Vetted Data Visualization Professionals

Muhan Zhang

Screened

Junior AI Software Engineer specializing in LLM pipelines, OCR, and RAG

Palo Alto, USA2y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM pipeline for nursing home Medicare reimbursement (PDF OCR + fact extraction + keyword RAG + QA) that reportedly increased payouts by ~$1K/month per patient. Strong in LLM ops/benchmarking (ground truth, LLM-as-judge, cost/I-O tracking) and pragmatic optimization—swapped retrieval approaches, fine-tuned a small model to cut OCR cost 90%, and migrated workloads to Azure/Temporal to scale nightly processing 10x.”

Adam Wermus

Screened

Senior Data Engineer & Render Tools Developer specializing in VFX and render farm pipelines

Santa Monica, CA7y exp

“Real-time simulation/physics engineer who optimized character effects and cloth for the "Infinity" game by implementing and profiling multiple ODE integrators, including pioneering the largely undocumented Parker-Sochacki method (optimized 5/7 sims; >30% speedup on a particle system). Also built SPH fluid solvers in Unity (C#) and created Grafana/Python Dash dashboards to analyze latency/throughput, with strong interest in applying math/physics and tooling to soccer/football gameplay.”

Gurnoor Kaur

Screened

Intern Robotics Software Engineer specializing in motion planning and robot perception

1y exp

“Robotics software engineer with Amazon Robotics internship experience who built a visual-servoing architecture from scratch, navigating multiple simulator pivots to achieve a closed-loop motion-planning and execution prototype. Currently working with ROS 2 on a medical assistive feeding robot using the Kinova Kortex platform (MoveIt2, ros2_control, Gazebo/RViz), and has demonstrated strong real-time debugging and distributed-system synchronization using Carbon and Docker.”

“Robotics software engineer who delivered the Lunar ROADSTER—an autonomous bulldozing rover for lunar terrain manipulation—building the control system, path planning, and perception in ROS 2. Implemented crater detection using a YOLO model fused with ZED stereo depth to recover crater geometry, and structured autonomy around ROS 2 actions integrated into an FSM with CI/CD-backed system testing. Also has industrial robotics experience controlling a Fanuc arm for additive manufacturing and building ROS interfaces for PLC I/O.”

“Built a production internal knowledge assistant using a RAG pipeline over large spreadsheets, PDFs, and support documents, using transformer embeddings stored in FAISS. Focused on real-world production challenges—format normalization, retrieval quality, hallucination reduction (context-only + citations), and latency—using hybrid retrieval, quantization, and containerized deployment, and communicated the workflow to non-technical stakeholders using simple analogies.”

“R&D-focused aspiring founder building a business plan (with CPA/attorney support and a secured webpage) and preparing to seek external funding. Demonstrated ability to turn a customer need into an executed technical initiative—scoped requirements, pitched leadership, formed a team, built tools, and created physics-based models to inform thermal performance guidance for signal cables.”

Chris Du

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps and AI systems

Mountain View, CA0y exp

“Product/UX designer who builds end-to-end systems across both consumer wellness and industrial/technical domains. Designed BloomPath (mental-wellness platform for therapists and young professionals) using research-driven, emotionally safe interaction patterns, and also simplified a Bosch autonomous parking vision-language mapping pipeline into a developer-facing real-time UI with layered debug tooling. Comfortable collaborating deeply with engineers and contributing in React/JS.”

Yongyan Cao

Screened

Principal Vehicle Dynamics & Control Systems Engineer specializing in autonomous driving and hybrid powertrains

Fremont, CA25y exp

“Robotics controls engineer with experience spanning an RV/trailer automatic hitching and towing robot (vision + EKF sensor fusion, anti-jackknife/anti-sway, multi-loop torque assistance control) and 3 years on a ROS-based RoboTaxi autonomous driving stack at Pegasus Technology. Improved MPC trajectory generation robustness by converting hard constraints to soft constraints with slack variables, and built an AI-powered PR review agent (Claude-code) integrated into CI/CD to reduce bugs.”

“Current financial data analyst at Maximus with hands-on experience building SQL and Python reporting pipelines for expenditure, refund, and retention analysis. Stands out for turning messy multi-source financial data into trusted dashboards, automating reporting to save 15+ hours weekly, and driving measurable reductions in refund rates through cohort-based analysis.”

“Aspiring founder building an AI governance and compliance startup for the finance industry, focused on agents that monitor data lakes/lakehouses to detect security vulnerabilities, PII exposure, and governance issues in real time. Has already formed an S-corp, has not raised capital yet, and approaches idea validation through Minimum Lovable Product testing with potential clients.”

“UI/UX and product-minded designer with experience shaping digital products from concept to launch across telecom and higher education. Notably pitched a new Globe Telecom app that became the basis for the product after joining, helped launch it within five months, and contributed to a 4x subscription lift through A/B-tested in-flow upsell design.”

“Built both traditional data infrastructure and LLM-powered product workflows, spanning a Python/SQL ETL deployment at Amazon and an adaptive learning system for their DataLingo platform. Particularly interesting for roles at the intersection of data engineering, applied AI, and customer-facing product delivery, with hands-on experience stabilizing probabilistic LLM systems in production.”