Vetted Engineering Professionals

“Backend-focused Python/Flask engineer who owned REST APIs for a video analysis system, including preprocessing, ML inference integration, and post-processing into time-aligned predictions consumable by a React UI. Demonstrated practical performance/scalability work by decoupling API request handling from CPU-heavy processing and adding timing instrumentation to identify and optimize bottlenecks.”

“Backend engineer who owned a Python task management API with JWT auth, async notifications, and performance work (DB optimization/caching) to handle high volumes. Led an on-prem to Azure private cloud migration at Morgan Stanley using GitOps and IaC (Terraform/ARM) with phased rollout and rollback planning. Also built a Kafka real-time streaming pipeline with exactly-once/idempotent consumers and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a real-time business analytics dashboard backend (Python/Flask/MongoDB) and built Kafka event-streaming pipelines with idempotent processing and DLQs. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying containerized microservices to AWS EKS with CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/CodePipeline) and ArgoCD auto-sync/drift detection, plus hands-on support for phased hybrid cloud/on-prem migrations using feature flags and replication.”

“Embodied AI / robotics-focused ML engineer with experience at JPMorgan and EY building language-to-robot control systems that connect transformer/LLM intent to safe real-world robotic actions. Designed production-grade, low-latency architectures (Kafka/Redis, monitoring, CI/CD) and applied sim-to-real and model distillation to make research ideas deployable on physical systems.”

“Operations/industrial automation engineer with several years supporting and upgrading controls, PLCs, networks, and IoT across 300+ North American sites. Led a zero-downtime IoT safety-device integration into an existing plant control/SCADA environment by building a parallel secure network and a Python/Flask + AWS/SQL telemetry pipeline, avoiding a major outage and saving ~$300K. Also co-founded an IoT + ML flood monitoring pilot shaped through direct collaboration with urban planners, emphasizing geospatial flood mapping for decision-making.”

“Backend engineer focused on scalable Python/Flask services and high-performance PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy systems, with demonstrated wins like reducing N+1-driven response times to under 200ms and cutting P95 latency below 1s via background queues and caching. Has production experience operationalizing ML models as Dockerized APIs on AWS (S3/Lambda) with monitoring (CloudWatch/ELK), plus robust multi-tenant isolation using JWT-driven tenant context and row-level security.”

“Backend engineer with strong Python/FastAPI microservices ownership, including an ML-serving service with embeddings, async DB access, and Redis caching to reduce latency under high load. Experienced deploying and operating containerized services on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD/Helm) with automated CI/CD, plus hands-on Kafka streaming pipeline tuning and enterprise migration work (Infosys) using blue-green/active-passive strategies.”

“Backend-focused Python/Flask engineer with strong performance and scalability experience across PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy optimization, caching, and async processing. Has implemented multi-tenant data isolation (schema/db per tenant with RBAC and encryption) and integrated TensorFlow-based ML inference behind a Flask REST API using Redis caching, batching, and async execution; reports measurable wins like cutting endpoints from 6–8s to ~2s and increasing throughput 3–4x via Celery queues.”

“PayPal ML/AI practitioner who built and productionized a hybrid recommendation engine (BERT/LLM embeddings + collaborative filtering + XGBoost ranking) on AWS with end-to-end MLOps and orchestration. Addressed real-world issues like cold start and embedding latency (ONNX, clustering, caching, PySpark/Delta Lake) and drove a 27% lift in upsell conversion via A/B testing and stakeholder collaboration with marketing.”

“QA tester with Android native app experience spanning manual, automation, functional, and performance testing, including maintaining Python-based automation scripts across frequent software and device updates. Interested in pivoting into console game testing and has baseline familiarity with platform certification concepts (Sony TRC/Microsoft XR/Nintendo LOT), plus uses AI tools to help analyze large volumes of issues and reduce missed defects.”

“Backend engineer with strong performance and security instincts: built a Flask API for readability metrics with clean, testable modular design; optimized SQLAlchemy/Postgres to eliminate N+1 issues (800ms to 120ms). Also implemented an LLM-powered natural-language travel search using Claude Sonnet + Amadeus with RAG and anti-exploitation safeguards, plus multi-tenant isolation via Postgres RLS and Redis caching that cut search latency from ~20s to ~4–5s while reducing storage costs.”

