Vetted C Professionals

“Hands-on ML practitioner who built and deployed an end-to-end phishing email classifier (CLI + simple web app), achieving 98% accuracy and reducing manual security triage. Emphasizes production reliability through input validation, graceful failure modes, monitoring/logging, and iterative error analysis, with experience hardening pipelines against messy backend/database data using fallbacks and idempotent processing.”

Praveen LAKSHMAN

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and workflow automation

Birmingham, AL4y exp

“Early-career AI engineer currently pursuing a Master's, with hands-on experience building and improving RAG pipelines using LangChain. They stand out for moving beyond naive retrieval into multi-step retrieval and feedback-loop designs to reduce hallucinations, and are now exploring multi-agent systems with distinct retrieval, coding, and validation roles.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer with strong AWS/Snowflake experience who built an internal feature flag platform and helped migrate a cybersecurity insights product into a multi-agent AI chat interface. They report production scale of 1M+ embeddings and 50k+ monthly queries, with outcomes including an 80% reduction in analyst work and dashboard generation in 7 minutes; the work was also featured by Claude and AWS.”

Mayur Jain

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, blockchain, and cloud systems

Akron, OH5y exp

“Founding engineer who has built core product and backend architecture from scratch at two startups, spanning a full-stack NFT marketplace and an AI voice assistant for sales qualification and scheduling. Brings 5+ years of full-stack experience with strong React/TypeScript and Python backend depth, plus hands-on production experience with LLM workflows, evaluation, and AI-assisted developer tooling.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on multi-robot fleet orchestration in ROS 2, owning the fleet manager and task dispatch layer for pick/drop workflows. Strong in real-world reliability and safety (heartbeats, idempotent tasking, E-stop/localization confidence gates) and in debugging timing/state issues via telemetry alignment and rosbag replay, with experience in simulation, CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes-based deployments.”

“Paystand engineer/intern who built a multi-agent LLM orchestration system (with logging/feedback loops) that became part of the team workflow and reportedly cut development time ~70%. Partnered with sales/product on enterprise demos and implemented a dynamic RBAC system that helped drive adoption of an intern-built product to multiple enterprise clients, contributing to seven-figure ARR. Also founded and pitched a student-entrepreneur business management/payments project (HustleHub) and won a university startup competition.”

“Robotics-focused engineer with hands-on projects ranging from a solo Dobot Magician Lite tic-tac-toe system (computer vision + minimax) to integrating an LLM with a Dobot arm for real-time pick-and-place via structured action outputs and validation. Also brings prior full-time DevOps experience (Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD) and has used ROS/Gazebo for simulation work, including exploring improvements to crowd-aware navigation using human-trajectory datasets.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered workflow assistant that automated internal marketing/production business tasks (document summarization, repeated Q&A, status updates). Demonstrates end-to-end applied LLM engineering: modular RAG architecture, hallucination/latency mitigation, automated evals to prevent prompt regressions, and Azure-based orchestration (Functions/Logic Apps) with monitoring and controlled rollouts.”

“LLM/agentic systems engineer who built a production "Agentic AI Diagnostic Assistant" for network engineers, using a multi-agent Llama 2 + LangChain architecture with RAG over telemetry/incident data in DynamoDB and confidence-based deferrals to reduce hallucinations. Also has strong MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, EventBridge, Spark, Docker, SageMaker/ECS) at multi-terabyte/day scale and delivered multilingual NLP analytics (fine-tuned BERT/spaCy) for support operations through hands-on stakeholder workshops.”

“Full-stack engineer with financial services experience (Lincoln Financial) who owned a customer-facing financial portal end-to-end using TypeScript/React and Node/Express. Has hands-on microservices and RabbitMQ event-driven workflows, addressing scale issues like retries/duplicates with idempotency and traceable logging, and built an internal real-time ops/support dashboard to improve monitoring and incident response.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience building Java 17 Spring Boot microservices for high-traffic systems at Verizon and on a JPMC payments platform (funds transfer/validation using ISO 20022), plus modern React/TypeScript dashboards for ops and analytics. Demonstrates strong scalability and reliability chops (Kafka event-driven pipelines, Redis caching, clustering, BullMQ background jobs) and has built real-time apps end-to-end with secure JWT refresh-token auth and Socket.io performance tuning.”

