Vetted C++ Professionals

“Software engineer with hands-on embedded/robotics coursework experience (Arduino sensor integration and input handling built from scratch without external libraries) and strong DevOps/engineering productivity impact at work, including leading a CI/CD enhancement that runs only impacted tests to catch issues before PR approval.”

“Serial venture builder/operator across ad tech, media delivery, search engines, international content management, and ecommerce; has raised up to $150M and been involved in 8 acquisitions or IP-acquisition events. Known for refactoring/re-engineering smaller or troubled platforms into higher-value businesses, including building yield-management algorithms and a Kafka-like system to improve ad delivery profitability.”

“Robotics software engineer with autonomous driving lab experience at UCSD, building and optimizing ROS2 perception and control pipelines (camera-based real-time object detection) with a strong focus on low-latency performance and robust message interfaces. Also brings production deployment experience from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, using Docker and Kubernetes for containerized environments and deployment pipelines.”

“Robotics-focused candidate with multiple university robotics projects (MTE 380, MTE 544) and ROS 2 (Humble/Galactic) experience spanning perception, navigation, and simulation. Built a vision-based line-following and retrieval robot using HSV filtering and homography, and debugged real-time PID overshoot issues via timestamping/rate-limiting. Comfortable with distributed ROS 2 architectures (Python perception + C++ control), DDS/QoS, Gazebo testing, and Dockerized deployment.”

“Robotics engineer with a 2024 internship building an end-to-end software stack for an autonomous humanoid robot that follows natural-language audio commands to make coffee and deliver snacks, including perception (OpenCV), mapping, and ROS Navigation. Also contributing to a robotics foundation model effort by building data preprocessing pipelines using GroundingDINO and SAM2, and has multi-robot coordination experience with algorithms designed to handle real-world communication drops.”

“Robotics engineer/team lead who built an autonomous lunar rover for the NASA Lunabotics challenge, owning electrical systems, comms (UART/WiFi), and autonomy using RealSense + custom YOLO on a Jetson Orin Nano. Also has extensive ROS 2 experience, including creating a ROS2+Gazebo environment with ros2_control custom controllers for a large-scale additive manufacturing printer and research/thesis work in multi-robot coordination and robustness.”

“Autonomous marine surface algorithms engineer at CURLY contributing across the full autonomy stack in ROS 2 (C++/Python), from GNSS-IMU InEKF localization (100 Hz) and GTSAM object-level SLAM to semantic mapping and A*/Lie-group MPC planning/control. Strong focus on real-time optimization for constrained embedded hardware, with disciplined debugging/validation using ros2_tracing, rosbag2 replay, and Gazebo, and reproducible deployment via Docker/CI.”

“Systems/robotics-oriented software engineer focused on real-time orchestration and reliability: built a central control layer coordinating multiple concurrent agents with safe state machines, failure isolation, and recovery. Has hands-on ROS/ROS 2 integration experience in simulation (DDS/QoS, lifecycle, nodes in Python/C++) and emphasizes observability (structured JSON logs, correlation IDs) and low-latency control-loop performance under load.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on autonomous surface vehicles, specializing in dynamic collision avoidance and regulation-compliant navigation. Extended ROS2 Nav2 by implementing a Velocity-Obstacle-based safety filter (as a DWA critic) and encoding COLREGs, plus built an end-to-end Gazebo+ArduPilot SITL stack and a ROS2 bridge translating Nav2 commands to ArduPilot for real-world deployment.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience scaling a Python/Flask incident-logging platform processing thousands of daily logs. Strong in performance tuning (PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy query optimization, partitioning, summary tables) and reliability patterns (Redis caching, Celery background workers, Docker + Jenkins CI/CD), with some multi-tenant data isolation experience via separate DBs/schemas.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on autonomous drones and mobile robotics: implemented a sliding mode inner-loop controller and a RealSense T265 VIO state-estimation pipeline integrated into ArduPilot EKF3 for GPS-denied indoor flight. Strong simulation-to-deployment experience (Gazebo/MAVROS to firmware), ROS2 networking/debugging, and hands-on validation through multi-sensor trials and log analysis.”

“GenAI/ML engineer from Lucid Motors who built and productionized an LLM-powered RAG diagnostic assistant for manufacturing and maintenance teams, deployed on AWS with Docker/Kubernetes and MLflow. Demonstrates end-to-end ownership from retrieval/prompt design to scalability, monitoring, and workflow integration via APIs, plus production ML pipeline orchestration with Kubeflow (Spark/Kafka + TensorFlow) for predictive maintenance use cases.”

