Vetted API Design Professionals

Rubeena Riyas

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Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and scalable data platforms

7y exp

“ML/data engineer who owned an end-to-end production sales analytics pipeline at 15,000+ user scale, delivering ~50% compute reduction, ~80% faster reporting, and ~$1.2M impact. Also shipped a production RAG-based AI assistant over internal BigQuery/docs with evaluation metrics and safety guardrails, and built shared Python libraries to standardize reliability and accelerate engineering teams.”

“Full-stack engineer (T-Mobile experience) focused on authentication/session-management systems, with hands-on work optimizing token-validation flows and reducing latency by eliminating redundant API calls and adding caching. Brings strong production ownership with observability (Splunk/Grafana), Postgres data modeling/index tuning, and resilient async workflow design (idempotency, retries/backoff, queues).”

Khaliun Gerel

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, web, and mobile platforms

New York, NY7y exp

“Full-stack product engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of multi-client platforms: Finy (agriculture platform with 3 role-based web dashboards plus 2 field mobile apps) and Ugoku (Japanese studio platform with React/TypeScript dashboards, Node/Mongo backend, and mobile AR video playback). Strong in scalable architecture and performance—offline-first mobile for low connectivity, and AWS-based asynchronous video/AR processing with S3/CloudFront—plus building internal ops tools adopted quickly due to measurable workflow improvements.”

Vijay Mohan

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive technology leader specializing in AI, cloud platforms, and enterprise software

Nashua, NH25y exp

“Founder of Braindump (redfly.ai), an AI companion for memory and personal organization, who has already raised $60,000 from Alchemist Accelerator. Brings hands-on experience with customer discovery, technical validation, and VC pitching, and stands out for a first-principles approach to building products with dramatic performance and cost improvements.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of Python/Flask microservices and recommendation systems across edtech and telecom. Deployed and operated real-time personalization/recommendation platforms on AWS EKS with Jenkins-based CI/CD, GitOps-style declarative configs, and strong observability practices. Has migration experience moving legacy mixed environments to modern containerized Kubernetes and built Kafka pipelines feeding ML services while managing schema evolution.”

“Graduate robotics researcher (Georgia Tech/Georgia Tech Research Institute) who helped modernize the Georgia Tech Robotarium by migrating its comms stack from MQTT to ROS2 across MATLAB/Python and updating embedded Teensy firmware for new sensors. Currently validating ToF distance sensors and integrating IMUs, with planned GTSAM factor-graph SLAM sensor fusion; also debugged and improved a decentralized coverage-control algorithm at swarm scale (1000–2000 agents) using computational geometry and literature-backed methods.”

“Backend/AI engineer at Intuit who built a production AI-powered case assistant for support agents (FastAPI on AWS EKS) combining Postgres case data, OpenSearch retrieval with embedding reranking, and internal LLMs. Improved peak-season reliability by diagnosing P95/P99 timeout spikes and cutting P95 latency from ~800ms to <400ms via composite indexing, keyset pagination, connection pool tuning, and caching, while adding grounded-generation guardrails (evidence packs, confidence thresholds, fallbacks, human-in-the-loop).”

“Built and operationalized intelligent pricing infrastructure for live event ticketing at StubHub, emphasizing iterative prototyping with traders and production-grade monitoring (Splunk, API/data-stream thresholding). Also partnered with customer-facing teams to drive adoption and helped win a significant consignment revenue-share deal by demoing the system to the Philadelphia 76ers and quantifying pricing efficacy and business impact.”

“Engineering leader with BCG consulting background who has built roadmaps and scaled AI and data platforms for pharma and manufacturing clients. Led architecture shifts (Django monolith to event-driven microservices) for high-volume IoT SaaS products, improving deployment speed and enabling zero-downtime releases. Also established a near-shore engineering team in São Paulo and has managed distributed teams across multiple countries, leveraging strong stakeholder communication and a prior professional acting background for storytelling.”

“Frontend-focused JavaScript engineer who built Collabsync with real-time chat and file sharing using Socket.io, emphasizing reusable components, clear event contracts, and performance (minimizing React re-renders). Has experience at PwC building internal React/Angular dashboards and documenting insurance APIs, plus a contract role at Capital One delivering in fast-changing, loosely defined environments.”

CHIRAG ARORA

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Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

San Jose, CA9y exp

“Backend engineer with PayPal experience building a high-reliability onboarding API platform (Java/Spring Boot) integrating KYC/compliance and serving 1M+ users annually. Also shipped an internal LLM-driven developer tool that automates PR review insights and OpenAPI documentation with rigorous evaluation, schema-bound guardrails, and production observability.”

Johanna Griffin

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Senior Technical Support Engineer specializing in DevOps and CI/CD

Ukiah, CA10y exp

“DevOps Customer Engineer (CircleCI) with hands-on experience supporting enterprise customers through a major security incident (token revocation/secret rotation) and advising on secure CI/CD practices. Experienced in integrating security tooling into pipelines (e.g., Snyk via CircleCI Orbs), troubleshooting complex CircleCI Server/Kubernetes-like deployments using logs/metrics/traces, and running structured multi-customer onboardings tracked in Jira/Salesforce.”

Ambikadevi Damodaran

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Principal Engineer specializing in GenAI/LLM platforms and enterprise modernization

Hayward, California19y exp

“Built a production LLM-driven personalization microservice for realtor.com using LangChain/LangSmith with an MCP tool layer and RAG to generate schema-constrained ranked listings in real time, replacing a rule-based engine and improving engagement/lead conversion. Also owned an ambiguous cross-channel identity initiative, implementing an identity graph via Twilio Unify with required SDK and data-warehouse integration.”

Joseph Ferrairo

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in full-stack Ruby on Rails and platform modernization

New York, NY10y exp

“Software engineer who worked at The Tylt (part of Advance Alpha Group incubator), building a CMS and API. Interested in returning to fast-paced incubator/startup environments and emphasizes rapid user validation and improving user experience.”