Vetted C++ Professionals

“Backend engineer with strong payments and high-stakes transaction experience, including owning an Apple Pay/Google Pay integration via Stripe end-to-end in production for 100,000+ users. Particularly compelling for teams that need someone who can balance speed, security, and reliability in checkout or other sensitive backend workflows, and who has hands-on incident ownership in production.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built and operated a production WhatsApp assistant end-to-end using a modern RAG stack, delivering >90% automation with sub-2-second latency. Shows strong depth in retrieval quality, observability, evaluation, and incident handling, and has also applied similar AI workflow patterns to a clinical diagnostic assistant processing medical PDFs.”

“Currently at Berryble AI, this candidate is building an LLM-based real-time interview analysis engine using FastAPI, WebSockets, fine-tuned models, and GCP/Cloud Run. They stand out for using AI and agent workflows pragmatically to accelerate development while keeping human ownership over architecture, security, reliability, and maintainability, and they are also pursuing a master's in applied machine learning.”

“Data/ML engineer with end-to-end ownership experience at Charles Schwab, spanning data ingestion, anomaly detection, data quality infrastructure, and dashboards used daily by compliance and business teams. Stands out for debugging complex cross-layer issues in systems processing 17M+ records per day and for turning one-off data quality checks into reusable frameworks that scaled across business units.”

Saumya Pailwan

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in applied AI and audio ML

Evanston, IL2y exp

“Engineer with unusually mature experience leading AI-assisted development, including orchestrating multiple coding agents across a data pipeline feature as if managing a small engineering team. Stands out for balancing aggressive adoption of AI tools with disciplined judgment around architecture, security, and merge quality, and for translating that experience into stronger tech leadership.”

“AI engineer and current tech lead building a RAG-based multi-agent QA platform for financial document analysis at significant scale (40,000-50,000 documents). They combine Python, CrewAI, FastAPI, Hugging Face embeddings, Pinecone, and AWS SageMaker to deliver retrieval, calculation, summarization, forecasting, and visualization workflows, while leading a small cross-functional team.”

“Founder-owner of BoostChat who built a production AI ticket-routing platform for service businesses, bridging Telegram customer chats to contractor workflows in Revolt with measurable gains in speed and satisfaction. Also stepped from QA analyst into a lead software engineer role at Con Edison, helping modernize a legacy mapping platform.”

“Frontend/full-stack product engineer with deep experience owning payment and subscription experiences across web, mobile, and BFF layers at SoFi. They helped shape the SoFi Plus subscription experience, including API contracts, observability, and complex membership state handling, and the launch was associated with roughly 200,000 new members over six months.”

“Banking infrastructure engineer who owns large-scale IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) environments with hundreds of LPARs and deep PowerHA/SAN recovery experience. Also builds modern cloud delivery platforms—Azure DevOps/Jenkins CI/CD and Terraform for AWS/Azure (EKS/AKS, networking, security)—bridging legacy mission-critical systems and cloud-native automation.”

“CTO-for-equity founder who partners with non-technical co-founders to bring AI-powered product ideas to market, emphasizing financial viability and go-to-market planning over "just an MVP." Currently working with two other founders (CEO/Sales and CPO/industry expert) to launch a SaaS platform, leveraging AI coding tools (Cursor/Windsurf) for extremely fast, production-ready iteration with daily releases.”

“Builder/technical leader who was brought into Finicity to turn a credit-improvement concept into a viable product—architected, staffed, and launched what became Experian Boost. Delivered a major North American product launch in ~6 months, scaling to ~50,000 new users per day at launch and solving complex ML classification and distributed processing/order-of-operations challenges on AWS.”