Vetted C Professionals

“Backend/integration-focused software engineer who built and debugged a complex location modeling system (data pipelines, APIs, optimization logic connected to a dashboard). No direct ROS/robotics experience yet, but demonstrates strong distributed-systems debugging, containerized deployment (Docker), and CI/CD/testing practices and is actively looking to pivot into robotics software.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on climate/emissions data platforms, building production Python (FastAPI) microservices and AWS serverless/ETL pipelines (Glue/Athena/Lambda/EventBridge). Demonstrated strong reliability and observability practices plus measurable optimization wins, including cutting PostgreSQL query runtimes from minutes to seconds and reducing AWS costs from ~$6k/month to ~$400/month.”

“Software engineer with demonstrated production performance wins (37% latency reduction) through SQL optimization, backend API redesign, and disciplined rollout practices (staging, feature flags). Experienced debugging distributed pipeline issues across infrastructure layers (memory pressure and network timeouts) and building AWS-based systems (Lambda + RDS) to handle request spikes, including work on a business-focused chatbot.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG and agentic systems end-to-end (LangChain/FAISS, OpenAI+Gemini, FastAPI, Docker, Streamlit), focusing on retrieval quality and low-latency performance. Also partnered with a non-technical PM at deepNow to deliver a forecasting + summarization pipeline for daily market insights with iterative prototyping and a simple UI.”

“Application-focused engineer who has shipped end-to-end products across mobile and web, including a music-based dating app feature for sending searchable/previewable songs in chat and a geospatial events service integrating external APIs. Demonstrates strong product + engineering instincts: performance-minded PostgreSQL modeling, Dockerized deployments with env-based config, and UX/accessibility polish backed by user studies, plus hands-on incident mitigation using Vercel logs.”

“UE5 gameplay scripter focused on shipping-quality, player-facing systems in Blueprints—recently built a pickup-and-throw mechanic end-to-end with animation/physics integration, robust edge-case handling, and QA/debug tooling. Emphasizes modular, data-driven architecture for designer-friendly tuning, and uses Unreal/Blueprint profiling plus event-driven patterns to keep systems performant and scalable.”

“Robotics software contributor from Binghamton University’s drone research lab who built a Dockerized, multithreaded Python control stack integrating Crazyflie firmware for low-latency, real-time coordination of multiple drones. Hands-on with telemetry/command pipelines, profiling and control-loop optimization, and wireless comms using CrazyRadio PA.”

“Robotics software engineer who built an assistive Kinova Gen3 manipulation system for activities of daily living, spanning RealSense+ArUco perception, MoveIt2-based motion planning/task sequencing, and a React Native tablet UI with rosbridge and voice control. Optimized real-robot trajectories by blending OMPL with Cartesian/PILZ planning and created simulation workflows to test without lab/robot availability.”

“Robotics software engineer with ROS 2 Humble/Nav2 experience on a warehouse robot fleet, focused on improving throughput in dynamic human environments. Implemented C++ local-planner and velocity-control changes using LiDAR-based motion prediction and real-time costmap tuning under a 20ms control loop, and built a Gazebo digital twin with custom failure-injection plugins plus Docker/Kubernetes deployment tooling.”

“Built a university campus assistant chatbot (BabyJ/WWJ) using RAG and agentic routing with a FastAPI + React stack and JWT auth, focusing heavily on production concerns like latency and reliability. Uses techniques like speculative prefetching, smart intent routing, and rigorous eval/testing (golden sets, regression, edge cases) while collaborating closely with campus admin/advising teams to iterate based on real user feedback.”

“Unity gameplay programmer who modified A* pathfinding with controlled cost randomization (noise + local crowd density) to make grid-based agent movement feel more natural and less robotic, iterating via hands-on simulation tuning. Also built a Soccer Stars-style turn-based multiplayer prototype using Photon with lobby and matchmaking, and uses Copilot/ChatGPT to accelerate implementation.”

“Software engineering intern who built and deployed a full-stack telemedicine platform (React/Node/MongoDB) used daily in a pediatric clinic, incorporating PyTorch-based predictive features. Demonstrated strong customer-facing iteration and production performance debugging—resolved a live slowdown by indexing/optimizing MongoDB queries and adding caching, improving response times by ~50%.”

“Early-career/out-of-college CS candidate with practical backend-adjacent experience in a wine storage business: helped shift client intake from Constant Contact to a website form and supported an internal migration to Storable Edge with Dropbox-based backups. Also has academic experience debugging a custom programming language/type system, catching an edge case that broke type definitions and caused crashes.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on reliability in real-time sensor pipelines and ROS/ROS2 integration, with hands-on experience hardening systems against noisy data, dropouts, and network variability. Uses ROS introspection tools plus simulation (Gazebo/Webots) to diagnose latency and stability issues before hardware deployment, and supports repeatable rollouts via Docker and CI/CD.”

“Internship-built full-stack systems spanning HR employee-record portals and internal data-quality dashboards (Flask + SQL + React), emphasizing data integrity and rapid MVP iteration. Also implemented Flask microservices with RabbitMQ for distributed task processing, addressing duplication/ordering issues with idempotency, durable queues, and correlation-ID logging; delivered quantified productivity gains for HR teams.”

“Built an end-to-end car maintenance application from design through deployment using TypeScript/React with a Node.js + Firebase backend, including OBD integration. Uses mock servers and a layered frontend architecture (UI/state/services separation) to iterate quickly on UX without being blocked by backend or hardware dependencies.”

“Backend engineer at Hexanika who owned a real-time fraud-detection platform: built Django microservices, integrated a GenAI anomaly-scoring model, and optimized data/infra for low-latency production (including ~40% query-latency reduction). Experienced running containerized services on AWS/GCP with Kubernetes/GKE, GitHub Actions-based CI/CD + GitOps, and building Pub/Sub streaming pipelines and on-prem-to-cloud migrations.”

“Backend engineer who built and scaled a FastAPI-based backend for an AI-driven maintenance system automating vendor sourcing/bidding/communication. Emphasizes async, message-driven architecture with strong observability and state-machine-driven workflows, plus robust webhook/idempotency patterns to prevent duplicate/out-of-order events from causing bad bids or state changes.”