Vetted Linux Professionals

“Robotics/embedded builder who trained an aviation-specific LLM and deployed it offline on an NVIDIA Jetson for an in-flight voice assistant, solving performance and cabling constraints with NVMe storage and Bluetooth. Also has hands-on Raspberry Pi/Arduino robot builds (including a cigarette-butt picking prototype with hydraulic actuation) plus Docker-based FEA work using FEniCS/Gmsh and strong CI/CD + automated testing practices.”

“Robotics software engineer with internship experience at John Deere and AeroVironment, working across C++/Python stacks and ROS2-based systems. Drove a proof-of-concept migration from an x86/FPGA target to NVIDIA GPU solutions and helped turn a hackathon prototype into a production-ready, CI/CD-driven build-and-deploy workflow with comprehensive automated testing.”

Sahil Sinha

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development, cloud, and data infrastructure

Reston, VA3y exp

“Software engineer at Fannie Mae (~3 years) working on high-volume loan data pipelines using AWS (SQS/S3), Java listeners, Postgres, and Python/SQL-based data quality validation. Also built a chess data collection system (leveraging experience as an International Master) with robust retry/monitoring, schema-change handling, and idempotent backfills to prevent bad data from reaching downstream systems.”

Prahlad Vivek

Screened

Intern Robotics Engineer specializing in robot learning, SLAM, and control

Wilton, CT3y exp

“Robotics architect intern/new-grad focused on warehouse AMRs, building ROS2 sensor-fusion and SLAM stacks (FastSLAM-style particle filter) and validating in Gazebo with ground-truth metrics. Also interned at ASML debugging real-time in-vacuum robot behavior via Python state-machine telemetry scripts, identifying a firmware driver issue impacting throughput.”

“ML/Simulation engineer who productionized a Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning system for 30+ firms at Belt and Road Big Data Company, integrating research code into an enterprise backend via Dockerized deployment and scalable data pipelines on GCP/Vertex AI. Demonstrated strong production debugging by tracing apparent network timeouts to hardware memory exhaustion caused by software state-history garbage collection issues, and built custom reward functions to model complex market dynamics (entry/exit, pricing).”

Het Maheshkumar Sekhalia

Screened

Entry-level Robotics Researcher specializing in autonomy, motion planning, and control

Pittsburgh, PA1y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on simulation-first autonomy and learning: implemented TD3 and CLIP-guided pretraining for physics-based humanoid skill learning in Isaac Gym/DeepMimic. Also built a ROS2 + dual-Docker closed-loop stack for an autonomous wheel loader in Isaac Sim, combining global planning, B-spline smoothing, and real-time NMPC control.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned a production recruiting platform end-to-end (TypeScript/Node microservices for scraping/cleaning/serving job data, RabbitMQ for spike handling, MongoDB + Elasticsearch, AWS containers) with pragmatic CI, logging/alerts, and Docker Compose E2E tests. Also operated high-traffic event pipelines during a Binance internship using Kafka + Redis idempotency, with strong observability and failure-mode/rollback/degradation practices, and has experience designing developer-friendly REST APIs and resilient browser automation for E2E flows.”

Shilong Li

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in backend and distributed systems

San Jose, CA1y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at ByteDance (TikTok monetization) and Baidu, plus a personal real-time course booking/tracking platform built with FastAPI, Postgres, and Redis. Demonstrates strong concurrency and reliability engineering (Redis distributed locks with TTL extension, idempotent event processing) and practical DevOps skills (Kubernetes/Helm, GitLab CI/CD, Docker build-time optimization).”

“Robotics software engineer who built the behavior-tree orchestrator for the Vulcan Stow robotic system, migrating from a state machine to significantly improve testability. Experienced with ROS 1 and Baidu Apollo workflows (rosbag, LiDAR/image extraction) from self-driving simulation work at LG Silicon Valley Lab, and currently focused on stable Docker/docker-compose-based deployments with disciplined QA and hotfix processes.”

“Robotics software engineer with Stanford coursework and Georgia Tech research experience, focused on end-to-end autonomy for mobile manipulation and real-time planning under uncertainty. Built a ROS 2 LoCoBot system combining Gemini speech-to-text, YOLO-based RGB-D perception, navigation, and grasping with robust synchronization/TF fixes, and developed an information-theoretic UGV planner for radiological source localization validated via Monte Carlo simulation.”

“Full-stack engineer with Uber experience building finance/billing reconciliation systems: shipped and owned an internal operations dashboard (Next.js App Router/TypeScript) that cut investigation time from hours to minutes and improved load time from ~6–7s to <2s. Deep in Postgres modeling and performance (sub-200ms optimized queries) plus durable event-driven workflow orchestration with idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQs, and reconciliation jobs; also has seed-to-Series C startup experience emphasizing end-to-end ownership.”

Michael Kaufman

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in mobile and web platforms

Seattle, WA5y exp

“iOS-focused engineer who led feature development for Amazon Books/Kindle (e.g., Series & Story So Far recaps, Kindle Memories) and introduced pure Swift packages while building sync and content download systems. Also has full-stack experience (React/TypeScript + Node with REST/GraphQL) and strong AWS operations (CDK/CI-CD, CloudWatch, canaries, autoscaling), plus founder experience at GLXY.ai shipping an early hardware MVP (weight sensors) under tight constraints.”