Vetted C++ Professionals

“Built a production LLM-powered fraud detection platform at Wells Fargo, combining OpenAI/Hugging Face models with RAG-based explanations to make flagged transactions interpretable for risk and compliance teams. Delivered low-latency, real-time inference at high scale on AWS (SageMaker + EKS), with strong observability and security controls, reducing manual reviews and false positives in a regulated environment.”

Ashwith Poojary

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software & AI Engineer specializing in Robotics, LLMs, and Reinforcement Learning

4y exp

“Robotics/AI Master's thesis researcher building an LLM-driven workflow to generate and evaluate robot policies before running them in an environment. Also built a local LLM-based real-time target-tracking robot using a pan-tilt camera with LangChain + Ollama, and has hands-on ROS 2/Gazebo experience including URDF-based simulation and a TurtleBot multi-agent chase project.”

Alexander Meyer

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior/Lead Game Developer specializing in Unity and cross-platform multiplayer games

Paphos, Cyprus28y exp

“Veteran Unity game developer with extensive multiplayer networking experience (Photon PUN2/Quantum/Fusion, Unity Netcode), including work on Payday: Crime War and an in-development arena battler using Invector + PUN2. Also builds cloud backends for Unity titles (Azure/PlayFab/Firebase, SQL, CI/CD) and actively uses multiple AI assistants to speed up architecture and implementation.”

“Internship experience building an end-to-end medical AI pipeline that extracts and normalizes messy medical PDFs, fine-tunes BioBERT to classify tumor-related statements (including negation/ambiguity handling), and integrates image-model outputs (MedSAM/GroundingDINO) for tumor localization and classification. Also worked on an LLM/RAG system to draft IPO prospectuses using retrieved regulatory/financial sources (including SEC EDGAR) with structured prompts to reduce hallucinations.”

Anthony Hernandez

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Game Designer specializing in systems, balance, and live updates

Los Angeles, CA6y exp

“Game designer currently leading design on a Mario Party-like party game, owning mode design, economy, and meta-progression. Uses playtests and A/B tests to tune fairness-focused systems (e.g., dynamic power-ups accounting for player standing and turn order) and prototypes quickly in UE5 Blueprints. Previously shipped a mixed-reality version of Knockout League’s Knockout Alley mode for a Quest 3-aligned release.”

Manasa Pantra

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, LLM systems, and full-stack development

Stony Brook, NY2y exp

“Product-focused full-stack engineer at startup (Zippy) who shipped a production multi-agent AI system for restaurant operations plus payments workflows. Built end-to-end: RAG grounded on a Notion knowledge base, structured function-calling task routing, FastAPI/JWT multi-tenant backend, and a polished React+TypeScript owner dashboard. Has real production incident experience (duplicate Stripe webhooks) and reports ~94% task-routing accuracy under load.”

“Interned at Larsen & Toubro where they built and deployed an agentic RAG document question-answering system to reduce time spent searching documents and improve trustworthiness. Implemented ReAct-style multi-step orchestration with LangChain/LlamaIndex plus evidence-bounded generation, grounding/citations, and rigorous evaluation—cutting latency ~40%, hallucinations ~35%, and unsafe outputs ~40% while collaborating closely with non-technical business/ops stakeholders.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher focused on perception, SLAM, and sensor fusion, with hands-on experience taking systems from simulation to embedded/real-time deployment. Led transparent-surface (glass) detection using GDNet and achieved a major real-time speedup (~7–9 FPS to ~30 FPS) while preserving >90% recall, and has built ROS-based EKF GPS-IMU fusion plus profiled/optimized Visual SLAM for performance and memory stability. Also brings production-style deployment skills via Docker/Kubernetes orchestration of ML inference services with autoscaling and model update rollouts.”

“Robotics software engineer (PhD background) who owned an end-to-end autonomy stack for a 2025 GTC demo, integrating ROS2/MoveIt2 with a high-fidelity NVIDIA Isaac Sim environment for regression testing and sim-to-real validation. Has hands-on experience optimizing MoveIt2 planning (parallel pipelines + evaluation metrics) and building outdoor Nav2 localization using dual EKF with GNSS and LiDAR/IMU sensor fusion; currently building simulation environments at Richtech Robotics.”

“Backend engineer with experience building and modernizing high-volume healthcare transaction systems, including migrating Java services to Spring Boot microservices and adopting Kafka-based event-driven architectures. Strong focus on production reliability and operability (observability, CI/CD, standardized patterns) plus security (OAuth/JWT, RBAC, Postgres/Supabase RLS) and resilient stream processing (idempotency, DLQs).”

