Vetted C Professionals

“Wayfair ML/AI engineer who has shipped and operated production LLM systems for both internal analytics and customer-facing assistants. Stands out for combining strong RAG/retrieval engineering with production-grade platform work—improving trust, reducing latency by ~30%, and cutting ad hoc reporting demand by ~50%.”

Sanjana Chowdary

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Intern Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web applications and AI

New York, NY2y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience both using AI coding agents in production and building AI systems, including chatbot development and BERT fine-tuning at Atos. At Groupr, they applied strong systems judgment to live operational workflows, validating concurrency decisions manually for an admin portal supporting 500+ orders per day.”

“Veteran software engineering leader who started as an early internet engineer in the mid-1990s and has since grown into Director/VP-level leadership across legacy web platforms, logistics systems, and modern data engineering. Particularly compelling for companies needing a hands-on leader who can modernize complex Perl/UNIX monoliths, manage large cross-functional teams, and deliver operational systems in warehouse, marketplace, and reverse-logistics environments.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience shipping analytics dashboards and an AI-driven support assistant for a cloud analytics platform. They combine Java/Spring Boot backend work with TypeScript frontend development and showed practical knowledge of LLM production concerns like retrieval grounding, latency, caching, retries, and graceful fallbacks. Their shipped dashboard feature improved load times by 35-40% and reduced support issues tied to delayed analytics.”

“AI automations intern at a lean US-based marketing agency who works directly with founders and builds practical GTM systems end-to-end. He combines ML/LLM tooling with outbound execution, including a clustering-based recommender that improved client lead generation by 30% in two weeks and a personal cold outreach engine that achieved a 12%+ reply rate.”

Aman Kushwaha

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Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in React, Next.js, and FinTech UI architecture

Bangalore, India4y exp

“Frontend/product engineer with strong ownership across architecture, deployment, and cross-functional product decisions, especially in finance workflow systems. Built a metadata-driven React/TypeScript framework at Hyperbots that cut feature development effort by ~70% and manual effort by 50%+, and has also driven backend API cleanup, real-time experiences, and a full GA4 tracking architecture redesign.”

“Built internal product features at Sysco's Collab Cafe across React/TypeScript frontend and Spring Boot/PostgreSQL backend, including a full project invite flow and an early AI-style project matching capability. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, improving React dashboard performance with profiling and component refactoring, and making pragmatic 0→1 tradeoffs to ship quickly.”

Priyadarshini Vykuntapu

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Mid-level Software Developer specializing in full-stack systems for FinTech and industrial platforms

USA3y exp

“Enterprise full-stack engineer with experience at Honeywell and Wells Fargo, spanning real-time telemetry dashboards and digital banking systems. Stands out for owning production systems end to end, improving performance in high-scale environments, and driving architectural modernization that reduced release times and improved reliability.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has built and scaled production Java/Spring Boot + Kafka services on AWS/Kubernetes (1M+ msgs/day) and led reliability/performance fixes that restored SLAs (25–30% latency improvement; 99.9% uptime). Also shipped an AI customer-support chatbot end-to-end using retrieval + guardrails and rigorous evaluation/observability, improving resolution time 40% and satisfaction 25%, with a strong plan/execute/verify approach to agentic workflow reliability.”

“Master’s CS candidate with backend internship experience modernizing live operational workflows at NatWest/NetWess, focusing on reliability improvements, safer CI/CD deployments, and incremental refactors using feature flags and rollback paths. Built FastAPI-based APIs with strong security patterns (JWT + 2FA/TOTP, centralized authorization, RLS) and demonstrated attention to edge cases like idempotency and data consistency in a Netflix-clone project.”

“Insurtech R&D leader turned CTO with 25+ years across telecom, DoD, automotive, and commercial insurance. Built patented AI-driven insurance document ingestion (>95% accuracy with 1–3 samples) and led Azure-based backend/service development while managing up to 15 engineers at a commercial P&C MGA that reached a ~$60M book of business (~30 loss ratio) before run-off due to paper issues. Known for hands-on discovery (including field inspections) and rapid MVP delivery, including a risk-inspection iPad app that auto-generated draft reports.”

“Embedded robotics software engineer specializing in C/C++ on ARM controllers, building sensor/actuator drivers and stabilizing real-time control loops under load using RTOS profiling and priority tuning. Strong ROS 2 integrator across microcontrollers and embedded Linux, with hands-on HIL testing (timing fixes, automated fault injection) and distributed robot comms via DDS, plus simulation (Gazebo/Webots) and Docker/CI/CD for reliable deployment.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on ROS 2 localization/SLAM: built a particle-filter (Monte Carlo) localization system in Python with likelihood-field modeling to handle noisy LiDAR and dynamic environments. Strong in debugging ROS 2 integration issues (tf2 frame sync, DDS/QoS message reliability) and in profiling/optimizing pipelines to reach real-time performance (~10 Hz) using precomputation and KD-trees.”

