Vetted C++ Professionals

“Software Developer at NYU (GEMSS) focused on scaling and optimizing a data-heavy asset management web app, including migrating/optimizing data access via Google Sheets API and Firestore. Previously an SDE at Sainapse working on Spring Boot microservices POCs (Kafka, Hadoop at 2B+ record scale). Built an end-to-end Apple Wallet coupon generation/redemption system using PassKit + Google Apps Script with measurable ops impact (40% efficiency gain).”

“Founder/builder of an EdTech startup (robograde.io) who personally conducted on-site classroom discovery with teachers and rapidly iterated the product based on real-world feedback. Implemented a Canvas LMS integration and refined it through weeks of in-person testing, and handled a live production grading failure by quickly debugging and deploying a fix, then adding fault-tolerant/backup API design.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher with hands-on real2sim experience for deformable manipulation: led real-world data collection and diffusion policy deployment on an Aloha robot, then built a MuJoCo + Gaussian-splat digital twin with point-cloud alignment. Also brings 3 years of production software engineering experience, including Docker/CI/CD and a zero-downtime Blue-Green upgrade of a core API router, plus ROS/ROS2 work spanning autonomous vehicles and UR20 pick-and-place with MoveIt2.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built an AI RAG system on FastAPI/Postgres/AWS with 10+ microservices, vector search optimization (ANN + two-stage re-ranking), and GitOps-driven CI/CD that cut deploy time from hours to minutes. Also deployed Java identity services on Kubernetes at TSMC for 200K+ users using ArgoCD/Azure Pipelines, and built a reliable real-time IoT pipeline (MQTT/Node/MongoDB) with strong consistency controls.”

“Built and deployed custom AI chatbots at LivePerson, translating customer service pain points (e.g., MTTR reduction and fragmented information) into production RAG-based solutions with stakeholder-facing metrics dashboards. Experienced in real-time troubleshooting using Elastic logs, leading POCs, and integrating customer APIs to automate workflows as part of sales-driven solutioning.”

“Built and shipped multiple production AI systems, including Auto DocGen (LLM-generated OpenAPI docs kept in sync via AST diffs, schema-constrained generation, and CI/CD on Render) and a multimodal sign-language recognition pipeline at USC orchestrated with FastAPI, MediaPipe, and PyTorch. Also partnered with Esri’s non-technical community team to fine-tune an LLaMA-based spam classifier with a review UI, cutting moderation time by 70%.”

“Serial entrepreneur who built Verb Technology from a garage startup to a Nasdaq IPO, raising multiple rounds of capital along the way. Invented interactive live streaming technology that was acquired by Amazon and demonstrated rapid product/market response during COVID by prototyping and launching a solution for users while tightly managing AWS costs.”

“Backend/Full-stack engineer who built a Go-based API for a real-time eye-tracking system (calibration/recording/streaming) and debugged intermittent long-session timeouts through improved observability and concurrency refactors. Also shipped an LLM-driven "Doctor Simulator" product end-to-end (React/Node/Go/MongoDB/OpenAI), including structured prompts, deterministic verification/termination logic, and production guardrails like validation, retries, and prompt versioning.”

“QA professional with Apple experience supporting the macOS Sonoma release, owning daily monitoring of submissions, crashes, regressions, and release verification across multiple OS/device builds. Notably isolated a memory-related issue in the Safari suite that caused an 18-hour build backlog and 156+ test crashes, leading to a Python-script fix that restored build times to ~1 hour and helped keep the release on schedule.”

“Infrastructure-leaning engineer who has built real-time ML systems end-to-end: a Jetson-deployed adaptive Whisper ASR service (Flask + WebSockets, React/TS UI) and a high-throughput Postgres schema for live transcription. Also delivered customer-facing AI billing/OCR improvements for a dental startup (Dentite), boosting OCR performance by 38%, and has experience instrumenting open-source ML deployment stacks to add infrastructure visibility.”

“Game economy/progression designer for PGA titles who owned equipment and attribute progression plus virtual currency sources/sinks end-to-end. Uses quantitative modeling and telemetry (wallet balances, spending ratios) to tune supply/pricing and hit segment-specific business targets (e.g., conversion and completion-rate goals), and aligns stakeholders via KPI-lift projections and tradeoff-driven presentations.”

“Full-stack engineer with production ownership across React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres, including zero-downtime releases and rollbackable migrations. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (20% response-time reduction) through DB query profiling and batching, plus hands-on AWS operations (ECS/Lambda/CloudWatch) and reliability patterns for ETL (retries, DLQs, idempotency). Experience shipping microservices quickly in ambiguous, fast-paced environments (Deloitte).”

