Vetted Linux Professionals

kartikeya tiwari

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and platform engineering

Bangalore, India6y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with experience owning production systems in fintech and product startups, including a predictive scaling platform that cut AWS spend by 40% and an ambiguous social-intelligence feature that doubled MRR from $50K to $100K. Also building AI search and document-processing workflows, with reported 99.7% extraction accuracy and hands-on use of both classical forecasting and modern LLM stacks.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at Charles Schwab owning financial workflow deployments end-to-end, including API/database design, SQL optimization, Python automation, and AWS-based production stabilization. Also brings applied AI quality experience through building LLM/agent validation pipelines focused on scenario testing, edge-case detection, and reducing production risk.”

“Frontend engineer with experience building specialized browser-based interfaces for asset management and machine service recommendation systems. Stands out for creating custom UI components like a calendar from scratch in pure JS/TS and CSS, while applying permission-based architecture, design-system constraints, and functional React/Redux patterns.”

“Senior project/program leader with 20+ years delivering enterprise cloud, data, infrastructure, and operational software implementations in highly regulated environments. Has progressed from project execution into multi-stream modernization leadership, managing concurrent portfolios, executive steering committees, and governance-heavy transformations at organizations including Harvard and UniFirst.”

Omkar Tulsidas Parab

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web and AI applications

United States5y exp

“Software engineer who owned an Order Management System end-to-end at Reliance Jio, improving large-table performance via UI virtualization shipped behind feature flags and refined through direct ops-user observation. Also built an OCR automation tool at Piramal Realty using Python/Tesseract with validation and manual correction fallbacks, driving adoption by operations teams. Experienced integrating with Kafka-based microservices and improving observability using structured logging and correlation IDs.”

“Yogesh is an AI/full-stack engineer from LangChain who says he was the sole developer and core maintainer of OpenSWE/OpenSpeed, an asynchronous coding agent in LangSmith Cloud that turns requests from Slack, Linear, and GitHub into reviewable PRs. He emphasizes production-grade agent infrastructure: event-driven workflow design, typed run states, observability, retries, and latency improvements via pre-warmed sandboxes.”

“Backend-leaning engineer at Coforge with strong experience in subscription lifecycle and billing platforms, combining PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Azure, Kubernetes, and messaging systems. Stands out for owning production systems end to end and driving an event-driven architecture shift that reduced failures by 30%+ and improved response times by 40%.”

“Robotics software engineer who owned the navigation/control stack for a commercial autonomous lawnmower at Wavemaker Labs, with hands-on sim-to-real tuning and real-world debugging. Experienced in ROS 1/ROS 2 path tracking (Pure Pursuit), including adapting ROS 2 planner code into a ROS 1 system, and building telemetry/logging to quantify tracking errors. Currently in an ADAS simulation team enabling algorithm teams with SIL/HIL and feature validation.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on system-level C++/Linux stacks for multi-robot platforms, owning the communication layer and validation/testing infrastructure. Built Python simulation/replay and fault-injection tooling integrated with Docker + GitLab CI/CD, and debugged real-time localization issues by instrumenting IPC timing and refactoring multi-threaded pipelines for deterministic performance.”

“Full-stack engineer who owned end-to-end delivery of a customer-facing financial services web platform and built internal tooling for engineering teams. Strong in microservices and event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), distributed transaction management (saga), and production performance/observability—achieving ~40% backend response-time improvement through database and query optimization.”

“Machine Learning Intern at Docsumo who delivered a customer-facing fraud-detection solution end-to-end: rebuilt the pipeline, deployed a Random Forest model, and shipped a Python/Flask microservice on AWS SageMaker. Drove measurable production impact (precision +30%, processing time cut in half, manual review -60%, customer satisfaction +15%) and demonstrated strong customer integration and live-incident response skills.”

“Graduate student researcher on the EARTH project (college collaboration with Moog) working on robotics for an arm/bucket system. Implemented waypoint-based path planning, built an Apriltag data pipeline, and developed ROS 2 tooling including a joystick-to-DeltaCAN teleop node; exploring reinforcement learning policies trained from Tera simulator + ROS 2 bag data to optimize trajectory planning under varying pressure/load conditions.”

