Vetted Data Validation Professionals

“Backend/data engineer who built a production-ready multi-agent financial intelligence system (Mycroft) that orchestrates specialized AI agents to analyze real-time market data using FastAPI and Pinecone vector search. Brings strong security/reliability instincts (rate limiting, JWT/OAuth2, retries/backoff, health checks) and has caught high-impact data integrity issues in financial migrations (timezone normalization across global legacy systems).”

“Backend engineer who significantly evolved an internal Resource Manager platform, moving from a monolith to microservices and improving onboarding speed while reducing integration errors. Has hands-on experience building reliable and secure Python/FastAPI APIs (Pydantic schemas, circuit breakers, caching, metrics/alerts) and leading zero-downtime migrations with strong data integrity patterns (dual writes, idempotency, reconciliation checks).”

“Built a production GPT-4/LangChain/Pinecone RAG “AI Copilot” at Northern Trust to automate financial report generation and analyst Q&A over internal structured (SQL warehouse) and unstructured policy data. Focused on real-world production challenges—grounding and latency—achieving major speed gains (seconds to milliseconds) via MiniLM embedding optimization and Redis caching, and implemented rigorous testing/evaluation with MLflow-backed metrics while aligning compliance and finance stakeholders for deployment.”

“Software developer with hands-on experience owning customer-facing work end-to-end (requirements, implementation, testing, and feedback-driven iteration) using Python and React.js. Also described remodeling an internal legacy page/tool to improve performance and accuracy, and has exposure to microservices and RabbitMQ plus ETL-based system work.”

“Built and operated an end-to-end customer-facing "Record Platform" web product as both engineer and primary user, focusing on reliability and correctness in core flows like search and checkout. Implemented a TypeScript/React frontend with a multi-service backend and Kafka-based event-driven architecture, and created internal tooling to automate risky ops like Kubernetes TLS certificate rotation with k6 load/chaos testing (including HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 validation).”

“Software engineer who has owned customer-facing/internal platforms end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration through small releases backed by monitoring and rollback safety. Built SurveyAI with reusable React/TypeScript components and a stateless Node.js REST backend with clear API contracts/validation, and created an internal Airflow + AWS Lambda automation tool integrated with Slack alerts to reduce manual work and improve response time.”

“Built and shipped “LabMate,” a production AI assistant specialized in laboratory hardware, using a weighted multi-source RAG pipeline with reranking and reasoning-focused query decomposition to handle complex user questions. Deployed on a local GPU cluster with vLLM and NVIDIA MPS (plus OCR/VLM components), and established evaluation using synthetic + public reasoning datasets while collaborating weekly with non-technical admins to align requirements and resource constraints.”

“Backend/ML platform engineer who built an end-to-end news summarization and personalized recommendation system using FastAPI, Redis, and a vector search pipeline (FAISS). Strong in productionizing services on Kubernetes with GitOps (ArgoCD + GitHub Actions), including CI image tagging/publishing and safe rollouts, plus experience migrating EC2 services to containerized orchestration with robust health checks and latency/error monitoring.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned a FastAPI + Kafka microservice in Verizon’s billing pipeline, handling high-volume usage ingestion/validation/enrichment with strong observability and CI/CD on AWS EKS. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (latency down to ~120–150ms; Kafka throughput +30–40%; DB CPU -25%) and led an on-prem ETL-to-AWS migration using Terraform, parallel validation, and phased cutover with zero downtime.”

“Backend engineer who built and scaled a transaction-processing microservice (150K+ records/day) in a microservices ecosystem, debugging peak-load latency/timeouts via CloudWatch/Grafana, Kafka lag analysis, and DB query tuning (indexes, Redis caching, batching). Also shipped an LLM-powered document assistant end-to-end with prompt/response validation plus retries/fallbacks for production reliability.”

“QA automation engineer with strong Cypress/JavaScript experience in healthcare claims and eligibility systems, owning end-to-end regression suites that combine UI, API, and SQL/database validations. Known for catching subtle pricing/benefit calculation defects (copay/deductible/accumulator issues) before release, stabilizing flaky CI tests via API synchronization, and shaping requirements early to improve testability and reduce downstream rework.”

“Built a production LLM/RAG solution for healthcare operations teams to query large policy and care-guideline repositories in natural language. Improved domain alignment using vector retrieval plus parameter-efficient fine-tuning and prompt optimization, validated through internal user testing and metrics, cutting manual lookup time by ~40%. Also has hands-on experience orchestrating automated ML pipelines with Apache Airflow.”

