Vetted API Development Professionals

“Backend/AI workflow engineer with experience at AirKitchenz, Uber, and Vivma Software, building production systems on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions). Has a track record of major performance wins (DynamoDB latency 2s to <150ms; Postgres query 2s to ~180ms) and shipping LLM-powered onboarding and ticket-routing workflows with strong guardrails (schema validation, confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop escalation).”

“Data engineer at CenterPoint Energy who built and operated multiple production-grade GCP data systems: a daily Snowflake→BigQuery replication framework (150+ tables) with Monte Carlo/Atlan-driven observability and schema-drift protection, plus a FastAPI metrics service for pipeline health. Demonstrated measurable impact (40% faster dashboard queries, 70% less manual refresh work, zero data loss) and strong operational rigor (scaling Cloud Run jobs, SAP SLT reconciliation, quarantine patterns, CI/CD via GitHub Actions + Terraform).”

Joshua Hewitt

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI product development

San Francisco, USA9y exp

“AI product builder at Padlet who shipped multiple production LLM features for education workflows, including an AI document generator (AI Recipes) and a RAG-enabled in-product chat assistant. Built an AI microservice layer (LangChain) to swap model providers easily and created automated + human-in-the-loop evaluation systems (including ~100-test runs) to iterate on prompts and quality.”

Arya Mane

Screened

Junior Full-Stack & AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs and multimodal document processing

Dallas, Texas1y exp

“Built a production RAG-based NBA player scouting assistant that embeds player profiles into FAISS, orchestrates retrieval and LLM recommendations with LangChain, and surfaces results via embedded Tableau dashboards. Demonstrates strong focus on evaluation/monitoring (batch tests, LLM-as-judge, latency/failure/token metrics) and has experience translating non-technical founder goals into DAPT + fine-tuning plans on curated data.”

“Hands-on implementation-focused candidate with experience owning cloud deployments and putting LLM/RAG workflows into production. They stand out for combining customer-facing deployment ownership with practical AI systems work, including retrieval tuning, hallucination mitigation, production incident response, and document-processing pipelines for messy real-world inputs.”

“Built production AI systems in high-stakes domains, including a medical RAG chatbot focused on reducing hallucinations and a document-processing workflow that automated manual PDF extraction. Demonstrates strong end-to-end ownership across backend services, APIs, LLM integration, and iterative reliability improvements based on real usage and failure analysis.”

“Built and shipped a production Python service integrating with a helium mass spectrometer for real-time sensing and remote control/monitoring. Combines hardware integration, observability, and Playwright-based automation expertise, with a strong track record of turning brittle or ambiguous real-world processes into reliable systems— including reducing dashboard automation failures from about 20% to under 2%.”

“Candidate explicitly stated they do not have production agentic/LLM or generative AI experience, aside from spending a few hours becoming familiar with the process. Compensation expectation stated as 225,000.”

“Software engineer who owned end-to-end delivery of customer-facing agricultural forecast reporting (crop yield/health) and iterated quickly via rigorous edge-case testing and customer feedback. Also built an internal ML training platform (TypeScript/React + Flask/Python + MongoDB) used by every developer, with architecture designed to stay responsive under heavy compute load.”

“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.”

“Front-end engineer who built a sophisticated browser-based registration platform for the JPMorgan Corporate Challenge, serving global users and handling team-based registration complexity, concurrency, and performance. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript UI engineering with accessibility improvements, UX polish, and production-minded reliability practices like Datadog monitoring and Kubernetes health checks.”

“Principal-level product leader with deep experience rebuilding complex enterprise platforms in fraud prevention and HR tech. Stands out for unifying siloed acquired products into a single API-driven platform at TransUnion, pairing strong commercial outcomes ($400K early revenue, $2M projected cost savings) with thoughtful human-centered AI work including chatbots, RAG, and an AI copilot for fraud investigators.”

PrabhjyotKaur Bamrah

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in enterprise apps and AI integration

Redwood City, CA4y exp

“Engineer with experience scaling enterprise AI products in production, including a C3 AI deployment expanded from 2 to 4 sites across the US and Canada. Also built a GPT-4o-powered RAG assistant for plant operators, combining structured and unstructured data with human-in-the-loop safeguards and iterative evals to improve answer quality.”

“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.”