Vetted Linux Professionals

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with production experience in both healthcare (claims enrichment/interoperability at Abacus) and finance (Goldman Sachs pricing/risk APIs + React dashboards). Built an event-driven AI grading platform using Postgres Debezium CDC + Kafka + FastAPI on AWS that cut manual grading ~70% and served 1000+ students, with strong emphasis on reliability, testing, and performance tuning.”

“Founder of an LLC operating as a consulting firm providing fractional CTO services to startups, giving them parallel exposure to multiple early-stage companies. Has direct experience with MVP development, building org structures from scratch, and supporting early fundraising, and is exploring a pivot from consulting into a scalable product business while staying engaged with the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

“Azure cloud platform engineer with strong enterprise Linux operations background who designs multi-region HA/DR on Azure (and AWS) using Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, AKS autoscaling, and geo-replicated Azure SQL. Built secure Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for .NET/Python microservices to AKS/VMs and provisions full environments via Terraform modules with remote state, drift checks, and staged rollouts; has not directly owned IBM Power/AIX at scale.”

“Application Engineer supporting customers in a financial trading context, experienced in coordinating urgent patch upgrades and stakeholder communications to minimize downtime. Has hands-on production incident response experience troubleshooting a critical dashboard outage caused by a bad SQL execution plan, escalating with DBAs and deploying a fast fix, then documenting full RCA via problem tickets.”

“Software engineer with payments-domain experience (Visa) building real-time transaction monitoring and analytics systems. Strong end-to-end ownership across Spring Boot/Kafka microservices, PostgreSQL modeling, and AWS/Kubernetes operations, plus React+TypeScript dashboards—focused on low-latency processing, secure APIs, and zero-downtime production releases.”

“Software engineer with experience across TCS, Rakuten, and USC who has owned production integrations and data pipelines end-to-end. Notably improved a trading platform payment flow by replacing fragile polling with a webhook-driven status system with robust fallbacks, and has shipped LLM-assisted design-to-webpage automation plus evaluation-driven prompt iteration (NYT Connections).”

“Backend/AI engineer who has built and shipped two products: Know Founder (Python/SQL/AWS) scaling to 2,000+ users in the first month, and Unifr (unifr.online), an AI search visibility engine that queries multiple LLMs and turns responses into structured brand insights. Strong in production reliability/performance (Redis caching, indexing, precomputation) and in designing agentic workflows with guardrails, validation, retries, and human escalation.”

“Master’s CS candidate with backend internship experience modernizing live operational workflows at NatWest/NetWess, focusing on reliability improvements, safer CI/CD deployments, and incremental refactors using feature flags and rollback paths. Built FastAPI-based APIs with strong security patterns (JWT + 2FA/TOTP, centralized authorization, RLS) and demonstrated attention to edge cases like idempotency and data consistency in a Netflix-clone project.”

“Robotics software engineer in an Autonomous Vehicle Lab building an end-to-end ROS 2 autonomous golf cart stack (sensor integration, SLAM, planning, and camera+LiDAR perception). Demonstrated strong systems-level debugging by fixing a FastLIO2 LiDAR timestamp/IMU-window issue that restored mapping quality, and stabilized real-time GigE camera perception by diagnosing backpressure and tuning ROS 2 QoS plus compressed transport.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python REST APIs and PostgreSQL, plus AWS containerized deployments using CloudFormation, Jenkins CI/CD, and CloudWatch monitoring/autoscaling. Has built data validation/ETL-style workflows with schema/version checks and targeted reprocessing, modernized legacy batch processing into Java services with phased parallel migrations, and delivered measurable SQL performance gains (~50% query runtime reduction).”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on AGV/AMR experience at ERIC Robotics, building ROS2-based LiDAR perception and localization on NVIDIA Jetson for real-time deployment. Improved unstable localization in challenging environments (e.g., tunnels/bushes along rail tracks) via scan-matching, filtering, and consistency checks, and cut latency by moving from rclpy to rclcpp and leveraging CUDA. Comfortable across the stack from simulation (MuJoCo/Isaac Sim/Gazebo, domain randomization) to deployment tooling (Docker, basic CI) and distributed ROS2/DDS systems.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on ROS 2 localization/SLAM: built a particle-filter (Monte Carlo) localization system in Python with likelihood-field modeling to handle noisy LiDAR and dynamic environments. Strong in debugging ROS 2 integration issues (tf2 frame sync, DDS/QoS message reliability) and in profiling/optimizing pipelines to reach real-time performance (~10 Hz) using precomputation and KD-trees.”

