Vetted Linux Professionals

“Startup builder (MagicSeven) who designed and implemented a browser-based, agentic video editor end-to-end, including an AWS event-driven multimodal LLM “indexing” pipeline and an orchestration LLM agent for searching and manipulating footage. Demonstrates deep video file/codec knowledge plus practical production hardening of LLM workflows (format validation, plan/execute, S3-based state for debuggability).”

Sai Haritha Sardena

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web, cloud, and AI/ML

Remote, USA7y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Wipro and Tylmen Tech owning customer-facing onboarding and real-time features end-to-end (React + Spring Boot) and building TypeScript/React apps backed by Node.js microservices (MongoDB, RabbitMQ). Strong in production reliability and fast iteration: feature-flagged rollouts, idempotent APIs/consumers, DLQs, and SLO-driven incident tooling, including an internal QA & release dashboard adopted by engineering and support teams.”

Vigneshwari Shankiri

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

5y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led enterprise-scale UI delivery end-to-end on a microservices platform, designing modular Angular SPAs (v12-17) tightly aligned to Spring Boot REST APIs. Emphasizes quality and release velocity through layered testing (Karma/Jasmine), CI/CD automation (Jenkins/Azure DevOps), performance tuning with RxJS/lazy loading, and incremental rollouts with close product/design/QA collaboration.”

“AI-focused product engineer working on LLM routing, prompt engineering, and multimodal API integrations at production scale. They describe improving system accuracy, latency, and token usage, fine-tuning an internal model to reduce third-party API dependence, and adding safety guardrails through prompt-injection testing and red-team evaluation.”

John Juszczak

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in C++ tooling, CI/CD, and Unreal Engine pipelines

Los Angeles, CA10y exp

“Gameplay programmer with hands-on Unreal Engine multiplayer shooter experience, notably overhauling aiming/ADS using Enhanced Input and curve-table-driven response curves plus subtle aim assist. Demonstrates strong networking judgment (client-side prediction vs server authority for anti-cheat) and a systems mindset, adding automation/analytics to speed iteration and improve decision-making.”

Sandhya Yadavalli

Screened

Mid-level Cybersecurity Analyst specializing in SIEM, incident response, and Zero Trust

Remote, USA3y exp

“Cybersecurity/SOC-focused engineer with hands-on production experience integrating and tuning Splunk Enterprise Security for a zero-trust program, including CIM normalization, correlation/risk-based detection tuning, and performance optimization via forwarder-level filtering and index strategy. Has cross-disciplinary incident troubleshooting experience spanning SIEM, networking, and hardware, and has automated customer/team-specific security workflows using Python in Splunk playbooks; collaborated on-site with HSBC IT/SOC teams to deliver dashboards and security policies.”

“Full-stack product engineer who owned a live-events digital ticketing platform end-to-end, including blockchain-based ticket validation and high-traffic booking flows. Stands out for combining Angular/React frontend work with Java/Spring Boot backend architecture, plus strong production reliability practices around concurrency control, queues, observability, and UX optimization.”

“Built and deployed an Azure-based, fine-tuned CLIP visual retrieval system at Staples for a ~300k-item product catalog, improving edge-case recall by 12% by engineering a custom delta-similarity/dynamic-margin loss. Also has robotics experience using ROS2 for sensor/compute orchestration, including GPS-time-synchronized sensor triggering for robot swarms and latency-bounded optical-flow benchmarking for edge deployment.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping production computer vision and GenAI systems, including a fabric defect detection platform that combined vision models with agentic LLM workflows to reach 89% human-inspector agreement at 200 ms latency. Also built a RAG-based code QA tool for developers and emphasizes production monitoring, evaluation, caching, and reusable Python service design.”

“AI engineer who built a production e-commerce system that analyzes product images alongside sales and demographic data to generate actionable creative recommendations, now used by 20+ clients. Also built orchestrated document/agent pipelines (Airflow, LangGraph) including a compliance drift detector auditing 401 compliance documents, with an emphasis on traceability, logging, and production integration.”

