Vetted Authorization Professionals

“Backend/ML engineer who has built both enterprise data pipelines and real-time AI products: modular Python (Flask/FastAPI) services integrating automation scripts and low-latency ML inference (MediaPipe, PyTorch) plus OpenAI-powered feedback. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (~30% faster HR workflows; ~40% faster AWS pipelines across 100+ Oscar Health feeds) and strong multi-tenant/data-isolation patterns (schema-based isolation, RBAC, microservices).”

Naveen Chokkakula

Screened References

Senior Golang Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native microservices

Texas, USA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at UWorld and Infosys, focused on full-stack product delivery and backend reliability. Stands out for owning analytics/onboarding experiences end-to-end while also building resilient distributed systems, reusable service primitives, and safe multi-tenant configuration guardrails.”

“Frontend lead on an SME CRM for a bank, building a scalable multi-country/multi-product React/Next.js platform with a config-driven onboarding workflow and multi-role permissions. Emphasizes quality and maintainability through CI gates, a full testing pyramid, and disciplined server-state caching with RTK Query, plus feature-flagged rollouts and data-driven iteration from pilot user feedback.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who owned high-traffic internal services end-to-end (FastAPI/Django) including REST/GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL optimization, async task processing via SQS, and full CI/CD. Strong Kubernetes-on-EKS and GitOps (ArgoCD + Helm) experience, plus Kafka real-time streaming work and phased cloud-to-on-prem migration support.”

Jonathan Grebe

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in ROS, C++ and embedded Linux

Ottawa, Canada7y exp

“Robotics software lead at Icor who grew from intern to owning the end-to-end software lifecycle for a mobile manipulator platform deployed to 300+ customers globally. Deep hands-on ROS2/MoveIt2 and navigation-stack integration (URDF/TF, sensors, behavior engine) plus production infrastructure (CI/CD, OTA, field OS upgrades) and real-world performance tuning for motion planning in EOD multi-robot environments.”

LAKSHMI KATTAMURI

Screened

Mid-level Embedded Software Engineer specializing in RTOS and microcontroller firmware

Boston, MA4y exp

“Backend/embedded-focused engineer with hands-on experience designing real-time, memory/power-constrained firmware architectures and also building Python/FastAPI services. Demonstrates strong production rigor across migrations (strangler pattern, shadow reads, feature flags), security (OIDC/JWT, RBAC/ABAC, Postgres RLS), and robustness for async workflows (idempotency, event ordering, state machines).”

“Backend engineer who has designed and evolved high-traffic event/activity management systems using Node/Express and PostgreSQL, prioritizing scalability and reliability with a layered architecture. Has led zero-downtime refactors/migrations using parallel runs, dual writes, and rigorous validation/monitoring, and brings a security-focused API approach (JWT, RBAC/ABAC, rate limiting, DB-enforced tenant/RLS filters).”

“Backend engineer who built an Emergency Alert System with Virginia Tech for the City of Alexandria, focusing on real-time ingestion, secure dashboards, and AI-assisted prioritization. Emphasizes high-stakes reliability with guardrails (hybrid rules+LLM, confidence-based fallbacks), scalable async processing, and defense-in-depth security (JWT/RBAC plus database row-level security).”

Likhith Kumar Yaramala

Screened

Junior Backend/Cloud Software Engineer specializing in microservices and DevOps

India2y exp

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with strong Linux production operations experience, deploying microservices to AWS on Docker/Kubernetes. Has built and operated secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and Terraform IaC workflows with approvals, remote state, and drift detection, and has hands-on incident recovery experience in containerized environments; limited direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA exposure.”

Pranav Zagade

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI systems

Arizona, USA3y exp

“Built and shipped an LLM-powered support agent for Community Dreams Foundation that automated intake and Jira ticket creation using RAG, structured outputs, and strong production guardrails. Demonstrated practical production AI experience with 92% routing accuracy, 98% uptime, and a 31% improvement in first-response accuracy, plus hands-on work in observability, evals, idempotency, and failure handling.”

