Vetted API Design Professionals

“Grad student who co-developed a safety-oriented mental health LLM consulting agent using RAG + Gemini and Hugging Face emotion detection to assess user crisis level and adapt responses. Implemented a key reliability improvement for CRISIS scenarios by bypassing generative output and returning direct, emotionless, knowledge-base guidance to seek immediate real-world help.”

Pavan Punna

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and healthcare-fintech AI

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Built and owned a production GPT-4 RAG assistant for clinical and enterprise query resolution, taking it from initial experiment to deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Their work cut resolution time from 45 minutes to under 2 minutes, achieved roughly 95% accuracy, and scaled to thousands of additional monthly queries while emphasizing safety and trust in a sensitive clinical domain.”

premkumar narla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG, and enterprise ML systems

Chicago, IL5y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience at Morgan Stanley building production fraud detection and enterprise RAG systems. Stands out for owning systems end-to-end—from experimentation and deployment to monitoring and iteration—and for delivering measurable impact, including an 18% reduction in fraud false positives, 40% lower inference latency, and internal tooling that reduced model deployment time from days to hours.”

ASHISH DONDAPATI

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI for Financial Services

San Francisco, USA6y exp

“ML/AI engineer with strong financial-services domain experience who has built production systems spanning trade anomaly detection, investment-research RAG, and agentic LLM workflows. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can take ML/GenAI from prototype to monitored production while balancing compliance, latency, cost, and reliability.”

“Built Nexthire-AI, shipping an end-to-end LLM-powered resume–job description matching product (React + Node.js) using embeddings and retrieval to generate match scores and skill-gap recommendations. Improved post-launch engagement by making feedback cleaner and more actionable, and added production guardrails (validation, timeouts, fallbacks) to handle messy resume formats and AI API instability.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a Python/FastAPI results API and deployed it on Kubernetes with Helm and GitHub Actions-driven CI/CD. Demonstrates strong production operations mindset across performance tuning, monitoring, safe rollouts/rollbacks, and phased migrations, plus hands-on Kafka streaming experience focused on ordering and idempotency.”

“Backend-oriented software engineer who uses AI as a disciplined engineering accelerator rather than a replacement for judgment. They have hands-on experience coordinating multiple AI tools/agents across code generation, testing, debugging, and review, with strong emphasis on security, scalability, and human validation before production use.”

“Veteran software engineering leader who started as an early internet engineer in the mid-1990s and has since grown into Director/VP-level leadership across legacy web platforms, logistics systems, and modern data engineering. Particularly compelling for companies needing a hands-on leader who can modernize complex Perl/UNIX monoliths, manage large cross-functional teams, and deliver operational systems in warehouse, marketplace, and reverse-logistics environments.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer focused on data instrumentation and tracking-plan automation. They built an end-to-end publish architecture plus an MCP/agent workflow that turns PRDs, Figma files, and meeting transcripts into tracking plans and implementation-ready code, reportedly shrinking work from 4-5 days to minutes. They also show strong judgment around productionizing LLM systems, with tool-centric prompt design, backend guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls for high-risk actions.”

“Built internal product features at Sysco's Collab Cafe across React/TypeScript frontend and Spring Boot/PostgreSQL backend, including a full project invite flow and an early AI-style project matching capability. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, improving React dashboard performance with profiling and component refactoring, and making pragmatic 0→1 tradeoffs to ship quickly.”

Yuanmu Li

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web applications

Sunnyvale, CA2y exp

“Full-stack product engineer in the health and wellness space who has owned prescription workflow features end to end, including React/TypeScript frontend work and GraphQL-backed API aggregation across messy downstream systems. Also shipped an internal OpenAI-powered support assistant with grounded context, structured outputs, validation, and human-in-the-loop safeguards—showing strong practical judgment at the intersection of healthcare workflows and applied AI.”

“Series A startup engineer with broad full-stack ownership across backend, data, and frontend, including a real-time ingestion platform that scaled to 10x higher daily volume without downtime while cutting latency from minutes to seconds. Brings strong fintech and B2B SaaS experience building auditable, high-throughput systems for analysts, operations, and compliance teams in regulated environments.”

“Master’s CS candidate with backend internship experience modernizing live operational workflows at NatWest/NetWess, focusing on reliability improvements, safer CI/CD deployments, and incremental refactors using feature flags and rollback paths. Built FastAPI-based APIs with strong security patterns (JWT + 2FA/TOTP, centralized authorization, RLS) and demonstrated attention to edge cases like idempotency and data consistency in a Netflix-clone project.”

