Vetted CSS Professionals

“Bootstrapped founder of ByteThirst, a launched browser extension and CLI that monitors and estimates the environmental cost of LLM usage. They are targeting a niche climate-tech/AI space with support for 14 platforms, a freemium subscription model, and a first-mover thesis backed by market research, market sizing, and profit projections.”

“LLM engineer who has shipped production AI systems, including an RFP requirements extraction platform (OpenAI o4-mini + Azure AI Search + FastAPI) achieving 90%+ accuracy and ~5x throughput through grounding, structured outputs, parallelization, and caching. Also partnered with legal/compliance stakeholders at Nexteer Automotive to deliver an AI document comparison tool with traceability and confidence indicators, adopted by non-technical users and saving ~2 FTEs of review time.”

“Amazon Fire TV Devices engineer who built and shipped a production LLM-powered lab triage and validation system that grounds recommendations in internal runbooks/known-issue data and pushes evidence-based actions via dashboards and Slack. Emphasizes safety and measurability with structured JSON outputs, replay-based evaluation on historical incidents, and production metrics (e.g., disagreement rate and time-to-first-action), plus cost/latency optimizations like caching, batching, and rule-based fast paths.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built an internal wiki LLM chatbot end-to-end using FastAPI, Kubernetes, and ChromaDB vector search, including frontend integration. Also has strong DevOps/migration experience—automating large work-item and repo migrations (Jira/FogBugz/ADO on-prem to cloud) via Python scripts, JSON mappings, REST APIs, and validation test suites.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built and scaled an internal AMD semiconductor manufacturing microservice platform (SMR), reworking a synchronous lot-request workflow into an event-driven RabbitMQ/Celery/FastAPI pipeline. Diagnosed and fixed peak-load reliability issues using deep observability and Kubernetes autoscaling, cutting notification latency back to sub-second and reducing duplicates via idempotency/DLQs. Also shipped an LLM-powered natural-language search with schema-constrained JSON outputs and guardrails, plus a plan-execute-verify Jira bug-resolution agent that can propose fixes and raise PRs under restricted permissions.”

Cornelius O'Donnell

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Director-level Engineering & Program Leader specializing in AI product platforms

San Diego, CA25y exp

“Technical Program Manager and one of three internal "founders" of HP’s Hardware-as-a-Service home printer subscription initiative, spanning DTC shipping, simplified setup, ink replenishment, and warranty coverage. Led roadmap definition/execution, scaled delivery rapidly to 15+ scrum teams (including vendors) with SAFe-like coordination and shared engineering standards, and drove key architecture trade-offs (building an interim subscription management service) to accelerate time-to-market by about a year.”

Tara Petrin

Screened

Executive Marketing Leader specializing in MarTech, CRM, and digital growth

Los Angeles, CA14y exp

“Marketing/CRM professional who has built a CRM and marketing department from scratch—starting with Excel, then integrating into a formal CRM—using segmentation by geography (zip code/geofencing) and profession. Has run retention and lifecycle programs across both B2B and B2C via email/newsletters/social, with A/B testing experience and exposure to major clients including Fox and Sony.”

Sarath Dunga

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud microservices and AI/ML integration

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer (~3 years) with eBay production experience building and operating high-scale, event-driven Python microservices for order processing and AI-powered recommendations (Kafka/Redis/FastAPI on AWS with Prometheus/Grafana). Also delivered polished React+TypeScript analytics dashboards and designed high-concurrency PostgreSQL schemas with significant latency reductions. Recently built AI-agent orchestration and an interactive node-based requirements dashboard for Siemens Polarion via MCP servers, improving user interaction by ~17.8%+.”

ChinmaySanjay Kawle

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud developer tools and backend APIs

Seattle, WA2y exp

“Summer intern on AWS Lambda tooling team who shipped Finch support in AWS SAM CLI, adding OS/runtime detection and robust fallback behavior to preserve Docker compatibility across developer environments. Also built an end-to-end RAG system for querying arXiv quantitative finance papers using Postgres/pgvector with two-stage retrieval, citation-grounded prompting, and rigorous evaluation loops driven by IR metrics and user feedback.”

