Vetted Debugging Professionals

Chanatip Vachirathanusorn

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and FinTech systems

San Diego, CA2y exp

“Software engineer with AppFolio payments experience who shipped an end-to-end payment adoption rollout during a short internship, including full-stack implementation, stakeholder coordination, and real-time monitoring. Also built an insurance service AI agent inspired by his father's agency, combining structured document ingestion, RAG, and agentic integrations to improve reliability on dense policy documents.”

“Built a Flask-based web application for NCAA Men's gymnastics and also worked on a survey-question collection and normalization project for UC Berkeley's Cameron Institute. Shows a clear reliability mindset through validation, testing, logging, and error handling, and is comfortable turning ambiguous, messy data workflows into stable applications.”

“Database/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of large-scale GCP data systems in financial services, including customer-facing SaaS investment products with strict SLAs. Stands out for leading an on-prem-to-GCP modernization using Spanner, AlloyDB, Bigtable, and BigQuery, and for building Terraform/Python automation that cut provisioning time by ~70% while improving reliability and self-service.”

“Product designer with hands-on front-end implementation experience who has owned complex flows end-to-end at Wix and Intuit, including a live keynote demo for Wix’s first developer conference and a tournament-based inner-source readiness program across global AI/data teams. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous briefs into structured experiences, using design systems rigor, interaction design, and implementation fluency to ship polished, understandable products.”

“AI/ML-focused engineer with practical experience building RAG-based and multi-agent systems, including architectures for retrieval, reasoning, context processing, and response generation. Stands out for combining LLM productivity gains with disciplined software engineering practices like validation, monitoring, and reproducibility.”

Sanjay Santhanam

Screened

Mid-level AI Software Developer specializing in backend and LLM applications

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Backend/AI systems engineer focused on productionizing agentic document-processing workflows for large financial PDFs. They describe owning deployments end-to-end, combining Python, Redis, LLM function calling, RAG/ReAct-style orchestration, and strong reliability practices to deliver 80% faster processing, reduce parsing errors from 12% to ~1%, and sustain 99.9% uptime in high-concurrency environments.”

“Robotics-focused candidate with multiple university robotics projects (MTE 380, MTE 544) and ROS 2 (Humble/Galactic) experience spanning perception, navigation, and simulation. Built a vision-based line-following and retrieval robot using HSV filtering and homography, and debugged real-time PID overshoot issues via timestamping/rate-limiting. Comfortable with distributed ROS 2 architectures (Python perception + C++ control), DDS/QoS, Gazebo testing, and Dockerized deployment.”

“Early-career technologist with internship experience deploying and fixing production/demo service configurations despite poor documentation, using step-through debugging and prior demo references to restore progress quickly. Also has hands-on IT technician experience diagnosing hardware failures (hard drive damage), recovering files, and replacing drives, plus QA test development in Python for customer-reported bugs and a strong focus on networking (monitoring, IP activity analysis).”

“Software engineer working on an e-commerce platform, currently building a RAG-based recommendation system with a team new to the technology. Has delivered an end-to-end React/TypeScript website for a local car dealer and built an internal "encryption as a service" tool to secure sensitive data across repositories and through release/UAT, with experience debugging microservices integration issues.”

“Software engineer with experience building a Vue.js/TypeScript internal component library (with Jest testing standards) and improving JS runtime performance via profiling, code splitting, and lazy loading. Also led documentation and community support for a Python ML utility library, diagnosing metric-calculation bugs for imbalanced datasets and driving large reductions in support inquiries through targeted docs, tests, and rapid hotfixes in a startup environment.”

“Backend engineer with strong AWS/CI/CD experience (multi-repo deployments, Lambda + core app, immutable ECR and image promotion) and a published master’s thesis building an ML framework for Solar PV energy prediction and CO2 reduction impact modeling using ensemble and meta-learning approaches benchmarked against SAM.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on medical robotics experience on an automated CT-guided lung biopsy robot, building a CT-voxel-to-mesh pipeline that generates and visualizes up to 1000 collision-safe needle insertion points and ports them into robot space for IK execution. Strong ROS2 background spanning AprilTag perception, Kalman-filter state estimation, visual SLAM, and Voronoi-based motion planning, plus deployment work containerizing ORB-SLAM on ROS2 Humble and CI/CD automation at Siemens EDA using Perforce.”

