Vetted CSS Professionals

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered financial research product end-to-end, using a typed NestJS/GraphQL backend with LangGraph-style agent routing to produce sourced, structured financial analysis. Emphasizes finance-grade correctness (Zod validation, metric registries, unit/empty-result guardrails) while keeping latency low via batching, caching, and fast token streaming, and has led incremental migrations using strangler/feature-flag/shadow traffic patterns.”

“Backend engineer working on Plumas Bank’s digital modernization, building a FastAPI-based loan origination/processing system with OAuth2/JWT security, AWS Lambda-driven PDF document generation to S3, and MongoDB integration. Has led a legacy workflow migration to a new microservice using dual-write/dual-read and monitoring, and emphasizes multi-tenant isolation via layered API controls plus row-level security.”

“Backend engineer who significantly evolved an internal Resource Manager platform, moving from a monolith to microservices and improving onboarding speed while reducing integration errors. Has hands-on experience building reliable and secure Python/FastAPI APIs (Pydantic schemas, circuit breakers, caching, metrics/alerts) and leading zero-downtime migrations with strong data integrity patterns (dual writes, idempotency, reconciliation checks).”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-native Python systems: built a FastAPI microservice on ECS/Fargate serving real-time analytics at millions of daily requests with strong reliability (OAuth2/JWT, retries/timeouts, correlation IDs) and autoscaling. Also delivered Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines to curated S3 Parquet/Athena with schema evolution + data quality controls, owned Airflow pipeline incidents, and has a track record of measurable performance and cost optimizations (e.g., ~80%+ query latency reduction; reduced logging/NAT/Fargate spend).”

“JavaScript engineer and open-source contributor focused on runtime performance, reliability, and developer experience—refactored a widely used client-side API/state library to improve concurrent request handling, error consistency, and UI performance while adding tests and documentation. Also owned improvements to a core microservice at Velsa integrating multiple hospital systems, bringing structure to ambiguous priorities and delivering stability and performance gains from design through deployment.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer from Valcom who maintained Django/PostgreSQL services for mass-notification/paging servers used by education/commercial/government customers. Notable for hardening authentication and reliability (JWT refresh + rotation tokens, WebSockets/EventStream) and for modernizing a legacy Ext.js/PHP stack into a React + Django architecture with strong CI/testing and production incident ownership.”

“Unity game developer who built a context-sensitive movement and camera system for a grid-based dungeon crawler and used DOTween for key gameplay animations. Worked at Chimera Entertainment on Songs of Silence, contributing via bug fixes, working within an existing Photon Fusion protocol, and implementing a UI-heavy in-game lexicon; also leverages AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to accelerate editor/tooling and gameplay scripting.”

“Backend Java engineer with strong platform/DevOps experience: modernized an insurance claims legacy monolith into DDD-aligned microservices, deployed containerized services on Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and static analysis gates, and implemented GitOps using ArgoCD. Also led major AWS migration planning with dependency mapping and network monitoring to uncover hidden dependencies, and built Kafka-based real-time event streaming with schema-registry-driven evolution.”

“Software developer with hands-on experience owning customer-facing work end-to-end (requirements, implementation, testing, and feedback-driven iteration) using Python and React.js. Also described remodeling an internal legacy page/tool to improve performance and accuracy, and has exposure to microservices and RabbitMQ plus ETL-based system work.”

“Software developer at Indiana University who built a phishing training platform using TypeScript/React, Node, GraphQL, and DynamoDB, including an admin tool to monitor student completion and send automated reminder emails. Also created TechRent, an IU-only electronics rental marketplace concept focused on improving security by restricting access to university students.”

“Backend/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes GitOps delivery (GitHub Actions + Argo CD) on AWS EKS, including progressive rollouts and reliable rollback across interdependent microservices. Built a Python/FastAPI ML-driven document-processing service (PostgreSQL + S3) to complement existing Spring Boot systems, and implemented Kafka streaming pipelines with Schema Registry plus Prometheus/Grafana observability. Also supported a hybrid cloud-to-on-prem migration for compliance/latency with phased rollout and incremental PostgreSQL migration.”

“Full-stack engineer who owns customer-facing web products end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node.js), shipping frequent releases with strong testing, staged deploys, and production monitoring. Improved a key user flow by batching backend calls and simplifying frontend rendering, driving ~30% faster load times and ~30% higher completion rates. Also built an ops monitoring dashboard using ELK + Prometheus/Grafana that cut incident response time by 40% and has hands-on microservices messaging experience (RabbitMQ/Kafka, idempotency, DLQs).”

