Vetted C Professionals

“Master’s thesis researcher building an intelligent fault diagnosis and predictive maintenance stack for autonomous quadcopters—covering simulation-based fault injection, signal processing (Id/Iq), ML fault classification, and real-time edge deployment on Raspberry Pi with Hailo-8 acceleration. Previously delivered production C++ middleware/microservices at Accolite and has hands-on experience with constrained networking via a LoRaWAN IoT communication stack.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on autonomy stacks for high-payload AMRs using ROS2/Nav2, with hands-on expertise in SLAM/localization and sensor fusion (RTK GPS, IMU, wheel odom, ZED2) to eliminate drift and stabilize real-time behavior on deployed hardware. Also built multi-robot coordination in ROS2/Gazebo and uses Docker + Git/CI-style testing to create reproducible simulation-to-hardware pipelines.”

“Robotics software engineer who built an autonomous debris-clearing rover software stack end-to-end using ROS 2, Python/OpenCV, and YOLOv3, with strong emphasis on real-time reliability (latency instrumentation, stale-data handling, watchdog fail-safes). Also implemented a Docker CI/CD deployment system for remote Raspberry Pi timelapse devices, distributing updates via AWS S3 to handle intermittent connectivity.”

“Built and deployed an agentic RAG platform at Centene Health to support healthcare claims and complaints workflows (Q&A for claims agents, executive complaint summarization, and compliance triage/classification). Experienced in LangChain/LangGraph orchestration, production deployment on AWS with FastAPI/Docker/Kubernetes, and implementing HIPAA-compliant guardrails to reduce hallucinations and ensure explainable outputs.”

“Unity developer with experience building an optimized comic-reader/content delivery system for Marvel HQ using Addressables—avoiding bulk downloads and dynamically loading/unloading pages to reduce mobile memory/disk usage and improve runtime performance. Also has multiplayer experience using server-authoritative Netcode with prediction and deterministic battle behavior, including real-time kinematic body tracking, and leverages AI tools (Cursor/Manus) to speed prototyping and refactoring.”

“Built and deployed a scalable, production-ready LLM knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (LangChain + vector store/FAISS) to replace keyword search for internal documents. Demonstrates hands-on expertise in hallucination reduction and retrieval quality improvements through semantic chunking, similarity tuning, prompt design, and human-in-the-loop validation, plus strong stakeholder communication via demos and visual explanations.”

“Junior engineer who built a novel, highly-performant database explorer at Electric Capital: a TypeScript/React UI backed by Zig-compiled WebAssembly that loads data locally for fast filtering/sorting and responsive lazy loading, with CI/CD and Cloudflare-based auth. Also led graphics work on a WebGPU browser game engine capstone, creating TypeScript abstractions over WGSL/shader and GPU buffer complexity to accelerate teammates.”

“Unity game developer focused on single-player casual/hyper-casual titles for TV and mobile platforms. Built an event-driven, modular progression/time-access system spanning rewards and monetization (daily rewards, subscriptions, one-time offers) and emphasizes mobile performance optimization using Unity Profiler, pooling, memory tuning, and Addressables; uses AI to prototype/validate time-based system approaches.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on ROS2 autonomy stacks, with hands-on work spanning semantic 3D SLAM, sensor fusion, and controller customization. Built an indoor GPS-denied semantic SLAM system (>95% accuracy) and extended Nav2’s MPPI controller with a custom C++ critic to keep an agricultural rover centered in crop rows, boosting CO2 laser weeding effectiveness by 40%. Strong in simulation-to-real workflows (Isaac Sim, Gazebo Ignition) and deployment automation (Docker on Jetson Orin NX, GitHub Actions CI/CD).”

“Entry-level robotics software engineer/team lead with hands-on experience spanning multi-robot UAV simulation (Gazebo + PX4 SITL) and autonomous vehicle stack integration (ROS2 Humble + Autoware Universe). Has tackled real-time perception optimization (OpenCV + custom deep learning) and built robust cross-protocol communication interfaces to connect ROS2 systems with embedded ESP32 devices.”

“Backend-focused engineer who owned an AI mentoring workflow platform built in Django with LangGraph multi-agent orchestration, optimizing it to stay under 200ms latency while scaling past 1,200 active users using profiling, caching, load testing, and OpenTelemetry-style tracing. Also has hands-on experience containerizing and deploying Python/ML services to AWS ECS via GitHub Actions/GitOps, and building reliable real-time pipelines with webhooks and Redis queues (idempotency, backpressure, DLQ).”

“Full-stack engineer focused on data-heavy platforms, building Spring Boot microservices and Angular/React dashboards end-to-end. Has hands-on experience improving large-scale API and UI performance (including cutting 8–10s response times) and ensuring cross-service consistency using Kafka, idempotent consumers, and strong validation/transaction patterns on AWS with CI/CD and observability (Prometheus/ELK).”

