Vetted Reinforcement Learning Professionals

Yusuf Abdikadir

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in 3D simulation, digital twins, and robotics

London, United Kingdom6y exp

“UK-based Unity developer who built a 3D simulation/digital-twin platform for an autonomous-vehicle startup, integrating Unity environments with external robotics stacks, web APIs, virtual sensing, and dynamic traffic systems. Interested in moving into VR, though has not shipped VR/Meta Quest titles yet.”

Adhiraj Chadha

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, data, and full-stack applications

Amherst, MA3y exp

“Builder with a mix of backend engineering, product instinct, and startup execution: they shipped a legal BI platform from scratch that handled 1,000+ cases, cut reporting time 80%, and saved $30K annually. They also move quickly in ambiguous environments, from launching a roommate app across iOS/Android after user discovery to building a RAG system with a 50+ case evaluation suite and a cloud dev environment in under 48 hours.”

“Founding member of Tausight, building AI systems to detect and protect PHI for healthcare organizations; helped take the company through post–Series A funding and exited after ~6 years. Drove a strategic collaboration with Intel’s OpenVINO team—becoming the first to deploy it in a real production system and improving model performance by ~30% on customer Intel-CPU machines.”

“Built a healthcare app backend and supporting product pieces from scratch for Maverick Health—covering database schema, API structure, Node.js implementation, and UI design in Figma—while targeting 10,000 patients and keeping AWS run costs to ~$20–$30/month. Shipped an Android closed beta on Google Play and handled real-world launch hurdles like privacy policy compliance and push notification infrastructure.”

“Built and shipped production generative AI/RAG assistants in regulated financial contexts (S&P Global), automating compliance-oriented Q&A over earnings reports/filings with grounded answers and citations. Experienced across the full stack—AWS-based ingestion (PySpark/Glue), vector retrieval + LangChain agents, GPT-4/Claude model selection, and production reliability (monitoring, caching, retries) plus rigorous evaluation and regression testing.”

“AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years of experience (Capital One, Odin Technologies) and a master’s in Data Analytics (4.0 GPA) who has deployed LLM/RAG systems to production for compliance/risk and document review. Strong in orchestration and MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow, GitHub Actions) and in tackling real-world LLM constraints like latency, context limits, and data privacy, with measurable impact (20%+ manual review reduction; 33% faster release cycles).”

Somil Shah

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in generative AI, RAG platforms, and LLM agents

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped 10+ production applications, including InvestIQ on GCP—a production-grade RAG due-diligence engine that ethically scrapes web/PDF sources, builds a ChromaDB knowledge base, and delivers analyst-style dashboards plus a citation-backed chat copilot. Deep focus on reliability (evidence-only answers, hard citations, refusal gating), retrieval tuning, and orchestration (Airflow/Cloud Composer), plus multi-agent systems (CrewAI with 7 specialized finance agents).”

Jitesh Sonkusare

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Junior Robotics Software Engineer specializing in SLAM, autonomy, and perception

Danvers, MA2y exp

“Lead Robotics Software Engineer (forREAL, inc.) who built a production-ready indoor 3D reconstruction + autonomy stack: factor-graph multi-sensor SLAM (GTSAM), Gaussian-splatting virtual tours, RRT* planning over voxelized reconstructions, and 3D object anchoring using Grounding DINO + SAM2. Has deployed ROS2 systems across drones, AMRs, and ADAS simulation (CARLA), and supported multi-robot surgical platforms at Noah Medical using DDS namespaces/topic remapping.”

Brian Cho

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Mid-level Robotics Researcher specializing in robot learning and surgical robotics

Salt Lake City, UT7y exp

“Robotics software/ML engineer who led an end-to-end transformer-based real-time 3D shape prediction system for a tendon-driven continuum robot on a KUKA arm, including ROS2 multi-camera RGB-D data collection, multi-view calibration, and optimized ICP point-cloud registration. Also optimized an online sensing + motion planning loop for robot-assisted surgery using Bayesian Hilbert maps and A* search, and has Gazebo + RL experience for a robotic salamander.”

Ioannis Gregos-Mourginakis

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in blockchain, data pipelines, and functional programming

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“Built an LLM-powered production agent that scraped X.com data to categorize and profile accounts, deployed in Docker with automatic relaunch for high uptime. Interview details were limited, but the candidate does have hands-on experience shipping an AI automation workflow.”

John Chance

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in conversational AI and healthcare ML

Greenwood, LA9y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of both classical recommender systems and safety-sensitive LLM agent platforms. They combine production MLOps depth with behavioral health domain experience, including clinical safety validation, explainability, and multi-agent orchestration, and cite measurable impact in both business metrics and latency reduction.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building enterprise workflow management platforms across React/TypeScript, Node.js/Express, Angular, and .NET Core microservices. They stand out for owning features through production, solving real-world data consistency and legacy-data issues, and driving architectural and SQL performance improvements that made dashboards faster and more reliable.”

