Vetted API Development Professionals

“ML/LLM practitioner who has shipped production RAG systems (summarization + Q&A) and end-to-end Airflow-orchestrated demand forecasting pipelines at NEON IT. Strong focus on reliability—uses evaluation scripts, retrieval/chunking tuning, validation/retries/alerts, and stakeholder-driven iteration to make AI workflows consistent and usable.”

“Worked at easybee ai building a production-grade "voice of the customer" LLM intake agent, hardening a fragile sandbox prototype with JSON-schema constrained outputs, Python/FastAPI validation middleware, and automated retries. Strong in real-time debugging of agentic workflows (snapshot isolation, modular tracing) and in implementing safety/compliance guardrails like a content-moderation middleware to support enterprise adoption.”

“Built production LLM systems including a real-time customer feedback analysis and workflow automation platform using RAG and multi-agent orchestration with confidence-based human escalation, addressing privacy and legacy integration challenges. Also automated ML operations with Airflow/Kubernetes (e.g., daily churn model retraining) cutting retraining time to under 30 minutes, and demonstrates a rigorous testing/monitoring approach plus strong non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with recent CVS Health experience building a production RAG system over unstructured financial/research documents using LangChain, FAISS, and Pinecone, plus LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning of GPT/LLaMA for domain-aware summarization. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps and data engineering skills (Airflow/Prefect, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLflow) and measurable impact (sub-second retrieval, ~40% better context retrieval, ~25% entity matching improvement).”

Sanket Dumbare

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech platforms

USA3y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who led an end-to-end Python (FastAPI) transaction analytics microservice for real-time financial monitoring, including SQS ingestion, scoring/aggregation, and low-latency APIs. Strong AWS + Kubernetes/GitOps background (EKS, ArgoCD, Jenkins, ECS/ECR, CloudWatch) with hands-on experience scaling event-driven systems and executing phased on-prem to AWS migrations.”

Naga Renuka Kandi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud, full-stack development, and Generative AI

Remote, USA2y exp

“Built and shipped a production Chrome extension (Promptly) that lets users select text on any webpage and transform it in place (rewrite/shorten/translate) using on-device AI plus external LLMs. Implemented a custom lightweight orchestration layer for prompt chaining, context flow, and output validation, and tackled tricky browser Selection API issues to preserve formatting while keeping the UX simple and fast.”

“Lead engineer/designer behind The Washington Post's internal live-tracker tooling and election coverage interfaces. They combine cloud architecture, frontend/data-viz craftsmanship, and close newsroom stakeholder collaboration to ship real-time, high-traffic journalism products that improved internal efficiency and supported major audience and subscriber outcomes.”

“Full-stack developer who uses AI thoughtfully as a productivity multiplier rather than a substitute for engineering judgment. Built a stock search platform with React, Node.js, and MongoDB, and has experimented with multi-agent workflows across frontend, backend, debugging, and documentation while keeping rigorous human review over logic, testing, and maintainability.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has owned production agentic systems end-to-end, including a CRM-integrated multi-agent financial workflow at Wow Payments that cut latency by 83% and achieved 98% uptime. Also built an AI real estate product ('Site IQ') by turning vague stakeholder goals into a geospatial autonomous agent using RAG, rapid prototyping, and tight validation layers around GPT-4 outputs.”

“Built and deployed a compliance-sensitive LLM pipeline that extracts rebate logic from hospital–supplier medical contracts, using multi-layer redaction (regex/NER/dictionary), schema-validated structured outputs, and secure placeholder reinsertion. Hosted models on Amazon Bedrock to avoid retraining on sensitive data and improved both accuracy and cost by splitting the workflow into a lightweight section classifier plus a fine-tuned extraction model, orchestrated with LangChain and evaluated via layered, test-driven agent assessments.”

“Backend/Founding-Engineer-style builder who architected AESOP, a multi-agent distributed platform for biomedical literature evidence synthesis. Implemented an async FastAPI stack on AWS with LangGraph orchestration, Redis/Postgres+pgvector, and Celery-based background processing, plus defense-in-depth security (JWT refresh/rotation and DB-level isolation). Notable for hardening LLM workflows with multi-layer validation and convergence safeguards to prevent hallucinations and infinite agent loops.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience designing and refactoring scalable Node.js/MongoDB systems and building Python/FastAPI services. Emphasizes production-grade security (JWT, refresh tokens, RBAC, Supabase Auth, RLS) and reliability practices like strong testing, monitoring, and rollback planning, including resolving concurrency and token/validation edge cases.”

“Backend engineer with experience at HSBC and Machinations who has delivered major production performance wins (cutting large trade-file upload times from ~13–15s to ~2s) using chunked parallel processing with strong reliability controls. Also built and shipped an applied AI RAG workflow using Langflow + Cohere embeddings + FAISS with hosted/local LLM fallbacks (Hugging Face, Ollama) and production-grade guardrails, observability, and evaluation.”

