Vetted Linux Professionals

Saniya Shinde

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP, LLMs, and RAG systems

Washington, DC4y exp

“Built and deployed a production-style vision-language pipeline that generates structured medical reports from chest X-rays using BioViLT embeddings, an image-text alignment module, and BiGPT fine-tuned with LoRA, delivered via Streamlit and hosted on AWS EC2. Also collaborating experience presenting EDA findings, feature importance, and model performance to Ford managers while working with vehicle parts data at Bimcon.”

Yuvraj Singh Chauhan

Screened

Entry-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and DevOps automation

Bangalore, India1y exp

“Built and owned a production-scale AI-driven software release/version intelligence platform orchestrated via GitHub Actions that tracks 1000+ upstream repositories and automatically generates SLA-bound JIRA upgrade tickets for hardened container images. Replaced brittle regex/PEP440 parsing with an LLM-based semantic filtering layer plus deterministic validation to handle noisy/inconsistent GitHub tags at scale, with monitoring for coverage, latency, and correctness validated against upstream ground truth.”

Sri Chandana Topuri

Screened

Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring microservices and Angular

5y exp

“Backend-focused engineer working primarily with Python/Django who also handles full-stack responsibilities. Has hands-on experience deploying containerized Python/Java microservices to Kubernetes using Helm and GitOps (ArgoCD), plus building Kafka-based event streaming with reliability controls (acks, consumer groups, DLQ). Also supported major on-prem to cloud/hybrid migrations using Terraform/Ansible with blue-green cutovers and data replication to minimize downtime.”

Ashwini Ramesh Kumar

Screened

Junior AI Software Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and agent workflows

Remote1y exp

“Backend/ML-leaning engineer who built a content-based event recommender for FlowMingle using embeddings + HNSW vector search on Google Cloud, with Firebase as the backend and a managed recommendation lifecycle (15 recs/user, daily async generation, weekly deletion) now serving 1500+ users. Also led a cost-driven migration of ConvAI services to Azure AI using parallel request testing from a Unity client, with post-migration monitoring via logs and model evals; contributed to a Massachusetts law-enforcement conversation analysis system by expanding ingestion to PDF/TXT/Excel and multi-file inputs.”

Sujith Julakanti

Screened

Junior MLOps Engineer specializing in LLMs and cloud infrastructure

College Station, TX3y exp

“Built a production multimodal LLM system (Gemini on GCP) to automate behavioral coding of family-involved science experiment videos, including preprocessing for inconsistent lighting/audio and LangGraph-orchestrated parallel workflows. Also developed rubric-based AI grading workflows and partnered closely with non-technical education stakeholders through explainability-focused walkthroughs and manual-vs-AI evaluation alignment.”

Connor White

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GPU-accelerated computer vision

College Station, TX5y exp

“Robotics software lead from Texas A&M Aggie Robotics who built WoopLib, a SLAM-based vision/navigation library using PID pure pursuit. Has hands-on ROS/ROS2 and Jetson Nano experience integrating Intel RealSense (T265/D435i) with wheel odometry for accurate state estimation, including compiling deprecated sensor support from source and optimizing by moving to Python with C++ bindings and serial streaming to a microcontroller.”

Matthew Penner

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in systems programming and web development

Hillsboro, OR3y exp

“Entry-level candidate who built an air-traffic-control (ATC) simulation game in Rust, using a tick-based loop to model real-time behavior. No hands-on robotics/ROS experience yet, but has foundational software development tooling experience with GitHub and Linux/Vim.”

Saicharitha Yanamandala

Screened

Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in Java, Cloud, and Microservices

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend/Python engineer who owned an end-to-end FastAPI + AWS internal natural-language document Q&A system (Textract extraction, embeddings/vector DB, LLM integration) with strong focus on reliability and latency. Hands-on with Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD, Helm, rolling updates/auto-rollback) and built/optimized Kafka streaming pipelines using Prometheus/Grafana. Also supported a zero-downtime on-prem to cloud migration with parallel run and gradual traffic cutover.”

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.”

Sanjay Mandru

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and real-time analytics

Buffalo, NY3y exp

“Software engineer who built a reusable React component package (UI modules, auth helpers, API client wrappers) for an AI SaaS background-removal project, emphasizing performance (tree shaking/dynamic imports) and reliability (Jest + Storybook). Also delivered a unified REST API for Samsung Big Data Portal, resolving cross-team issues by standardizing schemas, improving validation/logging, and operating effectively amid shifting requirements.”