“Robotics software engineer who owned the navigation/control stack for a commercial autonomous lawnmower at Wavemaker Labs, with hands-on sim-to-real tuning and real-world debugging. Experienced in ROS 1/ROS 2 path tracking (Pure Pursuit), including adapting ROS 2 planner code into a ROS 1 system, and building telemetry/logging to quantify tracking errors. Currently in an ADAS simulation team enabling algorithm teams with SIL/HIL and feature validation.”

“Healthcare-focused LLM engineer who deployed a production triage and clinical knowledge retrieval assistant using RAG and LangGraph-orchestrated multi-agent workflows. Emphasizes clinical safety and compliance with robust hallucination controls, HIPAA/PHI protections (tokenization, encryption, audit logging, zero-retention), and human-in-the-loop escalation; reports a 75% latency reduction in a healthcare agent system.”

“Has production deployment experience delivering computer-vision systems on AWS (Docker + S3) including a GDPR-focused face/license-plate obfuscation pipeline and a semantic-segmentation project aimed at reducing annotation time. Worked closely with DevOps and frontend teams and partnered with CEO/CMO to present an AI-driven annotation workflow to non-technical VC stakeholders.”

“Telecom (Verizon) AI/ML practitioner who built a production multimodal system that ingests messy customer issue reports (calls, chats, emails, screenshots, videos) and turns them into confidence-scored incident summaries with reproducible steps and evidence links. Also built KPI/alarm-to-ticket correlation to rank likely root-cause domains (RAN/Core/Transport), cutting triage from hours to minutes and improving MTTR.”

“Graduate student researcher on the EARTH project (college collaboration with Moog) working on robotics for an arm/bucket system. Implemented waypoint-based path planning, built an Apriltag data pipeline, and developed ROS 2 tooling including a joystick-to-DeltaCAN teleop node; exploring reinforcement learning policies trained from Tera simulator + ROS 2 bag data to optimize trajectory planning under varying pressure/load conditions.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on real-time state estimation and perception pipelines, with hands-on C++/ROS work improving LiDAR+IMU odometry stability via an iterative EKF and careful timing/synchronization fixes. Has integrated LIO-SAM, built multi-robot communication bridges (ROS + custom UDP with heartbeat/fallback), and uses Gazebo + Docker for repeatable testing, backed by CI/CD experience maintaining Azure DevOps pipelines at Cognizant.”

“At CVS Health, the candidate productionized a RAG-based LLM solution in a regulated healthcare setting, emphasizing reliable data pipelines, LoRA fine-tuning, monitoring, safety guardrails, and A/B testing. They have hands-on experience troubleshooting real-time RAG failures (e.g., chunking/embedding issues) and regularly lead developer-focused demos/workshops while translating technical architecture into business value for stakeholders.”

“Robotics-focused engineer with hands-on projects ranging from a solo Dobot Magician Lite tic-tac-toe system (computer vision + minimax) to integrating an LLM with a Dobot arm for real-time pick-and-place via structured action outputs and validation. Also brings prior full-time DevOps experience (Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD) and has used ROS/Gazebo for simulation work, including exploring improvements to crowd-aware navigation using human-trajectory datasets.”

“LLM/agentic systems engineer who built a production "Agentic AI Diagnostic Assistant" for network engineers, using a multi-agent Llama 2 + LangChain architecture with RAG over telemetry/incident data in DynamoDB and confidence-based deferrals to reduce hallucinations. Also has strong MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, EventBridge, Spark, Docker, SageMaker/ECS) at multi-terabyte/day scale and delivered multilingual NLP analytics (fine-tuned BERT/spaCy) for support operations through hands-on stakeholder workshops.”

“ML/NLP practitioner focused on financial-services document intelligence and compliance workflows—built an end-to-end pipeline to classify documents and extract financial entities from loan applications, emails, and statements stored in S3/internal databases. Strong in entity resolution/record linkage and in productionizing pipelines with GitHub Actions CI/CD, testing, data validation, and Docker, plus semantic search using OpenAI embeddings and a vector database.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI-driven "Smart Feedback Analyzer" API (Flask → FastAPI) that processes user feedback with NLP (Hugging Face + OpenAI) and returns structured insights. Demonstrates strong production-minded architecture: stateless services, Cloud Run + Docker deployment, Redis/Celery background processing, and Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, indexing, N+1 fixes), plus multi-tenant data isolation via JWT/API-key derived tenant IDs.”

Ketan Verma

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Junior Applied AI Engineer specializing in data pipelines and ML systems

College Station, TX2y exp

“Built an end-to-end wafer-data anomaly detection and reporting system at Samsung using PySpark, Random Forest models, SQL, and Grafana to help engineers track faults and take corrective action. Also has strong UX prototyping and validation practices in Figma plus hands-on front-end/full-stack experience (HTML/CSS/TypeScript), including a student project recognized as best design out of 25 teams, and early-stage startup experience pivoting a product based on user interviews into a real-time in-context feedback overlay.”