Vetted Caching Professionals

Khaliun Gerel

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, web, and mobile platforms

New York, NY7y exp

“Full-stack product engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of multi-client platforms: Finy (agriculture platform with 3 role-based web dashboards plus 2 field mobile apps) and Ugoku (Japanese studio platform with React/TypeScript dashboards, Node/Mongo backend, and mobile AR video playback). Strong in scalable architecture and performance—offline-first mobile for low connectivity, and AWS-based asynchronous video/AR processing with S3/CloudFront—plus building internal ops tools adopted quickly due to measurable workflow improvements.”

Mark Connolly

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level UX and design systems leader specializing in enterprise platforms

Remote, USA28y exp

“Frontend architecture leader with deep browser-platform expertise who led the UI for Fidelity's next-generation account optimization platform and built a framework-agnostic web component ecosystem before Fluent existed. Particularly strong in semantic component design, event-driven architecture, performance tuning at scale, and highly disciplined testing, with recent hands-on work in GIS/map-based visualization prototypes.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing AI recommendation and analytics dashboards end-to-end (backend APIs/data processing through React UI, deployment, and monitoring). Demonstrates strong systems thinking around scaling microservices—using observability, caching, async workflows, and resilience patterns—and also built an internal ops dashboard that became the default tool for on-call incident reviews.”

“Software engineer with recent hands-on production work across Go, Python, and React/TypeScript, spanning healthcare APIs, compliance systems, and data engineering. Stands out for delivering under ambiguity: replaced a legacy SOAP eligibility service, built a Kafka-based compliance pipeline handling 14,000 events per second, and created a modular banking data pipeline that cut month-end work by 30%.”

Praneeth Regonda

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and AI platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with 3 years of AI/ML experience who has shipped production LLM workflows, including a Bloomberg triage dashboard that cut manual processing by 35%. Combines React/TypeScript product sense with AWS/Spring/Lambda backend architecture and unusually strong practical judgment around evals, trust, retrieval, latency, and UX for real-world AI systems.”

“Sole developer behind BirdieAI, an AI-powered golf booking platform built from the ground up, spanning frontend UX, backend services, AWS infrastructure, and Postgres database management. Worked directly with a cofounder in a startup setting to scope and ship an MVP, then improved production reliability significantly by reducing a key extraction failure from 1 in 15 to 1 in 300 while adding operational safeguards and user-driven product improvements.”

“Backend-focused engineer building customer support/order-tracking platforms with Java 17/Spring Boot microservices and a React/TypeScript frontend. Deep experience running event-driven systems on Kubernetes (Kafka, Redis, MySQL) with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Splunk), SLOs, and safe deployment practices (feature flags, canaries). Also built an internal monitoring/debugging dashboard that consolidated metrics and logs for on-call engineers and was adopted by other teams to speed incident response.”

“Built a production-grade agentic document intake system that converts PDFs into structured records with strict schema validation, confidence-based retries, and a human review UI. Demonstrates strong practical judgment around making LLM systems reliable in enterprise workflows, including custom orchestration, observability, and continuous evals rather than relying on off-the-shelf abstractions.”

Sarthak Chauhan

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered backend and full-stack systems

San Francisco Bay Area, CA2y exp

“Built production AI agents at HubSpot for sales teams, including Next Best Action, Deal Risks, and Deal Plans. Combines frontend React/TypeScript implementation with backend prompt engineering, evaluation in Braintrust, caching, and generation pipeline work, and has experience shipping fast with beta feedback and gated rollouts.”

“Full-stack/product-minded engineer with recent experience in both an early-stage AI startup and a B2B payments marketplace. Stands out for building a pgvector-based semantic cache that reduced LLM latency by 35% and for shipping audit-heavy payment infrastructure with Stripe/Plaid, idempotent webhook handling, and major reconciliation query optimizations.”

“Backend/AI engineer at Intuit who built a production AI-powered case assistant for support agents (FastAPI on AWS EKS) combining Postgres case data, OpenSearch retrieval with embedding reranking, and internal LLMs. Improved peak-season reliability by diagnosing P95/P99 timeout spikes and cutting P95 latency from ~800ms to <400ms via composite indexing, keyset pagination, connection pool tuning, and caching, while adding grounded-generation guardrails (evidence packs, confidence thresholds, fallbacks, human-in-the-loop).”

Rahul Kushwaha

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and scalable microservices

Texas, USA5y exp

“Backend/platform engineer focused on high-traffic financial systems, owning real-time event-driven ingestion and Kafka streaming pipelines using Python/FastAPI, Avro schemas, and AWS services. Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps/CI-CD experience (ArgoCD/Jenkins) and supported large-scale migrations from legacy VMs to containerized microservices with zero/low-downtime cutovers.”

Priyanshu Maurya

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in insurance, finance, and healthcare analytics

New York, NY3y exp

“Built and productionized LLM-driven sentiment scoring for earnings call transcripts at Goldman Sachs, replacing legacy NLP to deliver a cleaner trading signal while managing latency/cost via batching, caching, and distilled models. Also implemented an Airflow-orchestrated fraud modeling pipeline at MetLife with drift-based retraining and SageMaker deployment, and has a disciplined evaluation/rollout framework for reliable AI workflows.”

Hongxi Chen

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and backend infrastructure

Beijing, China0y exp

“Backend engineer with deep experience building event-driven logistics systems (orders, warehouse execution, real-time delivery tracking) using Spring Boot/PostgreSQL/Redis and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana). Led a zero-downtime migration from monolithic MySQL to a sharded architecture for ~2M users with dual-write, checksum validation, and fast auto-rollback, and has strong security expertise including PostgreSQL RLS for multi-tenant SaaS and robust OAuth/JWT handling.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered internal developer tool that accelerated code reviews by about 30% while maintaining reliability through modular orchestration, validation, and monitoring. Demonstrates strong practical depth in agent architecture, backend workflow orchestration, and observability for non-deterministic AI systems, with concrete examples of reducing agent errors by 60%.”

“Backend/ML systems engineer with experience at SDSC, UCSD, and Media.net, building production semantic dataset/model discovery using embeddings + Solr KNN and LLM-based intent/reranking at 5M+ dataset scale. Emphasizes offline/online separation for predictable serving, has delivered measurable gains (23% retrieval accuracy, 38% latency reduction) and helped secure a $3M+ NSF grant.”

“Engineering leader with BCG consulting background who has built roadmaps and scaled AI and data platforms for pharma and manufacturing clients. Led architecture shifts (Django monolith to event-driven microservices) for high-volume IoT SaaS products, improving deployment speed and enabling zero-downtime releases. Also established a near-shore engineering team in São Paulo and has managed distributed teams across multiple countries, leveraging strong stakeholder communication and a prior professional acting background for storytelling.”

“Open-source contributor to a JavaScript visualization library who focused on runtime/rendering performance—eliminating unnecessary full redraws via memoization and diff-based updates validated with Chrome profiling. Also strengthened the project’s developer experience by adding TypeScript definitions, writing practical documentation, building minimal example apps, and handling community issues with reproducible debugging and public fixes.”

“Data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines ingesting ~500GB/day from APIs/databases/Kafka into an S3 data lake (Glue/Spark) with Airflow-orchestrated Great Expectations quality gates. Built resilient external data collection systems with idempotent jobs, exponential-backoff retries, raw data capture, and backfills; also shipped Snowflake-backed APIs with caching, versioned endpoints, and backward-compatible data contracts. Led an early-stage Azure data platform build with phased delivery and GitHub Actions CI/CD, resolving schema-mismatch incidents quickly without downstream corruption.”