Vetted Teaching Assistants in Massachusetts

“Backend engineer/technical lead with experience building and operating real-time blockchain analytics systems at Merkle Science. Owned high-traffic Django/DRF services and Kafka streaming pipelines processing millions of events daily, with deep focus on performance (N+1 fixes, indexing, caching) and reliability (DLQs, retries, monitoring). Also led containerization and Kubernetes/GitOps-style CI/CD on Google Cloud, including a migration off Google App Engine to reduce cost and improve scalability.”

“Robotics software engineer who contributed to an autonomous bartender robot (mobile base + ReactorX200 arm), owning manipulation/grasping, Gazebo simulation, and a YOLOv6 object-detection pipeline built from a manually collected/labeled dataset. Also handled system-level hardware bring-up integrating Raspberry Pi to ESP32 over micro-ROS on ROS2 Foxy, and has additional ROS package experience in EKF sensor fusion (IMU+GPS) and an autonomous disaster response boat.”

“Former mechanical engineering professional who pivoted into business development and drove major international growth through strategic partnerships (helping scale headcount from a few to 300+ in 2–3 years). Now finishing an MBA (graduating in May) and building a recruiting/hiring-manager-focused product—prototype complete, validating demand, and aiming to launch an MVP within ~2 months before fundraising.”

“Backend/data engineer who built a production-ready multi-agent financial intelligence system (Mycroft) that orchestrates specialized AI agents to analyze real-time market data using FastAPI and Pinecone vector search. Brings strong security/reliability instincts (rate limiting, JWT/OAuth2, retries/backoff, health checks) and has caught high-impact data integrity issues in financial migrations (timezone normalization across global legacy systems).”

“LLM/agent engineer who built a production multi-agent research automation system using LangGraph (planner, retriever with FAISS, supervisor, evaluator) with structured outputs and citation tracking for traceable reports. Emphasizes reliability and operations—LangSmith-based observability, multi-level testing, hallucination mitigation, and latency/cost controls—plus prior experience as a Computer Vision Software Engineer at Deepsight AI Labs working directly with non-technical customers.”

Alicia Geng

Screened

Entry-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in AWS MLOps and computer vision

Worcester, MA0y exp

“Built and shipped a production RAG question-answering system using LangChain/OpenAI, Docker, and FastAPI, then reduced hallucinations through disciplined retrieval tuning and constrained prompting. Also implemented a custom evaluation framework (QA-pair dataset) to measure faithfulness/relevance and deployed containerized ML microservices on AWS ECS/Fargate with ALB and rolling, zero-downtime updates.”

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership of a B2B e-commerce catalog at Mphasis, spanning React/TypeScript, Java/Spring Boot, and Postgres, with strong evidence of performance tuning and UX improvement. Stands out for tracing production issues across layers, leading an Angular-to-React migration, and pairing product instinct with rapid AI prototyping—placing 2nd in an advanced AI hackathon.”