Vetted Linux Professionals

“Union College robotics graduate with hands-on ROS experience building an independent “waiter bot” that took spoken orders (Mozilla DeepSpeech), used OpenCV, and navigated via SLAM on a TurtleBot with LiDAR. Also led the Union College Robotics crew for four years and implemented PID control for micromouse maze robots; has additional software deployment experience with Dockerized FastAPI and CI/CD from coursework.”

“Robotics software engineer with ~3.5 years in ROS/ROS2 mobile robotics, SLAM, and control who owned end-to-end integration for a sim-to-real mobile platform (Zephyr), including ros2_control, EKF sensor fusion (IMU + Vicon), and Gazebo validation with quantified accuracy. Also built a multi-drone CSLAM stack integrating ORB-SLAM3 and PX4 offboard control, scaling via namespaces, synchronization/QoS discipline, and performance debugging with ros2_tracing.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep startup experience building products from scratch under ambiguous requirements. Delivered a scalable, admin-configurable notification platform (Spring Boot/Java/Kafka) supporting 50+ notification types across 3 channels for 10k+ users, cutting new notification setup to ~5 minutes. Also built a Tinder-meets-LinkedIn job-swiping app (React/TS + Node/Prisma) and has hands-on AWS production ops (ECS/EKS, RDS, CloudWatch) plus multiple third-party integrations (Stripe, QuickBooks, Twilio).”

“Backend-focused engineer who built a Python-based automation system leveraging Gemini AI and prompt-driven PDF field extraction to replace a previously manual third-party workflow. Drove stakeholder alignment around accuracy/acceptance thresholds and added production-minded safeguards like graceful failure handling and backup model contingencies.”

“New grad who shipped an LLM-powered writing app (“Write-it”) to production on Azure with CI/CD (GitHub Actions + JFrog) and implemented an unconventional RAG pipeline to prevent repetitive prompts using embeddings and cosine similarity. Also participated in a Luma AI image/video generation hackathon, iterating with artist feedback and improving usability by rewriting non-technical prompts via an LLM.”

“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.”

“Unity developer with shipped Meta Quest 2 room-scale VR experience, owning VR architecture (XR Interaction Toolkit/Oculus Integration), core interaction systems (grabbing/UI/locomotion), and Quest performance optimization. Also built a solo mobile puzzle game with star-based difficulty tuning, UI/performance profiling, and progression/replay systems, and uses AI assistants to speed prototyping, debugging, and documentation.”

“Built and deployed a "personal second brain" product (CloneMind) with an end-to-end RAG pipeline for retrieving information across PDFs, URLs, images, and audio using Next.js/Node.js/Postgres/Supabase/Redis. Demonstrates strong practical depth in retrieval quality tuning, latency reduction via caching, and stateful orchestration with LangChain/LangGraph, plus experience persuading a non-technical professor stakeholder by shipping a working prototype.”

“Unity lead developer who built a turn-based soccer game (Soccer Glory/Score Hero-like) with complex in-air ball simulation, AI reactions, and animation handling, then scaled production by creating an in-editor level/animation authoring tool that saves to JSON and shifted level setup from devs to designers. Strong multiplayer background across Photon PUN, Mirror, UNet, and Socket.IO, including a 100-user metaverse room and practical approaches to authoritative simulation and VR/mobile performance optimization (Meta Quest 90 FPS).”

“Frontend-focused builder who has led multiple projects end-to-end, including a React/Vite/TypeScript weather app and an internal analytics dashboard optimized for large, time-based datasets. Also created and shipped AetherGrid, a full-stack Windows desktop app, iterating with 5–10 testers and implementing pixel-perfect native UI details plus installer/uninstaller packaging; mentions starting a full-time role at Meta.”

“Self-taught frontend developer with React/TypeScript project experience and strong QA background. Contributed as a QA tester on a Skunkworks web app by refining large story tickets, defining happy-path/edge test cases, and setting sprint metrics; also improved a legacy PHP web app by modularizing SFTP bulk upload code and enhancing page navigation.”

“Built and deployed a production AI accessibility platform that turns chart and image-based graphs into real-time audio narratives for visually impaired users. Implemented a ResNet-based CV + OCR + NLP + TTS pipeline and improved performance through preprocessing, Redis caching, and Kubernetes autoscaling/rolling updates on AWS to handle traffic spikes with no downtime.”

