Vetted Backend Development Professionals

Dhananjay Sharma

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech platforms

Stony Brook, NY6y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built RegArt’s product from 0→1 for enterprise compliance users at clients like HSBC and EY, including the production React frontend, backend APIs, and an LLM-powered search experience. Particularly compelling for startups needing someone who can move across UI, API, and data layers, make pragmatic architecture tradeoffs, and ship fast without over-engineering.”

Vaughn Eugenio

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in distributed microservices and real-time systems

2y exp

“Software engineer with production experience at DraftKings and SRC, owning high-impact platform changes like early-start lineup validation fixes and a multi-service refactor to support dual-role players (e.g., Ohtani) using backward-compatible, feature-flagged rollouts. Has embedded onsite with military users to rapidly ship improvements to a COP/TAK mapping integration (TrackSync), and leverages AI tools (Claude) to accelerate learning and delivery in new domains (e.g., ESP32 smart deadbolt project).”

“Founding engineer at a civic-tech startup (Barrow) who built and operated a Next.js/TypeScript product with map-based public reporting, including clustering and dynamic geospatial loading to improve UX and performance. Also implemented a location-aware RAG chatbot using Pinecone, web scraping/transcription, caching, and fallback web search, and owned post-launch observability plus scaling decisions (load balancing/horizontal scaling) based on API usage patterns.”

Yuan-Hao Chen

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud infrastructure

Urbana, IL1y exp

“Backend-focused intern who owned real-time livestream features: live comment moderation using AWS Comprehend (sentiment/toxicity/PII) with safe fallbacks, plus AI-generated positive commentary via AWS Bedrock (Claude 3 Haiku). Emphasizes reliability/low-latency design, IAM troubleshooting, and disciplined GitOps-style CI workflows for reproducible deployments.”

“VR/social platform engineer with experience at AltspaceVR, Mozilla Hubs, and Dopple, spanning Unity/C#, custom engine networking, and early voice-agent systems. Particularly compelling for roles at the intersection of multiplayer, XR, and AI: they’ve built data-driven avatar systems, ownership-based netcode, VR replay capture, and a custom real-time voice->LLM->voice stack integrated with hardware and computer vision.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning an SEL internship and Walmart, combining backend/data pipeline work (Python, Kafka, relational DBs) with DevOps practices (Docker, Grafana, GitHub/Jenkins CI/CD, GitOps). Notably contributed to a REST-to-GraphQL migration aimed at reducing cloud utilization and implemented testing strategies to validate the transition.”

“Built and deployed an AI-powered insurance claims fraud platform end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, OpenAI, pgvector, and AWS EKS. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG architecture with production-grade scalability and observability, delivering measurable impact including 62% less manual review, 40% better fraud precision, 37% higher throughput, and 99.95% uptime.”

“Built end-to-end financial workflow platforms at Citi spanning React frontends, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, and Oracle. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can modernize legacy systems into real-time architectures—the candidate cites a 48x throughput improvement from a batch-to-Kafka modernization effort.”

“Product leader with experience at Catbird and Ipsy, especially strong in e-commerce, personalization, and operational AI. Stands out for combining direct customer immersion with rigorous scoping and stakeholder alignment—launching a new personalization experience in 10 weeks with 100% ROI in 4 weeks, and later driving AI automation that cut merchandising workload by 30%.”

“Player-coach engineering leader currently running a Solution Architecture/FDE team responsible for both presales and postsales delivery. Stands out for combining enterprise systems thinking with hands-on AI product work: they built configurable tooling that sped delivery by ~30%, drove a Kafka-to-Pulsar architecture shift for scale, and spent the last two years building LLM-based document extraction and RAG inference pipelines shaped directly by user feedback.”

“Frontend/full-stack engineer with Chegg experience shipping signed-in and top-of-funnel Next.js experiences, including leading an account-sharing/device-management MVP integrated with a Java Spring Boot service. Stands out for strong rollout ownership, analytics-based validation, and pragmatic security/performance decisions in production.”

“Frontend engineer with experience spanning Amazon Seller Central, Shoptaki, and TCS, focused on turning complex, dynamic workflows into scalable browser-based systems. Particularly strong in schema-driven and metadata-driven UI architecture, including AI-powered analytics interfaces and compliance platforms where adaptability, consistency, and trust are critical.”