Keerthi Kalluri

Screened

Senior Full-Stack & GenAI Engineer specializing in healthcare and financial services

6y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support assistant using a RAG backend in Python, focused on deflecting repetitive Tier-1 tickets and reducing resolution time. Demonstrates strong production engineering instincts around reliability (confidence scoring + human fallback), scalability/cost optimization (multi-stage pipelines), and workflow orchestration/observability (LangChain, custom DAGs, structured logging, step metrics).”

Karan Javali

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native web platforms

Salt Lake City, Utah5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Goldman Sachs and Arizona State University’s Learning Engineering Institute, shipping production backend systems including a vendor equities invoice-generation service designed for extensibility across multiple vendors. Built Django REST + PostgreSQL backends with JWT auth and Pytest coverage, and delivered data-heavy, responsive Angular dashboards; also has exposure to AWS EC2 deployments and GitLab CI/CD automation.”

“Former founding engineer and eventual CTO at 2Plus2 Partners (25 years ago) with additional experience in two private-equity-backed companies (apex analytix and HICX). Interested in helping build another company before retirement; comfortable with entrepreneurial risk but cannot self-fund significant capital.”

“Platform/infrastructure engineer with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes, Terraform, VMware, and hybrid on-prem/AWS environments. Stands out for combining deep platform build/upgrade experience with strong incident response and reliability practices, including a Terraform redesign at H&R Block that reduced provisioning time by 40% and hybrid networking improvements that hardened Direct Connect failover.”

Anthony Thanpoovong

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and full-stack development

Toronto, Canada1y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with hands-on experience building LLM-powered data products and AI platform workflows, including a project that turns tabular datasets into graphs, summaries, and chat-based insights with 1-2 second latency. Also contributed at TELUS to a Sovereign AI Factory self-serve onboarding platform tied to 100+ NVIDIA H200 GPUs, giving them an interesting mix of applied LLM, platform, and infrastructure exposure.”

Yuchen Wang

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development and AI/ML

New York, NY1y exp

“Built and maintains an AI Finance Tracker end-to-end as a solo full-stack product owner, from Figma designs and React frontend to Flask APIs, Firestore, auth, deployment, and AI insights. Stands out for combining product instinct with pragmatic engineering decisions like pre-aggregating financial data to control LLM costs and adding OCR receipt scanning based on real user feedback.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup with hands-on production experience spanning Angular frontend features, backend safety checks for an image-generation workflow (OpenAI Safety), and AWS operations. Built CI/CD to ECS with GitHub Actions, implemented CloudWatch observability, and improved release reliability via Blue/Green deployments with automatic rollback.”

“Full-stack software engineer who has owned production workflows spanning React/Next.js, FastAPI, Redis-backed async processing, and PostgreSQL in a multi-tenant invoice-processing product. Shows strong product instincts as well—improving UX for long-running operations, iterating MVPs based on real user behavior, and balancing reusable abstractions with practical implementation constraints.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of Spring Boot microservice deployments in Freddie Mac's mortgage workflow domain, including measurable gains in reliability and MTTR. Brings strong production debugging skills around distributed transaction pipelines and has also built a full-stack AI chatbot project using React, Express, and Google Gemini API.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Wipro and Cisco building real-time monitoring and observability platforms from scratch. Stands out for combining streaming/data-pipeline depth (Kafka, Fluentd, Elasticsearch, Redis) with strong React/TypeScript frontend execution, and for delivering measurable impact such as cutting troubleshooting time by nearly a third.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered customer support assistant (“Notable Assistant”) focused on automating common post-customer queries while maintaining multi-turn context and meeting scalability/latency needs. Experienced with production orchestration and operations using Kubernetes and Apache Airflow (DAG-based ETL, scheduling, monitoring/alerts), and has partnered closely with customer service stakeholders to align chatbot behavior with brand voice through iterative testing.”

Kal Yimer

Screened

Mid-level Java Application Engineer specializing in FinTech backend systems

Silver Spring, MD3y exp

“Banking-focused software engineer with hands-on experience modernizing legacy systems and building internal full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, SQL, and MongoDB. Stands out for reliability-minded engineering in financial environments, including a scheduling system that handled Daylight Saving Time correctly, reduced manual work, and protected downstream processing.”

Brett Futral

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in healthcare enterprise platforms

Portland, OR20y exp

“Engineer with experience building foundational systems in healthcare and other production environments, including an early-stage Electronic Auths initiative inside Cambia where they helped define requirements and delivered the Intake API on time and under budget. Their background spans serverless Python on AWS, full-stack Drupal/PHP work for confidential genetic testing delivery, and Cassandra-backed API design for Choice Hotels.”