Vetted API Design Professionals

Mithilesh Gaurihar

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and cloud-native systems

USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer (SAP Labs experience) who built an end-to-end, real-time fraud detection system on Java 11/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka event streaming and a React/Redux analytics dashboard with WebSocket updates. Demonstrated strong production ownership by diagnosing a critical memory leak with Prometheus/CloudWatch + heap dumps and improving performance with Redis caching (40% faster queries), while also modernizing deployments via Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, and Terraform.”

Sunil Chinthaparthi

Screened

Mid-level Python Developer specializing in AWS microservices and cloud automation

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on Python/FastAPI microservices running on Kubernetes (AWS EKS) with strong GitOps/CI/CD ownership (GitHub Actions + ArgoCD). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (p95 latency cut from >1s to <200ms) and production reliability work across Kafka/Redis streaming and cloud-to-on-prem migrations (RDS/S3 to Postgres/MinIO) using parallel validation and checksum-based consistency checks.”

Prateeksha Ranjan

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in embedded AI and full-stack systems

Irvine, California4y exp

“Robotics software engineer who built and owned core navigation components for a TurtleBot in ROS/ROS2 and Gazebo, including an RRT-based planner, waypoint-to-velocity motion planning, and PID trajectory tracking. Demonstrates strong real-time debugging skills (control-loop timing under CPU load), costmap/occupancy-grid tuning, and distributed ROS2 communication design using DDS/QoS, plus Docker and CI/CD automation experience from Keysight.”

Prateek Patil

Screened

Engineering Leader specializing in Digital Health, AI, and Cloud Platforms

Santa Clara, CA16y exp

“Senior Engineering Manager at Roche leading two Scrum teams building internally shared (“inner-sourced”) tools and libraries for a healthcare enterprise. Has led security/compliance-first architecture decisions (e.g., Python AI modules running inside a Java container) and front-end modularization (Angular monorepo to module federation), with a strong focus on developer experience via automated Swagger/OpenAPI documentation and robust testing/versioning practices.”

Guojian Wang

Screened

Entry-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React/Next.js and Node.js

United States0y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building and owning production e-commerce features in Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript, including SSR-driven category browsing with pagination and region-specific pricing. Strong focus on post-launch reliability and performance—optimizes React rendering (lazy loading/Suspense), tunes Postgres queries with indexes/explain plans, and supports durable order-processing workflows with idempotency, retries, and structured logging.”

John Krikorian

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AR, UI/UX, and interactive applications

12y exp

“AR/Unity-focused engineer who built a multi-user whiteboarding app for smart glasses, including vector-based collaborative drawing, spatial object persistence, and a voice-driven AI assistant that could manipulate the scene through custom tools. Their work spans real-time networking, spatial UX, and LLM integration, with systems robust enough that some features were reused by other developers internally.”

“Backend engineer who led the end-to-end modernization of FleetView into a scalable, event-driven system supporting 1,000+ users and 13,000+ assets, cutting API latency by ~40%. Also built an AI-powered exit interview analytics pipeline on Azure using GPT-4o with strong guardrails, validation, and evaluation practices, showing a rare mix of production backend rigor and applied LLM workflow experience.”

“Built end-to-end financial workflow platforms at Citi spanning React frontends, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, and Oracle. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can modernize legacy systems into real-time architectures—the candidate cites a 48x throughput improvement from a batch-to-Kafka modernization effort.”

Briant Trainer

Screened

Principal cloud consultant specializing in ERP, public sector, and enterprise implementations

California, USA25y exp

“Senior cloud/functional consultant with deep experience implementing Oracle and Infor solutions for large public-sector clients, especially permitting, licensing, and EAM-related workflows. Stands out for owning full lifecycle delivery, translating highly regulated requirements into complex configured workflows, and running large-scale UAT/test management across multi-module enterprise programs.”

Betsie Hoyt

Screened

Director-level Product Management leader specializing in SaaS, AI, APIs, and mobile products

18y exp

“Senior product leader in construction technology with experience at Trimble, where they helped reshape a fragmented 15-acquisition portfolio into a platform strategy that became central to how a $250M business is sold and supported. They combine enterprise platform thinking, AI product delivery, and change management, including launching a voice-based LLM workflow for regulated field reporting and coaching cross-functional teams into stronger product practices.”

Henry nguyen

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and mobile platforms

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Built WalletBuddy, a personal credit card tracking app, end to end using React Native, TypeScript, Convex, and agent-based web research workflows to maintain a 130+ card catalog. Also operated as a solo lead in a constrained Citi environment, rapidly shipping Python/Postgres ETL pipelines for stakeholder reporting while making pragmatic decisions about where AI automation should and should not be used.”

