Vetted Research Assistants

“IT Analyst/research background with hands-on experience deploying and hardening a multi-agent AI support/triage system (ticket ingestion + knowledge-base retrieval) with strong emphasis on reliability and observability. Has debugged real production issues spanning backend services and network latency (sync failures/partial writes) and is comfortable in Linux environments; also has academic exposure to robotics simulation and ROS2.”

Priyank Jhaveri

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Junior AI/ML & Mobile Engineer specializing in LLMs, synthetic data, and React Native

New York, United States1y exp

“Currently at Uplift AI shipping production LLM features that generate personalized growth insights from user reflections using BERT + embeddings + RAG, with strong safety/guardrail practices for sensitive contexts. Also built an end-to-end React Native UGC challenge submission/moderation system that improved repeat submissions and 7-day retention, and has applied rigorous clinical-style evaluation methods on a dental X-ray disease detection project to reduce false negatives.”

“Robotics software engineer with experience spanning safety-critical embedded medical hardware (low-cost neonatal baby warmer with PID temperature regulation) and advanced multi-robot planning research (belief-space planning with abstraction + MCTS to handle uncertainty). Strong ROS/ROS2 practitioner (Nav2/SLAM Toolbox/MoveIt) who builds custom packages (e.g., Insta360 panoramic imaging) and is hands-on debugging real robots from SLAM/frontier exploration to multi-robot collision avoidance and real-time performance.”

“Robotics/embedded developer with hands-on ROS 2 and micro-ROS experience on ESP32, building a remote-controlled high-power LED system. Worked across power distribution (buck-boost constant 30V), sensor calibration with real-time data checks, and long-range WiFi connectivity using an omnidirectional antenna achieving 100m+ coverage.”

“Software engineer with enterprise CPQ/CRM/ERP integration experience (Argano) who owned an end-to-end pricing preview capability deployed on AWS Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and full observability (Prometheus/Grafana). Also built an AI-native research agent using LangChain + Chroma to filter academic papers, reporting ~15 hours/week saved for a professor.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based clinical decision support assistant at MedLib, focused on fast, trustworthy answers from large medical documents. Demonstrates deep practical experience improving retrieval accuracy (semantic chunking + metadata-aware search), controlling hallucinations with grounded generation and thresholds, and adding clinician-requested citations using chunk metadata, with evaluation driven by healthcare professional review.”

Siddhartha Geddam

Screened

Junior Robotics/ML Engineer specializing in autonomous UAVs and perception

2y exp

“Machine learning robotics engineer with internship experience deploying object detection and semantic segmentation models to an autonomous vehicle fleet operating in airports and naval docking stations, optimizing with ONNX/TensorRT for NVIDIA Jetson edge deployment. Also built ROS/ROS2-based decentralized multi-drone coordination (TF trees, shared telemetry) validated in Gazebo and networked via Nimbro with sub-10ms latency messaging.”

“Independent builder of production-grade systems: shipped an end-to-end URL shortener with JWT auth, Redis rate limiting/caching, Postgres, Docker, and real-time analytics, and separately architected a Redis-backed distributed task queue handling 1000+ tasks/min. Demonstrates strong distributed-systems instincts (atomicity, retries/DLQ, idempotency, heartbeats) plus a focus on maintainable code and self-documenting APIs (FastAPI/OpenAPI, versioned routes).”

“Built Python-based data workflow integrations for a Huntsman Cancer Institute research project, focusing on reliable upload, validation, processing, and retrieval of messy research data. Demonstrates strong practical instincts around automation hardening, observability, and translating ambiguous manual processes into structured workflows, including Selenium automation when APIs were unavailable.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning enterprise document platforms and AI-powered clinical education products. Built secure TypeScript/Next.js features end to end, designed multi-model LLM workflows with validation and monitoring in production, and modernized a legacy PHP monolith through blue-green deployment and incremental migration without outages.”

“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.”

Sriram Krishna

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud-native platforms

Redmond, WA5y exp

“Backend/AI engineer who has built production LLM orchestration and agentic workflow systems in Python/FastAPI on Kubernetes across AWS/Azure. Demonstrated strong reliability engineering by debugging a real-world memory retention issue that caused latency spikes/timeouts, and strong data/performance chops with a PostgreSQL optimization that cut query latency from ~1.2s to ~15ms. Targets roles building scalable, guardrailed AI-driven workflow automation with robust observability and human-in-the-loop controls.”

Ttanvi Tummapudi

Screened

Junior Data Scientist specializing in machine learning, predictive modeling, and applied AI research

2y exp

“Data scientist/researcher who has built two multimodal LLM systems: an AI-assisted medical triage pipeline using GPT-4o vision + RAG with confidence-scored red/yellow/green outputs, and a master’s project on multimodal cyberthreat detection combining multiple models and using TinyLlama to generate human-readable risk reports. Also partnered with business analysts at Sanvar Technologies to deliver a churn prediction pipeline and Tableau dashboard for decision-making.”

“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.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based multilingual analytics assistant for healthcare operations, enabling non-technical teams to query claims/EHR and risk metrics with grounded explanations. Demonstrates strong end-to-end LLM system engineering (retrieval tuning, re-ranking, hallucination controls, verification layers) plus workflow orchestration (Airflow/Composer/Step Functions) and stakeholder-driven iteration via prototypes and dashboards.”

“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.”

Rethvick Sriram Yugendra Babu

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI and scalable data pipelines

Tucson, AZ2y exp

“Built and operated large-scale biodiversity/ecological research platforms, integrating 50+ heterogeneous global datasets into a unified BIEN 3 schema on PostgreSQL/PostGIS and improving data consistency by 35%. Strong production engineering background (Linux monitoring, CI/CD performance gates, Docker on AWS/Azure) plus applied AI work building a Python RAG system (0.90 precision) and halving latency with Elasticsearch.”