Vetted Researchers

“Longtime early-stage startup operator (since 1998) now running a solo consulting practice focused on SaaS infrastructure and platform strategy. Former angel investor in a medical information SaaS company that went public, with a strong focus on making prototype/demo systems enterprise-ready through efficiency, reliability, and performance improvements, and a nuanced view of how AI/LLMs may change engineering team models.”

“Cross-functional operator with experience coordinating a medical device build across functions and time zones, emphasizing executive alignment and decision sign-off. Has also standardized customer-site product deployment processes and streamlined investment screening/reporting using Bloomberg and Excel automation to enable faster executive decision-making.”

“CMU robotics PhD/PhD researcher and former CMU Robotics Club project lead who built a novel Bayes-filter-based system to localize within music so robotic instruments can follow a human’s tempo in real time. Also works on simulation-heavy multi-agent vehicle routing with traffic-signal scheduling, optimizing for real-time performance via profiling, multithreading, and neural-network surrogates for signal control.”

“LLMOps-focused technical leader who took an LLM use case from prototype to production for a non-technical customer by combining trust-building and structured enablement with a robust AWS/Kubernetes-based MLOps stack. Built observability and rollback mechanisms (Grafana + MLflow) to troubleshoot in real time, and scaled delivery by hiring a 5-person team while partnering with sales to manage expectations and drive adoption across departments.”

“Robotics software engineer with Stanford coursework and Georgia Tech research experience, focused on end-to-end autonomy for mobile manipulation and real-time planning under uncertainty. Built a ROS 2 LoCoBot system combining Gemini speech-to-text, YOLO-based RGB-D perception, navigation, and grasping with robust synchronization/TF fixes, and developed an information-theoretic UGV planner for radiological source localization validated via Monte Carlo simulation.”

“Backend engineer who evolved the X-Ray gaming analytics platform, leading a zero-downtime MongoDB→AWS DocumentDB migration with dual-write, checksum-based validation, and Kubernetes canary rollouts while maintaining real-time monitoring for millions of concurrent sessions. Strong in FastAPI/Python API scaling and performance tuning (cut latency from ~2s to <150ms and reduced DB load 90%) plus production-grade auth/RLS security patterns (JWT, Supabase Auth, PostgreSQL RLS).”

“Robotics/ML engineer (Stanford project) who built a full Python-based RL grasping pipeline for an anthropomorphic tactile hand in MuJoCo, implementing SAC + behavioral cloning and proposing curriculum experiments; second author on an ICRCA 2026 submission. Hands-on with ROS 2 integration for Flexiv Rizon 4 and LEAP Hand, and uses Docker/Distrobox to manage complex CUDA/OS constraints while running training and production-style inference/retraining workflows.”

“Robotics/ML engineer with hands-on experience building multimodal waypoint prediction for autonomous driving using CLIP + LidarCLIP embeddings and PyTorch, including nuScenes data pipelines and baseline modeling. Also built ROS 2 nodes for TurtleBot maze navigation with an image-classification pipeline, and has Caterpillar experience doing dSPACE HIL testing with MATLAB/Simulink plant models for engine software validation.”

“Operations-focused leader with experience spanning client delivery, sales operations, and longer-term customer success initiatives at a reputation analytics firm and at Penta. Known for implementing systems (ClickUp, Salesforce/HubSpot, marketing tech) and rigorous reporting rhythms that improve executive visibility, accountability, and data-driven resource allocation; also supported an acquisition by preparing confidential financial documentation and contracts.”