“Software engineer with strong full-stack and platform experience (TypeScript/React/Node.js) who has built real-time analytics dashboards and microservices using RabbitMQ. Demonstrates production-minded decision-making under launch pressure (manual fallback for payment-impacting third-party API issues) and has delivered internal DevOps tooling that automates compliance checks via GitHub/Jira integrations.”

“Master’s student and Deep Learning teaching assistant who teaches LLM/VLM fine-tuning (including LoRA) and built a Hugging Face LLM fine-tuned for unit conversion, improving reliability by analyzing synthetic data and filling missing number-system conversion examples. Also implemented the Raft consensus protocol using gRPC in a distributed systems course with correctness validated by unit tests.”

“AI/ML infrastructure-focused engineer who has built production RAG systems from scratch (Supabase/pgvector + OpenAI embeddings) and iterated using formal eval metrics to improve retrieval quality. Also debugged real-time audio issues in a LiveKit-based pipeline by correlating packet loss with VAD behavior, and has deep experience building brittle, customer-specific financial platform integrations in Python/Playwright (2FA, redirects, token refresh, rate limits).”

“LLM/agentic workflow specialist with healthcare deployment experience who has taken LLM-based automation from prototype to production using operator-in-the-loop validation, RAG-style retrieval, RBAC, and monitoring for sensitive data compliance. Demonstrated real-time incident resolution (retrieval timeouts due to network/proxy misconfig) and strong GTM support—hands-on developer workshops and sales demos translating technical safeguards and real-time ETL into measurable ROI (70% ops reduction, ~$200K/year savings).”

“Built a production real-time anomaly detection platform for high-frequency trading at HSBC, using a streaming stack (Pulsar + Spark Structured Streaming + AWS Lambda) and a transformer-based model combining time-series and numerical signals. Experienced in MLOps and safe deployment (Kubernetes, canary releases, MLflow/Grafana monitoring) and in aligning model performance with risk/compliance expectations through SLA-driven tuning and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“Backend engineer at Cerebrone.ai building cloud-native Flask microservices for an AI-driven automation platform on GCP (Cloud Run/App Engine), including dedicated inference services integrating OpenAI and internal ML pipelines. Demonstrated strong performance and scalability wins across Postgres/SQLAlchemy optimization, multi-tenant (healthcare/HIPAA-grade) data isolation, and high-throughput background processing with Celery/Redis/RabbitMQ, with multiple quantified latency/CPU/throughput improvements.”

“Robotics-focused engineer from a senior capstone who built the backend motion-control software for a semi-autonomous line-following vehicle split across two ESP32s. Experienced in ROS 2 (DDS, lifecycle nodes, QoS) and in bridging microcontroller telemetry to a laptop ROS 2 stack over UART with custom structured protocols, using Gazebo simulation to tune PID and validate behavior before deploying to hardware.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based document Q&A system on Azure OpenAI to help business teams search thousands of PDFs/Word files, using Qdrant vector search, MongoDB, and a Flask API. Demonstrates strong production engineering (streaming large-file ingestion, parallel preprocessing, monitoring/retries) plus systematic prompt/embedding/chunking experimentation to improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations, and has hands-on orchestration experience with ADF/Airflow/Databricks/Synapse.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built a Spring Boot timesheet API on AWS (Postgres, Docker, Nginx) used by hundreds of daily users and resolved severe deadline-driven latency/5XX incidents via query optimization, connection pool tuning, and Redis caching. Also shipped application-layer LLM features (Mistral + LangChain chatbot) and designed a Planner/Executor/Verifier troubleshooting agent with verification-based guardrails to prevent hallucinated root-cause analyses.”

“Founder of an LLC operating as a consulting firm providing fractional CTO services to startups, giving them parallel exposure to multiple early-stage companies. Has direct experience with MVP development, building org structures from scratch, and supporting early fundraising, and is exploring a pivot from consulting into a scalable product business while staying engaged with the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

“Azure cloud platform engineer with strong enterprise Linux operations background who designs multi-region HA/DR on Azure (and AWS) using Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, AKS autoscaling, and geo-replicated Azure SQL. Built secure Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for .NET/Python microservices to AKS/VMs and provisions full environments via Terraform modules with remote state, drift checks, and staged rollouts; has not directly owned IBM Power/AIX at scale.”

“Cofounded a travel app and built a production place recommendation + review system end-to-end using Next.js App Router and TypeScript, including Postgres-backed APIs and post-launch monitoring. Uses structured logging with Sentry and Vercel Analytics to diagnose issues and validate performance improvements, and has some exposure to Temporal-based workflow orchestration with retries/idempotency.”