Vetted API Design Professionals

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.”

Harshith Jaladi

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech distributed systems

Chennai, India1y exp

“Game developer with early-stage startup experience who worked directly with a CEO to integrate an AI-based API into Skyrim Elder Scrolls V, helping showcase the product and win Riot Games as a client. Currently owns multiple financial reporting ingestion workflows and has driven meaningful time savings through cross-functional execution, combining gaming/AI experience with operational impact in fintech.”

“Research-heavy ML/AI candidate with a PhD/publications background who translated LLM evaluation and clinical summarization techniques into production at ModMed. They owned an end-to-end healthcare GenAI pipeline that cut clinician documentation time from ~22 minutes to ~7-8 minutes, reduced token costs by ~30%, and built an internal evaluation framework later adopted by multiple teams.”

John Chance

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in conversational AI and healthcare ML

Greenwood, LA9y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of both classical recommender systems and safety-sensitive LLM agent platforms. They combine production MLOps depth with behavioral health domain experience, including clinical safety validation, explainability, and multi-agent orchestration, and cite measurable impact in both business metrics and latency reduction.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience building production systems in financial services, including a real-time underwriting analytics platform at Hartford Financial Services. Stands out for combining classic ML, low-latency API deployment, monitoring, and emerging LLM/RAG design patterns, with measurable impact including 20% better decision accuracy, sub-200ms latency, and 5M+ records processed daily.”

kartikeya tiwari

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and platform engineering

Bangalore, India6y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with experience owning production systems in fintech and product startups, including a predictive scaling platform that cut AWS spend by 40% and an ambiguous social-intelligence feature that doubled MRR from $50K to $100K. Also building AI search and document-processing workflows, with reported 99.7% extraction accuracy and hands-on use of both classical forecasting and modern LLM stacks.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at Charles Schwab owning financial workflow deployments end-to-end, including API/database design, SQL optimization, Python automation, and AWS-based production stabilization. Also brings applied AI quality experience through building LLM/agent validation pipelines focused on scenario testing, edge-case detection, and reducing production risk.”

“Built end-to-end product features spanning full-stack web development and LLM-powered systems in an early-stage startup environment. Notably shipped an AI financial assistant chatbot with agent routing, validation, fallback handling, and production monitoring, and also owned a scheduling system integrating Next.js, backend APIs, database design, and Google Calendar OAuth.”

“Backend engineer who built the core backend for Air Kitchens’ discovery/booking platform on AWS (Node + Python, DynamoDB, SQS/Lambda), optimizing for fast user-facing APIs and scalable async workflows. Introduced an AI matching service with a deterministic pre-filter + LLM ranking approach to balance latency vs quality, and has hands-on experience with production security (JWT/RBAC/RLS), CI/CD, and blue-green, staged migrations from Django to modular services.”

“Has production deployment experience delivering computer-vision systems on AWS (Docker + S3) including a GDPR-focused face/license-plate obfuscation pipeline and a semantic-segmentation project aimed at reducing annotation time. Worked closely with DevOps and frontend teams and partnered with CEO/CMO to present an AI-driven annotation workflow to non-technical VC stakeholders.”

“Full Stack Engineer with hands-on experience owning customer-facing products end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration via feature flags and risk-based testing for critical user flows. Built TypeScript/React systems with shared types and clean backend layering, and has microservices experience using RabbitMQ to decouple services and manage scale issues like queue backlogs. Also created an internal dashboard for dev/QA to centralize build/test/deploy visibility and iterated on it through lightweight user research and usage metrics.”

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Metasystems Inc. (and Qualcomm) building high-traffic, security-sensitive systems—owned a secure transaction processing module end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django, and React. Strong AWS production operations (EKS/ECS/Lambda/RDS/DynamoDB) with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), observability, and reliability patterns; also delivered resilient ETL/integration pipelines with idempotency/retries/backfills and achieved a 50% deployment-time reduction through CI/CD and modular refactoring.”

