Vetted CSS Professionals

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building Python/Flask microservices using PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy, JWT auth, Docker, and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Strong in performance and scalability work—migrated heavy processing to Celery/Redis, tuned queries with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and indexing, and delivered 50%+ API latency reduction. Also integrates AI workflows (OpenAI APIs) with batching/caching/fallbacks and has implemented multi-tenant data isolation patterns.”

“Interned at SLB and owned an end-to-end GenAI chatbot deployment for a finance team, including invoice PDF data extraction and an LLM-driven layer (LangGraph/LangChain) that translated natural language to SQL and returned results in natural language. Validated LLM JSON outputs against benchmarks using DeepDiff and deployed the solution via Docker to Kubernetes, managing pods with k9s.”

Surya Teja

Screened

Mid-level Backend/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech payments

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned an operational reporting/dashboard product end-to-end—building a React UI, designing/implementing FastAPI services, and deploying/operating on AWS. Demonstrates strong performance engineering (Postgres query/index tuning using EXPLAIN ANALYZE) with concrete impact (reports reduced from tens of seconds to a few seconds) and a reliability mindset across observability, migrations, and resilient third-party/ETL integrations.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience across backend, full-stack, cloud, and AI/ML systems, with particular depth in Python, FastAPI, AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, and RAG-based architectures. Stands out for treating AI and agents as accelerators within disciplined production engineering, emphasizing guardrails, observability, latency/cost monitoring, and scalable system design.”

“Frontend tech lead at HubSpot who shipped an LLM-powered insights dashboard that analyzed complex customer interaction histories and surfaced sentiment, challenges, and next-best actions for sales users. Stands out for having taken an AI feature beyond prototype into beta and full production, with strong emphasis on testing, maintainability, and practical production tradeoffs.”

“Marketing designer/creative lead who builds scalable Figma-based systems for high-volume growth and community creative. Led a Recurly campaign aligned to a brand refresh (including creative testing like light vs dark), and served as the sole designer for Grow Therapy’s inaugural “Grow Forward” summit producing a full suite of event assets plus modular community templates for ongoing programming.”

“Backend/data engineering candidate with Netflix experience designing and migrating analytics platforms from batch to real-time streaming (Kafka/Flink) across AWS and GCP. Delivered measurable improvements (40% lower data delay, 99.9% accuracy) using phased rollouts, automated data validation (Great Expectations), and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and proactively hardened pipelines with idempotency to prevent duplicate Kafka processing.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with Uber experience building real-time telemetry and safety signal pipelines. Strong in Kafka-based event-driven architectures, low-latency processing under peak load, and production reliability via monitoring, retries, and fallback logic; has Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD deployment experience.”

“Early-career engineer (internship background) who built a production-style notes product using Next.js App Router with Server Components/Server Actions and a Postgres-backed analytics model. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability instincts—measured DB latency improvements via indexing and cursor pagination, plus durable orchestration with Temporal using idempotency and deterministic workflows.”

Yeshwanth Sai Pala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud microservices and AI-driven FinTech

Remote, USA4y exp

“Stripe engineer who shipped an end-to-end merchant fraud insights dashboard, spanning Spring Boot/Kafka risk-scoring services and a React+TypeScript UI. Focused on low-latency, high-volume transaction processing and production operations on AWS (EKS/CloudWatch), including handling a real traffic-spike latency incident via query optimization, indexing, and rate limiting.”

Shloka Reddy

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech full-stack development

San Francisco Bay Area, CA3y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience spanning early-stage startup work at Rundoo and a higher-trust fintech environment at Wealthfront. They’ve owned complex permission-based household/account experiences end-to-end in Next.js/React, with strong instincts around data flow, UI correctness, performance, and production pragmatism.”

“Built and shipped a production agentic RAG system for healthcare analysts that automated compliance/operations knowledge retrieval across PDFs, reports, and databases. Emphasizes production reliability (monitoring, retries, fallbacks, async queues), strong evaluation/iteration loops, and measurable impact (3–10s responses and ~98% top-k retrieval accuracy).”

“ML/AI engineer with experience at Uber and Scale AI, focused on customer service automation across both classical NLP and generative AI systems. Has owned systems from experimentation through production on AWS, including LLM fine-tuning, RAG optimization, safety evaluation, and internal Python platform tooling that improved consistency and engineering velocity.”

