Vetted CI/CD Professionals

“AI/LLM practitioner who built a GPT-2-like language model from scratch at the University of Maryland using PyTorch and multi-GPU distributed training, with experiment tracking in Weights & Biases. As an AI Operations intern at ScaleUp360, delivered multiple production-style AI agent automations (Gmail classification and Fireflies-to-Claude workflows that extract and assign CEO tasks) and set up measurable evaluation using test cases and classification metrics.”

“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).”

“ML-focused candidate with beginner ROS/ROS2 experience (custom pub-sub nodes; TurtleBot3 SLAM simulation debugging via topic inspection and transform/orientation checks). Has research/project exposure to LLM training approaches (GRPO with pseudo-labels using Hugging Face TRL on Qwen/Llama) and uses Docker/Kubernetes + CI/CD to run ViT saliency-attention/compression workloads on UCSD Nautilus infrastructure.”

“Robotics software engineer (10+ years ROS/ROS 2) currently leading the perception stack for Omron’s AMR fleet, including a scalable factory SLAM system that combines vision with laser SLAM to handle corridor aliasing. Strong in real-time embedded optimization on NVIDIA Jetson (CUDA + profiling) and fleet-scale validation via multi-robot Isaac Sim scenarios (USD-to-ROS 2 bridging, Nav2 in crowded scenes). Also contributed to a cloud-native reality-capture/3D reconstruction pipeline at Hilti using Docker and Kubernetes.”

“Built and shipped a map-embedding SDK (published to npm) for Walmart apps, solving key performance issues with real-time streaming (WebSockets) and Canvas rendering while prioritizing developer experience. Also applies LLM/agentic patterns in production workflows—using diagnostic agents and human-in-the-loop escalation to detect and resolve issues (e.g., voice agent loops caused by RAG API failures). Has sales-engineering experience supporting enterprise renewals, including a million-dollar contract renewal while at Siemens working with Ford stakeholders.”

“Backend engineer who built a low-latency real-time transaction API in Python/Flask, with strong depth in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (time-based partitioning, indexing, connection pooling). Has production experience integrating ML scoring and OpenAI-style APIs with safety/latency controls, and designing multi-tenant isolation strategies including per-tenant pooling/caching and premium-tenant isolation.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience at Liberty Mutual and Airbnb, building high-scale insurance claims systems (1M+ monthly transactions) and consumer booking/pricing services (120K–180K daily requests). Strong in transactional data integrity, PostgreSQL performance tuning, and production operations (Docker/Jenkins/AWS), with measurable UX/performance wins including ~2.3s page loads and significant runtime failure reduction.”

“Software engineer focused on data platforms and applied LLM systems: built an internal data quality monitoring layer to catch silent data drift and iterated post-launch after finding ~30% false-positive alerts, reducing noise via dynamic baselines and improved structured logging. Also shipped a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant over Jira/Confluence with citations, confidence-based fallbacks, and nightly automated evals to prevent regressions.”

“Data engineer focused on large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines across cloud stacks (GCP and AWS), including Spark-based transformations and orchestration with Airflow. Has experience loading up to ~2TB per BigQuery target table and designing atomic loads to multiple downstream systems (Elasticsearch + Kafka), with Kubernetes deployment and Jenkins CI/CD.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer (5+ years) with Shopify experience integrating LLM/RAG workflows into production APIs. Owned a Python TensorFlow Serving inference pipeline connected to Java microservices via gRPC, optimizing tail latency at ~10k concurrent load and improving retrieval relevance with embedding and evaluation work. Strong Kubernetes/EKS + GitOps/CI/CD background, including monolith-to-microservices migrations and event-driven streaming patterns.”

“Robotics/ML engineer (Stanford project) who built a full Python-based RL grasping pipeline for an anthropomorphic tactile hand in MuJoCo, implementing SAC + behavioral cloning and proposing curriculum experiments; second author on an ICRCA 2026 submission. Hands-on with ROS 2 integration for Flexiv Rizon 4 and LEAP Hand, and uses Docker/Distrobox to manage complex CUDA/OS constraints while running training and production-style inference/retraining workflows.”

“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.”

“Robotics technical lead who architected and built a high-speed autonomous lunar rover mobility software system for GPS-denied environments, integrating MPC/LQR control, trajectory optimization, state and slip estimation, terrain-aware planning, and perception. Has deployed Deep RL policies trained in NVIDIA Isaac Sim onto real rover hardware via a ROS2 inference-node interface, with strong focus on real-time performance profiling, sim-to-real, and safety/HIL testing.”

“Master’s student at UC San Diego who built an LLM-powered healthcare chatbot for patient history-taking and sepsis-related output, using a Node.js backend integrated with FastAPI for RAG/LLM interactions and a Flutter client. Also has healthcare AI startup experience deploying on AWS (ECS/Terraform/Docker) and implementing Kubernetes autoscaling to improve efficiency and reduce costs, with strong iterative evaluation in collaboration with a physician.”

“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.”

“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).”

“Backend/platform engineer with deep payments experience who built and operated a real-time transaction routing service end-to-end on AWS (Spring Boot, PostgreSQL/RDS, Redis, Kubernetes), delivering ~40% latency reduction and 99.99% uptime via strong resiliency and observability practices. Also productionized an internal LLM-powered RAG knowledge assistant with guardrails and a user-feedback-driven evaluation loop, and has led incremental monolith-to-microservices modernization using Strangler Fig and shadow traffic.”

“Built and shipped a production generative-AI recipe feature on AWS serverless (Lambda + Bedrock), evolving it post-launch from fully AI-generated outputs to user-guided structured generation based on real usage patterns and system metrics. Emphasizes reliability via prompt constraints plus deterministic validation, with automated/human eval loops and CloudWatch-based observability to manage latency, cost, and output consistency.”

“Backend engineer who built and iterated a secure, multi-tenant RAG system over a large document corpus, emphasizing strict RBAC/ACL isolation, hybrid retrieval (vector+keyword), reranking, and strong observability to balance relevance, latency, and cost. Also led production refactors/migrations using strangler + feature flags/dual writes and has experience catching subtle real-world failure modes (including in a sensor calibration optimization pipeline).”

“Backend/data engineer from ASML who modernized a legacy SAS-based statistical processing system into a cloud-native AWS platform (Lambda/FastAPI, Step Functions/EventBridge, Glue, S3/RDS) with strong reliability and data-quality practices. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (RDS query reduced from 90+ seconds to <5 seconds) and hands-on incident ownership for production ETL pipelines.”

“Teradata Text Security intern who built a production LLM-powered planner agent that decomposes complex tasks into dependency-aware subtasks (DAG/topological graph) and executes them via a custom orchestrator with parallelism, status tracking, and error handling. Also contributed to an HR-facing internal document chatbot concept to streamline onboarding, showing cross-functional collaboration.”