Vetted API Development Professionals

“LLM/agent builder who has shipped production AI systems in the wellness space, including an LLM-powered food tracking product used by 5000+ users and a voice/call-routing onboarding workflow using LangGraph/LangChain with LiveKit and Twilio. Strong focus on practical reliability work: latency reduction, retrieval/embedding tuning, and CI-driven evaluation with simulations and metrics.”

“Software engineer with experience across data engineering and backend/platform work: owned a Databricks/PySpark real-time pipeline powering customer dashboards with a 15-minute SLA, and helped modernize an investor web app from JSP to React/TypeScript with API + SQL/materialized-view performance improvements. Also contributed to breaking a Java monolith into microservices (Redis + gRPC on AWS EKS) and built an EC2-deployed Play Store/App Store crawler that reduced third-party data costs.”

“Built and productionized an agentic LLM workflow during a summer internship to transform unstructured clinical reports into analytics-ready structured data, using a LangChain multi-agent design plus an LLM-as-a-judge layer to control quality in a regulated setting. Also has experience orchestrating ML pipelines at Piramal Capital using AWS Step Functions/EventBridge/CloudWatch, with strong emphasis on observability, evaluation rigor, and measurable impact (80–90% reduction in manual data entry).”

“Engineer with Deloitte experience building real-time analytics products and scalable Kafka/Go/Postgres pipelines, plus production LLM features using RAG and embeddings. Demonstrates strong focus on performance, reliability, and guardrails/evaluation loops to reduce hallucinations and improve real-world AI system quality.”

“Early engineer at a fast-growing startup who owned an AI-powered portfolio/site generation workflow end-to-end (frontend in Next.js App Router/TypeScript through backend orchestration). Emphasizes server-first security/performance (Server Components/Actions, revalidation), and production hardening with validation, caching, observability, retries/idempotency, and CI/E2E testing.”

“Backend/microservices engineer (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, Angular microfrontends) with Teradata experience building distributed analytics/query routing platforms and delivering 20–30% latency reductions through event-driven redesign and reliability hardening. Also built and shipped an end-to-end multimodal medical imaging AI feature (LLaVA/Mistral 7B + LoRA) with production guardrails like confidence-based human review, drift monitoring, and audit logs.”

“Founding member of Tausight, building AI systems to detect and protect PHI for healthcare organizations; helped take the company through post–Series A funding and exited after ~6 years. Drove a strategic collaboration with Intel’s OpenVINO team—becoming the first to deploy it in a real production system and improving model performance by ~30% on customer Intel-CPU machines.”

“AI/LLM engineer with published work who built FinVet, a production financial misinformation detection system using multi-pipeline RAG, confidence-based voting, and evidence-backed outputs (F1 0.85, +37% vs baseline). Also built NexusForest-MCP, a Dockerized Model Context Protocol server exposing structured global deforestation/carbon data via SQL tools for reliable LLM tool use. Previously delivered borrower risk-rating (PD) models at BMO Financial Group that were validated and integrated into an enterprise credit system through close collaboration with credit officers and portfolio managers.”

“Backend/integration-focused engineer in the Maryland area with production experience building FastAPI REST services secured with OAuth2.1/JWT and reliability patterns (timeouts, selective retries, idempotency, centralized error handling). Has delivered AWS-integrated MuleSoft/CloudHub solutions and supported AWS Glue ETL workflows, plus demonstrated strong SQL tuning with a 30–40s to 3–5s performance improvement.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped 10+ production applications, including InvestIQ on GCP—a production-grade RAG due-diligence engine that ethically scrapes web/PDF sources, builds a ChromaDB knowledge base, and delivers analyst-style dashboards plus a citation-backed chat copilot. Deep focus on reliability (evidence-only answers, hard citations, refusal gating), retrieval tuning, and orchestration (Airflow/Cloud Composer), plus multi-agent systems (CrewAI with 7 specialized finance agents).”

“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.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on productionizing LLM applications, including an Android privacy-policy risk summarization app (Kotlin/React Native + FastAPI + Ollama) that cut response times from ~10s to ~5–6s via batching, caching, async, and event-driven architecture. Currently at PRGX building an LLM-based legal contract clause extraction system, partnering closely with legal/procurement SMEs to create schemas, labeled datasets, and evaluation pipelines that improved accuracy from 70% to 85%. Also has experience architecting real-time voice/LLM systems with streaming microservices (Kafka, Kubernetes, gRPC/WebSockets) and an avatar chatbot pipeline (TalkingHead, Google TTS, AnythingLLM).”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with logistics domain experience (DHL) who shipped a real-time shipment status update system using Spring Boot + Kafka and a performance-tuned PostgreSQL tracking schema. Also has AWS production operations experience (ECS/Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible) and has handled peak-load incidents end-to-end by tracing Kafka lag to database bottlenecks and resolving via query/index optimization plus scaling.”

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep insurance claims domain experience who built and operated a microservices + ETL platform (Java/Spring Boot + Python + Kafka/Databricks) processing 1M+ daily transactions. Combines production-grade reliability (99.7% uptime, zero-downtime blue/green releases, strong observability) with customer-facing UI delivery (AngularJS/React+TS dashboards and a hackathon-winning research chatbot).”

“AI/ML-focused backend engineer who shipped two production systems: PersonaPal (agentic LLM chatbot with RAG, FAISS-based retrieval, and Redis semantic caching) and CervixScan (clinical diagnostics platform with PostgreSQL data modeling and human-in-the-loop safety for low-confidence predictions). Demonstrates strong performance/reliability work (indexed vector search, caching, query optimization to ~200ms) and end-to-end ownership from orchestration design through deployment.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience revamping IPTV native TV apps (Android TV, Xfinity, LG, Samsung), building scalable, lazy-loaded home page and content experiences that remain stable as backend playlists change. Emphasizes component/modular architecture (including MVP on Android TV), strong quality practices (CI, unit tests, code reviews, manual device testing), and modern React+TypeScript state management using Zustand with clean separation of business logic from UI.”

“Frontend/platform-leaning engineer who owned a shared React component library (design-system style) adopted across multiple SPAs, with strong discipline around SemVer, deprecation strategy, and developer documentation. Also has backend/distributed-systems experience diagnosing and fixing a Kafka microservice race condition and has led prioritization/migration planning in an unstructured monolith-to-microservices environment (Centene).”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered financial/regulatory document analysis platform at State Street, combining fine-tuned transformer models with a RAG pipeline over internal knowledge bases. Owned the productionization stack (FastAPI, Docker, SageMaker, Terraform, CI/CD) plus monitoring for drift/latency/hallucinations, delivering ~40% faster analyst review and improved reliability through chunking/embeddings and grounding.”

“IBM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM assistant using LangChain/FAISS with a fine-tuned LLaMA model, served via FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes, achieving 99%+ uptime. Demonstrates strong practical expertise in reducing hallucinations (semantic chunking + metadata-driven retrieval) and managing latency, plus mature MLOps practices (Airflow/dbt pipelines, MLflow tracking, monitoring, A/B and shadow deployments) and effective collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”