Vetted Teaching Assistants

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who builds and operates Spring Boot microservices with React/TypeScript frontends, using Kafka/RabbitMQ for event-driven workflows. Created an internal ops dashboard for Support/SRE with tracing, alert correlation, and self-serve actions, improving MTTR and reducing escalations while maintaining regulatory-grade reliability and security.”

Tanisha Pradeep Bhola

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Mid-level Software Development Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and microservices

Dayton, Ohio4y exp

“Accenture engineer with hands-on experience taking an NLP sentiment analysis system from prototype to production, emphasizing robustness to noisy data, scalability, and observability (dashboards for latency/error/throughput). Also supports customer-facing teams with demos and PoCs, translating client requirements into secure, scalable architectures and troubleshooting LLM/agent workflows via logs and step-level traces.”

“Built and launched a production AI knowledge assistant at Virtusa used by 8,000 people, combining RAG, tool use, and strong reliability practices to cut lookup time by 60%. Also owns full-stack delivery, including a real-time transaction monitoring dashboard built with React, Spring Boot, and Kafka handling 200K API requests per day.”

“Backend engineer with fintech/AI startup experience who built an Azure serverless, event-driven pipeline for large-scale crypto sentiment analysis and semantic search (OCR/NLP to vector search) and integrated LLM + blockchain data for predictive insights. Demonstrated measurable impact (25% lower retrieval latency, 10% fewer data errors, 15% higher engagement) and has led safe microservices migrations with strong security and reliability practices.”

“Research assistant who single-handedly built and integrated an indoor autonomous wheelchair system using NVIDIA Jetson Nano, LiDAR, and a stereo camera. Implemented a multi-sensor perception pipeline (OpenCV/PCL) with ROS-based modular nodes, TF frame management, and robust debugging via RViz/rosbag, plus simulation testing in Gazebo and Dockerized environments for portability.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including an AI request-routing service (FastAPI + BART MNLI + OpenAI/Gemini) that improved accuracy ~25% after launch via eval-driven prompt/category iteration. Also built an enterprise document intelligence/RAG platform on Azure (Blob/SharePoint/Teams ingestion, OCR/NLP chunking, embeddings in Azure Cognitive Search) with PII guardrails (Presidio), confidence gating, and scalable event-driven pipelines handling millions of documents.”

Anupam Sistla

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development, cloud, and automation

2y exp

“Robotics software engineer who built an autonomous debris-clearing rover software stack end-to-end using ROS 2, Python/OpenCV, and YOLOv3, with strong emphasis on real-time reliability (latency instrumentation, stale-data handling, watchdog fail-safes). Also implemented a Docker CI/CD deployment system for remote Raspberry Pi timelapse devices, distributing updates via AWS S3 to handle intermittent connectivity.”

keerthana bhukya

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cybersecurity

Stockton, CA2y exp

“Salesforce-focused engineer with hands-on depth across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Apex, LWC, and Aura. Stands out for owning end-to-end automation features, making thoughtful async architecture decisions to balance performance and reliability, and designing responsive Lightning interfaces that hold up under large data volumes.”

“Built and productionized an agentic RAG assistant using Ollama + LangChain + MCP + ChromaDB to speed up and standardize access to operational knowledge from tickets and runbooks. Focused on real-world reliability: mitigated timeouts/latency with retries and concurrency limits, improved retrieval via chunking/embedding iteration, and reduced hallucinations through citation-grounding and confidence-based abstention. Also partnered with non-technical ops staff to deliver anomaly detection/monitoring by translating operational needs into model signals, thresholds, and alerting logic.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who has built and shipped production assistants, including a RAG-based teaching assistant (Marvel AI) using LangChain/LlamaIndex/ChromaDB with OpenAI embeddings and Redis vector search, achieving ~30% accuracy gains and ~35% latency reduction. Also deployed FastAPI services on Google Cloud Run with observability and prompt-level monitoring, and partnered with non-technical ops stakeholders to deliver an internal policy-document RAG assistant.”

“At ReferU.AI, designed and deployed an agentic RAG pipeline that automates multi-jurisdiction legal document drafting, emphasizing hallucination reduction through hybrid retrieval, validation agents, guardrails, and iterative regeneration. Experienced with orchestration frameworks (especially CrewAI) and rigorous testing/evaluation practices including human-in-the-loop review, adversarial testing, and production metrics/logging.”

“Senior engineer with experience at Micro Focus/HPE (now OpenText) supporting enterprise customers on monitoring platform deployments, upgrades, and ongoing product use. Brings hands-on expertise in operations agents, agentless integrations, security-related upgrade troubleshooting, and cross-functional escalation with engineering to keep customer environments stable and successful.”

“Built and owned a production RAG search/Q&A platform at Data Integrity First for a client with a large, hard-to-search document library, deployed on AWS. Drove major adoption gains by adding source attribution (users trusted answers more) and improved system performance with guardrails, logging, and iterative chunking/OCR normalization—cutting fallback rate from ~22% to under 10%.”

Kristoffer Kosunen

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Mid-level UX/HCI & Game Designer specializing in VR and interactive experiences

7y exp

“Early-career UK-based game developer with extensive Unity experience and a postgraduate engineering project involving a Meta Quest prototype built in Godot. Built a solo first-person puzzle/exploration game with FromSoftware-inspired ambiguous narrative, and uses AI workflows for concept visualization and for validating/prototyping gameplay logic before implementing in C#.”

“Junior web developer turned applied AI builder who has shipped both user-facing web UX improvements (Vue.js + Drupal/Twig) and production LLM systems. Built a Google Cloud-hosted Llama/Ollama RAG customer-service chatbot with citation-based guardrails and a metrics-driven eval loop, and also delivered a large-scale Python pipeline analyzing 14M Amazon consumer reviews for flavor-trend detection.”