Vetted Teaching Assistants in California

“Senior Engineering Manager with a player-coach style who stays technically engaged through heavy code reviews and pair programming. Led prioritization and stakeholder alignment for a scalable, resilient feature-flag evaluation service with strict sub-50ms latency goals, including a major caching-strategy redesign and incremental rollout approach. Experienced in incident response/retrospectives and in coaching engineers toward improved performance and promotions.”

“Robotics software candidate focused on simulation-to-learning workflows, building a novel-view-synthesis pipeline (USCiLab3D) with a multi-modal diffusion model and a LiDAR-driven, geometry-aware sampling strategy for selecting overlapping reference views across trajectories/seasons. Also designed coordinated motion planning for two Ridgeback-Franka robots in Isaac Lab for a non-prehensile collaborative task, augmenting controller limitations with RL-based self-collision termination states.”

Parth Tusham

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in systems, cloud, and security

Sunnyvale, CA1y exp

“Systems and infrastructure engineer pivoting toward robotics software; brings strong low-level debugging, multithreaded systems, and networking experience where correctness and timing matter. Has hands-on experience using Docker and CI/CD to build reproducible test/evaluation environments (thesis), and proposes a disciplined, contract-driven approach to distributed communication and real-time performance debugging.”

Prajit Mohan

Screened

Junior QA Engineer specializing in test automation for web applications

Oakland, CA3y exp

“QA automation engineer with healthcare web experience who owned an end-to-end automated test suite (Java/Cucumber/Selenium and Cypress) and integrated it into CI/CD (Jenkins to GitHub Actions, qTest DoD gates). Known for boosting regression coverage to ~93%, stabilizing flaky Cypress tests, and catching production-impacting pipeline/environment redirect issues through workflow updates and cross-browser/regional scenario testing.”

Manaswini Gogineni

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and full-stack web development

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack/platform engineer who has owned real-time analytics products end-to-end and built scalable TypeScript/React + Node.js systems using event-driven and microservices architectures (Kafka/RabbitMQ). Also created a widely adopted Go CLI that standardized AWS/Terraform provisioning across multiple teams, cutting environment setup from days to minutes through opinionated defaults, documentation, and cross-org partnerships.”

Deepam Ameria

Screened

Intern Robotics Software Engineer specializing in autonomy, perception, and control

Los Angeles, CA2y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience building autonomy features across perception, planning, and systems integration—most notably for an autonomous lunar rover that detects and geometrically models craters to plan terrain manipulation. Also owned development of an autonomous stair-climbing module for a quadruped robot as an intern, and has real-time motion-planning/IK debugging experience on a Franka Panda using RGB-D (RealSense).”

Alp Komban

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision for medical imaging

Mountain View, CA2y exp

“Applied ML/LLM practitioner working in healthcare-facing products, using RAG and LoRA fine-tuning on medical data and implementing production monitoring (confidence scoring) for clinician oversight. Has hands-on experience debugging agentic/LLM pipelines (including OCR preprocessing fixes) and regularly delivers technical demos to doctors, investors, and conferences—contributing to adoption and even helping close a funding round through end-to-end pipeline walkthroughs.”

Aashna Kunkolienker

Screened

Junior AI Engineer specializing in agentic workflows and ML platforms

San Ramon, CA2y exp

“Building a production LLM/agent system for a leading US dental provider that extracts rules from payer handbooks/portals and EDI 271 responses to validate and improve patient cost estimates. Combines GCP stack (BigQuery, GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI) with strong agent reliability practices (observability, validator agents, grounding, PII/hallucination guardrails, confidence scoring) and has led non-technical customer stakeholders on enterprise ServiceNow↔Aha sync and AI-powered enterprise search/summarization.”

Allan Farinas

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python and AWS

West Covina, CA11y exp

“Backend/data engineer who has built production Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS-native platforms for event ingestion and analytics, combining ECS/Fargate + Lambda with CloudFormation-driven environments and strong secrets/IAM practices. Experienced modernizing legacy logic with parallel-run parity validation and safe phased cutovers, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning wins (20–30s down to 1–2s) plus incident ownership in Glue/Step Functions ETL pipelines.”

Bernie Miao

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in EdTech and AI-powered learning tools

Berkeley, CA2y exp

“Edtech/education-focused engineer who took an accessibility-critical LLM/vision feature from concept to production: built an OpenCV-gated whiteboard capture pipeline feeding Gemini Vision for handwriting-to-LaTeX, improving math transcription 80% while cutting inference costs 60%. Also built RAG observability and retrieval fixes that stabilized inconsistent answers, and partnered directly with sales to reshape demos and open a new K-12 revenue pipeline aligned to California Digital Divide grant requirements.”

Dhyey Desai

Screened

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in RAG, multimodal AI, and LLM systems

Los Angeles, California0y exp

“Built and shipped 'PetPulse,' a production AI pet-health note system that records voice notes, transcribes them, converts transcripts into structured symptom/event data, and supports grounded Q&A over a user’s notes and vet PDFs. Demonstrates full-stack LLM product execution (FastAPI + GPT-4 + Firebase), with concrete reliability/performance work (async endpoints, caching, RAG/embeddings, function calling) and user-centered iteration with a non-technical product stakeholder.”

Zuocheng Li

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web and Android development

San Jose, CA0y exp

“Early-career developer whose experience comes from classroom projects but has completed full end-to-end web app delivery: implemented login/search/favorites, integrated external APIs, and deployed to Google Cloud for multi-device use. Demonstrates user-centered iteration by recruiting friends to test and provide feedback, and has hands-on production-style debugging experience (e.g., resolving CORS issues during deployment).”

“Robotics software engineer with autonomous driving lab experience at UCSD, building and optimizing ROS2 perception and control pipelines (camera-based real-time object detection) with a strong focus on low-latency performance and robust message interfaces. Also brings production deployment experience from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, using Docker and Kubernetes for containerized environments and deployment pipelines.”