Vetted Bash Professionals

“Robotics software engineer focused on autonomous eVTOL operations, including simulated autonomous ship deck landing using ROS2 Humble with perception (AprilTags) and motion planning under aircraft dynamics constraints. Has hands-on experience with multi-robot coordination, SLAM sensor-fusion fixes, and distributed robot networking (LTE + VPN), plus embedded data capture on Jetson AGX Orin and advanced control methods (MPC/CBF, differentiable learning).”

“Autonomous robotics student who built an end-to-end ROS2 semantic goal navigation system as a solo course project, integrating CLIP-based vision-language understanding with SLAM Toolbox and Nav2 to execute natural-language commands in Gazebo/RViz. Also implemented and tuned an RRT planner from scratch in Python and uses Docker plus GitHub workflows for reproducible, tested robotics codebases.”

“Built an AI journaling app at HackCU 2025 featuring a speaking AI avatar with long-term memory via RAG (ChromaDB) and low-latency microservices coordinated through Kafka, including deployment under AMD/non-CUDA constraints using a quantized Llama 8B model. Also has Goldman Sachs experience deploying a Trade UI on Kubernetes with CI/CD rollback automation, plus a healthcare AI internship at CU Anschutz collaborating closely with physicians on diagnostic reasoning and dataset annotation.”

“AI/ML engineer currently at BlackRock who deployed an AI-powered sentiment analysis microservice into a task management platform to prioritize and escalate high-risk/frustrated tickets from free-text comments. Experienced running production microservices on AWS EKS with Docker/Kubernetes/Helm and provisioning infrastructure via Terraform, with strong MLOps rigor (MLflow evaluation pipelines, canary rollouts, and real-time monitoring) and cross-functional collaboration with product/operations.”

“Software engineer at Capital One who owned and shipped AI-driven personalization and internal insights dashboards end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration with feature flags and tight user feedback loops. Built a TypeScript/React + Spring Boot/Python document automation platform with compute-heavy NLP microservices, async workflows, and production-scale reliability/performance practices (Kafka/RabbitMQ-style queues, Redis caching, tracing).”

“Integration engineer at ES Foundry who led deployment of ELsentinel, a production EL image-based solar cell quality monitoring system using a Swin Transformer classifier (>0.8 F1 across 15+ classes) plus a live real-time prediction dashboard. Strong in solving messy labeling/data-quality problems with process-team collaboration and shipping ML systems despite limited compute/infrastructure.”

“Engineer with banking and industrial/IoT experience who has deployed a payment-processing microservice with zero downtime, handling Protobuf schema evolution and sensitive data migration via dual-write/checksum techniques. Demonstrates strong cross-stack troubleshooting (pinpointed intermittent distributed timeouts to a failing ToR switch port) and customer-facing Python ETL customization using plugin-based parsers and Pydantic validation, plus hands-on monitoring/alerting improvements with operators.”

“Built and deployed an LLM + RAG + memory system on a Furhat social robot, adding continuous face/voice recognition embeddings over WebSockets to enable persistent, natural conversations across sessions. Experienced working around real-world hardware/latency constraints and uses Datadog plus structured debugging/rollback practices for stabilizing customer-facing LLM workflows.”

“Researcher from the University of South Dakota who built a production medical RAG system to help interpret model predictions by retrieving relevant clinical notes and medical literature, overcoming retrieval accuracy and imaging-dataset challenges through semantic chunking and metadata-driven indexing. Also has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and Azure Data Factory, plus a pragmatic approach to LLM evaluation and stakeholder-driven iteration.”

“Cornell master’s student (CS/Stats) focused on research-heavy ML projects: implemented a sparsity-driven RL approach (DAPD + Soft Actor-Critic) that maintained stable learning even with ~95% of weights removed in OpenAI Gym continuous-control tasks. Also worked on diffusion-based computer vision with conditioning and latency-focused U-Net choices, and scaled unsupervised community detection on a 50k-node/800k-edge Reddit graph via BFS subgraph sampling.”

