Vetted API Design Professionals

“Backend engineer at Esurgi focused on real-time clinical workflow systems, improving API reliability, performance, and security. Has hands-on experience with FastAPI/Pydantic, JWT/RBAC and row-level data isolation, plus Kafka-based real-time processing—including fixing duplicate-processing edge cases via idempotency and offset management and rolling out refactors safely with feature flags and staged deployments.”

“Backend/architecture-focused player-coach who designed and built two partner-facing data APIs using a contract-first (OpenAPI) governance model in Java (Quarkus/Spring Boot). Strong in technical standards, incident response, and delivery systems—improved reliability under peak load (DB/index fix) and sped up delivery by streamlining PR/review processes while maintaining production stability.”

“Backend engineer with fintech/AI startup experience who built an Azure serverless, event-driven pipeline for large-scale crypto sentiment analysis and semantic search (OCR/NLP to vector search) and integrated LLM + blockchain data for predictive insights. Demonstrated measurable impact (25% lower retrieval latency, 10% fewer data errors, 15% higher engagement) and has led safe microservices migrations with strong security and reliability practices.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building low-latency, high-concurrency real-time chat on AWS (Node.js/Socket.IO/MongoDB) and improving reliability under unstable networks, contributing to ~40% user adoption growth. Also built FastAPI-based AI assistant context retrieval (RAG) APIs with embeddings/vector search, and has strong production experience in rate-limit handling, async refactors with safe rollout, and Supabase Auth/RLS optimization.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong production experience across Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, API Gateway, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrates reliability and incident ownership (rate limits, retries/circuit breakers, monitoring) and has delivered measurable SQL performance gains (12–15s to <800ms, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking fully remote work and not open to relocation/onsite meetings.”

“Backend engineer with experience stabilizing data processing/analytics pipelines and refactoring brittle backend APIs. Has hands-on FastAPI work emphasizing strong validation (Pydantic), clear layering, and secure JWT-based auth with role/row-level controls, plus pragmatic migration tactics like parallel runs to protect data integrity.”

“Junior engineer who built a novel, highly-performant database explorer at Electric Capital: a TypeScript/React UI backed by Zig-compiled WebAssembly that loads data locally for fast filtering/sorting and responsive lazy loading, with CI/CD and Cloudflare-based auth. Also led graphics work on a WebGPU browser game engine capstone, creating TypeScript abstractions over WGSL/shader and GPU buffer complexity to accelerate teammates.”

“Frontend engineer who delivers quickly on high-stakes, client-driven projects—led a payment request frontend rewrite shipped in 1–2 weeks and implemented a pre-authorization management feature on a one-week deadline. Experienced in Vue + TypeScript (with React exposure) and in improving existing codebases by standardizing state management (Pinia), while also owning dev-led QA, deployments/rollbacks, and close collaboration with product/design via Figma.”

“AI engineer who shipped a production KYC facial liveness/recognition pipeline (10k+ monthly verifications), including an on-prem, GPU-hosted Qwen3-VL vision-language fallback to detect spoofing/replay attacks. Also helped build a deterministic multi-agent orchestration layer powering a marketplace with Solana on-chain payments, abstracting blockchain complexity behind an API, and has experience translating real-world needs from non-technical stakeholders (construction) into practical document-reading solutions.”

“Backend-focused engineer who owned an AI mentoring workflow platform built in Django with LangGraph multi-agent orchestration, optimizing it to stay under 200ms latency while scaling past 1,200 active users using profiling, caching, load testing, and OpenTelemetry-style tracing. Also has hands-on experience containerizing and deploying Python/ML services to AWS ECS via GitHub Actions/GitOps, and building reliable real-time pipelines with webhooks and Redis queues (idempotency, backpressure, DLQ).”

“Backend engineer who built an Emergency Alert System with Virginia Tech for the City of Alexandria, focusing on real-time ingestion, secure dashboards, and AI-assisted prioritization. Emphasizes high-stakes reliability with guardrails (hybrid rules+LLM, confidence-based fallbacks), scalable async processing, and defense-in-depth security (JWT/RBAC plus database row-level security).”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with strong Linux production operations experience, deploying microservices to AWS on Docker/Kubernetes. Has built and operated secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and Terraform IaC workflows with approvals, remote state, and drift detection, and has hands-on incident recovery experience in containerized environments; limited direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA exposure.”