Zheng Wu

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud messaging

Mountain View, CA1y exp

“Data/ML engineer who has owned end-to-end systems across email deliverability/segmentation and production LLM apps. Built a Spark+Airflow segmentation engine that materially improved deliverability (99.9%) and open rates (>50%), and shipped a PDF-to-quiz RAG product using LangChain/Vertex AI/Chroma with strong guardrails and an eval loop that cut hallucinations to <5%.”

KARTHIKBABU VADLOORI

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring Boot, React, and cloud microservices

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Meta and Accenture building regulated-data systems (healthcare/financial) using Python/Flask and Postgres. Has scaled high-throughput services to millions of daily requests, delivering measurable latency wins (~40% API latency reduction; ~35% faster DB-backed endpoints), and has productionized ML inference services using Docker/Kubernetes and AWS (ECS/SageMaker).”

“Product/UX designer with a CS/software engineering background at Microsoft (former intern, now full-time) who bridges design and implementation. Built Shiproom (a Twitch-like live-coding platform) end-to-end with a custom Atomic Design-based system, and has shipped impactful CRM improvements in Dynamics 365 for 60k+ support agents using TypeScript and C#. Also worked on a Microsoft Global Hackathon project integrating a Copilot-backed sign language translation model to reduce documentation friction for deaf support engineers.”

“Spatial computing software engineer focused on making Apple Vision Pro/visionOS accessible, including building VoiceOver and Live Captions features. Debugged a complex Live Captions issue involving dual audio inputs during FaceTime screen sharing by leveraging iOS implementation docs and creating concurrent audio sources; also has safety-critical testing experience from train control systems and is interested in pivoting into robotics.”

“CMU IoT coursework project builder who implemented an end-to-end TinyML gesture recognition system on a Particle Photon + ADXL345, streaming data via MQTT/Node-RED to a real-time Node.js frontend and deploying a quantized logistic regression model on-device. Also explored multi-drone coordination, implementing leader-follower offset control and a pivot/arc turning strategy to avoid collisions, and brings practical Docker/Kubernetes plus CI/CD workflow experience from internships.”

“AWS engineer who productionized an internal ML-driven data pipeline from a notebook prototype into a scalable, observable Python service (schema validation, deduplication, idempotency, safe retries, versioned transforms, CloudWatch alarms), reducing manual effort and improving data accuracy/trust. Experienced diagnosing workflow issues in real time (e.g., upstream schema changes) and partnering with account managers/support to unblock adoption of seller-facing Marketplace features by demonstrating reliability with concrete metrics.”

“Engineering lead/player-coach at Sam's Club who drove major React Native Member Desk Returns changes (including Vision Center insurance refund flows) by coordinating Product/UX, QA, and API teams and leading a 3-engineer squad. Also led an e-commerce mobile OAuth migration, evolving a login experience from vanilla JS to a React SPA as security requirements (MFA, reCAPTCHA) emerged, and improved production reliability via better request flagging and analytics/log instrumentation.”

Chris Du

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps and AI systems

Mountain View, CA0y exp

“Product/UX designer who builds end-to-end systems across both consumer wellness and industrial/technical domains. Designed BloomPath (mental-wellness platform for therapists and young professionals) using research-driven, emotionally safe interaction patterns, and also simplified a Bosch autonomous parking vision-language mapping pipeline into a developer-facing real-time UI with layered debug tooling. Comfortable collaborating deeply with engineers and contributing in React/JS.”

Anushka Bhagchandani

Screened

Intern Product & Software Engineer specializing in GenAI/LLM and e-commerce platforms

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Software engineer (2+ years in India) and current GenAI intern who shipped LLM-powered review-writing enhancements at Myntra (Walmart-backed), using pilots and A/B tests to lift review quality by 5% in 30 days. Demonstrates strong LLM operations discipline (logging, dashboards, alerts, rollback) and fast incident response, plus experience delivering developer-focused workshops and public technical talks.”

Rediet Gesesse

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and full-stack platforms

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Built a kitchen capacity management system for merchants, owning deployment through stabilization and continuously tuning capacity based on fulfillment and cancellation outcomes. Also designed customer-support decision workflows for refunds/credits with a focus on fraud cost reduction, and has hands-on experience with Kafka, Flink, relational databases, and production incident mitigation via feature-flag rollbacks.”