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing legacy systems and building modular Python/Flask services, including a REST-to-GraphQL migration for an e-commerce platform that improved API response time by 45%. Strong in performance and scalability work across PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (indexing, JSONB, N+1 fixes, connection pooling) and high-throughput systems (Celery + Redis), plus integrating ML microservices with TorchServe, Kafka streaming, feature stores, and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.”

“Graduate-school lab engineer who built and owned the final architecture of a Microservices Hub that integrates REST APIs, issues API keys, monitors 10+ Linux servers, and visualizes service dependencies via a topology graph. Strong in bridging legacy and modern stacks (Dockerized and non-Dockerized services like Apache/screen) using deep Linux/networking knowledge, plus practical real-time audio streaming for STT/TTS and experience mentoring others.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with startup experience (SmartPath, OPC AI) who owned and evolved an internal React/TypeScript component library treated like OSS—refactoring core form and API wrapper modules for stability, type safety, and smaller bundles. Comfortable diagnosing production issues via logs/API traces and shipping end-to-end fixes with tests and documentation, including internal workshops to drive adoption.”

“Enterprise SaaS seller with 9 years across cloud and cybersecurity, owning outbound motions from ABM account penetration to partner ecosystem outreach for Fortune 100 accounts and an eight-figure book. Reports 40+ enterprise closes, including a financial services expansion driving 45% YoY growth and $1.7M in multi-SaaS deals across North America and Europe, with a structured, insight-led multi-channel prospecting approach using tools like Outreach, ZoomInfo, Salesforce, and HubSpot.”

“Customer-facing AppSec/solutions engineer with experience securing cloud-native AI/LLM deployments on Azure and Kubernetes. Led threat modeling and production hardening (Key Vault secrets migration, least-privilege IAM, rate limiting, structured logging/monitoring, LLM guardrails) and has supported retail search/catalog platforms using Elasticsearch, including performance triage and rollout playbooks that improved customer trust and enabled engagement expansion.”

“Founder building a hiring-focused startup who has engaged with venture investors but is prioritizing direct end-user traction through email marketing and other outreach before returning to raise a seed round. Has experience working with startups that have already raised seed funding and demonstrates a structured approach to market validation (customer conversations, landing pages) prior to heavy development.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end real-time IoT telemetry backend that powers a digital twin experience on a Meta Quest headset, integrating Cisco LoRaWAN sensors and external REST data sources. Migrated from Azure Functions to a FastAPI service to overcome firewall constraints, add caching/fallback reliability, and significantly reduce operating cost while improving performance and evolvability.”

“Robotics software engineer who built a ROS 2 Humble autonomous hospital-equipment detection/localization robot end-to-end in Gazebo (custom worlds/models, Nav2 waypoint navigation, YOLOv8n perception, TF2-based depth fusion) and solved real-time integration issues via multithreading and QoS tuning. Also implemented and tuned an MPPI controller to enable smooth reverse parking on an OpenPodCarV2 platform, including real-world reverse engineering and hardware/software debugging.”

“Growth/SEO operator with multi-market execution experience who builds scalable acquisition loops (landing page templates, internal linking, indexation fixes) and measures impact via clean attribution. Also an e-commerce side-project founder who led GTM from zero to consistent weekly revenue using GA4 funnel analytics, small-budget Meta/Google tests, retargeting, and SEO foundations; targeting $25k–$45k USD annually and open to scope-dependent arrangements.”

“Master’s thesis engineer who built and deployed a continuous real-time perception + state estimation + control loop under tight latency constraints, owning both software architecture and hardware integration. Strong ROS 2 fundamentals with a systems-first approach—stabilizes robotic behavior by instrumenting, logging/replaying real data, and fixing timing/synchronization issues rather than treating failures as purely algorithmic.”

“Built a Meta-style AI smart glasses system emphasizing on-device privacy and low-latency processing, spanning ESP32-S3/FreeRTOS firmware through an NVIDIA Jetson Linux edge-AI pipeline in Python/Docker. Strong in real-time streaming optimization (zero-copy GDMA, deterministic scheduling), encrypted transmission (AES-256), and reliability via stress testing and robust error handling; currently building CI/CD automation tests using Playwright and computer vision.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience spanning FastAPI microservices and large-scale data pipelines. Has delivered containerized Python services on EKS with Terraform/Helm/GitHub Actions, implemented robust auth/secrets practices, and owned ETL reliability (Glue/S3/Redshift) including incident response and idempotent reruns. Demonstrated SQL tuning on 50M-record ETL workloads to remove SLA misses and improve reliability.”