Vetted OpenCV Professionals

Serge Alhalbi

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Robotics & AI Engineer specializing in autonomous systems

Tulsa, OK4y exp

“Robotics software engineer with deep ROS2 experience who owned the perception stack for an automated C. elegans manipulation system—building YOLO-based worm segmentation plus OCR label reading and integrating it into a MoveIt2 pipeline with real-time latency constraints. Also deploying ROS2 on an AgileX Tracer with ZED depth camera for vision-based person following and working on SLAM/sensor fusion, with additional production-style ML deployment experience (Dockerized FastAPI + PyTorch on AWS EC2 with CI/CD).”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems end-to-end, including a note-taking product (Notey) combining audio/image capture, ASR, summarization, and a semantic chat agent over past notes. Also has applied ML experience in healthcare, collaborating directly with doctors to validate an EEG seizure-detection pipeline, and uses Kubernetes to optimize GPU usage for LLM training.”

“Robotics engineer who built and scaled a distributed perception stack on a Unitree Go1 quadruped, coordinating 5 Jetson Nanos and a Raspberry Pi to capture, aggregate, and stream multi-camera video in real time via UDP/GStreamer and custom ROS nodes. Also implemented a YOLOv9-based detection pipeline enhanced with Grad-CAM-driven selective image enhancement (e.g., MIRNet/UFormer) to improve real-time detections and robot reactions to visual stimuli.”

Pranathi Kamisetty

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Intern AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, NLP, and conversational search

Chicago, Illinois1y exp

“Student building a production trip-planning LLM agent (LangChain + Streamlit) that routes user queries across multiple tools (maps/places/Wikipedia). Implemented zero-shot multi-label intent detection with priority rules to handle multi-intent requests, and collaborates with a startup product manager to shape tone, features, and user experience.”

“AI/ML manager who has deployed production NLP in healthcare—mining unstructured clinical notes and combining them with structured patient data to predict readmissions, with strong emphasis on data alignment and terminology normalization. Also experienced operationalizing ML with Airflow/MLflow and AWS Step Functions/SageMaker, plus stakeholder-facing Power BI dashboards (e.g., marketing customer segmentation).”

“Hands-on LLM/RAG engineer with production experience improving retrieval quality and stability by addressing messy data, vector DB inaccuracy, and top-K issues—ultimately redesigning to hybrid search with tuned keyword/semantic weighting and MCP-based data supplementation. Also brings strong AKS/Kubernetes deployment experience, optimizing CI/CD speed via lightweight local Docker validation and decomposing pods to avoid full rebuilds, plus a metrics-driven approach to agent/workflow testing and traceability.”

“Robotics/AI engineer focused on multi-agent reinforcement learning for Crazyflie drones, enabling coordination via implicit motion-based communication and a stabilizing FSM layer; reported 98.5% sim and 92% real-world behavior-recognition accuracy. Also built a modular ROS 2 wall-following system (custom nodes/services/actions) and a Raspberry Pi + OpenCV stereo-vision walking robot, emphasizing rigorous logging, stress testing, and sim-to-real deployment.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience across event-driven Python ingestion services on AWS (EventBridge/SQS/MongoDB), serverless APIs (Lambda/API Gateway), and analytics ETL (Glue → Redshift). Has modernized legacy reporting into Node.js/React systems and demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (minutes to seconds) plus strong incident ownership with validation, DLQs, and alerting.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who builds and operates Spring Boot microservices with React/TypeScript frontends, using Kafka/RabbitMQ for event-driven workflows. Created an internal ops dashboard for Support/SRE with tracing, alert correlation, and self-serve actions, improving MTTR and reducing escalations while maintaining regulatory-grade reliability and security.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on ROS 2 multi-robot coordination, having built task allocation and reliable inter-robot communication for simulated TurtleBot3 fleets. Demonstrates strong integration/debugging skills across Nav2 + gmapping (SLAM drift, TF tree, odometry/sensor fusion) and pairs it with production-minded tooling—Docker/Kubernetes deployments and CI/CD simulation testing via GitHub Actions.”

“AI Engineer at DXC Technology who has shipped production LLM/NLP systems on AWS (SageMaker, FastAPI) and optimized them for real-time latency and unpredictable traffic using quantization, batching, and autoscaling. Strong MLOps and monitoring discipline (MLflow, CloudWatch, SageMaker Model Monitor) and proven business impact—delivered models with 92% predictive accuracy and cut enterprise decision-making time by 30% through close collaboration with product managers.”

“Computer-vision engineer with hands-on experience designing UAV-based production imaging systems for object detection/tracking, including camera selection and resolution/zoom tradeoffs. Improved segmentation/measurement accuracy by implementing orthorectification using ground points plus intrinsic/extrinsic calibration to correct perspective distortion, and has built Python/OpenCV pipelines (including barcode-focused grayscale processing and multithreaded execution).”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who owned high-traffic internal services end-to-end (FastAPI/Django) including REST/GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL optimization, async task processing via SQS, and full CI/CD. Strong Kubernetes-on-EKS and GitOps (ArgoCD + Helm) experience, plus Kafka real-time streaming work and phased cloud-to-on-prem migration support.”

