Vetted API Design Professionals

“Backend/AI infrastructure engineer focused on production-ready LLM systems and distributed workflows. They described building a RAG-based multi-step agent with strong reliability controls, evaluation loops, and graceful degradation that improved latency by 30%, retrieval accuracy by 15%, and reduced support workload by 40%.”

bikramjit ganguly

Screened

Staff Full-Stack Engineer specializing in API-driven web platforms and distributed systems

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Highly agent-centric builder who uses Codex daily to generate and manage full application repos, including Next.js CRUD apps, GitHub automation, and AWS lifecycle scripts to avoid long-lived cloud artifacts. They also experiment with multi-agent workflows for parallel development and correctness checking, showing strong practical fluency with emerging AI-native software development patterns.”

“Engineering leader with 11 years at Nokia/Janus International scaling an engineering organization from 3 to roughly 50 people, plus recent startup experience building an AI-powered virtual property manager platform. Particularly compelling for roles needing a rare mix of hands-on architecture depth, people leadership, and cross-functional execution across backend, web, mobile, QA, and even hardware-integrated products.”

“Full-stack engineer who owned an enterprise AI agent automation platform at KeyBank, building React/TypeScript interfaces and Python/AWS microservices for document-heavy business workflows. Stands out for translating complex AI automation into usable products for non-technical users, with reported productivity gains of about 35% and reduced manual processing.”

“AI/full-stack product engineer with experience shipping agentic systems in both fintech and enterprise compliance contexts, including an Anthropic-powered compliance Q&A tool at American Express and a home-equity assessment experience for seniors. Stands out for combining strong product instincts, typed full-stack implementation, and rigorous LLM evaluation/monitoring practices to improve trust, adoption, and operational efficiency.”

Nicholas Leytem

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in high-throughput retail data systems

Minneapolis, MN12y exp

“Software engineer at a global public growth company since 2015, with experience owning a legacy Java ETL analytics application and helping design and launch a Kotlin/Java data sourcing platform for customer order data. Brings hands-on experience across React, Spring Boot, AWS/Kubernetes deployment, and multi-database architectures, including an inventive pseudo-graph implementation in DynamoDB to support flexible document matching.”

“Full-stack/backend-leaning engineer with experience spanning fintech platforms, internal AI/RAG assistants, real-time analytics systems, and a zero-to-one academic web platform. Stands out for combining hands-on backend and infrastructure work with product ownership, team guidance, and measurable impact like cutting troubleshooting lookup time from 30 minutes to under 8 minutes and creating reusable UI components adopted across multiple projects.”

“Backend engineer who built an NL-to-SQL system at Target, using a multi-step LLM pipeline with vector-store schema retrieval and SQL validation to safely answer business questions. Strong in production FastAPI systems (async, Pydantic, Docker/Uvicorn, load balancing) and security (OAuth2/JWT, scopes, and database row-level security), with experience migrating Flask apps to FastAPI + PostgreSQL using strangler/feature-flagged canary rollouts.”

“Built a personal product, Pilly AI—an AI-powered e-commerce product Q&A widget embedded via a simple script tag and served via Cloudflare CDN—covering landing page, backend, database, and deployment end-to-end. Implemented OpenAI integration with prompt/context engineering, JWT-authenticated APIs, and Postgres (NeonDB), and successfully sold the product to a client while shipping in roughly two weeks.”

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent conversational AI platform (Monitor agent + RAG + 4 additional agents) with enterprise REST APIs, using ChromaDB-grounded WCAG knowledge to keep responses accurate while varying tone via personality modes and conversation memory. Has experience at LinkedIn delivering technical demos and pre-sales guidance to both engineering teams and C-level stakeholders, acting as a translator between sales and technical teams to drive adoption.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (70/30 app vs infra) with Accenture experience and recent AI workflow work, shipping end-to-end systems from React/TypeScript UIs through FastAPI backends to Postgres. Built an AI-driven data extraction platform with async job APIs, strict schema validation, and strong observability, and has operated AWS ECS-based deployments with real incident mitigation (DB connection exhaustion/latency under traffic spikes).”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer (Amazon; also Bank of America) pivoting into robotics software. Built and owned an end-to-end cross-region event processing service for Aurora Global Databases, emphasizing correctness under latency/clock skew, fault tolerance, and strong observability; brings deep Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD experience to robotics infrastructure and reliability work while ramping up on ROS 2.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, event-driven systems—building Golang microservices and serverless pipelines with strong data validation, observability (CloudWatch/Splunk/New Relic), and reliability patterns (retries/DLQs). Has also operated distributed web scraping/data collection with schema versioning and Step Functions backfills, and ships well-documented, versioned REST/WebSocket APIs for internal and external consumers.”

