Vetted Backend Development Professionals

“Built and productionized an LLM-based PDF extraction pipeline for Medicaid policy documents by fine-tuning Gemini Flash 2.0 and deploying via Vertex AI, adding validation/guardrails to improve trust and reliability. Also built and scaled a SaaS platform (cnotes) for cable operators and regularly partners with customers and sales teams through interactive demos, rapid iteration, and real-time workflow debugging.”

“Software engineer with experience building a Vue.js/TypeScript internal component library (with Jest testing standards) and improving JS runtime performance via profiling, code splitting, and lazy loading. Also led documentation and community support for a Python ML utility library, diagnosing metric-calculation bugs for imbalanced datasets and driving large reductions in support inquiries through targeted docs, tests, and rapid hotfixes in a startup environment.”

“Backend engineer with strong AWS/CI/CD experience (multi-repo deployments, Lambda + core app, immutable ECR and image promotion) and a published master’s thesis building an ML framework for Solar PV energy prediction and CO2 reduction impact modeling using ensemble and meta-learning approaches benchmarked against SAM.”

Jhansi Bendi

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and event-driven systems

Antioch, CA18y exp

“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.”

Ishaan Nanal

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Intern-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI/ML

Ithaca, NY1y exp

“Built and shipped an LLM-powered RAG research copilot used by 20+ users across biology, physics, and ML, cutting literature review from days to minutes. Strong focus on production reliability—iterated on chunking/retrieval/prompting, added validation and modular pipelines for debuggability, and is now containerizing and scaling the system with Docker and GCP.”

“Built a production AI-powered insights platform for marketing teams analyzing large-scale social and news data, combining Java microservices, Kafka, Spark, React, and LLM-based retrieval workflows. Stands out for shipping customer-facing AI features with measurable gains in accuracy and latency, plus solid reliability practices for high-volume backend systems.”

Thomas Le

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Junior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in web, mobile, and health tech

Remote2y exp

“Developer who uses AI as a productivity accelerator while maintaining strong ownership of code quality, security, and readability. Built an AI-powered planning tool during the PolyPrompt hackathon that transformed messy project requirements into structured tasks, timelines, and assignments, and has also led human teams through Veggie Rescue with a focus on user-aligned execution.”

“Candidate takes a disciplined, developer-in-the-loop approach to AI-assisted coding, using AI primarily for brainstorming, suggestions, and optimization while retaining full ownership of architecture and final code decisions. They also actively stay current on AI developments through research papers, communities, and emerging tools.”

“State Street engineer who identifies operational pain points and turns them into high-impact internal platforms, including a service-health monitoring system and a Databricks log standardization pipeline used by 200+ users. Also experiments with practical LLM workflows, having built a Claude-based AI host that dramatically reduced facilitation time for a growing book club.”

“Built and shipped an end-to-end autonomous telemetry and log-triage product that combined LLM-based anomaly analysis, strict typed validation, and a React observability UI. Particularly compelling is their focus on making non-deterministic AI reliable in production at scale—500,000 daily requests and 99.9% uptime—while also translating complex AI output into a usable experience for non-technical teams during live outages.”

Wei-Hsien Wang

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Entry-level AI Engineer specializing in full-stack generative AI systems

San Jose, CA1y exp

“AI/full-stack product engineer who has shipped both user-facing and internal LLM products, from a photo-to-music recommendation app to an experimentation agent at Azazie. Stands out for combining modern app development with production-grade agent and GraphRAG systems, including a 500k+ email analysis platform and measurable impact like 3x experiment velocity, 75% setup-time reduction, and 65% faster task discovery.”

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership experience on a real-time AI-driven payment authorization/orchestration platform at PayPal. They describe strong fintech systems depth across Java/Spring/Kafka microservices, database and latency optimization, and reliability engineering, with concrete impact including 35% fewer processing failures, latency reduced from 420ms to 140ms, 1,200+ weekly manual reviews eliminated, and 40% faster incident response.”

“Full-stack engineer who has built both a TypeScript-based HR/payroll platform and a production agentic AI support system end to end. Stands out for combining strong product judgment with deep LLM systems thinking: RAG architecture, confidence-based routing, evals, observability, and human-in-the-loop design in a greenfield environment.”

