Vetted Research Assistants

Binaya Sharma

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems, big data, and applied AI

Baton Rouge, LA6y exp

“Built and deployed ForensicLLM, a local domain-specific LLaMA-3.1-8B model for digital forensic investigators using RAFT + RAG over 1000+ curated research papers, with citation-aware responses and rigorous evaluation (BERTScore/G-Eval). Deployed via vLLM and Docker and validated through a chatbot survey with 80+ participants; published at DFRWS EU 2025.”

Yashwant Gandham

Screened

Junior Machine Learning & Backend Engineer specializing in LLM systems and ML infrastructure

Boulder, CO1y exp

“Built and deployed production RAG-based document search/Q&A systems (DocChat and an internship marketing RAG), using a React + FastAPI stack on GCP with docs stored in GCP buckets and retrieval via embeddings/vector DB. Emphasizes cost/performance tradeoffs (reported ~40% cost reduction) and ships via Docker (Railway), with load/API testing using JMeter and Swagger; regularly collaborates with a CEO stakeholder to iterate and push changes to production.”

Haider Zahoor

Screened

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.”

Muhammad Talal

Screened

Senior Game Developer specializing in Unreal Engine multiplayer and VR systems

Philippines5y exp

“Unity VR developer with deep hands-on experience optimizing and debugging standalone-headset VR projects (including Android/IL2CPP and XR interaction systems), though not yet credited with a Meta Quest store ship. Built and shipped a mostly solo Unity top-down shooter (Sand Bullet) on Steam, owning core gameplay, AI, UI/input, saves, performance, and an AWS-connected companion app integration.”

Jookwang Jung

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in AI-native platforms and full-stack systems

Los Angeles, CA20y exp

“Founding engineering lead and player-coach who built a small cross-functional team around an AI-first development model, increasing execution speed by more than 3x through hands-on coaching and human-in-the-loop practices. Has led architecture for a multi-tenant platform and built an AI system for fashion businesses that generates content, imagery, and operational recommendations, combining technical depth with product and UX judgment.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping multiple AI-powered products, including donor recommendation systems, RAG-based document Q&A, and cybersecurity threat analysis tools. Stands out for combining TypeScript/React and backend API development with practical LLM evaluation, grounding, and production optimization—driving measurable outcomes like 30% higher donor engagement and 87% answer accuracy under 2-second latency.”

“Union College robotics graduate with hands-on ROS experience building an independent “waiter bot” that took spoken orders (Mozilla DeepSpeech), used OpenCV, and navigated via SLAM on a TurtleBot with LiDAR. Also led the Union College Robotics crew for four years and implemented PID control for micromouse maze robots; has additional software deployment experience with Dockerized FastAPI and CI/CD from coursework.”

“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

Screened

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.”

David Acosta

Screened

Senior XR/Unity Developer specializing in AR/VR mobile and immersive experiences

Bogota, Colombia7y exp

“Unity/C# XR developer who shipped a HoloLens 1 medical congress experience from scratch (including modeling, animation, and full system architecture), later credited with driving retention/revenue and helping the client win an international best-practice award. Has VR (Meta Quest 2) experience integrating OpenAI-powered dialogue and has delivered cross-platform AR/VR interaction patterns across HoloLens and iOS/Android via AR Foundation and the Unity Input System.”

“Built and shipped Site Audit AI, a production multi-turn Claude-based agent that autonomously crawls websites, calls tools, and generates scored audit reports—reducing a manual 2-3 hour developer workflow to under 60 seconds. Also brings practical experience integrating inconsistent payroll/HR data across platforms like QuickBooks and Keka, with a strong focus on validation, fault tolerance, and resumable workflows.”

“Backend/AI engineer with deep healthcare experience building production Python microservices that turn raw clinical audio into structured notes and insights. They owned systems end-to-end across architecture, launch, monitoring, and incident response, with measurable impact including 40% lower operating costs, 22% better latency, and 99.9% uptime in a regulated environment.”

Narayan Anantha Krishnan

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and cybersecurity

Syracuse, NY2y exp

“AI/full-stack builder with hands-on experience shipping conversational and agentic products, including a travel itinerary assistant, a multi-agent data analysis platform, and a self-correcting RAG system. Also brings academic research depth from Syracuse University, where they helped develop tiny-LLM-based IoT threat mitigation and presented an accepted paper at FLAIRS 39.”