“Consulting background (Accenture) delivering technically complex solutions involving on-chain data and strict government security standards, including building isolated sandbox environments to move from PoC to production. Experienced in debugging agentic/LLM-style workflows (e.g., document scanning issues) with deterministic guardrails, preprocessing, and strong logging/monitoring. Has led large-scale crypto wallet workshops (including for the CFTC) and helped win business via clear, layered technical demos; also built internal marketing taxonomy tooling and drove adoption through cross-functional alignment.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Capital One and Prime Softech owning production systems end-to-end: secure authentication (Java/Spring Security + React/Redux) through AWS ECS deployments with Terraform and CI/CD. Strong reliability/observability focus (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK/CloudWatch) with quantified improvements (15% reliability gain, 30% fewer post-release defects). Also led legacy monolith-to-microservices refactors and built real-time Kafka/Spark ingestion pipelines for analytics/fraud detection.”

Ishaan Umesh Mandliya

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud-native systems

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“At BondiTech, built and deployed customer-facing backend improvements for enterprise dashboards handling 1M+ records, redesigning a .NET/Entity Framework API with server-side pagination/filtering and feature-flagged rollout to cut latency from ~15s to ~2s. Experienced integrating customer systems into existing APIs, including stabilizing a legacy CRM sync by normalizing inconsistent IDs, handling strict rate limits with batching, and adding DLQs plus reconciliation reporting.”

Vansh Amara

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and robotics infrastructure

Madison, WI1y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 experience building real-time perception/control infrastructure and multi-sensor fusion (radar/ultrasonic + GNSS/IMU) with deterministic latency and safety fallbacks. Debugged rover navigation drift via rosbag replay and timing analysis, improving state estimation by gating GNSS and switching to SLAM when GPS degraded. Also brings strong distributed-systems and build/CI tooling experience (gRPC/Protobuf, Docker, Bazel cross-compilation for ARM/RISC-V, GitHub Actions).”

Sai Venkata Sathwik Golla

Screened

Mid-level Backend & Applied ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and scalable APIs

Palo Alto, CA3y exp

“Backend engineer who significantly evolved an internal analytics/reporting platform (Python API + Postgres) powering self-service dashboards for product/business teams, focusing on reliability under heavy concurrent load and fast query performance. Demonstrates strong production engineering practices across API design (FastAPI), observability, incremental rollouts with feature flags, and data security using JWT/RBAC plus Postgres row-level security.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production recommendation and RAG systems at Northern Trust. They combine transformer modeling, latency optimization, cloud deployment, and monitoring with measurable business impact, including 14% accuracy gains, 12% engagement improvement, and 19% better query relevance.”

“ML/AI engineer with strong production ownership across predictive ML and Generative AI systems. They’ve delivered measurable business impact through real-time churn/drop-off prediction, RAG-based document QA, and scalable LLM optimization, with a consistent focus on reliability, safety, latency, and developer productivity.”

Praveen LAKSHMAN

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and workflow automation

Birmingham, AL4y exp

“Early-career AI engineer currently pursuing a Master's, with hands-on experience building and improving RAG pipelines using LangChain. They stand out for moving beyond naive retrieval into multi-step retrieval and feedback-loop designs to reduce hallucinations, and are now exploring multi-agent systems with distinct retrieval, coding, and validation roles.”

“Backend engineer in airport operations who built a highly customizable BFF-based system connecting airport staff workflows to a baggage sortation engine. Their architecture cut per-airport customization from 100-150 engineering hours to 1-5 hours, improved long-running operation performance by 45%, and shipped in 4 months instead of 6. They also explored AI-assisted backend customization with human validation and test-based safeguards.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across Cigna, Cognizant, and a university environment, focused on reliability, distributed systems, and regulated-domain workflows. Stands out for combining Kubernetes/Kafka/AWS infrastructure expertise with a production RAG-based healthcare compliance assistant that cut manual reporting work from 30-45 minutes to under 2 minutes while maintaining strong uptime and data-quality controls.”

“Software engineer who recently shipped an authentication and role-based access feature for a web app, using AI selectively for boilerplate, debugging, and test suggestions while retaining ownership of architecture, security, testing, and final review. Stands out for a disciplined, security-first approach to AI-assisted development and a pragmatic preference for lightweight API-driven solutions over unnecessary framework complexity.”