Vetted C Professionals

Anandapadmanabhan Santhosh

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and backend microservices

Bangalore, India1y exp

“Distributed systems engineer (ex-Nykaa, Licious) who built a PBFT-based Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus system in Go for a multi-node banking-style application, including checkpointing and automated failover/leader election. Strong production reliability background with Docker, Jenkins CI/CD, and monitoring/on-call troubleshooting using Grafana and New Relic; no direct ROS/robotics hardware experience yet but has highly transferable multi-node coordination expertise.”

colton childrey

Screened

Senior QA Leader specializing in AAA games, XR platforms, and backend systems

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Game/interactive software QA professional with experience spanning AAA titles (Activision Black Ops 3; Halo 4/Forge) and VR at Meta (The World Beyond). Notable for modernizing QA operations at Lego BrickLink Studio by implementing Testmo and dramatically increasing test coverage and user satisfaction, plus quickly diagnosing and unblocking a critical public-launch issue caused by misconfigured gatekeeper flags.”

“End-to-end deployment owner for Oracle document delivery/print services in a hospital-like production environment, focused on reliability/performance at scale (thousands of systems). Also describes implementing event-driven RAG/agentic LLM workflows with attention to embeddings/index consistency, latency, and measurable improvements in response relevance and operational efficiency.”

“Built Baioniq, an enterprise LLM platform for automating extraction from massive unstructured documents like contracts and insurance claims. They demonstrate unusually strong production depth in agentic AI—scaling to 100k+ requests/day, processing 1M+ claim documents, and improving extraction accuracy through rigorous RAG architecture, evaluation, and fallback design.”

“Engineer working in a venture-studio-style company that spins up SaaS products and new businesses, often owning early product and technical direction across teams ranging from 1 to 100 people. Particularly strong at hardware-software systems: they led software design and hardware choices for a 360 vision product and built a company-wide HIL testing platform with Go/Python/TypeScript, multi-language SDKs, and flexible endpoint architecture.”

“Frontend/product engineer from IXL who built an AI workspace for teachers to generate, edit, and chain classroom resources using LLMs. They show unusual depth in browser fundamentals and rich-text/math UI work, including debugging a rare repaint issue and designing mixed text/LaTeX editing experiences for educators.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience migrating a robotics project from ARM to AMD by building a Dockerized environment with PyTorch/CUDA dependencies, improving data processing and battery efficiency. Has integrated ROS 2 nodes for a Time-of-Flight camera and debugged motion-planning issues (tight-turn stopping) using data collection and iterative tuning; also built custom robots in Webots for sensor/actuator-driven behaviors.”

“MSR robotics candidate who led a 4-person project building a ROS2 MoveIt wrapper for a Franka Emika arm and integrating a RealSense-based vision pipeline for color-based object tracking/sorting. Also building a quadruped with ROS on Raspberry Pi, bridging ROS commands through a motor driver to TTL-controlled motors, and expanding from Python ROS development into C++ for navigation/LiDAR/SLAM work on TurtleBot3.”

“Software Design Lead on a NAVAIR-sponsored senior design capstone building an Unreal Engine 5 UAV/LiDAR simulation to support sensor spoofing detection. Reverse-engineered and standardized LiDAR packet formats and integrated the sim with Simulink and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano over Ethernet to enable stable real-time SIL/HIL testing, leveraging strong Linux/kernel networking knowledge to debug latency and packet loss.”

“Unity VR/MR developer with multiple shipped Meta Quest projects, including a multi-user mixed-reality co-creation experience featuring real-time connection logic and shader-driven mesh generation for performance. Also builds AI-powered interactive applications, recently creating a video interview simulator using OpenAI API, HeyGen real-time avatars, and AWS audio/agent tooling while managing end-to-end latency challenges.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who built an end-to-end personalized chatbot service integrating Amazon Redshift context retrieval with Amazon Bedrock, including prompt construction and production-grade reliability controls. Strong platform experience deploying containerized services to Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD, plus hands-on Kafka streaming and phased infrastructure migration execution.”

“AI/ML practitioner who built an Indian Sign Language recognition system (MediaPipe hand keypoints + CNN/RNN) as an accessibility-focused teaching aid, iterating closely with advocacy groups and educators and reaching 92% accuracy. Also has production-scale data migration experience at Saasgenie, using Kubernetes pod parallelization to migrate 1M+ ITSM records with a 5x throughput gain under API rate limits.”

“Backend-heavy full-stack engineer with experience at Intuit (TurboTax Live) and Paytm payments, building and scaling Java/Spring Boot microservices for high-traffic transaction systems. Has hands-on wins improving peak-load performance using Redis/disk caching and Kafka event-driven patterns, plus React/Redux work for web app integration and strong monitoring practices with ELK.”

