Vetted API Design Professionals

“Full-stack engineer building real-time internal banking operations dashboards (Java/Spring Boot microservices + React/TypeScript) with Kafka-based streaming and post-launch performance optimizations. Also shipped a production internal AI support assistant using RAG (Confluence/PDF/support docs ingestion, embeddings + vector DB retrieval) with guardrails, evaluation loops, and observability to reduce hallucinations and prevent regressions.”

Arun Gampala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in MERN and AWS microservices

TX, USA4y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at MetLife and Amazon focused on security and control for internal and customer-facing services. Emphasizes contract-first Python/FastAPI APIs with strong auth (JWT + RBAC/claims), data-layer isolation (RLS/tenant scoping), and reliability practices like incremental refactors, rollback planning, and idempotency to handle retry-driven failure modes.”

Sirisha Maddikunta

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in enterprise LLM and healthcare AI solutions

O Fallon, MO6y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end LLM-powered fraud investigation assistant that automated case summaries and risk analysis, cutting analyst investigation/documentation time by 40%. Stands out for translating RAG concepts into a production-grade internal platform with strong evaluation, monitoring, and reusable Python service architecture that improved both analyst trust and engineering velocity.”

Joseph Villanueva

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack SaaS and Healthcare IT

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“Product-minded software engineer from Gusto who has shipped internal AI agent capabilities and end-to-end user-facing features across frontend and backend. Stands out for making pragmatic architecture tradeoffs—moving from OpenAI prototypes to deterministic systems when accuracy, latency, and uptime mattered—while still improving LLM workflow quality and reducing tool-calling errors by 15%.”

“Director-level Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Discover with roughly a decade in web application engineering leadership, focused on modernizing legacy banking platforms into cloud-native SPA architectures. Stands out for combining large-team people leadership with hands-on technical depth in architecture, debugging, and prototyping, including GenAI experimentation and high-scale customer-facing migrations.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping operational products in inventory and production management, spanning React/TypeScript frontends and Python, Node.js, and Java/Spring Boot backends. Particularly strong in making complex systems usable and reliable in production, including AI-powered anomaly detection with fallback logic, observability, and user-friendly alerting for non-technical operations teams.”

Mos Fard

Screened

Senior Distributed Systems Architect specializing in backend platforms and FinTech

Scottsdale, AZ12y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built an AI-powered visual product discovery feature end to end across web, mobile, backend, and ML integration. Particularly strong in TypeScript-first monorepo architecture, serverless AWS microservices, and productionizing computer vision/LLM pipelines with monitoring, prompt refinement, and human-in-the-loop quality controls.”

“Architecture leader from Disney who managed system, AI, and data architects while staying hands-on in solution design. Has experience building LLM-based video advertising products, designing Kafka-based real-time data architectures, and using MVP/POC approaches to align product and executive stakeholders.”

“Frontend engineer with strong ownership of high-scale, real-time support product experiences at Zendesk. Particularly compelling for teams building complex browser UIs: they’ve solved ordering/correctness issues in asynchronous messaging, improved agent UX with measurable behavioral signals, led a GraphQL subscription migration that tripled connection capacity, and delivered WCAG-compliant accessibility for AI-assisted features.”

“Front-end engineer with significant ownership of sophisticated enterprise admin experiences in Cisco Webex Control Hub. Stands out for building permission-aware, route-driven UI architecture and solving tricky browser/CSS integration issues across shell and remote-entry boundaries while keeping the experience polished and consistent for expert users.”

“Software engineer focused on reliability and scalable systems: built React/TypeScript dashboards backed by Java/Spring Boot APIs and designed Kafka-based microservices with strong contract/versioning discipline. Known for shipping incremental improvements with tight feedback loops and for creating internal observability tools that streamline on-call and incident diagnosis under high-traffic conditions.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who built an end-to-end personalized chatbot service integrating Amazon Redshift context retrieval with Amazon Bedrock, including prompt construction and production-grade reliability controls. Strong platform experience deploying containerized services to Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD, plus hands-on Kafka streaming and phased infrastructure migration execution.”

