Vetted C++ Professionals

“Built and monetized an object-identification app end-to-end (FastAPI backend, HTML/JS frontend, SQLite→Postgres, auth, and an iOS wrapper via Capacitor/Xcode with Apple privacy/policy compliance). Also productionized an AI-native geospatial metadata/QA assistant using LLM+RAG plus deterministic Python validation, measuring impact via time-to-first-pass review and rework rate, and has experience modernizing legacy GIS workflows and delivering across USDA/FEMA-style teams with disciplined Jira-based execution.”

“Backend/platform engineer with State Farm experience modernizing and scaling an enterprise consolidated payment data platform and event-driven pipelines. Built cloud-native payment architecture (ECS->EKS) handling millions of financial transactions/day and high-volume telemetry (~100M events/day), with strong schema governance (Avro + schema registry) and production operations/incident mitigation driven by observability.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on hard real-time autonomy for legged robots, building a quadruped navigation stack that combines vision SLAM with MPC and maintains a deterministic 500Hz control loop. Deep performance optimization experience across CUDA (sub-2ms perception latency), ROS 2/DDS real-time tuning, and motion planning (cut 500ms spikes to sub-5ms). Also designed distributed ROS 2 + Zenoh communications between quadrupeds and aerial drones and validated robustness under lossy wireless conditions.”

“Robotics software engineer with a Master’s thesis building an end-to-end monocular-vision pick-and-place controller for construction use cases on TurtleBot3 + OpenManipulator, spanning synthetic data creation, transfer learning, simulation in Gazebo, and real-robot deployment. Leveraged ROS distributed architecture to run two heavy AI models across networked GPUs to achieve usable real-time performance, and has production CI/CD experience as a Senior Software Engineer in AI/analytics.”

“Robotics engineer who built a smart campus tour robot on a Kobuki Turtlebot using ROS 1, implementing a full navigation stack (semantic world model, A* planner, tour executor, path follower) and integrating SLAM (gmapping) plus a hybrid reactive safety controller. Experienced taking systems from Gazebo simulation to real hardware, including extensive real-world debugging and Docker-based development to handle ROS/Ubuntu version constraints; planning a move to ROS 2 on Turtlebot 4.”

“Robotics/perception engineer who led and owned ARC, a cooperative perception system for autonomous vehicles that aligns and fuses multi-vehicle LiDAR point clouds in real time. Built a ROS-based multi-node pipeline with grid-based spatial reasoning and motion-compensated data sharing, achieving <20 ms compute latency and sub-7 cm alignment error; accepted to ACM SenSys 2026.”

“Embedded/bare-metal engineer with hands-on sensor performance work: built a real-time profiler for a LiDAR system that tracked CPU/core usage and pixel buffer metrics to quickly identify and validate fixes for bright-light performance issues. Also has Ethernet/UDP device communication experience plus Docker and CI test-suite overhaul work to run sensor functionality tests on every commit.”

“Robotics software engineer leading a GNSS localization effort that fuses GPS, wheel encoders, and camera data via a Kalman filter with robust sensor rejection. Has built ROS/ROS 2 packages (including GPS waypoint following and obstacle avoidance) and has field-tuned motion planning for an autonomous robot operating around penguins in Antarctica, plus handled Docker deployment on NVIDIA Jetson (ARM) systems.”

“LLM/agentic systems builder who shipped production workflows at Angel Flight West and Eureka AI, combining LangGraph + RAG (Postgres/pgvector) with strong observability (LangSmith/Langfuse). Delivered large operational gains (address lookup cut from 10 minutes to 60 seconds; accuracy to 92%) and has a track record of quickly stabilizing customer-critical pipelines (Pydantic-enforced JSON for ETL) while partnering with sales/ops to drive adoption.”

“AI Automation Engineer at BalancedTrust who single-handedly shipped production LLM features for FinTech compliance: a policy gap-analysis pipeline (SOC 2/GDPR) and a RAG-based regulatory chatbot. Deeply focused on reliability in high-stakes legal/compliance settings, with strong production engineering (edge functions, parallelized batching to cut latency, structured JSON outputs, guardrails, and monitoring) and close collaboration with non-technical compliance experts.”

“Unity/Meta Quest VR developer who helped ship a pharmaceutical lab-training simulator, owning key interaction systems (liquid transfer, pipette behavior) and building custom editor tooling to accelerate objective testing. Also built a solo early-lifeform simulation featuring procedural soft-body mesh generation and physics-driven animation, demonstrating strong systems/physics programming depth.”

