Vetted CSS Professionals

Luka Baljak

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web and AI-powered SaaS

Baljak Luka, Serbia7y exp

“Frontend-leaning product engineer who took broad ownership of a recently launched AI-powered customer support chat designed to deflect support tickets. They designed the overall system, built the full frontend, contributed to backend work, and served as a key source of product and technical continuity for a globally distributed team.”

“Software engineering candidate who built a compiler-like Python tool to translate between Python code and UML-style diagrams (and back). Also has hands-on AWS experience building a distributed pub/sub system using services like Lambda, API Gateway, ELB, WAF, VPC, and DynamoDB, plus ML projects using Kaggle datasets (e.g., diabetes risk analysis).”

“AIX/Solaris and IBM Power specialist who has led real-time performance recoveries for core banking/ERP workloads—diagnosing CPU/IO contention down to FC queue depth and LPAR sizing, restoring latency from 5s to 200ms. Experienced with POWER7/8/9 operations across HMC/VIOS/NPIV and live DLPAR resizing, plus legacy Solaris SPARC to RHEL x86 hybrid re-platform migrations with post-cutover Oracle performance considerations.”

“Robotics/AV-focused engineer who built an end-to-end gesture controller for a GEM e2 autonomous vehicle using YOLOv8 pose and ROS, including model training, ROS perception nodes, and a safety-oriented state machine (stop override + hold-to-register). Also has internship experience at Intramotev integrating LiDAR object detection via Redis pub/sub and performing sensor-frame calibration (roll/pitch correction using ground-plane normals), plus Dockerized deployments and Gazebo-based testing.”

“Backend engineer who built a serverless AWS Lambda microservices backend for a parenting assistance mobile app, including a personalized recommendation system optimized to sub-500ms via precomputed scoring and DynamoDB caching. Demonstrates strong production pragmatism: CloudWatch-driven performance tuning (provisioned concurrency), zero-downtime phased schema migrations, and robustness patterns like optimistic locking and request deduplication. Also led a refactor of an LLM RAG pipeline to improve retrieval quality and cut latency from ~5s to ~3s.”

“Built and deployed a production credit card fraud detection platform that scores transactions in real time using TensorFlow/scikit-learn models exposed via a Spring Boot REST API, with strict SLAs, fallback to legacy rules, and Splunk-based monitoring/drift tracking. Also has enterprise orchestration experience with TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW 6.6/BWCE), coordinating REST/SOAP services and JMS messaging (TIBCO EMS) with robust error handling and compensation logic.”

“Frontend engineer with senior-level scope who has shipped complex React/TypeScript products end-to-end, including a multi-page site built solo in four weeks (complex forms, PDF generation, email + localization) and a GraphQL-driven dashboard for a car dealership management platform. Known for modular, testable architecture, performance-minded data fetching (batched calls), and improving design-system consistency via reusable, Storybook-documented components and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built a resume processing and job application platform using Python/MongoDB/Streamlit, including OpenAI-powered skill/keyword extraction and recruiter-facing search/filtering. Has hands-on cloud deployment experience on AWS/Azure and executed an on-prem reservation portal migration to Azure using a phased trial-and-cutover approach; also automated CI/CD with Jenkins and GitHub Actions.”

“Cloud-focused engineer experienced deploying and stabilizing complex production systems that span APIs, infrastructure, and automated workflows, with a strong observability and safe-release mindset (feature flags/canaries/rollbacks). Has hands-on, customer-facing incident leadership, including executing DR regional failover during an AWS us-east-1 outage to maintain service and reportedly save a client ~$10M.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer building complex internal platforms and customer-facing demos at the intersection of infrastructure and product. Shipped a no-code Product Lifecycle Manager for manufacturing (3 manufacturers, 1000+ evolving tests) using AWS S3/SQS ingestion and extensible Postgres (EAV+JSONB) with end-to-end traceability. Also built a FastAPI-based company data intelligence platform with Okta-secured RBAC and an LLM/MCP layer for ChatGPT-like analytics over enterprise data sources.”

