Vetted Linux Professionals

“Data engineer with healthcare (CVS Health) experience who migrated production PySpark workloads to native BigQuery SQL and built a Great Expectations-based validation microservice on GKE (Flask + REST) integrated into Cloud Composer. Has operated high-volume pipelines (~300–400GB/day) and designed external vendor ingestion on AWS (Lambda/Step Functions/Glue) with schema-drift detection, alerting, and backfill-safe controls to protect downstream Snowflake/BigQuery tables.”

“Built and shipped a production enterprise RAG knowledge assistant that returns grounded, cited answers and uses confidence-based fallbacks (clarifying questions/abstention) with monitoring and compliance controls for sensitive data. Implemented end-to-end agent orchestration (function calling, structured JSON, state, retries/rate limits) plus eval/feedback loops, and achieved a reported 30–40% improvement in knowledge-task completion time while reducing hallucinations via retrieval improvements.”

Lavanya Chilakalapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native web apps and APIs

Tampa, FL5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building microservice-based systems that integrate LLM workflows (code review suggestions, documentation generation, test scaffolding) using REST APIs, Celery/Redis, and OpenTelemetry for observability. Demonstrates hands-on database and performance optimization in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (bulk inserts, lock mitigation, cursor-based pagination) plus multi-tenant data isolation via tenant-aware models, middleware scoping, and schema/row-level strategies.”

Velusamy Ramasamy

Screened

Principal Software Architect specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and enterprise security

Seattle, WA29y exp

“Engineering leader with experience defining solutions from business requirements through detailed specifications and implementation, emphasizing cost-aware technology selection. Has led architectural changes including adding IBM Cloud alongside AWS for budget reasons and integrating caching/messaging to improve availability and performance, and describes scaling distributed teams via experienced DevOps/QA hires and structured evaluation.”

Shriya Bannikop

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and distributed systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-assisted job-matching dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, keeping LLM logic server-side and improving performance via deduplication, caching/revalidation, and streaming (35% fewer duplicate LLM calls; 40% faster first render). Also has strong data/backend chops: designed Postgres models and optimized queries at million-record scale (1.8s to 120ms) and built durable AWS multi-region telemetry workflows with idempotency, retries, and monitoring.”

Parth Tusham

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in systems, cloud, and security

Sunnyvale, CA1y exp

“Systems and infrastructure engineer pivoting toward robotics software; brings strong low-level debugging, multithreaded systems, and networking experience where correctness and timing matter. Has hands-on experience using Docker and CI/CD to build reproducible test/evaluation environments (thesis), and proposes a disciplined, contract-driven approach to distributed communication and real-time performance debugging.”

Parth Gupta

Screened

Junior Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in perception and autonomy

Ames, IA2y exp

“Robotics engineer with capstone experience building an autonomous food-assembly robot arm, owning perception/deep learning (SAM2-based segmentation) and a model-based RL manipulation policy for deformable food items while also serving as project manager. As a robotics engineering intern at Salin247, optimized an autonomous farm vehicle perception stack to hit 20 FPS by cutting latency from 200ms+ to ~40ms using GPU acceleration (CUDA OpenCV, CuPy) and multiprocessing, and built ROS 2 nodes for real-time perception and streaming.”

Deepika Gotla

Screened

Senior Technical Support Engineer specializing in Azure Cloud & Generative AI

Bellevue, WA7y exp

“Microsoft cloud/infra engineer with 5+ years supporting enterprise Azure environments, specializing in security-focused networking (private endpoints, DNS) and production troubleshooting across Azure Front Door/App Gateway WAF/AKS. Has implemented posture improvements via Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, and RBAC tightening, and also designs secure AWS agent/scanner integrations and modern EKS/GitHub Actions/Secrets Manager observability-enabled SDK rollouts.”

Blake Thomas

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI and EdTech platforms

San Mateo, CA21y exp

“Has been on the receiving end of a VC investment and took responsibility for significant parts of the diligence process, drawing parallels to hands-on work with security compliance and auditors. Approaches entrepreneurship and idea selection with a structured framework (leverage, resources/runway, passion) and a sustainability-first mindset around risk and personal/family well-being.”

“Built an emergency drone-pilot dispatch platform for fire departments, law enforcement, and FEMA, owning it end-to-end from product concept through iOS app, backend dispatch logic, and ongoing iteration. Particularly strong in designing mission-critical, regulation-aware workflows that combine FAA/LAANC compliance, geolocation, flight planning, and even autonomy/computer-vision systems into a reliable operational product.”

“AI-focused engineer who treats models as tightly controlled collaborators rather than autonomous replacements. Built and led a LangGraph-based multi-agent research system with separate stages for decomposition, retrieval, synthesis, and validation, emphasizing modularity, debuggability, and robust failure handling.”

