Vetted API Development Professionals

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.”

“Engineering leader with 8+ years across IoT, emergency messaging, and political campaign data science, including operating a massive IoT microservices platform at several million devices and roughly 200 million requests per minute. Particularly strong in retrofitting legacy systems for modern observability using OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, and Grafana LGTM, while also managing distributed international teams and developing engineers into senior and tech lead roles.”

“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.”

“Backend-focused engineer with production experience across finance and healthcare, currently building real-time payment microservices at JPMorgan Chase handling 3M+ transactions daily and 100k TPS peak. Stands out for combining high-scale distributed systems design, measurable database and ETL performance wins, and strong compliance-minded architecture in regulated domains.”

Jerome Reduta

Screened

Entry-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web applications

San Jose, CA1y exp

“Built and deployed a full-stack TypeScript "SillyStore" application with React, Express, and PostgreSQL, owning frontend, backend API, database design, and deployment. Stands out for pragmatic architecture decisions, hands-on SQL/Postgres work, and debugging production-like deployment issues caused by TypeScript and Node environment mismatches.”

Kal Yimer

Screened

Mid-level Java Application Engineer specializing in FinTech backend systems

Silver Spring, MD3y exp

“Banking-focused software engineer with hands-on experience modernizing legacy systems and building internal full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, SQL, and MongoDB. Stands out for reliability-minded engineering in financial environments, including a scheduling system that handled Daylight Saving Time correctly, reduced manual work, and protected downstream processing.”

Brett Futral

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in healthcare enterprise platforms

Portland, OR20y exp

“Engineer with experience building foundational systems in healthcare and other production environments, including an early-stage Electronic Auths initiative inside Cambia where they helped define requirements and delivered the Intake API on time and under budget. Their background spans serverless Python on AWS, full-stack Drupal/PHP work for confidential genetic testing delivery, and Cassandra-backed API design for Choice Hotels.”

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.”

“Backend engineer with banking-domain experience building production microservices and Kafka-based transaction processing systems. While they have not yet shipped a full LLM agent, they bring relevant distributed-systems expertise in reliability, observability, idempotency, and event-driven workflow design, including a reported 15-20% performance improvement.”