Vetted CSS Professionals

“AI/ML infrastructure-focused engineer who has built production RAG systems from scratch (Supabase/pgvector + OpenAI embeddings) and iterated using formal eval metrics to improve retrieval quality. Also debugged real-time audio issues in a LiveKit-based pipeline by correlating packet loss with VAD behavior, and has deep experience building brittle, customer-specific financial platform integrations in Python/Playwright (2FA, redirects, token refresh, rate limits).”

“Full-stack engineer/product owner who built and scaled a customer-facing job application portal (Skillbridge) using TypeScript/React and Spring Boot/MongoDB, optimizing search performance with indexing, caching (Redis), and payload/lazy-loading improvements. Also built an internal AI-driven analytics dashboard for Salesforce operations using OpenAI sentiment analysis, achieving 70% reduction in manual analysis and driving adoption through demos and iterative feedback.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an internal analytics dashboard for sales (React/TypeScript + Node/Express + NoSQL), delivering it two weeks early with zero production issues and a reported 10% sales-efficiency lift. Experienced with microservices and async messaging patterns (retries/DLQs/idempotency), and emphasizes rapid iteration with strong CI/CD and automated testing plus user-driven adoption.”

“Cloud-native integration engineer (Oracle/OCI) with strong production deployment and incident-response experience, including API gateway rollouts, observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and multi-layer debugging for payments systems. Built Python/FastAPI microservices and automation for customer-specific reporting and data sync, and has delivered major performance gains (45 min to <10) plus reliability improvements (MTTD reduced 40%+) through monitoring, playbooks, and resilient integration patterns (streaming/queuing, retries, secure tokens, VPC peering).”

“Backend engineer with Walmart experience owning Python data-processing/integration services alongside ASP.NET Core. Has deployed containerized services to Kubernetes via OpenShift with Jenkins CI/CD and GitOps-style config management, and has led phased migrations modernizing VB6/classic ASP apps to ASP.NET Core on OpenShift/Azure. Also implemented Kafka-based real-time pipelines with a focus on reliability, idempotency, and observability.”

“Growth creative lead with hands-on experience running end-to-end paid creative tests for major music/entertainment campaigns at UMG, including a vinyl sale push that cut CPA by 20%+ in a tight promo window. Known for a modular ad-building approach (hooks/value prop/proof/CTA) and platform-native optimization across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube, plus strong label/creative-team alignment and QA discipline (including tracking).”

“Backend engineer on Morgan Stanley’s trade risk and compliance platform, building Java/Spring Boot microservices that validate equity and fixed-income trades at multi-million-events/day scale. Shipped an LLM-assisted trade exception analysis feature using RAG over internal policy documents and trade history, with production-grade guardrails (confidence thresholds, audit logs, human-in-the-loop) and measurable performance wins (~30–35% faster reporting) through PostgreSQL tuning and Redis caching.”

“Deloitte engineer who built and shipped AI-powered, Kafka-driven workflow automation for transportation/document processing, including LLM-based semantic search. Strong in production reliability (idempotency, offset management, retries), observability (Datadog/CloudWatch), and database performance tuning (PostgreSQL/Flyway), with measurable latency improvements.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with production experience in both healthcare (claims enrichment/interoperability at Abacus) and finance (Goldman Sachs pricing/risk APIs + React dashboards). Built an event-driven AI grading platform using Postgres Debezium CDC + Kafka + FastAPI on AWS that cut manual grading ~70% and served 1000+ students, with strong emphasis on reliability, testing, and performance tuning.”

“Azure cloud platform engineer with strong enterprise Linux operations background who designs multi-region HA/DR on Azure (and AWS) using Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, AKS autoscaling, and geo-replicated Azure SQL. Built secure Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for .NET/Python microservices to AKS/VMs and provisions full environments via Terraform modules with remote state, drift checks, and staged rollouts; has not directly owned IBM Power/AIX at scale.”

“Software engineer at Fidelity who led a digital-first transformation of life insurance/annuity sales by building a self-service customer flow (questionnaires, auto-contract generation, eSign) and abstracting complex internal eSign APIs adopted across 8+ teams. Also builds modern real-time web apps (Next.js/React/TypeScript, Supabase/Postgres, WebSockets) and operates services with CI/CD, performance testing, and observability (Jenkins, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana) on AWS EKS.”

“Software engineer with payments-domain experience (Visa) building real-time transaction monitoring and analytics systems. Strong end-to-end ownership across Spring Boot/Kafka microservices, PostgreSQL modeling, and AWS/Kubernetes operations, plus React+TypeScript dashboards—focused on low-latency processing, secure APIs, and zero-downtime production releases.”

