Vetted Linux Professionals

“Early-career backend engineer and solo builder of FrameFindr, an AI/OCR-based marathon photo tagging product used at live events. Demonstrated pragmatic scaling under tight infrastructure constraints (2GB VPS) and hands-on ownership of architecture, API design, auth (Google OAuth/JWT), and a MongoDB-to-MySQL migration with data-integrity safeguards.”

“Backend/AI engineer with internship experience building an AI-powered financial insights platform (FastAPI, Redis, BigQuery) and prior HCL experience leading a monolith-to-microservices refactor (Flask, Kafka) using blue-green deployments. Demonstrates strong performance/security focus (OAuth/JWT/RBAC, encryption) and measurable impact on latency, downtime, and ML model reliability; MVP was submitted to Google’s accelerator program.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG chatbots using LangChain/OpenAI with FAISS and FastAPI, focusing on real-world constraints like context windows, concurrency, and latency (reported ~40% latency reduction and <2s average response). Experienced orchestrating AI pipelines with Celery and fault-tolerant long-running workflows with Temporal, and has applied NLP model tradeoff testing (Word2Vec vs BERT) to drive measurable accuracy gains.”

“Frontend engineer focused on high-scale React + TypeScript dashboards, including an internal Instagram creator/agency analytics dashboard handling extremely large datasets (1–2TB) with virtualization and performance profiling to maintain ~60fps UX. Experienced in modern state management (Redux Toolkit/RTK Query), modularizing legacy codebases into shared component libraries (Storybook), and shipping fast with feature flags plus automated QA (Playwright/Selenium).”

“Built and productionized an agentic RAG assistant using Ollama + LangChain + MCP + ChromaDB to speed up and standardize access to operational knowledge from tickets and runbooks. Focused on real-world reliability: mitigated timeouts/latency with retries and concurrency limits, improved retrieval via chunking/embedding iteration, and reduced hallucinations through citation-grounding and confidence-based abstention. Also partnered with non-technical ops staff to deliver anomaly detection/monitoring by translating operational needs into model signals, thresholds, and alerting logic.”

“Software engineer experienced delivering customer-facing, real-time industrial monitoring dashboards (motors/shafts/turbines) by partnering directly with end users to refine charts, alerts, and performance. Strong in API/platform integrations and production troubleshooting—uses feature flags, logging, validation/mapping, containerization, and performance testing to keep systems stable while iterating quickly.”

“Backend/security-focused engineer from VeroTX who built an IdP service (Spring Boot + MongoDB on GCP) for an AI workflow platform and drove major latency improvements via caching and query/index optimization. Also shipped an AI loan-processing agent using LangChain/LangGraph, owning the document ingestion + vector database layer and designing a reliable multi-step workflow with retries, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop safeguards.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production TypeScript systems in both fintech-style transaction/rewards flows and HIPAA-regulated healthcare platforms. Deep focus on correctness and reliability (idempotency, retries/DLQs, reconciliation, observability) plus strong infra automation (Docker/Terraform/CI-CD) and measurable performance wins (40% query improvement, 90% test coverage).”

Isaiah Johnson

Screened

Senior DevSecOps/Cloud Engineer specializing in secure AWS delivery for federal environments

Alexandria, VA8y exp

“Cloud-focused DevSecOps/infra engineer with strong AWS production ownership (EC2/EKS/ECS) and hands-on CI/CD (Jenkins->ECR->Helm on Kubernetes). Demonstrated end-to-end outage recovery (ALB 503s caused by Helm env var misconfig) with rapid rollback plus pipeline guardrails, and deep Terraform experience (modular IaC, remote state with S3/DynamoDB, drift detection) supporting federal cloud modernization efforts.”

Milan Sharma

Screened

Mid-level Software/Systems Engineer specializing in Python, Linux, and network testing

Richardson, TX9y exp

“Entrepreneurial product builder who has shipped two live App Store apps (Pixo content-based product marketing platform and Clutch AI dating reply helper). Also helped build a real-estate seller platform end-to-end, using AI matching to find buyers and contributing to onboarding nearly paying users and generating active MRR.”

Vishesh Kumar

Screened

Intern Software & AI Engineer specializing in distributed systems and LLM applications

Palo Alto, CA1y exp

“Stony Brook Fall 2024 capstone contributor who built a ROS2-based warehouse mobile robot prototype, owning perception and SLAM integration end-to-end. Strong in real-time robotics optimization on Jetson Orin (TensorRT/CUDA, ROS2 tracing/Nsight) and in distributed ROS2 communications (DDS discovery/QoS, MAVLink-to-ROS2 bridging), with a full simulation/testing/deployment toolchain (Gazebo, CI tests, Docker/K3s).”

