Vetted Full Stack Developers in Illinois

“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 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.”

“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.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (70% application-layer) who has shipped multi-tenant RBAC for a formerly single-tenant platform, cutting infrastructure costs by 50%. Built high-impact customer-facing features including analytics dashboards (40% retention lift) and a React/TypeScript scheduling grid that reduced navigation time by 60% and setup time by 80%, with solid AWS operations and Postgres performance tuning experience.”

Mohammed Saalim Kartapillai

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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.”