“UE5 UI engineer who built a production-ready, modular training/procedure framework with editor tooling so curriculum designers and technical trainers could author content without Unreal expertise. Deep hands-on ownership across C++/Slate/UMG/CommonUI, including MVVM architecture, cross-platform input/navigation, and rigorous UI profiling/debug tooling that can be stripped from shipping builds.”

“UPenn robotics researcher who architected a real-time autonomous driving decision-making engine, integrating LSTM trajectory prediction with MPC in CARLA and adding conformal prediction to deliver 95% statistical safety guarantees under strict latency constraints. Also built and debugged an autonomous quadrotor stack with ESKF-based 6-DoF tracking and optimized A*/Dijkstra planning to eliminate latency-induced instability, with experience bridging heterogeneous simulation/control systems.”

“UCLA RoMeLa research assistant (since Oct 2025) building an embedded control and sensor-data platform for multi-robot coordination in a simulated warehouse. Deep hands-on experience with ROS on NVIDIA Jetson under RTOS constraints, secure MQTT/TLS telemetry, and SLAM performance optimization (including ORB-SLAM3) validated in Gazebo and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD.”

“Robotics software engineer who led an end-to-end learning-based UAV controller project, addressing oscillation issues through simulation, gain tuning, and a shift to geometric control. Has ROS experience spanning UAV mocap-based perception and an autonomous driving stack (LiDAR, mapping, AMCL, controller), plus real-world distributed ROS communication over WiFi with performance troubleshooting.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on GPU/CUDA vision work (solo-built a 4-fisheye panorama stitcher using camera intrinsics/extrinsics) and mapping/localization expertise, including radar-driven pose-graph mapping optimized with Ceres. Strong ROS background (Cartographer, AMCL, TEB) and demonstrated localization improvements by biasing AMCL with Cartographer to reduce drift; experience shipping modules deployed across large robot/vehicle fleets (e.g., retail scanning robots and automotive).”

“Robotics software engineer focused on autonomous eVTOL operations, including simulated autonomous ship deck landing using ROS2 Humble with perception (AprilTags) and motion planning under aircraft dynamics constraints. Has hands-on experience with multi-robot coordination, SLAM sensor-fusion fixes, and distributed robot networking (LTE + VPN), plus embedded data capture on Jetson AGX Orin and advanced control methods (MPC/CBF, differentiable learning).”

“Robotics/software engineer who deployed a Raspberry Pi computer-vision-controlled 3-axis platform at FuelCell Energy, improving screen-print alignment from >10mm to 0.01mm repeatability via encoder-based closed-loop PID control. Currently designing an AI-enabled hearing-aid accessory for the cocktail party problem using a multi-mic array, beamforming, and an edge-accelerated neural network with <10ms latency via shared-memory DSP integration.”

“Autonomous robotics student who built an end-to-end ROS2 semantic goal navigation system as a solo course project, integrating CLIP-based vision-language understanding with SLAM Toolbox and Nav2 to execute natural-language commands in Gazebo/RViz. Also implemented and tuned an RRT planner from scratch in Python and uses Docker plus GitHub workflows for reproducible, tested robotics codebases.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built a high-scale audience segmentation and real-time targeting system using Spark/Glue + S3/Hudi and low-latency API services backed by Redis/relational stores. Demonstrates strong production rigor: Spark performance tuning to eliminate OOM failures, API idempotency/caching to cut p95 latency ~40%, and careful dual-run/feature-flag migrations with reconciliation and rollback runbooks. Experienced implementing layered security with JWT/OAuth, RBAC/ABAC, and database row-level security to prevent privilege escalation.”

“UX/product designer in a medical laboratory B2B portal context who prototypes beyond Figma—built a GPT-based settings chatbot to address findability and low settings adoption, iterating through 11 tested versions with regression safeguards and structured prompts to mitigate instruction truncation/hallucinations. Also redesigned clinic order management by separating doctor vs assistant experiences and introducing step-based status views for a long, multi-stage lab order lifecycle; former full-stack engineer who improves design-to-dev handoffs via templates and readiness rituals.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an LLM-powered productivity web app (LifeOS) end-to-end with TypeScript/Next.js, Prisma, and Postgres, emphasizing fast iteration with stable API contracts and an isolated AI service boundary. Also built a security/compliance login-verification workflow at Medpace used within an internal admin portal for thousands of employees, and has AWS experience orchestrating batch GPU workloads with robust retry/idempotency patterns.”

“Robotics software contributor with hands-on experience building a Gazebo/ROS(2) Mars rover simulation integrating LiDAR and image segmentation for autonomous navigation and SLAM (Nav2). Comfortable debugging low-level sim/model integration issues (URDF/XML) and building sensor-data pipelines, and has also shipped a real-world telemetry setup streaming vibration data over UDP with packet-loss mitigation.”