Vetted C Professionals

Pavan Devulapalle

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms and AI-integrated full-stack development

Seattle, WA3y exp

“Backend engineer who built Flask-based internal APIs supporting GenAI-driven provisioning/diagnostics (Outpost/AWS Outposts-like environment), with deep hands-on optimization across Postgres/SQLAlchemy (2s to <200ms endpoint improvement). Experienced integrating ML/LLM workflows via AWS SageMaker and Bedrock, and designing multi-tenant isolation plus high-throughput Redis-backed background task pipelines (minutes to seconds).”

“Robotics software engineer working on an electric seaglider autonomy/perception stack on NVIDIA Orin, tackling multi-modal operating constraints (5–10 knots float mode up to ~100 knots flight). Previously built a ROS-based multi-robot search-and-rescue system, including navigation integrated with SLAM/task allocation/perception, and improved real-world performance by switching to a 2D planner with a velocity-obstacles controller to handle slip and timing uncertainty.”

“CTO-level technology leader with experience building end-to-end tech strategy and roadmaps, modernizing legacy environments in healthcare (GenesisCare), and scaling engineering into large global teams (Amadeus). Built a DevOps organization at Syniverse for the Visibility Suite, implementing Kubernetes/Terraform/Chef automation that drove ~75% faster deployments, and is known for staying hands-on (including data center work) while leading strategically.”

Vignesh Shanmugasundaram

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development and applied ML

New York, NY2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Zoho and Amazon who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a monolith-to-microservices migration using Kafka and Cassandra that improved search latency ~25% and increased throughput without data loss. Also built a hackathon project (Buildwise) into a sold product for a construction company (AI-driven document compliance checks) and shipped an IoT-based parking availability MVP in 3 weeks.”

Aishwarya Sheelvant

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Junior Backend & Data Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and ML pipelines

Atlanta, GA2y exp

“Built a GenAI/RAG-based ESG questionnaire-answering agent at C3.ai, including a React dashboard with role-based access and human-in-the-loop verification by showing supporting source paragraphs. Reported outcomes included cutting a 4–5 week manual process down to about a week (~90% labor reduction) and a client-reported ESG rank improvement from 7th to 3rd.”

“Built and productionized a multi-agent LLM analytics assistant at eBay that routes natural-language questions to retrieval or text-to-SQL, dynamically retrieves relevant schemas via a vector DB, and executes against a data warehouse. Drove a major quality lift (text-to-SQL accuracy 60%→85%) and materially reduced time engineers/PMs spent getting data insights through strong eval/monitoring, tracing, and reliability-focused design (schema retrieval, strict JSON outputs, retries/clarifications).”

“Backend/AI systems engineer who has shipped production LLM agents focused on prompt engineering, code generation, and incident-response automation. Stands out for combining strong agent orchestration and reliability engineering with measurable business impact, including 60-70% cost reductions, 45% lower monthly LLM spend, and a 5x increase in developer iteration speed.”

Alexander Smith

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Junior Software Engineer and Data Scientist specializing in AI/ML systems

California, USA3y exp

“Built production-grade automation and ML/data pipelines at Dun & Bradstreet and ThreadNotion, spanning large-scale document classification, country risk report automation, and resilient Playwright testing for dynamic AI chat workflows. Particularly strong in turning brittle or ambiguous systems into reliable, observable, end-to-end automated platforms.”

Tara Munjuluri

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI systems

Ames, IA3y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with end-to-end ownership experience on internal platforms at John Deere, including a workforce and skills system that cut manual review time by 40%. Brings a strong reliability and compliance mindset across Java/Python microservices, AWS infrastructure, and production operations, and has also built an LLM-powered RAG system over 1M+ records with emphasis on grounded outputs and observability.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on ROS2 motion and calibration systems—built a trajectory generator/low-level controller using TOPPRA that improved robot motion speed by 11x while increasing accuracy. Experienced making high-frequency robot communication more real-time (core isolation) and shipping ROS2 modules via Docker-backed CI/CD, including serving as release manager coordinating reviews, release notes, and QA.”

Benjamin Kozel

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Mid-level Machine Learning & Software Engineer specializing in RAG systems and ML infrastructure

Atlanta, GA4y exp

“Built and deployed an in-house RAG LLM system ("MONTY") using LLaMA 3B + FAISS to help teams quickly understand long internal/external specifications. Delivered usable production performance despite severe compute limits (single RTX 3080) by tuning retrieval/reranking and model choice, and is planning a LightRAG/knowledge-graph rewrite to improve accuracy and latency.”

Shuju Sun

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in real-time data pipelines and ML deployment

PA, USA4y exp

“Ticketmaster data engineer who built CDC-driven Kafka pipelines feeding Snowflake for analytics and data science teams. Hands-on in production operations—scaled Kafka during sudden playoff-driven transaction spikes and improved monitoring for preemptive scaling. Known for using small-batch experiments and quantitative metrics to align stakeholders and drive cost-saving architecture changes (e.g., buffering to reduce AWS Lambda invocation frequency).”

Peter Greer

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Senior Gameplay/AI Engineer specializing in Unreal Engine game AI systems

San Ramon, CA6y exp

“Senior Software Engineer with deep Game AI expertise (often the primary AI specialist on the team) who shipped a player-bot system in an Unreal-based battle royale to fill matchmaking gaps, reducing off-hours queue times and improving retention. Also owned complex multiplayer match-start/drop-sequence synchronization and has experience optimizing core gameplay systems (e.g., line-of-sight calculations) on Call of Duty at Infinity Ward.”

“Second most active contributor at Daice Labs, owning a production AI-powered software development collaboration platform’s end-to-end execution infrastructure (TypeScript/Next.js backend, Node.js CLI, shared libs). Built the full multi-agent pipeline (planning/codegen/summary), Supabase-backed context assembly and realtime state, Git/GitHub automation, and a provider-agnostic LLM abstraction with strict Zod validation and retries, backed by extensive tests and design specs.”

“Frontend developer/designer who built an in-house real estate dashboard for Okhara & Company, owning the flow from Figma design through React implementation and production iteration. Worked in a small team environment, focused on turning complex backend outputs into usable, polished interfaces with responsive design, PWA support, and performance optimizations.”