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Vetted Research Assistants
Pre-screened and vetted.
Clea Ramos
Junior UX/UI Designer and Front-End Engineer specializing in accessible web products
“UX/UI designer and frontend engineer with hands-on project leadership experience, including leading a 6-person engineering team to deliver an accessible video conferencing system for older adults in senior care. Particularly compelling for mission-driven or health-adjacent products: they combined stakeholder research, WCAG-minded design, frontend implementation, and post-launch testing to improve usability and cut system cost by 40%+.”
Ramya Sree Kanijam
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, cloud, and AI pipelines
“Built and owned an end-to-end AI-driven content enrichment pipeline for a news workflow, using n8n, LLM agents, and external APIs to automate ingestion, deduplication, categorization, and approval routing. Stands out for production-minded AI systems work: they improved reliability with schema validation, retries, idempotency, and monitoring, while automating 90% of processing and cutting duplication errors by 95%+.”
Raj Kale
Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems and FinTech
“Full-stack engineer with experience building financial and hiring-product systems, spanning React/TypeScript dashboards, Flask/Kafka/Postgres backends, and multi-tenant configuration for 3,000+ clients. Stands out for combining deep technical debugging and performance work with product-minded UX improvements, including a 41% lift in resume matching accuracy and ~40% latency reduction through batching and query tuning.”
Meng-Huan Chiang
Junior Robotics & Reinforcement Learning Engineer specializing in autonomous systems
“Robotics/ML candidate building an individual pedestrian trajectory forecasting system by adapting a GAN-style Social-GN training architecture from LSTM to a transformer-based AgentFormer design. Also has hands-on embedded robotics experience debugging lane-following behavior on a JetBot by tuning PID control, and uses Docker for reproducible training environments.”
Yash Pankhania
Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and data engineering
“AI Engineer Co-Op at Northeastern University who built a production Patient Persona Chat Bot to help nursing students practice clinical interactions, fine-tuning Llama 3 and integrating a LangChain + Pinecone RAG pipeline deployed on Amazon Bedrock. Emphasizes clinical accuracy and reliability with guardrails, retrieval filtering, and continuous evaluation, and also brings strong data engineering/orchestration experience (Airflow, EMR/PySpark, ADF, dbt, Databricks, Snowflake).”
Drashti Patel
Junior Software Engineer and ML Researcher specializing in full-stack and applied deep learning
“LLM engineer who built a production-style educational questionnaire generation system (MCQs/fill-in-the-blanks/short answers) using Hugging Face models (BERT/T5) and implemented grounding, decoding tuning, and post-generation validation to control hallucinations and quality. Also developed a "tech care" assistant chatbot with a custom Python orchestration/router layer (intent classification, context management, multi-step flows) and a structured testing/evaluation approach including expert review and automated checks.”
Shireesh Kumar Poral Ashok Kumar
Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native web applications
“Full-stack engineer who built an oil & gas analytics dashboard backend using FastAPI, MongoDB, and Redis with a metadata-driven design for dynamic plotting. Shipped an LLM-powered chatbot (LangChain + tool/function calling) to let engineers query analytics in natural language, and also built a multi-step university chatbot workflow with Azure logging, confidence scoring, and human-in-the-loop review.”
Shivam Lahoti
Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in TypeScript/React and microservices
“Software engineer who built and owned an internal workflow automation + analytics platform end-to-end (TypeScript/React/Node) with a microservices, RabbitMQ-based async architecture. Drove adoption by shipping iterative prototypes and prioritizing reliability/performance (Redis caching, query optimization), delivering ~30–35% latency improvements and ~30–40% reduction in manual operational work.”
Ramya Sree Kanijam
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in LLM, RAG, and cloud AI
“Recent master’s graduate who led a team project building an LLM-based chatbot with RBAC-controlled information disclosure and a focus on reducing hallucinations. Also has hands-on embedded robotics experience (Arduino obstacle-avoiding robot using ultrasonic sensors) and practical DevOps/cloud deployment exposure with Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, and AWS (EKS/ECS/CodePipeline).”
Jitesh Kumar S
Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and MLOps
“ML/LLM engineer with Meta experience building production AI systems for near real-time user-report classification and summarization under strict latency (<250ms), safety, cost, and privacy constraints. Has hands-on MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, Spark, MLflow, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions) plus observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and applies rigorous evaluation, staged rollouts, and A/B testing to keep agent workflows reliable in production.”
Pravalika Kuppireddy
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and intelligent automation
“LLM engineer who built and productionized a system to classify GitHub commits (performance vs non-performance) using zero-/few-shot approaches over commit messages and diffs, working at ~5M-record scale on multi-node NVIDIA GPUs. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end LLM pipelines with Airflow and GitHub Actions, and emphasizes reliability via testing, guardrails, and observability while collaborating closely with non-technical product stakeholders.”
Sailesh Kumar Kishorekumar Lekha
Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, full-stack, and AI systems
“Built a production LLM-assisted workflow for customer configuration data migrations, combining agentic parsing with deterministic validation and fail-safe pipeline design. Stands out for turning messy ERP and operational data into reliable, repeatable transformations while improving accuracy and cutting manual effort by more than 80%.”
Meghana Chintalapati
Junior Robotics & AI/ML Engineer specializing in multi-agent reinforcement learning and computer vision
“Robotics software candidate whose thesis focused on multi-robot warehouse coordination using MAPPO reinforcement learning, trained in simulation (LBF environment, Isaac Sim/RViz) and deployed onto three real-time robots. Built custom ROS 2 Humble nodes for multi-robot control with namespaces, TF broadcasting, and an RL pipeline integrating LiDAR odometry and camera observations.”