Danielle Tyler

Screened

Director-level Regulatory Compliance & Legal Affairs leader specializing in enterprise risk governance

Atlanta, GA11y exp

“Operations-focused advisor/consultant with experience helping a fast-growing e-commerce company scale internal operations and customer experience. Implemented a CX playbook, cloud CRM, and real-time risk controls (order tracking + anomaly detection), delivering 30%+ CSAT improvement and up to 25% retention lift in six months while also building a foundational compliance program to support regulatory and investor readiness.”

Saniya Shinde

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP, LLMs, and RAG systems

Washington, DC4y exp

“Built and deployed a production-style vision-language pipeline that generates structured medical reports from chest X-rays using BioViLT embeddings, an image-text alignment module, and BiGPT fine-tuned with LoRA, delivered via Streamlit and hosted on AWS EC2. Also collaborating experience presenting EDA findings, feature importance, and model performance to Ford managers while working with vehicle parts data at Bimcon.”

Arthi R

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

Remote – Washington, D.C.5y exp

“Backend engineer with fintech/banking experience (e.g., Canara Bank) building secure Python/Flask microservices for financial reporting and unified data access. Strong in Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance optimization (including materialized views) and in productionizing ML services on AWS (Lambda/ECS/CloudWatch) with Docker, model registries, and blue-green deployments, plus multi-tenant isolation via JWT-based middleware.”

Sujith Julakanti

Screened

Junior MLOps Engineer specializing in LLMs and cloud infrastructure

College Station, TX3y exp

“Built a production multimodal LLM system (Gemini on GCP) to automate behavioral coding of family-involved science experiment videos, including preprocessing for inconsistent lighting/audio and LangGraph-orchestrated parallel workflows. Also developed rubric-based AI grading workflows and partnered closely with non-technical education stakeholders through explainability-focused walkthroughs and manual-vs-AI evaluation alignment.”

Alex Johnson

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in observability and developer tools

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Product-leaning full-stack engineer (65% product / 35% infra) who built core components of the LightFoot feature flag platform: end-to-end client/server SDKs with OpenTelemetry-based observability and a React+TypeScript UI for flag management and metrics dashboards. Strong focus on performance (memoization/lazy loading/caching), reliable API design, and Postgres modeling for read-heavy flag evaluation workloads, with AWS production experience (EC2/ECS/Lambda/API Gateway/VPC).”

Nikitha Margadi

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud lakehouse, streaming, and MLOps

Texas, USA5y exp

“Data engineer at AT&T focused on large-scale telecom (5G/IoT) data platforms, owning end-to-end pipelines from Kafka/Azure ingestion through Databricks/Delta Lake transformations to serving analytics and ML. Has operated at very high volumes (~50+ TB/day) and delivered measurable performance gains (25–30% faster processing) plus improved reliability via Airflow monitoring, robust data quality checks, and resilient external data collection patterns (rate limiting, retries, dynamic schemas).”

Michael Yeung

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech trading platforms

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Built and deployed internal trading tools at Wells Fargo that reduced manual production-support dependency for trader configuration workflows. Brings hands-on experience in financial systems, data quality, and production incident resolution, including building 400+ SQL validation rules and designing an internal RAG assistant for engineering documentation.”

“AI/LLM-focused builder with internship experience at Curated, where they owned a voice AI support deployment end-to-end and built a RAG-based internal knowledge assistant. They pair practical production instincts with measurable outcomes, including a 30% reduction in human-handled support tickets, a 20-point NPS improvement, and a 40% reduction in manual document search across five teams.”

“Entry-level backend engineer currently building AI infrastructure for a legal-tech product, including message APIs between frontend and LLMs and MCP-based integrations to enterprise legal systems. Stands out for owning backend components end-to-end in an ambiguous early-stage environment and for resolving a critical pre-demo bug under intense time pressure.”

Janvitha Mandyam

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and NLP

Chicago, IL4y exp

“GenAI/LLMOps practitioner who deployed a production RAG-based customer service and knowledge retrieval system for a global bank using LangChain, FAISS/Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-4/Claude, and Guardrails—driving a reported 35% Q&A accuracy lift while reducing handle time and escalations. Also partnered with non-technical leaders at CVS Health to deliver ML-driven supply chain risk and inventory insights via anomaly detection, NLG summaries, and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI APIs secured with JWT and delivering AWS-based data processing solutions using Lambda and ECS Fargate. Has worked with Snowflake/third-party API sources and targets including DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Redshift, and Glue, and uses CloudWatch/X-Ray for monitoring and troubleshooting. Seeking ~$65/hr and is open to onsite work in Bethesda, MD.”