Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

“Robotics software engineer with ~7 years of ROS/ROS2 experience spanning Mars rover simulation/navigation, robot arm integration (URDF/MoveIt/ros2_control), and medical magnetic actuation systems using RGB-D feedback. Built a 5-DOF CNC-like magnetic capsule navigation prototype end-to-end and has deep hands-on skill debugging real-time control issues (CAN, encoder timing, controller tuning) plus PLC/Modbus-to-ROS2 integration.”

“Software engineering candidate who built a compiler-like Python tool to translate between Python code and UML-style diagrams (and back). Also has hands-on AWS experience building a distributed pub/sub system using services like Lambda, API Gateway, ELB, WAF, VPC, and DynamoDB, plus ML projects using Kaggle datasets (e.g., diabetes risk analysis).”

“LLM/agentic systems practitioner who specializes in moving demo-only assistants into reliable, observable, cost-controlled production services. Strong in real-time diagnosis of complex agent workflows (including tracing, loop detection, and guardrails) and in customer-facing enablement—running workshops, building tailored PoCs, and partnering with sales to close deals by proving reliability in high-risk pilots.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong data engineering and privacy-domain experience, having owned an automated Data Subject Rights (DSR) processing pipeline end-to-end across Azure SQL and GCP (GCS/BigQuery). Emphasizes production reliability via idempotency, validation checkpoints, structured logging/monitoring, and safe CI/CD-driven deployments, and has also built React+TypeScript + Node/Postgres web apps with scalable, maintainable architecture.”

“Full-stack engineer (SAP Labs experience) who built an end-to-end, real-time fraud detection system on Java 11/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka event streaming and a React/Redux analytics dashboard with WebSocket updates. Demonstrated strong production ownership by diagnosing a critical memory leak with Prometheus/CloudWatch + heap dumps and improving performance with Redis caching (40% faster queries), while also modernizing deployments via Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, and Terraform.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on autonomy for fixed-wing and quadrotor UAVs, with deep experience in planning and advanced control (geometric control, trajectory optimization, nonlinear MPC). Recently designed an energy-aware NMPC for an autonomous glider, building a custom simulation/visualization framework to tune reward formulations. Has hands-on field deployment experience integrating ROS with PX4, optimizing node architecture for zero-copy performance, and building heterogeneous robot comms using Zenoh.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience building ROS2-based distributed multi-robot systems, including task allocation (distance cost matrix) and navigation using Nav2/DWA. Previously on Vicarious’s grasping team, implementing real-world box-picking with vacuum suction and force/torque sensing plus recovery behaviors. Also brings strong engineering hygiene with Gazebo simulation, Dockerized deployments across offices, and GitHub Actions CI/CD with unit/integration testing.”

“Backend-focused intern who owned real-time livestream features: live comment moderation using AWS Comprehend (sentiment/toxicity/PII) with safe fallbacks, plus AI-generated positive commentary via AWS Bedrock (Claude 3 Haiku). Emphasizes reliability/low-latency design, IAM troubleshooting, and disciplined GitOps-style CI workflows for reproducible deployments.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end AV operations automation and dashboarding platform for USC event operations, used daily to coordinate hundreds of live events. Delivered a React/TypeScript full-stack system integrating Smartsheet APIs with strong reliability practices (typed contracts, validation/fallbacks, safe rollouts) and experience with queue-based microservice patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQs, monitoring).”

“Senior Engineering Manager at Roche leading two Scrum teams building internally shared (“inner-sourced”) tools and libraries for a healthcare enterprise. Has led security/compliance-first architecture decisions (e.g., Python AI modules running inside a Java container) and front-end modularization (Angular monorepo to module federation), with a strong focus on developer experience via automated Swagger/OpenAPI documentation and robust testing/versioning practices.”

“Built and shipped a production NMT system translating medical documentation for a rare/low-resource language, tackling data scarcity with retrieval-driven pattern matching plus dictionary/grammar- and LLM-based augmentation and validating quality with a linguistic expert. Also develops agentic LLM workflows with LangChain/LangGraph (including a deep-research style system) and has experience aligning medical AI deployments with clinician-defined risk metrics and human-in-the-loop decision making.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with Walmart and Dell experience who built and shipped a real-time engagement dashboard end-to-end (Kafka Streams, Spring Boot, React/TypeScript/D3) used daily by business teams, moving them from next-day reports to real-time decisioning. Strong in performance/reliability (Redis caching cut latency ~40%, 90%+ test coverage, Prometheus/CloudWatch monitoring) and production operations on AWS/EKS including handling a cascading failure from a memory leak with zero-downtime rollback and redeploy.”

“Engineering lead/player-coach working on project management software, owning a high-impact scheduling algorithm rewrite focused on performance, maintainability, and documentation after prior team turnover caused regressions. Previously at EOX Vantage, helped an insurance client modernize monolithic workflows by scoping ambiguous requirements into a roadmap and shipping a day-one MVP before iterating with value-add features.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building and owning production e-commerce features in Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript, including SSR-driven category browsing with pagination and region-specific pricing. Strong focus on post-launch reliability and performance—optimizes React rendering (lazy loading/Suspense), tunes Postgres queries with indexes/explain plans, and supports durable order-processing workflows with idempotency, retries, and structured logging.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at T-Mobile, Cisco, and Bharti Airtel, owning production plan upgrade/billing flows end-to-end from React/TypeScript UI through Spring Boot services to Docker/Jenkins/Kubernetes deployments. Demonstrated reliability and performance wins by migrating synchronous service calls to Kafka-based async processing with circuit breakers and by tuning Postgres queries/connection pools, achieving a reported 25% API response-time improvement and faster incident resolution via improved observability.”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer who built production-grade orchestration systems for hardware security verification at Silicon Assurance (Nextflow/Python/Postgres) and a multi-agent LLM-driven regulatory code checking system at the University of Florida. Emphasizes reliability: strict plan/execute/verify boundaries, queue-based isolation, and strong observability/auditability with Prometheus/Grafana and persisted prompts/tool calls.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across C3.ai (supply chain demand planning) and Amdocs (telecom), working on large-scale data systems and microservices. Has driven first-time adoption experiments of Snowflake + Spark to handle billion-record workloads, built Jenkins-to-Kubernetes delivery pipelines with Nexus artifact management, and implemented Kafka streaming between microservices with HA and retry/error-handling patterns.”

“Backend/data engineer who has built production Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS-native platforms for event ingestion and analytics, combining ECS/Fargate + Lambda with CloudFormation-driven environments and strong secrets/IAM practices. Experienced modernizing legacy logic with parallel-run parity validation and safe phased cutovers, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning wins (20–30s down to 1–2s) plus incident ownership in Glue/Step Functions ETL pipelines.”

“Backend engineer with Citigroup experience who built and evolved a self-service user provisioning/identity backend, cutting onboarding from 45 minutes to under 2 minutes. Demonstrates strong production-grade integration and reliability practices (isolated integrations, retries, rollback logic, heavy logging) plus secure API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth scope-based authorization and incremental, low-risk rollout strategies.”