Vetted Research Assistants

“Built and productionized a MediCloud/Medicoud LLM microservice platform that lets clinicians query medical data in natural language, orchestrating multi-step RAG-style workflows with LangChain and evaluating/debugging with LangSmith. Delivered measurable gains (consistency ~70%→90% / +20%; latency ~2.0s→1.1s / -40%) by implementing structured prompts, fallback logic across multiple LLMs, hybrid retrieval tuning, and AWS Lambda performance optimizations (package size, async, caching).”

“Built and deployed a production bilingual (Bengali/English) AI virtual assistant that replaced IVR for telecom customer service at massive scale (~15M users), integrating ASR/TTS, Rasa dialogue management, and custom NLP. Overcame low-resource Bengali data and noisy call-center audio with synthetic data augmentation and transformer fine-tuning, achieving significant production gains including ~50% reduction in support calls.”

“Built production-style backend and AI systems across internship and project work, including a real-time sports platform backend and a Smart Email Assistant using GPT-4. Stands out for combining classic backend performance engineering with practical LLM workflow design, including measurable latency improvements, high uptime, and debugging of non-deterministic model behavior.”

“Frontend-focused candidate with hands-on experience building a technically demanding AI-assisted survey/copilot interface at VSorts.ai while working as a research assistant at ODU. They show strong practical judgment around React architecture, TypeScript safety, and performance tuning, including diagnosing context-driven re-render issues and improving UX in real-time interactive applications.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong TypeScript/Firebase and MongoDB depth who has built research and student-scale systems end-to-end, including GCP data pipelines and Dockerized microservices. Particularly interesting for stepping beyond a frontend remit to build NLP models with NLTK that are actively used in an academic research project's Phase 2, showing initiative and real downstream impact.”

“Research-background candidate who built and maintained a browser-based lab website showcasing publications, projects, and member profiles. They have hands-on experience migrating from local JSON/image storage to a Supabase-backed architecture, with a strong focus on frontend performance, caching, and monitoring using Chrome DevTools and Vercel.”

Jithin Mathew

Screened

Mid-level Robotics & Embedded Systems Research Engineer specializing in edge AI for precision agriculture

Fargo, ND5y exp

“Robotics lead engineer (PhD/agriculture research context) who built and iterated a three-unit, wirelessly coordinated greenhouse data-collection robot—solving real-world alignment and comms reliability issues by redesigning the rail/gear system and moving from RF to ESP Wi-Fi with MAC-addressed control. Strong embedded C/C++ background with full-stack robot control implemented from scratch; beginning exposure to ROS 2 via an upcoming field deployment.”

Hitha Sunkara

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in web apps and machine learning

Long Beach, CA3y exp

“Built and organized SQL databases for a grocery pricing update backend and has hands-on experience designing FastAPI/Python APIs with security controls like authentication, RBAC, and strict validation. Also brings research experience identifying real-world failure modes (weather-driven sensor/model inaccuracies in MSE wall corrosion work) and adapting models to improve robustness, plus UI design support on an email-restricted campus hackathon enrollment flow.”

“Analytics and automation candidate with experience delivering data and AI solutions for major public-sector and enterprise clients including STC, Abu Dhabi Ports, and the Ministry of Culture. They combine SQL, Python OCR pipelines, dashboards, and cloud LLMs to turn messy unstructured data into scalable workflows, with reported impact including 70% faster document processing and 80-85% reduction in manual resume screening.”