Vetted Linux Professionals

“Software engineering intern who built an internal AI-agent automation using the Gemini API to reduce manual CRM data entry, iterating prompts closely with analysts to address precision concerns. Also worked on a medical image-diagnostics LLM project involving fine-tuning and benchmarking multiple model approaches, and has quant/sales-trading experience building automated pricers for complex options and persuading sales teams to adopt them with ROI-focused metrics.”

“Built and productionized a real-time enterprise RAG pipeline to improve factual accuracy and reduce LLM hallucinations by grounding responses in constantly changing internal knowledge bases (policies, manuals, FAQs). Experienced in orchestrating end-to-end ML workflows (Airflow/Kubernetes), handling messy multi-format data with schema enforcement (Pydantic/Hydra), and maintaining freshness via streaming incremental embeddings plus batch refresh. Also delivers applied ML solutions with non-technical teams (marketing/CRM) for segmentation and personalized engagement.”

“Embodied AI/robotics-focused ML engineer who built a real-time assistive Braille device by coupling transformer OCR with an Arduino-controlled electromechanical Braille cell, solving tight latency and hardware-integration constraints. Has recent work on geometry-grounded world models and a real-time 4D reconstruction foundation model (Any4D), and delivered measurable impact at Voxel AI by building a scalable headless simulation + synthetic data pipeline that improved a safety-critical algorithm’s recall by ~16%.”

“Amazon engineering leader (15+ years) targeting Senior Manager/Director roles, with deep ownership of contact-center latency and reliability initiatives. Shipped a global production improvement cutting call latency 30–40% and led a complex Citrix SDK integration, including incident response and a backward-compatible rollout strategy to protect existing customers while enabling new features.”

“P&G operator who is also building and selling an AI receptionist (voice agent) SaaS for healthcare/service clinics, using EHR + calendar API compatibility to target accounts and letting the Voice AI run parts of the demo to prove value. Has already closed and deployed to two clients in the last two months, with production impact via reduced front-desk overhead and automated scheduling/FAQs, and brings a structured, scalable deployment/process mindset from global WMS rollouts.”

“Built and shipped an end-to-end LLM agent during an AT&T internship to automate network troubleshooting, with production-style reliability safeguards (timeouts/retries/fallbacks) and structured, state-machine orchestration; project won 3rd place in AT&T’s nationwide intern innovation challenge and was demoed to leadership. Also handled messy multi-partner data at Tencent by implementing schema validation/normalization, confidence-threshold fallbacks, and idempotent Python/ORM-based pipelines.”

“Built a production LLM-powered data ingestion workflow at Provi, an online alcohol marketplace, to clean and match millions of distributor inventory items against a product catalog. Their experience is strongest in applying LLMs to real-world, large-scale data operations with AWS Glue, S3, batching, API integration, human review, and drift detection.”

“Backend engineer who helped redesign and refactor Forma’s backend during an app rewrite, emphasizing modularity, maintainability, and A/B testing support while delivering feature parity on a quarter-long timeline. Led a careful database migration using parallel databases with schema differences, validating integrity via staging and SQL checks, and has experience debugging subtle computer-vision overflow edge cases.”

“Platform/backend engineer focused on Kubernetes at scale: built a Java control-plane service for multi-region cluster provisioning/monitoring/upgrades using Kafka-driven async workers, and solved peak-load provisioning failures by eliminating blocking I/O and dynamically scaling consumers. Also shipped an LLM-assisted Kubernetes troubleshooting/remediation feature that pulls Prometheus logs/metrics into prompts and uses guardrails (confidence thresholds + human-in-the-loop) to prevent risky actions.”

Jingfei Xu

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Intern/Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud-based systems

Mountain View, CA0y exp

“Embedded/robotics software engineer with Hyundai Motors experience who owned an AI-driven perception validation pipeline using a Transformer-based approach to generate stable synthetic in-cabin audio for autonomy/ASR testing, cutting downstream testing time by 50%+. Has hands-on ROS integration (IMU sensor streaming, inference, control nodes), MQTT-based distributed messaging, and cloud/container deployment experience (Docker, Node/Express, AWS, CI/CD).”

“LLM/Conversational AI engineer who built a production multi-turn dialogue system using LoRA fine-tuning on LLaMA, cutting training compute/memory by 90%+ while maintaining low-latency inference via quantization and streaming generation. Experienced in orchestrating end-to-end ML workflows with Prefect/Airflow/Kubeflow (including hyperparameter sweeps and W&B tracking) and improving agent reliability through benchmark-driven testing, shadow-mode rollouts, and stakeholder-informed guardrails.”

“Internship at BlueFoxLabs building and deploying an AI/ML RAG system for a biopharma client on top of LibreChat, including an AWS Textract ingestion pipeline and PGVector retrieval deployed to AWS EKS. Demonstrated production-minded scalability work by moving from a vertically scaled EC2 setup to a horizontally scaling Kubernetes/EKS deployment, using CI/CD to safely incorporate requirement changes like tabular document data.”

“Backend engineer who scaled a food delivery platform by migrating from a single-service architecture to Spring Cloud microservices with an API gateway and Kafka-based event-driven order pipeline. Reported outcomes include ~50% latency reduction, stable ~2K RPS throughput, and 99.8% uptime, with strong emphasis on safe migrations (dual writes, canaries, schema versioning) and security (JWT/RBAC/Postgres RLS).”

“QA professional with experience at Google and Meta, focused on end-to-end functional/regression testing, disciplined bug reporting (including ADB logs), and release readiness via staging build promotion and gating on critical/high-priority issues. Emphasizes PRD-driven test planning, edge-case coverage (e.g., low connectivity/low battery), and thorough verification across build versions.”

Ravikanth Kasamsetty

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Executive AI/ML Engineering Leader specializing in cloud-native SaaS and GenAI platforms

23y exp

“Engineering leader who modernized and unified a fragmented product suite at Milestone via a multi-year cloud-native roadmap, delivering an MVP in three quarters and boosting team velocity by 40% through cross-functional squads. At Prometheum, led a trust-building hybrid architecture (AWS control plane + customer-hosted data plane) using Kubernetes to ensure sensitive enterprise data never left customer networks while remaining cloud-agnostic across providers.”

Ahmed Sadaqat

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in production ML and predictive analytics

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“ML/AI engineering leader who has owned end-to-end production systems from experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration at meaningful scale. They describe running a 1M+ records/day prediction platform with 99.9% availability, shipping a RAG-based conversational AI feature for 50,000 active users, and consistently improving precision, latency, reliability, and cost with measurable business impact.”

“Backend/data engineer with Amazon supply-chain experience building production serverless Python services and ETL pipelines on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, Glue). Has modernized legacy SAS jobs into Python with rigorous parity testing and phased migrations, and has delivered major SQL performance gains (minutes down to seconds) through indexing and partitioning.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across GCP (FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes) and AWS (Lambda, ECS Fargate, Glue). Has modernized legacy SAS batch systems into Python services with parallel-run parity validation, and has strong operational rigor in ETL reliability/monitoring plus proven SQL tuning impact (25s to <300ms, ~60% CPU reduction).”

“DevOps/SRE focused on cloud-based distributed systems, with strong hands-on Kubernetes production experience (microservices deployments, Helm, probes, resource tuning, CI/CD and Docker build standardization). Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting across application, infrastructure, and networking layers—e.g., isolating degraded storage via node disk I/O metrics and restoring performance by draining the node and replacing the volume. Builds Python automation for operational reliability, including scheduled Kubernetes secrets rotation integrated with an external secret manager.”