Vetted Data Structures Professionals

Tony Barreto

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in modern web apps

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Product-focused full-stack builder who has shipped and operated multiple production apps from scratch, including an e-commerce bakery delivery scheduler (with concurrency controls and timezone handling) and a real-time passenger music-request system for Lyft rides that hit and resolved YouTube API rate-limit scaling issues via debouncing and caching. Strong in React+TypeScript and Node.js/TypeScript backends, with solid PostgreSQL/PostGIS data modeling and performance tuning.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM hallucination detection and monitoring pipeline using semantic-level entropy (embedding-clustered multi-generation variance) to flag unreliable outputs in downstream automation. Implemented a scalable async architecture (FastAPI + Docker + Redis/Celery) with strong observability (structured logs + PostgreSQL) and developed evaluation loops combining controlled prompts and human review; also partnered with non-technical stakeholders on AI-driven form validation/document processing.”

“Hands-on engineer who has taken an LSTM Bitcoin forecasting model from notebook to a production-grade, monitored API (Docker/Gunicorn/Nginx, Prometheus/Grafana, blue-green rollback) delivering 99.9% availability and ~110–120ms p95 latency. Also built an RFID self-checkout prototype spanning Raspberry Pi + firmware + networking, using deep instrumentation to eliminate double-charges/timeouts (<0.1%) and reduce checkout time ~20% through idempotency, debounce logic, and hardware fixes.”

David Pang

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps and healthcare APIs

1y exp

“Full-stack developer who built an end-to-end e-commerce application with admin/blog/announcement features using Node/Express and AWS S3, emphasizing security via expiring presigned URLs. Also has strong distributed-systems fundamentals from implementing the Raft consensus algorithm (replication logs, majority acks, leader elections) and has created build automation tools (GNU Makefiles/scripts) to streamline team workflows.”

Dhairya Shah

Screened

Entry-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and systems

Buffalo, NY1y exp

“ML-focused builder who has shipped an end-to-end income-class prediction product: built the data pipeline, trained models, deployed via Streamlit with a live UI, and tracked success via accuracy (84%), adoption, and latency. Demonstrates strong practical MLOps instincts (Docker/Streamlit Cloud, logging/monitoring, caching) and data engineering reliability patterns (schema checks, idempotency, retries, backfills) while iterating quickly in ambiguous, solo-project environments.”

Krystal Galdamez

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered web applications

San Jose, CA1y exp

“Startup-focused engineer who has shipped Python backend features, AI integrations, and Playwright automation for products including an AI coaching platform and hiring workflow tools. Stands out for working through ambiguous zero-spec environments, hardening flaky Firebase-authenticated test flows, and designing practical fallback paths when AI outputs are unreliable.”

“Built and productionized LLM-powered workflows that generate contextual insights from structured financial data, including prompt/retrieval design, data standardization, and reliability controls like rate limiting and batching. Also diagnosed and fixed real-time failures in an automated order validation system using logs/metrics, staging reproduction, edge-case handling, retries, and alerting, while supporting sales/customer teams with demos, scripts, and FAQs to drive adoption.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM feature that explains DSA problems with real-life explanations, using Grok with automatic failover to OpenRouter (and multiple backup models) to avoid user-facing failures. Improved cost efficiency by implementing difficulty-based token budgets and iterated prompt quality via structured constraints and an in-app feedback mechanism, reporting satisfaction across 38 users.”