Vetted Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Professionals

“Research Extern at Google DeepMind and former AWS Software Development Engineer Intern with a strong focus on practical, trustworthy AI engineering. Built a multi-agent RAG system for personalized news headline generation using a fine-tuned Flan-T5 model, parallel critic agents, FAISS retrieval, and style embeddings, while also leading a 3-person team on the project.”

Likhitha Bethi

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, distributed systems, and applied AI

Stony Brook, NY4y exp

“Goldman Sachs engineer who owned end-to-end features for an internal onboarding and case management platform, spanning React/TypeScript UI, a GraphQL gateway, and Node + Spring WebFlux microservices. Built and operated a Kafka-based ingestion and search pipeline with DLQs, retries, idempotency, and strong observability, and improved developer experience via backward-compatible GraphQL API design and schema-driven documentation.”

“Robotics software engineer from Ati Motors who brought a Linear MPC approach (based on Kuhne et al.) into production, rebuilding parts of the planning stack to eliminate oscillations and safely double AMR speed from 0.8 m/s to 1.6 m/s. Also delivered an end-to-end point-cloud detection pipeline (PointPillars) including synthetic data generation in Isaac Sim and TensorRT deployment for real-time human/trolley detection, with a strong focus on production reliability via iterative hardening and nightly SIL.”

Muhan Zhang

Screened

Junior AI Software Engineer specializing in LLM pipelines, OCR, and RAG

Palo Alto, USA2y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM pipeline for nursing home Medicare reimbursement (PDF OCR + fact extraction + keyword RAG + QA) that reportedly increased payouts by ~$1K/month per patient. Strong in LLM ops/benchmarking (ground truth, LLM-as-judge, cost/I-O tracking) and pragmatic optimization—swapped retrieval approaches, fine-tuned a small model to cut OCR cost 90%, and migrated workloads to Azure/Temporal to scale nightly processing 10x.”

Meredith Ma

Screened

Entry-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in generative AI and computer vision

Pittsburgh, PA2y exp

“Built and owned a production RAG coding assistant at Magna International used by 200 engineers, with hands-on work across React/TypeScript, retrieval infrastructure, and Postgres observability. Also brings an unusual blend of product UX thinking from AR game onboarding work, showing strength in both technical systems reliability and user activation.”

“Robotics software engineer who delivered the Lunar ROADSTER—an autonomous bulldozing rover for lunar terrain manipulation—building the control system, path planning, and perception in ROS 2. Implemented crater detection using a YOLO model fused with ZED stereo depth to recover crater geometry, and structured autonomy around ROS 2 actions integrated into an FSM with CI/CD-backed system testing. Also has industrial robotics experience controlling a Fanuc arm for additive manufacturing and building ROS interfaces for PLC I/O.”

“Built a production internal knowledge assistant using a RAG pipeline over large spreadsheets, PDFs, and support documents, using transformer embeddings stored in FAISS. Focused on real-world production challenges—format normalization, retrieval quality, hallucination reduction (context-only + citations), and latency—using hybrid retrieval, quantization, and containerized deployment, and communicated the workflow to non-technical stakeholders using simple analogies.”

“Current financial data analyst at Maximus with hands-on experience building SQL and Python reporting pipelines for expenditure, refund, and retention analysis. Stands out for turning messy multi-source financial data into trusted dashboards, automating reporting to save 15+ hours weekly, and driving measurable reductions in refund rates through cohort-based analysis.”

“Built production LLM systems focused on reliability and safety, including a plain-English deployment tool that generates validated plans and provisions to Kubernetes while preventing unsafe actions via schema enforcement and plan/execute separation. Also created multi-LLM workflows (LangGraph) and stakeholder-friendly demos at Bosch, including a PyQt/FastAPI/CUDA app comparing SAM2 vs SAMWISE for on-device object detection with intuitive UX for business users.”

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership of scientific and AI-powered systems, including neuron imaging pipelines at Monell Chemical Senses Center and an LLM-based structured information extraction platform for Wharton and PSG. Stands out for turning messy, compute-heavy workflows into reliable production backends with measurable impact, including saving researchers over 50 hours per week.”

“Built a production RAG-based "knowledge copilot" for support/ops using LangChain/LangGraph, implementing the full pipeline (ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector DB retrieval/rerank, guarded generation with citations) and operating it as monitored microservices with CI/CD. Also designed an event-driven, streaming backend for real-time inventory ordering predictions that reduced stockouts by 25%, and has hands-on incident response experience stabilizing LLM API latency/5xx spikes using Datadog/APM and resilience patterns.”