Vetted Teaching Assistants

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered multi-agent compliance copilot (life sciences/finance) using LangChain/LangGraph + RAG over vector databases, delivered via async FastAPI on Kubernetes. Emphasizes audit-ready, deterministic outputs with schema constraints and citations, plus rigorous evaluation/monitoring; reports 60%+ reduction in manual research time and successful production adoption.”

“Backend engineer with experience building queue-driven Python/Flask systems using Celery, Redis/RabbitMQ, and SQLAlchemy/Postgres, including async/non-blocking architectures for concurrency. Also built a patient-facing full-stack app integrating LLMs (OpenAI/Claude) with streaming responses for real-time UX, and previously delivered high-throughput, reliability-critical background workflows at Dropbox (document expiration with batching, retries, and cache/side-effect handling).”

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned a production real-time computer-vision inference platform at Credence, spanning Next.js App Router/TypeScript frontend with SSE/WebSocket streaming, a Flask backend, and Postgres analytics. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (70% fewer re-renders; latency cut to ~40–50ms) and strong production rigor (durable orchestration, idempotency, observability, AWS EC2 + CI/CD) with tight post-launch UX iteration based on analyst feedback.”

“LLM/agent engineer who shipped a production RAG-based recommendation + explanation system that replaced a traditional recommender stack, delivering ~20% CTR lift (and +8% after a reliability iteration) with strong cold-start performance. Demonstrates strong production rigor: schema-constrained generation, typed tool calling, explicit state/orchestration, deep monitoring/feedback loops, and safe integration with messy ERP inventory/order data using normalization, idempotency, and conflict-resolution guardrails.”

Aashna Kunkolienker

Screened

Junior AI Engineer specializing in agentic workflows and ML platforms

San Ramon, CA2y exp

“Building a production LLM/agent system for a leading US dental provider that extracts rules from payer handbooks/portals and EDI 271 responses to validate and improve patient cost estimates. Combines GCP stack (BigQuery, GKE, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI) with strong agent reliability practices (observability, validator agents, grounding, PII/hallucination guardrails, confidence scoring) and has led non-technical customer stakeholders on enterprise ServiceNow↔Aha sync and AI-powered enterprise search/summarization.”

Maggie vonEbers

Screened

Mid-level Research Engineer specializing in machine learning and computational neuroscience

3y exp

“Master’s-level ML researcher with hands-on embodied/edge deployment experience: built a Google Glass motion-tracking system at Sandia using MobileNetV1 + LSTM trained in TensorFlow and deployed via TensorFlow Lite. Has reimplemented transformer-based research for a thesis and demonstrated strong judgment adapting quickly when upstream assumptions changed, and stays current through active reading groups and a JEPA collaboration.”

Seyi R. Afolayan

Screened

Mid-level Robotics & Controls Engineer specializing in safe autonomy and perception-aware motion planning

Itasca, IL4y exp

“Robotics software engineer who built an open-source, real-time Cartesian controller for Universal Robots UR5/UR5e, targeting sub-mm accuracy at 500 Hz within ROS2/ros2_control. Demonstrates strong real-time debugging skills (timing profiling, singularity handling with Tikhonov regularization) and sim-to-real iteration using Gazebo/Isaac Sim plus physical hardware tuning; also has ROS1 experience building URDF/xacro and EKF configs for an underwater vehicle and has developed drone/robot packages.”

Jainum Sanghavi

Screened

Mid-level DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud automation and Kubernetes platforms

Boston, MA2y exp

“Robotics/ML engineer who has built SO(3)-equivariant models for robotic manipulation, including custom equivariant layers and differentiable point-cloud rasterization/derasterization workflows. Also brings 2 years of DevOps experience in banking systems, automating CI/CD and infrastructure at scale (managed 180 OCI servers; reduced rebuild downtime by 80%).”

Abhishek Adinarayanappa

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and machine learning systems

Miami, FL3y exp

“Built Digipulse, a university project that ingested and clustered Bluesky tweet data at scale and used Gemini to generate near-real-time topic summaries, processing 1M+ tweets per day. Also brings Intel experience with Prometheus and Kubernetes, including production monitoring and incident troubleshooting.”

“Full-stack developer (Energywell) who led an internal admin dashboard end-to-end using React/Redux and a Go microservice, emphasizing performance (reduced calls, preload data) and maintainable architecture (modularity, refactoring, PR reviews). Also shipped a Redis-based caching whitelist feature in a fast-paced environment and helped implement a responsive, brand-configurable onboarding/signup frontend.”

“Built ToolDreamer, a framework for selecting relevant tools for LLM agents by training a retriever on LLM-generated reasoning traces, and has hands-on experience building multi-agent systems in AutoGen (MAG-V) focused on question generation and tool-trajectory verification. Currently works as an AI-guides supervisor at Penn State, regularly communicating AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders.”

“Founding engineer for an AI product (“world’s first funny AI”) who designed and implemented the full-stack architecture (React/TypeScript + Node) and migrated production from Vercel to AWS. Shipped a Lambda-based image pipeline that eliminated lag/missing images and brought page load times to under a second, and has hands-on experience integrating multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok) with structured-output and self-check reliability techniques.”

Allan Farinas

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python and AWS

West Covina, CA11y exp

“Backend/data engineer who has built production Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS-native platforms for event ingestion and analytics, combining ECS/Fargate + Lambda with CloudFormation-driven environments and strong secrets/IAM practices. Experienced modernizing legacy logic with parallel-run parity validation and safe phased cutovers, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning wins (20–30s down to 1–2s) plus incident ownership in Glue/Step Functions ETL pipelines.”

Ethan Lam

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in data platforms and full-stack development

Toronto, Ontario3y exp

“Software engineer with Warner Music Group experience owning and shipping analyst-facing data products (marketing/streaming data dashboards) end-to-end with high adoption through continuous stakeholder feedback. Also builds side projects with TypeScript/React and domain-driven API design, emphasizing flexibility (including swapping databases mid-development) and pragmatic microservices reliability patterns (logging, timeouts, retry backoff).”

Bernie Miao

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in EdTech and AI-powered learning tools

Berkeley, CA2y exp

“Edtech/education-focused engineer who took an accessibility-critical LLM/vision feature from concept to production: built an OpenCV-gated whiteboard capture pipeline feeding Gemini Vision for handwriting-to-LaTeX, improving math transcription 80% while cutting inference costs 60%. Also built RAG observability and retrieval fixes that stabilized inconsistent answers, and partnered directly with sales to reshape demos and open a new K-12 revenue pipeline aligned to California Digital Divide grant requirements.”