“Software engineer with strong compliance-domain experience who built a customer-facing compliance and reporting dashboard using React/TypeScript with Spring Boot microservices. Demonstrates mature production engineering practices—contract-first APIs, event-driven architecture (Kafka/RabbitMQ), caching (Redis), and robust CI/CD + observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK)—and also created a Python-based audit automation tool adopted into the standard release process.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with Walmart and Dell experience who built and shipped a real-time engagement dashboard end-to-end (Kafka Streams, Spring Boot, React/TypeScript/D3) used daily by business teams, moving them from next-day reports to real-time decisioning. Strong in performance/reliability (Redis caching cut latency ~40%, 90%+ test coverage, Prometheus/CloudWatch monitoring) and production operations on AWS/EKS including handling a cascading failure from a memory leak with zero-downtime rollback and redeploy.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience building and owning high-traffic e-commerce checkout flows in Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript across microservices (REST/GraphQL). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (30% checkout improvement; 85% initial load reduction at 20th Century FOX) and strong production rigor (APM/logs, CloudWatch, Postgres indexing + EXPLAIN ANALYZE), including offloading PDF generation to AWS Lambda.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an enterprise search platform (Codlens) delivering natural-language Q&A over Jira/Slack using embeddings, vector DB search, re-ranking (RRF), and LLM responses with source grounding. Also designed and benchmarked a distributed IAM system with Postgres transaction-log replication and Raft-based quorum consistency, reporting ~253 TPS at ~60ms latency in a multi-node setup. Experience spans early-stage startups (Zetic AI, Sagwara Capital) and large-scale orgs (Akamai, Atlassian).”

Mithilesh Gaurihar

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and cloud-native systems

USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer (SAP Labs experience) who built an end-to-end, real-time fraud detection system on Java 11/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka event streaming and a React/Redux analytics dashboard with WebSocket updates. Demonstrated strong production ownership by diagnosing a critical memory leak with Prometheus/CloudWatch + heap dumps and improving performance with Redis caching (40% faster queries), while also modernizing deployments via Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, and Terraform.”

Sunil Chinthaparthi

Screened

Mid-level Python Developer specializing in AWS microservices and cloud automation

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on Python/FastAPI microservices running on Kubernetes (AWS EKS) with strong GitOps/CI/CD ownership (GitHub Actions + ArgoCD). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (p95 latency cut from >1s to <200ms) and production reliability work across Kafka/Redis streaming and cloud-to-on-prem migrations (RDS/S3 to Postgres/MinIO) using parallel validation and checksum-based consistency checks.”

Prateeksha Ranjan

Screened

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

Irvine, California4y exp

“Robotics software engineer who built and owned core navigation components for a TurtleBot in ROS/ROS2 and Gazebo, including an RRT-based planner, waypoint-to-velocity motion planning, and PID trajectory tracking. Demonstrates strong real-time debugging skills (control-loop timing under CPU load), costmap/occupancy-grid tuning, and distributed ROS2 communication design using DDS/QoS, plus Docker and CI/CD automation experience from Keysight.”

Advitha Bawgi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

India1y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on IoT and AI product work: built a decoupled Raspberry Pi + AWS IoT Core weather monitoring backend and a Dockerized FastAPI LLM service on AWS ECS using OpenAI/HuggingFace with an emerging RAG layer. Also delivered measurable performance gains at DAZN by redesigning event-driven/serverless ingestion (SNS, S3->Lambda->DynamoDB), cutting latency ~30% and boosting throughput ~25% while automating ~90% of manual sync work.”

Jahnavi Bellapukonda

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web and cloud systems

Remote, USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong data engineering and privacy-domain experience, having owned an automated Data Subject Rights (DSR) processing pipeline end-to-end across Azure SQL and GCP (GCS/BigQuery). Emphasizes production reliability via idempotency, validation checkpoints, structured logging/monitoring, and safe CI/CD-driven deployments, and has also built React+TypeScript + Node/Postgres web apps with scalable, maintainable architecture.”

Guojian Wang

Screened

Entry-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React/Next.js and Node.js

United States0y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building and owning production e-commerce features in Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript, including SSR-driven category browsing with pagination and region-specific pricing. Strong focus on post-launch reliability and performance—optimizes React rendering (lazy loading/Suspense), tunes Postgres queries with indexes/explain plans, and supports durable order-processing workflows with idempotency, retries, and structured logging.”