“Built a production-style PyTorch LSTM system that generates structured piano compositions from 1200+ MIDI files, then significantly improved long-range musical coherence by implementing Bahdanau attention based on research literature. Also has internship experience using Docker Compose for containerized backend workloads and has independently used Ray to scale ML experiments across multiple GPUs, including dealing with GPU scheduling/memory oversubscription issues.”

“Robotics software engineer who led localization/SLAM work on an autonomous indoor security drone operating in a pre-mapped environment. Implemented a robust localization strategy combining visual PnP loop closures with point-cloud ICP to mitigate issues like visual map aging, and uses ROS tooling (rosbag/TF/RViz) plus Gazebo and Docker for repeatable debugging, simulation, and development.”

“Backend/platform engineer with payroll domain depth who built high-volume payroll processing microservices (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis) on AWS Kubernetes and debugged major peak-cycle latency by redesigning transaction boundaries and moving to async Kafka processing (>50% latency reduction). Also shipped an LLM-powered HR assistant using RAG with strong security/guardrails (RBAC, PII masking, audit logs) that cut support tickets by 40%, and designed reliable multi-step agent workflows with retries, circuit breakers, and idempotency.”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer with PayPal experience building workflow-driven financial compliance systems (Python/Java, Postgres, AWS/EKS) at thousands of executions/day. Has shipped production LLM-powered document extraction with strict schema/rule validation, auditability, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, and has deep expertise in reliability (idempotency, locking, state machines) and Postgres performance tuning.”

“Built and shipped a production enterprise RAG knowledge assistant that returns grounded, cited answers and uses confidence-based fallbacks (clarifying questions/abstention) with monitoring and compliance controls for sensitive data. Implemented end-to-end agent orchestration (function calling, structured JSON, state, retries/rate limits) plus eval/feedback loops, and achieved a reported 30–40% improvement in knowledge-task completion time while reducing hallucinations via retrieval improvements.”

Velusamy Ramasamy

Screened

Principal Software Architect specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and enterprise security

Seattle, WA29y exp

“Engineering leader with experience defining solutions from business requirements through detailed specifications and implementation, emphasizing cost-aware technology selection. Has led architectural changes including adding IBM Cloud alongside AWS for budget reasons and integrating caching/messaging to improve availability and performance, and describes scaling distributed teams via experienced DevOps/QA hires and structured evaluation.”

Madhu Swetha Kommi

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and internal tools

1y exp

“Built an internal Meta tool (HiVA Bot) for notification customization and end-to-end task tracking around advertiser-reported issues, including chat-thread creation, org-hierarchy opt-ins, SLA reminders, and search/typeahead features. Implemented the system with a Java/Spring Boot microservices approach and asynchronous patterns, and supported adoption via internal wiki documentation.”

Shobana Chandrasekaran

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in AI microservices and generative fashion

Sunnyvale, CA2y exp

“Backend/AI workflow engineer at a startup building production AI services for fashion workflows, including an AI-powered techpack generation API in Go (Gin) with MongoDB handling ~1k+ daily requests. Recently implementing an image-to-3D dress generation feature end-to-end, integrating a Python FastAPI AI service with ComfyUI + Hunyuan, with strong emphasis on async orchestration, webhooks, and observability (OpenTelemetry + SigNoz).”

Prajit Mohan

Screened

Junior QA Engineer specializing in test automation for web applications

Oakland, CA3y exp

“QA automation engineer with healthcare web experience who owned an end-to-end automated test suite (Java/Cucumber/Selenium and Cypress) and integrated it into CI/CD (Jenkins to GitHub Actions, qTest DoD gates). Known for boosting regression coverage to ~93%, stabilizing flaky Cypress tests, and catching production-impacting pipeline/environment redirect issues through workflow updates and cross-browser/regional scenario testing.”

Parth Tusham

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in systems, cloud, and security

Sunnyvale, CA1y exp

“Systems and infrastructure engineer pivoting toward robotics software; brings strong low-level debugging, multithreaded systems, and networking experience where correctness and timing matter. Has hands-on experience using Docker and CI/CD to build reproducible test/evaluation environments (thesis), and proposes a disciplined, contract-driven approach to distributed communication and real-time performance debugging.”

Shyaam Sundhar Rajamadam Srinivasan

Screened

Director-level Cybersecurity Architect specializing in cloud security, threat detection and incident response

Reston, VA18y exp

“Entrepreneur building an AI-enabled platform to help tradespeople (e.g., plumbers/carpenters) find customers, currently moving from ideation toward MVP and user launch. Previously founded Votimo (2012), an early philanthropy/donation-transparency platform, raised ~ $2M in angel funding, and implemented the system before strategic drift from leadership/vision changes.”