“Software engineer with experience across TCS, Rakuten, and USC who has owned production integrations and data pipelines end-to-end. Notably improved a trading platform payment flow by replacing fragile polling with a webhook-driven status system with robust fallbacks, and has shipped LLM-assisted design-to-webpage automation plus evaluation-driven prompt iteration (NYT Connections).”

“Data engineer with hands-on experience migrating a legacy/mainframe-fed loader onto GCP, orchestrating daily SFTP-to-GCS ingestion, Spark/Scala transformations, and loading into Cassandra/Solr/OpenSearch with API- and BigQuery-based validation. Also built a Java Spring Boot service that extracts from Hive and produces Excel outputs, emphasizing testing, logging/alerts, and CI setup.”

Ashank Dsouza

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Node.js/React and cloud DevOps

Bengaluru, India4y exp

“Software engineer with startup and capstone experience who improved an ~8-hour database refresh workflow by moving API calls to asynchronous execution and then addressing API rate limits via throttling. Emphasizes performance profiling/logging, strong developer onboarding documentation practices, and disciplined Agile/Jira bug triage and expectation-setting with stakeholders.”

Danilo Plazas

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Frontend (React/JavaScript)

Vancouver, Canada10y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer with full-stack experience who modernized a legacy HR platform (CoffeeScript/Marionette) by migrating key UIs to React/Redux and adding TypeScript for robustness. Built an internal client monitoring tool end-to-end with a microservices-oriented approach and strong testing practices (Jest/Selenium), and also led a major GraphQL v1→v2 migration delivered incrementally over ~6 weeks while optimizing Django/MySQL/DynamoDB performance.”

Mandeep Kandhari

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Senior Front-End Software Engineer specializing in in-vehicle React applications

Waterloo, Canada7y exp

“Frontend engineer on Ford EV infotainment HMIs building React + TypeScript workflows for Apple CarPlay/Android Auto device projection and high-stakes reset flows. Deep experience integrating a React HMI with legacy Qt expectations and C++ services via MQTT, using Redux Saga/state-machine patterns to manage complex async device and system operations with strong QA and performance optimization practices.”

Nikitha Kommidi

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection, NLP, and MLOps

6y exp

“Built a production real-time fraud detection and customer-support automation platform at Citibank, tackling extreme class imbalance (reported ~1:5000) and strict latency constraints. Combines hands-on MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow; Snowflake/Spark/S3 integrations; CI/CD model promotion) with cross-functional delivery to Risk & Compliance focused on interpretability and reducing false positives.”

Lachlan Hunt

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Junior Game Programmer specializing in Unity and Unreal Engine

2y exp

“Solo developer who shipped an Android game (Master Caster) built around touch gesture recognition (P$ algorithm) and data-driven potion/ingredient systems using JSON/dictionaries. Has hands-on experience optimizing Unity projects for mobile constraints (framerate, heat/battery) using techniques directly applicable to VR, and is actively porting the game to VR in Unreal with a focus on accessibility and room/standing/seated play modes.”

“Cloud-focused platform/infrastructure engineer centered on AWS and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience building EKS environments via Terraform/Terragrunt, bootstrapping clusters with Cilium and ArgoCD, and integrating persistent storage and backup tooling like EFS/EBS CSI and Velero. While no longer focused on on-prem or hybrid operations, they also bring prior VMware/Hyper-V and migration-to-AWS experience, making them strongest in modern cloud platform engineering roles.”

Priyanshi Sharma

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech full-stack and backend systems

Parsippany, NJ4y exp

“Built and productionized a GenAI prompt-engineering solution to retrieve prevailing wages based on job/location selections, emphasizing accuracy through stricter prompt templates and validation. Hands-on in real-time production debugging using Splunk (callback tracing, verbose logging, header inspection) and experienced running developer-facing demos/workshops that helped drive marketplace API adoption.”

Gnaneswar Markat

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

Charlotte, NC4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with Bank of America experience building and owning a customer portfolio dashboard end-to-end, from requirements through launch and ongoing iteration. They combine React/Spring Boot/PostgreSQL implementation with strong performance tuning, real-time data handling, and UX improvements, and cite adoption by roughly 12,000 active internal users.”

“Salesforce developer with hands-on ownership of a complex Live Chat to Enhanced Chat migration, including LWC pre-chat forms, Apex/API integrations, Omni-Channel, Flow-based routing, and production rollout. Stands out for solving a difficult transcript-delivery requirement by designing an alternate conversation retrieval approach using Messaging Session, Apex callouts, and scheduled jobs.”

“JavaScript/React/TypeScript engineer with hands-on open-source experience improving a hooks utility library—fixed a reported async race condition that reduced unexpected re-renders and added a debounced callback hook that became widely used. Brings a production-minded approach to performance and abstractions (APM/metrics-driven, DB/caching focus) with strong testing, documentation, and community support practices.”