Vetted Agile Professionals

Austin Pierce-Ptak

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and ETL systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership experience across enterprise SaaS and high-volume data systems, including PostgreSQL/.NET services at Visual Lease and ETL pipelines at Broadridge processing millions of records for Fortune 500 clients. Stands out for combining production support, observability thinking, and pragmatic architecture tradeoffs, while also experimenting with LLM-powered job application automation using Claude.”

“Software engineer focused on backend and full-stack development who is already integrating AI deeply into day-to-day engineering workflows. Stands out for experimenting with multi-agent setups where separate agents handle planning, coding, review, testing, and documentation, while maintaining strong human oversight around quality, security, and performance.”

“Backend-focused engineer with hands-on experience deploying AI-driven document processing and RAG-based workflows using Python, LangChain, FAISS, and REST APIs. Has owned projects from requirements through post-launch monitoring, including debugging production retrieval issues and building reliable pipelines for messy PDFs/scans and compliance-oriented document analysis.”

Frank Carrabba

Screened

Executive software engineering leader specializing in SaaS and enterprise product development

Seattle, WA34y exp

“Engineering leader with experience at Replenium, Savo Group, Radnet, and MatricOne, focused on business-aligned roadmaps and transparent, servant-style leadership. Notable for scaling teams quickly (18→36 in 6 months) and resolving high-impact performance incidents by leveraging DevOps data (reframed a suspected memory leak as a memory spike). Has led pragmatic build-vs-buy architecture decisions (waiting for a Microsoft transaction server) and uses Agile/CI/CD practices to drive consistent delivery.”

Naveen K

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered backend systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a real-time analytics and alerting dashboard built with React/TypeScript, Node.js, Kafka, Redis, and PostgreSQL. Also contributed to an internal LLM-powered support automation system, focusing on backend orchestration, RAG-based reliability, and Kubernetes deployment. Stands out for combining product-minded zero-to-one execution with strong distributed systems and AI integration experience.”

“Product leader and founder/co-founder type who helped build AI products from concept through pilot, including Mira, an AI-powered tourism platform that reached 60K users and 12K engagements during a Tuscany pilot. He appears especially strong at translating between executives and technical/design teams, structuring cross-functional delivery, and applying human-centered AI principles in education through a RAG-based K-12 tutoring product, TUUTOR.”

“Senior full-stack engineer with startup experience building multi-tenant B2B SaaS platforms for manufacturing and financial operations. Strongest in Python back-end development and React/TypeScript front ends, with hands-on AWS microservices, enterprise integrations like Siemens, and measurable performance gains including a 30% reduction in application load times.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building complex, real-time React/TypeScript products, including an AI-powered document Q&A dashboard and a geospatial analytics platform. Stands out for measurable performance wins—cutting UI interaction latency from roughly 300-800ms to 20-50ms—and for scaling map-based visualizations to tens of thousands of live entities using Mapbox GL, Deck.gl, WebGL, Web Workers, and Redux Toolkit.”

“Built a senior design project for Webquity LLC: a React/TypeScript Chrome extension and web app helping students with ADHD manage focus, tasks, and productivity across devices. Stands out for combining performance tuning, cross-device sync, accessibility-minded UX research, and polished UI touches like theming, weather-reactive backgrounds, and Lottie-based mascot animations.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership across React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL who has built real-time collaboration and analytics workflows end-to-end. Particularly compelling for high-growth AI product teams: they’ve also shipped a 0→1 AI-assisted dataset retrieval and summarization capability, balancing MVP speed with scalable architecture and post-launch performance tuning.”

“Founder-product leader who built Carefolk, an integrated care platform adopted within Ireland's Health Service Executive, and later led the transformation of DonorSee into a hybrid SaaS/marketplace platform with AI-powered nonprofit tooling. Particularly compelling for mission-driven roles: they repeatedly show how to use AI to reduce admin burden while preserving trust, empathy, and the core human relationship in healthcare, fundraising, and education.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack product engineer with experience in insurance and financial analytics, combining UI design, React/TypeScript implementation, and backend integration. Stands out for shipping data-heavy dashboards, real-time collaborative features, and early generative AI document-analysis workflows using Spring Boot, LangChain, and AWS Bedrock.”

