Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Chicago Metro

“Open-source JavaScript library contributor/maintainer focused on performance and usability—uses profiling and user feedback to optimize large-dataset processing and modernize abstractions. Refactored a nested-callback event handling system into an observer-pattern dispatcher with batched event queues, reducing CPU usage and improving maintainability; also handles community-reported crashes by reproducing issues, fixing memory leaks, and updating docs.”

RAJ KUMAR

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend engineer at Discover who built and scaled Python/Flask services for a card dispute resolution platform, tackling long-running external network validations with Celery+Redis and delivering measurable gains (response time ~3s to <300ms; throughput +40%). Experienced in high-scale PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy optimization (partitioning, read replicas, N+1 avoidance), event-driven systems with Kafka, and integrating ML fraud detection using AWS SageMaker/Lambda/ECS with clear separation of real-time vs batch processing.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Freddie Mac building customer-facing financial data products that unify information from multiple backend systems into a single interface. Strong in React/TypeScript and Java Spring Boot microservices, with hands-on experience improving performance, scalability, and security in production through API optimization, caching, and OAuth2/JWT-based access control.”

“Full-stack engineer (4+ years) with Citigroup experience building a modular banking dashboard using React/TypeScript/Redux and a Java Spring Boot microservices backend (12+ services) integrated with Kafka. Strong in reliability/observability and cloud operations on AWS (EC2/S3/Lambda, CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK, IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation), with quantified improvements in latency, development speed, and data pipeline correctness.”

Serkan Yildirim

Screened

Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer / Tech Lead specializing in scalable web platforms

Chicago, IL12y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end delivery of a bag tag management application and contributed to a bank wealth application using micro-frontends. Emphasizes scalable architecture, reusable component systems (Storybook), performance techniques (lazy loading/code splitting), and quality/security tooling (Veracode, Wiz Scan, SonarQube) with a disciplined multi-environment release process.”

“Built and deployed a live production LLM document Q&A platform (DocumindAI) with an adaptive RAG pipeline (Claude + Cohere embeddings + pgvector), source-cited structured outputs, and engineered fallbacks for reliability and sub-2s latency. Also has enterprise integration experience at Tech Mahindra working with messy IFS ERP XML integrations, using validation/normalization and JTA transactions to prevent partial writes and data corruption.”

Niranjaan Munuswamy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud and data engineering

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Cigna evolving REST API services backed by PostgreSQL, emphasizing reliability/correctness, scalability, and observability. Has hands-on production experience with FastAPI (contract-first design, Pydantic schemas), performance tuning (indexes, caching), and secure auth patterns (OAuth/JWT, RBAC, row-level security via Supabase), plus low-risk incremental rollouts using feature flags and dual writes.”