Vetted Teaching Assistants

“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).”

“Backend engineer who built and launched a warehouse locations/inventory microservice for Walmart, supporting a new product rollout with on-call war-room ownership and now running across all US distribution centers. Emphasizes reliability and correctness (background syncs, 2PC concepts, alerting) plus design-first API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth/JWT and RBAC, and has led staged legacy-to-microservice migrations with continuous data integrity verification.”

“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.”

“Software engineer with experience across data engineering and backend/platform work: owned a Databricks/PySpark real-time pipeline powering customer dashboards with a 15-minute SLA, and helped modernize an investor web app from JSP to React/TypeScript with API + SQL/materialized-view performance improvements. Also contributed to breaking a Java monolith into microservices (Redis + gRPC on AWS EKS) and built an EC2-deployed Play Store/App Store crawler that reduced third-party data costs.”

“ML/NLP engineer focused on real-time IT ops analytics, building a predictive maintenance/anomaly detection platform end-to-end (multi-source ETL, streaming, modeling, and production deployment on GCP/Vertex AI). Uses deep learning (LSTMs, autoencoders/VAEs) plus embeddings (SentenceBERT) and vector search to improve incident correlation and search, citing ~40% reduction in duplicate alert noise.”

“Robotics software/ML engineer who led an end-to-end transformer-based real-time 3D shape prediction system for a tendon-driven continuum robot on a KUKA arm, including ROS2 multi-camera RGB-D data collection, multi-view calibration, and optimized ICP point-cloud registration. Also optimized an online sensing + motion planning loop for robot-assisted surgery using Bayesian Hilbert maps and A* search, and has Gazebo + RL experience for a robotic salamander.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Senior design robotics engineer on a "Grocery Robot" project selected for the final round of the $10K SICK Challenge, owning ROS2 system design and behavior-tree-based task orchestration across multiple independently developed modules. Also implemented I2C/ESP32 collision avoidance, IK control for a robotic arm, and a Node.js ordering system, with additional research experience using RPLIDAR-based SLAM.”

“Founding engineer at Novum AI building a real-time call analytics/suggestion backend (transcription + sentiment/tone + context retrieval) using a serverless architecture. Drove major latency improvements (about 4s down to sub-1.5s) and has practical experience hardening production APIs (FastAPI/Pydantic, auth with Cognito/Redis) and payment systems (Stripe) by surfacing overlooked subscription and multi-tenant billing edge cases.”

“LLM/agentic systems engineer who built a production "Agentic AI Diagnostic Assistant" for network engineers, using a multi-agent Llama 2 + LangChain architecture with RAG over telemetry/incident data in DynamoDB and confidence-based deferrals to reduce hallucinations. Also has strong MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, EventBridge, Spark, Docker, SageMaker/ECS) at multi-terabyte/day scale and delivered multilingual NLP analytics (fine-tuned BERT/spaCy) for support operations through hands-on stakeholder workshops.”

“Computer-vision practitioner and educator who built a real-time license plate recognition system (OpenCV/Python + KNN) optimized to run on a Raspberry Pi with camera integration. Also designs hands-on deep learning coursework, incorporating recent transformer-based vision research (Vision Transformers) into practical labs on real datasets.”

“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.”