Vetted Engineering Professionals in Illinois

Nazar Fedyk

Screened

Senior QA Automation Engineer specializing in end-to-end and API test automation

Chicago, IL7y exp

“QA automation engineer in a banking domain who owned an end-to-end automation suite for critical money movement flows (onboarding, funding, transfers). Demonstrated impact through edge-case coverage (min balance, boundary amounts, repeated actions, timeouts), CI/CD gating with smoke vs regression suites, and catching a high-impact timing defect where UI success masked incorrect balance updates.”

Mohammed Saalim Kartapillai

Screened

Senior Backend/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in data platforms and cloud microservices

Chicago, Illinois7y exp

“Backend engineer who built and shipped an end-to-end AI outreach product (LazyMails) combining a LinkedIn-scraping Chrome extension with a FastAPI/Postgres backend and Gemini-powered email generation, achieving major personal productivity gains. Also has enterprise experience at TCS on Humana’s 500k+ user wellness platform running Kubernetes microservices with Azure DevOps CI/CD, plus Kafka-based real-time eligibility event streaming and GitOps-driven operations.”

“AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer focused on production Linux environments, building secure CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub) to deploy Dockerized services to AWS ECS and automating infrastructure with Terraform/CloudFormation. Strong in operational troubleshooting and scaling (CloudWatch-driven performance remediation, Auto Scaling/ELB, multi-AZ HA patterns), but explicitly does not have IBM Power/AIX or PowerHA/HACMP experience.”

Omar Rahmoun

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and AI platforms

Chicago, IL5y exp

“Senior engineer transitioning into a lead engineer role who is actively overseeing 5 developers and championing an AI-first development culture. Stands out for a highly structured approach to AI-assisted software delivery, including context engineering, phased planning, multi-agent orchestration, and deliberate hallucination mitigation rather than 'vibe coding.'”

“Full-stack product engineer who has shipped customer-facing features end-to-end, including a product detail page backed by Java/Spring Boot microservices and a React/TypeScript UI. Demonstrated measurable impact through performance and maintainability improvements (30% faster APIs, 25% less duplicated UI code, 40% reduced API complexity via GraphQL) and has operated/scaled apps on AWS with CI/CD, monitoring, and incident-driven scaling fixes.”

Petrus Breedt

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and telecom platforms

Lake Forest, IL17y exp

“Engineer with deep telecom and platform experience who helped build a startup product from a 10-person company through growth to acquisition, contributing architecture, coding, and Docker-based scaling. Strong in Go, Java, TypeScript/React, and event-driven systems, with hands-on experience building high-throughput mobile operator platforms and healthcare claims integrations under real production load.”

Ajinkya Nazare

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Game Platform Engineer specializing in Unity mobile games

Chicago, IL10y exp

“Unity engineer with 8+ years of experience who owned Pitch5T end-to-end, spanning core gameplay systems, data-driven bot AI, mobile optimization, and custom real-time PvP networking. Particularly strong in building designer-friendly LiveOps workflows using telemetry and remote config so balancing could happen without repeated engineering intervention.”

Snehitha Kola

Screened

Mid-level AI Software Engineer specializing in LLM applications and backend systems

Libertyville, IL3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping production AI in a clinical data setting, including an end-to-end workflow that converts unstructured clinical notes into structured analytics-ready data. Stands out for combining React and backend engineering with practical LLM reliability techniques, delivering measurable gains in extraction accuracy (+30%) and analytics responsiveness (+40%).”

“Built Meet.AI end-to-end and made concrete architecture/performance decisions (RPC with type-safe integration; SSR + query prefetching for instant data display). Also created a Python tool at Abbott to resynchronize Ansible inventories and eliminate manual intervention by scheduling it in a Jenkins pipeline; has hands-on Docker/microservices experience including serving a pretrained LLM.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Azure and AWS: built FastAPI + PostgreSQL services with Azure AD OAuth2/JWT auth and strong reliability patterns (timeouts, retries, correlation IDs). Delivered AWS Lambda/ECS solutions with Terraform/CI-CD and cost controls (SQS buffering, reserved concurrency), and built/operated AWS Glue ETL pipelines into Redshift while modernizing legacy SAS reporting into Python microservices with parity testing.”