Vetted Data Structures Professionals

“Built and shipped a production RAG system (“TROJAN KNOWLEDGE”) for answering questions over technical PDFs, using a 3-stage retrieval stack (BM25 + FAISS + cross-encoder) to lift F1 from 71% to 84%. Drove major performance gains with a 3-level cache (memory/Redis/disk) cutting latency from ~200ms to ~10ms, and added Prometheus/Grafana monitoring plus LangChain-based fallback logic to handle OpenAI rate limits under load.”

Carlotta Island

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Frontend Engineer specializing in React and FinTech web applications

3y exp

“Developer who uses AI as a practical collaborator rather than a crutch, pairing tools like Claude with console logging, testing, and hands-on validation. They emphasize understanding code, data flow, and architecture while staying current by building projects and following AI and engineering communities.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience shipping production AI agents and end-to-end ecommerce workflows. They built a customer support automation agent with strong guardrails and evaluation practices, then improved it post-launch using real user data to cut latency ~30% and token cost ~25%. Also drove a zero-to-one self-serve order modification product across React UI, backend services, and cross-functional alignment.”

Shane Weinstock

Screened

Senior Data Scientist & Product Analytics Leader specializing in ML and experimentation

Austin, TX17y exp

“Aspiring founder with ~15 years of experience across varied backgrounds, motivated by frustration with slow, change-resistant large organizations and a desire to bring innovative ideas to market. Familiar with how venture capital/accelerators function (though not directly worked in them) and expresses strong willingness to take entrepreneurial risks.”

“University Rover Competition autonomous-systems lead who architects and debugs a full ROS 2 autonomy stack (Nav2, vSLAM, EKF fusion) and backs it with strong engineering hygiene (Docker + GitHub Actions CI running headless Gazebo and colcon tests). Also has industry-facing ROS 2 hardware integration experience, building a ros2_control plugin for a Unitree G1 arm using CycloneDDS and optimizing real-time behavior via QoS tuning.”

“Game developer who implemented the battle simulation/progression system for "Gladiator Imperium," focusing on turn logic, stat-driven combat, and player-facing feel through UI and camera polish. Also has experience modernizing a 10+ year legacy project by refactoring into new frameworks and even migrating to a different programming language, leveraging AI to interpret undocumented code.”

“Master’s-program backend engineer with strong Java/Spring Boot industry experience who also owned a Python analytics service (Flask/Postgres, JWT, Celery/Redis) and optimized large-dataset performance via SQL/batching. Has hands-on Kubernetes microservices deployment and GitLab+Terraform CI/CD/GitOps workflows, plus experience supporting phased on-prem to AWS migrations and building Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines.”

“Software engineer with connected-car/automotive production experience who owned an end-to-end remote door lock/unlock feature and introduced unit testing (GTest) plus rig/simulator validation. Also built and productionized an AI-native AWS cloud cost assistant (Lex + GPT-based LLM + Lambda + RAG/vector DB) with guardrails and achieved 94% evaluation accuracy. Helped replace a third-party solution with an in-house build, saving the company ~€9M.”

“Built an LLM-powered agent within the Nora AI analytics platform to automate e-commerce product performance analysis and generate actionable recommendations (pricing/inventory), designed with production-grade reliability patterns and observability. Emphasizes predictable, schema-validated tool/function-calling pipelines with robust fallbacks, idempotency, and guardrails for messy operational data.”

Abhishek Gupta

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI automation and RAG pipelines

Toronto, ON6y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led mobile-first and web React/TypeScript products end-to-end, including an expense tracking app handling sensitive financial data and a real-time messaging/activity dashboard with chat, presence, and contextual side panels. Emphasizes scalable architecture, rigorous component-boundary testing, and production-safe rollout practices (feature flags, analytics/logging, staged releases) to ship reliably in fast-paced environments.”