Vetted CSS Professionals

“Built AI-powered natural language search and summarization features for internal financial platforms at JPMorgan, with a strong focus on trust, compliance, auditability, and failure handling. Stands out for treating AI as one component in a larger enterprise system rather than a magic layer, and for combining hands-on LLM integration experience with thoughtful agent architecture and validation design.”

Jenny Kim

Screened

Mid-level Frontend Engineer specializing in design-focused web interfaces

New York, NY3y exp

“Design-engineering hybrid with experience shipping internal product improvements in a Rails environment and building polished cross-brand newsletter templates. Stands out for pragmatic product thinking: they stabilized a critical CSV export workflow for 250+ internal users, iterate based on feedback, and are comfortable killing features that do not deliver value.”

Kiran Kumar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and GenAI automation

USA4y exp

“Software engineer (4+ years) with hands-on production GenAI experience: built an AI incident triage assistant that summarizes production logs for on-call engineers and iterated it using real incident metrics (time-to-signal, triage duration). Also shipped a RAG-based customer support knowledge assistant using embeddings + vector retrieval with strong guardrails (relevance thresholds/abstain, sanitization, auditing) and a formal eval loop (500-query gold set) that drove measurable retrieval improvements.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping operational products in inventory and production management, spanning React/TypeScript frontends and Python, Node.js, and Java/Spring Boot backends. Particularly strong in making complex systems usable and reliable in production, including AI-powered anomaly detection with fallback logic, observability, and user-friendly alerting for non-technical operations teams.”

“Architecture leader from Disney who managed system, AI, and data architects while staying hands-on in solution design. Has experience building LLM-based video advertising products, designing Kafka-based real-time data architectures, and using MVP/POC approaches to align product and executive stakeholders.”

Eric Lee

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI-powered systems

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Software engineer with experience spanning startup-style full-stack product work and large-scale Amazon backend systems. Built and owned an AI-powered recruiting workflow in Next.js/TypeScript/Prisma/PostgreSQL, and previously improved Alexa service scalability at Amazon by driving a caching change that cut API traffic by about 30%.”

“Data/ML backend engineer with hands-on production experience spanning RAG services (LlamaIndex/OpenAI) and AWS data platforms. Has delivered Terraform-managed AWS architectures (Lambda + ECS Fargate) with secure secrets handling, built Glue-to-Redshift ETL with schema evolution controls, modernized SAS reporting into Python microservices, and achieved major Redshift query speedups (2+ hours to under 15 minutes).”

“Robotics software engineer who has built end-to-end pipelines spanning backend/data processing through model interfaces and hardware integration. Has hands-on ROS2 experience building Python nodes and debugging real-time behavior via profiling, publish-rate tuning, and latency fixes, plus experience standardizing multi-robot communication with QoS adjustments. Uses Gazebo simulation and Docker/CI/CD to catch integration issues early and speed iteration.”

“Software engineer focused on reliability and scalable systems: built React/TypeScript dashboards backed by Java/Spring Boot APIs and designed Kafka-based microservices with strong contract/versioning discipline. Known for shipping incremental improvements with tight feedback loops and for creating internal observability tools that streamline on-call and incident diagnosis under high-traffic conditions.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who built an end-to-end personalized chatbot service integrating Amazon Redshift context retrieval with Amazon Bedrock, including prompt construction and production-grade reliability controls. Strong platform experience deploying containerized services to Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD, plus hands-on Kafka streaming and phased infrastructure migration execution.”

“AI/ML practitioner who built an Indian Sign Language recognition system (MediaPipe hand keypoints + CNN/RNN) as an accessibility-focused teaching aid, iterating closely with advocacy groups and educators and reaching 92% accuracy. Also has production-scale data migration experience at Saasgenie, using Kubernetes pod parallelization to migrate 1M+ ITSM records with a 5x throughput gain under API rate limits.”

“Full stack engineer in the financial/thematic investing domain who built end-to-end applications on AWS. Notably redesigned a slow portfolio analytics workflow by offloading heavy computations to scheduled AWS Lambda jobs and caching results in DynamoDB (TTL), cutting API latency from ~5 seconds to under 300ms while supporting data-heavy daily market processing.”

“Backend-heavy full-stack engineer with experience at Intuit (TurboTax Live) and Paytm payments, building and scaling Java/Spring Boot microservices for high-traffic transaction systems. Has hands-on wins improving peak-load performance using Redis/disk caching and Kafka event-driven patterns, plus React/Redux work for web app integration and strong monitoring practices with ELK.”

