Vetted Linux Professionals

“Embodied AI/robotics ML engineer with hands-on experience deploying POMDP-based reinforcement learning controllers on real mobile robots and vehicle fleets. Strong in sim-to-real robustness (domain randomization) and production rollout practices (HIL, shadow-mode, canaries, safety instrumentation), and has published related work (mentions a NeurIPS paper).”

“Graphics software engineer with academic robotics/HRI experience at Oregon State University under Dr. Heather Knight, leading a ROS+Python physical robot and Unity/C# VR system to study how motion/texture/collisions are perceived in VR (2 papers + thesis). Also built ROS-based Wizard-of-Oz TurtleBot study systems and multi-robot coordination experiments, plus industry experience with Docker/Kubeflow ML tooling and Azure DevOps CI/CD automation.”

“Robotics engineer with UC Berkeley ROAR autonomous racing experience focused on real-time mapping/localization: implemented DLIO in ROS 2 and built the supporting LiDAR/IMU/GPS synchronization, TF consistency, and GPS-aligned trajectory tooling needed for reliable 3D SLAM on a physical vehicle. Also independently integrated a heterogeneous quadruped robot system at Eli Lilly spanning embedded, PLC, safety radar, Raspberry Pi, and cloud voice interfaces.”

“ML/LLM engineer with Stripe and Adobe experience who productionized a transformer-based Payments Foundation Model for real-time fraud detection at global scale (billions of transactions). Built petabyte-scale ETL/feature pipelines (Spark/EMR, Airflow, dbt, Kafka/Flink) and achieved <100ms multi-region inference (EKS, TorchServe, edge/Lambda, GPU/CPU routing) with strong PCI-DSS/GDPR compliance and explainability (SHAP/LIME), reporting a 64% fraud accuracy improvement.”

“Backend/security-focused engineer supporting a service with 100k+ monthly users. Built an automated load-testing suite that reproduced and mitigated catastrophic host failures from oversized SCP/rsync transfers via host-level throttling, and proposed a future sharding approach for very large transfers. Also created an internal agent to summarize anomalous metrics and provide ready-to-run debug queries, significantly reducing ops review time.”

“Software/data engineer with experience at Google and on Bloomberg-related financial data modernization, building Python pipelines that convert legacy financial datasets into modern structures and iterating based on client feedback (e.g., adding historical change tracking for private placement data). Also built an internal Google usage-metrics dashboard pipeline using Protocol Buffers and scaled execution via sharded parallel cron jobs while scheduling off-hours to avoid impacting a testing tool.”