Vetted API Design Professionals

“Built a college AI chatbot during a master’s program, owning the full Python/Flask backend plus Google Gemini integration and a Postgres persistence layer (course info + conversation history), including caching/performance tuning. Also deployed and migrated ETL/ELT workloads from AWS Lambda into Kubernetes/EKS with GitHub Actions-based GitOps CI/CD, IRSA permissions, and Secrets Manager/S3/Postgres connectivity.”

“JavaScript/React performance-focused engineer who contributed upstream to an open-source virtualization/pagination library, fixing overlapping-fetch race conditions and introducing prefetch/deduping patterns that cut load times from ~3s to <900ms and reduced render thrash ~35%. Also built healthcare automation systems (clinical summary and claims triage), including a FastAPI + RAG pipeline that retrieved CPT/ICD evidence, improving decision accuracy from 67% to 86% and reducing turnaround time by 40%.”

“Engineering/technology leader (CTO-style) with experience scaling orgs and running distributed teams across four continents for over a decade. Led a high-stakes modernization of a securities trading platform at Wedbush—migrating from monolith to microservices on AWS with zero-downtime constraints—driving 45% execution performance improvement and enabling 25% market share growth. Emphasizes business-aligned roadmaps, build-vs-buy rigor, and scalable engineering practices/culture.”

“Full-stack engineer with early-stage startup experience who shipped and owned production Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) features end-to-end, including auth-aware APIs, caching, and post-launch monitoring/iteration. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability chops across React UX optimization, Postgres analytics modeling/query tuning (validated via query plans), and durable ingestion workflows with retries/idempotency.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an AI-driven document analysis and processing workflow end-to-end, including large-document ingestion, queued async processing, and low-latency retrieval for user-facing flows. Demonstrated practical performance tuning (moving heavy work off request path, polling, caching) and Postgres optimization validated with EXPLAIN ANALYZE, plus durable workflow resilience via retries and dead-letter queues.”

Siddhartha Alapati

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices and full-stack web apps

Denton, TX4y exp

“Software/full-stack engineer focused on deploying and integrating microservice applications into production AWS and hybrid cloud/on-prem industrial environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting by tracing intermittent user failures to network routing/packet loss caused by load balancer and NIC misconfiguration, then adding monitoring to prevent recurrence. Also delivers customer-specific Python extensions with strong validation, testing, and backward compatibility.”

Ram Usarty

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

USA4y exp

“Backend/platform-focused engineer who has shipped production LLM agents for messy research dataset submissions, turning manual validation into an automated, reliable ingestion pipeline. Strong on production hardening (streaming large uploads, strict schema/function-calling outputs, idempotency, RBAC) plus eval/monitoring loops that improved data quality, reduced support burden, and increased adoption.”

keerthana s

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in Python/FastAPI on AWS

Los Angeles, California4y exp

“Backend engineer with healthcare domain experience building AI-driven radiology workflow systems. Evolved tightly coupled APIs into secure, reliable FastAPI-based services by moving heavy imaging/data processing into idempotent asynchronous pipelines with retries, feature-flagged incremental rollout, and strong data-integrity controls (constraints, backfills, validation). Strong focus on defense-in-depth security for sensitive patient data (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, and database-level protections).”

Tara Worrell

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI/LLM integration, and cloud infrastructure

Brooklyn, NY6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience in highly regulated and high-stakes systems, including an airline crew messaging platform requiring near-zero-error real-time operations and a HIPAA-compliant mental health application built from an early-stage concept. They also show strong operational maturity, having owned a GoDaddy production incident through resolution and then led deployment pipeline improvements that reduced build failures by 40% and doubled deployment frequency.”

Hemanth Kumar Gajagiri

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems and scalable platforms

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“AI-focused full-stack/DevOps engineer who goes beyond using copilots and has built production-oriented LLM systems such as natural-language-to-SQL and structured insight extraction pipelines. Stands out for treating AI as an accelerator rather than a replacement, with a strong emphasis on guardrails, validation, observability, and safe deployment practices in agent-based and distributed systems.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience designing and leading multi-agent AI development workflows, including a LangGraph-based system that automated parts of a RAG pipeline and significantly reduced development time. Stands out for treating AI agents like an engineering team, with clear architecture, handoff schemas, validation, and supervisor-driven conflict resolution.”

