Vetted CSS Professionals

Shreya Sivakumar

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning & Generative AI Engineer specializing in AI agents and LLM workflows

4y exp

“Customer-facing AppSec/solutions engineer with experience securing cloud-native AI/LLM deployments on Azure and Kubernetes. Led threat modeling and production hardening (Key Vault secrets migration, least-privilege IAM, rate limiting, structured logging/monitoring, LLM guardrails) and has supported retail search/catalog platforms using Elasticsearch, including performance triage and rollout playbooks that improved customer trust and enabled engagement expansion.”

Eloise Yalovitser

Screened

Intern UX/XR Designer specializing in AR/VR and rapid prototyping

New York, NY4y exp

“UX/UI designer with immersive tech focus: built a senior thesis VR beach stone-skipping experience where successful throws triggered real-world receipt-printer outputs, with hand-textured assets and extensive usability iteration for novice VR users. Also designed UI for architectural visualization software during an internship and ran stakeholder-driven research for an AR glasses speech-therapy concept, pivoting the design language to address skepticism around AI framing.”

Kratin Bhardwaj

Screened

Senior Product Designer specializing in AI-native products and enterprise SaaS

Denver, CO5y exp

“Product designer at FRCC with strong systems thinking and front-end fluency, leading end-to-end redesigns across content and AI workflow products. Notable for pairing measurable UX gains (54% to 91% task success, 12% subscription growth) with faster delivery, including compressing design-to-production from 8 weeks to 3 weeks and shipping an AI request-routing product live in 2.5 weeks.”

Pathapati aditya

Screened

Mid-level Design Engineer specializing in product design and front-end implementation

New York City, NY4y exp

“Product designer-builder who codes, with a rare end-to-end profile spanning product strategy, UX, design systems, frontend engineering, and AI integration. Built PetCloud/PetClub as a fully solo product in Next.js/TypeScript/Supabase and has also driven measurable UX gains in company settings, including 25% higher engagement, faster design-to-dev handoff, and fewer UI bugs.”

“Full-stack developer with seven years of experience who has built production systems across AWS serverless infrastructure, Django applications, and user-facing web products in domains like emergency response, fintech/investing, recruiting, and conference management. Particularly notable for combining technical architecture with product thinking—e.g., modernizing a crash-tracking platform for emergency responders and materially improving trust-driven conversion in a trading-card fractionalization product.”

“Backend/AI engineer with deep healthcare experience building production Python microservices that turn raw clinical audio into structured notes and insights. They owned systems end-to-end across architecture, launch, monitoring, and incident response, with measurable impact including 40% lower operating costs, 22% better latency, and 99.9% uptime in a regulated environment.”

Trace Hernandez

Screened

Mid-level Software Automation Engineer specializing in AI and healthcare IT

Santa Rosa, CA5y exp

“Built production automation systems spanning Python integrations, analytics sync pipelines, and internal workflow apps. Notably automated an architectural site inspection process end-to-end with an app, database, and letter generation engine that reduced workload by 20%, and improved reliability of a Botpress/Supabase/Airtable cron integration by eliminating recurring rate-limit failures through batching.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built Codesdev V1.0 end-to-end, a cloud-native IDE with secure Docker-based code execution across 8 languages and a custom PostgreSQL JSONB virtual file system achieving 34ms retrieval. Stands out for pragmatic early-stage decision-making, hands-on ownership from architecture through incident resolution, and a strong focus on security and low-latency backend design.”

“Full-stack engineer who architected a university-wide assessment reporting platform integrating rich-text inputs, Oracle data, SSO, and bulk PDF generation. Stands out for pragmatic decision-making in low-dependency environments, strong collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, and hands-on performance work that improved banking page load times by up to 80% at Dapi.”

Antonio Walker

Screened

Senior Technical Lead and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms

Irvine, CA13y exp

“Engineering leader and player-coach who says he joined Freeing Returns during a transition from sales-led services to SaaS, architected the platform from the ground up, and helped hire a 10+ person team across engineering, product, and delivery. He also describes leading an AI-based fraud detection system on Salesforce with data lake and pipeline architecture, combining startup build-from-scratch execution with hands-on technical leadership.”

