Vetted System Design Professionals

Akashleena Sarkar

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in robotics and real-time distributed systems

Mountain View, CA2y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on low-compute navigation/SLAM: built a 6-DOF SLAM validation pipeline (IMU + 2D LiDAR + ultrasonic) producing ~1cm OctoMap accuracy and deployed it on an Intel Atom by optimizing particle-filter SLAM with a greedy max-likelihood update. Deep ROS 2 experience (executors, composable/lifecycle nodes, QoS, timestamping) plus simulation and deployment tooling (Gazebo C++ plugins, Docker, CI/CD, ROS 2 build farm) and drone navigation work with MAVROS/PX4.”

“Backend/AI engineer at Intuit who built a production AI-powered case assistant for support agents (FastAPI on AWS EKS) combining Postgres case data, OpenSearch retrieval with embedding reranking, and internal LLMs. Improved peak-season reliability by diagnosing P95/P99 timeout spikes and cutting P95 latency from ~800ms to <400ms via composite indexing, keyset pagination, connection pool tuning, and caching, while adding grounded-generation guardrails (evidence packs, confidence thresholds, fallbacks, human-in-the-loop).”

“Open-source contributor to a JavaScript visualization library who focused on runtime/rendering performance—eliminating unnecessary full redraws via memoization and diff-based updates validated with Chrome profiling. Also strengthened the project’s developer experience by adding TypeScript definitions, writing practical documentation, building minimal example apps, and handling community issues with reproducible debugging and public fixes.”

CHIRAG ARORA

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

San Jose, CA9y exp

“Backend engineer with PayPal experience building a high-reliability onboarding API platform (Java/Spring Boot) integrating KYC/compliance and serving 1M+ users annually. Also shipped an internal LLM-driven developer tool that automates PR review insights and OpenAPI documentation with rigorous evaluation, schema-bound guardrails, and production observability.”

“Data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines ingesting ~500GB/day from APIs/databases/Kafka into an S3 data lake (Glue/Spark) with Airflow-orchestrated Great Expectations quality gates. Built resilient external data collection systems with idempotent jobs, exponential-backoff retries, raw data capture, and backfills; also shipped Snowflake-backed APIs with caching, versioned endpoints, and backward-compatible data contracts. Led an early-stage Azure data platform build with phased delivery and GitHub Actions CI/CD, resolving schema-mismatch incidents quickly without downstream corruption.”