“Full-stack engineer who architected a university-wide assessment reporting platform integrating rich-text inputs, Oracle data, SSO, and bulk PDF generation. Stands out for pragmatic decision-making in low-dependency environments, strong collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, and hands-on performance work that improved banking page load times by up to 80% at Dapi.”

“Master’s thesis engineer who built and deployed a continuous real-time perception + state estimation + control loop under tight latency constraints, owning both software architecture and hardware integration. Strong ROS 2 fundamentals with a systems-first approach—stabilizes robotic behavior by instrumenting, logging/replaying real data, and fixing timing/synchronization issues rather than treating failures as purely algorithmic.”

“Built and deployed production LLM applications including a natural-language-to-read-only-SQL system focused on ambiguity handling and query safety (schema whitelisting, intent validation, confidence checks, deterministic execution). Experienced with LangChain-based, modular agent orchestration and RAG document QA for large PDFs, with a metrics-driven testing/evaluation approach and cross-functional delivery with marketing on an AI content recommendation/search tool.”

Ahmad Alomari

Screened

Senior Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and production ML

Cleveland, OH7y exp

“PhD in computer engineering who has built production-oriented ML/NLP systems for space-weather prediction using Spark-based ETL on noisy satellite sensor logs. Strong in entity resolution and semantic search—fine-tuned E5 embeddings with contrastive learning and deployed to Pinecone, improving top-5 retrieval precision by 25%—and emphasizes scalable, observable pipelines with Airflow, Docker, and CI/CD.”

ROHITH DAMARLA

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in high-scale systems and LLM pipelines

Syracuse, NY6y exp

“Open-source-focused TypeScript/JavaScript engineer who built a lightweight Node.js utility library to standardize LLM-agent message formatting, tool invocation, and safe schema-validated JSON outputs. Emphasizes composable abstractions, real-world performance profiling/benchmarks, and strong community feedback loops (GitHub issues, structured errors, logging hooks). Also did research at Syracuse University on converting natural language into structured JSON with validation layers.”

Negasa Yahi

Screened

Mid-level Robotics & Controls Engineer specializing in autonomous vehicle motion planning

Greensboro, NC9y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on UAV multi-agent collision avoidance, combining Behavior Trees with MPC and validating in a ROS-based simulator via PX4 hardware-in-the-loop. Has hands-on experience debugging real-time estimation/control issues (EKF noise/arming failures), building distributed ROS service architectures, and smoothing MPC trajectories to meet kinematic and FAA right-of-way constraints.”

Suma Mallu

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in UI/UX and AI-integrated web apps

Remote1y exp

“Built and owned Python backend APIs for real-time educational dashboards at ASU’s Machine Learning lab, improving responsiveness by cutting latency ~35% through caching, batching, and profiling-driven optimizations. Has hands-on experience containerizing Node.js/Python services and running GitOps-style CI/CD with GitHub Actions, plus supporting smaller infrastructure transitions with reproducible, portable configs.”

Kishan Kumar Reddy Konreddy

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud platforms

2y exp

“Software engineer (Lance Soft Engineering) who built a Java/gRPC real-time request tracking system supporting ~20K simultaneous requests, using Kafka event streaming and PostgreSQL to improve transparency and cut support requests by 35%. Demonstrates strong production operations skills—resolved live latency spikes with Kafka async messaging (+48% throughput) and executed safe migrations using parallel runs, staging validation, and blue-green deployments.”

Erick Ortega

Screened

Junior Embedded & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in Edge AI and QA automation

Raleigh, NC2y exp

“Built a Meta-style AI smart glasses system emphasizing on-device privacy and low-latency processing, spanning ESP32-S3/FreeRTOS firmware through an NVIDIA Jetson Linux edge-AI pipeline in Python/Docker. Strong in real-time streaming optimization (zero-copy GDMA, deterministic scheduling), encrypted transmission (AES-256), and reliability via stress testing and robust error handling; currently building CI/CD automation tests using Playwright and computer vision.”