Vetted Cursor (AI Code Editor) Professionals

“Software engineer with primary experience in Java and Python who also troubleshoots and optimizes JavaScript/React performance issues. Has handled customer-reported production problems via log-driven diagnosis and backend workflow fixes, and took ownership of simplifying and automating a service region-expansion process through time analysis and process documentation.”

Shruti Krishnagiri

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Executive Engineering Leader & Technical Founder specializing in AI automation platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California20y exp

“Founder/CTO who built and shipped a consumer subscription-bundling platform end-to-end (architecture, implementation, testing) and scaled it to thousands of customers and major partners. Previously led a major reliability overhaul at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a Google-Docs-like ed-tech product—boosted observability, introduced incident management, and migrated to a Docker-based scalable architecture. Heavy user of AI tools (Cursor/Claude) for development, testing, and code review, with a strong bias toward lightweight, fast-moving execution.”

Srinivas Vasudevan

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech

Durham, NC3y exp

“Built an end-to-end payment fraud monitoring dashboard with a React/TypeScript frontend, GraphQL backend, Redis hot path, and a production RAG chatbot, while solving real-time latency and scaling issues. Also shipped an OCR system on AWS EKS for a live manufacturing line at Troxler, improving production accuracy by 15% with custom preprocessing and model tuning.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with 5 years at Shopify building and maintaining internal tooling. Led modernization from ERB/jQuery to React/TypeScript/GraphQL and improved performance on large datasets with server-side pagination. Also delivered an end-to-end search feature with filters, URL-driven state, pagination, and error correction, using strong review/testing and zero-downtime rollout practices.”

“Full-stack engineer building real-time internal banking operations dashboards (Java/Spring Boot microservices + React/TypeScript) with Kafka-based streaming and post-launch performance optimizations. Also shipped a production internal AI support assistant using RAG (Confluence/PDF/support docs ingestion, embeddings + vector DB retrieval) with guardrails, evaluation loops, and observability to reduce hallucinations and prevent regressions.”

Joseph Villanueva

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack SaaS and Healthcare IT

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“Product-minded software engineer from Gusto who has shipped internal AI agent capabilities and end-to-end user-facing features across frontend and backend. Stands out for making pragmatic architecture tradeoffs—moving from OpenAI prototypes to deterministic systems when accuracy, latency, and uptime mattered—while still improving LLM workflow quality and reducing tool-calling errors by 15%.”

“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.”

“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.”

David Richards

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Staff enterprise architect specializing in governance, automation, and regulated environments

Remote, USA18y exp

“Solutions/Sales Engineering professional who has supported enterprise and upper mid-market B2B SaaS deals across highly regulated industries, then transitioned into enterprise architecture and governance at IQVIA. Stands out for combining AI/RPA solution selling with hands-on architecture and implementation, including a legal AI classification deal that achieved 97% accuracy with zero false positives and an air-gapped UiPath deployment that automated 37% of incoming insurance documents.”

“Front-end engineer with significant ownership of sophisticated enterprise admin experiences in Cisco Webex Control Hub. Stands out for building permission-aware, route-driven UI architecture and solving tricky browser/CSS integration issues across shell and remote-entry boundaries while keeping the experience polished and consistent for expert users.”

“Unity VR/MR developer with multiple shipped Meta Quest projects, including a multi-user mixed-reality co-creation experience featuring real-time connection logic and shader-driven mesh generation for performance. Also builds AI-powered interactive applications, recently creating a video interview simulator using OpenAI API, HeyGen real-time avatars, and AWS audio/agent tooling while managing end-to-end latency challenges.”

“AI-focused engineer who treats models as tightly controlled collaborators rather than autonomous replacements. Built and led a LangGraph-based multi-agent research system with separate stages for decomposition, retrieval, synthesis, and validation, emphasizing modularity, debuggability, and robust failure handling.”

“Front-end/UI engineer who built and standardized a complex metadata component system for 2,500+ banking users across 40+ internal product surfaces. Stands out for combining design-system architecture, browser-level CSS expertise, and workflow-sensitive UX for demanding financial users, including a token system that resolved 488 style references and a reusable responsive component library adopted across five product areas.”

