Vetted Linux Professionals

“University Rover Competition autonomous-systems lead who architects and debugs a full ROS 2 autonomy stack (Nav2, vSLAM, EKF fusion) and backs it with strong engineering hygiene (Docker + GitHub Actions CI running headless Gazebo and colcon tests). Also has industry-facing ROS 2 hardware integration experience, building a ros2_control plugin for a Unitree G1 arm using CycloneDDS and optimizing real-time behavior via QoS tuning.”

Lane Flores

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in payments and integrations

Atlanta, GA10y exp

“Engineer with a strong mix of telephony, backend API, database reporting, and full-stack web experience across B2B SaaS and healthcare payments. Particularly notable for reverse-engineering loosely documented FreeSWITCH/Event Socket Layer behavior to build an emergency response conferencing system, and for handling messy production data and evolving customer requirements with care.”

“Backend Python engineer who built core services for a telecom automation engine monitoring thousands of routers in real time and auto-generating support tickets. As the sole Intelygenz engineer on the project, they diagnosed a costly Terraform/GitLab CI/CD resource-leak issue in AWS and implemented a cleanup redesign that eliminated orphaned resources and reduced client cloud spend. Also shipped applied-AI ticket triage suggestions via API integration and built an end-to-end Gmail-to-ticket ingestion workflow.”

“DevOps/GCP-focused engineer with experience helping move complex/LLM-style prototypes toward production by clarifying requirements, hardening architecture, and driving OS-level test remediation to full pass rates. Debugs LLM/agentic workflow issues like distributed systems using GCP observability (Cloud Logging/Monitoring, GKE metrics) and implements alerting policies for proactive communication. Has delivered internal DevOps training from basics through end-to-end GCP infrastructure and deployment, improving engagement with real-world examples and analogies.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who has owned production FastAPI services deployed on Kubernetes, including CI/CD (GitLab CI to ECR) and GitOps delivery via ArgoCD/Helm. Has hands-on experience with complex reliability and infrastructure work—solving data inconsistency with validation/partial-data paths, fixing K8s liveness issues via lazy loading, and supporting a phased cloud-to-on-prem migration with dual-writes and monitoring. Also built Kafka-based real-time ingestion consumers handling bursty, high-throughput traffic with async processing and topic/retention tuning.”

“Backend engineer with experience in both healthcare (Siemens) and payments (Bitwise), focused on scaling Python APIs and modernizing architectures. Has led monolith-to-microservices migrations and introduced Kafka async processing, Redis caching, and ELK observability, citing ~40% faster issue resolution and improved reliability via idempotency and strong security controls (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, RLS).”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production RAG-based Text2SQL engine using Qdrant, including creating the underlying business/DB documentation, generating a test dataset, and designing detailed SQL-quality metrics for validation. Also partnered with non-technical stakeholders on a speech recognition project to prioritize medical terminology, improving accuracy through targeted corpora, lookup-table correction, and fine-tuning with a modified loss function.”

“Master’s-program backend engineer with strong Java/Spring Boot industry experience who also owned a Python analytics service (Flask/Postgres, JWT, Celery/Redis) and optimized large-dataset performance via SQL/batching. Has hands-on Kubernetes microservices deployment and GitLab+Terraform CI/CD/GitOps workflows, plus experience supporting phased on-prem to AWS migrations and building Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines.”

“Front-end-focused developer at a startup who also handles back-end integration, delivering customer-facing analytics dashboards from Figma designs while collaborating tightly with UX/product and running customer review cycles. Recently helped manage a risky production user-migration issue by stopping deployment, restoring deleted records from backups, and rebuilding the migration process with a safer test environment and validation.”

“Built and deployed NeuroDoc, a production-grade RAG system for PDF Q&A that delivers citation-backed answers with strong anti-hallucination guardrails. Experienced in orchestrating and scaling ML/LLM pipelines with Kubernetes, Airflow/Prefect, and PyTorch Distributed, and in building rigorous evaluation and citation-verification tooling to ensure reliability in production.”

