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Vetted Teaching Assistants
Pre-screened and vetted.
Rowan Ramamurthy
Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in multi-robot control and automation
“Robotics software engineer with ~7 years of ROS/ROS2 experience spanning dual-arm metal additive manufacturing and prior work on the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Developed in-house multi-arm collision/trajectory planning and achieved a major calibration improvement (from ~6 cm error to ~0.5 mm) via ICP point-cloud registration, with strong simulation/digital-twin, SLAM, and deployment (Docker/CI/CD) exposure.”
Satwik Alla
Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable APIs and real-time AI apps
“Lead software engineer (3+ years) who built and scaled an AI product backend at Cosmo AGI from the ground up using FastAPI/Postgres/Redis/vector DB, targeting sub-200ms latency and supporting 1000+ active users. Strong in production-grade security and observability (OAuth/JWT, RBAC, Postgres RLS, Prometheus/Sentry), plus DevOps automation (Docker, GitHub Actions, blue-green deploys) with measurable impact on uptime, incidents, engagement, and deployment speed.”
Dhyey Desai
Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in RAG, multimodal AI, and LLM systems
“Built and shipped 'PetPulse,' a production AI pet-health note system that records voice notes, transcribes them, converts transcripts into structured symptom/event data, and supports grounded Q&A over a user’s notes and vet PDFs. Demonstrates full-stack LLM product execution (FastAPI + GPT-4 + Firebase), with concrete reliability/performance work (async endpoints, caching, RAG/embeddings, function calling) and user-centered iteration with a non-technical product stakeholder.”
Zuocheng Li
Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web and Android development
“Early-career developer whose experience comes from classroom projects but has completed full end-to-end web app delivery: implemented login/search/favorites, integrated external APIs, and deployed to Google Cloud for multi-device use. Demonstrates user-centered iteration by recruiting friends to test and provide feedback, and has hands-on production-style debugging experience (e.g., resolving CORS issues during deployment).”
Jayanti Lahoti
Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems, ML, and robotics perception
“Robotics software engineer with autonomous driving lab experience at UCSD, building and optimizing ROS2 perception and control pipelines (camera-based real-time object detection) with a strong focus on low-latency performance and robust message interfaces. Also brings production deployment experience from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, using Docker and Kubernetes for containerized environments and deployment pipelines.”
Sutej Singh
Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in ATM platforms and backend modernization
“Software engineer with hands-on embedded/robotics coursework experience (Arduino sensor integration and input handling built from scratch without external libraries) and strong DevOps/engineering productivity impact at work, including leading a CI/CD enhancement that runs only impacted tests to catch issues before PR approval.”
Sabrina Liu
Junior Robotics & ML Engineer specializing in robot learning and simulation
“Robotics engineer with a 2024 internship building an end-to-end software stack for an autonomous humanoid robot that follows natural-language audio commands to make coffee and deliver snacks, including perception (OpenCV), mapping, and ROS Navigation. Also contributing to a robotics foundation model effort by building data preprocessing pipelines using GroundingDINO and SAM2, and has multi-robot coordination experience with algorithms designed to handle real-world communication drops.”
Yunxi Zhu
Entry-level Robotics & Automation Engineer specializing in robot learning and manufacturing automation
“Robotics software engineer focused on real-time teleoperation and high-quality robot-learning data pipelines, including synchronized multimodal sensing (RGB-D, tactile, joint states) for Diffusion Policy training on a bimanual ALOHA robot. Strong ROS practitioner who debugs real-time control issues with ROS tooling and builds simulation environments in Isaac Lab and PyBullet; also packages data-collection stacks with Docker.”
Junior Robotics & Controls Engineer specializing in UAV autonomy and embedded systems
“Robotics software engineer focused on autonomous drones and mobile robotics: implemented a sliding mode inner-loop controller and a RealSense T265 VIO state-estimation pipeline integrated into ArduPilot EKF3 for GPS-denied indoor flight. Strong simulation-to-deployment experience (Gazebo/MAVROS to firmware), ROS2 networking/debugging, and hands-on validation through multi-sensor trials and log analysis.”
Saksham Khatwani
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in NLP and search systems
“Built an AI journaling app at HackCU 2025 featuring a speaking AI avatar with long-term memory via RAG (ChromaDB) and low-latency microservices coordinated through Kafka, including deployment under AMD/non-CUDA constraints using a quantized Llama 8B model. Also has Goldman Sachs experience deploying a Trade UI on Kubernetes with CI/CD rollback automation, plus a healthcare AI internship at CU Anschutz collaborating closely with physicians on diagnostic reasoning and dataset annotation.”
Rifat Khan
Mid-level Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer specializing in scientific computing, CFD, and ML systems
“Robotics/control-focused engineer who built and validated a series elastic actuator control stack end-to-end (dynamic modeling, torque/position control, simulation, and experimental real-time debugging on hardware). Deep simulation background (OpenFOAM/COMSOL/Abaqus) and practical reproducibility tooling (Docker/CI), with conceptual ROS/ROS2 knowledge and confidence ramping into ROS-based stacks.”
