Vetted Full Stack Developers in Illinois

Brian Sanders

Screened

Senior Backend Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and scalable data pipelines

Chicago, IL12y exp

“Backend/ML platform engineer from Snapsheet who owned production Python services and data pipelines for insurance claims, including an AI document classification/summarization FastAPI service on ECS/Fargate processing 1M+ documents/year. Strong in AWS infrastructure (Terraform, CI/CD, secrets/IAM, autoscaling), Glue/PySpark ETL with schema evolution controls, and legacy SAS-to-microservices modernization with safe, feature-flagged rollouts and measurable performance wins.”

“Built and owned Prism, a real-time collaborative coding platform, making key architectural choices around deterministic event ordering and a backend source-of-truth to improve trust under concurrent edits. Also created a Python-based bug analysis and test automation suite that became part of standard engineering workflow, cutting debugging time by ~95% while improving fault detection coverage.”

“Pragmatic AI-focused builder who uses tools like ChatGPT and Claude to accelerate development while maintaining strict review, testing, and architectural ownership. Has hands-on experience designing lightweight multi-agent workflows, including a RAG-style system with separate retrieval and response roles, and approaches new AI trends through direct experimentation rather than hype.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Software engineer/product-focused builder who delivered real-time supply chain inventory dashboards to replace a legacy system, integrating directly with ERP/WMS/TMS to eliminate manual reporting. Uses TypeScript/React with Redux Toolkit on the frontend and microservices + REST APIs on the backend, with performance improvements via Redis caching and a strong focus on user-feedback-driven prioritization and observability in distributed systems.”