Vetted Research Assistants in California

“Robotics software engineer focused on production ROS 2 (Humble) systems for warehouse AMRs, with strong architecture and integration chops. Built a ROS 2 Lifecycle-based hardware abstraction layer to decouple autonomy from sensors (including mid-production LiDAR vendor swap), enabling mixed fleets and cutting bring-up/integration time dramatically. Also develops Nav2 plugins, MPPI tuning workflows, and scalable simulation/CI tooling (Gazebo, Docker, GitHub Actions) for high-throughput testing.”

“Built and deployed real-world systems end-to-end across security and healthcare contexts: led a 3-person team delivering a university vehicle tracking system with 30% cost savings and 1-year post-launch monitoring. Also implemented a healthcare RAG chatbot with adaptive query routing that cut LLM costs by 40% while maintaining answer accuracy, and has experience debugging non-deterministic LLM behavior in DevOps pipeline automation.”

“Backend/cloud engineer from Resilient Tech with hands-on experience deploying REST APIs and database migrations into a live ERP used by real customers while maintaining 99% uptime. Has debugged intermittent AWS container timeouts down to security group/load balancer misconfigurations, and has extended Python in an ERPNext system to meet GST/e-invoicing compliance requirements with strong customer collaboration.”

Haider Zahoor

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Mid-level Game/Software Engineer specializing in Unity & Unreal cross-platform development

San Jose, California6y exp

“Unity/VR developer who has shipped on Meta Quest (SideQuest) and built standalone PCVR medical applications used with real patients. Built a fully solo roguelike twin-stick shooter with a highly modular ScriptableObject/state-machine architecture, including custom build-time tooling to overcome Unity runtime constraints. Uses AI selectively (e.g., Claude) to generate editor tooling like a match-3 level designer to speed up level production.”

“New grad who shipped an LLM-powered writing app (“Write-it”) to production on Azure with CI/CD (GitHub Actions + JFrog) and implemented an unconventional RAG pipeline to prevent repetitive prompts using embeddings and cosine similarity. Also participated in a Luma AI image/video generation hackathon, iterating with artist feedback and improving usability by rewriting non-technical prompts via an LLM.”

“Software engineer with hands-on production experience deploying Spring Boot services to AWS using Docker and Jenkins CI/CD, focused on stable releases, easy rollback, and performance improvements through monitoring/logging and query optimization. Has proven cross-layer troubleshooting skills (identified packet loss causing intermittent timeouts via network traces) and experience collaborating on-site with operators in industrial/IoT-style environments, including working alongside robotics/PLC teams.”

Ritika Sisodiya

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Junior Data Scientist specializing in statistical modeling and machine learning

California, USA2y exp

“AI Researcher with production experience building a real-time computer-vision detection pipeline augmented by an LLM-based verification layer to cut false positives (~78%) and reach ~90% real-world accuracy. Also partners cross-functionally with Product/Sales/Marketing to shape AI feature prioritization and market positioning using analysis and interactive dashboards.”