Vetted API Design Professionals

“Full-stack developer who built an end-to-end Hotel Management System using React and Spring Boot with MongoDB and AWS. Has hands-on experience debugging API/data-fetching issues with Postman and validating results against the database, plus exposure to handling large data workloads with chunking and monitoring via Grafana/Tabula.”

“Data engineer focused on production-grade pipelines and data services: ingests millions of records/day into S3, performs SQL/Python quality validation and PySpark/SQL transformations, and serves curated datasets via Athena/Redshift. Has experience hardening external data collection with retries/rate-limit handling and shipping versioned internal data APIs with backward compatibility, monitoring, and CI/CD in early-stage environments.”

Weston Carpenter

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Technical/presales engineer with experience at Grubhub and Appen, spanning LLM-adjacent data labeling workflows and production AI troubleshooting. Built an integrations platform at Grubhub and has hands-on experience diagnosing prompt-related AI failures via Splunk, adding JUnit tests and logging to prevent recurrence. Known for shipping customer-specific workflow adaptations (e.g., OCR annotation coordinate transformations for crop/rotation) while keeping timelines intact through iterative delivery and parallelization.”

Saicharitha Yanamandala

Screened

Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in Java, Cloud, and Microservices

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend/Python engineer who owned an end-to-end FastAPI + AWS internal natural-language document Q&A system (Textract extraction, embeddings/vector DB, LLM integration) with strong focus on reliability and latency. Hands-on with Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD, Helm, rolling updates/auto-rollback) and built/optimized Kafka streaming pipelines using Prometheus/Grafana. Also supported a zero-downtime on-prem to cloud migration with parallel run and gradual traffic cutover.”

Alex Johnson

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in observability and developer tools

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Product-leaning full-stack engineer (65% product / 35% infra) who built core components of the LightFoot feature flag platform: end-to-end client/server SDKs with OpenTelemetry-based observability and a React+TypeScript UI for flag management and metrics dashboards. Strong focus on performance (memoization/lazy loading/caching), reliable API design, and Postgres modeling for read-heavy flag evaluation workloads, with AWS production experience (EC2/ECS/Lambda/API Gateway/VPC).”

Karan Javali

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native web platforms

Salt Lake City, Utah5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Goldman Sachs and Arizona State University’s Learning Engineering Institute, shipping production backend systems including a vendor equities invoice-generation service designed for extensibility across multiple vendors. Built Django REST + PostgreSQL backends with JWT auth and Pytest coverage, and delivered data-heavy, responsive Angular dashboards; also has exposure to AWS EC2 deployments and GitLab CI/CD automation.”

Vishal Kodakanchi

Screened

Director of AI Platforms & Architecture specializing in enterprise GenAI and AI Centers of Excellence

Mountain View, CA20y exp

“Software industry veteran (20 years) pursuing entrepreneurship; currently building an MVP software product aimed at solving specific finance and accounting problems for nano, micro, and small enterprises. Plans to run a metrics-driven pilot to validate demand before refining the product and raising capital; leveraging Google for Startups and exploring AWS for Startups.”

Yuchen Wang

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development and AI/ML

New York, NY1y exp

“Built and maintains an AI Finance Tracker end-to-end as a solo full-stack product owner, from Figma designs and React frontend to Flask APIs, Firestore, auth, deployment, and AI insights. Stands out for combining product instinct with pragmatic engineering decisions like pre-aggregating financial data to control LLM costs and adding OCR receipt scanning based on real user feedback.”

“AI/LLM-focused builder with internship experience at Curated, where they owned a voice AI support deployment end-to-end and built a RAG-based internal knowledge assistant. They pair practical production instincts with measurable outcomes, including a 30% reduction in human-handled support tickets, a 20-point NPS improvement, and a 40% reduction in manual document search across five teams.”

Brendan Dwyer

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and cloud platforms

Colorado Springs, CO10y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience turning research-style RAG concepts into production underwriting systems at Prudential Financial. Built an internal document intelligence assistant end-to-end with strong monitoring, safety, and evaluation practices, driving a 38% faster review process and 31% better retrieval accuracy. Also improved platform engineering at VivSoft by standardizing Python-based ML deployment across 60+ models.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup with hands-on production experience spanning Angular frontend features, backend safety checks for an image-generation workflow (OpenAI Safety), and AWS operations. Built CI/CD to ECS with GitHub Actions, implemented CloudWatch observability, and improved release reliability via Blue/Green deployments with automatic rollback.”

VINAY KUMAR VIPPALA

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech backend systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership from React UI through Spring Boot APIs and SQL data layers, focused on transaction-heavy fintech workflows. Built both a transaction reconciliation system and a 0-to-1 AI-based anomaly detection workflow at LeisurePay, combining performance-minded frontend engineering with pragmatic product delivery.”

“Full-stack software engineer who has owned production workflows spanning React/Next.js, FastAPI, Redis-backed async processing, and PostgreSQL in a multi-tenant invoice-processing product. Shows strong product instincts as well—improving UX for long-running operations, iterating MVPs based on real user behavior, and balancing reusable abstractions with practical implementation constraints.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of Spring Boot microservice deployments in Freddie Mac's mortgage workflow domain, including measurable gains in reliability and MTTR. Brings strong production debugging skills around distributed transaction pipelines and has also built a full-stack AI chatbot project using React, Express, and Google Gemini API.”

Rishabh Goyal

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech

USA4y exp

“Python backend engineer focused on real-time e-commerce analytics systems, building FastAPI + Kafka microservices with strong idempotent processing patterns (Postgres upserts, manual offsets, Redis caching). Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps delivery with Argo CD/GitHub Actions, plus experience migrating containerized services from on-prem VMs to AWS using Terraform and blue-green cutovers.”

Mike Bagley

Screened

Senior Unity Developer specializing in games, WebGL, and XR

Rogers, AR19y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with unusually broad hands-on range: built a reusable FSM and visual state editor at EA that was applied to AI, meta systems, multiplayer conversion, and console TRC flows, including first-pass Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo certification. Also spans LLM-assisted narrative systems, multiplayer networking, UWP/VR porting, and even arcade hardware/software integration down to designing and hand-building a wiring harness to hit a trade show deadline.”

“Software engineer/QA automation leader with Lowe’s experience owning automation quality strategy for a customer-facing platform supporting large contractor orders. Built TypeScript/React dashboards backed by Spring Boot microservices (MongoDB) and RabbitMQ async messaging, with strong CI/CD test automation and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana). Also created an internal automated test reporting dashboard that improved QA workflow through training-led adoption and iterative refinement.”

“Built an end-to-end GenAI underwriting copilot at TD Bank for complex financial documents, combining RoBERTa-based risk classification with Azure OpenAI RAG to deliver grounded, citation-based insights. Drove a 40-50% reduction in manual underwriting review time and created reusable FastAPI ML services that cut integration effort for other teams by 30-40%.”