Vetted Linux Professionals

Urvish Shah

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Robotics Software & Systems Engineer specializing in ROS2 multi-robot autonomy

Buffalo, NY4y exp

“Robotics software engineer with ROS2 multi-robot experience spanning decentralized signal source localization (LoRa RSSI on TurtleBot3) and a master’s-thesis project on collaborative object transportation with 4 robots. Strong in sim-to-real debugging—implemented noise modeling (RBF) and practical hardware/coordination fixes (CoG tuning, clock sync/flags) to make algorithms work reliably on real robots.”

“Built and productionized an internal GenAI chatbot that makes company policy/SOP knowledge instantly searchable, using a secure RAG architecture on AWS (Bedrock/Titan embeddings/OpenSearch Serverless, Textract/Lambda/S3 ingestion, Claude 3 Sonnet). Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, Step Functions with Lambda/Glue/SageMaker) and a rigorous reliability approach (RAGAS metrics, A/B testing, citation validation, monitoring), including collaboration with compliance stakeholders via review dashboards.”

Amrit Srivastava

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in robotics simulation and machine learning

3y exp

“Undergraduate AI/robotics research assistant who built a city-scale robotics simulation stack for embodied question answering, including JSON-driven environment generation and a ROS 2 pipeline bridging Isaac Sim sensors (CV/LiDAR) to external ML/RL algorithms. Also created and deployed an open-source library workflow tool adopted across multiple local libraries, using GitHub Actions CI/CD for signed releases and automated updates.”

“Enterprise implementation leader with hands-on experience spanning Epic healthcare systems, Infor Lawson/CloudSuite ERP, Banner Ellucian, and custom SaaS platforms across healthcare, tribal governments, and higher education. Particularly strong in end-to-end delivery, cross-functional requirements leadership, rigorous documentation, and guiding organizations from legacy customizations toward SaaS-standard future-state processes.”

“AI Software Engineer (student employee) at University of Washington IT who helped deploy "Purple," a governed, explainable LLM platform on Azure used by 100,000+ students/faculty/staff. Independently led scalable reliability efforts by building automated agent quality/load/red-team testing and CI/CD health validation (Playwright/Node.js, Azure DevOps), and previously built an explainable AI scheduling assistant for clinical operations at Proliance Surgeons.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a real-time data ingestion/processing/reporting API built with FastAPI, Redis, and Celery, including performance tuning via query/index optimization, caching, and async workers. Strong Kubernetes + CI/CD + GitOps (ArgoCD) experience, plus hands-on monitoring/logging (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK) and a Kafka/Spark real-time streaming project from their master’s program.”

“Infrastructure/automation engineer with experience bridging post-acquisition environments (Pandora + SiriusXM) by building an API-driven integration to provision Debian workloads on RHV while preserving iPXE-based imaging workflows. Strong in deep debugging across virtualization/network/OS layers (e.g., resolving virtio/vCPU contention causing network/NFS issues) and in extending automation tooling via custom Ansible/Python modules. Also has exposure to biomanufacturing on-prem devices (Hamiltons, shakers) alongside AWS microservices.”

“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.”

Luciano Barrios

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Principal Hardware & Systems Architect specializing in edge AI and biometrics

Buenos Aires, Argentina25y exp

“Career startup operator now building a self-funded venture in home, professional, and industrial automation plus physical access control. Brings hands-on early-stage hardware/platform development experience along with investor-facing fundraising support, including technical presentations and introducing new ventures to existing funding relationships.”

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.”

Timothy Flechtner

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in games, platforms, and real-time systems

23y exp

“Engineering leader with gaming and fintech/trading-firm experience who built a sponsor-funded gaming rewards platform (AmEx-style) requiring integrations across Steam/Epic/Xbox/PlayStation and Discord. Emphasizes production-grade, 12-factor delivery with Terraform/Docker/CI/CD and automated testing, plus pragmatic org scaling and remote-team culture built on aligned autonomy and trust.”

“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.”

Preetham Dandu

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, distributed systems, and cloud platforms

Stony Brook, NY1y exp

“MS candidate with strong backend/data engineering focus who builds research and data systems with production-grade rigor (reproducibility, observability, restartability). Has hands-on experience securing and scaling FastAPI-based gateways in front of Java microservices, leading SQL Server→Snowflake migrations with dual-write/feature-flag rollouts, and hardening Kafka-based fleet-tracking systems against out-of-order and duplicate events.”

Phanindra Satya Tharun Gunturi

Screened

Mid-level DevOps/SRE Engineer specializing in cloud CI/CD, IaC, and Kubernetes

Nashville, TN5y exp

“Infrastructure engineer with deep production IBM Power/AIX experience (AIX 7.2/7.3, HMC, dual VIOS, PowerHA) supporting ~25–30 LPARs and handling live DLPAR tuning, HA failovers, and Power7→Power9 migrations. Also builds modern cloud delivery platforms—Azure DevOps CI/CD deploying Dockerized microservices to Kubernetes with Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure, strong controls around secrets, drift, and safe rollouts.”

“Serverless-focused engineer (5+ years) who has built and deployed AWS Lambda/API Gateway backends with CloudFormation-based IaC and Jenkins-driven CI/CD across dev/staging/prod. Has experience with AWS Glue/OpenSearch data pipelines and emphasizes data correctness via Golden Data automated tests; also modernized a regulated .NET account-confirmation workflow by eliminating an unreliable SMTP email dependency. Based in San Jose, seeking primarily remote work with quarterly travel to Bethesda, MD and targeting $200k base.”

“Backend-heavy engineer with deep experience building enterprise and real-time systems across healthcare, operations monitoring, e-commerce, and 911 call center domains. He has led and personally coded greenfield and customer-facing platforms, including cloud/on-prem integrations, custom workflow tooling, and microservices architectures, while now independently upskilling into modern TypeScript/React-based frontend technologies.”