Vetted Computer Vision Professionals

Shubham Jangle

Screened

Intern Robotics Engineer specializing in autonomous navigation and perception (ROS2)

Riverside, California1y exp

“Recent UC Riverside master’s graduate focused on uncertainty-aware imitation learning for indoor robot navigation, building a full ROS 2 Humble stack (perception, learned policy, uncertainty estimation) with adaptive speed control. Demonstrated strong real-time robotics debugging and systems skills, achieving 92% autonomous navigation success across 100 trials and improving reliability through uncertainty calibration and SLAM/loop-closure optimization.”

Monisha Nettem

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

USA5y exp

“AI/ML engineer with banking domain experience (M&T Bank) who built a production credit-risk prediction and reporting platform combining ML models (XGBoost/TensorFlow) with a RAG pipeline (LangChain + GPT-4) over compliance documents. Delivered measurable impact (≈20% better risk detection/precision, 50% less manual reporting) and productionized workflows on Vertex AI/Kubeflow with CI/CD and monitoring; also implemented embedding-based semantic search using FAISS/Pinecone.”

Kirill Aristarkhov

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack, AI/ML systems, and game development

Santa Barbara, CA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer (React/TypeScript + Bun/Node-like backend) who recently rebuilt a terminal-based chat UI, implementing custom Markdown lex/parse/render and a typewriter-style streaming renderer while optimizing React DOM growth for ~50% faster performance. Has startup experience making high-ownership decisions under ambiguity and rapidly integrating multiple external AI/tooling services (5–6 in a week) with fallback strategies for flaky dependencies.”

Soham Ravindra Lokhande

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in agentic automation and AI platforms

Washington, DC2y exp

“Backend-leaning founding/early engineer who built automation platforms end-to-end: FastAPI/Python services integrated with a Next.js/TypeScript frontend, including a production VNC streaming URL endpoint for cloud-instance desktop viewing. Also designed core Postgres user/workflow data models and built an agentic orchestration system with LangChain/LangGraph (sub-agents, validators, pause/resume), plus made scalability tradeoffs like S3 pre-signed uploads to keep microservices responsive.”

Alicia Geng

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Entry-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in AWS MLOps and computer vision

Worcester, MA0y exp

“Built and shipped a production RAG question-answering system using LangChain/OpenAI, Docker, and FastAPI, then reduced hallucinations through disciplined retrieval tuning and constrained prompting. Also implemented a custom evaluation framework (QA-pair dataset) to measure faithfulness/relevance and deployed containerized ML microservices on AWS ECS/Fargate with ALB and rolling, zero-downtime updates.”

Gabriel Fagundes

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Mid-level AI/ML & Backend Engineer specializing in AI platforms and computer vision

New York, New York6y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building real-time, low-latency systems: owned the Python backend for a real-time crowd-monitoring product (top 5% at HackHarvard 2025) using OpenCV, GPU YOLO inference (PyTorch), WebRTC, and OAuth. Also has production Kubernetes/GitOps experience (Helm/Kustomize, GitHub Actions, Argo CD), Kafka-based event pipelines, and executed a minimal-downtime on-prem PostgreSQL migration to AWS EC2.”

Atharva Deshmukh

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and cloud MLOps

Rochester, New York4y exp

“Applied LLMs to high-stakes domains (wildfire risk for emergency teams and loan approval via a fine-tuned IBM Granite model), with a strong focus on reliability—using RAG-based cross-validation to reduce hallucinations and continuous ingestion pipelines (MODIS satellite imagery via AWS Lambda) to keep data current. Experienced in production orchestration and MLOps-style workflows using Airflow, AWS Step Functions, and SageMaker Pipelines, and collaborates closely with analysts on KPI-driven evaluation.”

PremKumar Gandla

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and scalable model deployment

Texas, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production autonomous AI data analyst agent (LangChain + GPT + Streamlit on AWS) that turns natural-language questions into validated SQL, visualizations, and insights, cutting manual analysis time by ~50%. Emphasizes reliability and MLOps: schema-aware validation/guardrails to prevent hallucinations, scalable large-data processing, and Azure DevOps CI/CD + MLflow for automated deployment and experiment tracking.”

Ruturaj Dixit

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Junior Data Scientist specializing in AI/ML and product analytics

New York, NY2y exp

“Applied ML/data scientist who has owned backend-heavy AI systems end-to-end, including a market-signal platform on FastAPI/AWS and rapid MVP delivery in medical computer vision. Particularly interesting for teams needing someone who can combine model development, backend APIs, production debugging, and pragmatic low-latency architecture decisions.”

“Founding product leader at Vergent who built out a 6-person product team and led a major modernization of a 16-year-old platform, collapsing 20+ legacy screens into configurable workflows and shipping a year ahead of schedule. Also shipped AI products in lending, including computer-vision-based document validation/parsing and ML for first-payment-default prediction, with a human-in-the-loop rollout strategy.”

“Robotics software/vision engineer with hands-on experience building motion-tracking systems that fuse camera-based 3D tracking with IMU orientation to reproduce tool motion for automated spray painting. Has implemented ROS nodes/packages for Orbbec camera streaming and SAM3-based segmentation, plus CAN bus coordination between robots and Dockerized deployment for a pick-and-place robotic cell.”

“Robotics software engineer (2 years) at a startup building a universal fleet management system, owning core integrations and real-time data pipelines for heterogeneous AMR/AGV fleets. Implemented Kalman-filter-based collision prediction integrating RTLS for human-driven forklifts, built MQTT microservices aligned with VDA5050, and is now architecting a PostGIS-backed path-planning service for dynamic, traffic-aware routing with future ML optimization.”