Ronit Shetty

Screened

Entry-level Robotics Engineer specializing in SLAM, sensor fusion, and embedded avionics

Boston, MA1y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on perception/SLAM and systems integration, recently built a quasi-dynamic mapping pipeline to track and reconstruct articulated objects (e.g., drawers) from RGB video using SAM2, COLMAP SfM, and 3D Gaussian Splatting. Also has strong ROS2 sensor-pipeline experience (custom messages, MCAP rosbag deserialization, tf2) and demonstrated real-time performance tuning by accelerating an ICP-based LiDAR SLAM component ~30x (from ~3s to <100ms per frame).”

Michelle Gurovith

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and distributed systems

Danville, CA1y exp

“Built a fault-tolerant distributed IoT sensor network on Raspberry Pi using a token-ring protocol, implementing leader election, timeout-based failure detection, and dynamic reconfiguration when nodes drop mid-round. Focused on reliability and data integrity, including exactly-once processing semantics backed by a MySQL backend and socket-level instrumentation to debug real-time coordination issues.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built AI-assisted CRM and agent workflows in Project SARA and operational systems like payroll for a staffing platform. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript, Django/Postgres, real-time systems, and LLM orchestration with strong product instincts—delivering measurable gains in response time, conversion, and engineering leverage.”

“Software development intern who owned and shipped a production-used WeChat mini-program (JavaScript + MongoDB) serving ~3,000 users in a semester. Emphasizes maintainable UI architecture through modular, reusable components and clear separation between UI presentation and data/business logic, with a performance mindset (caching/reducing redundant updates).”

Sreshta Reddy Basi Reddy

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in systems, data, and full-stack development

Hyderabad, India1y exp

“Built a production-style hackathon prototype for analyzing healthcare facility data and identifying medical deserts via natural-language queries. Stands out for a pragmatic applied-AI approach: separating retrieval from LLM reasoning, using structured JSON outputs, and designing fallbacks and data-quality checks to keep recommendations grounded and reliable.”

“Serial entrepreneur with capital-raising experience across three startups, now building an early-stage online BBQ meat store targeting a Goldbelly launch by July. Previously operated a BBQ restaurant in Texas and has direct Goldbelly experience, giving him practical insight into e-commerce food operations, seasonal demand swings, and social-driven sales.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a production AI knowledge assistant used by 10,000+ daily users. Combines React/Next.js frontend work with FastAPI, AWS serverless, and RAG architecture using GPT-4, LangChain, and Pinecone, with measurable impact on relevance, latency, uptime, and support deflection.”

“Frontend-focused builder with startup and open-source experience, including a real estate management SaaS for homeowners that integrated AI document parsing, OCR, auto-tagging, and chatbot features. They also show strong product instincts through A/B testing, direct user interviews, and community-led design decisions that achieved roughly 90% acceptance.”

“Full-stack/AI engineer with very recent startup experience building creator and CRM AI platforms. They combine React/TypeScript frontend work with Python-based LangChain/LangGraph AI workflows and Go microservices, and have practical experience hardening third-party integrations through abstraction layers, versioning, monitoring, and alerts.”

“Autonomy Engineer at Joulea Inc (Atlanta) with ~3 years building a drone autonomy stack end-to-end, spanning controls, swarm path planning, SLAM/LIO, and multi-sensor fusion (lidar/IMU/GPS RTK/camera). Notable work includes lidar degeneracy detection using Hessian-based constraints in an EKF and fusing visual odometry to reduce drift, plus ongoing lidar-camera synchronization and calibration.”

“Full-stack intern at Rebel who owned backend work on a cross-platform music platform using Python/Django with MongoDB, implementing user-focused REST APIs end-to-end. Also built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) to containerize and deploy to AWS, and has experience integrating Kafka-based real-time event processing with reliability and observability practices.”

“Early-career robotics software engineer with a couple years of ROS/ROS2 experience focused on agricultural mobile robots. Led integration of a Livox MID-360 3D LiDAR on the Farm-ng Amiga platform, patching ROS2 drivers/QoS and building a 3D-to-2D mapping pipeline so Nav2 could run reliable SLAM/navigation in GPS-denied greenhouse/hop-field environments, enabling stable autonomous row-following.”

“Robotics project manager and software lead for an underwater ROV (MATE 2024–2025), building a ROS 2 Jazzy stack on Raspberry Pi and a serial Pi-to-Arduino thruster control system for a 6-thruster configuration. Also has internship experience creating automated functional test pipelines using Jenkins, Selenium, and Python, plus exposure to Isaac Sim for simulated/synthetic data generation in an embodied AI hackathon.”