Chinmay Warang

Screened

Senior Audio Software Engineer specializing in real-time audio ML systems

Somerville, MA5y exp

“Startup backend engineer with unusually deep end-to-end ownership of real-time audio/ML systems. At Modulate, they rebuilt the core Audio Intelligence API used by enterprise customers like Activision, cutting latency 70% and eliminating session loss, and also independently created a data labeling platform that powered the company’s model training during a major product pivot.”

Manoj Manjunatha

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems and applied AI

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built the backend for “codeGuard,” an AI-powered static code analysis platform, using FastAPI and Docker. Structured the system into API/service/execution layers and addressed heavy-workload container resource/cleanup issues via strict CPU/memory limits and a queued execution model.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup experience building real-time collaboration and meeting platforms for enterprise customers. Has worked across product ownership, React/TypeScript frontends, Go and Node.js backend services, PostgreSQL data modeling, and production performance optimization in B2B SaaS environments.”

“Backend engineer who built a real-time, event-driven alerting platform (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB) processing millions of events per day on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes), including hands-on performance debugging of Kafka consumer lag at peak. Also shipped an end-to-end LLM-based alert summarization feature and designed a multi-step incident triage agent workflow with retries and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Built a healthcare app backend and supporting product pieces from scratch for Maverick Health—covering database schema, API structure, Node.js implementation, and UI design in Figma—while targeting 10,000 patients and keeping AWS run costs to ~$20–$30/month. Shipped an Android closed beta on Google Play and handled real-world launch hurdles like privacy policy compliance and push notification infrastructure.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning high-scale backend systems and distributed consensus: led a 6-person team delivering a production data querying/visualization platform with major latency improvements via cursor-based pagination and streamed results. Built a RAFT-based distributed logging tool resilient to partitions and storage constraints, and at Nasuni developed FastAPI services processing multi-terabyte workloads for 500+ enterprise customers with secure API key management.”

“Built and maintained a Node.js backend for a restaurant recommendation project that became widely reused by other students, effectively acting like an internal open-source library. Refactored a messy filtering system into modular query/validation/pagination utilities, added tests, and upgraded docs (JSDoc, README, demo app) to reduce repeat issues and make contributions easier. Comfortable owning end-to-end improvements (design, performance, documentation, and support) in unstructured environments.”

“Software engineer who has built both internal developer productivity tooling (a backend API supporting repeatable UI test data/mocking for Dapper) and a personal Go-based LLM workout coach using Gemini and structured logs/config. Emphasizes maintainability and reliability via scalable UI component tagging (Telerik), audit logs, and reproducible Dockerized environments; targeting $160k base.”

“Full-stack engineer from HPE GreenLake who built and owned a cloud/hypervisor resource management experience end-to-end, including Postgres modeling, typed REST/GraphQL integrations, and resilient provisioning workflows. Drove a centralized Redux-based UI architecture that boosted dev velocity by 50% across 30+ teams, and continued post-launch ownership with DR integrations (AWS/GCP/Azure) plus expanded Cypress testing and observability.”

“Data engineer with Webster Bank experience owning end-to-end pipelines (APIs + databases) processing millions of records/day, improving data quality (25–30% fewer issues) and reliability (~99.9% successful runs). Built resilient external data ingestion/scraping systems (schema-change validation, idempotent backfills, monitoring/alerts) and shipped a FastAPI service exposing curated datasets with versioning and consistently low latency.”

Serkan Yildirim

Screened

Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer / Tech Lead specializing in scalable web platforms

Chicago, IL12y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end delivery of a bag tag management application and contributed to a bank wealth application using micro-frontends. Emphasizes scalable architecture, reusable component systems (Storybook), performance techniques (lazy loading/code splitting), and quality/security tooling (Veracode, Wiz Scan, SonarQube) with a disciplined multi-environment release process.”

maheen Adeeb

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, speech AI, and RAG systems

Chicago, IL3y exp

“AI engineer with production experience building multilingual speech-to-speech translation pipelines (ASR + LLM) for enterprise/media, focused on reliability at scale. Has hands-on orchestration experience (including IBM Watson contexts) and emphasizes production evaluation/monitoring using a mix of traditional metrics and LLM-based evaluators to catch quality regressions while balancing latency and cost.”