Vetted C++ Professionals

Raj Kale

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems and FinTech

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience building financial and hiring-product systems, spanning React/TypeScript dashboards, Flask/Kafka/Postgres backends, and multi-tenant configuration for 3,000+ clients. Stands out for combining deep technical debugging and performance work with product-minded UX improvements, including a 41% lift in resume matching accuracy and ~40% latency reduction through batching and query tuning.”

Dinesh Guguloth

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack cloud-native and AI applications

New York, NY4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with cloud and GenAI experience who has owned production features end-to-end, including a reporting dashboard optimized from 14s to 5s using query/API refactoring and monitored via AWS CloudWatch. Also productionized an OpenAI-powered chatbot using LangChain with prompt design, guardrails, and evaluation via production logs and user feedback, and has led incremental legacy-to-microservices modernization with parallel run to avoid regressions.”

“Built a semantic search portal for a fellowship department and an AI-driven PR review pipeline, using AI selectively for boilerplate while retaining full ownership of architecture, security review, testing, and deployment. Has hands-on experience with multi-agent systems, monitoring, and security validation, with a notably disciplined approach to catching false positives and rewriting weak AI output.”

“Hands-on AI/LLM practitioner who built a RAG-based customer support chatbot and tackled production issues like data chunking complexity and response-time lag. Uses techniques such as overlapping chunks, semantic search, context engineering, and query routing, and has experience presenting technical demos/workshops to developer audiences.”

“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.”

“Robotics/ML candidate building an individual pedestrian trajectory forecasting system by adapting a GAN-style Social-GN training architecture from LSTM to a transformer-based AgentFormer design. Also has hands-on embedded robotics experience debugging lane-following behavior on a JetBot by tuning PID control, and uses Docker for reproducible training environments.”

“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.”

“Creator-led growth and digital marketing professional with experience as a media team lead and agency-side marketer (Furst spark), sourcing and negotiating creator partnerships for events, fintech apps, and lifestyle subscription launches. Runs data-driven, cross-platform campaigns (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Twitter/X) with trackable links and rapid optimization; reports doubling engagement rate in a fintech acquisition experiment and driving repeat creator collaborations.”

“LLM/agent builder who shipped a live consumer AI-agent app (kalpa.chat) that visualizes complex reasoning as interactive graphs and abstracts multi-provider model usage via a unified wallet. Professionally has applied LangChain/LangGraph to IVR parsing and to scaling a football video-generation pipeline at DAZN, including shipping a VAR-specific retrieval/order fix via SQL after iterating with a non-technical PM.”

“Unity XR developer who has shipped multiple Meta Quest apps, including an NHS medical training VR simulation where realistic, consultant-validated interaction mechanics and highly configurable systems were critical. Also built and shipped a solo indie AR product ("Eugene's AR Wiki") end-to-end, supporting a wide range of iOS/Android devices and incorporating analytics, interactive content, and engagement features like word games and face filters.”

“LLM-focused engineer with end-to-end experience shipping an OpenAI-powered edtech teacher assistant into production, using Humanloop-driven prompt iteration, rigorous observability (Datadog), and A/B testing tied to real learning metrics (25% comprehension lift). Also led adoption-driving technical demos at SiriusXM (event-driven AWS Lambda/Kotlin/CDK pipeline cutting processing from 24 hours to seconds) and partnered with sales at Spresso.ai to close eCommerce SDK deals and boost activation from 40% to 85%.”

“Built and owned end-to-end TypeScript/React dashboards with a Node.js backend, including post-launch additions like role-based access and new reporting views enabled by modular architecture and clean API boundaries. Also created an internal real-time operations/engineering dashboard that replaced spreadsheets and reduced manual tracking, iterating quickly based on direct team feedback.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built real-time connected-vehicle telemetry analytics at Subaru, spanning Kafka streaming, Python/FastAPI ETL, and low-latency WebSocket delivery (minutes to <2s). Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner across AWS EKS and Azure AKS (Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins/GitLab) and has led major on-prem-to-cloud migrations for financial microservices using Terraform and AWS DMS with measurable cost and reliability gains.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building and maintaining a React accessibility utility/component library (open-source-style) used across university portals, emphasizing WCAG 2.2 compliance, robust focus/keyboard behavior, and Jest/React Testing Library coverage. Also built and maintained .NET Core microservices at the Florida Department of Transportation, including integrating AI-driven features, with strong ownership around observability, incident response, and performance-focused refactoring.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Backend engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of Python/FastAPI microservices for real-time data processing and alerting, including performance tuning (Postgres optimization, caching, async processing). Strong DevOps/GitOps background: Docker + Kubernetes deployments with GitHub Actions CI/CD and ArgoCD-driven GitOps, plus experience supporting phased on-prem to AWS migrations and building Kafka-based streaming pipelines.”

“JavaScript full-stack engineer with experience at EY building secure, cloud-ready React/Node.js applications on AWS and currently at startup Juego Juegos owning the AWS backend and CI/CD via AWS Amplify. Demonstrated impact through performance tuning of a React analytics dashboard (reduced initial load time ~20%) and resolving real payment failures by debugging Stripe 3DS flows and updating AWS Lambda plus frontend error handling.”

“LLM engineer who built a production-style educational questionnaire generation system (MCQs/fill-in-the-blanks/short answers) using Hugging Face models (BERT/T5) and implemented grounding, decoding tuning, and post-generation validation to control hallucinations and quality. Also developed a "tech care" assistant chatbot with a custom Python orchestration/router layer (intent classification, context management, multi-step flows) and a structured testing/evaluation approach including expert review and automated checks.”

“Backend engineer with cloud-native Python/Flask experience building high-throughput financial platforms (loan origination intelligent document processing and real-time fraud detection). Has scaled microservices on AKS with event-driven Azure messaging, delivered measurable performance gains (e.g., 700ms→180ms query latency; ~40% API improvements), and implemented strong security controls (OAuth2/JWT, Azure AD RBAC, audit logging, AES-256/TLS) for sensitive regulated data.”

“Production infrastructure engineer from Textron Systems who owned IBM Power/AIX 7.2 environments supporting manufacturing-critical automated RF test workloads. Deep hands-on experience with VIOS/HMC, DLPAR performance issues, SAN/vFC failures and failover recovery, plus modern DevOps practices (Azure DevOps CI/CD, Key Vault) and Terraform-based AWS infrastructure with remote state/locking and drift controls.”

“Backend/full-stack Java engineer at PNC Bank specializing in real-time fraud detection systems. Built event-driven Spring Boot + Kafka microservices with PostgreSQL/Redis performance tuning, and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG feature for fraud analysts with strong guardrails (grounded internal data, structured prompts with references, human-in-the-loop) plus an evaluation loop using labeled historical fraud cases.”