“Healthcare IT engineer with deep observability, backend, and database expertise who built mission-critical monitoring solutions across major enterprise transitions including Siemens, Cerner, and Oracle. Stood out by creating a DoD-deployed observability platform for 10,000+ HL7 interfaces and by automating hospital financial day-end workflows, cutting issues by 90% and freeing up 14 FTEs.”

“Walmart engineer who built and shipped a production LLM+RAG system to automate triage and analysis of computer support chats/tickets, producing grounded, schema-constrained JSON outputs for summaries, urgency, and routing recommendations. Emphasizes reliability (hallucination control, confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop) and runs end-to-end pipelines with Airflow and AWS-native orchestration, plus rigorous evaluation and monitoring tied to business KPIs.”

“Java full-stack developer who has owned data-intensive, customer-facing and internal web products end-to-end (React/Angular + Spring Boot), including CI/CD and production support. Demonstrates deep microservices experience with RabbitMQ/event-driven architecture, idempotency, DLQs, and compensating logic to maintain reliability and data consistency at scale, plus a track record of replacing spreadsheet-based ops reporting with an adopted real-time internal tool.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher at Stanford PDML Lab building VisualFT, a ROS2-based visual-tactile sensing system for compliant force-control guidance in acupressure/ultrasound-style manipulation. Also interned at Neocis (dental robotics) improving safety-critical collision detection using Bullet Physics with automated validation and CI (Jenkins/CDash).”

“Sole creator of a full-stack C++ 3D drone simulator/visualizer, including a self-contained flight stack (GNC, sensor simulation, flight manager) plus OpenGL-based graphics/UI. Built SITL-ready interfaces via MAVLink over UDP and ROS 2 Humble, and has embedded Linux CI/CD experience using CMake and Jenkins with automated unit/integration testing.”

“Summer SDE intern at AWS who built and deployed a column-lineage debugging tool for on-call engineers, using AWS Bedrock to parse SQL and generate a column DAG. Integrated the tool into an existing validation system and hardened it against real-world SQL format differences via flexible parsing and testing with queries from multiple upstream teams.”

“AI/ML engineer (Cognizant) who built a production, real-time credit card fraud detection platform combining deep-learning anomaly detection with an LLM-based explanation layer. Strong focus on regulated deployment: addressed class imbalance and feature drift, and added guardrails (SHAP/structured inputs, fine-tuning on analyst reports, rule-based validation) to keep explanations accurate and compliant. Orchestrated the full pipeline with Airflow + Databricks/Spark and used MLflow/Prometheus plus A/B and shadow deployments for measurable reliability.”

“ML/LLM engineer who has shipped a production transformer-based document understanding system on AWS, owning the full pipeline from domain fine-tuning to Dockerized CI/CD deployment. Demonstrates strong production rigor—latency optimization (distillation/quantization, async batching, autoscaling), orchestration with Airflow/Step Functions/Azure Data Factory, and monitoring/drift detection—plus experience translating ops stakeholder needs into adopted AI automation via dashboards.”

“Backend-focused full-stack engineer who built an MVP at Neon AI for PhD students: a FastAPI backend integrating multiple cloud and local LLMs plus a RAG pipeline with session/identity management, designed to be modular and extensible across domains. Also has VMware experience debugging production issues and executing safe, API-compatible refactors with staged rollouts and strong security controls.”

“Backend/data-systems SWE (2 years) who has built production ETL/streaming workflows (Kafka, Debezium, Elasticsearch) and troubleshot real SQL performance regressions caused by indexing/type issues. Also ships full-stack personal projects in Next.js App Router + TypeScript with Postgres, emphasizing reliability via constraints, idempotency, and strong observability (Grafana/Kibana).”

Yash Nileshkumar Mirani

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI agents, data pipelines, and cloud systems

Sunnyvale, CA5y exp

“Generalist software engineer with recent contract work at Vertex Pharmaceuticals shipping a desktop-integrated RAG assistant for lab scientists (2000+ pages ingested; ~40% support-ticket reduction in pilot). Previously owned Python/AWS financial automation services at Amazon operating at multi-billion-dollar scale, with strong strengths in API design, observability, and database/performance tuning; also built a React/TypeScript AI contract analysis product (ContractsGuy).”

William Freeling

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in game engines, simulation, and cross-platform systems

Shattuck, OK40y exp

“Principal-level Unity engineer who has led cross-platform social and multiplayer feature development for Epic Games, including Unity native plugin work spanning PC, mobile, and major consoles. Also brings specialized VR/MR experience for government clients like the EPA and Homeland Security, with a strong track record in reusable architecture, platform integrations, and engineering team leadership.”

“Platform/infrastructure-focused engineer with hands-on experience automating AWS EKS upgrades in Python, building observability around logs/metrics/SLOs, and migrating Terraform delivery from CodePipeline to Atlantis. They describe shipping automation that handled 140 resources across 50+ Terraform files ahead of schedule and debugging a Karpenter/CoreDNS regression in Kubernetes by tracing it from regional traffic spikes to a missing local DNS cache configuration.”