Vetted Amazon API Gateway Professionals

Satya Kumar Itekela

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in high-performance React/Next.js web apps

Remote, Canada8y exp

“Frontend engineer with experience at Autodesk and Quantify, leading and scaling Next.js/React + TypeScript products from architecture through QA. Strong focus on performance (Core Web Vitals, ISR, caching/CDN) and real-time interfaces (WebSockets, Chart.js/D3), with measurable wins like 30–40% bundle reduction and ~60% less data overfetching using GraphQL/Apollo.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI Python APIs and AWS-native platforms (Lambda/API Gateway, SQS, ECS Fargate) with Terraform + GitHub Actions CI/CD and strong reliability practices (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts, structured errors/logging). Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines (S3/RDS to curated S3/Athena) with schema evolution and data quality controls, modernized legacy processing via parallel-run validation and phased cutovers, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (seconds to <200ms) plus incident ownership for batch pipeline SLAs.”

“Built and operates a production LLM agent for enterprise IT operations that triages and drafts resolutions for high-volume ServiceNow tickets using LangChain + RAG (Pinecone/pgvector) and AWS Bedrock/OpenAI. Emphasizes reliability with schema-validated stages, offline eval datasets from real tickets, and CloudWatch-driven monitoring/guardrails; system scales to 40K+ tickets/month and cut resolution time ~28%.”

“Backend engineer currently at Citigroup working on real-time transaction processing systems with Kafka. Stands out for using AI tools pragmatically in a regulated banking environment to improve debugging, testing, and developer productivity while keeping human control over architecture, security, and performance decisions.”

Manasa Pantra

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, LLM systems, and full-stack development

Stony Brook, NY2y exp

“Product-focused full-stack engineer at startup (Zippy) who shipped a production multi-agent AI system for restaurant operations plus payments workflows. Built end-to-end: RAG grounded on a Notion knowledge base, structured function-calling task routing, FastAPI/JWT multi-tenant backend, and a polished React+TypeScript owner dashboard. Has real production incident experience (duplicate Stripe webhooks) and reports ~94% task-routing accuracy under load.”

“Full-stack engineer/product owner who built and scaled a customer-facing job application portal (Skillbridge) using TypeScript/React and Spring Boot/MongoDB, optimizing search performance with indexing, caching (Redis), and payload/lazy-loading improvements. Also built an internal AI-driven analytics dashboard for Salesforce operations using OpenAI sentiment analysis, achieving 70% reduction in manual analysis and driving adoption through demos and iterative feedback.”

“Cloud-native integration engineer (Oracle/OCI) with strong production deployment and incident-response experience, including API gateway rollouts, observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and multi-layer debugging for payments systems. Built Python/FastAPI microservices and automation for customer-specific reporting and data sync, and has delivered major performance gains (45 min to <10) plus reliability improvements (MTTD reduced 40%+) through monitoring, playbooks, and resilient integration patterns (streaming/queuing, retries, secure tokens, VPC peering).”