Vetted Data Structures and Algorithms Professionals

“University robotics researcher graduating May 2026 who integrated an Intel RealSense D435i onto a TurtleBot3 (Jetson Nano) and built a ROS 2 node + OpenCV pipeline to feed color-based cues into navigation/path planning for RL grid-world experiments. Has hands-on ROS 2 experience spanning Gazebo simulation, Nav2, ros2_control, multi-robot namespacing, and ROS1-to-ROS2 bridging, plus CI/CD exposure (GitLab CI, Jenkins) from internships including aircraft navigation work.”

“Software engineer with experience at Google and the City and County of San Francisco building production AI systems, including a RAG-based internal support chatbot and ML-driven ticket priority tagging. Has scaled data/ML platforms with Airflow on GCP (1M+ records/day, 99.9% SLA) and deployed multi-component systems with Docker and Kubernetes (GKE), using modern LLM tooling (LangChain/CrewAI, Claude/OpenAI, Pinecone/ChromaDB, Bedrock/Ollama).”

Thirumalaesh Ashokkumar

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Engineer specializing in SLAM, perception, and state estimation

4y exp

“Robotics software lead with 4+ years of ROS/ROS2 experience spanning a startup (Inductive Robotics) and General Motors, building autonomous mobile manipulation and AMR material-handling stacks. Has hands-on depth in SLAM/navigation (Cartographer/Nav2), perception, and simulation, and has directly modified Cartographer to handle real-world sensor dropouts. Currently working on fleet-scale mapping capabilities (map merging/editing, trajectory pruning) for multi-robot deployments.”

“Built an AI-powered job outreach application for his own job search and took it from idea to production use, owning architecture, FastAPI backend, retrieval/generation pipeline, frontend workflow, deployment, and iteration. Especially compelling for teams needing a pragmatic full-stack engineer who can turn LLM-based product ideas into usable, maintainable tools with measurable workflow impact.”

“Gameplay engineer with hands-on experience across Unreal Engine 5 and Unity, owning systems from level streaming/teleportation to motion-matched character movement. Has shipped/implemented multiplayer features including GAS-based replication with prediction/reconciliation and a deterministic lockstep runner using fixed-point math. Strong at diagnosing hard-to-repro physics issues and balancing performance/feel (e.g., mobile voxel A* pathfinding at 60 FPS, Chaos destruction tuned to avoid trapping players).”

“Robotics software engineer who built and owned an autonomous laparoscope tracking system on a UR3e with an eye-in-hand RealSense camera, integrating YOLO-based tool detection with velocity control under a strict RCM constraint and deploying successfully in a hospital setting. Deep ROS2/MoveIt2 experience (architecture, QoS, custom nodes) plus autonomy stack work across SLAM, planning, and real-time latency/control debugging.”

“Built a production LLM-powered analyst assistant at Discern Security to speed up SOC investigations using a RAG pipeline over security vendor documentation (Python PDF ingestion, vector search). Demonstrates deep, security-critical LLM engineering: structure-aware chunking with custom table parsing, grounded/cited responses, prompt-injection defenses, and post-generation validation, validated via golden datasets and adversarial testing; tool is used daily by analysts.”

“Software engineer with experience at PayPal and JPMC building large-scale onboarding/account setup systems using React/TypeScript with Spring Boot/Node microservices and Kafka. Also built an Ignition-based SCADA monitoring tool at Mainspring Energy that became the default for manufacturing/test engineers by aggregating real-time telemetry and historical test data.”

“Full-stack engineer and KICKOFFUSA cofounder who built production payment/registration and live tournament experiences under real matchday load (200+ concurrent users), including Stripe webhooks with idempotency and UX improvements that cut checkout abandonment ~15%. Also owned an end-to-end research hub at a GTSCL internship—designed a normalized Postgres schema and full-text search (tsvector/GIN) delivering sub-100ms queries for 300+ researchers.”

“CMU candidate with hands-on experience taking LLM concepts from research prototypes toward production-ready designs (structured outputs, guardrails, failure-scenario evaluation). Also partnered with sales/customer teams at Mazecare to drive adoption with Dontia Alliance (largest dental clinic chain in Singapore) and engaged Singapore government stakeholders, bridging clinical workflow needs with IT security/integration concerns.”

Anandapadmanabhan Santhosh

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and backend microservices

Bangalore, India1y exp

“Distributed systems engineer (ex-Nykaa, Licious) who built a PBFT-based Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus system in Go for a multi-node banking-style application, including checkpointing and automated failover/leader election. Strong production reliability background with Docker, Jenkins CI/CD, and monitoring/on-call troubleshooting using Grafana and New Relic; no direct ROS/robotics hardware experience yet but has highly transferable multi-node coordination expertise.”

Chancellor Day

Screened

Intern Robotics/Software Engineer specializing in autonomy, computer vision, and controls

San Diego, CA0y exp

“Robotics software engineer with a master’s focused in the field who has integrated a multi-sensor robotics fusion laser system (fault detection, PLC comms, PyTorch-based CV diagnostics, and an engineer-facing status front end) under NDA. Has ROS experience from the University of Michigan Autonomous Robotic Vehicle team using Nav2/SLAM Toolbox/Gmapping with RViz and ROS bag-driven debugging, plus Gazebo simulation work and upcoming drone path-planning optimization research.”

Venu Venkata Surendra reddy Erusu

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and Cloud-Native Microservices

Syracuse, NY4y exp

“Research assistant at Syracuse University who owned a Python/FastAPI analytics backend for user-uploaded large datasets, using S3 streaming uploads and background workers for heavy processing. Has hands-on experience deploying Dockerized Python/Java microservices to AWS EKS with Jenkins-based CI/CD, plus Kafka-based event-driven pipelines and practical migration patterns (dependency mapping, dual-write, reconciliation) to minimize downtime.”

“Software Design Lead on a NAVAIR-sponsored senior design capstone building an Unreal Engine 5 UAV/LiDAR simulation to support sensor spoofing detection. Reverse-engineered and standardized LiDAR packet formats and integrated the sim with Simulink and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano over Ethernet to enable stable real-time SIL/HIL testing, leveraging strong Linux/kernel networking knowledge to debug latency and packet loss.”

Krishna Guda

Screened

Principal Product Engineer specializing in FinTech platforms, experimentation, and AI workflows

Mountain View, CA24y exp

“Fintech product engineer working on a large-scale credit monitoring platform (tens of millions of users) with deep experience in regulated banking integrations, PII security, and step-up/MFA flows. Has shipped customer-facing React/TypeScript experiences driven by Optimizely experimentation and built reliable partner-facing microservices/SDKs on AWS, including resolving production traffic loss caused by edge security (DataDome/CAPTCHA) conflicts with payment providers.”

“Robotics software intern (Summer 2025) at Ola Krutrim working on 2W/4W ADAS: integrated an ASM330LHH IMU over I2C, performed camera-LiDAR intrinsic/extrinsic calibration, built an interactive calibration GUI, and optimized a camera-LiDAR fusion pipeline (cut latency from ~500ms to ~200ms) including CUDA parallelization and Kalman filter-based lane tracking. Strong ROS 2 background with URDF/Gazebo simulation and custom ROS2 Arduino bridge work for hardware control.”

“Operations- and systems-minded candidate with experience improving hospital billing workflows and automating a campus package pickup/drop-off system that streamlined operations for 400 students and 20 student workers. While they do not have direct outbound prospecting experience, they articulated a thoughtful, research-driven framework for building an SDR pipeline engine from scratch.”