Vetted Caching Professionals

Tony Barreto

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in modern web apps

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Product-focused full-stack builder who has shipped and operated multiple production apps from scratch, including an e-commerce bakery delivery scheduler (with concurrency controls and timezone handling) and a real-time passenger music-request system for Lyft rides that hit and resolved YouTube API rate-limit scaling issues via debouncing and caching. Strong in React+TypeScript and Node.js/TypeScript backends, with solid PostgreSQL/PostGIS data modeling and performance tuning.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built an LLM-driven QA automation system (“mockmouse”) using a Flask orchestration microservice, Socket.IO real-time updates, Redis caching, and strict Pydantic schemas to turn prompts into reliable action graphs and automated browser tests. Has hands-on Kubernetes delivery experience (Docker/Helm/Jenkins) and has supported large migration programs, validating ETL cutovers with 1M+ synthetic records and rigorous output comparisons; also built event-driven monitoring/anomaly detection streaming into Grafana.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of production systems, including a Kafka-based notification/alerting platform (Node.js + React) deployed on AWS with Docker/GitHub Actions, achieving ~95% email delivery reliability. Demonstrates strong operational maturity (observability, CI/CD, zero-downtime migrations) and experience shipping in ambiguous environments (SJSU project) with evolving requirements.”

David Pang

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps and healthcare APIs

1y exp

“Full-stack developer who built an end-to-end e-commerce application with admin/blog/announcement features using Node/Express and AWS S3, emphasizing security via expiring presigned URLs. Also has strong distributed-systems fundamentals from implementing the Raft consensus algorithm (replication logs, majority acks, leader elections) and has created build automation tools (GNU Makefiles/scripts) to streamline team workflows.”

Dhairya Shah

Screened

Entry-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and systems

Buffalo, NY1y exp

“ML-focused builder who has shipped an end-to-end income-class prediction product: built the data pipeline, trained models, deployed via Streamlit with a live UI, and tracked success via accuracy (84%), adoption, and latency. Demonstrates strong practical MLOps instincts (Docker/Streamlit Cloud, logging/monitoring, caching) and data engineering reliability patterns (schema checks, idempotency, retries, backfills) while iterating quickly in ambiguous, solo-project environments.”

sajda kabir

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, voice, and full-stack product engineering

Kolkata, India2y exp

“Product-minded full-stack engineer from SuperU who built AI voice-agent infrastructure end-to-end, from React/TypeScript campaign UIs to a forked n8n orchestration backend and Postgres multi-tenant data model. Stands out for shipping quickly in ambiguous startup environments, debugging deep reliability issues across layers, and delivering measurable gains like activation rising from 20% to 70%+ and call drops falling below 0.5%.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built a time-sensitive data retrieval system for a source with no public API, using an AWS EC2-hosted persistent browser session plus a PostgreSQL TTL caching layer—cutting manual retrieval by 99% and achieving sub-10-second average retrieval. Emphasizes production security (Secrets Manager, encryption, IP allowlisting, rate limiting) and robustness via testing and edge-case handling (atomic file operations).”

“Full-stack engineer from an early-stage AI SaaS startup who owned and shipped a production AI-powered PDF document chat and sharing feature end-to-end (React/TS + Node + Postgres on AWS). Demonstrates strong product thinking through layered success metrics and tight feedback loops, plus hands-on reliability/observability work (CloudWatch, structured logging, alarms) and robust ingestion pipeline patterns (idempotency, retries, reconciliation).”

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade pipelines and data services end-to-end, including a 50+ GB/day pipeline ingesting from APIs/files into Snowflake with PySpark/SQL transformations. Emphasizes strong data quality controls, monitoring/retries, and performance optimization, and has also shipped a Python data API with caching and backward-compatible versioning.”

Elena Cherpakova

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in React, Node.js, and AWS

Ottawa, Canada3y exp

“Frontend engineer at WITT who led multiple end-to-end React/TypeScript products in fintech/e-commerce contexts, including a shopping cart with Stripe payments and a multi-step registration flow. Emphasizes scalable component architecture, strong QA (tests/reviews/linting), and performance work (lazy loading/memoization), plus disciplined rollout via feature flags and close product/design collaboration.”

Iskhak Ishmakhametov

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and real-time systems

Bellevue, WA7y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with a strong real-time systems focus: built and rolled out a WebSocket-based notifications system (with robust reconnect/resync and event ordering protections) that cut update latency to under 200ms. Also owned a workflow automation platform backend in FastAPI (JWT/RBAC, versioned APIs, standardized errors), designed the PostgreSQL schema for workflows/tasks/executions, and operated deployments on AWS ECS Fargate with blue-green CI/CD and performance stabilization via caching and autoscaling.”

Haneesh Kapa

Screened

Junior AI Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM automations and RAG systems

Nashua, NH2y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered customer support assistant using a Python/FastAPI backend with RAG (embeddings + vector search) over internal docs and product/operational data. Instrumented the system with logging/metrics and ran continuous eval loops; post-launch improvements focused on retrieval quality (chunking/ranking) and performance/cost tradeoffs (query classification, caching, validation guardrails).”

“Backend engineer with production ERP experience deploying microservices and improving performance/reliability using a metrics-driven approach (logs, latency, error rates). Has hands-on cloud/hybrid operations across AWS and Azure with Docker/Kubernetes, and has resolved real-world mobile sync issues by tuning timeouts/retries and reducing payload sizes. Builds configurable Python services to deliver customer-specific behavior without destabilizing the core codebase.”

“Machine learning lab assistant at Eastern Illinois University who productionized a voice-enabled conversational AI system: redesigned it with RAG, LoRA fine-tuning (including text-to-SQL), and safety guardrails, then deployed a scalable API supporting ~1,000 daily queries. Also partnered with customer-facing teams during a BlueFi internship by building demos/APIs and accelerating releases via Terraform + AWS CI/CD automation.”

“Software engineer with demonstrated production performance wins (37% latency reduction) through SQL optimization, backend API redesign, and disciplined rollout practices (staging, feature flags). Experienced debugging distributed pipeline issues across infrastructure layers (memory pressure and network timeouts) and building AWS-based systems (Lambda + RDS) to handle request spikes, including work on a business-focused chatbot.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned a real-time manufacturing insights streaming service, building FastAPI async microservices with Kafka-style queue buffering, batching/backpressure, and a low-latency snapshot store. Led a serverless-to-Kubernetes (EKS) migration at UGenomeAi using GitOps-style GitHub Actions pipelines, standardized config/secrets, and improved deployment consistency with pinned dependencies and multi-stage Docker builds.”

“ML/NLP engineer who has built production systems end-to-end: a real-time recommendation platform (100k+ profiles) using BERTopic-style clustering and a RAG-based news summarization/recommendation stack with ChromaDB. Strong focus on scaling and reliability (GPU batching, Redis caching, Kafka ingestion, Docker/Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana) and on maintaining model quality over time via drift monitoring and retraining triggers.”