Vetted Teaching Assistants

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end builds of complex React + TypeScript workflow editors (multi-step scenario builder with nodes/connections/conditions) with strong quality practices (CI/CD, unit tests, schema validation, logging, feature flags). Also delivered an AR flower-placement feature during an internship at Ecomspiders, rebuilding the experience with Three.js, live camera preview, and surface placement tested across devices and lighting conditions.”

“AI engineer who built an agentic, production-deployed LLM workflow for tobacco violation parsing and automated multi-case creation, using six specialized agents and a human-in-the-loop confidence-threshold routing design. Addressed data privacy constraints by generating synthetic datasets with LLM prompting, and orchestrated reproducible end-to-end pipelines in LangChain with robust testing and evaluation (precision/recall, micro-F1).”

“Unity/VR gameplay programmer who delivered core VR locomotion and a custom collision system for the VR port of Tinhearts, enabling comfortable movement in highly detailed, cluttered environments and improving cutscene reliability. Also has professional VR multiplayer experience on Project Leeroy using Photon Fusion (plus PUN/SpatialOS/UNet/WebSockets), including building drag-and-drop networking components to help designers ship minigames faster.”

“Backend/integration-focused software engineer who built and debugged a complex location modeling system (data pipelines, APIs, optimization logic connected to a dashboard). No direct ROS/robotics experience yet, but demonstrates strong distributed-systems debugging, containerized deployment (Docker), and CI/CD/testing practices and is actively looking to pivot into robotics software.”

“Full-stack system analyst/programmer at PeakPlay Sports (startup) who built an AI "coach" product end-to-end in ~2 months, using a LangGraph-orchestrated multi-agent architecture with a FastAPI backend. Shipped production RAG grounded in athlete history (OpenAI embeddings + vector store) with guardrails and a structured eval loop (golden set + LLM-judge + human review) to improve engagement and reduce hallucinations.”

“Robotics software engineer who built an assistive Kinova Gen3 manipulation system for activities of daily living, spanning RealSense+ArUco perception, MoveIt2-based motion planning/task sequencing, and a React Native tablet UI with rosbridge and voice control. Optimized real-robot trajectories by blending OMPL with Cartesian/PILZ planning and created simulation workflows to test without lab/robot availability.”

“Robotics software engineer with ROS 2 Humble/Nav2 experience on a warehouse robot fleet, focused on improving throughput in dynamic human environments. Implemented C++ local-planner and velocity-control changes using LiDAR-based motion prediction and real-time costmap tuning under a 20ms control loop, and built a Gazebo digital twin with custom failure-injection plugins plus Docker/Kubernetes deployment tooling.”

“Built a university campus assistant chatbot (BabyJ/WWJ) using RAG and agentic routing with a FastAPI + React stack and JWT auth, focusing heavily on production concerns like latency and reliability. Uses techniques like speculative prefetching, smart intent routing, and rigorous eval/testing (golden sets, regression, edge cases) while collaborating closely with campus admin/advising teams to iterate based on real user feedback.”

“Research Analyst at Syracuse who deployed an LLM-powered lab automation system allowing researchers to run QCoDeS instrument workflows via natural language, with strong safety guardrails for real instruments and multi-instrument support. Also collaborated with non-technical stakeholders at iConsult on an audio classification/recommendation pipeline, translating business goals into metrics and Tableau dashboards with model comparisons and A/B test results.”

“Built and productionized a MediCloud/Medicoud LLM microservice platform that lets clinicians query medical data in natural language, orchestrating multi-step RAG-style workflows with LangChain and evaluating/debugging with LangSmith. Delivered measurable gains (consistency ~70%→90% / +20%; latency ~2.0s→1.1s / -40%) by implementing structured prompts, fallback logic across multiple LLMs, hybrid retrieval tuning, and AWS Lambda performance optimizations (package size, async, caching).”

“Music producer and editor who has composed and structured multi-song soundtracks for fashion week runway shows, timing drops and transitions to key on-screen moments and later adapting the music for full-collection videos. Also creates YouTube content about their own music-making process, focusing on retention through pacing and improved voice clarity using EQ/compression and consistent loudness practices.”