“Built and led an autonomous driving software effort for Formula Student, owning the full autonomy stack (perception, planning, control) orchestrated in ROS. Implemented stereo depth + YOLO object detection, RRT/RRT* planning, and a robust SLAM pipeline (Kalman filter, submapping) while leveraging Gazebo simulation and modern deployment tooling (Docker/Kubernetes, AWS, GitHub Actions CI/CD).”

“Robotics engineer with Honeywell and Tata Motors experience deploying ROS/ROS2 autonomous mobile robot fleets into live factory environments, integrating sensors, safety PLCs, and on-prem services. Known for solving end-to-end latency and stability issues (including network spikes under load) using gRPC, Docker, and improved diagnostics—cutting diagnosis time from hours to minutes and achieving sub-150 ms control response.”

“Built and deployed a fine-tuned Qwen 2.5 14B model into production at Dextr.ai as the backbone for hotel-operations agentic workflows, running on AWS EKS with Triton and TensorRT-LLM. Demonstrates strong cost-aware LLM engineering (QLoRA, FP8/BF16 on H100) plus rigorous benchmarking/observability (Prometheus, LangSmith) with reported sub-30ms TTNT. Previously handled long-running ETL orchestration with Airflow at GE Healthcare and Lowe's.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-critical analytics and course intelligence platforms end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node/Express + SQL), including an internal self-serve Reporting & Analytics Center adopted by 1,000+ users. Demonstrates strong systems thinking across performance (2× faster heavy reports), reliability (feature flags, testing), and distributed architecture (RabbitMQ microservices with idempotency, DLQs, and correlation-ID observability).”

“Full-stack engineer (5+ years with Java/Spring Boot and React) who has built and deployed AWS-based microservices platforms using Kafka for real-time rewards/promotions and large-scale telemetry analytics. Demonstrates hands-on scalability expertise (partitioning, consumer groups, durability/acks, idempotency) and production-minded delivery practices (CI/CD, Docker, testing, Swagger, monitoring).”

“Support engineer with IBM DFSMS OAM experience who restored a production TS7770 environment during a TS7760→TS7700 migration by using logs, SLIP traps, and dump analysis to pinpoint an SMS configuration (SCDS) issue, then partnering with the customer to redo the migration successfully. Also built a personal agentic news selector system and emphasizes documentation improvements and customer education to prevent recurring incidents.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on enterprise, cloud-native microservices—building Spring Boot backends and React/Angular front ends with strong security (OAuth/JWT), AWS infrastructure (RDS/S3), and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes). Has delivered data-heavy order/account/transaction platforms and healthcare solutions including EHR integrations for secure patient data exchange, with emphasis on testing, performance tuning, and reliability (load testing).”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building secure Python/Flask services (sessions, JWT, RBAC) and optimizing PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance, including custom SQL using CTEs/window functions profiled via EXPLAIN ANALYZE. Also integrates LLM features via OpenAI/Azure into backend systems and improves scalability with RabbitMQ-driven async processing, caching, and multi-tenant data isolation patterns.”

“AI engineer who deployed a production LLM-powered safety system for an education platform, combining rule-based checks, multi-LLM verification, and selective context (prompt+image vs image-only) to prevent explicit prompts/images from getting through. Strong focus on reliability via benchmarking, trace-based failure analysis, and continuous improvement driven by stakeholder feedback and manual review.”

“Backend/microservices engineer who built a Python (Flask/MySQL) data-processing microservice for an internal analytics platform and improved slow responses via query optimization and caching. Has hands-on Kubernetes experience on AWS EKS with GitLab CI/CD, plus GitOps workflows using Helm and ArgoCD. Also built a real-time Kafka order-event pipeline and supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration with standardized, containerized configuration and gradual traffic cutover.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience building secure, cloud-native document/workflow platforms handling high-volume customer and medical data across microservices on Kubernetes. Demonstrated impact improving performance via event-driven AWS architectures (Lambda + DynamoDB Streams) and strengthening compliance/security for S3-stored documents using IAM and KMS. Has delivered end-to-end APIs and UIs using Java/Spring Boot with Angular/React, plus Docker and CI/CD.”

“MS thesis work in the University of Washington Autonomous Controls Lab building a full quadrotor guidance/navigation/control stack, including high-fidelity dynamics modeling and an SCP trajectory optimizer made robust to wind via trust regions and MPC-style replanning. Also built an autonomous RC car using ROS on Jetson Xavier with ZED stereo/VIO, implementing perception (point cloud filtering/clustering) and state estimation while addressing real-time synchronization and latency challenges.”