“Software engineer with Intuit experience shipping an end-to-end real-time financial insights product on AWS, using event-driven architecture with Kafka and Spark Streaming to process millions of records with low latency. Also delivers customer-facing React + TypeScript dashboards and has hands-on production operations experience, including resolving a database scaling incident via read replicas, query tuning, and connection pooling.”

“Backend engineer with Citigroup experience who built and evolved a self-service user provisioning/identity backend, cutting onboarding from 45 minutes to under 2 minutes. Demonstrates strong production-grade integration and reliability practices (isolated integrations, retries, rollback logic, heavy logging) plus secure API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth scope-based authorization and incremental, low-risk rollout strategies.”

“Built and owned Prism, a real-time collaborative coding platform, making key architectural choices around deterministic event ordering and a backend source-of-truth to improve trust under concurrent edits. Also created a Python-based bug analysis and test automation suite that became part of standard engineering workflow, cutting debugging time by ~95% while improving fault detection coverage.”

“At Evoke Tech, built a production LLM "Testbench" to quickly compare LLMs/embedding models and RAG strategies (semantic, hybrid BM25, re-ranking, HyDE, query expansion) to select optimal architectures for different client needs. Also developed a multi-agent, multimodal (voice/text) RAG system for live catalog retrieval and safe product recommendations using LangGraph/LangChain with LangSmith monitoring, and regularly translated PM/UX goals into concrete agent behaviors via demos and flowcharts.”

“CTO/enterprise architect who stays hands-on in code while leading strategy, stakeholder alignment, and team scaling. At Eastridge, established product and technology vision/roadmap, built product engineering/strategy functions, and helped launch products into global markets; most recently led GenAI product design including tech selection, infrastructure, scalability, and observability.”

“Backend engineer focused on Python/FastAPI microservices, with hands-on experience deploying to AWS (EKS/ECR) via Jenkins and GitOps-style workflows using ArgoCD. Has built and stabilized real-time Kafka payment-event streaming pipelines and improved production performance under peak load through Redis caching, SQL optimization, and robust retry/DLQ patterns. Also supported phased migrations from on-prem environments to AWS with gradual traffic shifting and monitoring.”

“Built and productionized an autonomous research agent (AutoGPT) in a Docker/Kubernetes environment with Pinecone-based long-term memory and custom Python tools for analysis, visualization, and report drafting. Implemented layered guardrails (prompt templates, automated validation, self-critique loops, and monitoring) and achieved ~25% reduction in manual report generation time while scaling the workflow to support multiple concurrent users.”

“Engineering leader (Credit Karma/fintech) who built internal developer-platform frameworks at near open-source scale, including a unified key management system migrating ~450 services from on-prem HSM to a centralized KMS. Known for driving large cross-team migrations with strong safety mechanisms (canaries, shadow reads, rollback toggles) and measurable DX/ops improvements (60% fewer provisioning requests; 40% faster time-to-first-secret).”

“Founding engineer for an AI product (“world’s first funny AI”) who designed and implemented the full-stack architecture (React/TypeScript + Node) and migrated production from Vercel to AWS. Shipped a Lambda-based image pipeline that eliminated lag/missing images and brought page load times to under a second, and has hands-on experience integrating multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok) with structured-output and self-check reliability techniques.”

“Engineering leader/player-coach who led a high-stakes 0→1 in-house usage-based billing/rating platform to replace a third-party system, saving millions and protecting 30M+ in revenue. Deep experience in event-driven microservices on AWS (Lambda/SQS/DynamoDB), billing correctness, migrations, and incident response, while scaling teams through hiring, coaching, and lightweight execution processes.”

“Data engineering-focused candidate (internship/project experience) who built end-to-end pipelines processing a few million transactional records/day for fraud detection and reporting, using Airflow, Python/SQL, and PySpark with strong emphasis on data quality gates, idempotency, and monitoring. Also implemented an external web/API data collection system with anti-bot tactics and schema-change quarantine, and shipped a versioned Flask API to serve curated warehouse data.”

Ethan Lam

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in data platforms and full-stack development

Toronto, Ontario3y exp

“Software engineer with Warner Music Group experience owning and shipping analyst-facing data products (marketing/streaming data dashboards) end-to-end with high adoption through continuous stakeholder feedback. Also builds side projects with TypeScript/React and domain-driven API design, emphasizing flexibility (including swapping databases mid-development) and pragmatic microservices reliability patterns (logging, timeouts, retry backoff).”

Divyam Agrawal

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and NLP classification systems

Seattle, WA4y exp

“Internship experience building a production RAG+LLM pipeline to map messy card transaction descriptions to merchant brands, including a custom modified-ROUGE evaluation approach for weak/variant ground truth. Improved scalability and cost by moving from a managed LLM endpoint (e.g., Bedrock) to self-hosted vLLM, and orchestrated massive embedding backfills (5,000+ files, 10B+ rows) using an Airflow-triggered SQS + ECS worker architecture with robust retry/DLQ handling.”