“Backend/platform engineer with Optum experience owning a production FHIR Member Access API aligned to CMS interoperability requirements. Built and scaled Spring Boot/HAPI FHIR microservices on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes) with zero-downtime CI/CD, and operated them with strong observability (Dynatrace, logs/metrics, alerting) and incident response. Also implemented a Kafka-based FHIR bulk data pipeline with schema versioning, idempotent processing, and reliable backfills/replays.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building Python FastAPI services and AWS-native data pipelines. Has delivered containerized and serverless workloads (ECS/EKS/Lambda) with Terraform-based IaC, strong reliability patterns (JWT/RBAC, retries/circuit breakers, observability), and AWS Glue ETL into S3/Redshift. Demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (40–50s to <4s) and owned real pipeline incidents through detection, mitigation, and prevention.”

“Backend/cloud engineer who built an AWS serverless IoT system that computes Bluetooth beacon locations from telemetry using heavy scientific Python (NumPy/SciPy/pandas) packaged as Dockerized Lambda, integrated with Java microservices and scheduled batch orchestration. Has deep AWS delivery experience (CI/CD with Code* tools, CloudFormation, cost controls) and has led high-severity incident response including CloudTrail forensics and infrastructure recovery after a compromised-keys crypto-mining attack.”

“Software engineer who built and owned an internal workflow automation + analytics platform end-to-end (TypeScript/React/Node) with a microservices, RabbitMQ-based async architecture. Drove adoption by shipping iterative prototypes and prioritizing reliability/performance (Redis caching, query optimization), delivering ~30–35% latency improvements and ~30–40% reduction in manual operational work.”

“Backend/data engineer who builds Python (FastAPI) data-processing API services for internal analytics/reporting, emphasizing modular architecture, async performance tuning, and reliability patterns (health checks, retries, observability). Also migrated legacy on-prem ETL pipelines to Azure using ADF/Data Lake/Functions and implemented a near-real-time ingestion flow with Event Hubs plus watermarking to handle late events and deduplication.”

“LLM engineer/data engineer who has deployed production RAG systems for internal-document Q&A, building end-to-end ingestion, embedding, vector search, and FastAPI serving while actively reducing hallucinations and latency through rigorous retrieval tuning and caching. Also experienced in orchestrating cloud data pipelines (Airflow, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory) and partnering with non-technical business teams to deliver AI solutions like automated document review.”

“Backend engineer who built a stateless Python/Flask service supporting a healthcare-document ETL pipeline, offloading heavy processing to Celery workers and adding strong observability (metrics, structured logs, audits). Demonstrates practical performance/reliability work: batch chunking, priority queues, autoscaling by queue depth/CPU, DLQ routing, and PostgreSQL tuning (indexes, pagination) to cut slow API responses. Also has experience deploying real-time ML classification via TensorFlow Serving behind a FastAPI wrapper and integrating models via REST/gRPC.”

“QA automation engineer focused on end-to-end quality for a CMS lien registration workflow, owning a Playwright-based regression suite covering high-risk paths (creation, amendments, cancellation, batch file validation). Demonstrated impact by catching a UI change that bypassed required-field validation pre-release, stabilizing flaky CI tests using network-response signals, and driving clearer acceptance criteria and observability improvements (request IDs in logs) through cross-functional collaboration.”

“Software QA professional (non-gaming) with strong end-to-end release and production support experience in Agile environments. Led a large QA effort migrating customers from a legacy application to a new platform, owning test scope, deployment coordination, release sign-off, and issue troubleshooting. Known for evidence-rich bug reports (API-driven repro, logs/devtools) and disciplined tooling/documentation across Azure DevOps, Jira/Rally, and Confluence.”

“Full-stack engineer with banking-domain experience (Cognizant/Kotak) building and optimizing high-usage transaction/account APIs on Spring Boot/Node/PostgreSQL in AWS/Docker, including peak-load performance fixes. Also built an end-to-end retail demand-forecasting feature during a master’s program, spanning data pipelines, ensemble models, dashboards, and operational guardrails like validation and fallbacks.”

“Worked on taking an LLM-based system at Soundmakr from prototype to production by adding prompt constraints, validation/guardrails, deterministic ranking, and robust logging/monitoring with feedback loops. Also partnered with product/marketing during an internship on Thea: Study Smart to analyze onboarding drop-offs and run A/B tests on AI-driven flows, translating results into actions that improved retention and conversion.”