Vetted C++ Professionals

Anirudh Raghavan

Screened

Entry-level Computer Vision/Autonomy Engineer specializing in perception and object detection

West Lafayette, IN0y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 + Autoware perception experience, focused on building benchmarking infrastructure for object detection models inside a real-time autonomous driving stack. Strong in evaluation rigor (synchronization, deterministic playback, format standardization) and practical ROS2 debugging/validation workflows using RViz and Gazebo.”

Prashant Salunke

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”

Sumit Kothari

Screened

Junior AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM apps and RAG systems

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“AI engineer who built and shipped a production AI document-understanding/search system at Sumeru Inc, including a full RAG + LLMOps evaluation stack (MLflow, DeepEval, RAGAS) deployed on GCP. Also developed LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent workflows for UAV flight-log analysis and has experience presenting AI solutions to non-technical stakeholders and prospect clients to drive POCs.”

Qichen Zhao

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in Applied AI and LLM systems

Los Angeles, CA0y exp

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based conversational "Yelp for AI tools" at Search-AI Inc., focused on personalized, explainable AI tool recommendations from thousands of options. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and performance (hybrid retrieval, async two-stage pipelines) and is also building a multi-agent orchestration layer (MAgIc) with typed memory and controlled coordination policies.”

Kunal Kulkarni

Screened

Intern AI/ML Researcher specializing in computer vision and data engineering

Palo Alto, CA1y exp

“Built a production-oriented multimodal RAG "Fix Assistant" with FastAPI, Tavily search, BM25 + cross-encoder reranking, and a local Phi-3.5 model, emphasizing strict grounding and fallback/verification modes to prevent hallucinations. Also has hands-on federated learning experience using STADLE to orchestrate edge-node training and aggregation for EV telemetry data, plus experience communicating AI results to non-technical stakeholders (traffic RL/congestion outcomes).”

Fangjian Xiong

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and biomedical entity extraction

Boston, MA2y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered biomedical knowledge extraction pipeline that processed millions of papers to identify tools/techniques and produce a unified knowledge graph via active learning NER (Prodigy + spaCy transformers) and entity linking (Bio-tools/Wikidata). Addressed hard NLP engineering challenges like WordPiece span-offset alignment and scaled inference over ~1.5M documents using batching/caching, containerized services, async workers, and orchestration with Prefect/Airflow.”

Daniel Jin

Screened

Intern Site Reliability Engineer specializing in Kubernetes, AWS, and observability

New York, NY1y exp

“Backend/data engineering candidate specializing in Python/Flask services and ML-enabled systems, deploying containerized workloads on AWS ECS/EKS with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and PostgreSQL performance tuning. Built multi-tenant architectures with row- and schema-level isolation and optimized a Kubernetes-based Airflow + Spark nightly ETL pipeline for an e-commerce client, improving performance by 250%+ and reliably beating morning reporting deadlines; also contributed to Apache Airflow (SQLAlchemy/PostgreSQL area).”

Sai Nekkanti

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in secure GenAI and financial compliance

Mount Laurel, NJ4y exp

“Built a production "sentinel insight engine" to tame information overload from millions of product reviews and support transcripts, combining Azure OpenAI (GPT-3.5) zero-shot classification with a fine-tuned T5 summarizer to generate weekly actionable product insights. Demonstrated strong MLOps/production engineering by adding drift monitoring with embedding-based detection, integrating REST with legacy SOAP/queue-based CRM via FastAPI middleware, and scaling reliably on Kubernetes with HPA.”

Sanket Dumbare

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech platforms

USA3y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who led an end-to-end Python (FastAPI) transaction analytics microservice for real-time financial monitoring, including SQS ingestion, scoring/aggregation, and low-latency APIs. Strong AWS + Kubernetes/GitOps background (EKS, ArgoCD, Jenkins, ECS/ECR, CloudWatch) with hands-on experience scaling event-driven systems and executing phased on-prem to AWS migrations.”

Hadi Jaffery

Screened

Junior Data Engineer specializing in Snowflake and investment data platforms

Boston, MA3y exp

“Private markets/private credit data engineer owning core Snowflake/AWS data infrastructure (S3 → ActiveBatch → Snowflake) with automated iceDQ quality checks and curated datasets for internal Power BI/React reporting. Drove major reliability and delivery improvements, including cutting DB CI/CD deploy time 50% and reducing downstream table errors by 90%+, and also built an internal React/FastAPI app to visualize the team’s data infrastructure in an ambiguous early-stage environment.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-driven data harmonization/record-matching pipeline for pharmaceutical datasets, combining normalization, embeddings/vector search, and an LLM validation step. Emphasizes production reliability via guardrails, confidence thresholds, idempotent/retryable stages, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, with monitoring focused on manual review and error rates to reduce false positives.”

