Vetted Engineering Professionals

Akhil Kunala

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud-native FinTech

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Amazon engineer with 5+ years of experience who built an AI-assisted log investigation and triage workflow that cut debugging time by about 30% during on-call incidents. Combines observability tooling like CloudWatch and Splunk with Python, prompt engineering, and RAG-based diagnostics, and has practical experience orchestrating agentic AI workflows with a strong human-in-the-loop reliability focus.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at AWS building a global alarm processing platform (Python, Lambda/SQS/DynamoDB) handling traffic spikes and reliability issues; resolved duplicate alerts and latency under load by fixing hot partitions and enforcing idempotency. Previously at Cognizant, built Java/PostgreSQL backend workflows for healthcare dashboards using pre-aggregated summary tables, strong SQL optimization, and state-driven job orchestration with ELK-based observability and production guardrails.”

Srinivas Vasudevan

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech

Durham, NC3y exp

“Built an end-to-end payment fraud monitoring dashboard with a React/TypeScript frontend, GraphQL backend, Redis hot path, and a production RAG chatbot, while solving real-time latency and scaling issues. Also shipped an OCR system on AWS EKS for a live manufacturing line at Troxler, improving production accuracy by 15% with custom preprocessing and model tuning.”

Sanjay Santhanam

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Mid-level AI Software Engineer specializing in LLMs and FinTech data systems

San Jose, CA4y exp

“Backend/AI systems engineer focused on productionizing agentic document-processing workflows for large financial PDFs. They describe owning deployments end-to-end, combining Python, Redis, LLM function calling, RAG/ReAct-style orchestration, and strong reliability practices to deliver 80% faster processing, reduce parsing errors from 12% to ~1%, and sustain 99.9% uptime in high-concurrency environments.”

“Built end-to-end AI features across both fitness and insurance domains, including a full-stack personalized workout recommendation system and a production RAG-based insurance QA assistant at Relevance Labs. Stands out for combining backend/distributed systems skills with practical LLM architecture, evaluation, and risk-aware human-in-the-loop design; notably reduced unnecessary LLM calls by 40% while improving latency and answer reliability.”

Amre Amer

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Senior Unity XR Engineer specializing in mixed reality, ML, and robotics

Reno, NV14y exp

“Unity/C# developer with unusually broad hands-on experience spanning gameplay systems, VR/Quest hand-tracking ML, low-latency LAN multiplayer, and AR enterprise training tools built from CAD data. They’ve delivered measurable performance wins like 10x smaller animation files and 72Hz runtime control, and have owned end-to-end technical features from data pipeline design through stakeholder buy-in and shipped prototypes.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved an internal multi-agent AI research platform (Electron + FastAPI) integrating OpenAI, focused on fast, reproducible experimentation with strong observability and run metadata for debugging. Has led incremental backend refactors with feature flags and parallel validation, and brings production-grade access control expertise from ServiceNow (table/field ACLs and row-level-style enforcement).”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building Flask REST APIs (auth, CRUD, S3 media uploads) and driving measurable Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance gains (p95 reduced to 200–400ms by eliminating N+1s and switching to keyset pagination). Implemented multi-tenant isolation with strict tenant scoping plus Postgres RLS, and built an OpenAI-powered quiz generation pipeline using queued workers, structured JSON outputs, and Celery/Redis optimizations to stabilize high-throughput workloads.”

“Backend engineer focused on scalable, security-first platform architecture—recently built an end-to-end centralized access-control system that launched successfully with ~50k early adopters and was designed to support ~10x traffic growth. Experienced in production authn/authz (token verification, handoff/session migration), and in de-risking migrations via feature flags, phased rollouts, A/B testing, and Splunk-based monitoring.”

“CMU candidate with hands-on experience taking LLM concepts from research prototypes toward production-ready designs (structured outputs, guardrails, failure-scenario evaluation). Also partnered with sales/customer teams at Mazecare to drive adoption with Dontia Alliance (largest dental clinic chain in Singapore) and engaged Singapore government stakeholders, bridging clinical workflow needs with IT security/integration concerns.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with 5 years at Shopify building and maintaining internal tooling. Led modernization from ERB/jQuery to React/TypeScript/GraphQL and improved performance on large datasets with server-side pagination. Also delivered an end-to-end search feature with filters, URL-driven state, pagination, and error correction, using strong review/testing and zero-downtime rollout practices.”

