Vetted Linux Professionals

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a large production estate (20+ Power9/Power10 frames and 400+ LPARs) with vHMC and dual-VIOS HA. Has hands-on incident recovery experience (NPIV/RMC issues, LPM restores) and PowerHA failovers, plus modern DevOps exposure using Terraform on AWS and CI/CD with GitHub Actions/Jenkins (including deploying AI/RAG and vision workloads).”

“Robotics software engineer at Quant Robotics focused on perception for automated welding/assembly cells, working with LMI Co-Cutter 3D sensors and point-cloud registration. Previously implemented ROS 2 Humble navigation on a Clearpath Jackal by rewriting the NAV2 local controller with a constrained NMPC approach, optimizing for low-latency behavior via C++ and GPU offload. Hands-on with industrial ABB robots (IRB 6700/2600), multi-frame calibration, simulation in Gazebo/RViz, and Docker-based deployment/testing workflows.”

“Systems-focused C++ engineer who built a 32-bit CPU simulator end-to-end (custom ISA, full memory model, fetch-decode-execute loop) and solved tricky recursion/stack-frame correctness issues through heavy instrumentation and tracing. Has strong Linux and user-kernel boundary experience (procfs) plus modern build/test tooling (Docker, CI/CD, pytest), and is confident ramping quickly into ROS/ROS2 despite not having used it directly.”

“Unity/VR gameplay programmer who delivered core VR locomotion and a custom collision system for the VR port of Tinhearts, enabling comfortable movement in highly detailed, cluttered environments and improving cutscene reliability. Also has professional VR multiplayer experience on Project Leeroy using Photon Fusion (plus PUN/SpatialOS/UNet/WebSockets), including building drag-and-drop networking components to help designers ship minigames faster.”

“Cybersecurity-focused candidate whose master’s thesis performed an empirical, systematic study of memory and disk forensics behavior across Windows and Linux under Trojan and ransomware conditions. Has experience optimizing and debugging large, real-time data-processing pipelines (e.g., memory dumps/logs) and using Docker for forensic analysis workflows; no robotics/ROS experience to date.”

“Machine learning lab assistant at Eastern Illinois University who productionized a voice-enabled conversational AI system: redesigned it with RAG, LoRA fine-tuning (including text-to-SQL), and safety guardrails, then deployed a scalable API supporting ~1,000 daily queries. Also partnered with customer-facing teams during a BlueFi internship by building demos/APIs and accelerating releases via Terraform + AWS CI/CD automation.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on climate/emissions data platforms, building production Python (FastAPI) microservices and AWS serverless/ETL pipelines (Glue/Athena/Lambda/EventBridge). Demonstrated strong reliability and observability practices plus measurable optimization wins, including cutting PostgreSQL query runtimes from minutes to seconds and reducing AWS costs from ~$6k/month to ~$400/month.”

“Frontend-focused early-career developer who led a student club web app from stakeholder discovery and Figma UX/UI through a scalable React + TypeScript build, emphasizing accessibility, reusable components, and tight API alignment with backend. Also has freelance experience translating non-technical client needs into polished sites (including Wix) and has refactored/optimized an existing codebase for maintainability and performance.”

“Security-focused engineer with hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting security tooling (including an open-source SIEM) and integrating SCA/container scanning into AWS/EKS and GitHub Actions pipelines. Demonstrates strong cloud security fundamentals (least-privilege IAM, IRSA, private subnet/VPC design, CloudTrail/GuardDuty) and can translate security-usability tradeoffs (e.g., password policy and 2FA) to different stakeholders.”

“Robotics software contributor from Binghamton University’s drone research lab who built a Dockerized, multithreaded Python control stack integrating Crazyflie firmware for low-latency, real-time coordination of multiple drones. Hands-on with telemetry/command pipelines, profiling and control-loop optimization, and wireless comms using CrazyRadio PA.”

“Robotics software engineer who built an assistive Kinova Gen3 manipulation system for activities of daily living, spanning RealSense+ArUco perception, MoveIt2-based motion planning/task sequencing, and a React Native tablet UI with rosbridge and voice control. Optimized real-robot trajectories by blending OMPL with Cartesian/PILZ planning and created simulation workflows to test without lab/robot availability.”

“Built a university campus assistant chatbot (BabyJ/WWJ) using RAG and agentic routing with a FastAPI + React stack and JWT auth, focusing heavily on production concerns like latency and reliability. Uses techniques like speculative prefetching, smart intent routing, and rigorous eval/testing (golden sets, regression, edge cases) while collaborating closely with campus admin/advising teams to iterate based on real user feedback.”

“Internship-built full-stack systems spanning HR employee-record portals and internal data-quality dashboards (Flask + SQL + React), emphasizing data integrity and rapid MVP iteration. Also implemented Flask microservices with RabbitMQ for distributed task processing, addressing duplication/ordering issues with idempotency, durable queues, and correlation-ID logging; delivered quantified productivity gains for HR teams.”

“Worked on an AI-adjacent search/results product with a React front end and an API-driven backend, focusing on scalability and performance. Emphasizes decoupled JSON API architecture, React rendering optimizations (useMemo/useCallback), and large-dataset techniques like virtualization, plus strong user-issue triage via log analysis and edge-case fixes in query handling/ranking.”