Vetted CUDA Professionals

“AI/LLM engineer with healthcare domain experience who built a production clinical support “chart bot” for Molina, including PHI-safe ingestion of 200k+ PDF policies, vector retrieval, and a fine-tuned LLaMA served via vLLM on ECS Fargate. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (HNSW + namespace partitioning; 30% inference latency reduction) and a rigorous evaluation/monitoring approach, while partnering closely with nurses and operations teams to shape workflows and guardrails.”

“Infrastructure security/DevSecOps engineer who led security and automation patterns during a large Azure migration (30+ legacy apps, wave-based execution), enforcing zero-trust controls by baking CrowdStrike/Illumio into golden images and adding CI/CD security gates. Experienced integrating GitLab runners and Terraform agents as containerized services with strong secrets management (Azure Key Vault) and disciplined image/versioning practices, and has hands-on troubleshooting of ACI runtime constraints under load.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who has owned production FastAPI services deployed on Kubernetes, including CI/CD (GitLab CI to ECR) and GitOps delivery via ArgoCD/Helm. Has hands-on experience with complex reliability and infrastructure work—solving data inconsistency with validation/partial-data paths, fixing K8s liveness issues via lazy loading, and supporting a phased cloud-to-on-prem migration with dual-writes and monitoring. Also built Kafka-based real-time ingestion consumers handling bursty, high-throughput traffic with async processing and topic/retention tuning.”

“Robotics/perception engineer focused on production-grade, real-time systems—optimized self-supervised segmentation on Jetson Nano from ~6–10 FPS to ~20–25 FPS and scaled experimentation/deployment by unifying 15+ edge models in a modular PyTorch Lightning framework. Experienced integrating distributed LiDAR-camera fusion via gRPC/protobuf into mission planning, migrating ROS1→ROS2 Foxy for multi-drone perception, and adding Prometheus-based observability for long-running deployments.”

“Robotics/embodied-AI practitioner who built a TurtleBot3 LiDAR-fingerprint localization pipeline end-to-end (autonomous data collection + multi-head NN) achieving ~30 cm error in a 10x10 m space. Also has industry experience at Infineon building large-scale production data/AI pipelines and rapidly fixing a deployed recommendation system by correcting upstream data normalization, improving accuracy by 20%+.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on depth across simulation (Isaac Sim, Gazebo, Webots), ROS/ROS2 integration, and real-time embedded control. Led an end-to-end quadruped (12-motor) Isaac Sim build from Fusion 360 CAD-to-URDF through physics tuning to achieve a stable walking gait, and optimized a 5-servo arm by cutting IK compute time by 60%+ using lookup tables to eliminate jitter.”

“Built and shipped “LabMate,” a production AI assistant specialized in laboratory hardware, using a weighted multi-source RAG pipeline with reranking and reasoning-focused query decomposition to handle complex user questions. Deployed on a local GPU cluster with vLLM and NVIDIA MPS (plus OCR/VLM components), and established evaluation using synthetic + public reasoning datasets while collaborating weekly with non-technical admins to align requirements and resource constraints.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG system at CVS to automate clinical documents, addressing PHI compliance, retrieval accuracy, and latency; achieved a 35–40% reduction in review effort through chunking and FP16/INT8 optimization. Also has experience translating AI outputs into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders (sports analysts).”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building real-time, low-latency systems: owned the Python backend for a real-time crowd-monitoring product (top 5% at HackHarvard 2025) using OpenCV, GPU YOLO inference (PyTorch), WebRTC, and OAuth. Also has production Kubernetes/GitOps experience (Helm/Kustomize, GitHub Actions, Argo CD), Kafka-based event pipelines, and executed a minimal-downtime on-prem PostgreSQL migration to AWS EC2.”

“Built a production LLM-powered workflow at Frontier to extract structured signals from messy, high-volume documents and route work to the right teams, replacing a multi-day, error-prone manual process. Emphasizes production reliability with schema/consistency validation, re-prompting and deterministic fallbacks, plus async pipeline optimizations for predictable latency. Experienced with multi-agent orchestration (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) and AWS workflow tooling (Step Functions, SQS, Lambda), and delivered ~70% safe automation via stakeholder-driven thresholds and human review.”

“Built and shipped AI-powered workflow automation at Oracle, including an MCP-based agentic workflow with tool-calling and guardrails, plus Grafana monitoring and Confluence documentation. Also led a Django monolith-to-microservices migration at Chamsmobile using blue-green deployment and load balancer traffic splitting to avoid regressions while modernizing production systems.”

“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.”

“Built and deployed LLM-powered agentic chatbot and text-to-SQL systems using LangGraph/LangChain (and Bedrock), structuring workflows as DAGs with planning/replanning and validation to improve tool-calling reliability and reduce hallucinations. Operates production feedback loops with online/offline metrics, drift detection, and LangSmith-based evaluation pipelines, and regularly partners with business stakeholders and clinicians using slide decks and visual charts.”

“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.”

“XR/AR Unity developer who has overseen ~4 XR projects including shipping on Meta Quest, a HoloLens mixed-reality archaeology experience, and a collaborative 3D model exploration POC. Strong track record of aggressive performance optimization (custom shaders, profiling, draw-call reduction) and user-testing with domain experts; also experimented with ONNX-based procedural content generation and built a solo AR Tower of Hanoi game using AR Foundation (with a WebXR extension).”

“Robotics/Perception Software Engineer at Berkshire Grey who built and hardened a production ROS-based perception + supervision stack for autonomous trailer-unloading robots (RGB-D + LiDAR), including grasp/geometry estimation and segmentation. Diagnosed real-time behavior issues by instrumenting ROS pipelines, then implemented runtime RANSAC-based compensation for LiDAR yaw bias and TF-window validation; also supports containerized deployment on Kubernetes and is actively porting the system from ROS1 to ROS2.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 experience building perception-driven navigation for AMRs, integrating YOLO11 + Depth Anything V2 and multi-sensor fusion (LiDAR/RGB-D/IMU) to boost pose accuracy by 30%. Strong in real-time debugging and edge deployment on NVIDIA Jetson (ONNX/CUDA), plus cloud-enabled telemetry (Azure) and simulation-driven testing (Isaac Sim) that cut physical test cycles by 25%.”

“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/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.”

“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.”

“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.”