Vetted Reinforcement Learning Professionals

“Unreal Engine gameplay programmer with shipped experience on Five Nights at Freddy’s (including Ruin), spanning end-to-end systems like save/load + checkpoints, math-heavy spline-based AI movement, and player movement tuning. Also implemented a networked PvP dash using Unreal’s prediction pipeline (FSavedMove_Character) with server-authoritative validation, and has demonstrated strong debugging under stress-test conditions.”

Sujay Surendranath Pookkattuparambil

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Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and reinforcement learning

Chicago, IL3y exp

“Early-stage engineer with hands-on embedded prototyping experience (Arduino/Raspberry Pi) who helped build an award-winning smart glasses project enabling phone notifications via Bluetooth. Strong computer vision performance optimization background, including accelerating 120 FPS inference by moving from TensorFlow to PyTorch and deploying through ONNX + TensorRT quantization, plus Docker-based GPU deployment and CI/ML practices.”

Ronit Shetty

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Entry-level Robotics Engineer specializing in SLAM, sensor fusion, and embedded avionics

Boston, MA1y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on perception/SLAM and systems integration, recently built a quasi-dynamic mapping pipeline to track and reconstruct articulated objects (e.g., drawers) from RGB video using SAM2, COLMAP SfM, and 3D Gaussian Splatting. Also has strong ROS2 sensor-pipeline experience (custom messages, MCAP rosbag deserialization, tf2) and demonstrated real-time performance tuning by accelerating an ICP-based LiDAR SLAM component ~30x (from ~3s to <100ms per frame).”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Founding-engineer-style full-stack and AI product builder who has shipped production conversational agents in hospitality and earlier helped build an AI sports analytics startup through acquisition. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript frontend ownership, FastAPI backend design, and sophisticated LLM/RAG/agent systems with strong production monitoring and clear business impact.”

“Robotics software engineer with ~4 years of ROS experience who implemented a real-time diffusion-policy control loop entirely in Gazebo, focusing on inference-latency reduction (warm-start + truncated denoising) for stable closed-loop execution. Has hands-on experience building custom ROS control nodes, optimizing AMR navigation (SLAM + RRT) with sensor-fusion for dynamic obstacles, and designing deterministic multi-robot coordination; also uses Dockerized ROS environments and automated simulation/benchmark pipelines.”

“Co-founder at Skoolive who built a multi-agent LLM application to help users understand complex research papers (including PDF interaction and flowchart-style representations), moving from prototype to production using Gemini SDK and deployment to Runway. Also developed and demoed a web-agent benchmarking framework, running hands-on sessions with customer-facing teams to improve agent reliability and drive adoption.”

“Developed and productionized VL-Mate, a vision-language, LLM-powered assistant aimed at helping visually impaired users understand their surroundings and query internal knowledge. Emphasizes reliability and safety via confidence thresholds, uncertainty-aware fallbacks, hallucination grounding checks, and rigorous offline + user-in-the-loop evaluation, with experience orchestrating multi-step LLM pipelines (LangChain-style and custom Python async) and deploying on containerized infrastructure.”

“Robotics/ML engineer who benchmarks and adapts open-source robot action models, building synthetic datasets in Isaac Sim and modifying vendor code to scale training across multiple GPUs. Also built a production-style computer vision pipeline at Zortag—training a tiny YOLO-based classifier for fake-vs-real label detection and deploying it in a real-time iOS app with additional display/spoof detection.”

“Healthcare-focused ML/LLM engineer who built a production hybrid RAG workflow to automate prior authorization by retrieving from medical guidelines/historical cases (FAISS) and generating grounded rationales for clinicians. Strong in operationalizing ML with Airflow/Kubeflow/MLflow on SageMaker, optimizing latency (ONNX/quantization/async), and reducing hallucinations via evidence-only prompting; also partnered closely with clinical ops to deploy a readmission prediction tool used in daily rounds.”

“Built a production lead-generation system using AI agents that researches the internet for relevant leads and integrates RAG-based contact enrichment/shortlisting aligned to existing CRM data, enabling sales reps to focus more on selling. Also has hands-on AWS data orchestration experience (Glue, Step Functions) moving raw data into Redshift and evaluates agent performance with human-in-the-loop plus BLEU/perplexity metrics.”

Satish Kumar Reddy

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and MLOps

Remote, NJ5y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG intelligent document understanding platform for healthcare clinical documents (notes, discharge summaries, diagnostic reports), integrating spaCy entity extraction, Pinecone vector search, and a Spring Boot API on AWS with monitoring and guardrails. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration (LangChain, Airflow, Kubeflow/Kubernetes) and a metrics-driven evaluation approach, and partnered with a healthcare operations manager to cut manual review time by 80%.”