“Data/ML practitioner with experience applying NLP and classical ML to large-scale customer data (2B+ records) for segmentation, prediction, and survey-text classification, delivering measurable business impact (~18% engagement efficiency). Has hands-on entity resolution across multi-source datasets and has built embedding-based semantic search using SentenceBERT + a vector database with domain fine-tuning (~20% relevance improvement), plus production workflow experience with Spark/Airflow and cloud tooling (AWS/Azure).”

“Infrastructure-focused engineer with Vonage experience modernizing early-stage cloud architecture (Terraform modularization, blue-green deployments, containerization, and zero-downtime database migration planning to Aurora). Also built a local end-to-end side project, Vastu AI, combining a custom-trained YOLO model (Roboflow-labeled data) with a locally hosted LLM via Ollama to generate a vastu compliance report from floor-plan images.”

“Robotics software engineer with UC Irvine capstone experience building an autonomous rover end-to-end: ROS 2 navigation (slam_toolbox + Nav2) on Jetson Xavier, depth point-cloud integration for obstacle avoidance, and an on-device speech-to-action interface that converts natural language into Nav2 goals. Also has prior full-time experience integrating a safety assurance decision engine into distributed autonomous drones over secured mesh networks, emphasizing reliable communication under real-world network constraints.”

“Interned at Rivian where they built and deployed a production Whisper-based ASR + LLM real-time event labeling pipeline to help autonomous-vehicle engineers diagnose failures and route issues to triage teams. Also built a stateful multi-agent "Code Partner" developer assistant using LangGraph/LangChain (planner/router/coder/critique/tester) with evaluation, adversarial testing, and stakeholder-friendly communication practices.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 autonomy experience across F1TENTH and Turtlebot platforms, building planning/control behaviors (Pure Pursuit, Follow-the-Gap, emergency braking, PID wall following) and validating in Gazebo/RViz. Also integrated a custom curvature-based speed planning node into Autoware (with AWSIM), demonstrating practical autonomy stack integration and strong debugging of LiDAR pipelines.”

“Backend/automation engineer who led the design of an OOP Python test automation framework for AWS infrastructure (Behave + Jenkins), cutting regression effort from weeks to a 3–4 hour run. Has hands-on cloud and DevOps experience across AWS (boto3, ECS, AMI automation via GitHub Actions) plus data/migration work including on-prem-to-cloud Oracle Retail DB migration with rollback planning and a Kafka + ML fraud-detection streaming pipeline.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building a distributed ticketing system on AWS (Terraform, Go, MySQL) focused on high-concurrency reliability (locks/queues to prevent duplicate ticket confirmations) and load-tested performance. Also independently owned and shipped an Airflow automation script to stop/restart workflows during deployments with email notifications, reducing manual operational effort.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a Dockerized Node.js/TypeScript probabilistic fault-tree analysis service for nuclear safety research deployed on AWS. Also built and operated a FastAPI-based RAG pipeline over 200+ PDFs using FAISS, focusing on low-latency, idempotent workflows and strong observability; experienced with API design and Playwright E2E automation across React/Angular projects.”

“Banking infrastructure engineer who owns large-scale IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) environments with hundreds of LPARs and deep PowerHA/SAN recovery experience. Also builds modern cloud delivery platforms—Azure DevOps/Jenkins CI/CD and Terraform for AWS/Azure (EKS/AKS, networking, security)—bridging legacy mission-critical systems and cloud-native automation.”

“Former software tester with historical exposure to AIX 5.2 and Solaris 9 (circa 2001) and extensive Linux experience dating back to 1994. They indicated their background is primarily in testing and server hardware validation rather than IBM Power/AIX/Solaris operations and migrations.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer with hands-on ownership of large AIX 7.1/7.2 environments (VIOS, HMC/vHMC) supporting enterprise middleware/back-end workloads. Demonstrated real production incident handling: identified CPU entitlement underprovisioning after a DLPAR change and restored performance via live CPU rebalancing, plus PowerHA failover execution and runbook/process hardening. Also builds secure CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab/Azure DevOps with CyberArk) and Terraform IaC with drift management and controlled rollouts.”