Vetted Cursor (AI Code Editor) Professionals

Preethi Bandari

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in scalable web applications

Memphis, TN5y exp

“Developer who uses AI tools pragmatically to accelerate coding while keeping full ownership of system design and decision-making. Emphasizes rigorous review, testing, and alignment with architecture, security, and performance standards, and stays current on AI through both industry sources and hands-on experimentation.”

“Software engineer with 2 years of professional full-stack experience plus a CS master's journey in the US, who has since focused heavily on building hackathon-winning AI systems. Stands out for combining production-minded backend architecture, TypeScript-heavy reliability work, and multi-agent LLM applications spanning physical security and insurance claims automation.”

“Product engineer/designer with founder mindset who shipped a blockchain-enabled investor group/governance platform using Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, Prisma/Postgres, and Temporal. Emphasizes auth-centric onboarding (SSO + embedded wallet) to make dApp UX feel more like SaaS, and brings strong reliability practices (idempotent retries, reconciliation) plus experience demoing to investors and operating in seed-stage teams (ex-Vouched).”

“Startup product designer with a CS background who operates at the intersection of UX, product strategy, and implementation. They have owned 0-to-1 design systems, led a research-backed pivot of Fluffle from a solo job tracker to a multiplayer productivity app, and specialize in trust-building UX for AI-native products while working closely enough with engineers to influence production quality.”

“University Rover Competition autonomous-systems lead who architects and debugs a full ROS 2 autonomy stack (Nav2, vSLAM, EKF fusion) and backs it with strong engineering hygiene (Docker + GitHub Actions CI running headless Gazebo and colcon tests). Also has industry-facing ROS 2 hardware integration experience, building a ros2_control plugin for a Unitree G1 arm using CycloneDDS and optimizing real-time behavior via QoS tuning.”

“Senior Unity developer who built a v2 narrative fiction engine end-to-end, including a portable TypeScript/JavaScript inkjs processing core and a Unity UI package that creators found significantly easier to use than the prior version. Has shipped cross-platform VR (Meta Quest) and mobile titles, implemented Unity Netcode multiplayer with host-authoritative flow, and integrated LLM-driven gameplay with automated agent-based testing and regression coverage.”

“Software engineer with connected-car/automotive production experience who owned an end-to-end remote door lock/unlock feature and introduced unit testing (GTest) plus rig/simulator validation. Also built and productionized an AI-native AWS cloud cost assistant (Lex + GPT-based LLM + Lambda + RAG/vector DB) with guardrails and achieved 94% evaluation accuracy. Helped replace a third-party solution with an in-house build, saving the company ~€9M.”

Abhishek Gupta

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI automation and RAG pipelines

Toronto, ON6y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led mobile-first and web React/TypeScript products end-to-end, including an expense tracking app handling sensitive financial data and a real-time messaging/activity dashboard with chat, presence, and contextual side panels. Emphasizes scalable architecture, rigorous component-boundary testing, and production-safe rollout practices (feature flags, analytics/logging, staged releases) to ship reliably in fast-paced environments.”

Rahul Ganesan

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Intern AI Engineer specializing in LLM systems, RAG, and cloud data pipelines

Washington, PA0y exp

“Built and deployed a production Dockerized multimodal (voice+text) LLM agent for knowledge management that retrieves from Notion and documents and falls back to Tavily-powered web search with citations when internal notes are missing. Emphasizes production reliability via model-switching fallbacks, caching, strict structured outputs (Pydantic/JSON schema), and MCP-based orchestration with state-aware gating and monitoring to reduce redundant tool calls and improve success rates.”

“Full-stack developer who has built and shipped both traditional web products and AI-powered applications, including a Spotify playlist-combining app, a recruiter-facing RAG chatbot embedded in a portfolio, and a fine-tuned GPT-2 art review generator. Stands out for combining privacy-conscious engineering, practical LLM guardrails, and scrappy production problem-solving—from queue-based inference systems to newsroom digital transformation with multi-tenant WordPress.”

“LLM/agentic-systems practitioner who has repeatedly taken LLM-driven pricing/decision services from prototype to production using pilots, guardrails, observability, and staged rollouts. Demonstrates strong real-time incident troubleshooting (dependency timeouts, cached fallbacks) and post-incident hardening (isolation/async/alerts), and also supports go-to-market via developer workshops, technical demos, and sales-aligned POCs.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience owning a production e-commerce platform end-to-end (TypeScript/Node/Express, React, MongoDB, Redis) including RBAC and contract-based API development. Also worked at Infosys on a large healthcare management system built with Spring Boot microservices, using Kafka for messaging/retries, circuit breakers for resilience, and OpenTelemetry/Swagger for observability and API documentation.”

“At onedata, built and deployed an LLM-powered, multi-agent analytics platform on AWS Bedrock that lets users create Amazon QuickSight dashboards through natural-language conversation, cutting dashboard build time from ~30 minutes to ~5 minutes. Strong in production concerns (observability, token/cost tracking, model tradeoffs) and in bridging business + technical work, owning pre-sales pitching through delivery with an engineering management background focused on AI product management.”

“Full-stack engineer who built "Workstream AI," an AI-powered engineering visibility product that converts GitHub activity into real-time insights using an event-driven microservices stack (RabbitMQ/Postgres/Express) and GPT-4 with a React frontend. Previously a Founding SWE at a health & wellness startup, building data-driven user management tooling, and also delivered a real-time shuttle tracking/ride request system using Java Spring Boot/Hibernate + React; comfortable owning production deployment details (AWS EC2, DNS, SSL).”

“Built and shipped AI-powered workflow automation at Oracle, including an MCP-based agentic workflow with tool-calling and guardrails, plus Grafana monitoring and Confluence documentation. Also led a Django monolith-to-microservices migration at Chamsmobile using blue-green deployment and load balancer traffic splitting to avoid regressions while modernizing production systems.”

“Built a production AI legal search platform that uses a retrieval-first, source-grounded LLM pipeline with confidence-based fallbacks and structured, traceable outputs to reduce hallucinations and improve trust. Also has experience at Discover Excellence building real-time analytics and identity stitching systems, emphasizing conservative data validation, idempotent processing, and fault-tolerant queue-based workflows.”

Swati Swati

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Senior Data Scientist/Software Engineer specializing in ML systems and cloud DevOps

Florida, United States5y exp

“AI software engineer with experience spanning LLM/RAG production systems and regulated fintech infrastructure. Built an end-to-end natural-language-to-SQL analytics assistant (Weaviate + GPT-4 + Supabase) shipped as an API with 92% accuracy and major time savings for non-technical users, and also owned demand-forecasting and CI/CD/containerization improvements for a Bank of America core banking deployment at Infosys.”

EMMANUEL ETIENNE

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Engineering Manager specializing in FinTech money movement and AI-driven infrastructure

Brooklyn, NY12y exp

“Player-coach fintech engineer/engineering lead who built a deterministic payer-ID wire reconciliation system with Citi, including idempotent ingestion and webhook processing across Ruby and Go, materially reducing accounting manual work. Experienced in incident response (Plaid-related customer-impacting issue), stakeholder-driven MVP scoping for ACH status visibility, and delivery acceleration via infrastructure templating (EC2) and standardized Magento project setups.”

Uday Dorawala

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, data, and cloud modernization

Raleigh, NC25y exp

“Former founder with an acquired venture who later led R&D at McClatchy and joined multiple startups. Identified a major client need and built a mobile app platform using ML and AR for home builders, driving adoption by dozens of customers and $1M+ ARR. Strong hands-on builder who can architect MVPs, iterate quickly with A/B testing and user feedback, and scale early engineering teams and culture.”