Vetted Python Developers

Nikitha Kommidi

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection, NLP, and MLOps

6y exp

“Built a production real-time fraud detection and customer-support automation platform at Citibank, tackling extreme class imbalance (reported ~1:5000) and strict latency constraints. Combines hands-on MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow; Snowflake/Spark/S3 integrations; CI/CD model promotion) with cross-functional delivery to Risk & Compliance focused on interpretability and reducing false positives.”

ASHISH DONDAPATI

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI for Financial Services

San Francisco, USA6y exp

“ML/AI engineer with strong financial-services domain experience who has built production systems spanning trade anomaly detection, investment-research RAG, and agentic LLM workflows. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can take ML/GenAI from prototype to monitored production while balancing compliance, latency, cost, and reliability.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building secure Django/DRF APIs (JWT RS256 + rotating refresh tokens), background processing with Celery, and strong reliability practices (timeouts, retries/backoff, structured logging, audit trails). Has delivered AWS solutions spanning Lambda + ECS with IaC/CI-CD and built Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines with schema evolution and data-quality quarantine patterns; also modernized a legacy SAS pipeline to Python/PySpark with parallel-run parity validation and phased rollout.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped real-time, customer-facing dashboards and ticketing/payment features at Freshworks and Global Payments. Strong in Python API design (Django/Flask/FastAPI) and React/TypeScript UIs, with hands-on experience scaling PostgreSQL for high transaction volumes and operating services on AWS, including incident response and HIPAA-aligned security controls.”

“Backend engineer who built Flask-based microservices for a high-throughput risk engine, using Kafka for streaming decoupling and Redis for low-latency caching, with PostgreSQL + Cassandra for mixed relational and time-series needs. Has hands-on experience productionizing ML inference (Azure OpenAI/TensorFlow) behind REST APIs with async queues, batching, and caching, plus multi-tenant isolation via schema separation and RBAC with per-tenant rate limiting.”

“Built an internal AI-powered document search and Q&A platform at BNY that let employees query company documents in natural language and get grounded answers in seconds. Brings practical full-stack and LLM systems experience across React/TypeScript, FastAPI, Pinecone, OpenAI, and Claude, with clear emphasis on retrieval quality, hallucination reduction, and production monitoring.”

“Built and owned an AI-powered real-time financial fraud detection and monitoring platform end-to-end, spanning product decisions, backend architecture, frontend dashboards, deployment, and production support. Their work scaled to 120M transactions/day and materially improved fraud detection accuracy from 78% to 94%, showing rare breadth across distributed systems, observability, and React-based operational analytics.”

Arthi R

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

Remote – Washington, D.C.5y exp

“Backend engineer with fintech/banking experience (e.g., Canara Bank) building secure Python/Flask microservices for financial reporting and unified data access. Strong in Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance optimization (including materialized views) and in productionizing ML services on AWS (Lambda/ECS/CloudWatch) with Docker, model registries, and blue-green deployments, plus multi-tenant isolation via JWT-based middleware.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI APIs secured with JWT and delivering AWS-based data processing solutions using Lambda and ECS Fargate. Has worked with Snowflake/third-party API sources and targets including DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Redshift, and Glue, and uses CloudWatch/X-Ray for monitoring and troubleshooting. Seeking ~$65/hr and is open to onsite work in Bethesda, MD.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI support platform at Mechanize (FastAPI/LangChain/Pinecone/React) with rigorous evals and guardrails, driving 45% fewer support tickets and ~$280K annual savings. Also led a high-risk legacy modernization at Argo AI, incrementally extracting a monolithic Django backend using Strangler Fig + feature flags while supporting 10K+ concurrent users.”