Jackson Dike
Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in Machine Learning and AI
“Master’s-level candidate with an academic project portfolio, including ownership of a Python-based video game recommendation system using unsupervised clustering. Has hands-on experience designing the system approach and validating recommendation quality with test cases, plus teaching assistant experience instructing Git/GitHub workflows; limited exposure to Kubernetes, GitOps, and large-scale infrastructure.”
Daniel Wahab
Junior Embedded/Robotics Software Engineer specializing in autonomous drones
“Robotics software engineer focused on simulation-heavy development, recently building a 6-robot swarm in Gazebo with custom terrain and per-robot A* path planning while researching PSO-based swarm algorithms. Experienced with ROS 2 multi-node communication patterns and autonomous drone simulation using ArduPilot (ap_dds), with a track record of debugging real-time behavior issues through disciplined isolation and incremental testing.”
Darshi Jain
Mid-level Customer Success Manager specializing in ads, product strategy, and analytics
“Revenue-focused seller with experience at Amazon and Vedanta, combining data-driven prospecting, account expansion, and GTM process building. Stands out for turning performance insights into repeatable growth motions—driving $3.1M annual revenue uplift and 40% format adoption at Amazon, while also building new-market playbooks from scratch in high-ambiguity industrial segments.”
Christos Boutsikas
Mid-level Research Assistant specializing in randomized numerical linear algebra and ML
“Computer-vision-focused candidate with internship experience at ASML (Silicon Valley) building object detection models (YOLO, RT-DETR) for SEM defect inspection. Worked end-to-end on preparing multi-resolution datasets and tuning/training strategies, noting improved performance on low-quality images when training jointly on higher-resolution data.”
Ryan Sojan
Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, data pipelines, and automation
“Software engineer with hands-on experience building a distributed ticketing system on AWS (Terraform, Go, MySQL) focused on high-concurrency reliability (locks/queues to prevent duplicate ticket confirmations) and load-tested performance. Also independently owned and shipped an Airflow automation script to stop/restart workflows during deployments with email notifications, reducing manual operational effort.”
Ahmed Atallah
Senior Controls & Localization Engineer specializing in autonomy, sensor fusion, and MPC
“Robotics software engineer focused on state estimation and localization reliability, with deep hands-on EKF tuning/validation using DGPS ground truth and integrity-risk-based uncertainty calibration. Built middleware-agnostic interfaces with ROS wrappers to enable repeatable ROS bag playback testing, and implemented CI at Caterpillar to automatically build the localization stack and run unit tests plus bag-based regressions before merge.”
Jayanti Lahoti
Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI and cloud-native systems
“Backend/systems-oriented engineer focused on building production-constrained LLM agent workflows that automate repetitive operator tasks via intent/entity extraction, retrieval grounding, and structured action recommendations with human-in-the-loop review. Emphasizes reliability through deterministic orchestration, strict tool/function schemas, observability, and disciplined evaluation/feedback loops, with strong experience handling messy multi-service operational data and idempotent execution.”
Krishna Kodur
Mid-level Robotics & AI Researcher specializing in human-robot interaction and reinforcement learning
“Robotics software engineer who built an end-to-end mobile manipulation platform (Franka Panda on a Clearpath Ridgeback) for a simulated-kitchen human-robot interaction study with natural speech commands, implemented in Python/ROS. Has hands-on experience integrating diverse sensors (RealSense, LiDAR, biosignals) with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Hugging Face) and fine-tuning GPT-Neo, plus simulation (Gazebo) and modern deployment practices (Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD).”
Zhiwen Zhao
Junior Data Engineer specializing in cloud ETL and big data platforms
“Data engineer focused on transit/transportation datasets, building Spark-based pipelines that ingest from Oracle/APIs, apply PySpark data-quality fixes, and publish star-schema fact tables to Azure Data Lake. Experienced troubleshooting complex Spark failures (using checkpointing to manage long lineage) and operating Airflow-driven backfills and GitLab CI deployments for production DAGs.”
Ansh Parikh
Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and machine learning
“Full-stack web developer with experience owning products from client discovery through launch and post-launch iteration, including a complete freelance build for an interior design firm and a large-scale React/TypeScript migration during an internship at Gateway Ticketing Systems. Stands out for balancing strong visual design with performance and SEO, and for improving emergency-use UX in an MVP product through flow simplification and A/B testing.”
Saumya Pailwan
Junior Software Engineer specializing in applied AI and audio ML
“Engineer with unusually mature experience leading AI-assisted development, including orchestrating multiple coding agents across a data pipeline feature as if managing a small engineering team. Stands out for balancing aggressive adoption of AI tools with disciplined judgment around architecture, security, and merge quality, and for translating that experience into stronger tech leadership.”
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend and distributed systems
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web development and data engineering