Vetted Teaching Assistants in California

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered grading platform that automates rubric-aligned scoring and feedback, with strong guardrails (RAG grounding, structured JSON, validation/retries) and operational rigor (metrics, drift monitoring). Experienced using CrewAI to orchestrate multi-agent workflows end-to-end and validating quality via gold-set benchmarking against human graders with regression testing on every prompt/model change.”

“Built a production SQL chatbot for access-log analytics that replaced manual custom report requests with natural-language querying, using LangGraph and a ChromaDB-backed RAG pipeline for grounded, consistent answers. Implemented a privacy-preserving design where the LLM never sees raw customer data (only query metadata) and has experience building multi-agent/tool-calling systems with LangGraph (DeepAgents), including solving sub-agent communication drift via self-reflection.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a production "Financial Insight" assistant dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, integrating a RAG pipeline (embeddings + ChromaDB + LLM) via route handlers and owning post-launch performance (latency, token cost, retrieval relevance). Also built/optimized Postgres-backed workflows for an outbound dialer and callback routing engine handling ~10,000 daily contacts, validating query performance with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS).”

“Full-stack engineer with payments-domain experience from ACI Worldwide who shipped an end-to-end MFA system for payment workflows (React/TypeScript + backend APIs + Postgres), then owned it in production with logging/monitoring and client adoption tracking. Also improved checkout responsiveness across Apple Pay/PayPal flows via React performance profiling, component refactors, and state/network optimizations.”

Alex D'Souza

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Researcher specializing in healthcare AI and security

Davis, CA2y exp

“Research-focused AI/ML candidate who built an fMRI-based classifier to predict schizophrenia treatment effectiveness under small-dataset constraints. Demonstrated pragmatic model selection by moving from a complex GNN to graph-summary feature engineering with logistic regression, significantly improving accuracy and AUC; primarily works in Google Colab with script-based workflows.”