Vetted API Design Professionals

Joseph Ferrairo

Screened

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.”

Luka Baljak

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web and AI-powered SaaS

Baljak Luka, Serbia7y exp

“Frontend-leaning product engineer who took broad ownership of a recently launched AI-powered customer support chat designed to deflect support tickets. They designed the overall system, built the full frontend, contributed to backend work, and served as a key source of product and technical continuity for a globally distributed team.”

“Backend-focused engineer with deep Java/Spring expertise in fintech and SaaS integrations, including high-scale financial data pipelines and partner-facing APIs. Most notably re-platformed a 100M+ record ETL system to a custom concurrent Spring Batch architecture that cut failures dramatically and reduced infrastructure costs by over 90%, while also leading enterprise-grade event-driven integrations for customers like Bosch and Amazon.”

“Software engineer with experience delivering customer-facing solutions across consulting and engineering contexts (Deloitte, Coherent), including a finance reconciliation system and a firmware validation tool integrated into existing test infrastructure. Demonstrates strong on-site/customer collaboration, rapid iteration, and high-pressure debugging (CARLA demo fix), with measurable impact and a focus on adoption through familiar workflows and clear documentation.”

“Built production LLM automations using the Claude API, including a sales enablement workflow that summarizes playbooks and incorporates sales call metadata into strategic one-pagers. Experienced in orchestrating and scheduling data pipelines with SnapLogic, Airflow, and Databricks, and in scaling LLM API calls via parallel/batch processing. Also partnered with HR to deliver prompt-tuned, automated Slack messaging aligned to business tone and acceptance criteria.”

“Robotics software intern who worked on a customized ROS1-based middleware, building ROS node orchestration and a ROS topic monitoring system. Improved intra-machine ROS topic performance by using shared memory and circular buffers instead of socket-based IPC, and integrated nightly Jenkins CI with Groovy/Python to run tests and produce code coverage reports.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer building complex internal platforms and customer-facing demos at the intersection of infrastructure and product. Shipped a no-code Product Lifecycle Manager for manufacturing (3 manufacturers, 1000+ evolving tests) using AWS S3/SQS ingestion and extensible Postgres (EAV+JSONB) with end-to-end traceability. Also built a FastAPI-based company data intelligence platform with Okta-secured RBAC and an LLM/MCP layer for ChatGPT-like analytics over enterprise data sources.”

“字节跳动实习期间将内部AI重量预测模型从“可用但难上线”的单点能力，改造成可商业化复用的通用API：统一多地区接口与评估口径，设计分层兜底与置信度分级，先灰度上线SEA/JP并推动US/EU落地，结合线上结果进行模型微调。具备LLM/RAG/Agent系统的实战排障方法论，以及面向开发者与售前场景的技术演示与跨团队推进能力。”

“JP Morgan engineer and Texas A&M student web developer who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a real-time ML training workflow that improved internal search relevance by 30%. Experienced with AWS cloud migrations and operating containerized services on ECS with CloudWatch+ELK observability, Terraform infra, and Spinnaker CI/CD; also built event-driven pipelines with RabbitMQ and Elasticsearch at 1M+ record scale.”