Vetted Backend Development Professionals

“Engineering leader with 11 years at Nokia/Janus International scaling an engineering organization from 3 to roughly 50 people, plus recent startup experience building an AI-powered virtual property manager platform. Particularly compelling for roles needing a rare mix of hands-on architecture depth, people leadership, and cross-functional execution across backend, web, mobile, QA, and even hardware-integrated products.”

“AI-focused full-stack product builder from Verizon Applied Research who has shipped internal tools spanning API documentation governance, patent exploration agents, and prompt optimization. Particularly strong at turning unreliable or opaque LLM behavior into structured, trustworthy product workflows that enterprise users can actually adopt.”

Kunal Mahato

Screened

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

Virginia, USA6y exp

“Full-stack/AI engineer with experience spanning supply-chain product deployments, biomedical agentic search, and research-grade RAG evaluation. Stands out for owning customer-facing migrations at scale (including 216,000 historical shipments), building measurable LLM systems, and pairing AI experimentation with rigorous evals, rollout controls, and auditability.”

“Built and iterated an end-to-end virtual waiting room for a real-time ticketing prototype, making concrete architecture tradeoffs (polling + Redis Pub/Sub) and improving performance post-launch with Redis caching (+30% throughput, -15% p99 latency). Also has hands-on experience building Spark/HDFS ETL pipelines with strong reliability/observability patterns and running disciplined NLP model evaluation loops on review-rating classification.”

“Built Taskline end-to-end as a solo founder: an AI-native operations platform for tradespeople with web and mobile apps, AI receptionists, invoicing, scheduling, and payments. Particularly interesting for teams seeking a zero-to-one full-stack builder who can turn LLM/agent capabilities into practical, low-friction products for non-technical users.”

“Full-stack engineer who owned an enterprise AI agent automation platform at KeyBank, building React/TypeScript interfaces and Python/AWS microservices for document-heavy business workflows. Stands out for translating complex AI automation into usable products for non-technical users, with reported productivity gains of about 35% and reduced manual processing.”

“AI/full-stack product engineer with experience shipping agentic systems in both fintech and enterprise compliance contexts, including an Anthropic-powered compliance Q&A tool at American Express and a home-equity assessment experience for seniors. Stands out for combining strong product instincts, typed full-stack implementation, and rigorous LLM evaluation/monitoring practices to improve trust, adoption, and operational efficiency.”

“Worked at AMD on Vivado tool releases, focusing on adding and integrating new IP/SoC functionality into the Vivado flow and validating expected behavior through testing. Comfortable engaging with customers and open to travel for hands-on customer-facing work.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across GCP and AWS: built FastAPI microservices on Cloud Run and delivered AWS Lambda + ECS Fargate systems with Terraform/GitHub Actions. Strong in data engineering (Glue/Spark, S3/Redshift) and modernization (SAS to Python/SQL), with proven reliability and incident ownership—including cutting a 20+ minute reporting query to under 2 minutes.”

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent conversational AI platform (Monitor agent + RAG + 4 additional agents) with enterprise REST APIs, using ChromaDB-grounded WCAG knowledge to keep responses accurate while varying tone via personality modes and conversation memory. Has experience at LinkedIn delivering technical demos and pre-sales guidance to both engineering teams and C-level stakeholders, acting as a translator between sales and technical teams to drive adoption.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer (Amazon; also Bank of America) pivoting into robotics software. Built and owned an end-to-end cross-region event processing service for Aurora Global Databases, emphasizing correctness under latency/clock skew, fault tolerance, and strong observability; brings deep Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD experience to robotics infrastructure and reliability work while ramping up on ROS 2.”

“Built an autonomous decision analytics LLM agent for end-to-end tabular binary classification, using RAG (FAISS) to retain context across multi-step queries. Deployed as a FastAPI service with production-style reliability features (schema-aware validation, fallbacks, retries, structured outputs) plus offline/online evaluation and monitoring to reduce analysis time and improve consistency versus stateless approaches.”

Anthony Ngumah

Screened

Junior Embedded Software Engineer specializing in robotics, firmware, and AI-enabled systems

Boston, MA4y exp

“Robotics-focused engineer with co-op experience building and debugging embedded C++/Python drivers for time-of-flight sensing on a Flex Stacker product, plus automation of large-scale test data collection via Google Drive/Sheets APIs to enable parallel robot testing. Also has ROS2 sensor-driver experience (GPS/RTK/IMU with custom messages/ROSbags) and is building a side project integrating Whisper-based live transcription with chunked abstractive summarization in a latency-aware pipeline.”