Rituraj Navindgikar
Intern Robotics Software Engineer specializing in SLAM, perception, and motion planning
“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience building Visual-Inertial SLAM and ROS2 sensor-fusion pipelines for autonomous warehouse forklifts (ArcBest), including rigorous calibration (AprilTags, Allan variance, temporal sync) and recovery features like pose injection. Also implemented RL-based local planning at RollNDrive using Isaac Sim with domain randomization to bridge sim-to-real, improving real-world navigation success back to ~90% after initial deployment.”
Akshay Krishna Varma Buddharaju
Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and generative AI
“CoreAI intern at The Home Depot who improved the Magic Apron Assistant by building a production video ingestion + RAG retrieval system for long videos (uploads and YouTube), including a graph-based retrieval module to speed up and improve relevance. Experienced with Kubernetes orchestration (HPA) and production reliability practices like caching, monitoring, regression testing, and stakeholder-driven requirements.”
Koushik Alapati
Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in perception, localization, and autonomous navigation
“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 experience building perception-driven navigation for AMRs, integrating YOLO11 + Depth Anything V2 and multi-sensor fusion (LiDAR/RGB-D/IMU) to boost pose accuracy by 30%. Strong in real-time debugging and edge deployment on NVIDIA Jetson (ONNX/CUDA), plus cloud-enabled telemetry (Azure) and simulation-driven testing (Isaac Sim) that cut physical test cycles by 25%.”
Akhil Bharadwaj Mateti
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Data Science and Machine Learning
“Robotics/AV perception engineer who built a semantic-segmentation road detection system and integrated it into a ROS-based real-time pipeline (ROS bag camera feed to live monitor) achieving ~12 FPS. Strong in practical deployment work: solved multi-library versioning issues (ROS/OpenCV/TensorFlow), containerized the stack with Docker, and optimized inference by shifting runtime to C++ for large latency gains on NVIDIA hardware.”
Nilesh Bhoi
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web apps and real-time systems
“Software engineer who has owned and improved a customer-facing quote flow in a Vue/Nuxt app, using production observability to reduce latency and improve reliability via caching and request-handling fixes. Also shipped an internal LLM Q&A tool using embeddings + RAG over approved company docs and past support tickets, with guardrails, logging, and an evaluation loop that drove retrieval/prompt improvements. Seeking ~$110k base and requires H1B transfer sponsorship.”
Manali Patil
Senior Software Engineer & Engineering Manager specializing in cloud backend and manufacturing MES
“Customer-facing engineer who led recurring midnight ERP data-feed/B2B integrations from prototype to production, building reusable APIs and using Hangfire for job scheduling. Known for tight weekly customer iteration, strong documentation and test coverage (80%+), and cross-functional problem-solving with Operations/Quality/NPI to resolve data-collection and manufacturing-process constraints; has 2 customers live on the integration.”
Amogh Arya Munipalle
Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud, DevOps, and applied AI security
“Founding engineer who built a multi-tenant AWS backend from scratch focused on ultra-fast, configuration-driven client onboarding and low operational cost. Automated tenant provisioning/deployments with Terraform + GitHub Actions (new client infra in ~13 minutes) and scaled to 62 production clients handling ~75k requests/day without a major rewrite. Hands-on with migrations (DynamoDB->MongoDB), reliability/observability, and performance tuning (indexes, Redis, queueing, connection management).”
Sushilkumar Muralikumar
Senior Robotics & AI Engineer specializing in computer vision, multi-robot systems, and GenAI
“Robotics software engineer with a Master’s thesis building an end-to-end monocular-vision pick-and-place controller for construction use cases on TurtleBot3 + OpenManipulator, spanning synthetic data creation, transfer learning, simulation in Gazebo, and real-robot deployment. Leveraged ROS distributed architecture to run two heavy AI models across networked GPUs to achieve usable real-time performance, and has production CI/CD experience as a Senior Software Engineer in AI/analytics.”
Kaleem Nawaz Khan
Senior Perception Research Engineer specializing in multi-sensor autonomous driving systems
“Robotics/perception engineer who led and owned ARC, a cooperative perception system for autonomous vehicles that aligns and fuses multi-vehicle LiDAR point clouds in real time. Built a ROS-based multi-node pipeline with grid-based spatial reasoning and motion-compensated data sharing, achieving <20 ms compute latency and sub-7 cm alignment error; accepted to ACM SenSys 2026.”
Mayank Agarwal
Mid-Level Front-End Developer specializing in enterprise design systems
“Frontend engineer who led Bentley’s flagship design system from a greenfield codebase to adoption across every major Bentley product, emphasizing maintainability and high UX polish. Built complex React+TypeScript interfaces like a Figma/Photoshop-style layers tree, applying advanced performance techniques (skeleton-first loading, transitions, memoization, deferred rendering) and iterative feature-flagged rollouts driven by user feedback.”
Jimmy Dani
Mid-level AI Researcher specializing in privacy-preserving ML and applied cryptography
“Graduate researcher who builds production-grade AI systems spanning LLM security evaluation and on-device RAG. Created HoneyLearner, a self-learning attack framework using GPT-4-class models as structured black-box attackers against honeywords defenses, with rigorous metrics and reproducible orchestration (Airflow/Spark/Kafka/Docker). Also partnered with agriculture scientists at Texas A&M–Corpus Christi to deliver UAV + 3D point-cloud crop-stress maps that cut time-to-insight ~40% and enabled ~30% earlier interventions.”