Vetted API Design Professionals

“Active in the venture ecosystem as a Rogue Women's Fund fellow and angel investor, with memberships in Gaingels and Angel Squad (HustleFund). Interested in founding a company to leverage extensive experience, and evaluates ideas through market need and economic viability of the target population.”

Manjory saran

Screened

Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

5y exp

“LLM infrastructure engineer who built a production-critical real-time personalization and memory retrieval system for a user-facing product, adding <100ms P99 latency while improving relevance ~20–25% and holding SLA through 3x traffic. Experienced designing tiered retrieval backends (Redis + vector store), deploying on Kubernetes with autoscaling/circuit breakers, and running rigorous observability, incident response, and agent evaluation (shadow traffic, A/B tests, regression/replay).”

“Software engineer at Paradigm who is deeply hands-on with agentic development workflows and AI-assisted coding. He built an in-house OAuth layer to replace a third-party service and reduce projected integration costs, and also created an "ambient agent" that proactively responds to user behavior on the website. He stands out for combining full-stack architecture thinking with a disciplined, model-aware workflow for designing, implementing, and reviewing AI-generated code.”

Polat Akbiyik

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and trading systems

Remote4y exp

“Full-stack builder with strong product and AI systems ownership, spanning data infrastructure, React/TypeScript apps, and LLM-powered agents. Particularly notable for building a crypto analytics MVP with catalog-driven ETL, config-based charting, and AI-generated dashboards, plus an options-strategy agent and an ops automation tool that cut a 10-minute workflow down to 10 seconds.”

Shanay Wadhwani

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP, computer vision, and applied ML

Washington, DC6y exp

“AI/ML engineer with impactful work for the World Bank across both LLM systems and computer vision, including a PRAI evaluator-assistance platform and a production UNet model for slum detection from multispectral satellite imagery. Earlier built multilingual NLP-based borrower segmentation and credit scoring at Creditmate through its acquisition by Paytm, showing strong experience in ambiguous, high-impact environments.”

“Product-minded software engineer with experience shipping AI-powered financial insights (spend forecasting, cashflow, credit optimization) and building real-time analytics systems using React/TypeScript and FastAPI. Has designed microservices with RabbitMQ/gRPC and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry), and also built an internal Figma plugin adopted by designers that reduced export time by 50%.”

“Technology leader with experience owning enterprise roadmaps and executing large-scale platform standardization during rapid M&A—most notably driving a tech roadmap across a 37-company portfolio at Regent, tackling technical debt and security gaps via unified cloud-native architecture, IAM/logging, CI/CD, and a global SRE model. Previously scaled an Adobe engineering org from 8 to 40+ across four regions, implementing clear org design, KPIs, and an extreme-ownership culture to support 24/7 operations and enterprise needs.”

Chetan Mukhopadhyay

Screened

Senior Engineering Manager specializing in software quality, automation, and web/mobile platforms

Seattle, WA16y exp

“Engineering leader at Bayer Crop Science leading a Core Platform team responsible for widely used open-source TypeScript/React and mobile SDKs (npm/GitHub) embedded across 10M+ monthly active devices. Known for shipping high-performance, backward-compatible developer frameworks with rigorous release discipline (bi-weekly releases, 99.99% uptime, long streaks of zero breaking changes) and major DX wins (onboarding cut to minutes, support tickets down 82%).”

Neha Baadadmath

Screened

Executive Software Engineering Leader specializing in Trading, Payments, and FinTech platforms

Phoenix, AZ18y exp

“Entrepreneurially minded operator with experience in trading-platform environments who prototyped a vector-database layer to generate contextual incident narratives and reduce MTTR/escalations. Also building a non-tech venture: luxury wine distribution into India and broader Asian markets, sourcing directly from wineries with a Master of Wine and planning tier-1 launch via restaurant-owner connections while navigating complex import duties and licensing.”

Vindhya Naidu

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices and FinTech

Austin, TX5y exp

“Backend engineer with Apple experience who owned production platform improvements end-to-end, including a Redis caching layer that cut API latency ~35–40% and reduced DB load. Has hands-on on-call/incident response and observability (CloudWatch), plus experience scaling Docker/Kubernetes microservices and operating Kafka-based telemetry pipelines with schema evolution, deduplication, and replay/backfill handling.”

Christopher Kirby

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in platform engineering, AI systems, and SaaS

Detroit, MI24y exp

“Senior engineering executive who has repeatedly rebuilt and scaled product engineering organizations in high-growth environments, including restarting Rocket Auto’s stack from scratch and hiring 100+ engineers during StockX’s hypergrowth phase. Particularly differentiated by being unusually hands-on for an executive leader, with active open source work and a strong focus on AI-native engineering workflows, developer automation, and modern architecture transformation.”

Jahnavi Rao

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech

USA5y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with Bank of America experience building production internal payment operations dashboards and modernizing legacy service integrations. Stands out for owning both design and implementation, from React/TypeScript UI architecture to Spring Boot APIs, with strong attention to performance, reliability, and production observability in complex financial systems.”

“IBM-based cloud and AI engineer with hands-on experience owning Azure deployment workflows end-to-end, including IaC, DevOps automation, and cost/performance optimization. Also built an edge-first hospital event-detection workflow combining vision, LLM orchestration, and privacy-preserving local processing in a Nvidia/Dell hackathon that won first place.”