“Graduate Assistant Intern at Friends University who built and deployed a GenAI-driven requirement understanding system that automates extraction and semantic grouping of technical requirements from large unstructured documents. Demonstrates strong LLM engineering rigor (golden datasets, regression testing, post-processing validation) and production-minded delivery using LangChain/LlamaIndex orchestration, FastAPI microservices, Docker, and cloud deployment.”

“Backend/AI engineer with Johnson & Johnson experience building data-heavy payer/claims analytics services (Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS) and optimizing them under peak ingestion load via indexing/query tuning and caching. Also shipped an end-to-end RAG feature for clinicians to extract insights from unstructured clinical notes, using constrained prompts and retrieval-confidence guardrails to prevent hallucinations.”

“Built and maintained an air-quality prediction backend in Python/Flask that serves offline-trained ML models to a React dashboard via JSON REST APIs. Demonstrates strong performance focus across the stack—low-latency inference under load, SQLAlchemy/Postgres query optimization, multi-tenant data isolation, and caching/background task strategies for high-throughput systems.”

“Software engineer with hands-on AWS experience optimizing an email campaign delivery system—re-architected a monolithic worker into multi-threaded/multi-worker ECS components to boost throughput ~600% (5 to 35 emails/sec). Comfortable debugging production issues (e.g., SQS/EventBridge policy misconfiguration) and emphasizes maintainable delivery via design docs, TDD, versioned APIs, and strong test coverage.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building real-time, low-latency systems: owned the Python backend for a real-time crowd-monitoring product (top 5% at HackHarvard 2025) using OpenCV, GPU YOLO inference (PyTorch), WebRTC, and OAuth. Also has production Kubernetes/GitOps experience (Helm/Kustomize, GitHub Actions, Argo CD), Kafka-based event pipelines, and executed a minimal-downtime on-prem PostgreSQL migration to AWS EC2.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience owning a production e-commerce platform end-to-end (TypeScript/Node/Express, React, MongoDB, Redis) including RBAC and contract-based API development. Also worked at Infosys on a large healthcare management system built with Spring Boot microservices, using Kafka for messaging/retries, circuit breakers for resilience, and OpenTelemetry/Swagger for observability and API documentation.”

“Full-stack engineer who built "Workstream AI," an AI-powered engineering visibility product that converts GitHub activity into real-time insights using an event-driven microservices stack (RabbitMQ/Postgres/Express) and GPT-4 with a React frontend. Previously a Founding SWE at a health & wellness startup, building data-driven user management tooling, and also delivered a real-time shuttle tracking/ride request system using Java Spring Boot/Hibernate + React; comfortable owning production deployment details (AWS EC2, DNS, SSL).”

“Robotics software engineer at Earthwise building a full ROS2 Humble warehouse AMR stack for bin picking—owning perception (Livox/Orbbec/RPLidar fusion + calibration), Nav2 navigation with custom planners/behavior trees, and application-layer nodes (barcode scanning, safety monitoring, web HMI). Demonstrated strong real-world debugging and performance tuning (sub-cm AprilTag docking; ~80% reduction in localization failures) plus solid simulation/CI practices (Gazebo + Docker + GitHub Actions).”

“Backend engineer who built and scaled a transaction-processing microservice (150K+ records/day) in a microservices ecosystem, debugging peak-load latency/timeouts via CloudWatch/Grafana, Kafka lag analysis, and DB query tuning (indexes, Redis caching, batching). Also shipped an LLM-powered document assistant end-to-end with prompt/response validation plus retries/fallbacks for production reliability.”

“Governance engineer intern at GSK who built policy-as-code automation using Open Policy Agent/Rego integrated into GitHub CI/CD and Terraform workflows. Also built and shipped a voice-enabled expense tracking app using speech-to-text + LLM structured extraction with strong validation, retries, and semantic guardrails, and designed the supporting PostgreSQL data model with performance-focused indexing.”

“Software engineer who shipped an end-to-end internal workforce dashboard at Northwestern Mutual, spanning Spring Boot APIs, PostgreSQL schema/query optimization, and a React + TypeScript UI with role-based access and filtering. Has hands-on production experience deploying via GitHub Actions CI/CD to AWS (Docker, EC2, RDS) and resolving performance incidents by tuning database queries and indexes.”