Vetted Teaching Assistants

“Recent research master’s graduate who built a Python backend for an interconnected RabbitMQ/MQTT system, including automation, benchmarking, and network-link optimization between brokers. Has hands-on edge computing experience (lightweight Kubernetes on a ~40 Raspberry Pi IoT cluster) and made architecture decisions for real-time streaming by evaluating Kafka and ultimately choosing Apache Storm.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience building a real-time order tracking system using React + Firebase/Firestore, emphasizing audit-friendly data modeling, state-machine-based status transitions, and strong post-launch ownership (performance, security rules, reliability). Demonstrated measurable frontend performance gains by isolating real-time updates to dynamic components and applying memoization, plus backend reliability patterns (idempotency, retries) and SQL query/index optimization validated with EXPLAIN ANALYZE.”

“Product-minded engineer who has owned features end-to-end, including a full onboarding redesign that lifted completion ~25% and a production LLM/RAG report-generation system with strong guardrails (schema-constrained JSON, confidence gating, logging) and an automated eval/regression loop built from real user queries. Also built a scalable research data pipeline ingesting messy PDFs/JSON/CSVs with normalization, idempotent reruns, observability, and cost/latency tradeoffs.”

“Robotics software engineer with ~3.5 years in ROS/ROS2 mobile robotics, SLAM, and control who owned end-to-end integration for a sim-to-real mobile platform (Zephyr), including ros2_control, EKF sensor fusion (IMU + Vicon), and Gazebo validation with quantified accuracy. Also built a multi-drone CSLAM stack integrating ORB-SLAM3 and PX4 offboard control, scaling via namespaces, synchronization/QoS discipline, and performance debugging with ros2_tracing.”

“Unity/Unreal VR developer who has shipped a Meta Quest (Quest 2) VR welding training simulation for a US technical institute, owning optimization plus significant 3D/animation pipeline work. Currently building a largely solo tactical sports simulation focused on deterministic agent movement and performance across HDRP (PC/console) and URP (VR), and has also contributed mission editing/multiplayer work for WYD Gamings.”

“Backend/data engineer who built an end-to-end real-time stock analytics platform: ingesting multi-source market data via Kafka/APIs, transforming it into dashboard metrics (e.g., Bollinger Bands), and storing in BigQuery/MySQL. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying Python/Node microservices on Kubernetes with Docker/Helm, CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), and ArgoCD, plus hands-on troubleshooting and migration work.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped and owned a production Document Chat feature built with Next.js App Router/TypeScript and a Node/Express RAG backend, including JWT-secured route handlers and streaming responses. Demonstrated strong post-launch ownership by improving latency (~30%) via MongoDB indexing/query optimization and reducing AI costs through caching, backed by profiling with React Profiler and Chrome DevTools.”

“Frontend engineer with experience across university and product companies (University of Montreal, Dopely, Takhfifan), owning React/TypeScript features end-to-end. Notably built a mathematically complex, multi-mode color wheel UI for designers and led quality practices at scale via conventions, RTL testing, and code reviews for junior developers, plus performance and reusability improvements in existing codebases.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with hospitality tech experience who owned and scaled a multi-region guest verification/check-in workflow (ID/passport scanning, OCR, and government submissions) and built internal tools that cut manual entry up to 80%. Also built a React/TypeScript + FastAPI RAG “second brain” with async ingestion workers and an event-driven e-folio email microservice hardened with idempotency and retries.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack developer (Java/Spring Boot, Angular, MySQL) who emphasizes rapid iteration with quality via clean code, validation, and API testing. Built a web application to help women connect directly with NGOs, focusing on an intuitive dashboard and user walkthroughs to support adoption, and designed flexible REST APIs to handle frequent requirement changes.”