Vetted Linux Professionals

“Built both traditional internal tooling and LLM-powered systems during an internship, including a React/Python/AWS calculator onboarding platform and a production-style ROS2 RAG assistant over 10K+ documents. Stands out for combining full-stack delivery, stakeholder coordination, and practical AI reliability work like retrieval tuning, source-grounded answers, and low-confidence fallbacks.”

“AI Engineer with hands-on ownership of a production multi-agent RAG platform in financial services, spanning experimentation, architecture, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for measurable impact: 35% retrieval relevance improvement and nearly 50% reduction in manual operational analysis effort, plus strong experience making enterprise LLM systems safer and more reliable in production.”

“Full stack Python developer who actively integrates AI coding assistants into day-to-day engineering work, including code generation, debugging, testing, and documentation. Has also coordinated multi-agent workflows across backend, frontend, testing, and code review, showing an applied, productivity-focused approach to AI-enabled software delivery.”

Sai Divya Mulukala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and distributed systems

USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience building operational dashboards at Walmart and improving digital banking experiences at Bank of America. Stands out for tracing performance issues across frontend, APIs, and backend services, including cutting response times from 1.2s to 700ms and resolving duplicate event-processing problems in distributed systems.”

“Entry-level software engineer with strong full-stack experience building React/TypeScript and Node.js analytics products, especially around performance optimization for large datasets. Stands out for combining hands-on engineering with user discovery, and for delivering measurable wins like 40% fewer API calls, page load improvements from 3.2s to 1.1s, and 70% faster PostgreSQL queries during an internship at Tapastry.”

“Frontend-focused candidate with hands-on experience building React and TypeScript dashboards for searching, filtering, and analyzing large datasets in real time. Demonstrates practical performance tuning skills using React DevTools, memoization, debouncing, and pagination, and has also built a Mapbox-based location data dashboard with interactive markers and popups.”

Murali Marupudi

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in Python microservices and scalable cloud systems

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on high-throughput Python/Flask systems on AWS, with strong scaling and performance tuning experience (e.g., PostgreSQL join reduced from ~3s to <200ms; background aggregation cut from 10 minutes to <90 seconds with 8x throughput). Has also integrated ML model serving into production APIs (churn prediction) using Celery/Redis batching and AWS Lambda/S3, and designed secure multi-tenant architectures with PostgreSQL schema isolation and row-level security.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who led a major redesign of a hybrid streaming+batch analytics platform processing 10+ TB/day (Airflow/Hive/BigQuery) with strong data-quality automation. Also built a production RAG PDF assistant with concrete mitigations for hallucinations and prompt injection (re-ranking, grounding, verifier step) and has deep experience executing low-risk migrations (dual-write, blue-green, rapid rollback) and implementing JWT-based row-level security.”

“Robotics software engineer with semiconductor wafer-handling automation experience at Mattson Technology, building C++ control software for ATM and vacuum robots coordinating through a load-lock (pressure/door/pump sequencing). Implemented multi-vendor communications with auto-detection across SECS serial and TCP/IP, and validated behavior using simulation + GUI animation, logging/sniffers, and hardware-in-the-loop testing; currently self-studying ROS 2.”

“Backend engineer who designed and evolved an AWS-based event-processing system in Python/PostgreSQL, achieving a 60% p95 latency reduction while improving reliability during traffic spikes. Led a zero-downtime migration from a monolithic Django app to FastAPI microservices using feature flags, strong testing, and cross-team coordination, with production-grade observability (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch) and security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

“Robotics/AV engineer with strong ROS2 and autonomy stack integration experience, including bringing Autoware Universe up on a real Lexus autonomous vehicle platform. Also built a hierarchical reinforcement learning proof-of-concept for Boston Dynamics Spot (navigation + manipulation) and tackled sim-to-real challenges by implementing PD torque conversion for Jetson-based hardware; improved localization accuracy via GNSS+EKF fusion with a reported 28% drift reduction.”

“Backend/data engineer who builds production FastAPI microservices and AWS serverless/Glue pipelines for SMS analytics and marketing segmentation. Led a legacy batch modernization into modular services (FastAPI + Glue/Athena + ClickHouse) using shadow-mode parity checks, feature flags, and incremental rollout. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (12s to sub-second SQL; ~40% CPU reduction) and strong incident ownership with proactive schema-drift prevention.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on production-deployed industrial automation, owning robot behavior end-to-end across integration and production support. Has hands-on experience coordinating multiple robots with PLC safety, conveyors, and vision, using state-machine orchestration, deep debugging (logging/I-O tracing), and performance tuning to achieve stable run-at-rate operation. Also builds ROS/ROS 2 distributed systems in C++/Python and tunes DDS/QoS for reliable multi-machine communication.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience leading architecture and quality practices across Angular and React/TypeScript products, including dynamic UI generation driven by backend configuration. Strong in building reusable design systems/component libraries and enforcing quality at scale via CI/CD SonarQube gates and comprehensive unit testing, with close collaboration alongside UX teams using Figma.”

