Vetted API Development Professionals

“Senior engineering leader with deep hands-on architecture experience across fintech and enterprise software. At DriveWealth, he led a major backend replatform for a brokerage platform handling 10M+ trades per day, combining event-driven design, Kinesis/Kafka, and regulatory-grade accuracy; at TIBCO, he built a Kubernetes-based API management product from near scratch into a successful revenue-generating offering.”

“Software engineering manager with 8+ years spanning large-scale consumer product delivery and ML-driven forecasting platforms. He has led teams of up to 15 engineers, hired 20+ people, and worked on systems serving millions of customers, including Amazon grocery/order-modification features and a forecasting platform with explainability and AI chatbot layers.”

SHIVA SANDY

Screened

Executive CTO/CIO specializing in FinTech, cloud transformation, and cybersecurity

Walnut Creek, CA27y exp

“Banking/credit-union technology executive (CTO/CTIO) who has led modernization and product delivery through major change, including a post-merger roadmap that helped grow a credit union from $600M to $1.5B in 3 years. Hands-on leader who drove cloud microservices/API architecture, introduced CI/CD, and accelerated releases from quarterly to weekly while scaling teams and operating effectively with distributed/remote orgs.”

“Security-oriented software engineer with experience building high-impact internal and platform features at TikTok and Reddit, including session hijacking prevention, an internal password manager, and a reusable Android passkey SDK. Stands out for combining backend/API ownership, user-driven product improvements, and deep attention to security, performance, and cross-platform compatibility.”

Ao Chen

Screened

Entry Software Engineer specializing in cloud APIs and distributed systems

United States, USA1y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of AWS-based production systems, including resource-based policy support for Aurora DSQL and a VPC endpoint service name API. Stands out for combining security-sensitive authorization design, strong reliability instincts, and end-to-end product ownership that helped unblock enterprise adoption and customer onboarding.”