Vetted Database Design Professionals

Kaiqi Zhang

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native SaaS and AI applications

Bellevue, WA13y exp

“ML/LLM engineer with hands-on experience shipping production RAG systems at Google Clinical Search and GenAI recommendation/summarization features in Meta Ads. Stands out for combining research-to-production execution with rigorous grounding, evaluation, safety checks, and reusable Python platform components that improved both reliability and team velocity.”

Franklin Dickinson

Screened

Senior Data Scientist specializing in product analytics and applied AI

New York, NY9y exp

“Product data scientist at Meta who also built Fogo, a personal finance app, as a solo developer with a React/FastAPI/Postgres stack and sophisticated LLM evaluation infrastructure. Particularly strong in AI backend quality systems, experimentation, and production decision-making around model cost, latency, and reliability.”

“Security-oriented software engineer with experience building high-impact internal and platform features at TikTok and Reddit, including session hijacking prevention, an internal password manager, and a reusable Android passkey SDK. Stands out for combining backend/API ownership, user-driven product improvements, and deep attention to security, performance, and cross-platform compatibility.”

Muneendra M

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in event-driven backend and AI-enabled systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at Stripe who owned a webhook monitoring and retry platform end-to-end, spanning backend services, React dashboards, and production operations. Stands out for combining strong distributed-systems judgment with product polish, including a reported 31% improvement in webhook delivery reliability and UI improvements that reduced support burden.”

“Software engineer with a rare mix of early startup product-building and large-scale enterprise data platform work. At a 40-person digital signage startup, they wrote much of the customer-facing software, and later at Qualtrics built Go and Python ETLs, internal configuration tools, and B2B data products supporting survey analytics and custom data science workflows.”

“Senior product engineering and data architecture leader who has owned end-to-end solutions for enterprise analytics and legal search platforms, including work for Sony Pictures Entertainment and Accenture Legal. Combines executive-level architecture and team leadership with hands-on experimentation in modern AI systems, recently building a multimodal Hugging Face agent that significantly exceeded its benchmark score.”

“Google backend engineer with strong experience in large-scale identity, membership, and access-control systems. Notable work includes reconciling customer IDs across 2B+ roster records and leading a 0-to-1 Drive sharing feature to classify external users as crossover members, with a strong emphasis on correctness, rollout safety, and low-latency service design.”

Dennis Noto

Screened

Executive Technology & Security Leader specializing in FinTech, AI platforms, and enterprise modernization

Denver Metro Area36y exp

“Technology transformation leader who builds board-approved roadmaps and scales engineering orgs with strong Agile execution. Led large modernization efforts (e.g., Scottrade: 3,000 programs/4M LOC in 18 months) and scaled POCs into enterprise SaaS platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform for high-concurrency workloads.”

Hai Nguyen

Screened

Senior Technical Account Manager specializing in cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms

New York, NY14y exp

“AWS Technical Account Manager with 5 years supporting large enterprise customers on cloud migrations, application development, and architecture decisions across a broad AWS stack. Stands out for combining enterprise cloud advisory with hands-on solution building—from POCs and DR designs to a custom mobile and automation workflow for a construction client that won CEO buy-in and changed field operations.”

“Engineering leader with deep hands-on experience across eCommerce, retail commerce, regulatory tech, and IP PBX systems, including building a no-code web application platform. Has managed organizations of up to 65 people while staying involved in architecture and production debugging, and cites measurable impact such as 50% efficiency gains, 100% productivity improvement, and 90% error reduction through partner/API remediation.”