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Metasystems Inc. (and Qualcomm) building high-traffic, security-sensitive systems—owned a secure transaction processing module end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django, and React. Strong AWS production operations (EKS/ECS/Lambda/RDS/DynamoDB) with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), observability, and reliability patterns; also delivered resilient ETL/integration pipelines with idempotency/retries/backfills and achieved a 50% deployment-time reduction through CI/CD and modular refactoring.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered financial/regulatory document analysis platform at State Street, combining fine-tuned transformer models with a RAG pipeline over internal knowledge bases. Owned the productionization stack (FastAPI, Docker, SageMaker, Terraform, CI/CD) plus monitoring for drift/latency/hallucinations, delivering ~40% faster analyst review and improved reliability through chunking/embeddings and grounding.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on real-time state estimation and perception pipelines, with hands-on C++/ROS work improving LiDAR+IMU odometry stability via an iterative EKF and careful timing/synchronization fixes. Has integrated LIO-SAM, built multi-robot communication bridges (ROS + custom UDP with heartbeat/fallback), and uses Gazebo + Docker for repeatable testing, backed by CI/CD experience maintaining Azure DevOps pipelines at Cognizant.”

“Robotics software candidate focused on ROS 2 simulation work: integrated a SolidWorks-designed truck + dual-trailer CAD model into ROS 2 Humble by building URDF/meshes, fixing coordinate/joint axis issues, adding ros2_control + Gazebo integration, and implementing teleop. Also built a Python P-controller node for autonomous pose navigation and has experience with common robotics/embedded communication protocols and Docker-based ROS environment setup.”

“Robotics/AI candidate who built an AI-driven landmark location tool during a summer internship at Mobile Drive, combining YOLOv5 object detection with OpenStreetMap-based geolocation to handle dense, cluttered urban environments. Also researched deploying LLM-based agents on constrained hardware using quantization plus LoRA/continuous learning, improving accuracy from ~80% to ~92%, with an emphasis on production logging for reliability.”

“Backend engineer with experience building Spring Boot microservices for financial workflows at Fizzle (thousands of requests/minute) and shipping healthcare data validation automation at CVS Health. Demonstrates strong production reliability/performance skills—deep in database tuning (query plans, indexing, caching, denormalization), observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and resilient multi-step workflow design with retries and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused engineer with production ownership in multi-account AWS environments (GE) and EKS-based platforms (Lumeus.ai). Strong in incident response and reliability—diagnosed IAM-driven serverless failures (SQS/Lambda) and Kubernetes deployment issues (CrashLoopBackOff, memory pressure) with rollbacks, policy fixes, and improved monitoring. Built secure Jenkins CI/CD and delivered infrastructure via CloudFormation and Terraform for serverless and EKS stacks.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with production experience in Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures. Has built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for containerized Kubernetes deployments and implemented Terraform-based AWS infrastructure with modular design and remote state/locking (S3 + DynamoDB) plus PR/CI-driven change control.”

“Built and deployed a live production LLM document Q&A platform (DocumindAI) with an adaptive RAG pipeline (Claude + Cohere embeddings + pgvector), source-cited structured outputs, and engineered fallbacks for reliability and sub-2s latency. Also has enterprise integration experience at Tech Mahindra working with messy IFS ERP XML integrations, using validation/normalization and JTA transactions to prevent partial writes and data corruption.”

“Data engineer focused on sales/marketing analytics pipelines, owning ingestion from CRMs/ad platforms through warehouse serving and dashboards at ~hundreds of thousands of records/day. Built reliability-focused systems including dbt/SQL/Python data quality gates with alerting, a resilient web-scraping pipeline (retries/backoff, anti-bot tactics, schema-change detection, backfills), and a versioned internal REST API with caching and strong developer usability.”

Srikanth Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and financial risk & compliance analytics

Plainsboro, NJ7y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered financial risk and compliance platform to reduce manual trade exception handling and speed up insights from regulatory documents. Implemented a LangChain multi-agent workflow with structured/unstructured data integration (Redshift + vector DB) and emphasized hallucination reduction for regulatory safety using Amazon Bedrock. Strong MLOps/orchestration background across Kubernetes, Airflow, Jenkins, and monitoring/testing with MLflow, Evidently AI, and PyTest.”

Vansh Amara

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and robotics infrastructure

Madison, WI1y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 experience building real-time perception/control infrastructure and multi-sensor fusion (radar/ultrasonic + GNSS/IMU) with deterministic latency and safety fallbacks. Debugged rover navigation drift via rosbag replay and timing analysis, improving state estimation by gating GNSS and switching to SLAM when GPS degraded. Also brings strong distributed-systems and build/CI tooling experience (gRPC/Protobuf, Docker, Bazel cross-compilation for ARM/RISC-V, GitHub Actions).”