Vetted Research Assistants

“Full-stack and AI product engineer who built and deployed two end-to-end projects: TrekTale, a travel story management app, and PromptCraft Finance, an AI-powered financial assistant using multiple open-source LLMs. Particularly strong in turning ambiguous product ideas into modular, production-oriented systems with typed frontend/backend contracts, multi-model inference pipelines, structured outputs, and monitoring for latency, reliability, and regressions.”

Parth Shroff

Screened

Entry-level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in AI and cloud applications

Remote, USA1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has independently owned and shipped educational web products from concept through launch, including an AI-powered thermodynamics tutoring app and a physics learning platform tied to research publication. Strong in React plus AWS serverless architecture, with a clear pattern of working directly with non-technical stakeholders, iterating from user feedback, and maintaining production systems end-to-end.”

“New-grad backend engineer and researcher with a first-author EMNLP publication, where they built an LLM-powered pipeline to analyze 10,000+ paragraphs of AI policy documents for DoD-funded research. Also independently building a custom C++ game engine, showing strong zero-to-one ownership and systems-level performance optimization.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built and refactored a production RAG system over IRS Form 990 filings for 60 nonprofits, using a dual-path architecture (deterministic financial ranking + TF-IDF semantic retrieval) to keep latency sub-2s and reduce hallucinations. Demonstrates strong API craftsmanship in FastAPI (contract-first, OpenAPI-driven) plus production-grade security for multi-tenant systems (JWT, RBAC, Supabase-style RLS) and careful migration practices (feature flags, traffic mirroring, incremental rollout).”

“Built and productionized LLM-powered workflows that generate contextual insights from structured financial data, including prompt/retrieval design, data standardization, and reliability controls like rate limiting and batching. Also diagnosed and fixed real-time failures in an automated order validation system using logs/metrics, staging reproduction, edge-case handling, retries, and alerting, while supporting sales/customer teams with demos, scripts, and FAQs to drive adoption.”

Dinmukhamet Murat

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Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in industrial automation and 3D perception

Almaty, Kazakhstan2y exp

“Robotics software engineer at Quant Robotics focused on perception for automated welding/assembly cells, working with LMI Co-Cutter 3D sensors and point-cloud registration. Previously implemented ROS 2 Humble navigation on a Clearpath Jackal by rewriting the NAV2 local controller with a constrained NMPC approach, optimizing for low-latency behavior via C++ and GPU offload. Hands-on with industrial ABB robots (IRB 6700/2600), multi-frame calibration, simulation in Gazebo/RViz, and Docker-based deployment/testing workflows.”

“Unity/C# developer who built and shipped a live 2D cooking game (shawarma/pasta/drinks/chips) from scratch. Implemented multi-touch interactions to support simultaneous tasks and uses Firebase Analytics to diagnose low retention and drive engagement-focused updates (unlock/progression and timing tuning).”

“Backend/integration-focused software engineer who built and debugged a complex location modeling system (data pipelines, APIs, optimization logic connected to a dashboard). No direct ROS/robotics experience yet, but demonstrates strong distributed-systems debugging, containerized deployment (Docker), and CI/CD/testing practices and is actively looking to pivot into robotics software.”

“Built a university campus assistant chatbot (BabyJ/WWJ) using RAG and agentic routing with a FastAPI + React stack and JWT auth, focusing heavily on production concerns like latency and reliability. Uses techniques like speculative prefetching, smart intent routing, and rigorous eval/testing (golden sets, regression, edge cases) while collaborating closely with campus admin/advising teams to iterate based on real user feedback.”

“Built and shipped production AI features in the automotive dealership domain, including an end-to-end computer-vision damage detection system for trade-ins and a tool-calling, RAG-enabled LotSync AI Agent that answers inventory/VIN questions using strict schemas and internal APIs to avoid hallucinations. Also developed a Dagster + Oracle automated reporting pipeline as a Graduate Research Assistant, supporting 15+ university departments with normalized, reliable ETL workflows.”

Ekta Mulkalwar

Screened

Junior Machine Learning & Full-Stack Engineer specializing in applied AI systems

Los Angeles, CA2y exp

“Master’s thesis focused on building and deploying a gait-based biometric authentication system using mobile accelerometer time-series data as an alternative to passwords/2FA. Emphasized real-world robustness by addressing sensor noise and variability (phone placement, walking speed, footwear) and improving safety using biometric metrics like FAR/FRR and EER, while collaborating closely with a non-ML thesis advisor.”

“Internship-built full-stack systems spanning HR employee-record portals and internal data-quality dashboards (Flask + SQL + React), emphasizing data integrity and rapid MVP iteration. Also implemented Flask microservices with RabbitMQ for distributed task processing, addressing duplication/ordering issues with idempotency, durable queues, and correlation-ID logging; delivered quantified productivity gains for HR teams.”

“Python backend developer from Larix Technologies who built and scaled microservice APIs for an omnichannel messaging SaaS (WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook) and led production performance fixes during peak traffic, cutting webhook latency ~50%. Also shipped applied AI products end-to-end: a RAG-based PDF assistant (LangChain + Mixtral via Groq + React) and a BI agent that plans/executes/verifies multi-step analytics with strong guardrails and auditability.”