Vetted Linux Professionals

“Unity/Meta Quest VR developer who helped ship a pharmaceutical lab-training simulator, owning key interaction systems (liquid transfer, pipette behavior) and building custom editor tooling to accelerate objective testing. Also built a solo early-lifeform simulation featuring procedural soft-body mesh generation and physics-driven animation, demonstrating strong systems/physics programming depth.”

“Frontend engineer who co-built an AI-enabled marketing automation platform with multi-workspace tenancy, implementing database-scoped queries and RLS for isolation plus real-time UX (chat, voice transcription via Deepgram, autosave, Supabase Realtime). Emphasizes quality and speed through CI practices (linting/unit tests, planned Playwright) and has shipped fast iterations like Stripe prepaid card detection from overnight build through staged QA to production.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built and operated event-driven microservices platforms (FastAPI/React/TypeScript, Kafka, Kubernetes) and internal DevOps tooling. Delivered measurable impact through user-feedback-driven iteration (WebSockets update mechanism cutting redundant API calls ~30%) and operational improvements (deployment monitoring dashboard reducing rollback time ~40%), with strong focus on reliability, observability, and data consistency at scale.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who builds modular Flask services on AWS and specializes in performance/scalability work across data-heavy APIs. Has concrete wins in query optimization (1.5s to <200ms) and high-throughput async processing (Celery+Redis, ~40% throughput gain), plus experience serving scikit-learn text classification models via containerized REST services and designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies.”

“Robotics software engineer who built and deployed a full custom ROS navigation stack (global/local planners) for a TurtleBot3 reconnaissance robot, validated in Gazebo and on real hardware. Has hands-on experience customizing MoveBase for an autonomous warehouse mobile robot internship and optimizing multi-robot ROS communications by pruning and throttling high-volume sensor streams, plus CI/CD automation via Bitbucket Pipelines and Docker.”

“AAA sports game QA tester who supported full development through launch and live updates, owning gameplay stability/regression risk. Experienced in triage-driven prioritization and in diagnosing complex crash issues (including thread synchronization) using evidence-backed Jira reports, then hardening coverage with stress/concurrency/soak and CI-integrated regression suites.”

“Dedicated engineer supporting the T-Mobile enterprise account at Gigamon, leading annual large-scale device upgrade initiatives (2000+ devices in 1–2 months) with an emphasis on zero production traffic disruption and strong stakeholder communication. Known for consistently high CSAT (4.8+) and for driving operational improvements in Salesforce that cut support Time to Close by 50%.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who owned a very large production estate (12 Power9 E980 frames and 400+ AIX 7.2 LPARs) with deep hands-on expertise in VIOS/vHMC, DLPAR, and PowerHA. Demonstrated strong incident response (zero-downtime DLPAR fix; split-brain prevention during storage failure) and modernization skills spanning Jenkins/Ansible CI/CD and Terraform automation for IBM Power Virtual Server/PowerVC.”

Estelle Marcella Bouopda Meba

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in React and RESTful APIs

Gatineau, Canada4y exp

“Frontend React/TypeScript engineer who built a text-to-speech feature from scratch end-to-end, including frontend-backend communication and testing. Experienced improving existing React codebases through refactoring into reusable components, custom hooks, and performance optimizations, and collaborates closely with product/design using Figma, design systems, and early previews via staging/Storybook.”

Vivekananda Reddy

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java, React, and AWS

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on cloud-native microservices on AWS, owning Python/Flask ingestion services integrated with S3/Lambda and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD. Has led phased migrations from manually managed EC2 setups to automated CloudFormation + pipeline-driven releases, and designed event-driven near-real-time pipelines with idempotency, retry/backoff, and strong observability.”

“Built and shipped an AI-driven interview evaluation pipeline at SeekOut that automated recruiter screening via a multi-stage LLM agent workflow (.NET backend, RabbitMQ orchestration, Python workers). Emphasizes production-grade reliability (idempotency, retries, strict JSON/schema validation), strong observability with OpenTelemetry, and measurable efficiency gains including ~40% reduction in token usage/cost.”

Subhash Chandra

Screened

Senior AI/ML & Robotics Research Engineer specializing in SLAM and multi-modal perception

Norman, OK8y exp

“Robotics engineer who built a smart campus tour robot on a Kobuki Turtlebot using ROS 1, implementing a full navigation stack (semantic world model, A* planner, tour executor, path follower) and integrating SLAM (gmapping) plus a hybrid reactive safety controller. Experienced taking systems from Gazebo simulation to real hardware, including extensive real-world debugging and Docker-based development to handle ROS/Ubuntu version constraints; planning a move to ROS 2 on Turtlebot 4.”

