Vetted C Professionals

“Robotics software engineer with deep ROS/ROS 2 experience spanning both simulation and real hardware. Led a Master’s thesis building a decentralized multi-robot control stack in ROS 2 (Isaac Sim + Nova Carter), implementing nonlinear MPC (casADI) and RRT* planning with SLAM/3D LiDAR, and tackled tricky frame-convention integration issues. Previously built an autonomous quadruped for first responders (PACRR), integrating LiDAR/RGB-D/IMU sensors and tuning navigation behavior through iterative field testing.”

“AI/back-end engineer at Canon who helped build and operate an internal production LLM platform that acts as a secure middle layer between users and models, defending against jailbreaks/prompt injection while enabling RAG, memory, and grounded responses over company data. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph orchestration, vector DB retrieval, and reliability practices (testing, monitoring, adversarial prompts) to run high-throughput, low-latency AI workflows in production.”

“IT Analyst/research background with hands-on experience deploying and hardening a multi-agent AI support/triage system (ticket ingestion + knowledge-base retrieval) with strong emphasis on reliability and observability. Has debugged real production issues spanning backend services and network latency (sync failures/partial writes) and is comfortable in Linux environments; also has academic exposure to robotics simulation and ROS2.”

“Entrepreneurial technical leader with ~3 decades in R&D/startup environments and proprietary consulting across government and private industry. As Sr Electrical Controls Engineer/IT Director at V-Grid Energy Systems, redesigned gasification automation instrumentation by creating custom PCB multiplexing and ladder-logic drivers, avoiding an estimated ~$2M in CAPEX and reducing per-machine cost to under $200—positioning him well for CTO roles supporting scalable new ventures.”

“Backend engineer with open-source web3.js contributions focused on preventing costly smart-contract execution failures, plus hands-on blockchain startup experience scaling an NFT mint from a test EC2 setup to AWS Lambda/API Gateway under extreme concurrency. Built a multiplayer backend improving tick rate from 40 Hz to 105 Hz using UDP, containerization, and Kubernetes, and has healthcare production support experience across 10+ apps. Also publishes IEEE research papers and produces developer-friendly documentation that accelerates team adoption.”

“Currently at Uplift AI shipping production LLM features that generate personalized growth insights from user reflections using BERT + embeddings + RAG, with strong safety/guardrail practices for sensitive contexts. Also built an end-to-end React Native UGC challenge submission/moderation system that improved repeat submissions and 7-day retention, and has applied rigorous clinical-style evaluation methods on a dental X-ray disease detection project to reduce false negatives.”

“Backend engineer who built a production retrieval-augmented narrative analysis platform for 100-page screenplays using a Node/Express orchestrator and a Python/FastAPI AI engine, including a key redesign from disk-based uploads to in-memory streaming to eliminate Windows file-lock failures. Also led a refactor of a municipal vehicle tracking system into a C-based distributed engine handling 4M+ daily packets with 99.99% data integrity and automation that reduced manual ops by 50%.”

“Robotics software engineer with experience spanning safety-critical embedded medical hardware (low-cost neonatal baby warmer with PID temperature regulation) and advanced multi-robot planning research (belief-space planning with abstraction + MCTS to handle uncertainty). Strong ROS/ROS2 practitioner (Nav2/SLAM Toolbox/MoveIt) who builds custom packages (e.g., Insta360 panoramic imaging) and is hands-on debugging real robots from SLAM/frontier exploration to multi-robot collision avoidance and real-time performance.”

“Unity developer with ~5 years of professional experience who served as the main developer on a shipped Meta Quest VR game (Smash Therapy), handling most of the code and tackling key VR challenges like UI/UX and standalone performance optimization. Also builds AI-driven gameplay systems (e.g., minimax-based unbeatable tic-tac-toe) and leverages AI assistants to speed up routine implementation and brainstorming.”

“Built a production-grade, semi-automated document recognition and classification system for large volumes of scanned PDFs, starting from little/no labeled data and handling highly variable scan quality. Deployed on AWS using SageMaker + Docker and orchestrated on EKS with a microservices design that scales CPU-heavy OCR separately from GPU inference, with strong reliability controls (validation, fallbacks, retries, readiness probes).”