“Game/VR simulation developer who built and shipped multiple VR training levels (e.g., nursing and scientific method) at VXR Labs, owning level implementation and backend logic. Experienced in Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints prototyping (including a horde mode) and in designing tightly gated, step-based educational experiences while collaborating closely with educators/subject-matter experts to balance realism with VR feasibility.”

Monthir Ali

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and VR/XR multimodal systems

Salt Lake City, UT8y exp

“PhD researcher (University of Utah) who built a production RAG-powered Virtual Reality Research Assistant to answer lab research questions with concrete citations. Implemented an end-to-end LangChain pipeline using PyPDFLoader, chunking strategies, OpenAI embeddings, and ChromaDB, with emphasis on grounding to reduce hallucinations and ensure research-grade accuracy. Collaborated closely with a non-technical PhD advisor to scope requirements, manage cost constraints, and demo iterative progress.”

Isha Harne

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in ML applications and LLM platform engineering

New York, NY1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who builds and scales customer-facing and internal AI products end-to-end (React/TypeScript/FastAPI/MongoDB) with strong product instrumentation and rapid MVP iteration. Built an AI-powered code review assistant adopted across teams and integrated into CI/CD, reducing manual review time by 30%+, and has hands-on experience with LLM retrieval/reasoning systems (LangChain + FAISS) and microservices scaling using RabbitMQ, Docker, and AWS.”

Suneeth Mulienty

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Engineer specializing in ROS 2, control systems, and manipulation

New Jersey, USA4y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 experience across manipulation, SLAM/localization, and sensor fusion. Recently built an end-to-end hybrid force-position control system for a Ufactory xArm7 with a 6-axis force/torque sensor to enable compliant, force-guided shaft insertion, including real-time Jacobian computation, TF pipeline, and MoveIt2 trajectory execution validated on hardware.”

Jonathan Grebe

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in ROS, C++ and embedded Linux

Ottawa, Canada7y exp

“Robotics software lead at Icor who grew from intern to owning the end-to-end software lifecycle for a mobile manipulator platform deployed to 300+ customers globally. Deep hands-on ROS2/MoveIt2 and navigation-stack integration (URDF/TF, sensors, behavior engine) plus production infrastructure (CI/CD, OTA, field OS upgrades) and real-world performance tuning for motion planning in EOD multi-robot environments.”

Antonio Alcala

Screened

Mid-level Systems Integration & Test Engineer specializing in embedded robotics and automation

San Diego, CA3y exp

“Senior engineering student leading a robotics capstone using a Jetson Nano + Yahboom DOFBOT to play whiteboard games (Tic-Tac-Toe, Hangman) via computer vision and ML. Owns the inverse kinematics and OpenCV pipeline, uses Gazebo/URDF for simulation, and is planning C++/multithreading/Pybind11 optimizations to meet real-time constraints on limited embedded hardware.”

Paritosh Hattyangdi

Screened

Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in controls, simulation, and production debugging

Mountain View, CA1y exp

“Robotics software engineer who helped build a startup "robo-chef" system end-to-end, including pick-and-place simulation using ArUco-marked stations and smooth motion planning. Hands-on ROS 2 integrator across LiDAR/IMU/camera perception-to-navigation stacks (Nav2, SLAM Toolbox, ros2_control), with demonstrated ability to debug real-time timing drift and improve repeatable placement through calibration and motion blending. Uses Gazebo simulation plus Docker/CI pipelines to validate and deploy robotics software reliably.”

Shivaram Srikanth

Screened

Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in computer vision and sensor fusion

Mountain View, CA2y exp

“Robotics software engineer with ~3 years of ROS experience spanning drone autonomy and perception. Recently improved drone barcode scanning by shifting to segmentation and deploying an optimized instance-seg model to edge hardware (FP16 quantization, convex-hull masks), while also building ROS drivers/parameters for field-tunable behavior. Has hands-on experience integrating LegoLOAM and calibration/TF systems, including creating RViz visualization tools to validate transforms and debugging real-world drift issues caused by lighting/glare.”

“AI/ML engineer with hands-on experience building a healthcare-focused generative AI application end-to-end, from architecture and data design through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Particularly strong in multi-agent LLM systems, fine-tuning, and safety guardrails, with measurable impact including a 20% accuracy lift to 91% and 10% latency improvement in a nutrition recommendation pipeline.”

“Healthcare-focused ML/AI engineer who has built clinical note summarization and medical image annotation solutions using LLMs, RAG, and multimodal models. They combine experimentation across major model providers with practical production concerns like monitoring, drift detection, and latency/cost tradeoffs, and also earned 2nd place in a Google hackathon for a medical AI assistant.”

“New grad candidate with graduate research experience building a multi-agent RAG pipeline from scratch, including worker-coach orchestration and an evaluation framework. Most notably, they improved structural similarity from 67% to 98% by designing validation and retry logic to reduce hallucinations, showing strong practical depth in agentic AI systems.”