Chukwunonso Azuka

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in secure backend systems and re-engineering

Remote16y exp

“Founder of LexaBooks, an active bootstrapped startup being built with scalability, recurring revenue, and investor readiness in mind. Participated in the 2024 Startup Wise Guys accelerator and has continued training across SaaS, AI, and fintech, giving them a strong understanding of early-stage growth and venture dynamics.”

“Built a production LLM/RAG document extraction and game/quiz content workflow using LLaMA 2, LangChain/LangGraph, and FAISS, achieving ~94% accuracy and reducing turnaround from hours to minutes. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps/orchestration (CI/CD, MLflow, Databricks/PySpark), robust handling of noisy/variable document layouts (layout chunking + OCR fallbacks), and practical reliability practices (human-in-the-loop routing, drift monitoring, A/B testing).”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Software engineer experienced delivering customer-facing, real-time industrial monitoring dashboards (motors/shafts/turbines) by partnering directly with end users to refine charts, alerts, and performance. Strong in API/platform integrations and production troubleshooting—uses feature flags, logging, validation/mapping, containerization, and performance testing to keep systems stable while iterating quickly.”

Purva Chakravarti

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable web apps, cloud, and blockchain/AI

Chino, California11y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across React/TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS (EC2/ECS/RDS/CloudWatch), including CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Delivered a secure RBAC workflow module end-to-end and achieved measurable gains (~30–40% latency reduction, ~50% error reduction) that lowered infra/ops costs. Comfortable in high-ambiguity startup environments—shipped a payment module within 2 days of joining with no documentation.”

Anudeep Reddy Veerla

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and shipped both a solo real-time multiplayer Spades game (TypeScript monorepo with shared client/server engine) and a production internal LLM-powered document Q&A tool for a SaaS company. Demonstrates strong RAG pipeline design (Pinecone + embeddings + reranking), rigorous eval/regression practices, and pragmatic data ingestion/observability work across Confluence, Notion, and messy PDFs/OCR—backed by clear metric improvements (P@1 61%→78%, escalations 40%→22%).”

Mayur Agrawal

Screened

Entry-Level Backend Engineer specializing in analytics automation and cloud data pipelines

Bengaluru, India1y exp

“Forward Deployment Engineer focused on application security and production integrations, with hands-on experience hardening API-driven ticketing systems (JWT/RBAC/rate limiting/log redaction) and implementing CI/CD security controls (Bandit SAST, SCA, container hardening). Strong in diagnosing peak-load production issues using logs/metrics/infra signals and driving durable fixes like adaptive throttling and backoff, while aligning engineering, business, and leadership stakeholders on risk and SLA impact.”

“Data/ML engineer from HCLTech who modernized enterprise data by linking fragmented financial and supply-chain data across SAP/SQL Server/Snowflake using NLP entity linking and embeddings (FAISS). Delivered measurable impact including ~40% reduction in manual error-log triage and entity-linking accuracy improvements from ~86% to ~93%, with results surfaced in Power BI for real-time analytics.”

“Full-stack TypeScript/React/Next.js builder who created an end-to-end customer-facing product (AI Job Master) that generates personalized outreach from resumes and job descriptions. Demonstrates strong product + engineering ownership with rapid MVP iteration, instrumentation-driven prioritization, and pragmatic reliability patterns (microservices, queues, correlation IDs, retries) while tackling a key AI challenge: user trust and output consistency.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent enterprise experience building Spring Boot/Spring Cloud microservices on AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) and a React/TypeScript frontend. Has hands-on experience solving microservice communication timeouts via API Gateway/load balancing and implementing centralized JWT-based security, plus performance work for large data workloads using indexing, caching, and async processing.”

RAUNAQ BEDI

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in AI, data engineering, and cloud DevOps

San Francisco, CA1y exp

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with strong React/TypeScript, serverless AWS, and Postgres depth, highlighted by owning real-time personalization and onboarding experiences at mParticle. Stands out for combining deep performance debugging with measurable product impact—improving activation by 28%, reducing time-to-insights by 35%, and building reusable internal platform primitives adopted by 12 teams.”