“Customer support professional with Scrum Master and Product Owner certifications who has handled high-stakes account security incidents (including locking down an account to protect over $200k) and troubleshot live data feed integrations (XML/socket) by identifying IP whitelisting mismatches. Emphasizes transparent stakeholder communication, escalation, and building internal wiki documentation to prevent repeat issues.”

“Backend/platform engineer with payroll domain depth who built high-volume payroll processing microservices (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis) on AWS Kubernetes and debugged major peak-cycle latency by redesigning transaction boundaries and moving to async Kafka processing (>50% latency reduction). Also shipped an LLM-powered HR assistant using RAG with strong security/guardrails (RBAC, PII masking, audit logs) that cut support tickets by 40%, and designed reliable multi-step agent workflows with retries, circuit breakers, and idempotency.”

“Backend/LLM engineer who built a production-critical Amazon Bedrock + RAG correction and compliance layer for employee communications, integrating tightly with existing Spring Boot/AWS microservices to reduce manual review while keeping outputs explainable and auditable. Also designed an event-driven system processing 10M+ events/day (SQS/Lambda/DynamoDB/Elasticsearch) and handled on-call incidents with strong observability and reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, hotspot mitigation).”

“Data engineer with healthcare (CVS Health) experience who migrated production PySpark workloads to native BigQuery SQL and built a Great Expectations-based validation microservice on GKE (Flask + REST) integrated into Cloud Composer. Has operated high-volume pipelines (~300–400GB/day) and designed external vendor ingestion on AWS (Lambda/Step Functions/Glue) with schema-drift detection, alerting, and backfill-safe controls to protect downstream Snowflake/BigQuery tables.”

“Built and shipped a production enterprise RAG knowledge assistant that returns grounded, cited answers and uses confidence-based fallbacks (clarifying questions/abstention) with monitoring and compliance controls for sensitive data. Implemented end-to-end agent orchestration (function calling, structured JSON, state, retries/rate limits) plus eval/feedback loops, and achieved a reported 30–40% improvement in knowledge-task completion time while reducing hallucinations via retrieval improvements.”

Lavanya Chilakalapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native web apps and APIs

Tampa, FL5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building microservice-based systems that integrate LLM workflows (code review suggestions, documentation generation, test scaffolding) using REST APIs, Celery/Redis, and OpenTelemetry for observability. Demonstrates hands-on database and performance optimization in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (bulk inserts, lock mitigation, cursor-based pagination) plus multi-tenant data isolation via tenant-aware models, middleware scoping, and schema/row-level strategies.”

Akshaya Rajagopalan

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud SaaS and accessible web apps

Waterloo, Canada6y exp

“Frontend engineer who leads end-to-end delivery of complex workflow-driven React + TypeScript products on top of Rails/GraphQL backends, with a strong emphasis on typed API contracts, scalable architecture, and automated quality gates. Shipped major features (e.g., inventory reservation at Jobber) using feature-flagged rollouts, close QA collaboration, and performance-focused iteration.”

Madhu Swetha Kommi

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and internal tools

1y exp

“Built an internal Meta tool (HiVA Bot) for notification customization and end-to-end task tracking around advertiser-reported issues, including chat-thread creation, org-hierarchy opt-ins, SLA reminders, and search/typeahead features. Implemented the system with a Java/Spring Boot microservices approach and asynchronous patterns, and supported adoption via internal wiki documentation.”

Antara Bhavsar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native systems and Android development

Bloomington, IN3y exp

“Application-focused software engineer with experience at Amazon and Motorola shipping production systems ranging from developer monitoring/on-call tooling (Alcazar, ~40% MTTR improvement) to consumer AI features used by 100K+ users. Currently building an AI/ML-driven platform with a Python/FastAPI backend on AWS (ECS/RDS/S3) and has handled real production latency/scaling incidents end-to-end.”

Blake Thomas

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI and EdTech platforms

San Mateo, CA21y exp

“Has been on the receiving end of a VC investment and took responsibility for significant parts of the diligence process, drawing parallels to hands-on work with security compliance and auditors. Approaches entrepreneurship and idea selection with a structured framework (leverage, resources/runway, passion) and a sustainability-first mindset around risk and personal/family well-being.”

“Built Multipass at Gemini, a Flask/React system that provisioned AWS access across 98 accounts for 400+ engineers, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and hardening brittle auth flows. Earlier at Deloitte, turned a Word-doc HR onboarding SOP for CVS Health into 45 Workday integrations using XML/XSLT, cutting manual work by 38% and improving data accuracy by 12%.”