, deployment, and iteration. Especially compelling for teams needing a pragmatic full-stack engineer who can turn LLM-based product ideas into usable, maintainable tools with measurable workflow impact.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a customer-facing advanced performance metrics experience in the Amazon S3 console, spanning React UI, Python/Node services, Redshift/RDS data access, and AWS IaC/CI-CD with CloudWatch/Route53 operational readiness. Demonstrates strong production instincts around resilience (partial failures, multi-region inconsistencies), progressive rollouts/feature flags, and reliable ETL/integration patterns (idempotency, backfills, reconciliation).”

Noah Fax

Screened

Junior sports operations professional specializing in basketball operations and brand strategy

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Grassroots basketball scout working on the Puma circuit who advises athletes and families on NIL considerations, brand alignment, and realistic college pathways. Brings a mix of player evaluation, relationship-driven recruiting, and candid expectation management, with an example of accurately projecting rising NYC guard Denim Trotman.”

Deepika Gotla

Screened

Senior Technical Support Engineer specializing in Azure Cloud & Generative AI

Bellevue, WA7y exp

“Microsoft cloud/infra engineer with 5+ years supporting enterprise Azure environments, specializing in security-focused networking (private endpoints, DNS) and production troubleshooting across Azure Front Door/App Gateway WAF/AKS. Has implemented posture improvements via Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, and RBAC tightening, and also designs secure AWS agent/scanner integrations and modern EKS/GitHub Actions/Secrets Manager observability-enabled SDK rollouts.”

“Associate Director in commercial technology leading Salesforce platform delivery (Sales Cloud + Health Cloud) for patient engagement and order management. Personally led secure integrations like Bartender Cloud label/barcode generation (PDF creation, encryption, malware scanning) and owned a major StreamSets-based Salesforce data sync incident triggered by a Salesforce region move, adding proactive monitoring and automated DR/failover. Experienced in scaling delivery via CI/CD, release cadence, and leading teams through architecture reviews, code reviews, and lead-to-cash automation.”

Bhaskar Reddy

Screened

Junior Business & Data Analyst specializing in analytics and BI

Fairfield, CT2y exp

“Analytics-focused candidate with hands-on experience building SQL and Python workflows that turn messy multi-source data into reporting assets and dashboards. They show strong practical judgment around data quality, table grain, validation, and performance tuning, and they described an education-focused engagement project that reportedly improved course completion by 15% through targeted interventions and metric-driven stakeholder alignment.”

Edgar GranadosOsegueda

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Researcher specializing in kinodynamic motion planning

Rutgers, USA7y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on real-time estimation/control and motion replanning, currently integrating a factor-graph-based estimation/control stack with sampling-based replanning in a ROS environment validated on both MuSHR hardware and MuJoCo simulation. Strong in distributed-system debugging (rosbags/logging, controlled test scenarios) and ROS performance patterns (nodelets, TF/TF2), with prior multi-robot experience from SSL RoboCup using custom UDP protocols.”

“Backend engineer with strong AWS/CI/CD experience (multi-repo deployments, Lambda + core app, immutable ECR and image promotion) and a published master’s thesis building an ML framework for Solar PV energy prediction and CO2 reduction impact modeling using ensemble and meta-learning approaches benchmarked against SAM.”

“Robotics software engineer who owned the end-to-end navigation stack for a mobile manipulation robot (Cone-E), integrating ZED-2i SLAM into a real-time occupancy grid with live obstacle avoidance, A* planning, and lookahead control. Strong in real-time debugging and stability improvements (goal snapping/locking, obstacle persistence, rate-limited replanning) and validates changes on hardware, supported by simulation (Gazebo/Webots) and Docker/CI-based testing.”