Vetted Backend Development Professionals

“Software engineer with experience across Goldman Sachs, BYU Broadcasting, Juniper Networks, and an edtech startup (Doubtnut), spanning data migrations, AWS-based media backends, and microservices observability. Built a Redis/ElastiCache caching layer in front of DynamoDB/S3 to improve media delivery latency and cost, and created an SEO indexing automation tool using the Google Search Console API that saved ~15–30 person-hours per day.”

“Customer-facing technical professional with Amazon incident-management experience who helps drive adoption of complex ML/LLM solutions by delivering hands-on demos and rapid model fine-tuning. Applies a disciplined debugging approach (repro + logs/metrics + severity triage) and maintains runbooks to resolve SEV2 issues in ~1 hour, while also partnering with sales/customer teams to ship patches and new features based on feedback.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher with hands-on experience building a MuJoCo-based digital twin of a 6DOF soft-actuated manipulator, spanning robot design, custom actuator dynamics, classical control (PID/MPC), and RL (imitation learning and TD-MPC2 model-based RL). Also has ROS1-in-Docker SLAM integration/visualization experience and delivered a major trajectory-tracking improvement (error reduced from ~100mm to ~5mm) via Savgol smoothing, plus prototype fleet communications work for a solar-powered power line inspection robot.”

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Cisco, Amazon, and startup Shopkick, operating at high scale (e.g., Secure Web Gateway handling ~40M QPS). Known for measurable impact across reliability and cost (85% efficacy improvement; Datadog spend cut from ~$500k/month to ~$15k/month) and for leading complex platform modernization (1-year monolith-to-microservices/event-driven migration with zero customer impact) plus compatibility-focused API design that cut device onboarding from a month to a day.”

“Robotics engineer from UIUC’s Intelligent Motion Lab who led the perception stack for a humanoid robotic nurse, fusing camera/LiDAR/IMU on NVIDIA Jetson Orin for real-time localization and scene understanding across six robots. Deep expertise in ROS 2 and edge ML optimization (TensorRT, CUDA, zero-copy), delivering major latency/throughput gains (10 FPS to 22+ FPS) and building fault-tolerant pipelines with gRPC offloading and real-time reliability practices.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building Python/Flask microservices using PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy, JWT auth, Docker, and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Strong in performance and scalability work—migrated heavy processing to Celery/Redis, tuned queries with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and indexing, and delivered 50%+ API latency reduction. Also integrates AI workflows (OpenAI APIs) with batching/caching/fallbacks and has implemented multi-tenant data isolation patterns.”

“Engineering Manager/Tech Lead on Grindr’s monetization team who helped ship an AI-powered conversation summary feature (A-list), contributing across Android freemium implementation and backend LLM workflow service architecture/reviews. Demonstrated strong operational ownership by leading a Boost production incident from detection through rollback and prevention, and improved team throughput by introducing a lightweight end-to-end delivery process in a high-growth environment.”

“AI/LLM practitioner with internships at Dell Technologies and Roche who built and deployed a healthcare-focused "Doctor LLM" by fine-tuning Meta Llama 3.2 on healthcaremagic.json, emphasizing safety guardrails to prevent harmful medical advice. Experienced in productionizing AI workflows with monitoring, testing, and orchestration (Airflow, Kubernetes), and in delivering AI-agent-driven competitive landscape insights to non-technical business stakeholders.”

“Robotics software engineer with Amazon Robotics internship experience who built a visual-servoing architecture from scratch, navigating multiple simulator pivots to achieve a closed-loop motion-planning and execution prototype. Currently working with ROS 2 on a medical assistive feeding robot using the Kinova Kortex platform (MoveIt2, ros2_control, Gazebo/RViz), and has demonstrated strong real-time debugging and distributed-system synchronization using Carbon and Docker.”

“Backend owner at Apple for an AI workflow orchestration service, with hands-on experience stabilizing peak-traffic production systems using OpenTelemetry-style tracing, bounded async concurrency, and database performance tuning. Built and shipped a Python LLM-agent orchestration layer to automate multi-step operational workflows, emphasizing guardrails, auditability, and deterministic fallbacks to keep non-deterministic AI behavior production-safe.”

“Backend/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of Python services (Postgres/Redis/Celery) and measurable performance gains (~20–25%). Strong Kubernetes + ArgoCD GitOps experience delivering zero-downtime rollouts, plus led key reliability fixes (readiness probes, immutable tagging) and supported an on-prem to AWS migration using CDC replication and ALB traffic shifting; also built Kafka real-time analytics pipelines with schema registry.”