Vetted API Design Professionals

“Technology leader from Franklin Templeton who modernized wealth management tech by launching client-facing digital web/mobile experiences via a phased data-warehouse-to-real-time strategy, while aligning internal CRM visibility for front office teams. Scaled an engineering org from 15 to ~250 (15 teams) and drove a shift from waterfall to Agile with microservices/micro-frontends and Jira-based transparency to improve delivery velocity.”

“Engineering manager/player-coach in the Alexa media ecosystem who led delivery of a Tier-1 gateway service enabling third-party providers (e.g., Spotify/Pandora) to control playback across users’ Echo devices, driving 10–15% lifts in engagement metrics. Deep in API design, AWS infrastructure choices (EC2 vs Fargate), OAuth/LWA auth flows, and production rigor (security reviews, load testing, feature-gated dial-ups), with demonstrated incident ownership and operational automation wins.”

“Built end-to-end AI analytics experiences spanning React/TypeScript, serverless APIs, and Postgres, with a strong focus on streaming UX, observability, and reliability. Stands out for turning ambiguous AI product ideas into shippable MVPs, then abstracting repeated patterns into reusable orchestration and multi-tenant configuration systems that improved speed, consistency, and maintainability.”

“Fintech product builder focused on AI-native opportunities; recently helped their company operationalize LLMs in customer service and bank ops by creating systems to continuously improve prompts and evaluations. Also drove growth by identifying hooks in a major American retailer distribution channel and integrating into the retailer’s payment flows to become a key part of the user funnel.”

“Engineering/tech leader with experience spanning major platforms (mentions Microsoft and AWS) and leading ML-driven product architecture (ranking systems). Describes driving a shift to a layered, API-standardized service architecture (including vector database components) that materially increased delivery speed (weeks to hours) while improving scalability and security, and emphasizes rigorous execution reviews (QDR/OKRs) plus transparent remote-team operating rhythms.”

Sri Yogesh Dorbala

Screened

Engineering Manager / Tech Lead specializing in large-scale distributed systems

Seattle, WA8y exp

“Software engineer focused on personalization and data/ML infrastructure who built a GenAI/LLM-driven carousel ranking system end-to-end, delivering a reported 6–7% order-rate lift. Also designed large-scale personalization ETL (15PB for ~100M users) and created a custom Airflow operator to integrate with Databricks under enterprise version constraints, with hands-on on-call and data-quality reliability improvements.”

“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.”

“Project lead who partners with PM and customers to gather requirements, adjust project plans, and deliver new functionality that drives customer satisfaction and revenue. Has experience building features end-to-end and presenting successful technical demos to engineering and management audiences; no stated experience with LLM/agentic systems.”

“Backend engineer who helped redesign and refactor Forma’s backend during an app rewrite, emphasizing modularity, maintainability, and A/B testing support while delivering feature parity on a quarter-long timeline. Led a careful database migration using parallel databases with schema differences, validating integrity via staging and SQL checks, and has experience debugging subtle computer-vision overflow edge cases.”