“Built and shipped an AI-powered driver ranking/assignment system at AffirmoAI using LLM intent classification + RAG over pgvector/Postgres, served via FastAPI with a React UI that explains scores. Drove measurable improvements through optimization and iteration (latency down to <800ms, adoption 60%→90%+) and implemented rigorous eval loops with dispatcher ground truth plus cold-start handling for new drivers.”

Yashi Agarwal

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Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, Generative AI, and RAG systems

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered phone assistant for a healthcare clinic, combining streaming STT/TTS with RAG over approved clinic documents and strict safety guardrails to prevent unverified medical advice, plus seamless human handoff. Also has hands-on Apache Airflow experience building robust daily ML/data pipelines with data validation, retries/timeouts, monitoring, and metric-gated model deployment, and iterates closely with clinic staff using real call reviews.”

Ajay Rajakumar

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Angular, Java, and MERN

Chennai, India4y exp

“Full-stack developer with 4 years of experience and an MS in Computer Science who led frontend delivery for a large airline platform (booking, check-in, and payment flows) using Angular/TypeScript with a Java backend. Emphasizes quality at scale via SonarQube monitoring, E2E/regression testing, and iterative Agile collaboration with clients using Figma.”

SREEJA REDDY Konda

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, MLOps, and predictive analytics

Kentwood, MI6y exp

“AI/ML Engineer at Fifth Third Bank who has shipped production fraud detection and risk analysis systems combining ML models with LLM-powered insights/explanations, including real-time monitoring, drift detection, and automated retraining under regulatory explainability constraints. Also built a hybrid-retrieval internal knowledge-base QA system (+20% top-5 relevance) and delivered a customer support chatbot that reduced first response time by 30% through strong stakeholder collaboration.”

Abhishek Gupta

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI automation and RAG pipelines

Toronto, ON6y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led mobile-first and web React/TypeScript products end-to-end, including an expense tracking app handling sensitive financial data and a real-time messaging/activity dashboard with chat, presence, and contextual side panels. Emphasizes scalable architecture, rigorous component-boundary testing, and production-safe rollout practices (feature flags, analytics/logging, staged releases) to ship reliably in fast-paced environments.”

Teja Babu Mandaloju

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Mid-level Data Scientist/MLOps Engineer specializing in NLP, GenAI, and cloud ML platforms

Chicago, USA5y exp

“AI/ML engineer who led production deployment of a multimodal (text/video/image) RAG system on GCP using Gemini 2.5 + Vertex AI Vector Search, scaling to 10M+ documents with sub-second latency and +40% retrieval accuracy. Strong MLOps/orchestration background (Kubernetes, CI/CD, Airflow, MLflow) with proven impact on reliability (75% fewer incidents) and deployment speed (92% faster), plus experience delivering explainable ML (XGBoost + SHAP + Tableau) to non-technical retail stakeholders.”

Marc Fisher

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Staff Colorist & Finishing Artist specializing in trailer, episodic, and feature finishing

Hollywood, CA35y exp

“Experienced editor with many years using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects alongside high-end finishing tools (Flame, Avid DS, Resolve). Has worked on feature film conform/online for Beerfest and on trailer/promotional work for The Terminal List, and cites Disney as a notable YouTube channel/client. Emphasizes strong organizational workflows, act-based storytelling for retention, and consistent standards through presets and review-driven collaboration.”

Allen Saunders

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Senior DevOps/Solutions Engineer specializing in CI/CD, cloud platforms, and API integrations

San Francisco, California11y exp

“Solutions Architect with 5+ years leading pre- and post-sales engagements, focused on taking complex tooling from test/prototype to secure production through a structured discovery-to-deployment approach. Experienced in LLM workflow troubleshooting using tools like Langfuse/Gopher and in developer enablement via concise, hands-on workshops (e.g., Jenkins on Kubernetes at scale). Has navigated internal and external blockers to drive adoption and keep enterprise deals moving (including a Jenkins sale to Love's).”

Austin Near

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and backend systems

Santa Clara, CA3y exp

“Full-stack JavaScript developer in small-company environments building PCB manufacturing web tooling. Owned and delivered blob-storage upload/download infrastructure (including an internal developer library) and a training/compliance tracking tool. Implemented secure, broadly compatible SSO for a customer portal under a <1 month deadline tied to an 8-figure customer deal, despite having no prior authentication experience.”