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Vetted Python Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Harsha Kotta
Intern Robotics Researcher specializing in state estimation, SLAM, and sensor fusion
“Robotics software engineering intern at Bell Labs who overhauled indoor mobile robot localization in a ROS 2 stack, combining EKF + particle filtering with a neural network to handle BLE multipath disturbances. Delivered a major accuracy gain (~50 cm to sub-20 cm), earned a company Innovation award, published a paper, and saw the approach adopted across the company’s robot fleet.”
Matt Shade
Director-level AI engineering leader specializing in media platforms and newsroom workflows
“Product-minded frontend/UX leader with notable experience at CNBC, where they owned premium subscription and engagement flows from problem definition through production and post-launch iteration. They stand out for combining high-polish React implementation, Figma-driven systems thinking, and AI-assisted prototyping to quickly ship and refine conversion-focused experiences.”
Brian Frisch
Director-level engineering leader specializing in high-scale cloud platforms
“Engineering leader and player-coach with a long tenure leading 5 teams/17 engineers, combining organizational leadership with hands-on SQL, architecture, and production incident work. Particularly notable for shipping AI-powered lead engagement systems like an intelligent voice agent, while also driving operational improvements such as release cadence standardization, team restructures, database migrations, and major rules-engine performance gains.”
Ashish Ernest Jeldi
Senior Data Scientist specializing in LLMs, agentic AI, and MLOps
“Built and shipped a production agentic LLM tool that helps internal teams update technical product whitepapers using plain-language edit requests, with strong guardrails (citations, verification, refusal/clarify flows) to reduce hallucinations and maintain compliance. Experienced taking LLM workflows from rapid LangChain prototypes to more predictable, debuggable LangGraph agent graphs, and orchestrating end-to-end ingestion/embedding/indexing/eval/deploy pipelines with Kubeflow.”
Vigynesh Bhatt
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and ML systems
“Software engineer with experience across Goldman Sachs, BYU Broadcasting, Juniper Networks, and an edtech startup (Doubtnut), spanning data migrations, AWS-based media backends, and microservices observability. Built a Redis/ElastiCache caching layer in front of DynamoDB/S3 to improve media delivery latency and cost, and created an SEO indexing automation tool using the Google Search Console API that saved ~15–30 person-hours per day.”
Kaustubh Rai
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native microservices
“Software engineer with ~2 years at UnitedHealth Group plus CMU coursework/TA experience, spanning backend modernization and cloud-native operations. Worked on migrating a customized open-source EDI system from Python 2 to Python 3 while improving SQLite database traceability via JSON exports, and has hands-on Kubernetes microservices deployment on Azure using Helm, HPA, and Jenkins-based Git-triggered CI/CD. Also built a large-scale real-time ride-hailing simulation using Kafka + Samza with explicit fault-tolerance strategies.”
Venu Dave
Junior Software Development Engineer specializing in backend data platforms and LLM applications
“Amazon internship experience building and shipping an end-to-end NL-to-SQL system: ingested/normalized metadata across 60+ internal tables, added rigorous multi-layer validation for LLM-generated SQL, and served it via a FastAPI backend for engineers—driving 90%+ faster dataset discovery and ~70% lower effort to access data. Also built an early-stage RAG-based healthcare assistant, iterating on chunking, embeddings, and retrieval to improve answer quality post-launch.”
Matthew Allyn
Executive engineering leader specializing in enterprise architecture, cloud, AI, and FinTech
“Engineering leader with experience modernizing e-commerce platforms and leading product strategy for data-driven franchise growth tools. Notable for scaling distributed teams, making pragmatic build-vs-buy and architecture decisions, and delivering measurable business impact including dramatically faster checkout performance and revenue gains.”
Cheyenne Vasseli
Senior DevOps Architect specializing in cloud and platform engineering
“Senior DevOps/infrastructure leader currently owning all DevOps for Audi Digital, including audiusa.com and its supporting cloud, CDN, CI/CD, and repository ecosystem. Stands out for delivering two simultaneous enterprise-scale migrations—100+ repo GitHub migration and Apollo Router supergraph platform migration—two months early with minimal disruption, while operating deeply hands-on in Kubernetes, containers, and cloud architecture.”
Phil Lerner
Executive technology leader specializing in cybersecurity, healthcare IT, and AI
“Seasoned global CTO and executive leader with 20+ years of experience, including a $389M non-founder exit to a Fortune 10 acquirer. Now building a pre-seed AI-driven diagnostic imaging platform for pets with web and mobile products, beta customers, and a patent-pending solution aimed at saving pet lives.”
Andrew Fares
Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in AI, GenAI, and cloud data platforms
“Built production AI systems inside AWS finance/procurement, including an LLM-based supplier quote classification and price-vetting workflow that drove $5M in savings over 3 months. Combines GenAI evaluation expertise, internal platform design, and reusable Python data-quality tooling with strong cross-functional execution across finance, accounting, and hardware engineering.”
David Proctor
Executive Enterprise Architecture & AI Strategy Leader specializing in modernization and agentic AI platforms
“Technically and operationally oriented builder with startup ideas of their own, including an AI services firm in the ideation stage. Stands out for a practical understanding of venture studios and accelerators, with fluency in founder-market fit, MVP validation, hiring, and investor readiness, and a measured approach to going all-in only on high-signal opportunities.”
