Vetted Backend Development Professionals

“Platform-minded JavaScript/TypeScript engineer who has maintained and evolved shared NPM-distributed libraries at Capital One and HCA Healthcare, treating internal packages like open source (issue triage, PR reviews, roadmap, docs). Known for methodical debugging and performance work—e.g., diagnosing latency spikes via load testing/instrumentation and redesigning middleware to avoid redundant parsing—paired with strong developer enablement through examples and migration notes.”

“Software engineer with hands-on AWS operations experience who owned an end-to-end manufacturing image ingestion pipeline (on-prem to AWS S3) integrated with MES/WMS. In an early-stage SaaS internship, diagnosed a load bottleneck using K6/New Relic and shipped an NGINX least-connection load-balancing solution that scaled to ~4000 RPS while reducing latency. Also improved maintainability and performance in a React/Node e-commerce codebase, cutting page load time from ~10s to 2.8s.”

“Engineering Manager/player-coach leading Data Infrastructure, ML/DS, and AI Engineering pods who recently shipped multiple production agentic GenAI features. Built privacy-preserving LLM workflows (PII redaction via Microsoft Presidio) and drove an AI expense-approval agent from ambiguous ask to GA, cutting approval time from ~2.5 days to <4 hours with >85% accuracy. Also owned a major LLM cost overrun incident and implemented cost observability plus circuit breakers to prevent runaway agent loops.”

Sai Kondapaka

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in microservices, data pipelines, and FinTech fraud detection

Remote, USA5y exp

“Backend engineer with PayPal experience owning a high-throughput, low-latency fraud detection pipeline processing billions of transactions/day, integrating LLM-based models into real-time Kafka streams and payment decisioning APIs. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (declarative, auditable deployments; autoscaling/probe tuning) with migration experience modernizing legacy systems onto AKS/OpenShift.”

Prashant Salunke

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”

“Full-stack developer who uses AI thoughtfully as a productivity multiplier rather than a substitute for engineering judgment. Built a stock search platform with React, Node.js, and MongoDB, and has experimented with multi-agent workflows across frontend, backend, debugging, and documentation while keeping rigorous human review over logic, testing, and maintainability.”

“Full stack Python developer who actively integrates AI coding assistants into day-to-day engineering work, including code generation, debugging, testing, and documentation. Has also coordinated multi-agent workflows across backend, frontend, testing, and code review, showing an applied, productivity-focused approach to AI-enabled software delivery.”

“Engineer focused on AI-assisted and multi-agent software development, with hands-on experience designing structured agent workflows for implementation, testing, validation, and architectural review. Stands out for treating AI as an accelerator rather than a replacement, combining practical experimentation with strong attention to engineering fundamentals and operational concerns like observability, latency, and cost.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has owned production agentic systems end-to-end, including a CRM-integrated multi-agent financial workflow at Wow Payments that cut latency by 83% and achieved 98% uptime. Also built an AI real estate product ('Site IQ') by turning vague stakeholder goals into a geospatial autonomous agent using RAG, rapid prototyping, and tight validation layers around GPT-4 outputs.”

“AI/ML engineer who built a production RAG-based internal document intelligence assistant (LangChain + Pinecone) to let employees query enterprise reports in natural language. Demonstrated hands-on pipeline orchestration with Apache Airflow and tackled real production issues like retrieval grounding and latency using tuning, caching, and token optimization, while partnering closely with non-technical business stakeholders through iterative demos.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered agent that automated purchasing and inventory operations by integrating with live ERP data and returning structured, machine-readable outputs usable by downstream systems. Emphasizes real-world reliability through orchestration, strict schemas/validation, confidence-based fallbacks with human handoff, and monitoring/evaluation feedback loops to reduce silent failures and make issues observable.”

“Data engineer/platform builder who has owned production pipelines end-to-end processing millions of records/day, with strong emphasis on data quality (quarantine workflows) and reliability (monitoring, retries, incremental loads). Also designed large-scale external data collection/crawling with anti-bot handling and backfills, and shipped versioned REST data services optimized for performance and developer usability in an early-stage environment.”