“Data engineer/backend engineer with experience in healthcare (Cardinal Health provider enrollment) and finance (Northern Trust) building and stabilizing data pipelines and REST services. Worked with APIs and Kafka at ~200k–300k records/day, improving data quality (DLQ + validation), performance (SQL/indexing), and reliability/observability (logging, alerts, consumer lag metrics), and stood up an early-stage financial data service with Jenkins-based CI/CD.”

Joshua Hewitt

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI product development

San Francisco, USA9y exp

“AI product builder at Padlet who shipped multiple production LLM features for education workflows, including an AI document generator (AI Recipes) and a RAG-enabled in-product chat assistant. Built an AI microservice layer (LangChain) to swap model providers easily and created automated + human-in-the-loop evaluation systems (including ~100-test runs) to iterate on prompts and quality.”

Mukul Sai Pendem

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and DevOps

United States (Remote)4y exp

“Backend engineer with strong Python/FastAPI microservices ownership, including an ML-serving service with embeddings, async DB access, and Redis caching to reduce latency under high load. Experienced deploying and operating containerized services on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD/Helm) with automated CI/CD, plus hands-on Kafka streaming pipeline tuning and enterprise migration work (Infosys) using blue-green/active-passive strategies.”

Utkarsh Chandel

Screened

Senior Security Engineer specializing in detection engineering, cloud security, and DFIR

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“LLM workflow/agentic systems practitioner who has helped customers harden an LLM-based incident triage prototype into a trusted daily-use production system by adding observability, audits, confidence gating, and deterministic fallbacks. Brings an SRE-style approach to real-time debugging (trace replay, rollback/canary, safe toggles) and is experienced running developer-centric demos/workshops and partnering with sales on technical qualification and security/architecture artifacts.”

“Has worked across multiple startup stages from pre-funding through Series D and emphasizes rigorous idea validation through direct conversations with both end users and purchasing decision-makers. Interested in applying NLP to automate summarization/abstracting of highly technical articles, with a balanced view of entrepreneurship that prioritizes health and family.”

Sharath Kasula

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React, TypeScript, and real-time web applications

New York, NY7y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer at T-Mobile who owned a real-time operational dashboard end-to-end, from Figma collaboration through React/TypeScript implementation to backend/API and SQL performance coordination. Stands out for diagnosing cross-layer production issues, improving onboarding with measurable drop-off reduction, and turning repeated product needs into reusable primitives adopted across multiple teams.”

Waldorff Villacres

Screened

Healthcare technology executive and architect with 20+ years leading enterprise platforms and digital transformation.

Seattle, Washington, USA21y exp

“Healthcare-focused founder in the R&D stage building an EHR and clinical staffing startup centered on value-based care. They have already tested the concept with the market, are engaging Medicaid/Medicare leaders and industry conferences like ViVE and HIMSS, and are focused on early-signal detection to improve patient outcomes while lowering utilization costs.”

Kavya Aitagoni

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web platforms and live events

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with experience shipping user-facing web products end-to-end, including an event analytics dashboard and checkout improvements at Eventbrite. Stands out for combining frontend polish, backend reliability, and production-minded practices like idempotent APIs, query optimization, CI/CD, logging, and monitoring to improve conversion and reduce engineering dependency.”

“Product/UX designer with hands-on front-end implementation experience who has worked across both consumer and enterprise contexts, including a veterinary hospital funnel redesign and an AML fraud detection system. Stands out for tying UX decisions to measurable business outcomes, including a 17% reduction in dropoff after redesigning package selection and validating changes through usability testing.”

“Candidate explicitly stated they do not have production agentic/LLM or generative AI experience, aside from spending a few hours becoming familiar with the process. Compensation expectation stated as 225,000.”

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on experience building a React/serverless/SQL e-commerce platform for Haagen-Dazs and improving consumer UX in a location-based animal discovery app. Stands out for pairing strong technical fundamentals—component architecture, SQL performance tuning, reusable primitives—with measurable product outcomes like 40% more completed orders, 25% customer growth, 95% navigation accuracy, and 20% fewer device malfunctions.”