Vetted API Design Professionals

“Founding Principal Engineer/Head of Engineering at Amberflo (Seed $5M Homebrew; Series A Norwest) who built and shipped an AI Gateway + real-time LLM cost metering/pricing MVP end-to-end (control plane/data plane, AWS infra, CI/CD). Known for extremely fast MVP cycles (often 1–2 weeks), scaling teams (50–60 hires), and driving major pivots (usage-based billing to FinOps) by repurposing an existing metering/pricing platform; based in Chicago and has led a Silicon Valley startup remotely with frequent Bay Area travel.”

“Firmware architect/lead engineer for automotive LiDAR sensors, designing RTOS-based, layered firmware and solving high-throughput real-time constraints using DMA and lock-free buffering. Built ROS nodes to bridge embedded sensor output to higher-level perception (point clouds, diagnostics, configuration) while isolating real-time logic in firmware. Established an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline with GTest unit tests plus SIL/HIL automation and Dockerized build/test environments.”

“Development manager focused on developer productivity and platform enablement in a polyglot microservices environment. Drove ~50% productivity gains by evaluating and rolling out AI coding copilots with team training and cross-team demos, and designed a Disaster Recovery framework adopted by 50+ microservice teams. Also led edge-focused Python runtime optimization and relies on heavy test automation to safely execute large refactors during major platform upgrades.”

“Backend engineer focused on building production-ready Python services (Flask/FastAPI) with strong performance and scalability instincts—Celery/Redis background processing, robust multi-tenant isolation (Postgres RLS), and pragmatic CI/Docker operations. Demonstrated measurable DB optimization impact (cut a critical analytics query from ~1–2s to ~100–150ms) and has hands-on experience integrating LLM/ML workflows (OpenAI, LangChain, embeddings, Redis/FAISS vector stores) without degrading API responsiveness.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong DevOps/AWS production experience who builds and operates multi-agent AI systems end-to-end (Streamlit/Python through Docker/Kubernetes and ECS/Fargate). Has delivered measurable outcomes: sub-2s latency and ~92% routing accuracy for an AI wellness assistant, shipped an AI-for-BI prototype in under 6 weeks cutting analysis time ~40%, and improved pipeline iteration speed ~35% via modularization and CI/regression checks.”

“Built and operated a production TypeScript backend for a stateful conversational quoting chatbot at Tringapps, orchestrating multi-step workflows and session state while integrating with Salesforce and NetSuite. Implemented validation/retry logic, modular architecture, and strong logging/observability to handle real-world edge cases and external API failures.”

Venkata Surya Yashwanth Varma Vadlamudi

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and full-stack web development

Ithaca, NY2y exp

“Software engineer at Cimpress owning end-to-end transactional pages for Pens.com (e-commerce). Built and integrated new discount experiences in a React/TypeScript + Node.js stack, focusing on modular component architecture to reduce tight coupling and avoid breaking existing functionality; prioritizes roadmap work using performance and conversion metrics.”

Hangquan Zhao

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in connected vehicle platforms and real-time data systems

Mountain View, CA4y exp

“Open-source maintainer of KafkaJSUI, a Vue.js-based Kafka browser UI, focused on making large-topic exploration fast and responsive. Delivered major performance wins (incremental fetching, virtualized lists, WebSocket streaming, backpressure, Web Worker offloading) cutting load times to sub-200ms, and also strengthened CI and developer documentation while handling community-reported issues end-to-end.”

Abhay Ravi Kumar

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud DevOps, and ML/NLP

Bengaluru, India1y exp

“DevOps/data-automation professional with HPE experience who has deployed containerized microservices to AWS EKS and built an end-to-end observability stack (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch via Terraform), reporting zero-downtime deployments and ~40% faster incident response. Also extends Python ETL automation for procurement/operations teams (rules engine, validation, performance tuning) and bridges SAP ERP data into Power BI/Qlik dashboards through close on-site user collaboration.”

Mason Acevedo

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in data pipelines, APIs, and ML

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Software engineer whose recent work includes co-designing and building a "Shared Profile" feature for a social event-planning app (Again, Sometime). Previously at Pure Storage, set up Docker-standardized Ubuntu/Python environments to simulate hardware testbeds and support workload/performance regression testing for other engineering teams; no robotics/ROS experience.”

Akashreddy Madduri

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Senior Backend Engineer specializing in real-time data platforms for FinTech and Healthcare

Plano, Texas6y exp

“Backend/data engineer with experience at JPMorgan building near real-time payment risk and fraud scoring pipelines using Python, Spark Structured Streaming, and Delta Lake, emphasizing auditability, security, and data correctness (dedupe/late events) to reduce false positives. Also led a legacy-to-cloud migration of claims/eligibility data at Cogna with parallel runs, phased rollout, and healthcare-specific validation (ICD-CPT mapping).”