“Candidate is targeting a CTO Venture Studio role and positions themself as a technical partner to founders rather than a founder personally. They demonstrate strong fluency in early-stage startup evaluation, especially around validating whether a product truly tests the business hypothesis and whether the underlying technology can scale significantly.”

“At ReferU.AI, designed and deployed an agentic RAG pipeline that automates multi-jurisdiction legal document drafting, emphasizing hallucination reduction through hybrid retrieval, validation agents, guardrails, and iterative regeneration. Experienced with orchestration frameworks (especially CrewAI) and rigorous testing/evaluation practices including human-in-the-loop review, adversarial testing, and production metrics/logging.”

“Robotics software engineer working on GNSS-denied UAV localization using 5G PRS (OpenAirInterface + USRP B210) and multi-sensor fusion, with a published AIAA SciTech 2026 result achieving 1.5m RMSE on low-cost hardware. Also integrating a Vision-Language-Action model (SmolVLA) onto the Stretch 2 platform for language-assisted manipulation, leveraging ROS 2, imitation learning data collection with RGB-D, and simulation in Gazebo/MuJoCo for sim-to-real deployment.”

“Founding Robotics Research Engineer at Streamline Robotics building precision-agriculture automation: integrated FANUC + PLC harvesting with a Farm-ng Amiga (Jetson) platform using ROS2 Visual SLAM for GPS-free greenhouse navigation. Developed real-time YOLOv8 tomato detection/ripeness estimation for selective harvest and configured Cognex D900 3D inspection, plus redesigned FarmBot Genesis XL and built an automated imaging/labeling pipeline for growth tracking and adaptive watering.”

Meghana Chowdary Borra

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Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in predictive modeling and GenAI RAG systems

Buffalo, New York2y exp

“LLM engineer who built and deployed an emotionally intelligent AAC communication system using an emotion-aware RAG pipeline (Empathetic Dialogues + GoEmotions) and a PEFT-adapted model. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph and custom Python orchestration, focusing on reliability (guards, schema validation, fallbacks), latency optimization, and rigorous evaluation (automatic metrics + human-in-the-loop), with a reported 18% user satisfaction improvement.”

Prithvi Jai Ramesh

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Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in AI, perception, and autonomous navigation

Tempe, AZ1y exp

“Robotics software engineer with 2+ years of ROS/ROS2 experience who built a mobile robot stack from scratch (Fusion 360 → URDF → ROS) and integrated teleop, SLAM, and navigation. Worked in an ASU lab applying deep learning for person tracking on a TurtleBot setup, and solved real deployment issues like Raspberry Pi video-stream latency via compression and on-board processing. Also reports experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins) and Kubernetes.”

Shiyan Tang

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Mid-level Software Developer specializing in indie game development and full-stack apps

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Robotics software engineer who built the perception-to-planning pipeline for an autonomous bipedal robot: synchronized and fused 3D LiDAR + multiple depth cameras in ROS1 (tf2/message_filters) to produce combined point clouds and 2.5D maps, then implemented and benchmarked A*/D*/RRT plus hybrid A* footstep planning in simulation. Also founded a software company and personally owned CI/CD, security checks (CodeQL), and release automation (custom release bot + Slack notifications).”

“Built and shipped a personal LLM-powered news aggregation platform (Clear Brief) that scrapes ~200 articles per cycle, clusters them into ~15–30 consolidated stories, and supports on-demand deep dives via a Next.js API route. Emphasizes production-minded reliability (token/cost controls, timeouts, graceful frontend degradation) and database-backed orchestration using SQLite with retry + exponential backoff for burst processing.”

Jonathan Lee

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in agentic AI systems

Austin, TX19y exp

“Engineering leader and hands-on architect who built a team from scratch and owned everything from architecture and security to DevOps and deployment. Has led sophisticated AI/agentic systems in legal-tech and operations, including demand-letter automation, news/content generation, and human-in-the-loop fax routing, while also guiding major infrastructure and enterprise telephony transitions.”

“ML engineer with hands-on experience building production AI systems spanning agentic AI, RAG, LLM automation, fraud detection, and predictive analytics. At Origami Risk, they designed and implemented an enterprise RAG platform end to end using LangChain, LangGraph, vector search, and AWS Bedrock to improve internal knowledge retrieval, reduce manual effort, and raise response quality across teams.”