Dendy Saputro

Screened

Junior Software Quality Engineer specializing in test automation and mobile app testing

Jakarta, Indonesia1y exp

“QA tester with Android native app experience spanning manual, automation, functional, and performance testing, including maintaining Python-based automation scripts across frequent software and device updates. Interested in pivoting into console game testing and has baseline familiarity with platform certification concepts (Sony TRC/Microsoft XR/Nintendo LOT), plus uses AI tools to help analyze large volumes of issues and reduce missed defects.”

Kyle Wilson

Screened

Senior Technical Lead specializing in accessible, scalable web applications

Waterloo, Canada10y exp

“Frontend lead who shipped an enterprise social feed, insights dashboard, and a net-new communications platform using React + TypeScript. Known for building scalable quality practices with QA (including automated test suite alignment), introducing RTK Query org-wide, and managing phased, feature-flagged rollouts while coordinating closely with product/design and senior engineering stakeholders.”

Jianbo Wu

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM reasoning and inference optimization

Santa Clara, CA4y exp

“Former Field Application Engineer at TestTorrent supporting proprietary hardware deployments. Built and integrated customer-requested benchmarking (including MLPerf-style work) by adapting GPU benchmark implementations and validating performance against NVIDIA baselines, plus delivered a backend fix that enabled customer performance testing and helped close a deal. Also has experience running models on AWS/GCP with multi-instance cost optimization techniques like memory offloading.”

Waldorff Villacres

Screened

Healthcare technology executive and architect with 20+ years leading enterprise platforms and digital transformation.

Seattle, Washington, USA21y exp

“Healthcare-focused founder in the R&D stage building an EHR and clinical staffing startup centered on value-based care. They have already tested the concept with the market, are engaging Medicaid/Medicare leaders and industry conferences like ViVE and HIMSS, and are focused on early-signal detection to improve patient outcomes while lowering utilization costs.”

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership of both a real-time community Q&A platform and a production payroll reorder batching system. Stands out for combining backend architecture, React frontend work, and pragmatic performance improvements, including a 2-3x speed gain through batching and thoughtful UI/UX refinements that reduced user errors.”

“Built production AI systems in high-stakes domains, including a medical RAG chatbot focused on reducing hallucinations and a document-processing workflow that automated manual PDF extraction. Demonstrates strong end-to-end ownership across backend services, APIs, LLM integration, and iterative reliability improvements based on real usage and failure analysis.”

“AI and platform engineer with 5 years of experience who built a production knowledge assistant for Verizon end-to-end, from architecture through deployment, monitoring, and incident hardening. Stands out for combining modern LLM/RAG systems with enterprise-grade rigor, including validation layers, observability, versioning safeguards, and measurable impact on technician productivity and retrieval quality.”

Yash Priyadarshi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure

Bengaluru, India2y exp

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer who built a Golang distributed key-value store on AWS using Multi-Paxos, WAL, and non-blocking gRPC replication (cutting write latency ~40%) and proactively addressed tricky failure modes like leader-election livelock. Also developed a Python/Kubernetes cost-optimization scaling engine deployed with Helm/Terraform, delivering ~$40K annual savings while sustaining 99.99% uptime, and drives contract-first API development (OpenAPI/Swagger) to speed frontend integration.”

“Early-career software/AI intern with startup and hackathon experience who blends backend engineering with product communication and user-feedback-driven iteration. Worked in a fast-paced SaaS environment at Airmeet and has experience pitching technical products, refining onboarding/workflows, and thinking beyond pure implementation toward adoption and growth.”

“Early-career candidate with a thoughtful, engineering-first approach to AI-assisted development: they use AI to accelerate implementation while retaining human ownership of architecture and final code quality. They recently built a speech-to-text workflow using Groq Whisper and showed practical judgment by designing around imperfect transcription accuracy with checks and fallback handling.”

“Customer-facing technical professional with experience supporting LLM/agentic-style workflows and complex integrated systems (APIs, backend logic, databases). Partnered with sales/customer teams at Radix Health to onboard new clients in phased prototypes, translating non-technical requirements into technical scope and implementing core product changes to tailor the appointment-booking solution for providers.”