“Built and deployed an LLM/applied-ML system enabling efficient extraction of useful information from large unstructured multimodal datasets, owning the full pipeline from ingestion to inference and APIs with a strong emphasis on production reliability, latency, and monitoring. Also delivered a voice-based AI workflow for Hindi policy document access for the Election Commission of India by translating non-technical usability needs into iterative demos and a successful implementation.”

“Robotics software engineer with multi-robot perception and ROS integration experience, including work on CoLoc-Net improving global visual descriptors (DINOv2-SALAD style) and training a metric head for scale-aware 3D pose/odometry with a UKF backend. Built a ROS node/GUI to synchronize monocular vision and radar outputs at ITRI, and independently created a custom camera driver to enable reliable image sharing across AgileX Limo robots under real hardware constraints.”

“Built and deployed a production AI “term explainer” agent that adapts explanations to beginner/intermediate/expert users by combining multi-step LLM reasoning with grounded Wikipedia retrieval. Owns end-to-end agent orchestration (smolagents/Python), reliability patterns (fallback across LLM providers, retries, guardrails), and observability/metrics-driven evaluation; also partnered with a non-technical researcher to deliver a plain-language research assistant agent.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped a production RAG-based technical documentation assistant (FastAPI) cutting manual review by 45%, with deep hands-on retrieval optimization in Pinecone/LangChain (HNSW, hybrid + multi-query search, caching). Also brings healthcare domain experience—building Airflow-orchestrated EHR pipelines and delivering FDA-auditability-friendly predictive maintenance solutions using SHAP/LIME explainability surfaced in Power BI.”

“Robotics software engineer who led the full perception/manipulation/planning stack for an autonomous watermelon-harvesting robot, including ripe-vs-unripe instance segmentation deployed on Jetson AGX Orin with TensorRT and quantization. Deep ROS 2 experience (custom ZEDx mask driver, LiDAR+stereo fusion, MoveIt 2/Nav2/ros2_control) and proven real-time optimization—cut latency ~40% and achieved consistent 7-second pick cycles in outdoor field conditions.”

“Robotics software architect who built an automated pick-and-place palletizing prototype at BLACK-I-ROBOTICS, spanning perception (multi-RealSense fusion, segmentation, 6D pose, ICP), GPU-accelerated motion planning (MoveIt 2 + NVIDIA CuRobo), grasp generation, and safety (human detection + safe mode). Also brings cloud/CI/CD depth from VERIDIX AI (AWS Cognito/Lambda/ECS and CodePipeline stack) and demonstrated strong debugging chops by reducing outdoor rover EKF drift to ~5 cm via Allan variance-based IMU tuning.”

“AI/NLP-focused practitioner who built a zero-/few-shot LLM event extraction system on the long-tail Maven dataset, combining prompt-structured outputs with LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning and rigorous F1 evaluation. Also implemented entity resolution/data cleaning pipelines and embedding-based semantic search using Sentence-BERT + FAISS, and has healthcare experience delivering a multilingual speech/translation mobile prototype using HIPAA-compliant Azure Cognitive Services.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an oil & gas analytics dashboard backend using FastAPI, MongoDB, and Redis with a metadata-driven design for dynamic plotting. Shipped an LLM-powered chatbot (LangChain + tool/function calling) to let engineers query analytics in natural language, and also built a multi-step university chatbot workflow with Azure logging, confidence scoring, and human-in-the-loop review.”

“Built and launched “Language AI,” a Next.js/TypeScript app that clones a user’s voice (via ElevenLabs) to deliver language lessons in their own voice, using Supabase for auth/Postgres/storage and hosting backend on Render. Post-launch, identified ElevenLabs voice-clone limits after initial users and reworked the pipeline to store audio assets and delete clones to support more concurrent users; also added Google auth to improve adoption. Previously worked in a high-growth startup environment (Study Park) taking concepts from ideation to production.”

Valeriy Filin

Screened

Senior Backend/Cloud Engineer specializing in IaC, SaaS platforms, and ML/Computer Vision

Aliso Viejo, CA19y exp

“Backend/infrastructure engineer with experience across API development (FastAPI/MySQL/SQLAlchemy), Kubernetes deployments, and large-scale data processing—built a Dockerized Python pipeline to pre-aggregate ~1B Graylog events for efficient querying. Has enterprise infrastructure automation background at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Datafabric) using Terraform/Ansible with fail-fast and rollback practices, plus Kafka-based sensor streaming prototypes to Google Cloud with Java workers and autoscaling.”

Jitesh Kumar S

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Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and MLOps

Lafayette, IN3y exp

“ML/LLM engineer with Meta experience building production AI systems for near real-time user-report classification and summarization under strict latency (<250ms), safety, cost, and privacy constraints. Has hands-on MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, Spark, MLflow, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions) plus observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and applies rigorous evaluation, staged rollouts, and A/B testing to keep agent workflows reliable in production.”

Surya Danturty

Screened

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in computer vision and time-series forecasting

Riverside, CA0y exp

“Undergrad who built a production RAG chatbot for a messy college website using OpenAI embeddings + FAISS, overcoming hard-to-crawl/non-selectable site content and strict API budget limits. Applies information-retrieval best practices (section-based chunking with overlap, precision/recall evaluation) and reliability techniques (edge-case testing, similarity thresholds, fallback responses), and has experience scaling similar indexing work to ~300,000 Wikipedia pages.”