Vetted Computer Vision Professionals

“Backend engineer who built and launched a warehouse locations/inventory microservice for Walmart, supporting a new product rollout with on-call war-room ownership and now running across all US distribution centers. Emphasizes reliability and correctness (background syncs, 2PC concepts, alerting) plus design-first API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth/JWT and RBAC, and has led staged legacy-to-microservice migrations with continuous data integrity verification.”

“Entry-level software engineer who built an agentic AI backend in Python/FastAPI, including APIs for conversation history retrieval and user data storage, and worked through async/concurrency challenges for multiple agents querying simultaneously. Also has practical AWS experience using S3 for static hosting with Lambda and RDS for backend/data access.”

“Robotics software engineer who contributed to an autonomous bartender robot (mobile base + ReactorX200 arm), owning manipulation/grasping, Gazebo simulation, and a YOLOv6 object-detection pipeline built from a manually collected/labeled dataset. Also handled system-level hardware bring-up integrating Raspberry Pi to ESP32 over micro-ROS on ROS2 Foxy, and has additional ROS package experience in EKF sensor fusion (IMU+GPS) and an autonomous disaster response boat.”

“LLM/agent builder who has shipped production AI systems in the wellness space, including an LLM-powered food tracking product used by 5000+ users and a voice/call-routing onboarding workflow using LangGraph/LangChain with LiveKit and Twilio. Strong focus on practical reliability work: latency reduction, retrieval/embedding tuning, and CI-driven evaluation with simulations and metrics.”

“Built a college AI chatbot during a master’s program, owning the full Python/Flask backend plus Google Gemini integration and a Postgres persistence layer (course info + conversation history), including caching/performance tuning. Also deployed and migrated ETL/ELT workloads from AWS Lambda into Kubernetes/EKS with GitHub Actions-based GitOps CI/CD, IRSA permissions, and Secrets Manager/S3/Postgres connectivity.”

“Product designer/hardware prototyper building Saccade (VR headset attachment for Apple Vision Pro) to enable earlier, lower-cost Alzheimer's detection via eye-tracking and on-device CV/ML; designed a custom biocompatible snap-on light-shield replacement with integrated cameras/PCB after Apple camera-data restrictions. Also has biomedical manufacturing experience (major fixture-driven throughput gains) and leads a 160-member Assistive Technology Club sponsored by Apple and Google.”

“Full-stack engineer with early-stage startup experience who shipped and owned production Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) features end-to-end, including auth-aware APIs, caching, and post-launch monitoring/iteration. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability chops across React UX optimization, Postgres analytics modeling/query tuning (validated via query plans), and durable ingestion workflows with retries/idempotency.”

Yukta Chikate

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in safety-critical and uncertainty-aware ML systems

Brooklyn, NY5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered assistant for company documents and support questions, focused on reducing time spent searching PDFs/policies/tickets while preventing hallucinations by grounding answers in approved sources. Demonstrates strong production engineering (Kubernetes/orchestration, caching, monitoring, fallbacks) plus security-minded permissioning and close collaboration with operations/support stakeholders.”

Ojasmitha Pedirappagari

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and agentic platforms

Jersey City, NJ5y exp

“Built and shipped a production RAG-based assistant that lets parents ask natural-language questions about their child’s learning progress, using pgvector retrieval (child-id filtered) and Redis caching to hit ~180ms latency. Implemented real-world guardrails and compliance (Llama Guard, COPPA, retrieval thresholds, fallbacks) with 99.5% uptime, and ran human-in-the-loop eval loops that improved satisfaction from 3.8 to 4.2 while serving 60k+ monthly users and reducing costs significantly.”

“Backend/microservices engineer (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, Angular microfrontends) with Teradata experience building distributed analytics/query routing platforms and delivering 20–30% latency reductions through event-driven redesign and reliability hardening. Also built and shipped an end-to-end multimodal medical imaging AI feature (LLaVA/Mistral 7B + LoRA) with production guardrails like confidence-based human review, drift monitoring, and audit logs.”

“Founding member of Tausight, building AI systems to detect and protect PHI for healthcare organizations; helped take the company through post–Series A funding and exited after ~6 years. Drove a strategic collaboration with Intel’s OpenVINO team—becoming the first to deploy it in a real production system and improving model performance by ~30% on customer Intel-CPU machines.”

“Built a healthcare app backend and supporting product pieces from scratch for Maverick Health—covering database schema, API structure, Node.js implementation, and UI design in Figma—while targeting 10,000 patients and keeping AWS run costs to ~$20–$30/month. Shipped an Android closed beta on Google Play and handled real-world launch hurdles like privacy policy compliance and push notification infrastructure.”

