Vetted Software Engineers in the Greater Detroit

“Product-focused operator with ~20 years experience helping both large companies and newer market entrants launch successful products, with a strong emphasis on disciplined product-market fit in emerging markets. Has personal investing exposure as an LP in two private funds and is researching seed-stage angel investing, and is motivated to found a consumer/software venture built with lean execution and clear defensibility.”

Sudhir Sagi

Screened

Executive technology and operations leader specializing in connected vehicle SaaS and IoT

Novi, MI28y exp

“Candidate indicated they do not have a business plan or startup, are not familiar with the venture capital/accelerator landscape, and explicitly requested to withdraw their application because the position does not seem like the right fit.”

Jyotshna Dammu

Screened

Intern Autonomous Driving Software Engineer specializing in ADAS controls and embedded systems

Auburn Hills, MI3y exp

“Embedded control and systems-integration engineer with hands-on experience taking control logic from Simulink simulation through embedded implementation and rigorous MIL/SIL/HIL plus vehicle testing. Has built and tuned nonlinear/decentralized MPC for autonomous driving behaviors (obstacle avoidance, overtaking, multi-agent coordination) and has CI/CD experience (Jenkins/Git); currently ramping into ROS2 with Python/C++.”

Omkar Lahurikar

Screened

Senior engineering founder specializing in AI systems and automotive controls

Dearborn, MI13y exp

“Builder-minded founder/operator currently at Ford who previously co-founded MeruDynamics, an "Uber for manufacturing" platform, and took it from zero to paying customer without raising capital. He also independently built and deployed RDD, an AI copilot for engineering decision capture, with evals, prompt versioning, and LLM cost telemetry—showing unusual depth in both product thinking and practical AI execution.”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on data visualization, extending Chart.js/React with custom plugins for real-time streaming dashboards. Designed an end-to-end telemetry pipeline using Apache Kafka and Azure Cosmos DB, optimizing partitioning, batching, caching, and client throttling to keep latency low and support thousands of concurrent users. Demonstrates strong ownership in fast-changing environments, including building full-stack AI applications and ingestion/ETL pipelines at Robotics Technologies LLC.”

“Currently building a DBC (Digital Birth Certificate) agentic AI system to speed root cause investigation for quality issues at their company. They bring hands-on experience designing and leading multi-agent workflows, including orchestrator/root-agent patterns, evaluation agents, clarification agents, and practical guardrails for hallucination, bias, and rate-limit management.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup-style ownership across backend, frontend, and AI systems, spanning Java/Spring, React, Node/TypeScript, and LLM-powered retrieval. Shipped a workspace intelligence layer using LangChain, OpenAI, and Pinecone to paying customers, while also improving core product metrics like workspace creation success (+30%), latency (450ms to 280ms), and deployment cycle time (-40%).”

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership in fast-moving environments: designed and shipped a pre-order/campaign inventory system (NestJS + Strapi + Datadog) that freed 34% warehouse space and reduced stock risk to ~5.7%. Also built rapid, high-impact logistics features (Spot Sales) that drove last-mile cost to ~0 in ~40 days, and has hands-on AWS/Terraform/CI-CD experience including deploying a global RAG system with Pinecone, Datadog, and PagerDuty.”

Indupriya gummadi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in React/Next.js web applications

Detroit, MI5y exp

“Software engineer with airline operations domain experience building real-time dashboards and internal tools for frontline ops and customer support. Strong in TypeScript/React performance optimization and backend/microservices reliability (RabbitMQ, DLQs, autoscaling, correlation IDs/observability), with a track record of shipping incrementally via feature flags and driving organic adoption through pilot-led iteration.”