“Founder/builder of an EdTech startup (robograde.io) who personally conducted on-site classroom discovery with teachers and rapidly iterated the product based on real-world feedback. Implemented a Canvas LMS integration and refined it through weeks of in-person testing, and handled a live production grading failure by quickly debugging and deploying a fix, then adding fault-tolerant/backup API design.”

“Built and deployed custom AI chatbots at LivePerson, translating customer service pain points (e.g., MTTR reduction and fragmented information) into production RAG-based solutions with stakeholder-facing metrics dashboards. Experienced in real-time troubleshooting using Elastic logs, leading POCs, and integrating customer APIs to automate workflows as part of sales-driven solutioning.”

“Customer-facing technical professional who designs solution architecture and builds PoCs for regulated customers, iterating via biweekly demos and direct feedback to reach production-ready implementations. Regularly delivers technical demos (~2/month for nearly a year) and partners with sales/customer-facing teams by refining technical implementations until they match customer requirements.”

“AI engineer with robotics perception experience at Forterra, building and deploying moving-object/obstacle detection models into real-time robot pipelines. Addressed training crashes/latency via sub-batch training and optimizer tuning, and improved debugging using ROS/ROS2 tooling with 3D voxel visualization and color-coded validation.”

“Backend/Full-stack engineer who built a Go-based API for a real-time eye-tracking system (calibration/recording/streaming) and debugged intermittent long-session timeouts through improved observability and concurrency refactors. Also shipped an LLM-driven "Doctor Simulator" product end-to-end (React/Node/Go/MongoDB/OpenAI), including structured prompts, deterministic verification/termination logic, and production guardrails like validation, retries, and prompt versioning.”

“QA professional with Apple experience supporting the macOS Sonoma release, owning daily monitoring of submissions, crashes, regressions, and release verification across multiple OS/device builds. Notably isolated a memory-related issue in the Safari suite that caused an 18-hour build backlog and 156+ test crashes, leading to a Python-script fix that restored build times to ~1 hour and helped keep the release on schedule.”

“Infrastructure-leaning engineer who has built real-time ML systems end-to-end: a Jetson-deployed adaptive Whisper ASR service (Flask + WebSockets, React/TS UI) and a high-throughput Postgres schema for live transcription. Also delivered customer-facing AI billing/OCR improvements for a dental startup (Dentite), boosting OCR performance by 38%, and has experience instrumenting open-source ML deployment stacks to add infrastructure visibility.”

“Customer Success/Account Management leader with deep enterprise SaaS implementation experience, including end-to-end ownership of a Fortune 500 rollout across 800+ locations. Known for rescuing high-risk onboardings through hands-on data remediation and executive stakeholder governance, driving measurable improvements in NPS/CSAT, ticket volume reduction, and major adoption/expansion. Also led cross-functional, accelerated POS integrations (including early Toast POS) to meet tight POC deadlines and enable full-location deployments.”

Jhansi Bendi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and event-driven systems

Antioch, CA18y exp

“Senior engineer/tech lead with 18+ years building large-scale distributed applications, specializing in performance and reliability improvements. Recently owned multiple apps on an email personalization team, shipping major optimizations (including a push-update feature and audience-count architecture redesign) that reportedly lifted system performance from ~50% to ~99% while also leading code standards, reviews, and mentoring.”

Ruthvik Bacha

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in financial data pipelines and reliability

North Carolina, USA7y exp

“Systems/robotics-oriented software engineer focused on real-time orchestration and reliability: built a central control layer coordinating multiple concurrent agents with safe state machines, failure isolation, and recovery. Has hands-on ROS/ROS 2 integration experience in simulation (DDS/QoS, lifecycle, nodes in Python/C++) and emphasizes observability (structured JSON logs, correlation IDs) and low-latency control-loop performance under load.”

Sri Harshitha Yannam

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud platforms

Austin, TX2y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who shipped a production "Memory Assistant" at HydroX AI, building a LangChain/LlamaIndex RAG memory pipeline on ChromaDB/FAISS with robust fallbacks (BERT/BART), prompt-injection mitigation, and 99.9% uptime monitoring. Also built a multi-step customer support agent using Rasa + OpenAI Assistants API with structured tool calling, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop escalation, and has experience hardening agents against messy ERP data via Pydantic validation, idempotency, and transactional outbox patterns.”

“Built an end-to-end AI resume tailoring system in Python/FastAPI with strong emphasis on reliability, validation, observability, and regression-based quality control. Also demonstrates thoughtful browser and workflow automation skills, especially around brittle UIs, resumable state, and turning ambiguous manual processes into production-ready automated pipelines.”