“Senior Unity UI/UX developer who led XR interaction design for a VR meetings/events platform (VRChat/Horizons-like), including a modular radial menu that served as the app’s primary control system. Also built a Pokemon Go-style Unity AR experience for a major shopping centre end-to-end, tackling real-world marker scanning challenges (lighting, reflections, installation) through iterative prototyping and testing.”

“Robotics engineer who led core autonomy stack development at Spacer Robotics (Isaac ROS/ROS2) spanning sensor integration, SLAM/mapping, navigation, and validation. In a research lab thesis, built three mobile robots from scratch and created a distributed multi-agent collaboration framework with blockchain-based incentive models, demonstrating depth in both hands-on robotics and distributed systems.”

“Growth/creative marketer from Esleydunn Games who uses Google Analytics to integrate cross-channel performance data (TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook) and run structured A/B tests on video ad length and layout. Reported reducing CPA by 20 per customer when leveraging YouTube and TikTok, and improved CTR through CTA/button placement testing and ongoing user-feedback loops (forum/WeChat topics).”

Suraj Thangellapally

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in machine learning and data science

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Python backend engineer who built a personal LLM-powered AI code review tool that parses code into context-preserving diff chunks and uses the OpenAI API to analyze and summarize changes. Has hands-on Kubernetes deployment experience (replicas, rolling updates, ConfigMaps/Secrets, health probes) and follows GitOps-style, declarative CI/CD workflows; also has experience designing streaming/event-style processing with attention to reliability and observability.”

Brian Cho

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Researcher specializing in robot learning and surgical robotics

Salt Lake City, UT7y exp

“Robotics software/ML engineer who led an end-to-end transformer-based real-time 3D shape prediction system for a tendon-driven continuum robot on a KUKA arm, including ROS2 multi-camera RGB-D data collection, multi-view calibration, and optimized ICP point-cloud registration. Also optimized an online sensing + motion planning loop for robot-assisted surgery using Bayesian Hilbert maps and A* search, and has Gazebo + RL experience for a robotic salamander.”

Archana yaramala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in deep learning, MLOps, and LLM applications

NY, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed production LLM assistants for internal Q&A and customer-feedback summarization, emphasizing reliability (RAG, prompt tuning, validation/whitelisting) and privacy safeguards. Improved adoption by adding explainable outputs and a user feedback mechanism, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Aflow and Azure Logic Apps.”

Bala Venkateswarlu K

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and MLOps

USA5y exp

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered claims-document summarization system (insurance domain) that cut agent review time from 4–5 minutes to under 2 minutes and saved 1,200+ hours per quarter. Hands-on across orchestration and production infrastructure (Airflow retraining DAGs, Kubernetes, SageMaker endpoints, FastAPI) and recent RAG workflows using n8n + Pinecone, with a strong focus on reliability, cost, and explainability for non-technical stakeholders.”

“Built a production, real-time clinical documentation system at HCA that converts doctor–patient conversations into structured clinical summaries using speech-to-text, LLM summarization, and RAG. Demonstrated measurable gains from medical-domain fine-tuning (clinical concept recall +18%, ROUGE-L 0.62 to 0.74) while meeting HIPAA constraints via PHI anonymization and encryption, and deployed via Docker/FastAPI with CI/CD and monitoring.”

John Chance

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in conversational AI and healthcare ML

Greenwood, LA9y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of both classical recommender systems and safety-sensitive LLM agent platforms. They combine production MLOps depth with behavioral health domain experience, including clinical safety validation, explainability, and multi-agent orchestration, and cite measurable impact in both business metrics and latency reduction.”

“Embedded/hardware lead who has built rugged, deployed devices in very small teams, including a pipeline inspection robot for constrained underground environments and a wearable medical imaging product. Particularly strong in system-level hardware trade-offs, long-distance power/data design, and de-risking hardware-firmware integration through hands-on prototyping and field testing.”

“AI/full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping both computer vision and LLM products in production across marketplace and healthcare settings. Built an automated device grading system at Northladder and improved a Deloitte healthcare chatbot using RAG, with a strong emphasis on grounding, validation, uncertainty handling, and human review for high-impact decisions.”

“Engineering/product leader who builds business-aligned technology roadmaps and scales pod-based orgs with strong delivery discipline (OKRs, CI/CD, QA automation). Led a SaaS supply-chain application adopted by Fortune 100 customers, citing ~$4M MRR and ~87% gross profit, and has hands-on experience standardizing LLM + cloud/MLOps architectures with security/compliance guardrails. Also created the PISEK methodology and used it to run distributed innovation sprints (e.g., an AI ETA predictor moved from pilot to production).”