Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

Dhruv Bansal

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and distributed data pipelines

San Francisco, CA1y exp

“LLM engineer with production experience building end-to-end document processing workflows that unify layout analysis, OCR, and downstream LLM reasoning. Has implemented reliability features (retries, robust error handling, OpenTelemetry logging) and built agentic systems using LangChain/CrewAI, including a student research-paper assistant, while collaborating closely with PMs and non-technical end users to reduce technical debt and simplify architectures.”

“Master’s thesis engineer who built and deployed a continuous real-time perception + state estimation + control loop under tight latency constraints, owning both software architecture and hardware integration. Strong ROS 2 fundamentals with a systems-first approach—stabilizes robotic behavior by instrumenting, logging/replaying real data, and fixing timing/synchronization issues rather than treating failures as purely algorithmic.”

“Built and shipped production LLM agents for real-time, high-concurrency conversational systems, including a RAG-based pipeline with dynamic multi-provider routing and failover that achieved 99.99% reliability and sub-800ms latency. Also architected a UAV telemetry chatbot with tool-calling (anomaly detection/summarization), strict schema validation, and robust eval/monitoring loops, cutting tool-call errors by 30% and reducing operational costs by 90%.”

Swapnil Sanjay Pawar

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in GenAI and web platforms

Atlanta, GA2y exp

“AI/software engineer with hands-on experience deploying an LLM-powered quiz generation platform for students, integrating Python services with Gemini APIs plus frontend and database components. Emphasizes production-grade reliability through observability, schema validation, async processing, and performance tuning under high concurrency, and has collaborated with product/operators (e.g., at Colombo AI) to translate real-world constraints into scalable technical solutions.”

Thota Rajkumar

Screened

Junior Cloud & AI Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Agentic AI and AWS

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Built and deployed a production AI career-advice agent designed to combat unreliable/generic LLM guidance by grounding outputs in retrieval-first RAG over resumes/job/hiring data, with multi-step reasoning, structured memory, and evidence-only prompting to reduce hallucinations. Implemented the system with LangChain/Python and deployed on AWS as scalable microservices orchestrated via REST and asynchronous calls, iterating closely with career coaches and students.”

Jeevan Hebbal Manjunath

Screened

Junior Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in autonomous systems

Tempe, AZ2y exp

“Robotics engineer leading development of a Physical Reservoir Computing controller for a pneumatic soft robotic arm, owning everything from automated data collection and leak-testing automation to hardware design/manufacturing and cross-lab integration with Virginia Tech. Built ROS 2/DDS-based multi-robot systems integrating OptiTrack, a lab quadruped, and a UR5e, and pairs simulation (Gazebo/MuJoCo) + PPO RL training with production-ready tooling (Docker, CI/CD, Flask dashboards, RAG chatbot portfolio).”

ROHITH DAMARLA

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in high-scale systems and LLM pipelines

Syracuse, NY6y exp

“Open-source-focused TypeScript/JavaScript engineer who built a lightweight Node.js utility library to standardize LLM-agent message formatting, tool invocation, and safe schema-validated JSON outputs. Emphasizes composable abstractions, real-world performance profiling/benchmarks, and strong community feedback loops (GitHub issues, structured errors, logging hooks). Also did research at Syracuse University on converting natural language into structured JSON with validation layers.”

Vitor Souza

Screened

Senior Game Developer specializing in multiplayer, XR/VR, and real-time networking

Lynchburg, VA8y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer who has owned end-to-end systems for live-service AR and shipped VR (Meta Quest) and mobile titles. Built a hybrid LLM-driven real-time NPC interaction pipeline (STT/LLM/TTS) with streaming SSE, strict JSON contracts, and state-machine execution for stability, plus a custom UDP/TCP authoritative multiplayer stack deployed on AWS EC2 with live monitoring and rapid hotfix capability.”