Rishitha Madipelli

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems and streaming data

Austin, TX7y exp

“Backend/product engineer with Tesla experience building and operating a real-time OTA update monitoring and fleet analytics platform at massive scale (telemetry from 3M+ vehicles). Delivered end-to-end systems across Kafka-based ingestion, TimescaleDB/Postgres analytics modeling, FastAPI/GraphQL APIs, and React/TypeScript dashboards, and handled production scaling incidents on AWS EKS during major rollout spikes.”

Lejia Mu

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Intern Game Developer specializing in Unreal Engine 5 systems and virtual production

Shenzhen, China0y exp

“UE5 gameplay animation developer focused on building and optimizing full character Animation Blueprint stacks (locomotion + jump/fall/land, montages, linked anim graphs, and layered procedural IK). Has hands-on experience debugging tricky interaction IK issues (e.g., 180-degree turn misalignment) and improving runtime performance using Unreal profiling tools and conditionalizing IK/Control Rig evaluation.”

Saiteja Gaddam

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Mid-Level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and streaming analytics

3y exp

“Data engineer (Intuit) who owned an end-to-end telemetry and subscription analytics platform processing ~22M events/day, built on Kinesis/S3/Glue/Spark/Airflow/Redshift. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (schema drift controls, quarantine layers, idempotent reruns) and performance tuning, achieving a reporting latency reduction from ~15 minutes to under 4 minutes while enabling revenue and churn analytics for business teams.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning Amazon IMDb and Northeastern’s NeuroJSON portal, combining consumer product work with complex scientific data applications. Built IMDb’s streaming providers feature—described as the company’s most impactful feature of 2023—and has hands-on experience with React/Angular, GraphQL, AWS, Python services, and production monitoring.”

“Design-technologist with both UX and front-end development depth, spanning high-impact brand launches and regulated pharma sales tools. Led the experience direction and technical implementation support for DuPont's Kevlar product site—featuring Three.js, AEM, and advanced motion design—which generated strong lead capture and won an Effie, and also improved Eli Lilly IVA delivery by building a grunt.js workflow that reduced update cycles from a week to just a few days.”

Shreya B

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud-native, and GenAI systems

Redmond, WA5y exp

“Software engineer with strong Java/Spring Boot backend depth and hands-on full-stack experience building AI-powered enterprise knowledge assistants and customer-facing order tracking systems. Stands out for combining RAG/LLM product work, event-driven microservices, and user-trust-focused product iteration, including shipping prototypes that became the basis for broader production workflows.”

Aakash Khepar

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Mid-level Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in agentic AI systems

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership across production SaaS and AI agent systems, including a multi-tenant enterprise analytics product at Fractal Analytics and an archive intelligence platform for a real nonprofit. Stands out for combining deep backend/system design, secure AI/RAG implementation, and rapid zero-to-one execution—plus multiple hackathon wins and leadership roles.”

“Full-stack engineer with 5+ years of experience who built real-time data visualization and analytics systems at Uber, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Node/GraphQL services, Kafka pipelines, and PostgreSQL. Particularly compelling for teams needing a hands-on builder who can turn ambiguous customer needs into scalable products, and who has also applied RAG with LangChain/OpenAI over 1.8M support files to surface actionable insights.”

“Software engineer with 5+ years of experience building and scaling high-traffic web systems, including e-commerce-style purchasing/reservation flows and broker back-office platforms. He has hands-on experience across Next.js front ends, Python integrations, Go load-testing tools, and MySQL/Redis-backed architectures, with notable exposure to financial reporting, MT5 integrations, and commission logic.”

Melbourne Brown

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI-driven cloud-native platforms

Atlanta, GA12y exp

“Engineer with unusual breadth: from a tiny startup building racehorse medical-record systems on credit-card chips for live racetrack demos to modern AI-powered contract intelligence platforms in production. Brings hands-on full-stack and backend depth across React, Python, .NET, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and Azure, with a track record of making complex, reliability-sensitive systems work in real-world conditions.”