Ganesh Medepalli

Screened

Mid-level Java Developer specializing in Spring Boot microservices and AWS

USA3y exp

“Backend engineer with primary experience in Java/Spring Boot microservices, AWS (EC2/ECS/Lambda), and CI/CD automation with Jenkins. Supported modernization/migration efforts at Berkshire Hathaway and Citius Infotech by containerizing legacy components with Docker, refactoring services to be stateless, and managing infra changes via Terraform and Git-based workflows; has limited but practical Python API prototyping experience (Flask/FastAPI) and solid conceptual grounding in Kubernetes and Kafka.”

Sujith Julakanti

Screened

Junior MLOps Engineer specializing in LLMs and cloud infrastructure

College Station, TX3y exp

“Built a production multimodal LLM system (Gemini on GCP) to automate behavioral coding of family-involved science experiment videos, including preprocessing for inconsistent lighting/audio and LangGraph-orchestrated parallel workflows. Also developed rubric-based AI grading workflows and partnered closely with non-technical education stakeholders through explainability-focused walkthroughs and manual-vs-AI evaluation alignment.”

Matthew Penner

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in systems programming and web development

Hillsboro, OR3y exp

“Entry-level candidate who built an air-traffic-control (ATC) simulation game in Rust, using a tick-based loop to model real-time behavior. No hands-on robotics/ROS experience yet, but has foundational software development tooling experience with GitHub and Linux/Vim.”

Karan Javali

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native web platforms

Salt Lake City, Utah5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Goldman Sachs and Arizona State University’s Learning Engineering Institute, shipping production backend systems including a vendor equities invoice-generation service designed for extensibility across multiple vendors. Built Django REST + PostgreSQL backends with JWT auth and Pytest coverage, and delivered data-heavy, responsive Angular dashboards; also has exposure to AWS EC2 deployments and GitLab CI/CD automation.”

Michael Yeung

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech trading platforms

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Built and deployed internal trading tools at Wells Fargo that reduced manual production-support dependency for trader configuration workflows. Brings hands-on experience in financial systems, data quality, and production incident resolution, including building 400+ SQL validation rules and designing an internal RAG assistant for engineering documentation.”

Brendan Dwyer

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and cloud platforms

Colorado Springs, CO10y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience turning research-style RAG concepts into production underwriting systems at Prudential Financial. Built an internal document intelligence assistant end-to-end with strong monitoring, safety, and evaluation practices, driving a 38% faster review process and 31% better retrieval accuracy. Also improved platform engineering at VivSoft by standardizing Python-based ML deployment across 60+ models.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience building real-time, high-stakes operational software for airport gate management and billing/analytics systems. Stands out for combining strong React/TypeScript architecture with backend and data-layer ownership, including WebSockets, SQL optimization, and analytics feature delivery in production.”

“Founding engineer at an edtech startup who combines hands-on engineering leadership with advanced AI-native development workflows. They’ve built an AI grading pipeline and a multi-agent SDLC tool, and stand out for treating AI agents like an engineering team with planning, parallel execution, QA, and rigorous validation.”

“Entry-level backend engineer currently building AI infrastructure for a legal-tech product, including message APIs between frontend and LLMs and MCP-based integrations to enterprise legal systems. Stands out for owning backend components end-to-end in an ambiguous early-stage environment and for resolving a critical pre-demo bug under intense time pressure.”

“Pragmatic AI-focused builder who uses tools like ChatGPT and Claude to accelerate development while maintaining strict review, testing, and architectural ownership. Has hands-on experience designing lightweight multi-agent workflows, including a RAG-style system with separate retrieval and response roles, and approaches new AI trends through direct experimentation rather than hype.”

“Backend engineer with experience at HSBC and Machinations who has delivered major production performance wins (cutting large trade-file upload times from ~13–15s to ~2s) using chunked parallel processing with strong reliability controls. Also built and shipped an applied AI RAG workflow using Langflow + Cohere embeddings + FAISS with hosted/local LLM fallbacks (Hugging Face, Ollama) and production-grade guardrails, observability, and evaluation.”

“Computer science capstone project: built a UE5 VR campus virtual-tour simulator using Blueprint scripting, including trigger-box interactions that display building/department info. Spent significant time in QA/playtesting to reduce motion sickness and improve UX, and handled a challenging asset pipeline by converting/optimizing high-detail AutoCAD/scan-derived building models via Blender—ultimately creating a custom plugin to help with conversion.”