Vetted Apache Maven Professionals

Daozheng Chen

Screened

Staff Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in FinTech and Enterprise SaaS

San Jose, CA12y exp

“Full-stack engineer with Yahoo Finance experience building AI-powered investment and analytics features. They combine modern TypeScript/React/NestJS development with strong backend systems skills in PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Kubernetes, and have driven architectural improvements from synchronous workflows to event-driven microservices in a high-traffic financial environment.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned real-time reporting and streaming analytics systems end-to-end, combining FastAPI/Postgres APIs with Kafka consumers, Celery background jobs, and Redis caching. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying Python/Node microservices to AWS EKS with Helm, ArgoCD/FluxCD, and CI pipelines, and has supported phased on-prem to AWS migrations using Terraform and traffic cutovers.”

“Frontend engineer focused on sophisticated, high-performance browser UIs for internal operations teams. They have owned real-time monitoring and transaction-tracking interfaces, combining deep browser performance knowledge with user-centered workflow design to deliver sub-second responsiveness, 60 FPS rendering, and a 30% improvement in task completion speed.”

“NVIDIA engineer who built and shipped a production LLM-powered enterprise knowledge system (summarization, transcription, and Q&A) that cut document retrieval time ~30%. Deep hands-on experience with RAG (FAISS/Pinecone), GPU-accelerated microservices on AWS, and reliability/safety practices (Guardrails AI, prompt A/B testing, canary releases) plus strong MLOps orchestration across Airflow, Step Functions, and Kubernetes GitOps.”

Sahitya Thota

Screened

Staff/Tech Lead Software Engineer specializing in identity, data platforms, and cloud systems

Fremont, CA20y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who built and owned end-to-end sales-facing data products, including a 360° advertiser insights platform and a sales AI agent for natural-language access to insights. Demonstrated strong architecture and reliability chops (event-driven redesign to eliminate Hive-query throttling; batching/caching to reduce fan-out) plus incident ownership around ads attribution consistency. Also has 0→1 experience building graph-based recommendation/matching systems with explainability and tight user feedback loops.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer with experience building large-scale systems on Salesforce and eBay, including a sharded Oracle-backed personalization store used by millions of sellers and a Spring Boot microservice that executes scheduled payouts at high volume. Emphasizes production readiness via state-machine-based idempotency, strong observability (Splunk/Elasticsearch/PagerDuty), and extensive Selenium/Sauce Labs automation.”

“Backend/AI engineer currently at Stripe building Minions, an internal LLM-based developer agent that automates code generation, bug fixes, and PR creation. They combine strong production LLM architecture skills with reliability engineering, having improved routine PR merge times by ~40-45%, lowered post-merge bug rates by 12%, and previously built an invoice-processing pipeline that achieved 91% straight-through processing in a B2B payments context.”