Vetted CI/CD Professionals

Jonathan Grebe

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Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in ROS, C++ and embedded Linux

Ottawa, Canada7y exp

“Robotics software lead at Icor who grew from intern to owning the end-to-end software lifecycle for a mobile manipulator platform deployed to 300+ customers globally. Deep hands-on ROS2/MoveIt2 and navigation-stack integration (URDF/TF, sensors, behavior engine) plus production infrastructure (CI/CD, OTA, field OS upgrades) and real-world performance tuning for motion planning in EOD multi-robot environments.”

Tejas Belakavadi Kemparaju

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend, microservices, and ML systems

Newark, NJ3y exp

“Primary designer/implementer/maintainer of an open-source JavaScript library for programmatic SSML generation and validation in text-to-speech pipelines. Focused on safety-by-default APIs with vendor-specific extension adapters, strong backward compatibility/deprecation practices, and measurable performance gains by removing redundant validation stages. Emphasizes developer experience through example-driven documentation and systematic community issue triage.”

Antonio Alcala

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Mid-level Systems Integration & Test Engineer specializing in embedded robotics and automation

San Diego, CA3y exp

“Senior engineering student leading a robotics capstone using a Jetson Nano + Yahboom DOFBOT to play whiteboard games (Tic-Tac-Toe, Hangman) via computer vision and ML. Owns the inverse kinematics and OpenCV pipeline, uses Gazebo/URDF for simulation, and is planning C++/multithreading/Pybind11 optimizations to meet real-time constraints on limited embedded hardware.”

Paritosh Hattyangdi

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Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in controls, simulation, and production debugging

Mountain View, CA1y exp

“Robotics software engineer who helped build a startup "robo-chef" system end-to-end, including pick-and-place simulation using ArUco-marked stations and smooth motion planning. Hands-on ROS 2 integrator across LiDAR/IMU/camera perception-to-navigation stacks (Nav2, SLAM Toolbox, ros2_control), with demonstrated ability to debug real-time timing drift and improve repeatable placement through calibration and motion blending. Uses Gazebo simulation plus Docker/CI pipelines to validate and deploy robotics software reliably.”

Haytham Nasri

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Software Engineering Manager specializing in cloud-native mobility and enterprise Java

Amsterdam, The Netherlands15y exp

“Backend/architecture-focused player-coach who designed and built two partner-facing data APIs using a contract-first (OpenAPI) governance model in Java (Quarkus/Spring Boot). Strong in technical standards, incident response, and delivery systems—improved reliability under peak load (DB/index fix) and sped up delivery by streamlining PR/review processes while maintaining production stability.”

Yang Qi

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms and data visualization

Cambridge, MA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/bioinformatics experience who built a real-time genomic data analysis and 2D visualization feature (React/TypeScript + D3, FastAPI) at University of Utah Health, deploying on AWS ECS Fargate with monitoring and measuring engagement via Google Analytics. Also built AWS Lambda-based ETL pipelines for lab data ingestion using pandas/NumPy with reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, CloudWatch alerting) and drove maintainability improvements through shared component libraries and React hooks.”

Sai Srujan Vemula

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Java/Spring Boot and React on AWS

CT, USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Meta System and DXC, owning end-to-end delivery of a shipment visibility portal (React UI in Liferay DXP + Java/Spring Boot REST APIs) with Dockerized deployments and automated test coverage. Has hands-on AWS work across EC2/Lambda/S3 and multiple databases (DynamoDB, RDS, Neptune, DocumentDB), plus built a Python/Flask data migration platform with validation for correctness and repeatability.”

Frank Albanese

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Executive CTO & Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and distributed systems

New York, NY10y exp

“Founder of Essence, a wisdom and memory preservation platform with early testing indicating mental health benefits and positive impact for hospice patients. Has raised $25K to date and reports prior capital-raising experience through Y Combinator and the Berkeley Angel Network, with a GTM plan starting in hospice and expanding to the general public.”

Tanisha Pradeep Bhola

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Mid-level Software Development Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and microservices

Dayton, Ohio4y exp

“Accenture engineer with hands-on experience taking an NLP sentiment analysis system from prototype to production, emphasizing robustness to noisy data, scalability, and observability (dashboards for latency/error/throughput). Also supports customer-facing teams with demos and PoCs, translating client requirements into secure, scalable architectures and troubleshooting LLM/agent workflows via logs and step-level traces.”

LAKSHMI KATTAMURI

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Mid-level Embedded Software Engineer specializing in RTOS and microcontroller firmware

Boston, MA4y exp

“Backend/embedded-focused engineer with hands-on experience designing real-time, memory/power-constrained firmware architectures and also building Python/FastAPI services. Demonstrates strong production rigor across migrations (strangler pattern, shadow reads, feature flags), security (OIDC/JWT, RBAC/ABAC, Postgres RLS), and robustness for async workflows (idempotency, event ordering, state machines).”