“Machine learning robotics engineer with internship experience deploying object detection and semantic segmentation models to an autonomous vehicle fleet operating in airports and naval docking stations, optimizing with ONNX/TensorRT for NVIDIA Jetson edge deployment. Also built ROS/ROS2-based decentralized multi-drone coordination (TF trees, shared telemetry) validated in Gazebo and networked via Nimbro with sub-10ms latency messaging.”

“UX/Product Designer with end-to-end case-study experience on Verizon personalization, combining deep user research with iterative prototyping to address privacy/data-tracking trust issues and drive measurable conversion impact (estimated 0.5% lift; ~$750K annual revenue). Also designed a Work Safety Management System at Inova Solutions, simplifying complex real-time alerting, compliance, and role-based permission workflows using motion prototypes and progressive disclosure, and collaborates closely with engineers with working HTML/CSS/JavaScript knowledge.”

“Robotics/embedded developer with hands-on ROS 2 and micro-ROS experience on ESP32, building a remote-controlled high-power LED system. Worked across power distribution (buck-boost constant 30V), sensor calibration with real-time data checks, and long-range WiFi connectivity using an omnidirectional antenna achieving 100m+ coverage.”

“Software developer with experience delivering and deploying customer-facing web applications, including an investment-focused platform requiring PostgreSQL/SQL optimization and hierarchical (adjacency list) data modeling. Has integrated payment APIs for a retail/antique shop use case, factoring in rate limits and documentation-driven implementation, and has handled time-sensitive production bugs via rapid replication and hotfix deployment.”

“Backend/applied AI engineer from Cloud Rack Systems who built production GenAI/RAG and data platforms on Azure/Databricks at enterprise scale (2.5M records/day). Known for making LLM systems behave like deterministic services via strict retrieval contracts, citation-based validation, and strong observability—shipping a knowledge assistant used daily by 50+ users while driving hallucinations near zero and materially improving latency and cost.”

“Oracle Software Developer (2+ years) at C3 Business Solutions, a consulting firm building and maintaining ERP applications across Oracle APEX/FDI/Fusion/EBS/OCI. No formal game QA experience yet, but demonstrates practical QA-adjacent skills (test planning, debugging via logs, and detailed bug reporting) and is explicitly looking to transition into a QA Engineer role.”

“Game/VR simulation developer who built and shipped multiple VR training levels (e.g., nursing and scientific method) at VXR Labs, owning level implementation and backend logic. Experienced in Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints prototyping (including a horde mode) and in designing tightly gated, step-based educational experiences while collaborating closely with educators/subject-matter experts to balance realism with VR feasibility.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage EdTech startup building an AI-tutoring product; owns most of a Django REST backend, CI/CD, and key customer-facing features like FERPA-compliant auth, subscription payments, and real-time LaTeX input/rendering. Also built a /rPlace-style real-time multiplayer canvas (PolyPlace) using microservices, WebSockets, and event sourcing, with performance-focused client rendering (zoom/pan/viewport-based updates) and stress testing.”

“Unity/Unreal developer who solo built a cross-platform Unity system for firefighters (master’s thesis) spanning Windows, HoloLens 2, and Android, integrating eye tracking, thermal imaging data streaming, and location tracking. Demonstrated practical problem-solving by working around HoloLens IO limitations via PC-based data streaming, and also built a Unity tower defense prototype with upgrades, economy, difficulty scaling, and sound design.”

“Software engineer with enterprise CPQ/CRM/ERP integration experience (Argano) who owned an end-to-end pricing preview capability deployed on AWS Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and full observability (Prometheus/Grafana). Also built an AI-native research agent using LangChain + Chroma to filter academic papers, reporting ~15 hours/week saved for a professor.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based clinical decision support assistant at MedLib, focused on fast, trustworthy answers from large medical documents. Demonstrates deep practical experience improving retrieval accuracy (semantic chunking + metadata-aware search), controlling hallucinations with grounded generation and thresholds, and adding clinician-requested citations using chunk metadata, with evaluation driven by healthcare professional review.”

“Robotics competition (ABU Robocon) team member who programmed two robots for a rugby-style game, integrating IoT sensors and real-time decision-making. Implemented low-latency, secure inter-robot communication by moving from Bluetooth to ESP8266/NodeMCU WiFi (with Bluetooth as backup) and used OpenCV plus CNN training workflows for vision-related tasks; no practical ROS/ROS2 experience.”