“Built a production LLM/RAG document extraction and game/quiz content workflow using LLaMA 2, LangChain/LangGraph, and FAISS, achieving ~94% accuracy and reducing turnaround from hours to minutes. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps/orchestration (CI/CD, MLflow, Databricks/PySpark), robust handling of noisy/variable document layouts (layout chunking + OCR fallbacks), and practical reliability practices (human-in-the-loop routing, drift monitoring, A/B testing).”

“Early-career backend engineer and solo builder of FrameFindr, an AI/OCR-based marathon photo tagging product used at live events. Demonstrated pragmatic scaling under tight infrastructure constraints (2GB VPS) and hands-on ownership of architecture, API design, auth (Google OAuth/JWT), and a MongoDB-to-MySQL migration with data-integrity safeguards.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“At Unar Labs, built and operationalized LLM capabilities inside a cloud-native SaaS product, emphasizing production reliability (fallbacks, observability, cost/latency/quality monitoring) and iterative improvement from user feedback. Also acts as a customer-facing technical lead—running developer demos/workshops and supporting sales through discovery, pilots/POCs, and technical walkthroughs to drive production adoption.”

“Software engineer experienced delivering customer-facing, real-time industrial monitoring dashboards (motors/shafts/turbines) by partnering directly with end users to refine charts, alerts, and performance. Strong in API/platform integrations and production troubleshooting—uses feature flags, logging, validation/mapping, containerization, and performance testing to keep systems stable while iterating quickly.”

“Full-stack engineer working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, building developer-facing interfaces for AI voice agents in XR/immersive environments plus telemetry-heavy analytics dashboards. Experienced in Postgres telemetry data modeling and performance tuning, and in designing durable multi-step LLM pipelines with idempotency, retries, and strong observability; has operated in fast-moving startup-like teams (Biocom, HandshakeAI).”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, low-latency event processing for market data and social-signal sentiment systems. Has led a monolith-to-event-driven migration with feature-flagged incremental rollout, and emphasizes production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, secrets management, Supabase RLS) and data integrity (deduplication/idempotency) under high-volume spike conditions.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer (Cognizant) who owned a customer-facing document validation platform for onboarding/compliance and emphasized fast, reliable delivery through CI/CD automation (Jenkins/AWS) and containerized releases (Docker/Kubernetes). Also built an internal support dashboard that replaced manual log checks with real-time error visibility, significantly reducing investigation time, and has hands-on experience scaling microservices with idempotency, retries/DLQs, and distributed logging.”

“Software engineer with end-to-end ownership of a Qt/C++/QML desktop app for monitoring/configuring equipment, including hands-on UI performance optimization. Also built a web-based AI agent interface (React/TypeScript + Python Flask) with strong API contract discipline and async state handling, and improved microservices reliability using idempotency, DLQs, and observability. Created an internal CI/CD automation tool adopted across engineering and operations teams, adding safer rollbacks and better error messaging based on feedback.”

“Backend engineer with Accenture and EY experience building multi-tenant financial/compliance platforms in Python/Flask. Strong in performance and scalability work across SQLAlchemy/PostgreSQL (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, indexing, N+1 fixes) and in reliability improvements using Celery + Redis. Has integrated external AI model APIs for document extraction/invoice validation with robust background processing, retries, and output cleaning.”

“Backend engineer who evolved Coca-Cola bottlers' Trade Promotion Optimization platform at Coke One North America, building domain-focused microservices in Node.js and Python (Flask/FastAPI) with PostgreSQL. Experienced in multi-tenant security (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, row-level scoping by bottler/region), API contract/versioning discipline, and Azure DevOps-driven incremental rollouts with strong observability.”

“Backend/ML engineer focused on clinical AI transparency who built ShifaMind, an explainability-enforced clinical ML system using UMLS/MIMIC-IV/PubMed data with RAG, GraphSAGE, and cross-attention. Demonstrated strong production engineering via FastAPI API design and safe migrations (feature flags/shadow inference), plus HIPAA-aligned auth/RLS patterns; also delivered a real-time comet detection system reaching 97.7% accuracy.”