Naisarg Halvadiya

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Senior Full-Stack & AI Engineer specializing in scalable web platforms and LLM automation

Bengaluru, India4y exp

“Built a production agentic AI assistant in Python using Playwright plus Google Gemini’s vision capabilities to automatically document and execute UI workflows step-by-step, reducing developer time spent on trivial documentation/knowledge transfer. Also built an Apache Airflow ETL pipeline and has experience evaluating AI agents with human-in-the-loop methods, plus successfully communicated a vision-model-based CMS analytics PoC to non-technical university stakeholders and proposed it to Academic Technology with cost-savings rationale.”

“Backend/platform engineer with strong ownership of production systems, including a full Azure migration from a VM-based monolith to a containerized, event-driven microservices architecture. They combine cloud infrastructure, LLM/RAG optimization, and pragmatic stakeholder management, with measurable wins including 90% infra cost reduction, faster deployments, and significantly improved latency and token efficiency.”

“Full-stack software engineer who shipped production systems in academic and e-commerce contexts, including a UC Irvine course recommendation platform with async Kafka-based OCR processing (Tesseract) and LangChain-driven recommendations. Strong in building polished React/TypeScript dashboards (Figma-to-implementation) and owning Python backends (FastAPI/Flask) with solid API design, caching, and AWS EKS deployments; delivered measurable impact (tripled engagement, ~50% faster processing).”

“Full-stack engineer who built an early-stage social platform for scriptwriters (Scriptscape) from scratch, owning everything from React Native/React UX to Node/Postgres APIs and AWS deployment. Demonstrates strong production-minded engineering with CI/CD, observability, and scalability patterns (cursor pagination, indexing, background jobs), plus experience hardening flaky third-party integrations with idempotency and backfills.”

“Backend engineer with fintech/AI startup experience who built an Azure serverless, event-driven pipeline for large-scale crypto sentiment analysis and semantic search (OCR/NLP to vector search) and integrated LLM + blockchain data for predictive insights. Demonstrated measurable impact (25% lower retrieval latency, 10% fewer data errors, 15% higher engagement) and has led safe microservices migrations with strong security and reliability practices.”

“AI Engineer at Humanitarian AI who has built and productionized both a LangGraph-based multi-agent workflow system and a RAG pipeline (OpenAI embeddings + vector DB) with rigorous evaluation/guardrails. Reports strong measurable impact (60% faster workflow delivery, 40% fewer incidents, 70% reduced research time) and has prior enterprise modernization experience at Infosys migrating ETL to microservices with zero production incidents.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong production experience across Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, API Gateway, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrates reliability and incident ownership (rate limits, retries/circuit breakers, monitoring) and has delivered measurable SQL performance gains (12–15s to <800ms, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking fully remote work and not open to relocation/onsite meetings.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience modernizing a provider credentialing/compliance platform with multiple upstream/downstream integrations. Focused on building predictable, scalable REST APIs (primarily ASP.NET Core; framework-agnostic approach applicable to FastAPI), improving performance via DB/query optimization, and hardening workflows with idempotency, transactions, feature flags, and strong auth/RBAC patterns.”

“Built and deployed an agentic RAG platform at Centene Health to support healthcare claims and complaints workflows (Q&A for claims agents, executive complaint summarization, and compliance triage/classification). Experienced in LangChain/LangGraph orchestration, production deployment on AWS with FastAPI/Docker/Kubernetes, and implementing HIPAA-compliant guardrails to reduce hallucinations and ensure explainable outputs.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on AWS serverless and data platform experience: built a Lambda-based reCAPTCHA/token validation + SES subscription workflow and designed Glue ETL pipelines producing Parquet datasets for Athena. Also led a high-traffic multilingual media CMS modernization at Radio Free Asia by migrating to Arc XP using parallel runs, phased rollouts, feature flags, and rollback plans.”

“Built and shipped a production GPT-4 + RAG customer support chatbot that materially improved support operations (response time 4 hours to <3 minutes; ~65% tier-1 ticket automation). Demonstrates strong end-to-end LLM engineering across retrieval (Sentence Transformers/Pinecone), safety (multi-layer moderation), cost/latency optimization (caching/streaming, Celery/Redis), and rigorous evaluation/monitoring (shadow deploys, Datadog, 500+ test cases), plus proven stakeholder buy-in leading to 80% adoption.”

“Built and productionized a clinical NLP + patient risk stratification platform at Dermanture, combining Spark/PySpark pipelines with BERT/BioBERT for entity extraction and text classification and downstream risk models in TensorFlow/scikit-learn. Experienced running regulated, auditable ML workflows with Airflow and AWS SageMaker, emphasizing data validation (Great Expectations), drift monitoring, and explainability (SHAP) to drive clinician trust and adoption.”

“Built and deployed a scalable, production-ready LLM knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (LangChain + vector store/FAISS) to replace keyword search for internal documents. Demonstrates hands-on expertise in hallucination reduction and retrieval quality improvements through semantic chunking, similarity tuning, prompt design, and human-in-the-loop validation, plus strong stakeholder communication via demos and visual explanations.”

“Built a production "Mini RAG Assistant" for internal document Q&A, focusing on grounded answers (anti-hallucination), retrieval quality, and latency/cost optimization. Uses LangChain/LangGraph for orchestration and applies a metrics-driven evaluation loop (including reranking and semantic chunking improvements) while collaborating closely with product stakeholders.”