Vetted Linux Professionals

“Bootstrapped founder of ByteThirst, a launched browser extension and CLI that monitors and estimates the environmental cost of LLM usage. They are targeting a niche climate-tech/AI space with support for 14 platforms, a freemium subscription model, and a first-mover thesis backed by market research, market sizing, and profit projections.”

“Commercial UNIX specialist and former tech lead for a UNIX-based telco appliance spanning 11 SPARC Solaris servers, with strong Solaris troubleshooting (truss/iostat/netstat/snoop) and extensive shell scripting automation for safer, more consistent operations. Has executed multiple Solaris major-version migrations (6→8→10→11) and brings broad cross-UNIX platform experience (Solaris/SunOS/HP-UX/IRIX/OSF/1), while actively looking to deepen hands-on AIX/IBM Power expertise.”

“Backend engineer with healthcare-domain experience building a security-critical RBAC identity/authentication/authorization microservice suite used across hospital imaging platforms (X-Ray, Ultrasound, etc.). Demonstrates strong security mindset (mTLS, cert hygiene, JWT, pen-testing collaboration) and pragmatic scaling/reliability practices (Nginx load balancing, Redis caching, automated tests, canary rollouts).”

“Backend engineer with experience in both regulated healthcare and finance: built a multi-agent RAG system to generate FDA regulatory approval documents for biomedical devices, improving retrieval accuracy via hybrid search (semantic + BM25) and hierarchical chunking. Previously at JPMorgan Chase, led a Java microservice refactor and AWS migration using Elasticsearch-first patterns, caching, and safe rollout strategies (parallel runs, canary, blue-green) in asset/wealth management.”

“University robotics researcher graduating May 2026 who integrated an Intel RealSense D435i onto a TurtleBot3 (Jetson Nano) and built a ROS 2 node + OpenCV pipeline to feed color-based cues into navigation/path planning for RL grid-world experiments. Has hands-on ROS 2 experience spanning Gazebo simulation, Nav2, ros2_control, multi-robot namespacing, and ROS1-to-ROS2 bridging, plus CI/CD exposure (GitLab CI, Jenkins) from internships including aircraft navigation work.”

“Amazon Fire TV Devices engineer who built and shipped a production LLM-powered lab triage and validation system that grounds recommendations in internal runbooks/known-issue data and pushes evidence-based actions via dashboards and Slack. Emphasizes safety and measurability with structured JSON outputs, replay-based evaluation on historical incidents, and production metrics (e.g., disagreement rate and time-to-first-action), plus cost/latency optimizations like caching, batching, and rule-based fast paths.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on production-grade autonomy in GPS-denied environments, building full navigation stacks (perception, EKF/UKF sensor fusion, planning, control) in ROS2. Integrated YOLOv8/semantic segmentation/RL policies into real-time NAV2 pipelines via a custom perception-aware costmap layer, with emphasis on deterministic control loops, embedded GPU performance, and robust system observability/fault tolerance.”

“Software engineer with experience at Google and the City and County of San Francisco building production AI systems, including a RAG-based internal support chatbot and ML-driven ticket priority tagging. Has scaled data/ML platforms with Airflow on GCP (1M+ records/day, 99.9% SLA) and deployed multi-component systems with Docker and Kubernetes (GKE), using modern LLM tooling (LangChain/CrewAI, Claude/OpenAI, Pinecone/ChromaDB, Bedrock/Ollama).”

“Backend/AI engineer who built and scaled an internal AMD semiconductor manufacturing microservice platform (SMR), reworking a synchronous lot-request workflow into an event-driven RabbitMQ/Celery/FastAPI pipeline. Diagnosed and fixed peak-load reliability issues using deep observability and Kubernetes autoscaling, cutting notification latency back to sub-second and reducing duplicates via idempotency/DLQs. Also shipped an LLM-powered natural-language search with schema-constrained JSON outputs and guardrails, plus a plan-execute-verify Jira bug-resolution agent that can propose fixes and raise PRs under restricted permissions.”

“Autonomous driving perception/mapping engineer who designed a vectorized local mapping module end-to-end across labeling, training, and evaluation for multi-modal inputs (vision/LiDAR/nav maps). Implemented automated evaluation/regression testing and improved occlusion/long-range precision by ~5% using temporal features and transformer-based reference points, while optimizing models via pruning/EfficientNet to fit system resource constraints.”