“Unity/VR developer and PhD researcher who served as lead developer on a clinical VR application (VheaRts) used by surgeons at Great Ormond Street Hospital, taking over a messy codebase and rebuilding its architecture, documentation, and extensibility. Also built research-focused Unity VR experiments (e.g., change blindness in a dynamic living room) with sophisticated logic to control participant attention while monitoring physiological cues.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on enterprise, cloud-native microservices—building Spring Boot backends and React/Angular front ends with strong security (OAuth/JWT), AWS infrastructure (RDS/S3), and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes). Has delivered data-heavy order/account/transaction platforms and healthcare solutions including EHR integrations for secure patient data exchange, with emphasis on testing, performance tuning, and reliability (load testing).”

“AI engineer who deployed a production LLM-powered safety system for an education platform, combining rule-based checks, multi-LLM verification, and selective context (prompt+image vs image-only) to prevent explicit prompts/images from getting through. Strong focus on reliability via benchmarking, trace-based failure analysis, and continuous improvement driven by stakeholder feedback and manual review.”

“Backend/microservices engineer who built a Python (Flask/MySQL) data-processing microservice for an internal analytics platform and improved slow responses via query optimization and caching. Has hands-on Kubernetes experience on AWS EKS with GitLab CI/CD, plus GitOps workflows using Helm and ArgoCD. Also built a real-time Kafka order-event pipeline and supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration with standardized, containerized configuration and gradual traffic cutover.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Roche and Jarsy focused on API and data-layer performance. Re-architected slow generalized endpoints into more efficient APIs (30% faster lookups) and led a schema refactor/migration with feature-flag rollout, dual writes, rollback scripts, and automated integrity checks; also addressed pipeline duplicate-entry issues via deduplication.”

“Backend/platform engineer with production ownership of high-volume transaction analytics and fraud monitoring services built in Java/Spring Boot. Has scaled data processing platforms (including healthcare datasets) and operated Kafka-based event pipelines with schema versioning, deduplication, and replay/backfill workflows, using strong observability via CloudWatch/Grafana and CI/CD with Jenkins.”

“Software engineer with hands-on ownership of both fintech checkout improvements (saved payment methods/one-click checkout with tokenization and feature-flag rollouts) and production LLM/RAG systems for customer support. Demonstrates strong operational rigor via guardrails, evaluation loops integrated into CI/CD, and scalable data pipelines handling messy PDFs/CSVs/logs with reliability and observability.”

“Built and shipped a production browser automation LLM agent with a structured 4-stage workflow (plan/browse/extract/verify), emphasizing reliability via schema validation (Pydantic), constrained tool use, and contextual retry loops. Reports ~60% accuracy on the WebArena benchmark and monitors runs via console output and the Agno framework GUI, prioritizing accuracy over speed.”

Kutay Demiralay

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Junior Controls & Autonomy Engineer specializing in robotics and trajectory optimization

Seattle, WA3y exp

“MS thesis work in the University of Washington Autonomous Controls Lab building a full quadrotor guidance/navigation/control stack, including high-fidelity dynamics modeling and an SCP trajectory optimizer made robust to wind via trust regions and MPC-style replanning. Also built an autonomous RC car using ROS on Jetson Xavier with ZED stereo/VIO, implementing perception (point cloud filtering/clustering) and state estimation while addressing real-time synchronization and latency challenges.”

ESHWANTH D. G

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Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in autonomous perception and sensor fusion

CA, USA4y exp

“Robotics engineer with Honeywell and Tata Motors experience deploying ROS/ROS2 autonomous mobile robot fleets into live factory environments, integrating sensors, safety PLCs, and on-prem services. Known for solving end-to-end latency and stability issues (including network spikes under load) using gRPC, Docker, and improved diagnostics—cutting diagnosis time from hours to minutes and achieving sub-150 ms control response.”

Prachika Agarwal

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Senior Solutions Architect and Data Analyst specializing in cloud data platforms and experimentation

New York, NY4y exp

“Software engineer who built and scaled an internal automation/auditing tool for analyzing Google and Adobe tagging containers, adopted by 13 internal clients and saving ~15 hours per audit. Has experience shipping containerized, Kubernetes-orchestrated systems and integrating OpenAI APIs into an agentic chatbot feature (plus prior NLP chatbot work during a Cyber Peace Foundation internship).”