Vetted Celery Professionals

Sai Prudhivi

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in full-stack microservices and cloud platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with experience building high-volume policy management and enterprise pricing systems, including Django/FastAPI/Flask services, Kafka-based async workflows, and Prometheus/Grafana observability. While they have not yet shipped a customer-facing AI agent or production LLM integration, they bring strong cloud, API, reliability, and scalable system design fundamentals that translate well to responsible AI infrastructure work.”

Shrey Patel

Screened

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

New Brunswick, NJ2y exp

“Full-stack AI engineer who has built both a healthcare voice-feedback system for Rutgers Health and an LLM-powered meme generation pipeline at Attention.ad. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript, FastAPI, Postgres, real-time systems, and frontier-model orchestration with practical product instincts, including measurable latency/cost improvements and strong iteration based on user feedback.”

“Senior backend/full-stack engineer with strong e-commerce and marketplace experience in scaling-stage startup environments. Stands out for redesigning a high-traffic inventory reservation system with Redis and PostgreSQL to achieve zero oversell incidents, while also contributing across Go, Python, and React/Next.js production systems and vendor-platform integrations.”

Joe Zayd

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and cloud-native platforms

Woodbridge, VA8y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has operated in a very lean startup setting, helping a non-technical founder turn an AI-focused education product idea into a shipped MVP in roughly six weeks. Also brings B2B SaaS experience from a real estate rental platform with payment flows and Experian-based background and credit check integrations.”

“Research assistant who single-handedly built and integrated an indoor autonomous wheelchair system using NVIDIA Jetson Nano, LiDAR, and a stereo camera. Implemented a multi-sensor perception pipeline (OpenCV/PCL) with ROS-based modular nodes, TF frame management, and robust debugging via RViz/rosbag, plus simulation testing in Gazebo and Dockerized environments for portability.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong production experience across Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, API Gateway, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrates reliability and incident ownership (rate limits, retries/circuit breakers, monitoring) and has delivered measurable SQL performance gains (12–15s to <800ms, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking fully remote work and not open to relocation/onsite meetings.”

“Built and shipped a production GPT-4 + RAG customer support chatbot that materially improved support operations (response time 4 hours to <3 minutes; ~65% tier-1 ticket automation). Demonstrates strong end-to-end LLM engineering across retrieval (Sentence Transformers/Pinecone), safety (multi-layer moderation), cost/latency optimization (caching/streaming, Celery/Redis), and rigorous evaluation/monitoring (shadow deploys, Datadog, 500+ test cases), plus proven stakeholder buy-in leading to 80% adoption.”

“Backend Python engineer who architected an event-driven order integration engine connecting EDI vendors to ERP/WMS/3PL systems, including a canonical order model and adapter framework to eliminate per-customer hardcoding. Has hands-on Kubernetes production experience (microservices, Celery workers, CronJobs, HPAs) and implemented GitOps/CI-CD using GitHub Actions, Docker, and ArgoCD, including moving deployments from on-prem to Azure.”

“Backend engineer who built an Emergency Alert System with Virginia Tech for the City of Alexandria, focusing on real-time ingestion, secure dashboards, and AI-assisted prioritization. Emphasizes high-stakes reliability with guardrails (hybrid rules+LLM, confidence-based fallbacks), scalable async processing, and defense-in-depth security (JWT/RBAC plus database row-level security).”

Mahiyadav Sidda

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and on-device AI

Bangalore, India2y exp

“Built an "Offline Study Assistant" that runs LLM inference locally on a 5-year-old Android device using Llama.cpp and the Android NDK, achieving a 27x speedup and cutting time-to-first-token from 11 minutes to 30 seconds. Also has applied backend/API experience with FastAPI, Supabase (Auth + RLS), and production hardening of a RAG system at Hashmint using Celery and Redis to eliminate PDF-processing-related query failures.”

Kingsley Torlowei

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and data platforms

Remote8y exp

“Built and productionized LLM agents that ingest multi-source workplace data (Slack, meetings, calendars, PM tools) to extract entities (tasks/decisions/risks/initiatives) and generate customer insights like risk alerts, deadline-miss prediction with evidence, and workload overload detection. Also architected a graph-DB-backed multi-step agent using LangChain + Pydantic with async queue/worker execution and LLM-as-judge evaluation plus human review loops.”

