Vetted API Gateway Professionals

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience across containers (ECS) and serverless (API Gateway/Lambda/SQS), plus Glue-based ETL to Parquet for Athena/Redshift. Demonstrates hands-on reliability and security depth (Cognito OAuth2/JWT with JWKS rotation, idempotency/DLQs, monitoring) and measurable performance wins (Redis caching + query tuning), along with legacy-to-services modernization using parallel-run parity and feature-flagged cutovers.”

“Computer science engineer and master’s graduate who independently built a mechatronics-heavy capstone prototype: a smartphone concept for deafblind users using micro-actuator arrays for braille reading. Also has platform engineering experience at Quantiphi, deploying webhooks to Kubernetes and implementing GitOps-based CI/CD using AWS CodeCommit/CodeBuild and ECR.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience improving performance and reliability in financial workflows (settlements/loan processing), spanning React/TypeScript and Angular frontends plus Spring Boot microservices. Has delivered measurable latency improvements using PostgreSQL optimization and Redis caching, and has operated Kafka-based systems at scale with idempotent processing and backoff/retry strategies while iterating internal ops tooling with support/finance teams.”

“Built and deployed a RAG-based clinical knowledge assistant at GE Healthcare to help clinicians query large volumes of messy, unstructured clinical documents with grounded, cited answers. Hands-on across the full stack (OCR/ETL, de-identification for PHI, Azure OpenAI embeddings, Cosmos DB indexing, FastAPI/Django) with production monitoring via LangSmith and performance tuning through batching and index optimization.”

“Software Developer at NYU (GEMSS) focused on scaling and optimizing a data-heavy asset management web app, including migrating/optimizing data access via Google Sheets API and Firestore. Previously an SDE at Sainapse working on Spring Boot microservices POCs (Kafka, Hadoop at 2B+ record scale). Built an end-to-end Apple Wallet coupon generation/redemption system using PassKit + Google Apps Script with measurable ops impact (40% efficiency gain).”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered recruiting workflow that ranks resumes against job descriptions, generates evidence-based justifications, and finds "hidden fit" candidates using embeddings + RAG. Demonstrates strong production engineering around hallucination control, latency, and predictable LLM cost management (budget checks, top-K pruning, tenant caps), plus orchestration experience with Airflow/Prefect/Kubernetes and a structured evaluation/monitoring methodology for AI agents.”

“Senior engineer/tech lead with 18+ years building large-scale distributed applications, specializing in performance and reliability improvements. Recently owned multiple apps on an email personalization team, shipping major optimizations (including a push-update feature and audience-count architecture redesign) that reportedly lifted system performance from ~50% to ~99% while also leading code standards, reviews, and mentoring.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who has shipped production systems in high-stakes domains (fraud analytics at Mastercard and security compliance as a CI/CD gate). Strong focus on reliability: hybrid retrieval for latency, citation-backed outputs for trust, and code-driven eval/regression pipelines using golden datasets. Also built scalable OCR-based ingestion for messy classroom artifacts (handwriting, PDFs, whiteboard photos) using Go/Python and cloud services.”

“Backend engineer focused on multi-tenant enterprise AI personalization and recommendation platforms, combining ML/LLM intent extraction with deterministic policy guardrails for compliance and auditability. Has hands-on AWS experience (ECS/Lambda/DynamoDB/S3) and led a careful DynamoDB single-table migration using dual write/read, canary + feature-flag rollouts, and strong observability/security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

“Built an LLM multi-agent “ingredient safety” analyzer for cosmetics that cuts consumer research time from ~20+ minutes to minutes, using LangGraph orchestration, hybrid retrieval (Qdrant + Tavily), and safety-focused critic validation (false rejections reduced ~30%→~8%). Also has research-internship experience building computer-vision pipelines to classify emerald color/clarity by translating gem-expert heuristics into quantitative model features.”

“Full-stack engineer with primary depth in .NET Core and Python who has built and deployed end-to-end AWS applications (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront) and supported them in production. Experienced in scaling large, data-driven workloads using queues/background workers, batching, and database tuning, with strong focus on API contracts, observability, and resilience patterns; also has hands-on React/TypeScript and some Spring Boot exposure.”

“Backend engineer at Goldman Sachs who built LLM-powered reconciliation/reporting services and high-throughput Kafka pipelines (8M+ events/day). Strong in production-grade Python/FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with GitOps-style CI/CD, plus experience migrating legacy reporting/settlement services onto an internal Kubernetes platform using shadow deployments and gradual cutovers.”

“AI/ML engineer with experience at Accenture and Morgan Stanley, building production LLM systems (GPT-3 summarization) and finance-focused ML models (credit risk and trading anomaly detection). Combines MLOps depth (Docker/Kubernetes, AWS SageMaker/Glue/Lambda, MLflow, A/B testing, drift monitoring) with practical domain adaptation techniques like few-shot prompting and RAG/knowledge-base integration.”

“Full-stack engineer with 3+ years using Java/Spring Boot (Citi) and React, who built a production observability dashboard monitoring 53 microservices across 17 clusters with real-time health/latency tracing and significant performance improvements (cut load time from ~10s). Also designed a serverless AWS face-recognition system (Lambda/S3/SQS) built to handle burst traffic (~1000 concurrent requests), demonstrating strength in scalable, event-driven architectures.”

“Frontend-focused engineer operating at a staff level with experience at Amazon and startups, known for rescuing high-impact, frontend-heavy systems through architecture, performance, and quality improvements. Delivered outsized results including cutting load times from ~90s to ~3s, raising test coverage from <1% to >80%, and enabling multi-team adoption of modern state management via training sessions for 50+ engineers.”

“Hands-on engineering leader who has scaled teams quickly (hired 20 engineers in 4 months) and led major architecture shifts including monolith-to-microservices and serverless, async AI-driven medical data ingestion/search. Also drove a versioned-inventory redesign with auditability and rollback that reduced operational errors by 22%, and demonstrates strong incident response with clear stakeholder communication.”

“Hands-on architect/technology leader who builds prototypes (including Agentic AI wellness/biomarkers) and then scales teams to execute. Led a ~$400M global e-commerce transformation spanning 95 countries with active-active US/EU multi-region resilience, microservices/MFE (MACH), and strong security patterns (service mesh + API gateway + Ping Identity), plus modern data foundations (customer hub/MDM/Snowflake, data fabric/medallion).”

“Built and productionized a secure internal RAG-based AI assistant (LangChain/FastAPI/FAISS on GCP), tackling real-world issues like latency, retrieval speed, and hallucinations—delivering 25% faster retrieval and 99.9% uptime. Also implemented scalable, reliable ML retraining orchestration with AWS Step Functions/SageMaker/Lambda and partners closely with compliance analysts to iteratively refine prompts and outputs to meet governance standards.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on high-throughput document/financial data platforms, building Angular/React front ends and Spring Boot microservices with Python/Flask services for heavy processing. Experienced in designing non-blocking, asynchronous workflows (Celery/RabbitMQ) and deploying containerized systems to AWS ECS with auto-scaling and CloudWatch monitoring.”