“Computer science engineer and master’s graduate who independently built a mechatronics-heavy capstone prototype: a smartphone concept for deafblind users using micro-actuator arrays for braille reading. Also has platform engineering experience at Quantiphi, deploying webhooks to Kubernetes and implementing GitOps-based CI/CD using AWS CodeCommit/CodeBuild and ECR.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered market intelligence and decision-support platform for noisy, real-time financial data, using a high-throughput embedding + vector DB RAG architecture to reduce hallucinations while keeping latency and cost low. Operated it at scale with GPU-backed inference (continuous batching/quantization), FastAPI on Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated ingestion/embedding/retraining workflows, with strong schema-based reliability and monitoring.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered resume-to-job matching and feedback product using RAG, with a strong focus on latency, hallucination control, and scalable deployment. Experienced orchestrating ML inference and backend services on Kubernetes and applying rigorous evaluation/guardrail practices; also partnered with business/product stakeholders at Walmart to improve an NLP-based supplier support system.”

“Early-career technologist with internship experience deploying and fixing production/demo service configurations despite poor documentation, using step-through debugging and prior demo references to restore progress quickly. Also has hands-on IT technician experience diagnosing hardware failures (hard drive damage), recovering files, and replacing drives, plus QA test development in Python for customer-reported bugs and a strong focus on networking (monitoring, IP activity analysis).”

“Customer-facing technical professional experienced in productionizing complex systems (including LLM/agentic workflows) and high-volume cloud data pipelines. Built and hardened a near-real-time data extraction/caching solution that significantly reduced latency and became a reusable pattern for other enterprise use cases; also runs developer demos/workshops with hands-on test environments and has driven 30–50% latency improvements.”

“Backend/infra engineer with experience across Nestle, J.P. Morgan, and Capgemini, combining ML systems work (YOLOv8/PyTorch object detection with TFLite edge deployment) with production-grade cloud/Kubernetes operations. Has delivered measurable impact via AWS migrations (25% cost reduction, 99.9% availability), microservice modernization (35% faster processing), and low-latency Kafka streaming for financial dashboards (<100ms) using DLQs and idempotent consumers.”

“Developed a production wildfire smoke detection system where smoke is visually subtle and easily confused with fog/clouds; addressed this with a hybrid CNN+LSTM+ViT model and multimodal weather features to reduce false positives. Experienced running scalable, reproducible ML pipelines on shared GPU infrastructure using Slurm and Kubernetes-style batch jobs with checkpointing, retries, and rigorous error analysis.”

“Software engineer with experience building a Vue.js/TypeScript internal component library (with Jest testing standards) and improving JS runtime performance via profiling, code splitting, and lazy loading. Also led documentation and community support for a Python ML utility library, diagnosing metric-calculation bugs for imbalanced datasets and driving large reductions in support inquiries through targeted docs, tests, and rapid hotfixes in a startup environment.”

“Backend engineer with strong AWS/CI/CD experience (multi-repo deployments, Lambda + core app, immutable ECR and image promotion) and a published master’s thesis building an ML framework for Solar PV energy prediction and CO2 reduction impact modeling using ensemble and meta-learning approaches benchmarked against SAM.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on controls and motion planning for autonomous flight systems using ROS 2 (rclcpp), Gazebo/RViz, and BehaviorTree.CPP. Has hands-on real-time control experience (1ms loop rate) and has improved system performance by tracing latency issues and refactoring vision components (singleton camera init). Also built low-latency Ethernet/TCP comms on top of the IgH Ethernet stack and uses digital-twin simulation (Gazebo, MuJoCo; beginner Isaac Sim) to validate algorithms.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on medical robotics experience on an automated CT-guided lung biopsy robot, building a CT-voxel-to-mesh pipeline that generates and visualizes up to 1000 collision-safe needle insertion points and ports them into robot space for IK execution. Strong ROS2 background spanning AprilTag perception, Kalman-filter state estimation, visual SLAM, and Voronoi-based motion planning, plus deployment work containerizing ORB-SLAM on ROS2 Humble and CI/CD automation at Siemens EDA using Perforce.”

“Internship experience building production-oriented AI systems, including a real-time voice scam/spoof detector (RawNet + AASIST) hardened for noisy audio via aggressive augmentation and Zoom-based noise simulation, evaluated with EER on clean and wild datasets. Also built an LLM-driven UI automation agent using Playwright for apps like Linear/Notion with modular tool design, unit tests, and replayable scripted scenarios, and has AWS Step Functions experience orchestrating Lambda/Cognito workflows.”