Vetted C++ Professionals

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production GenAI and computer vision systems, spanning experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for shipping an enterprise RAG platform that cut manual review by 50% and a defect detection pipeline that reduced report generation from 15 minutes to under 1 second while maintaining high uptime and strong operational discipline.”

“Early-career candidate with a thoughtful, engineering-first approach to AI-assisted development: they use AI to accelerate implementation while retaining human ownership of architecture and final code quality. They recently built a speech-to-text workflow using Groq Whisper and showed practical judgment by designing around imperfect transcription accuracy with checks and fallback handling.”

“LLM/agent engineer who shipped a two-stage AI recruitment screening platform at Foursquare that automated resume ingestion through behavioral assessment, delivering an 85% reduction in screening time across 5,000+ applications with auditability and confidence-gated decisions. Also built a multi-agent benchmarking framework using MCP tool interfaces and a RAGAS + LangSmith evaluation/observability stack, including async re-architecture that cut production latency by 50%.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on AI/ML systems experience spanning production inference infrastructure and consumer-facing LLM products. At Jio, they led a 17-person AI features team and delivered measurable execution gains, including 40% faster deployments and 35% lower prediction latency, while also building an end-to-end RAG-based meal recommendation product using OpenAI and Gemini.”

Daivya Trehaan

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Intern-level strategy and market research analyst specializing in FinTech and consumer insights

Dubai, UAE2y exp

“UCLA cognitive science student with hands-on startup strategy and market research experience, including work at AstroTech Builtin on user segmentation, fintech verticals, and expansion opportunities in remittance-heavy markets like the Philippines. She also builds her own consumer MVP concepts, combining campus-based user research, community-led growth ideas, and AI-assisted prototyping with a strong instinct for messaging and value communication.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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).”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 engineer with hands-on experience delivering autonomous pick-and-place: built a depth-camera perception pipeline for tiny (15–20mm) parts using YOLO+SAM segmentation feeding Open3D ICP/RANSAC pose estimation and validated it end-to-end with ABB YuMi/RobotStudio. Strong ROS 2 integrator (Nav2, SLAM Toolbox, MoveIt2, Behavior Trees) who has debugged real TurtleBot3 odometry/latency issues and redesigned system architecture to improve reliability.”

“Unity gameplay/AI engineer with driving-simulator experience who re-architected state-based AI using multithreading (including a threaded 2D collision/location checker) to nearly double AI traffic while improving frame rate. Has shipped on a Photon-networked title (Frankie's Revenge / RoboRevengeSquad) and is comfortable debugging tricky multiplayer spawning/movement issues with practical client-server test setups.”

“Interned at Zonda where he built an AI-driven semantic search solution over ~280M housing/builder records. Iterated from local LLMs via llama.cpp quantization to a vector-embedding retrieval system, then boosted semantic accuracy with a custom spaCy NER layer and re-ranking, optimizing for latency through precomputation. Collaborated with economics-focused stakeholders to reduce manual document/paperwork time by enabling natural-language search over internal data.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on sim-to-real experience: built and deployed a reinforcement-learning vision policy at The Boring Company to align a robot end effector to tunnel lining engagement holes, owning the full pipeline (SolidWorks/URDF modeling, PyBullet + Stable-Baselines3 training, and on-machine deployment). Also modified ArduPilot and tested custom drone algorithms via ROS/Gazebo using MAVROS and VICON-based localization.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using embeddings, a vector database, and a RAG pipeline to reduce time spent searching PDFs/manuals. Experienced in orchestrating end-to-end LLM workflows with Airflow/LangChain, improving reliability via monitoring/error handling, and driving measurable quality through retrieval and hallucination-focused evaluation metrics.”

“Software developer with healthcare operations experience at Epic Systems (Referrals & Authorizations), delivering customer-facing tooling to speed manual insurance authorization/denial documentation and support future automation. Also supported an HRIS migration to Workday at Aloe Yoga, solving legacy ID interoperability via scripting and mapping, and demonstrates strong production debugging and test-driven maintainability practices.”

“PhD-trained engineer with ~3.5 years of consulting experience building simulation/ML-driven manufacturing software. Deployed an ML surrogate model as a .NET C# DLL integrated with MES workflows, and resolved a critical pre-production latency issue by redesigning serialization/storage. Also built Python-based integrations across CAD/CAE tools and cloud material databases using an XML data model, with a strong interest in digital twins and real-to-sim/sim-to-real robotics workflows.”

“New grad who has shipped a production vision-language recommendation feature for a pet camera/mobile app, including building a tagged video dataset with human annotators and optimizing inference by FPS downsampling under device compute limits. Also built a multimodal MLLM benchmark using an LLM-as-judge (GPT-5-thinking) with a feedback loop, validated against human scoring, and measured post-feedback quality gains (12% average score improvement).”

“Applied ML to physical EV fleet systems at ST Labs, building a real-time CNN-LSTM fault prediction pipeline from streaming vehicle telemetry and addressing live data alignment issues via resampling/interpolation and buffered inference. Also developed a V2G/G2V energy transfer algorithm to automate charging/discharging for profit optimization, and made high-impact low-latency pipeline decisions at Astera Holdings using profiling, replay testing, and live A/B validation.”

“Engineering leader/player-coach who helped ship a web-based ERP SaaS release (Nov 2025) as part of a long-term migration from a legacy desktop ERP, designing a multi-API architecture (Oracle + EF Core, caching, integrations) and enforcing rigorous code review quality gates. Previously led development of a low-latency, multi-service high-frequency trading platform at a startup hedge fund (Capitalogix Trading), leveraging async/multithreading, event-driven messaging, NoSQL, and WebSockets.”