“Backend-leaning engineer who has significantly owned the architecture behind complex browser-based internal analytics dashboards for enterprise operations teams. Stands out for connecting Python/FastAPI/Django backend design, async processing, PostgreSQL optimization, and browser performance improvements to make real-time monitoring UIs faster and more usable.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in financial payroll, tax, and compensation platforms, building Python microservices and AWS-based data pipelines for high-volume, peak-driven workloads. Strong reliability focus (OAuth2 auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, incident response) and proven performance wins, including cutting complex report queries from ~8 minutes to under 30 seconds.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG chatbots using LangChain/OpenAI with FAISS and FastAPI, focusing on real-world constraints like context windows, concurrency, and latency (reported ~40% latency reduction and <2s average response). Experienced orchestrating AI pipelines with Celery and fault-tolerant long-running workflows with Temporal, and has applied NLP model tradeoff testing (Word2Vec vs BERT) to drive measurable accuracy gains.”

“DevOps engineer (State Farm) with hands-on ownership of Python backend services and data pipelines, deploying microservices and workers on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD). Has led complex cloud-to-on-prem/hybrid migrations with staged cutovers and rollback planning, and built Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines with schema governance, autoscaling, and strong observability.”

Sangat Shah

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and React/Node.js

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a serverless AWS platform for large-scale live screening events with real-time chat/feedback and streaming (API Gateway/Lambda/DynamoDB/WebSockets/IVS, IaC via Pulumi). Led production refactors and phased migrations using feature flags and dual-write strategies, and has hands-on experience implementing JWT auth, RBAC, and database-enforced row-level security for multi-tenant systems.”

Vishesh Kumar

Screened

Intern Software & AI Engineer specializing in distributed systems and LLM applications

Palo Alto, CA1y exp

“Stony Brook Fall 2024 capstone contributor who built a ROS2-based warehouse mobile robot prototype, owning perception and SLAM integration end-to-end. Strong in real-time robotics optimization on Jetson Orin (TensorRT/CUDA, ROS2 tracing/Nsight) and in distributed ROS2 communications (DDS discovery/QoS, MAVLink-to-ROS2 bridging), with a full simulation/testing/deployment toolchain (Gazebo, CI tests, Docker/K3s).”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built AI-assisted CRM and agent workflows in Project SARA and operational systems like payroll for a staffing platform. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript, Django/Postgres, real-time systems, and LLM orchestration with strong product instincts—delivering measurable gains in response time, conversion, and engineering leverage.”

Alex Archer

Screened

Staff Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Python, AI systems, and cloud SaaS

Anna, TX8y exp

“Full-stack startup engineer from a 20-30 person company who led a legacy monolith breakup into microservices, improving response times by 30% and database performance by 20%. Has hands-on experience across React/Next.js, TypeScript, Go, Python, and AI/data pipeline work, including building AI-driven platforms for freight and publisher-focused B2B SaaS products.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer with experience spanning AI-powered fintech features and high-volume roadway surveillance/ALPR platforms. They have owned production APIs, improved API latency by 35% through database/query optimization, and helped drive a Kafka-based ingestion architecture that increased throughput by 30% while improving reliability at scale.”

“Candidate worked on an AI-powered commercial real estate document analysis product at Ariesview, building workflows that ingest leases and property reports, run OCR, persist structured outputs, and support grounded Q&A via RAG. They stand out for practical ownership of messy production problems like noisy PDFs, document-state consistency, and backward-compatible schema migrations in a fast-moving product environment.”

“Backend Python engineer who has built an LLM agentic tutoring/assignment helper with a custom pipeline for parsing visually complex textbooks (integrating AlibabaResearch VGT and implementing missing preprocessing from the paper), improving RAG grounding with ~90% cleaner extracted text. Also led major platform scaling work by refactoring monolithic image processing into Celery-based async microservices on AWS (GPU/CUDA + S3), and implemented Kafka streaming for payment webhooks with strict ordering, idempotency, and multi-zone fault tolerance.”