Alexander Choy
Director of AI/ML Engineering specializing in MLOps, data platforms, and 3D computer vision
“Backend/data engineer focused on production ML/LLM systems: built a real-time FastAPI inference API on Kubernetes with strong reliability patterns (timeouts, idempotent retries, centralized error handling). Delivered AWS platforms using EKS + Lambda with GitHub Actions/Helm CI/CD and built Glue-based ETL from S3/Kafka into Snowflake with schema evolution and data-quality controls; also modernized legacy analytics/recommendation workflows into Python services with safe, feature-flagged cutovers.”
Tanu Gupta
Senior Product Manager specializing in FinTech, E-commerce, and AI
“Product and consumer growth professional from a B2C app background, focused on improving retention/activation and driving revenue through customer/product data. Experienced in maintaining BI layers and dashboards and running KPI-driven analysis across returns/refunds operations (NPS/CSAT, TAT, repeat complaints). Familiar with core F2P monetization mechanics and how to evaluate IAP offers via A/B testing; has shipped/managed products on mobile and web.”
Gowri Kajipuram
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and multimodal deep learning
“ML/LLM engineer who has built and productionized a large multimodal LLM pipeline end-to-end—fine-tuning a 20B+ parameter model with distributed/FSDP training and deploying on Kubernetes via Triton for ~5x throughput. Strong focus on reliability and safety (monitoring with SHAP, guardrails, A/B testing) with reported ~22% relevance lift and reduced harmful/incorrect outputs, plus experience orchestrating ETL/retraining workflows with Airflow across S3/Snowflake/RDS.”
Alvin Fan
Mid-level Markets & Product Professional specializing in FX, analytics, and mission-driven tech
“Finance professional (Citi) blending strategic account work with hands-on analytics/automation: led Asia’s first digital banking conferences and delivered 6 institutional client acquisitions. Built self-serve dashboards/VBA tools and self-taught Python to create an ML classifier still used daily, and uncovered ~$5M in untapped annual revenue. Experienced partnering with compliance/legal and navigating sensitive regulatory information in FX markets.”
Rajan Souda
Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI and MLOps
“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered clinical support assistant at BJC HealthCare (RAG + transformer) to answer patient questions, summarize clinical notes, and support appointment workflows. Implemented PHI-safe data pipelines (Spark/Hadoop/Kafka) with automated scrubbing, dataset versioning, and audit logs, and runs the system on Docker/Kubernetes with Pinecone vector search while partnering closely with clinical operations staff.”
Yashvi Shah
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud platforms
“Amazon Alexa engineer who architected and shipped a GenAI Knowledge Agent used by 2M+ customers, focused on making LLM outputs auditable via citations and a verification layer that prevents hallucinations. Built the full vertical slice (FastAPI/LangChain backend + React/TypeScript streaming UI) while keeping p99 latency under 200ms, and has proven incident response experience on AWS (Lambda/DynamoDB scaling issues).”
Christopher Fry
Executive Engineering Leader specializing in product strategy and scaling teams
“Engineering leader (Sr Director/VP) with healthcare marketplace and e-commerce/art marketplace experience who has shipped AI-driven pricing, scaled engineering teams rapidly, and navigated messy legacy integrations. Currently doing fractional tech advisory, leading a migration from self-hosted infrastructure to Google Cloud using IaC while mentoring a junior developer and modernizing security/patching posture.”
Yue Su
Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and distributed systems
“Python backend engineer focused on high-throughput document/PDF processing systems, building end-to-end pipelines that extract structured content for downstream NLP use cases. Demonstrates strong practical MLOps-adjacent infrastructure skills: Kubernetes deployments, GitLab CI, GitOps workflows, and an incremental migration to AWS using EC2/Lambda tradeoffs. Deep hands-on optimization experience (selective OCR, layout-aware extraction, parallelism, caching, idempotency, and backpressure/autoscaling).”
Lawrence Cheng
Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in FinTech platforms
“Backend/platform-focused engineer who builds scalable onboarding and data ingestion pipelines for complex client data formats, emphasizing staged validation, idempotent job boundaries, and safe rollouts behind feature flags. Strong in production diagnostics (Kibana/Logstash, SQL, debugger traces) with a concrete example of finding a regression causing incorrect Tax Loss Harvesting alert counts within a day, and experienced enabling both engineers and customer-facing teams through docs, runbooks, and technical walkthroughs.”
Osvaldo Calles
Senior Software Engineer specializing in developer tools, cloud automation, and generative AI
“Built and deployed a production chatbot on osvaldocalles.com and iterated through real-world LLM engineering issues: model quota/cost tradeoffs (migrating to Nova Pro), RAG accuracy via semantic chunking, AWS IAM/guardrail/security pitfalls, and Lambda/API Gateway streaming constraints (prefers JS for streaming layer). Experienced with agent orchestration using Strands SDK (AWS-focused) and LangGraph (Vercel/container deployments), plus evaluation pipelines using LLM-as-evaluator, dashboards, and staged model rollouts.”
Ashi Sinha
Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and ML/NLP systems
“Entry-level full-stack engineer with internship experience at Amazon (Appstore IAP flow + uninstall recommendation workflow) and a health-tech startup (OneVector) where they built a DSUR reporting workflow end-to-end, including document generation, S3-backed versioning/metadata, and secure preview/download. Demonstrates strong production debugging and reliability mindset (instrumentation, deterministic retrieval, idempotent writes) and focuses on UX/performance in high-stakes user flows.”
Gaurav Narasimhan
Executive AI platform leader specializing in autonomous agent systems for enterprise SaaS
“Real estate entrepreneur who has previously raised capital from friends and family and has engaged directly with VC firms including A16z. Demonstrates unusually strong founder commitment, having worked two full-time jobs for the past six years while pursuing entrepreneurial goals, with hypothesys.ai described as the outcome.”