Vetted Research Assistants

“Robotics software engineer with ~7 years of ROS/ROS2 experience spanning Mars rover simulation/navigation, robot arm integration (URDF/MoveIt/ros2_control), and medical magnetic actuation systems using RGB-D feedback. Built a 5-DOF CNC-like magnetic capsule navigation prototype end-to-end and has deep hands-on skill debugging real-time control issues (CAN, encoder timing, controller tuning) plus PLC/Modbus-to-ROS2 integration.”

Dhananjay Sharma

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech platforms

Stony Brook, NY6y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built RegArt’s product from 0→1 for enterprise compliance users at clients like HSBC and EY, including the production React frontend, backend APIs, and an LLM-powered search experience. Particularly compelling for startups needing someone who can move across UI, API, and data layers, make pragmatic architecture tradeoffs, and ship fast without over-engineering.”

“SDE who worked on an MGICS Lab robotics project building a multi-agent model to help agents understand tasks and generate robot instructions, emphasizing task-splitting, checking, and a reflection agent to improve accuracy. Also has experience using GitHub with automated CI/CD pipelines.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer building complex internal platforms and customer-facing demos at the intersection of infrastructure and product. Shipped a no-code Product Lifecycle Manager for manufacturing (3 manufacturers, 1000+ evolving tests) using AWS S3/SQS ingestion and extensible Postgres (EAV+JSONB) with end-to-end traceability. Also built a FastAPI-based company data intelligence platform with Okta-secured RBAC and an LLM/MCP layer for ChatGPT-like analytics over enterprise data sources.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned a production real-time computer-vision inference platform at Credence, spanning Next.js App Router/TypeScript frontend with SSE/WebSocket streaming, a Flask backend, and Postgres analytics. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (70% fewer re-renders; latency cut to ~40–50ms) and strong production rigor (durable orchestration, idempotency, observability, AWS EC2 + CI/CD) with tight post-launch UX iteration based on analyst feedback.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an enterprise search platform (Codlens) delivering natural-language Q&A over Jira/Slack using embeddings, vector DB search, re-ranking (RRF), and LLM responses with source grounding. Also designed and benchmarked a distributed IAM system with Postgres transaction-log replication and Raft-based quorum consistency, reporting ~253 TPS at ~60ms latency in a multi-node setup. Experience spans early-stage startups (Zetic AI, Sagwara Capital) and large-scale orgs (Akamai, Atlassian).”

“Data engineer/backend engineer who owns large-scale, real-time event pipelines on AWS end-to-end, including a petabyte-scale CDC ingestion flow from multiple Postgres DBs into Redshift. Re-architected a legacy DynamoDB+S3 approach into a Delta Lake + DuckDB/PyArrow-compatible design, improving performance dramatically (e.g., ~600s to ~10s for 1k records) and increasing reliability at high file volumes.”

Dylan Tang

Screened

Intern Software Developer and ML Researcher specializing in medical imaging and computer vision

Chicago, IL0y exp

“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.”

Ali Rahmati

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in optimization, LLMs, and on-device AI

Santa Clara, CA9y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience debugging and hardening a fixed-point implementation for an internal PoC, quickly diagnosing overflow/underflow issues that caused intermittent failures across thousands of runs and delivering a code fix. Comfortable presenting technical solutions with layered slide depth and doing follow-up deep dives for interested stakeholders, though has limited direct customer/sales partnership experience.”

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.”

Ibrahim Kurban Ozaslan

Screened

Junior Robotics & Controls Researcher specializing in optimization, MPC, and reinforcement learning

Los Angeles, CA

“Robotics software candidate who designed and implemented a hierarchical motion-planning and whole-body control pipeline for a 37-state Spot robot to traverse complex terrain, using Graph of Convex Sets for safe footstep selection plus optimization-based IK and nonlinear trajectory optimization for joint trajectories/contact forces. Strong in optimization-heavy robotics workflows (PyDrake, MATLAB/Simulink) and methodical debugging down to signal-level and numerical stability; has not used ROS/ROS2 yet.”

“ML/LLM infrastructure engineer who built and shipped a production internal evaluation + failure-analysis agent (Arthur AI / R3AI context) that orchestrated end-to-end benchmarks with deterministic lineage, regression detection, and root-cause reporting at 5,000+ benchmarks/week. Also built backend observability and data validation systems for analytics pipelines at FullStory processing ~3.4B weekly events, emphasizing schema validation, quarantine fallbacks, and idempotent operations.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end AV operations automation and dashboarding platform for USC event operations, used daily to coordinate hundreds of live events. Delivered a React/TypeScript full-stack system integrating Smartsheet APIs with strong reliability practices (typed contracts, validation/fallbacks, safe rollouts) and experience with queue-based microservice patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQs, monitoring).”

“Frontend/platform engineer with unusually strong depth in real-time data systems, observability, and API architecture across Adobe, Macy's/Bloomingdale's, and ASU. They’ve owned high-scale product surfaces end-to-end, from secure GraphQL/REST and WebSocket design through deployment, while also driving platform-wide standards adopted across 8+ product surfaces and 6 teams.”

“Built and deployed a production GenAI internal support agent at Bank of America (“Ask GPS/AskGPT”) using RAG on Azure, focused on reducing escalations and improving response quality for repetitive knowledge-based queries. Demonstrates strong production LLM engineering: custom LangChain orchestration, retrieval tuning to reduce hallucinations, rigorous offline/online evaluation, and model benchmarking with dynamic routing (e.g., GPT-4 vs Claude).”

“Amazon engineer who built a production AI agent platform (Python/AWS Strands on Bedrock) that lets teams create tool-using, multi-agent workflows—e.g., agents that auto-triage and resolve customer support tickets by reading internal documentation and collaborating with a research agent. Previously worked in Deloitte on IAM using Ping Identity/Ping DaVinci orchestration, and applies orchestration thinking plus structured evaluation (LLM-as-judge, surveys, automated tests) to improve agent reliability.”

“Built ToolDreamer, a framework for selecting relevant tools for LLM agents by training a retriever on LLM-generated reasoning traces, and has hands-on experience building multi-agent systems in AutoGen (MAG-V) focused on question generation and tool-trajectory verification. Currently works as an AI-guides supervisor at Penn State, regularly communicating AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered analytics assistant enabling business users to ask questions in plain English and receive validated Spark SQL executed in Databricks, with a Streamlit/Flask UI. Addressed strict client schema-privacy constraints by implementing a RAG strategy and ultimately leveraging AWS Bedrock and fine-tuned reference docs. Also has production ML pipeline experience using Docker + Airflow and AWS (S3/ECS/EC2) for financial classification models.”

Natalie Tsang

Screened

Intern Mechatronics/Robotics Software Engineer specializing in ADAS and ROS2

Waterloo, ON1y exp

“Robotics software engineer with experience spanning embedded C++ control on microcontrollers and ROS/ROS2 production systems in automotive and marine robotics contexts (Harbinger Motors, Impossible Metals). Has deep hands-on experience debugging real-time image pipelines (DDS/QoS tuning, HIL stress testing) and building large automated test suites (1200+ tests) plus CI/CD (Dockerized Playwright tests on Jenkins).”

Sragvi Vadali

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and real-time systems

2y exp

“Backend/AI engineer who built a real-time vector database system for high-frequency financial data using Kafka/Flink on Kubernetes, achieving sub-100ms similarity search at 10k+ concurrent load and resolving tricky duplication issues with idempotency/versioning. Also shipped an end-to-end LLM-based travel itinerary feature (profiling + prompt workflows + APIs) with a focus on quality consistency and low latency.”