“Cloud infrastructure/product engineer with end-to-end ownership of cloud-native storage/observability products, including taking an internal CMS to Google Cloud Marketplace and scaling to ~40,000 deployments. Strong in Kubernetes-based platforms (Operators, microservices, RabbitMQ) and performance/scalability work (e.g., 200% cluster capacity increase) plus internal tooling that materially improved SRE/QA debugging and release velocity.”

“Has experience improving an ad server workflow by standardizing genre selection with templates, enabling reuse across multiple accounts and measuring success via hours of manual labor saved. Also delivered an internal technical demo on a device-metrics-to-AWS-CloudWatch logging workflow using whiteboarding and PowerPoint to onboard a new team.”

“JavaScript/React-focused engineer with meaningful open-source impact: redesigned cache key normalization for a client-side data fetching/caching library using deterministic hashing, added robust test coverage, and collaborated closely with maintainers through GitHub PRs/issues. Also drives measurable runtime improvements by profiling hot paths, refactoring core abstractions, and validating with benchmarks/load tests; has taken ownership of unowned initiatives like improving relevance/ranking in an internal search platform.”

“Full-stack AI/LLM engineer who has deployed a production LLM backend (Mistral 14B) on GKE to auto-transform datasets and generate runnable ML training pipelines, addressing hallucinations, schema mismatch, latency, and burst scaling with caching/prompt compression and HPA. Also has internship experience (Splunk, BlackOffer) delivering data automation and 10+ Power BI dashboards for non-technical stakeholders with measurable efficiency gains.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with e-commerce and analytics experience who modernized synchronous order workflows into a Kafka-based event-driven architecture (Java/Spring Boot) to reduce checkout latency and peak-traffic failures. Has built production FastAPI services with JWT/RBAC and strong testing/observability, delivered React+TypeScript reporting dashboards, and handled AWS scaling incidents end-to-end (RDS read latency mitigated with read replicas and query tuning).”

“Full-stack engineer with Cisco supply-chain and Wipro internal platform experience, focused on customer-facing UI performance and secure backend services. Built a bulk Excel inventory upload feature (Spring Boot/Apache POI) that cut manual effort ~80%, and delivered high-scale Angular/React dashboards with strong reliability/observability (FastAPI, JWT, Docker, AWS, AppDynamics).”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer building a GenAI-powered case summarization workflow for a telemetry dashboard, spanning React/TypeScript UI (confidence indicators, reasoning traces) and Python/FastAPI backend with caching to control LLM latency/cost. Has operated services on AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS Postgres, S3) and Kubernetes, and has hands-on experience resolving real production latency incidents through query/index optimization and caching.”

“QA professional with ~7 years of experience working in Scrum teams, involved from requirements and user story creation through test strategy/planning, execution, defect triage in Jira, and verification. Highlighted catching multiple issues early on an AI-driven project to avoid production regressions and escalating a blocker where a frequently used UI was broken to get it fixed quickly. Has not shipped an AAA game title.”

“AppSec-focused customer advisor with hands-on experience integrating SAST/DAST/SCA into production CI/CD (Azure DevOps) and designing secure agent/scanning deployments in AWS (least-privilege IAM, private subnets, VPC endpoints). Demonstrates strong incident troubleshooting using logs/metrics/traces to diagnose load-related failures (timeouts/retry storms) and drive durable fixes, while tailoring risk/tradeoff communication across engineering, security, and leadership stakeholders.”

“Customer-facing technical support/solutions professional with experience at Stripe and Intuit helping developers take payment API and webhook integrations from testing to production. Uses Datadog and AWS CloudWatch to diagnose real-time production issues (e.g., webhook signature validation errors causing retries/delays) and unblocks customer deployments through hands-on, developer-oriented guidance.”