“McKinsey data/ML practitioner who led production deployment of an entity resolution + semantic search platform for unstructured finance and healthcare data, integrating with legacy systems under HIPAA constraints. Deep hands-on stack across transformers (spaCy/HF BERT), embeddings + FAISS, and production MLOps/workflow tooling (Airflow, Docker, CI/CD, Prometheus/Grafana), with reported gains of +30% decision speed and +25% search relevance.”

“AWS Solutions Architect intern who advised customers on securing a multi-tenant LLM-based SaaS, including isolation strategy tradeoffs and production guardrails against prompt injection. Has experience investigating a prompt-injection incident using logs/traces and TTP-style documentation, and designing scalable SDK/agent integrations via asynchronous worker architecture with prompt versioning.”

Shangyi Chen

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java and Angular web applications

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of an internal, customer-facing data visualization product and helped build a data modification pipeline used across the organization for data integrity/governance. Demonstrates pragmatic MVP-driven delivery within sprints and makes performance-oriented architectural decisions (e.g., batching API calls to reduce frontend request volume) in TypeScript/React systems.”

Prasannakumar B Vardi

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in low-latency ad targeting and distributed backend systems

Santa Clara, CA9y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built a high-scale audience segmentation and real-time targeting system using Spark/Glue + S3/Hudi and low-latency API services backed by Redis/relational stores. Demonstrates strong production rigor: Spark performance tuning to eliminate OOM failures, API idempotency/caching to cut p95 latency ~40%, and careful dual-run/feature-flag migrations with reconciliation and rollback runbooks. Experienced implementing layered security with JWT/OAuth, RBAC/ABAC, and database row-level security to prevent privilege escalation.”

“Built a production Python microservice around Grafana Loki focused on reliability, with checkpointing, idempotency, replay tooling, tracing, and alerting to prevent data loss and silent lag. Also has hands-on experience hardening brittle Playwright automations against dynamic UIs, auth expiry, rate limits, MFA, and bot-detection constraints, plus turning tribal-knowledge SOPs into explicit state-machine-driven workflows.”

“Early-career analytics candidate with hands-on experience in SQL/Python data pipelines, Tableau reporting, and marketing engagement analytics across internship and startup settings. Stands out for combining rigorous data quality practices with practical AI system design, including an end-to-end GPT-4 grading capstone that emphasized explainability and human oversight.”

Amit Dharam

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Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud deployment

Tempe, AZ3y exp

“Built multiple end-to-end automation and data systems, including an Accio RAG pipeline combining PDF parsing, FastAPI, Neo4j, and vector search, plus Selenium-based scraping for a virtual try-on product. Stands out for reliability-minded engineering: automated testing, structured logging, validation layers, and a data-driven approach to debugging flaky automation that improved CI pass rates to over 98%.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

Keyan Luo

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Intern-level software engineer specializing in backend and AI-powered applications

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Built a zero-to-one AI-powered resume tailoring platform as a personal project, owning everything from user problem discovery to frontend, backend, and AI agent architecture. Particularly strong in turning complex multi-agent AI workflows into a simple product experience for non-technical users, with a practical focus on output quality, validation, and rapid MVP iteration.”

“Veteran software engineer with an unusual path from founding a game development company and shipping dozens of games to rebuilding a B2B product data platform after bankruptcy reduced engineering to a two-person skeleton crew. Particularly strong in legacy modernization, data synchronization, enterprise UI/backend architecture, and customer-safe migrations where old and new systems must coexist in production.”

“Head of Robotics at Orbital Composites who built the full ROS-based software stack ("OrbOS") for multi-robot KUKA-arm 3D printing of carbon-fiber composite geometries. Deep in motion planning and real-time control—created a pipeline to turn underconstrained toolpaths into optimal joint trajectories at massive command scale, plus redundant safety gatekeeping and a 250Hz synchronized robot+extruder controller. Has operated in a technical-founder capacity for ~6 years and values an engineering culture of openness, honesty, accountability, and high ownership.”