Wilson Harron

Screened

Director-level AI/ML & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in robotics and multimodal AI

Los Angeles, CA15y exp

“Candidate is not currently pursuing entrepreneurship (no business plan and no capital raised) and is not familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape. They show pragmatic, problem-first thinking about evaluating startup ideas—prioritizing real customer pain points and the quality of the founding team—and are open to working for others rather than founding "at all costs."”

“Built production LLM/RAG systems during a UPS internship, including a shipment knowledge agent used across 15+ hubs worldwide and a multi-agent PDF RAG workflow. Stands out for combining hands-on enterprise integration with rigorous evaluation, hallucination reduction, and efficient fine-tuning techniques like LoRA.”

“Built both traditional internal tooling and LLM-powered systems during an internship, including a React/Python/AWS calculator onboarding platform and a production-style ROS2 RAG assistant over 10K+ documents. Stands out for combining full-stack delivery, stakeholder coordination, and practical AI reliability work like retrieval tuning, source-grounded answers, and low-confidence fallbacks.”

“AI Engineer with hands-on ownership of a production multi-agent RAG platform in financial services, spanning experimentation, architecture, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for measurable impact: 35% retrieval relevance improvement and nearly 50% reduction in manual operational analysis effort, plus strong experience making enterprise LLM systems safer and more reliable in production.”

Ajay Desai

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and backend platforms

USA4y exp

“Built an AI-native legal research platform that automated analysis across 100,000+ dense legal documents, combining LLM workflows, async backend architecture, and conversational retrieval in production. Also brings cross-domain experience in investment-analysis agents and healthcare claims/billing systems, with a strong emphasis on reliability, deterministic orchestration, and safe handling of messy operational data.”

“Full-stack developer who uses AI thoughtfully as a productivity multiplier rather than a substitute for engineering judgment. Built a stock search platform with React, Node.js, and MongoDB, and has experimented with multi-agent workflows across frontend, backend, debugging, and documentation while keeping rigorous human review over logic, testing, and maintainability.”

Nithyashree Raghunathan

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer in Test specializing in AI and healthcare platforms

Santa Clara, CA5y exp

“QA/data pipeline engineer with hands-on AI product building experience, spanning enterprise AWS migration testing for Belgium postal services and personal multi-agent systems in fintech and recruiting. Stands out for combining rigorous validation and production stability work with modern LLM orchestration, guardrails, and messy-document normalization workflows.”

“Engineer focused on AI-assisted and multi-agent software development, with hands-on experience designing structured agent workflows for implementation, testing, validation, and architectural review. Stands out for treating AI as an accelerator rather than a replacement, combining practical experimentation with strong attention to engineering fundamentals and operational concerns like observability, latency, and cost.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with experience delivering a major licensing-model migration, moving customers from legacy key-based licensing to a dynamic renewal experience. Strongest signals are in React/TypeScript architecture, reusable component design, micro frontends, and frontend quality/performance practices.”

Sai Divya Mulukala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and distributed systems

USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience building operational dashboards at Walmart and improving digital banking experiences at Bank of America. Stands out for tracing performance issues across frontend, APIs, and backend services, including cutting response times from 1.2s to 700ms and resolving duplicate event-processing problems in distributed systems.”

“Robotics software engineer with semiconductor wafer-handling automation experience at Mattson Technology, building C++ control software for ATM and vacuum robots coordinating through a load-lock (pressure/door/pump sequencing). Implemented multi-vendor communications with auto-detection across SECS serial and TCP/IP, and validated behavior using simulation + GUI animation, logging/sniffers, and hardware-in-the-loop testing; currently self-studying ROS 2.”

“Robotics/AV engineer with strong ROS2 and autonomy stack integration experience, including bringing Autoware Universe up on a real Lexus autonomous vehicle platform. Also built a hierarchical reinforcement learning proof-of-concept for Boston Dynamics Spot (navigation + manipulation) and tackled sim-to-real challenges by implementing PD torque conversion for Jetson-based hardware; improved localization accuracy via GNSS+EKF fusion with a reported 28% drift reduction.”

“Backend engineer who built an async FastAPI data pipeline at GHN Career Academy to replace a manual Excel-based workflow, migrating 30k+ contact records into Airtable with validation/deduplication and best-effort GPT-based enrichment. Emphasizes reliability under messy real-world data and partial failures via structured logging, retries, and resumable processing, unlocking downstream automations (e.g., Zapier and chatbots).”