Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

Uriel Kluk

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CTO specializing in AI, data platforms, and distributed systems

Chicago, IL20y exp

“Former CTO of Mesh Systems for 20 years, now going all-in on building a physical AI product company. He is simultaneously designing four products across eldercare, smart home monitoring, retail theft prevention, and AI-powered building access, with active industry partnerships (Advantech, Compulab) and a potential LATAM pharmacy pilot.”

Bhavesh Ittadwar

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in scalable web and cloud systems

USA3y exp

“JavaScript engineer who built a Michelin-specific headless CMS forms platform based on apostrophe-forms, powering forms across 400+ Michelin websites. Designed an extensible, SOLID-aligned modular field architecture with a shared design system, cutting hundreds of lines of per-project code across 10+ implementations while driving cross-device compatibility and performance (BrowserStack, Lighthouse, SSR).”

“Robotics intern at the University of Delaware who built and debugged ROS2-based multi-robot coordination systems, focusing on real-time reliability (timestamp alignment, latency/jitter instrumentation, QoS/executor tuning). Also improved SLAM stability by fixing LiDAR/encoder synchronization and tuning state-estimation parameters, with a simulation-first workflow using Gazebo and Docker/CI for reproducible deployments.”

“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience building a real-time operations console backend on Spring Boot/Kafka/Kubernetes and resolving peak-load latency through profiling, indexing, caching, and async processing. Also built and owned an AI-driven digital-archives metadata pipeline during a master’s at UNT using OCR + LLaMA-based prompting with validation, near-human accuracy, and human-in-the-loop guardrails.”

“Engineering leader with recent hands-on depth across TypeScript/React, Go, and Python who led a 15-person team through a zero-downtime migration from a legacy monolith to a Module Federation architecture. Has B2B SaaS experience in an insurance agent portal, combining security and performance work through RBAC, OAuth 2.0, and edge-based authentication.”

Sesha SaiSrikar Gaddam

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Intern Mechanical Engineer specializing in robotics design and CAD

Remote1y exp

“Robotics engineer focused on MATLAB-based simulation and system-level/mechanical aspects of robot safety and coordination. Built an obstacle detection/collision-avoidance approach for a SCARA robot in shared human workspaces and optimized a swarm robotics simulation via priority-based task allocation and congestion-aware routing; currently ramping up on ROS concepts and interested in Gazebo + Docker/CI/CD for end-to-end robotics workflows.”

Noah Bertschmann

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Robotics Software Developer specializing in ROS and autonomous mobile robots

Kitchener, Canada4y exp

“System-level robotics software engineer with production experience in both ROS 1 and ROS 2 who served as technical owner for an initial ROS1→ROS2 migration, including catkin→ament/colcon and refactoring core communication nodes. Strong in hardware-validated integration work—debugged intermittent message drops by tuning ROS 2 QoS for embedded firmware interfaces and stabilized real-time navigation behavior through timing/telemetry analysis and cross-team coordination.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built AI-powered analytics products from 0→1, including a predictive analytics dashboard and an AI orchestrator for natural-language-to-database querying. Particularly strong in making LLM systems production-safe through schema validation, self-healing retries, monitoring, and retrieval optimization, with quantified impact on cost, latency, and quality.”

“Bootstrapped founder/fractional-CTO type building a community-first tooling platform and niche product lab, emphasizing trust and "family" culture. Operates extremely lean by self-hosting open-source LLM tooling locally and leverages a network of senior generalists willing to trade short-term compensation for learning and equity. Has worked across real estate tech, logistics, and hospitality POS and is applying a multi-modal "brain trails" concept to product opportunities.”