“Frontend engineer who co-built an AI-enabled marketing automation platform with multi-workspace tenancy, implementing database-scoped queries and RLS for isolation plus real-time UX (chat, voice transcription via Deepgram, autosave, Supabase Realtime). Emphasizes quality and speed through CI practices (linting/unit tests, planned Playwright) and has shipped fast iterations like Stripe prepaid card detection from overnight build through staged QA to production.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical document understanding and summarization system for healthcare, focused on reducing manual review time while meeting strict accuracy, latency, and compliance needs. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Azure ML Pipelines) and a rigorous approach to hallucination mitigation through layered, source-grounded safeguards and stakeholder-driven requirements with physicians/compliance teams.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built and operated event-driven microservices platforms (FastAPI/React/TypeScript, Kafka, Kubernetes) and internal DevOps tooling. Delivered measurable impact through user-feedback-driven iteration (WebSockets update mechanism cutting redundant API calls ~30%) and operational improvements (deployment monitoring dashboard reducing rollback time ~40%), with strong focus on reliability, observability, and data consistency at scale.”

“Graduate researcher who builds production-grade AI systems spanning LLM security evaluation and on-device RAG. Created HoneyLearner, a self-learning attack framework using GPT-4-class models as structured black-box attackers against honeywords defenses, with rigorous metrics and reproducible orchestration (Airflow/Spark/Kafka/Docker). Also partnered with agriculture scientists at Texas A&M–Corpus Christi to deliver UAV + 3D point-cloud crop-stress maps that cut time-to-insight ~40% and enabled ~30% earlier interventions.”

“Software engineer and University of Chicago graduate teaching assistant who built a full-stack internal analytics dashboard (React/TypeScript + Node/Express) and worked in RabbitMQ-based microservices with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Also created an AI-powered ERD diagram generator (React + MermaidJS + OpenAI) adopted by students to save hours on database assignments, using validation loops to ensure valid Mermaid output.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who builds modular Flask services on AWS and specializes in performance/scalability work across data-heavy APIs. Has concrete wins in query optimization (1.5s to <200ms) and high-throughput async processing (Celery+Redis, ~40% throughput gain), plus experience serving scikit-learn text classification models via containerized REST services and designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI RAG quoting system for the fastener industry, reducing quote turnaround from weeks to ~30 minutes and raising retrieval accuracy to ~90% by solving a semantic-collision issue with a parent-document retrieval design. Strong in production AWS integrations (Cognito auth, S3 pre-signed uploads), performance optimization (multithreading/out-of-core), and real-time streaming (Kafka/Spark Kappa architecture achieving sub-second latency), plus Kubernetes logging and GitHub Actions CI/CD to ECR.”

“Backend engineer focused on cloud-native microservices on AWS, owning Python/Flask ingestion services integrated with S3/Lambda and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD. Has led phased migrations from manually managed EC2 setups to automated CloudFormation + pipeline-driven releases, and designed event-driven near-real-time pipelines with idempotency, retry/backoff, and strong observability.”

“Backend/DevX engineer with startup experience who built internal JavaScript SDKs for POS integrations, including a daily GMV calculation feature standardized across multiple POS providers. Strong in performance debugging (used Jaeger to resolve legacy WebSocket bottlenecks) and developer enablement—built a cronjob migration tool (ArgoWorkflow to internal platform) with documentation that let teams migrate in ~30 seconds, plus handled on-call and internal support.”

“JavaScript engineer with open-source experience on a database visualization library, focused on real-time rendering performance for large datasets (virtualized DOM rendering, requestAnimationFrame/debouncing, memoization) and on raising project quality via tests and CI performance benchmarks. Also built Kafka-based messaging documentation and sample producer/consumer apps to speed onboarding, and has experience diagnosing production issues including concurrency-related duplicate data problems.”

“Robotics software engineer who built and deployed a full custom ROS navigation stack (global/local planners) for a TurtleBot3 reconnaissance robot, validated in Gazebo and on real hardware. Has hands-on experience customizing MoveBase for an autonomous warehouse mobile robot internship and optimizing multi-robot ROS communications by pruning and throttling high-volume sensor streams, plus CI/CD automation via Bitbucket Pipelines and Docker.”

“Defense-domain AI engineer who built a production ReAct-style RAG system for military training data/material generation, scaling to ~1000 users and cutting generation time by 50%. Also has experience designing GPU-cluster parallel computation with PyTorch and handling production incidents involving database performance and schema design.”