“Backend/DevOps-leaning engineer with trading/financial systems experience (AIG), focused on reliability: built Python automated test suites to ~95% coverage and integrated them into CI/CD. Has hands-on Kubernetes microservices deployment with GitOps (ArgoCD), plus experience supporting cloud-to-on-prem migrations and building real-time streaming pipelines resilient to spikes and data loss.”

“Backend/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of high-stakes data migrations in regulated domains (core banking and insurance), including a Python ETL framework that migrated 100,000+ customer records within a cutover window. Strong DevOps/GitOps background deploying Python and Spring Boot microservices to Kubernetes with Helm and ArgoCD, plus real-time Kafka transaction streaming for fraud/analytics with reliability patterns (DLQs, retries, partition tuning).”

“Backend/ML engineer who built an end-to-end greenwashing detection system for corporate ESG reports: Python preprocessing pipeline, logistic regression + fine-tuned DistilBERT models, and a Dockerized FastAPI inference service optimized for latency. Internship experience maintaining GitLab CI/CD for TypeScript services (Jest/Playwright), improving pipeline stability and test determinism; familiar with Kubernetes/GitOps concepts and AWS CLI/SSO.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned an AI-driven healthcare staffing matching service, rebuilding the model inference/data pipeline to eliminate blocking bottlenecks and cutting API latency by ~33%. Experienced running Python services on Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD, and has executed a cloud-to-on-prem rollout under tight resource and tooling constraints while also building event-driven streaming updates via a message broker.”

“Customer-facing software engineer who builds configurable, extensible solutions under vague requirements (e.g., a bin-packing-style resource allocation feature) and iterates via frequent sandbox deployments and customer testing. Has hands-on experience integrating multiple shipping APIs, navigating outdated/unclear documentation, and resolving production issues quickly through log-driven debugging and safe rollback procedures.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who recently built a production compliance assistant at State Farm for KYC/AML and regulatory teams, using AWS Bedrock + LangChain with Textract/Lambda pipelines to extract fields, tag risk, and summarize long documents. Implemented RAG, strict structured outputs, and human-in-the-loop guardrails, and reports automating ~80% of documentation work while reducing review time by ~40%.”

“Robotics engineer who built an autonomous driving mobile robot software stack at Boston University using ROS on an NVIDIA Jetson Nano, integrating LiDAR + stereo vision with YOLOv5 and a probabilistic occupancy grid for planning. Demonstrated real-time systems rigor (multi-rate ROS nodes, 50ms sync, profiling/instrumentation) and optimized YOLOv5 with TensorRT, citing ~30% accuracy improvement; also taught ROS workshops to 50+ students.”

“Backend-focused engineer who has built and refactored FastAPI services backed by MongoDB, emphasizing async concurrency, stateless design for horizontal scaling, and performance tuning via indexing and request-level timing. Has implemented production authentication patterns (JWT, SSO, OAuth2 + PKCE) and user/org-scoped access controls, and improved reliability of LLM document-extraction APIs with fallback mechanisms.”

“QA/automation engineer with hands-on experience spanning web UI automation (Cypress/JavaScript) and hardware/firmware validation (BIOS/BMC, FPGA). Has delivered high-impact reliability and throughput improvements in server/HPC environments, including automation that enabled booting across ~250 servers and requirement clarification that unblocked firmware work for ~550 servers.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of real-time, Kafka-driven systems in production, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Node backends, and AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2) operations. Notable for modernizing legacy batch workflows into event-driven architectures with measurable impact (35% faster risk calculations, 30% better accuracy) and scaling to 2x volume using reliability patterns like idempotency, retries, and staged rollouts.”

Manikanta Kopparapu

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native web applications

TX, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing and internal web portals end-to-end (API, database, React UI, and deployment). Experienced designing multi-service architectures with Node/Express and Java/Spring Boot plus RabbitMQ/Kafka messaging, emphasizing contract/versioning discipline, observability, and operational tooling that measurably reduces support load and manual work.”

Abhishek Soni

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in React and scalable web applications

Mumbai, India3y exp

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across FastAPI microservices and AWS data platforms. Has delivered serverless and Glue/EMR-based ETL pipelines with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Sentry, CloudWatch/SNS), schema-evolution resilience, and measurable SQL performance wins (5 min to <30 sec). Open to onsite meetings in the Bethesda, MD area and flexible on remote arrangements.”