“Software developer with 5+ years of experience building a TypeScript/Angular/Ionic proof-of-delivery application for food logistics, used daily by 500+ drivers. Stands out for solving real-world field constraints like offline sync, device-based licensing, signature capture, and cross-hardware scanner/printer integration across Zebra, Honeywell, and Socket Mobile devices.”

chaitra putumbaka

Screened

Junior Data Scientist and Software Engineer specializing in ML and cloud applications

Leesburg, VA2y exp

“Backend engineer currently at Intuit Mailchimp working on transactional messaging infrastructure, with hands-on experience improving backlog-count latency through database redesign and sharding. Also has practical experience integrating Mailchimp capabilities into MCP-based AI workflows and previously worked on a financial-domain LLM chatbot using prompt design and RAG.”

Ali Arsalan

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in frontend architecture and scalable e-commerce platforms

Saudi Arabia9y exp

“Founding engineer at Salla who helped rebuild a monolithic Laravel merchant dashboard into a React/TypeScript Single-SPA microfrontend platform used by thousands of online stores. He combines hands-on frontend architecture, real-time operational dashboard design, and cross-team API/platform leadership, and says he built about 70% of the merchant-facing features in the system.”

“Software engineering intern who built and deployed a full-stack telemedicine platform (React/Node/MongoDB) used daily in a pediatric clinic, incorporating PyTorch-based predictive features. Demonstrated strong customer-facing iteration and production performance debugging—resolved a live slowdown by indexing/optimizing MongoDB queries and adding caching, improving response times by ~50%.”

Prince Kumar

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in front-end and full-stack web applications

Gurugram, India6y exp

“Started in a small startup environment and grew from frontend into full-stack ownership across mobile apps, web apps, APIs, backend, and production responsibilities. Strongest in JavaScript/TypeScript and React, with notable experience building an insurance "resume the journey" feature using MongoDB to persist multi-step form progress.”

“Student technologist building production-oriented AI products, including a college guidance chatbot for Track2College and a voice-based travel assistant. Strong hands-on experience with RAG systems, FastAPI backends, TypeScript frontends, retrieval evaluation, and tool-using LLM workflows, with a clear focus on grounded, reliable user experiences.”

“Built AI-powered products across both healthcare and financial services, including a privacy-conscious assistant for elderly health check-ins and a production RAG system for high-stakes financial document analysis. Stands out for combining full-stack engineering with strong LLM reliability practices—grounding, structured outputs, fallback handling, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop controls—while delivering measurable impact on accuracy, speed, and system performance.”

“Built and owned an internal AI-powered knowledge assistant that centralized fragmented company knowledge across docs, tickets, and internal systems. They designed the backend, ingestion pipelines, vector search, RAG workflow, and APIs, then drove adoption through pilot testing and quality improvements—ultimately automating roughly 30% of support inquiries and cutting resolution time by about two hours per ticket.”

“Backend engineer (Encore) who led the evaluation and redesign of a high-volume, low-latency real-time retrieval/ranking and inference platform on AWS, shifting from tightly coupled services to a modular architecture for better fault isolation and independent scaling. Strong focus on production reliability, observability, and security (JWT/RBAC, multi-tenant scoping, Postgres/Supabase RLS), with disciplined migration playbooks (feature flags, shadow traffic, dual writes/reconciliation).”

“Multidisciplinary visual/motion designer who blends AI-assisted music and image tools (e.g., Suno, Midjourney, Firefly) with editing/motion workflows to build sensory, beat-synced ad narratives. Has experience turning dense financial reporting (Marshall Amp annual report) into poster-like, fan-friendly editorial design, and applies research-driven branding frameworks (including extensive logo iteration) for a smart-eating project.”

“Growth/SEO operator with multi-market execution experience who builds scalable acquisition loops (landing page templates, internal linking, indexation fixes) and measures impact via clean attribution. Also an e-commerce side-project founder who led GTM from zero to consistent weekly revenue using GA4 funnel analytics, small-budget Meta/Google tests, retargeting, and SEO foundations; targeting $25k–$45k USD annually and open to scope-dependent arrangements.”

“Unity VR/XR developer with shipped Meta Quest experience spanning UI, monetization, and content creation. Built multiple themed racing worlds end-to-end (tracks, lighting, decals, pickups) and independently developed a VR exploration/storytelling experience that premiered in a museum exhibit. Also experiments with conversational AI, including a dynamic antagonistic dialogue system and audio-detection-driven gameplay elements.”

“Frontend engineer with experience across university and product companies (University of Montreal, Dopely, Takhfifan), owning React/TypeScript features end-to-end. Notably built a mathematically complex, multi-mode color wheel UI for designers and led quality practices at scale via conventions, RTL testing, and code reviews for junior developers, plus performance and reusability improvements in existing codebases.”