“Full-stack developer (Energywell) who led an internal admin dashboard end-to-end using React/Redux and a Go microservice, emphasizing performance (reduced calls, preload data) and maintainable architecture (modularity, refactoring, PR reviews). Also shipped a Redis-based caching whitelist feature in a fast-paced environment and helped implement a responsive, brand-configurable onboarding/signup frontend.”

“Enterprise platform engineer/product owner who led end-to-end delivery of customer-facing ServiceNow Service Catalog/workflow solutions, emphasizing reliability, security, and fast iteration. Built React/TypeScript portals with Node.js and Spring Boot backends, and improved microservices reliability at scale using Kafka, monitoring, and robust retry/timeout patterns.”

Hardik Goyal

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Senior Integration Developer specializing in enterprise automation and data integration

United States4y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer with experience building and optimizing React-based dashboards and reusable component libraries in a multi-team, internal open-source-style environment at Merck (ClearSight Forecasting Dashboard). Also handled production user issues on a live streaming platform (GameSee.tv) and built a financial application from scratch at Manipal Business Solutions, owning backend services, middle-tier APIs, and third-party integrations.”

Vineeth Reddy Vallapureddy

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and enterprise AI tools

Redwood City, California5y exp

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across C3.ai (supply chain demand planning) and Amdocs (telecom), working on large-scale data systems and microservices. Has driven first-time adoption experiments of Snowflake + Spark to handle billion-record workloads, built Jenkins-to-Kubernetes delivery pipelines with Nexus artifact management, and implemented Kafka streaming between microservices with HA and retry/error-handling patterns.”

“Full-stack engineer who has built and shipped production Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) applications end-to-end, including an authenticated dashboard with protected routing and post-deploy troubleshooting. Designed Postgres schemas for collaboration/analytics (users/workspaces/sessions/events) and achieved ~60% query-time reduction through indexing and query-plan-driven optimization, with a strong emphasis on accessibility and server-first React architecture.”

Amaan Elahi

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, AI, and full-stack systems

New York, NY5y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM agents including an internal RAG-based compliance classification system at SAIL (FastAPI/Redis/Docker) designed to handle real failure modes and scale to ~10k LLM calls/hour, achieving ~93% pipeline accuracy with reduced hallucination risk via multi-model orchestration and strict grounding. Also architected “Elara,” a state-machine-driven conversational appointment booking agent using structured JSON outputs and backend function execution for reliability, and has experience normalizing messy OTA/PMS data at RateGain.”

“Unity/C# game engineer with about 3 years of experience who owned a high-impact runtime content delivery platform at Zynga/Singa powering LiveOps releases for roughly two years. Their work cut app size by 35-40%, removed a 25K daily activator drop on release days, improved load times by 25%, and supported a feature that drove 10% quarterly revenue growth.”

“Built Bargain Bricks end-to-end as a solo creator, handling product ideation, design, backend, APIs, website, and native iOS/Android apps. They actively maintain and iterate on the product, which has over 1,000 downloads, and have improved conversion through UI changes that surfaced the best deal above the fold.”

Anirban Ghosh

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Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in data science and cloud systems

Seattle, WA4y exp

“ML engineer who independently pitched and built a recommendation engine at Danske Bank in a legacy fintech environment, creating compliant data pipelines and deployment infrastructure from scratch and delivering a 62% engagement lift with 70%+ advisor adoption. Also worked at AWS on classification and GenAI-powered reporting systems, with strengths spanning production ML, platform setup, monitoring, and research-to-production optimization.”

Malyadri Peruru

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and IoT automation

Greater San Francisco, CA13y exp

“Software engineer with strong systems design experience spanning both core product infrastructure and AI-enabled support workflows. Co-led a from-scratch B2B SaaS billing platform for complex customer pricing models, and also improved an orchestrated agent system by tightening context, metadata, and human-review safeguards for misrouted support tickets.”

“AI/ML-focused software engineer who has built and orchestrated multi-agent systems with separate retrieval, planning, validation, execution, and escalation components. Stands out for combining hands-on experimentation with a strong reliability mindset, using observability, structured logging, tracing, and evaluation to make agentic workflows production-ready.”