Vetted Research Assistants in California

Mahima Mannava

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, LLM systems, and full-stack development

San Jose, CA3y exp

“AI/full-stack engineer who built a computer-usage agent end to end, including a split local/cloud architecture that used a vision LLM to drive real Chrome workflows while avoiding bot detection. Stands out for combining product-minded systems design, rigorous evals, and prompt iteration to achieve sub-2-second latency and a 20% reduction in automation failures in an early-stage environment.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production autonomous GenAI content ecosystem that generates short-form scripts, extracts viral highlights from long-form video, and dubs content into 33+ languages. Focused on making LLM outputs production-safe via schema enforcement, token-to-time alignment, critic-agent verification, and scalable async orchestration—cutting manual workflows by ~90% and saving $200k+ annually.”

Jianbo Wu

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM reasoning and inference optimization

Santa Clara, CA4y exp

“Former Field Application Engineer at TestTorrent supporting proprietary hardware deployments. Built and integrated customer-requested benchmarking (including MLPerf-style work) by adapting GPU benchmark implementations and validating performance against NVIDIA baselines, plus delivered a backend fix that enabled customer performance testing and helped close a deal. Also has experience running models on AWS/GCP with multi-instance cost optimization techniques like memory offloading.”

“Backend/ML engineer working on a battery energy storage system operations dashboard: built a Flask backend integrated with OAuth and a separate FastAPI optimization/simulation service, deployed via Docker CI/CD to Azure Container Apps. Strong in productionizing ML (AzureML to batch endpoints) and in performance/scalability patterns (Postgres indexing/JSONB, per-unit data isolation, async throttling + caching for year-long CPU-intensive simulations across 40+ scenarios).”

Nithyashree Raghunathan

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems

Santa Clara, CA5y exp

“QA/data pipeline engineer with hands-on AI product building experience, spanning enterprise AWS migration testing for Belgium postal services and personal multi-agent systems in fintech and recruiting. Stands out for combining rigorous validation and production stability work with modern LLM orchestration, guardrails, and messy-document normalization workflows.”

“Built across data, backend, analytics, and visualization-heavy applications, including a nonprofit financial forecasting app, large-scale insurance model analysis at Mercury Insurance, and a publicly deployed soccer analytics dashboard. Stands out for combining machine learning, large-dataset SQL work, and practical production improvements like cutting dashboard load times to under two seconds and refactoring codebases for smoother team handoff.”

“Robotics software engineer with semiconductor wafer-handling automation experience at Mattson Technology, building C++ control software for ATM and vacuum robots coordinating through a load-lock (pressure/door/pump sequencing). Implemented multi-vendor communications with auto-detection across SECS serial and TCP/IP, and validated behavior using simulation + GUI animation, logging/sniffers, and hardware-in-the-loop testing; currently self-studying ROS 2.”