Akanksha Agrawal

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in event-driven data platforms

Bangalore, India5y exp

“Backend engineer with SAP experience modernizing a legacy Flask/PostgreSQL product master data platform into a modular, stateless, containerized service with Kafka-based background processing and improved observability. Also has hands-on academic/side-project experience operationalizing ML (NLP retrieval with TF-IDF/BERT via FastAPI and CV lane-edge detection inference APIs using PyTorch).”

Saiteja Gaddam

Screened

Mid-Level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and streaming analytics

3y exp

“Data engineer (Intuit) who owned an end-to-end telemetry and subscription analytics platform processing ~22M events/day, built on Kinesis/S3/Glue/Spark/Airflow/Redshift. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (schema drift controls, quarantine layers, idempotent reruns) and performance tuning, achieving a reporting latency reduction from ~15 minutes to under 4 minutes while enabling revenue and churn analytics for business teams.”

Thirumalaesh Ashokkumar

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Engineer specializing in SLAM, perception, and state estimation

4y exp

“Robotics software lead with 4+ years of ROS/ROS2 experience spanning a startup (Inductive Robotics) and General Motors, building autonomous mobile manipulation and AMR material-handling stacks. Has hands-on depth in SLAM/navigation (Cartographer/Nav2), perception, and simulation, and has directly modified Cartographer to handle real-world sensor dropouts. Currently working on fleet-scale mapping capabilities (map merging/editing, trajectory pruning) for multi-robot deployments.”

Jason Shankel

Screened

Executive Software Engineer/CTO specializing in real-time 3D, game engines, and BIM platforms

San Francisco, CA28y exp

“Game/interactive systems engineer with shipped Unity/C# work (including performance gains on iOS) and experience building creator-facing tooling like a plain-language level scripting system. Also implemented an OpenAI-powered UGC dialogue/event generation pipeline with offline fallback, and built multiplayer collaborative editing in Unreal for an architectural drafting product using checksum + delta synchronization.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning Amazon IMDb and Northeastern’s NeuroJSON portal, combining consumer product work with complex scientific data applications. Built IMDb’s streaming providers feature—described as the company’s most impactful feature of 2023—and has hands-on experience with React/Angular, GraphQL, AWS, Python services, and production monitoring.”

“Built an AI-powered job outreach application for his own job search and took it from idea to production use, owning architecture, FastAPI backend, retrieval/generation pipeline, frontend workflow, deployment, and iteration. Especially compelling for teams needing a pragmatic full-stack engineer who can turn LLM-based product ideas into usable, maintainable tools with measurable workflow impact.”

Pavan Kishore Ramavath

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in machine learning and backend systems

Leesburg, VA1y exp

“Built an AI-powered medical coding system at Clinpex that mapped 88,000+ clinical terms to standardized codes, achieving about 86% accuracy and cutting manual review time by over 80%. Brings hands-on backend ownership in a healthcare AI setting, with experience using semantic retrieval, LLM validation, and human review to handle ambiguity and reliability in a regulated domain.”

Keano Zamora

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, platform, and cloud infrastructure

King of Prussia, PA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience owning a customer-facing data platform at GDIT, built on Django and Next.js. Demonstrated pragmatic architecture choices to handle image-heavy deployments and helped evolve the frontend from Alpine.js to a consistent React-based stack.”

Shreya B

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud-native, and GenAI systems

Redmond, WA5y exp

“Software engineer with strong Java/Spring Boot backend depth and hands-on full-stack experience building AI-powered enterprise knowledge assistants and customer-facing order tracking systems. Stands out for combining RAG/LLM product work, event-driven microservices, and user-trust-focused product iteration, including shipping prototypes that became the basis for broader production workflows.”

“Software engineer with 5+ years of experience building and scaling high-traffic web systems, including e-commerce-style purchasing/reservation flows and broker back-office platforms. He has hands-on experience across Next.js front ends, Python integrations, Go load-testing tools, and MySQL/Redis-backed architectures, with notable exposure to financial reporting, MT5 integrations, and commission logic.”