“Verizon engineer who productionized an LLM-based personalization capability for a customer-facing digital platform, owning the path from success metrics through scalable APIs, A/B validation, and post-launch monitoring (latency/accuracy/drift). Experienced in diagnosing and fixing real-time LLM/RAG workflow issues under peak load, and in enabling adoption via tailored technical demos/workshops and sales support materials.”

“Software engineer with a CS/Computer Engineering background who has worked on ML/NLP (Hugging Face, clinical NLP, text generation and structured extraction) and has a school robotics project integrating a trained ML model with microprocessor-controlled hardware to drive motor movement and writing. Currently focused on building and deploying applications and ML models to AWS/Azure using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD; targeting ~$150K compensation.”

“Frontend-focused engineer who built a reusable React component library (documented in Storybook) to standardize and speed up UI development across teams at Ikea, including a configurable, high-performance order list component. Also demonstrated end-to-end ownership in an unstructured environment at First Citizens Bank by defining API contracts and delivering backend services with caching and monitoring.”

“Senior technology/executive leader with 30+ years building and scaling mission-critical platforms across blockchain, cloud, cybersecurity, and fintech, including leading 100+ person global teams and managing $100M P&Ls. Founded Pharus (2022) after driving Web2-to-Web3/DeFi/metaverse initiatives at SDK Co, using a first-principles, PoC-driven approach to deliver secure, compliance-aware transformations (GDPR/NYDFS) and multi-million-dollar optimizations, with a focus on quantum-resistant Web3 and ethical AI governance.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered internal operations automation platform using LangChain RAG (Pinecone) and FastAPI microservices, deployed on AWS EKS, serving 10k+ daily interactions. Implemented a rigorous evaluation/observability stack (golden datasets, prompt regression tests, MLflow, retrieval metrics, hallucination monitoring) that drove hallucinations below 2% and improved reliability, and partnered closely with non-technical ops leaders to cut manual lookup work by 60%+.”

“Software engineer with hands-on ownership of both fintech checkout improvements (saved payment methods/one-click checkout with tokenization and feature-flag rollouts) and production LLM/RAG systems for customer support. Demonstrates strong operational rigor via guardrails, evaluation loops integrated into CI/CD, and scalable data pipelines handling messy PDFs/CSVs/logs with reliability and observability.”

Goutami Amara

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in FinTech and Healthcare platforms

Memphis, TN6y exp

“Software engineer who built internal operations/monitoring dashboards for real-time trading and money-movement systems, emphasizing auditability and rapid iteration. Deep experience with microservices on Azure using Kafka/RabbitMQ, plus strong testing discipline (JUnit/Mockito/Testcontainers, contract/E2E) and observability patterns (correlation IDs, centralized logging, distributed tracing) to reduce incident triage time and improve resilience.”

Jeetendra Girish Vasisht

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Bangalore, India2y exp

“Backend engineer (Nokia) who designs and migrates cloud-native microservices at scale, including a secure low-latency system handling 500k+ daily transactions. Strong in Kubernetes/OpenShift operations, CI/CD standardization, and production security (OAuth2/JWT/RBAC) with SOC2-aligned controls and zero critical security incidents. Demonstrated expertise in safe migrations (canary/blue-green, dual writes, reconciliation) and concurrency correctness in real-time systems.”

Sai Chatrathi

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare analytics and MLOps

NY, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered lesson adaptation platform for K–12 educators that personalizes content for multilingual and neurodiverse students using RAG and content transformation. Owned the full stack from FastAPI backend and OpenAI integration through reliability/safety controls, latency/cost optimization, and weekly shippable modular APIs, iterating directly with curriculum stakeholders to reduce hallucinations and improve educator trust.”

Preetham Reddy Konuganti

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI applications and scalable web platforms

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with customer-facing delivery experience who built and deployed a multi-platform social media automation product (Next.js/Node/MongoDB) and optimized it using BullMQ/Redis background jobs, retries, and rate limiting for reliable posting at scale. Also delivered an AI-powered false-positive analysis service in a cybersecurity context, resolving production pipeline stalls via log-driven debugging, parallelization, caching, and LLM guardrails.”

Aditya Agrawal

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and data engineering

1y exp

“Backend/AI engineer who has built and shipped two products: Know Founder (Python/SQL/AWS) scaling to 2,000+ users in the first month, and Unifr (unifr.online), an AI search visibility engine that queries multiple LLMs and turns responses into structured brand insights. Strong in production reliability/performance (Redis caching, indexing, precomputation) and in designing agentic workflows with guardrails, validation, retries, and human escalation.”