Sai Nikhil Kanchukatla

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Golang microservices and IAM/SSO

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at DigitalOcean and BNY Mellon, specializing in secure, highly available authentication and API platforms. Built an enterprise SSO system integrating Okta via OIDC with resilience patterns (gRPC contracts, circuit breakers, Kafka) and strong encryption, and led a careful monolith-to-Golang microservices migration using shadow traffic, dual writes, and feature flags to preserve data integrity.”

Anay Dongre

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GenAI and LLM fine-tuning

Pomona, California1y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on hard real-time autonomy for legged robots, building a quadruped navigation stack that combines vision SLAM with MPC and maintains a deterministic 500Hz control loop. Deep performance optimization experience across CUDA (sub-2ms perception latency), ROS 2/DDS real-time tuning, and motion planning (cut 500ms spikes to sub-5ms). Also designed distributed ROS 2 + Zenoh communications between quadrupeds and aerial drones and validated robustness under lossy wireless conditions.”

Abhiram Yakkali

Screened

Entry-Level Embedded Firmware Engineer specializing in real-time systems

San Jose, CA0y exp

“Embedded/bare-metal engineer with hands-on sensor performance work: built a real-time profiler for a LiDAR system that tracked CPU/core usage and pixel buffer metrics to quickly identify and validate fixes for bright-light performance issues. Also has Ethernet/UDP device communication experience plus Docker and CI test-suite overhaul work to run sensor functionality tests on every commit.”

Bhavishyasai Chigurupati

Screened

Mid-Level Data/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and cloud data platforms

Overland Park, KS5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-based financial document analysis system using a RAG pipeline, including robust ingestion/chunking/embedding workflows, vector DB retrieval, and an AWS-deployed FastAPI service containerized with Docker. Demonstrates strong applied expertise in improving retrieval quality and latency at scale, plus hands-on experience debugging agentic/LLM workflows with monitoring and trace-based analysis while supporting demos and customer-facing adoption.”

Rupini Polavarapu

Screened

Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD automation

Atlanta, GA10y exp

“AWS platform/infra engineer with hands-on ownership of EKS cluster lifecycle (upgrades, node scaling, networking/ingress, and EBS-backed stateful storage) and reliability validation using Datadog plus CI/CD smoke tests. Also supported on-prem VMware environments and operated a hybrid on-prem-to-AWS setup over site-to-site VPN, including incident response and implementing change-controlled firewall processes and proactive connectivity health checks.”

“Repeat founding-team contributor with hands-on experience helping startups build prototypes and MVPs that support fundraising. Currently developing an enterprise AI governance engine to make AI agent decisions deterministic under user-defined policies, with an MVP and investor feedback process planned.”

“Experienced contractor-side capture and program leader with a decade supporting a drone program and navigating highly structured government and prime-contractor funding environments. Brings a disciplined, compliance-heavy approach to business development and is especially drawn to smaller, mission-focused companies where the purpose is clearly defined.”

“Built practical automation systems spanning an NLP-based news classification pipeline and a WhatsApp interaction agent. Shows strong instincts around production reliability—using structured outputs, schema validation, idempotency, retries, and clarification flows to prevent bad actions in real-world messaging workflows.”

“Entry-level candidate who built NYC Lens, a real-time Gemini-based multi-agent system that processes live camera input, identifies landmarks, and returns structured contextual insights. Despite being a fresher, they show hands-on experience with deployment on Cloud Run, modular orchestration, noisy-data handling, and reliability patterns like retries, fallbacks, and explicit state management.”

Almas Fathimah

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI and ML platforms

USA7y exp

“Built and owned a production RAG-based conversational AI system at Entera for real estate analysis, taking it from experimentation through AWS deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Demonstrates strong practical judgment in retrieval design, LLM safety, and scalable Python service architecture, with measurable impact including 30-40% reduction in manual analysis time and roughly 30% better response accuracy.”

“Backend/infrastructure-focused engineer building AI-agent products for small businesses, including a customer-service agent platform with intent routing, RAG over Pinecone, and external booking API integration. Has shipped Python/FastAPI services with JWT auth, versioned APIs, Docker deployments to AWS EC2 via GitHub Actions, and production monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana.”