Vetted Bootstrap Professionals

“Interned at SLB and owned an end-to-end GenAI chatbot deployment for a finance team, including invoice PDF data extraction and an LLM-driven layer (LangGraph/LangChain) that translated natural language to SQL and returned results in natural language. Validated LLM JSON outputs against benchmarks using DeepDiff and deployed the solution via Docker to Kubernetes, managing pods with k9s.”

“Backend/data engineering candidate with Netflix experience designing and migrating analytics platforms from batch to real-time streaming (Kafka/Flink) across AWS and GCP. Delivered measurable improvements (40% lower data delay, 99.9% accuracy) using phased rollouts, automated data validation (Great Expectations), and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and proactively hardened pipelines with idempotency to prevent duplicate Kafka processing.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with Uber experience building real-time telemetry and safety signal pipelines. Strong in Kafka-based event-driven architectures, low-latency processing under peak load, and production reliability via monitoring, retries, and fallback logic; has Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD deployment experience.”

Andrew Liang

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI/ML systems

2y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Amazon and Agora building end-to-end systems: a knowledge-base AI chatbot (React/TypeScript UI + retrieval/response backend + Docker deployment) and an internal approval governance platform using AWS Step Functions and DynamoDB. Emphasizes fast iteration without sacrificing trust via feature-flag rollouts, citation-required answers, abstention on low-confidence retrieval, regression query sets, and strong observability (request IDs, structured logs, latency/error monitoring).”

Yeshwanth Sai Pala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud microservices and AI-driven FinTech

Remote, USA4y exp

“Stripe engineer who shipped an end-to-end merchant fraud insights dashboard, spanning Spring Boot/Kafka risk-scoring services and a React+TypeScript UI. Focused on low-latency, high-volume transaction processing and production operations on AWS (EKS/CloudWatch), including handling a real traffic-spike latency incident via query optimization, indexing, and rate limiting.”

Zheng Wu

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud messaging

Mountain View, CA1y exp

“Data/ML engineer who has owned end-to-end systems across email deliverability/segmentation and production LLM apps. Built a Spark+Airflow segmentation engine that materially improved deliverability (99.9%) and open rates (>50%), and shipped a PDF-to-quiz RAG product using LangChain/Vertex AI/Chroma with strong guardrails and an eval loop that cut hallucinations to <5%.”

KARTHIKBABU VADLOORI

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring Boot, React, and cloud microservices

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Meta and Accenture building regulated-data systems (healthcare/financial) using Python/Flask and Postgres. Has scaled high-throughput services to millions of daily requests, delivering measurable latency wins (~40% API latency reduction; ~35% faster DB-backed endpoints), and has productionized ML inference services using Docker/Kubernetes and AWS (ECS/SageMaker).”

“Seed-stage startup engineer owning features end-to-end across full-stack development, DevOps, rollout, and post-launch maintenance. Built data ingestion and evaluation workflows for an LLM data-quality platform using Next.js, MongoDB, Postgres, and GCP Pub/Sub, with a strong focus on reliability, caching, and pragmatic performance improvements.”

“Senior engineering leader in the Bay Area with experience spanning VMware, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Barracuda, and Palo Alto Networks, including leading open-source work (Apache Knox) and architecting large-scale security platforms. Has driven disaster recovery and cloud security products, designed Python microservices for Microsoft 365 security, and scaled teams (3x) while formalizing enterprise readiness practices with automated documentation using Notebook LLM.”

Chris Du

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps and AI systems

Mountain View, CA0y exp

“Product/UX designer who builds end-to-end systems across both consumer wellness and industrial/technical domains. Designed BloomPath (mental-wellness platform for therapists and young professionals) using research-driven, emotionally safe interaction patterns, and also simplified a Bosch autonomous parking vision-language mapping pipeline into a developer-facing real-time UI with layered debug tooling. Comfortable collaborating deeply with engineers and contributing in React/JS.”

“AI/LLM-focused engineer with hands-on experience building RAG pipelines, prompt engineering workflows, and multi-agent systems using tools like LangChain. Stands out for combining AI-assisted development with production-grade validation and for leading the architecture/orchestration of agent-based recommendation systems that improved response time, accuracy, and scalability.”

Yashwanth J

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack systems

Seattle, WA4y exp

“Engineer with Apple experience building LLM-powered internal workflow orchestration systems using Python, LangGraph, FastAPI, Redis, vector search, and Kubernetes. Stands out for a highly pragmatic, production-focused approach to agentic systems: deterministic state management, strong guardrails, observability, and human review for high-risk actions.”

“Backend/data engineer with Optum healthcare claims domain experience building high-reliability Python microservices (FastAPI/Kafka/Postgres) and AWS data platforms (EKS, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrated strong production ownership: fixed duplicate Kafka processing via transactional outbox/idempotency, scaled to millions of daily events, and delivered major SQL performance gains (40+ min to <5 min, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking remote-only work; targets $130k base.”

“Backend/data engineer who has owned production Python APIs and high-throughput async workflows on AWS (FastAPI, Docker, ECS/EKS/Lambda) with mature reliability practices like idempotency, bounded retries, circuit breakers, and strong observability. Also built AWS Glue ETL into an S3/Redshift lakehouse and modernized legacy batch systems via parallel-run parity testing and feature-flagged migrations, including a SQL tuning win cutting a multi-minute query to under 10 seconds.”

“Backend-leaning engineer with experience at Dropbox, Wayfair, and Etsy who has led cross-product integrations and internal platform tooling. Re-architected a legacy promo code system from a PHP monolith to a Java/Spring Boot microservice achieving a 99% execution-time reduction, and built a React/TypeScript + Supabase product (press.social) with LLM-powered bulk parallel generation and a path to multi-tenancy.”