“At HPE, led and deployed an enterprise-grade LLM document intelligence platform for an insurance client, automating extraction from highly variable PDFs/scans/emails and raising field accuracy from 74% to 93%. Built a LangChain/Pinecone/OpenSearch RAG framework to cut hallucinations by 37% and operationalized LangSmith evals in CI, driving a 41% triage accuracy lift and >33% fewer incorrect resolutions while partnering closely with claims operations via HITL workflows.”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer with experience at AirKitchenz, Uber, and Vivma Software, building production systems on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions). Has a track record of major performance wins (DynamoDB latency 2s to <150ms; Postgres query 2s to ~180ms) and shipping LLM-powered onboarding and ticket-routing workflows with strong guardrails (schema validation, confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop escalation).”

“Software engineer at Procter & Gamble focused on warehouse/operations systems, building near-real-time order/inventory visibility using Java/Spring Boot, React, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis with measurable latency and load-time gains. Also shipped internal LLM/RAG knowledge assistants grounded in company runbooks and workflows, implementing guardrails and an evaluation loop that drove concrete retrieval improvements (document chunking) and regression prevention.”

“Built a production RAG-based NBA player scouting assistant that embeds player profiles into FAISS, orchestrates retrieval and LLM recommendations with LangChain, and surfaces results via embedded Tableau dashboards. Demonstrates strong focus on evaluation/monitoring (batch tests, LLM-as-judge, latency/failure/token metrics) and has experience translating non-technical founder goals into DAPT + fine-tuning plans on curated data.”

“Software engineer with fintech/retirement-fund domain experience who led an internal dashboard consolidating fund transactions, approvals, and reporting into a single workflow tool. Strong in full-stack delivery (React + REST APIs + DB optimization) and in scaling/cleaning messy operational data via modular ETL pipelines (Python/Node), iterating post-launch with performance improvements like caching, pagination, and enhanced filtering.”

“Full-stack Java engineer (4+ years) who led end-to-end modernization of high-latency order management systems into cloud-native reactive microservices (Spring WebFlux) and built real-time React/Redux dashboards, reporting 99.98% uptime and 22% infra cost savings. Also headed a production RAG-based Order Support Bot at Dell Technologies with embeddings + MongoDB semantic search, automated validation and human fallback, plus CI/CD-driven LLM eval loops to reduce hallucinations.”

“Built and shipped production systems spanning real-time operational dashboards and an LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using RAG (embeddings + vector DB). Demonstrates strong focus on reliability and iteration: implemented guardrails and evaluation loops (human review, hallucination tracking, regression prevention) and improved performance/scalability through query optimization, caching, and retrieval tuning.”

“Fintech-focused engineer who built an end-to-end KYC verification pipeline for advisor onboarding using Flask microservices, Celery/Redis, and AWS (Lambda/ECS/EC2) with CloudWatch-driven scaling and latency optimizations. Also shipped a production internal knowledge assistant using RAG + embeddings/vector search with guardrails (similarity-based fallback, prompt-injection protections) and an evaluation loop with compliance specialist review that drove measurable retrieval improvements.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, event-driven systems—building Golang microservices and serverless pipelines with strong data validation, observability (CloudWatch/Splunk/New Relic), and reliability patterns (retries/DLQs). Has also operated distributed web scraping/data collection with schema versioning and Step Functions backfills, and ships well-documented, versioned REST/WebSocket APIs for internal and external consumers.”

“UNIX/IBM Power administrator with ~20 years of experience across AIX, Solaris, and Linux, including HMC/LPAR provisioning, NIM-based builds, and PowerHA (IBM Spectrum System Mirror) clustering with validated failover as part of rolling patching. Has led cross-team infrastructure work (network/storage/DB/SAP), built SOPs used by junior admins, and automated SLES patching and .GOV-aligned hardening checks; also supported an AWS re-platform migration that later reverted to on-prem ESXi due to cost.”

“Backend/DevOps engineer pivoting into robotics/space, building hands-on ROS2 (Humble) skills via Gazebo simulations and experimenting with Nav2 and slam_toolbox. Brings strong distributed-systems and real-time debugging practices (profiling, instrumentation, QoS/retry patterns) and is actively learning perception and control fundamentals to transition into autonomous robotics.”

“Product/UX designer with academic HCI experience (CMU HCII) and Tufts coursework who has built research-driven products ranging from a fiber-focused community wellness app to a VR emotion-inducing gamified experience. Also completed a product design internship at a stealth consumer robotics startup in the beauty industry, conducting in-salon field research and prototyping human touchpoints, and has led a website team bridging UX and engineering with hands-on coding knowledge.”

“Internship experience at Qualitest building and deploying an LLM-powered test automation system that reduced manual test creation and improved efficiency (~40%). Demonstrates strong production engineering for LLM systems (timeouts/retries/monitoring/caching, prompt optimization, batching) and has scaled workflows to 100+ concurrent jobs; also has orchestration experience with AWS Step Functions and Kubernetes.”