Vetted Agile Professionals

Akhil Nakka

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full Stack Engineer in fintech (JPMorgan) who owns products end-to-end across React UIs and Spring Boot/Kafka backends, with a strong track record of shipping quickly while maintaining reliability via testing, monitoring, and feature flags. Has hands-on experience scaling microservices for high-volume transactions and debugging production latency using ELK/CloudWatch, plus built an internal Python/Flask automation tool adopted by backend engineers to speed API validation and debugging.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience across both classical ML and Generative AI, including a real-time banking fraud detection platform at Deloitte and a RAG-based cybersecurity threat analysis feature at Accenture. Stands out for owning systems end-to-end—from feature pipelines and model tuning through deployment, monitoring, retraining, and API/platform reliability—with measurable impact on fraud accuracy, false positives, and SOC analyst efficiency.”

“Built production-scale dashboards and real-time data systems across fintech and autonomous driving, with hands-on ownership from React frontend architecture through Python/Kafka/Elasticsearch backend pipelines. At Zoox, led development of an automated safety signal attribution platform that replaced manual engineering calculations and surfaced trends through dashboards.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM feature that converts natural-language search requests into Lucene queries for OpenSearch-backed device event data, improving usability for non-technical users. Brings hands-on experience across the full stack of agentic systems: model training, FastAPI/React integration, Kubernetes deployment on AWS, event-driven orchestration with NATS/Kafka, and production-grade evaluation/observability.”

Arpan Acharya

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, data platforms, and healthcare SaaS

Pittsburgh, PA21y exp

“Senior product and platform engineering leader with experience spanning startup-style incubation and large-scale enterprise transformation at Omnicell. Led architecture used by 400+ engineers, scaled a new data-focused team from 10 to 60, and drove an inventory optimization platform that helped secure the company’s first $100M+ multi-product contract.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned an AI-powered HTTP monitoring dashboard end to end, from Node.js/MongoDB backend and dashboard UI through deployment and reliability controls. Particularly strong in turning raw technical signals into usable AI-assisted product experiences, with concrete impact including ~60% faster anomaly detection and meaningful AI cost optimization.”

Abhinita Sanabada

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML systems and FinTech platforms

San Jose, CA9y exp

“Master’s student in Data Science at San Jose State University with prior software engineering experience at JPMorgan Chase and Zap Labs. She combines enterprise backend reliability work in financial systems with hands-on full-stack AI workflow projects, including a recruiting automation system built with React/Next.js, FastAPI/Node, Kafka, and WebSockets, with a strong emphasis on observability, human-in-the-loop controls, and maintainability.”

“Backend-focused engineer with strong .NET/Angular experience building enterprise financial and healthcare systems, including microservice APIs deployed with Docker/Kubernetes and AWS ECS. Demonstrates production reliability skills across secrets management (Secrets Manager/IAM), incident response (CloudWatch + Kafka failover), and data engineering patterns from SSIS ETL (data quality, incremental recovery), plus proven SQL tuning with a 10-minute report reduced to under 30 seconds.”

Kristina Andrews

Screened

Senior Technical Recruiter specializing in FinTech and enterprise technology hiring

Atlanta, GA20y exp

“Recruiter with extensive experience in high-volume, fast-changing environments, managing 70+ requisitions while owning full-desk searches from intake through onboarding. Stands out for combining process discipline, stakeholder coaching, and data-backed compensation advocacy, including building manual Excel tracking systems when ATS and reporting tools were insufficient.”

Vasudev Konde

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in APIs and cloud microservices

Phoenix, AZ5y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped a production document-intelligence agent that automated internal support workflows using RAG, tool calling, and robust fallback controls. Stands out for combining hands-on architecture with measurable business impact: 85% faster query resolution, 35% lower LLM cost, 40% fewer LLM calls, and enough automation to avoid adding 2-3 support engineers.”

“Implementation consultant/business analyst with 8 years of experience delivering enterprise banking, tax, and payroll deployments, including 100+ Horizon Core implementations at FIS and roughly 20 ADP Workforce Now rollouts. Stands out for combining hands-on technical mapping and IBM i/AS400-based configuration work with strong banking compliance knowledge across OFAC, Regulation E, Regulation O, and NRA requirements.”

“Banking infrastructure engineer who owns large-scale IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) environments with hundreds of LPARs and deep PowerHA/SAN recovery experience. Also builds modern cloud delivery platforms—Azure DevOps/Jenkins CI/CD and Terraform for AWS/Azure (EKS/AKS, networking, security)—bridging legacy mission-critical systems and cloud-native automation.”

Martin Bliss

Screened

Executive Technology & Architecture Leader specializing in DevOps, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Plano, TX14y exp

“Startup-minded product builder with consulting experience in Oil & Gas who formed an LLC to design and deliver a modern project-controls software platform, replacing Excel-heavy workflows with scalable web-based calculations. Strong in pragmatic tech-stack decisions, talent matching, and shipping MVPs despite shifting stakeholders; sees marketing (pitching/networking) as a growth area and has evaluated partnership/investment offers for balanced support.”

“CTO-for-equity founder who partners with non-technical co-founders to bring AI-powered product ideas to market, emphasizing financial viability and go-to-market planning over "just an MVP." Currently working with two other founders (CEO/Sales and CPO/industry expert) to launch a SaaS platform, leveraging AI coding tools (Cursor/Windsurf) for extremely fast, production-ready iteration with daily releases.”

“Builder/technical leader who was brought into Finicity to turn a credit-improvement concept into a viable product—architected, staffed, and launched what became Experian Boost. Delivered a major North American product launch in ~6 months, scaling to ~50,000 new users per day at launch and solving complex ML classification and distributed processing/order-of-operations challenges on AWS.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on high-throughput document/financial data platforms, building Angular/React front ends and Spring Boot microservices with Python/Flask services for heavy processing. Experienced in designing non-blocking, asynchronous workflows (Celery/RabbitMQ) and deploying containerized systems to AWS ECS with auto-scaling and CloudWatch monitoring.”

Harshal Sawant

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps on multi-cloud

8y exp

“Built and productionized a secure internal RAG-based AI assistant (LangChain/FastAPI/FAISS on GCP), tackling real-world issues like latency, retrieval speed, and hallucinations—delivering 25% faster retrieval and 99.9% uptime. Also implemented scalable, reliable ML retraining orchestration with AWS Step Functions/SageMaker/Lambda and partners closely with compliance analysts to iteratively refine prompts and outputs to meet governance standards.”

“Senior product leader with deep payroll/HCM experience across ResNav, Paycom, Paylocity, and Namely, known for rebuilding broken systems, creating product process from scratch, and influencing boards and executives on major platform decisions. She combines hands-on prototyping, strong engineering partnership, and customer-driven iteration, with examples ranging from an ML-based approvals workflow that reached 100% client opt-in to stabilizing a troubled time-off platform and reducing churn risk among major revenue clients.”