Vetted Cursor (AI Code Editor) Professionals

Sai Sri Kolanu

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Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and production ML systems

Dearborn, MI4y exp

“Built and shipped an AI-powered RAG diagnostic assistant at Ford for EV technicians, integrating GPT-based models with LangChain, FAISS, and SageMaker into real technician workflows. Stands out for combining strong production LLM architecture with practical safety guardrails, monitoring, and measurable impact: 45% better diagnostic accuracy and roughly 30 minutes saved per case.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with experience spanning AI interview coaching and institutional financial dashboards. Stands out for combining user-centered UI design with deep browser-performance work, including reducing dashboard lag via virtualization and building low-stress, progressive-disclosure interfaces for anxious job seekers.”

Ashok Canchi

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AdTech systems

Sunnyvale, CA4y exp

“Front-end engineer with nearly 2 years of React experience who independently owned a revamp of an internal ad tech platform as the sole front-end engineer. Stands out for handling complex conditional UI flows, collaborating across product/design/backend, and proactively improving usability and performance through techniques like debouncing, virtualization, and TypeScript.”

“Java/Spring Boot engineer with startup-style ownership experience across e-commerce, banking, and healthcare analytics. Stands out for driving a monolith-to-microservices migration with Kafka that improved checkout reliability under peak load, while also contributing full-stack with Angular and supporting production operations end to end.”

“Private capital operator turned founding AI product manager, with experience spanning capital deployment strategy, digital transformation, and AI product prototyping. Helped grow deployed capital from $2M to $100M at Leadership Capital Partners, then led an AI-driven product repositioning in transportation logistics at Canopy, combining strategic thinking with hands-on product execution.”

“Developer with experience across Drupal and Java/Spring Boot applications using React/jQuery for UI and API-driven features. Has handled production issues by tuning reverse proxy timeouts for login problems and troubleshooting data pipeline inaccuracies by fixing database queries, with a focus on performance and careful verification before changes.”

“Worked in a startup building an automated carbon accounting/climate reporting product, partnering with client IT and internal cross-functional teams to ship features and train end users. Also has software engineering internship experience debugging complex multi-workflow systems, including uncovering a significant (~20%) data annotation error by instrumenting and testing each workflow step.”

Ivan Kadyka

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Staff Technical Lead specializing in Unity and .NET

Warsaw, Poland11y exp

“Unity/gameplay engineer (Playtika) who built a state-machine/ECS-driven slot/bonus engine in a client-server setup, focusing on consistent outcomes under latency and highly engaging reward sequences. Also implemented server-authoritative real-time challenges/contests via an event-driven messaging system (SignalR-like) across iOS/Android/WebGL/UWP, and validates impact through retention/session/engagement analytics.”

Sanket Mungikar

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend and AI analytics platforms

California, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

rajasri mamidi

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Mid-level Frontend Engineer specializing in FinTech web applications

Jersey City, NJ5y exp

“Frontend-leaning product engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across AI support and real-time observability products. They combine React/TypeScript architecture depth with backend/API collaboration, deployment ownership, and measurable impact, including a 40% reduction in support-agent lookup time.”

“Backend engineer focused on Java/Spring Boot microservices, workforce scheduling APIs, and event-driven systems. He uses AI tools pragmatically—roughly 25-30% assistance for scaffolding and optimization—while keeping architecture, debugging, testing, and final decisions under tight manual control. Strong on reliability and observability, with hands-on experience in Kafka-based workflows, distributed tracing, and evaluating agent frameworks like LangChain against production needs.”

“Full-stack engineer specializing in Java Spring Boot microservices and React, with hands-on ownership of a merchant dispute management platform (security via RBAC/JWT, significant performance gains through SQL execution-plan-driven tuning and UI refactors). Also has experience at JPMorgan Chase optimizing high-volume financial-data services with API efficiency, caching, and async processing.”

Sharan Raj Sivakumar

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Senior Software Developer specializing in AI/ML automation and cloud-native systems

New York City, NY6y exp

“ML/MLOps practitioner who built production systems for telecom network analytics, including an automated labeling + multi-label Random Forest solution that cut labeling effort by 90% and sped up RCA. Led an Ericsson auto-deployment platform using Airflow, Azure IoT Hub, Docker, and Celery to orchestrate 120+ containerized ML/rule-based deployments, saving ~80 hours of setup per deployment.”

Christopher Schmitt

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Executive Technology Leader specializing in FinTech & SaaS platforms

Atlanta, GA29y exp

“Startup-oriented technology leader with 13 years in early-stage environments, including serving as CTO through Series A and Series B fundraising. Has direct experience presenting to investors and a board of advisors, and is especially motivated by taking products from idea to first sale and scaling them into real businesses.”

“Salesforce-focused engineer with hands-on depth across Service Cloud, OmniScript/DataRaptor, LWC, Aura, and Apex. Particularly strong in building metadata-driven workflows that let operations teams change intake flows without developer tickets, while still making disciplined architecture decisions around when custom code is actually warranted.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience building real-time, high-stakes operational software for airport gate management and billing/analytics systems. Stands out for combining strong React/TypeScript architecture with backend and data-layer ownership, including WebSockets, SQL optimization, and analytics feature delivery in production.”

Apoorva Swaminathan Iyer

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Mid-level Software Developer specializing in full-stack engineering and application security

Raleigh, NC3y exp

“Developer who has evolved into an AI-native builder, using Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and multi-agent workflows as collaborators while retaining ownership of architecture and code quality. At OpenPRA, they ramped quickly into NestJS from a Spring Boot background and implemented OAuth/JWT security; on the Aha quiz app, they effectively acted as a tech lead for AI agents across feature delivery, debugging, CI/CD, and Dockerization.”

“Founding engineer at an edtech startup who combines hands-on engineering leadership with advanced AI-native development workflows. They’ve built an AI grading pipeline and a multi-agent SDLC tool, and stand out for treating AI agents like an engineering team with planning, parallel execution, QA, and rigorous validation.”

Cole Bonawitz

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Junior founder and product builder specializing in e-commerce, hardware, and software

Durham, NC5y exp

“Early-stage startup operator and founder who combines sales, GTM, and technical execution. Built a custom CRM for Swoop Tutors to send personalized outbound from Duke email accounts and track performance, helping generate traction that later contributed to a six-figure ARR client; also building Wind, a usage-based billing startup for small AI companies.”

“Founder and Head of Product who built Cloud Institute around a contrarian AI-plus-human coaching thesis, launching adaptive learning, personalized pathing, and 24/7 expert support that drove 91% retention and $1.2M ARR in 18 months. Particularly compelling for mission-driven EdTech or human-centered AI roles: they combine hands-on product leadership, team building, and a clear philosophy that AI should deepen trust and learning rather than replace people.”

Rishabh Goyal

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech

USA4y exp

“Python backend engineer focused on real-time e-commerce analytics systems, building FastAPI + Kafka microservices with strong idempotent processing patterns (Postgres upserts, manual offsets, Redis caching). Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps delivery with Argo CD/GitHub Actions, plus experience migrating containerized services from on-prem VMs to AWS using Terraform and blue-green cutovers.”

Kyle Shefferly

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Senior Product Manager specializing in enterprise AI enablement

Denver, CO13y exp

“Senior PM at DaVita who operates at the intersection of product, deployment, and digital transformation in a HIPAA-regulated environment, owning digital experiences across 20+ properties and 8-10M users. Distinctive for combining enterprise-scale governance and migration leadership with hands-on solo building of an AI product, SueChef.io, using modern LLM tooling.”