Anson T P

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Staff Software Engineer specializing in Salesforce, mobile, and IoT platforms

Bengaluru, India12y exp

“Frontend-leaning product engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across mobile observability, real-time systems, and scalable React/Next.js architecture. Built a reusable iOS logging framework integrated with Splunk, designed IoT operator dashboards, and shaped a JSON-driven website rendering platform by aligning product, backend, and frontend models.”

“Engineering-management graduate student at Cornell who has grown from quality engineering into product leadership, with experience spanning telecom, accessibility operations, and an AI healthcare fraud startup. Particularly compelling for PM roles requiring ambiguity handling, cross-functional execution, and thoughtful tradeoffs between AI capability, explainability, cost, and regulatory constraints.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for enterprise internal document search (PDFs, knowledge bases, structured data), addressing real-world issues like noisy documents, hallucinations, and latency with grounded prompting, retrieval-confidence fallbacks, and performance optimizations. Also partnered with compliance and business teams at JPMc to deliver a solution aligned with regulatory constraints, supported by monitoring, feedback loops, and systematic evaluation.”

“Full-stack developer who built a learning management web app end-to-end using React, Spring Boot, and MySQL, integrating APIs via Axios and validating/testing with Postman. Has experience handling data-heavy workloads (courses, quiz results) and improving performance with pagination, and is comfortable designing microservice-style endpoints with CI/CD considerations.”

“Enterprise SaaS implementation specialist (Sprinklr) who owns complex rollouts end-to-end—configuration, data migration, UAT, global enablement—and drove a 10/10 Customer Happiness Index plus renewal/expansion through strong adoption and analytics automation. Also has product experience from a TikTok PM internship leading an accessibility initiative (Camera AI for screen reader creators) coordinating engineering, design, legal, and QA with WCAG/ADA/EAA compliance considerations.”

Vivek Shrivastava

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Director-level Technology Leader specializing in data platforms, AI, and media/AdTech transformation

Los Angeles, California24y exp

“Technology leader who built a unified platform for Fox live sports production operations starting in 2019, delivering an initial operational system on an ~18-month timeline while simultaneously scaling an in-house engineering team from a service-provider partnership. Led a security architecture for external vendors/partners using a separate Okta instance with zero-trust and passwordless authentication, and drove adoption through strong change management, documentation, and agile execution.”

Utkarsh Mittal

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend and distributed systems

Murray Hill, NJ5y exp

“Backend engineer who has owned large-scale systems from design through rollout, including a Dell rearchitecture that unified two regional platforms and delivered major latency gains while scaling the effort from 6 to 150 contributors. Also built an ESG analysis product in an ambiguous startup environment using AWS Lambda, Bedrock/Claude, Flask, and custom data pipelines, showing a blend of distributed systems depth and practical AI integration.”

Abhirup Chakraborty

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI, and search

Champaign, IL3y exp

“Built a complex graph-based search engine to find connections between people and has hands-on experience designing multi-agent coding pipelines that move features through implementation, test generation, testing, and sanity checks. Stands out for treating AI agents like an engineering team, with shared-memory coordination, queue signaling, and completeness-focused guardrails to improve reliability and reduce ambiguity.”

Shane Westra

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Executive product and technology leader specializing in B2B SaaS

27y exp

“Senior product leader with a track record of building and repositioning B2B software businesses into major growth engines, including initiatives that contributed to Workfront’s $1.5B Adobe acquisition and SimpleNexus’s $1.2B nCino acquisition. Brings deep experience across product strategy, UX transformation, AI-enabled workflows, and cross-functional org leadership, with repeated success turning research insights into high-impact products.”

“Senior engineering leader who scaled a global organization from 15 to roughly 100 people and operates comfortably at both executive and hands-on architecture levels. Has led SaaS platform improvements, AI-based compliance workflow automation with LLM observability, and consumer-facing product modernization using analytics-driven UX decisions.”

Ryan Peterson

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Python web and AI applications

New York, USA8y exp

“Backend-heavy full-stack engineer with startup fintech experience who built a real-time lending eligibility service that cut decision time from 12-24 hours to under 5 seconds and lifted conversion by ~15%. Also has B2B SaaS experience automating construction workflows, with strong hands-on work across React/TypeScript, Python/FastAPI, Node.js, Kafka, Redis, and some Go.”