Sanat Ahuja

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Senior Engineering Manager specializing in platform, data/ML, and identity/access systems

Los Angeles, CA16y exp

“Senior engineering leader from Goodyear’s AndGo startup-like division who scaled the org from 12 to 30+ across pod-based teams and introduced an Architect Guild/ARD governance model. Led a 4-month Europe launch requiring AWS regional infrastructure, GDPR compliance, i18n/l10n, and new EMEA reporting pipelines, and has hands-on depth in API performance, incident response, and GraphQL/Hasura adoption to boost product velocity.”

Sarthak Vinayaka

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in enterprise AI, data pipelines, and scalable APIs

Redwood City, CA3y exp

“Forward-deployed engineer/tech lead who built an end-to-end demand planning and forecasting application for a major US steel manufacturer, integrating Snowflake data into the C3 platform with batch/MapReduce workflows, monitoring, and a React/TypeScript UI. Also productionized an enterprise LLM integration with structured outputs and authorization guardrails, reporting +30% stakeholder engagement and broad adoption across customer deployments.”

Mathew Martin

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and LLM applications

New York, USA4y exp

“LLM/agent builder with experience shipping production LLM features at an early-stage ed-tech mental wellness startup (conversation analysis + structured feedback via FastAPI, OpenAI API, Render, CI/CD). Also built a multi-step dining concierge agent using OpenSearch over Yelp data with fallback query relaxation, and has enterprise data engineering experience at Capgemini migrating databases to Snowflake with robust ETL normalization and data-quality handling.”

“Built internal production LLM tools for engineering and support, including a customer-health assistant and a RAG-based incident explainer grounded in logs, metrics, and deploy data. Stands out for combining strong GenAI safety/evaluation practices with pragmatic backend engineering, delivering measurable impact like a 40% drop in data-help requests and answers in seconds instead of minutes or hours.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience across both classical ML and Generative AI, including a real-time banking fraud detection platform at Deloitte and a RAG-based cybersecurity threat analysis feature at Accenture. Stands out for owning systems end-to-end—from feature pipelines and model tuning through deployment, monitoring, retraining, and API/platform reliability—with measurable impact on fraud accuracy, false positives, and SOC analyst efficiency.”

“Built production-scale dashboards and real-time data systems across fintech and autonomous driving, with hands-on ownership from React frontend architecture through Python/Kafka/Elasticsearch backend pipelines. At Zoox, led development of an automated safety signal attribution platform that replaced manual engineering calculations and surfaced trends through dashboards.”

“Candidate has built multiple zero-to-one AI/full-stack products spanning bioinformatics search, rental marketplace semantic search, and an SDR agent for a hospitality startup. Particularly strong at turning LLM/embedding concepts into usable products with modular workflows, explainable outputs, and production-minded infrastructure.”

“Founder-owner of BoostChat who built a production AI ticket-routing platform for service businesses, bridging Telegram customer chats to contractor workflows in Revolt with measurable gains in speed and satisfaction. Also stepped from QA analyst into a lead software engineer role at Con Edison, helping modernize a legacy mapping platform.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare and financial services experience who owned an end-to-end appointment scheduling feature at Norton Healthcare, improving scheduling speed and reliability through Angular/TypeScript, SQL Server, Entity Framework Core, Redis caching, and secure APIs. Also brings enterprise modernization experience from IBM and JPMorgan Chase, including microservices migration, CI/CD, and production observability.”

Yuchen Shen

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Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and graph-based applications

Sunnyvale, CA2y exp

“Front-end engineer with experience at Walmart and Sam's Club building sophisticated browser-based UIs, including an internal AI chat experience that combined chat, document rendering, editing, and visualization in one workflow. Stands out for pairing modular React/TypeScript architecture with hands-on browser performance debugging and Apollo/GraphQL optimization for highly interactive enterprise interfaces.”

“Software engineer with experience at Coinbase and Gol Airlines, leading full-stack and backend-heavy systems in high-scale, high-compliance environments. Stands out for owning ambiguous projects end to end, improving internal support workflows with measurable impact, and designing reliable integrations for both customer-facing and government-critical systems.”

Martin Bliss

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Executive Technology & Architecture Leader specializing in DevOps, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Plano, TX14y exp

“Startup-minded product builder with consulting experience in Oil & Gas who formed an LLC to design and deliver a modern project-controls software platform, replacing Excel-heavy workflows with scalable web-based calculations. Strong in pragmatic tech-stack decisions, talent matching, and shipping MVPs despite shifting stakeholders; sees marketing (pitching/networking) as a growth area and has evaluated partnership/investment offers for balanced support.”

“Builder/technical leader who was brought into Finicity to turn a credit-improvement concept into a viable product—architected, staffed, and launched what became Experian Boost. Delivered a major North American product launch in ~6 months, scaling to ~50,000 new users per day at launch and solving complex ML classification and distributed processing/order-of-operations challenges on AWS.”