Vetted API Design Professionals

“Full-stack engineer with startup-style end-to-end ownership, recently shipping a production dashboard at Find Me LLC using Next.js App Router/TypeScript with Supabase + Azure Blob Storage for secure asset/document uploads. Strong server-first React performance mindset and hands-on Postgres modeling/query optimization (EXPLAIN ANALYZE), plus experience building resilient AWS event-driven workflows with idempotency, retries, and DLQs.”

“Software engineer (internship experience) who built and owned an AWS serverless multi-user “challenge” feature end-to-end (UI + REST APIs + DynamoDB + deployment), delivering measurable gains in latency (-30%), debugging time (-50%), and join drop-offs (~-30%). Also productionized a multilingual RAG-based QA system with vector retrieval and guardrails, improving accuracy to ~85% and driving ~20% DAU growth.”

“Backend engineer (Encore) who led the evaluation and redesign of a high-volume, low-latency real-time retrieval/ranking and inference platform on AWS, shifting from tightly coupled services to a modular architecture for better fault isolation and independent scaling. Strong focus on production reliability, observability, and security (JWT/RBAC, multi-tenant scoping, Postgres/Supabase RLS), with disciplined migration playbooks (feature flags, shadow traffic, dual writes/reconciliation).”

“Frontend/full-stack product builder who led SiteSnap (field documentation platform) end-to-end, including UX design, React/TypeScript architecture, and deployment. Built a complex Report Builder editor handling thousands of media assets with strong performance practices (virtualization, lazy loading) and a quality pipeline (Storybook, Playwright, Vercel previews), and shipped a smart PDF report generator under a tight demo deadline with gradual rollout.”

“Unity developer with shipped Meta Quest experience who owned the full lifecycle from architecture and feature development through builds and store compliance. Demonstrated strong performance optimization skills (profiling in Unity and MQDH, optimizing textures and render layering) and has built and shipped a modular, cross-platform puzzle game (PC/web/mobile).”

“Frontend team lead who delivered an ArcMap React + TypeScript product end-to-end, emphasizing Atomic Design-based design systems, reusable component architecture, and performance optimizations (code-splitting/lazy loading, server-side fetching, webpack). Adopted React Query over Redux with centralized query-key management and coached the team on its usage while shipping quickly in a high-velocity environment.”

“Frontend engineer who led the mentorAi SaaS platform UI end-to-end at IBL.ai, building real-time React/Redux experiences backed by WebSockets and scaling quality with Playwright E2E tests in GitHub CI. Also worked at Paymentology for ~2 years on fintech features (token management, Visa card creation/assignment and funding flows), modernizing an existing React codebase by introducing TypeScript and strengthening CI/coverage with SonarQube to reduce deployment bugs.”

“Built and owned a customer-facing Document Intelligence Service for legal contract analytics at Noasis Digital, delivering extraction/summarization with careful accuracy controls (confidence thresholds, versioned deployments, production logging). Also developed a React/TypeScript document review app and internal QA dashboard, and has hands-on microservices experience with async messaging (RabbitMQ), timeout tuning, and centralized structured logging for reliability at scale.”

“Frontend engineer/team lead currently overseeing a 5-person team building an AI trading mobile application, using modular architecture and Jest-based testing to maintain quality as features scale. Also develops a trading/research platform in Next.js/React/TypeScript with Tailwind and Redux, including complex broker registration workflows and experience separating on-device AI components from core business logic.”

“Internship project building and deploying a LLaMA-based, RAG-enabled copilot inside a Professional Services Automation platform, enabling natural-language navigation, text-to-SQL reporting, and project/resource/budget insights across multiple modules. Addressed real production issues like context drift and vague queries with hybrid search, metadata enrichment, and an intent classification/rewriting layer, orchestrated via Apache Airflow—ultimately cutting PMO reporting time by 40%.”

“Open-source-focused TypeScript/JavaScript engineer who built a lightweight Node.js utility library to standardize LLM-agent message formatting, tool invocation, and safe schema-validated JSON outputs. Emphasizes composable abstractions, real-world performance profiling/benchmarks, and strong community feedback loops (GitHub issues, structured errors, logging hooks). Also did research at Syracuse University on converting natural language into structured JSON with validation layers.”

“Product designer with a front-end engineering background who built “Gifter” end-to-end while the underlying payments chain was being developed, covering onboarding, wallet funding, benefits issuance, balance tracking, refunds/chargebacks, and reconciliation. Deep fintech/payments UX experience in Brazil’s PIX ecosystem, using rigorous state modeling and design-system tokens plus hands-on user testing to make complex financial workflows feel predictable and calm.”

“Built and owned Python backend APIs for real-time educational dashboards at ASU’s Machine Learning lab, improving responsiveness by cutting latency ~35% through caching, batching, and profiling-driven optimizations. Has hands-on experience containerizing Node.js/Python services and running GitOps-style CI/CD with GitHub Actions, plus supporting smaller infrastructure transitions with reproducible, portable configs.”

“Backend engineer at PlatePost who built an AI-driven food pairing/recommendation feature for restaurants using Google Gemini, shipping quickly by caching results with a 24-hour refresh and manual override. Emphasizes practical reliability/security patterns (logging, error handling, tenant-scoped queries) and proactively caught an accessibility issue via screen reader testing.”

“UE5 Blueprint/UMG developer who built a player-facing interactive “build your own home” experience with real vendor inventory and pricing, including a rule-driven configuration system and multiple polished camera/view modes. Took it from a local kiosk-style app to a scalable online product by streaming Unreal via Pixel Streaming/WebRTC on Azure VMs with a React frontend, plus analytics (GA) and CRM integration (HubSpot).”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/ops analytics experience at PatientXpress, shipping a real-time operational dashboard end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres on AWS) that cut manual reporting by 50%. Strong in performance and reliability work—pagination/caching, Postgres indexing/partitioning, Terraform-based AWS provisioning, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and production incident response with improved monitoring (CloudWatch/Prometheus).”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with strong performance and reliability instincts: improved production page responsiveness by 15% via lazy loading and render optimization, and built a polished React+TypeScript filtering dashboard with URL-synced state for shareable views. Also designed and operated a Django REST backend with versioning, token auth, structured logging, and API tests, and has handled real production scaling issues through PostgreSQL query-plan analysis and indexing.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who owned a cloud-native, AWS-based microservices backend for an HRIS product used by ~10,000 users, including onboarding and workflow orchestration. Strong production focus on event-driven architecture, idempotency/retries, observability, and developer-friendly API design (OpenAPI, versioning, JWT), plus hands-on Selenium automation for resilient checkout-style flows.”

“Built and productionized an AI-assisted merchant onboarding automation workflow for Kort Payments, replacing slow manual underwriting document review with structured extraction, cross-document validation, and human-in-the-loop guardrails. Emphasizes reliability via scenario-based testing, repeatability checks, and deep observability (timestamped logs), plus incremental rollout with legacy fallback to prevent regressions.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong AWS operations experience who helped replace a long-standing manual logistics reporting process by building a production-grade, event-driven On-Time-Performance rules system. Personally owned the Vue-based rule configuration frontend end-to-end (design collaboration through QA/UAT and post-release support) and measures success via accuracy validation against historical data, reduced manual adjustments/tickets, and system latency/error metrics.”