“Robotics/ROS2-focused early-career engineer who built a stereo visual-odometry SLAM system for autonomous navigation and optimized it to run reliably in real time on Raspberry Pi. Strong in sensor fusion (camera+IMU), ROS2 debugging/profiling, and distributed robotics/IoT pipelines (ROS2 + MQTT + cloud), with added experience extracting WiFi CSI for sensing/localization and shipping via Docker + GitHub Actions CI/CD.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a real-time customer analytics microservice stack in Python/FastAPI with Kafka streaming into PostgreSQL, including schema enforcement (Avro) and high-throughput optimizations. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (EKS/GKE, Helm, Argo CD) who has handled CI/CD reliability issues with automated pre-deploy checks and rollbacks, and supported major migrations (on-prem to AWS; VM to EKS) with blue-green cutover planning.”

“Robotics software engineer who led development of a vision-based end-effector stability/vibration analysis tool using phase-based motion magnification and frequency-domain analysis (FFT/Bode) to uncover resonances missed by motor-only diagnostics. Experienced with ROS 2 C++ perception/navigation (ArUco + PnP) and real-time industrial integration, including optimizing a 1 kHz EtherCAT/Beckhoff PLC/Modbus TCP diagnostic pipeline and designing deterministic interfaces across heterogeneous subsystems.”

“Space/heliophysics ML engineer who built a PyTorch GRU model to propagate solar wind from L1 to the magnetopause with probabilistic outputs for uncertainty quantification, achieving ~25% better CRPS than standard approaches. Also developed production-grade Python ETL and an open-source telemetry processing package for a mission (LEXI), using Docker and GitHub Actions CI/CD and iterating with scientist/engineer stakeholders.”

“QA automation engineer with Barclays digital banking experience who owned an end-to-end regression suite across UI, API, and database layers (Selenium/TestNG, REST Assured, SQL) and integrated it into CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab). Known for preventing high-impact financial defects like duplicate transaction postings by adding backend SQL validations, negative/edge-case coverage, and converting production issues into automated regression tests; also strong in Cypress flake reduction using cy.intercept/cy.session and stable selectors.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production QA RAG for a University of Massachusetts faculty success initiative, cutting service tickets by 70%. Strong end-to-end RAG implementation skills (LangChain, Qdrant, hybrid/HyDE retrieval, FastAPI) with rigorous evaluation (RAGAS, LLM-as-judge) and practical handling of constraints like API rate limits and cost. Prior cross-functional delivery experience collaborating with SMEs and business owners at TCS and IBM.”

“Backend/API engineer with ~4 years experience building production services in .NET Core/PostgreSQL/Redis/Docker and optimizing real-world latency issues (claims ~60% response-time improvement). Also built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI assistant using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and Pinecone, plus agentic workflows with reliability guardrails (retries, confidence thresholds, monitoring). Currently pursuing a master’s degree and targeting a $150k base salary.”

“Data engineer/backend data services practitioner with Bank of America experience building real-time and batch transaction-monitoring pipelines and APIs (Kafka + databases, REST/GraphQL). Highlights include a reported 45% response-time improvement through performance optimizations and use of Delta Lake schema evolution plus CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and operational reliability patterns like CloudWatch monitoring and dead-letter queues.”

Ravi Bijinepalli

Screened

Senior ADAS/Autonomous Vehicle Validation Engineering Manager

Columbus, Ohio8y exp

“Controls and automated-vehicle engineer from the EcoCar EV Challenge who led an 8-person team implementing ACC and lane-centering directly on a vehicle (1st place result). Strong in CAN-based debugging, simulation-to-real deployment (Simulink to C++/dSPACE), and distributed robotics communication using DDS, with additional exposure to multi-agent RL and control barrier functions for coordinated driving.”

Kiran M

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data platforms

Bentonville, AR5y exp

“Backend/ML integration engineer with experience at Accenture and Walmart building Flask-based analytics and prediction APIs on PostgreSQL/MySQL. Strong focus on performance and scalability—uses precomputed aggregates, Redis caching, query tuning (indexes/partitioning/EXPLAIN), and async/background processing; also designs secure multi-tenant isolation with JWT and schema/db-per-tenant strategies.”