Alexander Meyer

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior/Lead Game Developer specializing in Unity and cross-platform multiplayer games

Paphos, Cyprus28y exp

“Veteran Unity game developer with extensive multiplayer networking experience (Photon PUN2/Quantum/Fusion, Unity Netcode), including work on Payday: Crime War and an in-development arena battler using Invector + PUN2. Also builds cloud backends for Unity titles (Azure/PlayFab/Firebase, SQL, CI/CD) and actively uses multiple AI assistants to speed up architecture and implementation.”

Manasa Pantra

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, LLM systems, and full-stack development

Stony Brook, NY2y exp

“Product-focused full-stack engineer at startup (Zippy) who shipped a production multi-agent AI system for restaurant operations plus payments workflows. Built end-to-end: RAG grounded on a Notion knowledge base, structured function-calling task routing, FastAPI/JWT multi-tenant backend, and a polished React+TypeScript owner dashboard. Has real production incident experience (duplicate Stripe webhooks) and reports ~94% task-routing accuracy under load.”

“Interned at Larsen & Toubro where they built and deployed an agentic RAG document question-answering system to reduce time spent searching documents and improve trustworthiness. Implemented ReAct-style multi-step orchestration with LangChain/LlamaIndex plus evidence-bounded generation, grounding/citations, and rigorous evaluation—cutting latency ~40%, hallucinations ~35%, and unsafe outputs ~40% while collaborating closely with non-technical business/ops stakeholders.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher focused on perception, SLAM, and sensor fusion, with hands-on experience taking systems from simulation to embedded/real-time deployment. Led transparent-surface (glass) detection using GDNet and achieved a major real-time speedup (~7–9 FPS to ~30 FPS) while preserving >90% recall, and has built ROS-based EKF GPS-IMU fusion plus profiled/optimized Visual SLAM for performance and memory stability. Also brings production-style deployment skills via Docker/Kubernetes orchestration of ML inference services with autoscaling and model update rollouts.”

“Robotics software engineer (PhD background) who owned an end-to-end autonomy stack for a 2025 GTC demo, integrating ROS2/MoveIt2 with a high-fidelity NVIDIA Isaac Sim environment for regression testing and sim-to-real validation. Has hands-on experience optimizing MoveIt2 planning (parallel pipelines + evaluation metrics) and building outdoor Nav2 localization using dual EKF with GNSS and LiDAR/IMU sensor fusion; currently building simulation environments at Richtech Robotics.”

“Backend engineer with experience building and modernizing high-volume healthcare transaction systems, including migrating Java services to Spring Boot microservices and adopting Kafka-based event-driven architectures. Strong focus on production reliability and operability (observability, CI/CD, standardized patterns) plus security (OAuth/JWT, RBAC, Postgres/Supabase RLS) and resilient stream processing (idempotency, DLQs).”

“ML/AI practitioner in healthcare (Syneos Health) who has deployed production clinical NLP and risk models. Built a BERT-based physician-note information extraction system on Docker + AWS SageMaker (reported ~42% retrieval improvement) and automated retraining/deployment with Airflow and drift detection, while partnering closely with clinicians to drive adoption (reported ~18% readmission reduction).”

“Master’s student and Deep Learning teaching assistant who teaches LLM/VLM fine-tuning (including LoRA) and built a Hugging Face LLM fine-tuned for unit conversion, improving reliability by analyzing synthetic data and filling missing number-system conversion examples. Also implemented the Raft consensus protocol using gRPC in a distributed systems course with correctness validated by unit tests.”

“LLM/ML engineer who has shipped an enterprise RAG-based Q&A system (LangChain/LlamaIndex, FAISS + Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-3.5/4 via OpenAI/Azure OpenAI) to production on Docker + Kubernetes/OpenShift, tackling hallucinations, retrieval quality, latency/cost, and RBAC/IAM security. Also partnered with operations leaders to turn manual reporting into an LLM-powered summarization and forecasting dashboard driven by real KPIs and iterative stakeholder feedback.”

“Backend engineer with Walmart experience owning Python data-processing/integration services alongside ASP.NET Core. Has deployed containerized services to Kubernetes via OpenShift with Jenkins CI/CD and GitOps-style config management, and has led phased migrations modernizing VB6/classic ASP apps to ASP.NET Core on OpenShift/Azure. Also implemented Kafka-based real-time pipelines with a focus on reliability, idempotency, and observability.”