“Backend-focused engineer with banking-domain deployment experience who has owned releases end-to-end, from discovery and API/database implementation through post-launch stabilization. Brings a reliability-first mindset across distributed systems, incident response, and messy real-world data handling, and has also applied that foundation to retrieval-based LLM workflows in production-oriented cloud environments.”

“Full-stack/backend-leaning engineer with hands-on experience building transaction-processing systems using React, TypeScript, Node.js, MySQL, and Spring Boot microservices. They have owned services in production on AWS EKS, diagnosed peak-traffic failures via CloudWatch, and driven architectural modernization to Kafka-based microservices that improved scalability, deployment speed, and reliability.”

“Startup recruiting operations professional from Harvey (Series G legal tech) who owned end-to-end candidate scheduling and helped scale hiring from a narrower customer success scope to broad GTM and G&A coverage across multiple global time zones. Stood out for driving ModernLoop adoption, creating recruiter-coordinator operating cadence, and preserving a high candidate-experience bar during rapid hiring growth.”

“UE5 Blueprint-focused gameplay/system designer who shipped an XR interactive experience (“Echoes of the Moon”), owning interaction logic, progression triggers, state management, and animation syncing through ship. Emphasizes modular component-based architecture with interfaces and data-table-driven tuning, plus strong profiling/optimization skills (refactoring Tick-heavy systems to event-driven) validated through 20–30 user playtests and mobile XR (Android) frame-budget constraints.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built a job-search automation SaaS using a modular Selenium ETL pipeline, rigorous testing/observability, and a cost-optimized two-pass LLM ranking approach. Has led high-integrity data extraction from messy multi-city PDF records (95% integrity) and managed modular production rollouts for a 20+ engineer team, with a strong security focus (deny-by-default, row-level access control) in an AI-assisted grading platform.”

“Software engineer who has shipped both core web platform features (secure user authentication/profile management) and production LLM systems. Built an internal documentation knowledge assistant using a full RAG pipeline (OpenAI embeddings, vector DB, semantic search, reranking) with evaluation loops and a scalable document-ingestion pipeline for PDFs/FAQs, iterating based on metrics and user feedback.”

“Software engineer with robotics and data-platform experience from CVS Health, spanning Java/Spring Boot microservices, secure APIs, React dashboards, and Snowflake/SSIS ETL optimization. Hands-on ROS 2 developer who built real-time LiDAR obstacle-detection nodes, improved SLAM performance, and coordinated multi-robot communication using DDS, with simulation/testing via Gazebo and CI/CD deployments using Docker and Jenkins.”

“Backend engineer with health-tech AI platform experience who designed a modular FastAPI/PostgreSQL architecture supporting real-time user data and swap-in AI workflows. Has hands-on production experience with observability (CloudWatch, structured logging, LangSmith/LangGraph/LangChain tracing), secure auth (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, RLS), and careful data-pipeline migrations using parallel runs and rollback planning.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered financial intelligence and forecasting platform at Northern Trust using a RAG architecture (LangChain + Hugging Face + FAISS) with end-to-end MLOps (Docker/Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow). Emphasized regulatory-grade explainability (SHAP/Power BI) and hallucination control (retrieval-only grounding), achieving ~30% forecasting accuracy improvement and ~65% reduction in analyst research time, with sub-second inference and 95% uptime on EKS/AKS.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner building clinician-facing AI search and Q&A inside EHR workflows, focused on trust, latency, and safety (grounded answers with citations, PHI controls, encryption/audit logs). Demonstrated real-time incident response for production LLM systems (e.g., fixing a metadata-filter deployment regression to prevent irrelevant results/cross-patient leakage) and strong demo/enablement skills for mixed technical and clinical stakeholders; also shipped a multi-model RAG tool at OrbeX Labs with upload/search/audit features for day-to-day adoption.”

“ML/AI engineer who built and productionized an NLP system at PurevisitX, orchestrating end-to-end ML workflows with Airflow (S3 ingestion through auto-retraining) and optimizing for drift and low-latency inference. Also partnered with Citibank risk teams on a fraud detection model, translating results via dashboards and iterating thresholds based on stakeholder feedback.”

“Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services with hands-on ownership of enterprise logistics microservices (Spring Boot) using Kafka integrated with Azure Event Hubs, including partitioning strategies and operational handling of consumer lag/duplicate events. Also built a full-stack road-accident blackspot detection application using Python-based spatial clustering and model evaluation with a JavaScript/Mapbox frontend.”