Vetted API Development Professionals

“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.”

“Data engineer with Webster Bank experience owning end-to-end pipelines (APIs + databases) processing millions of records/day, improving data quality (25–30% fewer issues) and reliability (~99.9% successful runs). Built resilient external data ingestion/scraping systems (schema-change validation, idempotent backfills, monitoring/alerts) and shipped a FastAPI service exposing curated datasets with versioning and consistently low latency.”

Somil Shah

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in generative AI, RAG platforms, and LLM agents

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“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).”

Daniel Berhane Araya

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in production-grade LLM systems for regulated finance

Fairfax, VA9y exp

“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.”

Ben Coats

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in startups, SaaS, and cloud-native platforms

Newport, VT24y exp

“Early-stage technical advisor working fractionally with an AI health tech startup focused on autism therapy, helping turn a functional prototype into a deployable enterprise application. Brings a mix of hands-on coding, infrastructure/Terraform experience, and founder-oriented thinking around market opportunity, studio fit, and right-to-win.”

“Software engineer currently building AI-powered backend systems for interview analysis, with end-to-end ownership of an LLM-based monitoring platform. Stands out for combining practical product delivery in an ambiguous early-stage environment with measurable impact: over 40% reduction in manual review effort and roughly 20% lower inference cost.”

“Junior developer with over a year of experience who is already applying AI-assisted engineering practices in production, including GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, SonarQube, and OpenAI-based workflows. On a Citibank public portal built with .NET 8 and Angular, they used AI tooling plus CI/CD quality gates to speed delivery and reportedly reduce post-deployment bugs by 30-40% while maintaining strict security and compliance standards.”

“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.”

“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/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.”

“LLM-focused engineer who has shipped multiple production-grade AI reliability systems: an LLM output validation/monitoring service (FastAPI) with prompt versioning and failure analytics, plus a RAG feature using embeddings/vector DBs with retrieval thresholds, schema/context validation, and safe fallbacks. Strong in evaluation loops (groundedness, schema accuracy, human review) and scalable pipelines for messy document ingestion with observability and early detection of data quality issues.”

“Data engineer with Wells Fargo experience owning an end-to-end lakehouse ETL pipeline on Databricks/Azure Data Factory, processing ~480GB daily and implementing robust data quality/reconciliation across 40+ tables to reach ~99.3% reliability. Strong in performance optimization (cut runtime 5.5h→3.8h), CI/CD and monitoring, and resilient external/API ingestion with retries, schema validation, and backfills.”

Bhakti Patel

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in .NET, Python, and cloud-native systems

Worcester, MA11y exp

“Full-stack engineer who owned an end-to-end production feature for a Piraeus Bank stock exchange module, spanning React/TypeScript, backend services, and cloud operations with Docker + CI/CD, delivering reported 90% faster API responses and improved uptime. Also built a Smartwound research MVP on AWS, creating a Python image-processing/scoring pipeline to ship despite unclear image-analysis specs.”

Sai Venkata Sathwik Golla

Screened

Mid-level Backend & Applied ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and scalable APIs

Palo Alto, CA3y exp

“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.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built an end-to-end greenwashing detection system for corporate ESG reports: Python preprocessing pipeline, logistic regression + fine-tuned DistilBERT models, and a Dockerized FastAPI inference service optimized for latency. Internship experience maintaining GitLab CI/CD for TypeScript services (Jest/Playwright), improving pipeline stability and test determinism; familiar with Kubernetes/GitOps concepts and AWS CLI/SSO.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned an AI-driven healthcare staffing matching service, rebuilding the model inference/data pipeline to eliminate blocking bottlenecks and cutting API latency by ~33%. Experienced running Python services on Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD, and has executed a cloud-to-on-prem rollout under tight resource and tooling constraints while also building event-driven streaming updates via a message broker.”

“AppSec-focused engineer from Kaiser Permanente who advises on authentication/API security, performs lightweight threat modeling, and integrates SAST + dependency scanning into CI/CD while actively reducing false positives to improve release speed. Demonstrated strong troubleshooting using logs/traces/metrics (e.g., diagnosing auth failures caused by clock skew) and communicates security tradeoffs differently for engineering vs product stakeholders.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with banking experience (M&T Bank) who has built a GPT-4 RAG system using LangChain and Pinecone to connect unstructured customer data with internal knowledge bases, improving accuracy and reducing manual lookup time by 50%+. Strong in entity resolution and productionizing scalable Python data workflows, including major performance wins by migrating bottleneck joins from Pandas to Dask.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer from ADP’s Global View team who owned major backend components of an enterprise payroll dashboard, including a fault-tolerant multi-step payroll processing workflow and error visibility features. Strong in Java/Spring Boot + PostgreSQL schema design and Redis caching, with additional production experience in Python services (JWT, testing, SonarQube) and AWS deployments via Terraform/Jenkins with autoscaling.”

“Unity/C# developer with defense/USAF VR experience who built a first-of-its-kind real-time metrics/telemetry API layer (serialized + encrypted JSON over REST) that enabled in-engine performance assessment and drove third-party LMS dashboard requirements. Currently prototyping an AI-driven "DM" agent experience using OpenClaw with model switching (Ollama) and Claude Code for in-engine benchmarking while weighing self-hosted vs cloud LLM tradeoffs (security/latency/cost). Based in Austin, TX; prefers remote but open to relocation with assistance.”