“Search/backend engineer with hands-on experience improving Apache Solr-based search systems end-to-end (indexing strategy changes, ETL updates, and Java/Spring Boot Search API work). Demonstrated production rigor with QA partnership, A/B testing, and rollback-safe kill switches, plus measurable product impact (e.g., +1.5% add-to-cart) and operational troubleshooting including traffic/security mitigation.”

“Full stack engineer in the financial/thematic investing domain who built end-to-end applications on AWS. Notably redesigned a slow portfolio analytics workflow by offloading heavy computations to scheduled AWS Lambda jobs and caching results in DynamoDB (TTL), cutting API latency from ~5 seconds to under 300ms while supporting data-heavy daily market processing.”

“Backend-heavy full-stack engineer with experience at Intuit (TurboTax Live) and Paytm payments, building and scaling Java/Spring Boot microservices for high-traffic transaction systems. Has hands-on wins improving peak-load performance using Redis/disk caching and Kafka event-driven patterns, plus React/Redux work for web app integration and strong monitoring practices with ELK.”

“Backend/platform engineer with payroll domain depth who built high-volume payroll processing microservices (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis) on AWS Kubernetes and debugged major peak-cycle latency by redesigning transaction boundaries and moving to async Kafka processing (>50% latency reduction). Also shipped an LLM-powered HR assistant using RAG with strong security/guardrails (RBAC, PII masking, audit logs) that cut support tickets by 40%, and designed reliable multi-step agent workflows with retries, circuit breakers, and idempotency.”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer with PayPal experience building workflow-driven financial compliance systems (Python/Java, Postgres, AWS/EKS) at thousands of executions/day. Has shipped production LLM-powered document extraction with strict schema/rule validation, auditability, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, and has deep expertise in reliability (idempotency, locking, state machines) and Postgres performance tuning.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across edtech, logistics, and AWS internal systems—owned a production course recommender end-to-end (model serving + APIs + caching/observability), delivering +30% CTR and -20% latency. Has scaled real-time delivery visibility/rerouting on Kubernetes/EKS to sub-200ms P95 during demand spikes and built billion-events/day telemetry pipelines on AWS (Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, S3, Redshift) with schema evolution, dedupe, and replay support.”

“Backend/ML systems engineer with Stripe payments experience who built an asynchronous processing upgrade handling millions of API requests, cutting peak latency ~20–25% while preserving strict financial consistency via idempotency-safe retries and robust validation/fallbacks. Also built scalable ETL pipelines for messy CSV/Excel/API data with strong observability (structured logging/monitoring) and reliability mechanisms.”

Akshaya Rajagopalan

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud SaaS and accessible web apps

Waterloo, Canada6y exp

“Frontend engineer who leads end-to-end delivery of complex workflow-driven React + TypeScript products on top of Rails/GraphQL backends, with a strong emphasis on typed API contracts, scalable architecture, and automated quality gates. Shipped major features (e.g., inventory reservation at Jobber) using feature-flagged rollouts, close QA collaboration, and performance-focused iteration.”

Shobana Chandrasekaran

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in AI microservices and generative fashion

Sunnyvale, CA2y exp

“Backend/AI workflow engineer at a startup building production AI services for fashion workflows, including an AI-powered techpack generation API in Go (Gin) with MongoDB handling ~1k+ daily requests. Recently implementing an image-to-3D dress generation feature end-to-end, integrating a Python FastAPI AI service with ComfyUI + Hunyuan, with strong emphasis on async orchestration, webhooks, and observability (OpenTelemetry + SigNoz).”

“Data engineer with experience at Expedia building SQL Server and Azure Data Factory pipelines for business reporting and analytics. Stands out for pragmatic end-to-end pipeline ownership in ambiguous environments, with a strong emphasis on data quality, rerunnability, query performance, and making downstream datasets reliable for other teams.”

Krishna Guda

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI-native FinTech systems

Mountain View, CA23y exp

“Fintech product engineer working on a large-scale credit monitoring platform (tens of millions of users) with deep experience in regulated banking integrations, PII security, and step-up/MFA flows. Has shipped customer-facing React/TypeScript experiences driven by Optimizely experimentation and built reliable partner-facing microservices/SDKs on AWS, including resolving production traffic loss caused by edge security (DataDome/CAPTCHA) conflicts with payment providers.”