“Full-stack engineer who built a cloud-native customer servicing platform at Synchrony using React 18/Next.js (SSR) and Spring Boot microservices on AWS. Experienced with high-volume, event-driven systems (Lambda/SNS/SQS) and strong distributed-systems rigor around data integrity (idempotency, DynamoDB conditional writes) plus production-grade security/observability (JWT/OAuth2, WAF, Actuator, Splunk).”

“Software engineer with enterprise, customer-facing delivery experience across Outlier AI and Wipro—builds and productionizes workflow and integration solutions with a strong focus on real-world performance and reliability. Delivered a Firestore/Redis-backed real-time pipeline that cut page load times by 20% and held consistent performance across 10,000+ sessions, and has hands-on production incident experience stabilizing high-traffic microservices via caching, indexing, and safe canary deployments.”

“Robotics software engineer who built a ROS/C++ workcell stack to automate coating wooden panels with a 6-DOF arm, including trajectory generation, MoveIt/OMPL planning, and a single launch/config setup that runs in both Gazebo and on real hardware. Strong in debugging real-world planning failures (e.g., intermittent aborted/no-plan regions) through logging, planner swaps, and collision/kinematics tuning, and in designing modular ROS/ROS2 systems with versioned interfaces and translation layers for heterogeneous robots.”

“Backend engineer who built an Emergency Alert System with Virginia Tech for the City of Alexandria, focusing on real-time ingestion, secure dashboards, and AI-assisted prioritization. Emphasizes high-stakes reliability with guardrails (hybrid rules+LLM, confidence-based fallbacks), scalable async processing, and defense-in-depth security (JWT/RBAC plus database row-level security).”

“Backend/AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including an AI request-routing service (FastAPI + BART MNLI + OpenAI/Gemini) that improved accuracy ~25% after launch via eval-driven prompt/category iteration. Also built an enterprise document intelligence/RAG platform on Azure (Blob/SharePoint/Teams ingestion, OCR/NLP chunking, embeddings in Azure Cognitive Search) with PII guardrails (Presidio), confidence gating, and scalable event-driven pipelines handling millions of documents.”

“Early-stage engineer with hands-on embedded prototyping experience (Arduino/Raspberry Pi) who helped build an award-winning smart glasses project enabling phone notifications via Bluetooth. Strong computer vision performance optimization background, including accelerating 120 FPS inference by moving from TensorFlow to PyTorch and deploying through ONNX + TensorRT quantization, plus Docker-based GPU deployment and CI/ML practices.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup (AirKitchenz) who owned the hourly booking/availability and first paid booking flow end-to-end—React/TypeScript frontend, Node backend, Postgres modeling, and Stripe payments/webhooks. Experienced operating production on AWS (EC2/Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, RDS, CloudWatch) and building reliable, idempotent integrations while iterating quickly in a pre-PMF environment through direct host/renter feedback.”

“Entrepreneurial product builder who has shipped two live App Store apps (Pixo content-based product marketing platform and Clutch AI dating reply helper). Also helped build a real-estate seller platform end-to-end, using AI matching to find buyers and contributing to onboarding nearly paying users and generating active MRR.”

“Robotics software builder who delivered an end-to-end gesture-controlled drone system using an ESP32+IMU stream and real-time ML inference mapped to Tello SDK commands. Drove reliability improvements by instrumenting the pipeline with timestamps/logging and matching training vs runtime preprocessing, reaching ~94% gesture classification accuracy; experienced with Docker/Compose for reproducible multi-service deployments.”

“Built a fault-tolerant distributed IoT sensor network on Raspberry Pi using a token-ring protocol, implementing leader election, timeout-based failure detection, and dynamic reconfiguration when nodes drop mid-round. Focused on reliability and data integrity, including exactly-once processing semantics backed by a MySQL backend and socket-level instrumentation to debug real-time coordination issues.”

“Stony Brook Fall 2024 capstone contributor who built a ROS2-based warehouse mobile robot prototype, owning perception and SLAM integration end-to-end. Strong in real-time robotics optimization on Jetson Orin (TensorRT/CUDA, ROS2 tracing/Nsight) and in distributed ROS2 communications (DDS discovery/QoS, MAVLink-to-ROS2 bridging), with a full simulation/testing/deployment toolchain (Gazebo, CI tests, Docker/K3s).”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG chatbots using LangChain/OpenAI with FAISS and FastAPI, focusing on real-world constraints like context windows, concurrency, and latency (reported ~40% latency reduction and <2s average response). Experienced orchestrating AI pipelines with Celery and fault-tolerant long-running workflows with Temporal, and has applied NLP model tradeoff testing (Word2Vec vs BERT) to drive measurable accuracy gains.”