Vetted Database Design Professionals

“Solaris-focused engineer who has led production performance investigations using DTrace and implemented code changes that substantially improved runtime by removing redundant parsing. Participated in a data-center-exit lift-and-shift to cloud using Oracle GoldenGate for replication and LVM to duplicate the application platform, with some exposure to AIX/IBM Power (LPAR recovery with NIM, assisted PowerHA validation).”

Likhitha Bethi

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, distributed systems, and applied AI

Stony Brook, NY4y exp

“Goldman Sachs engineer who owned end-to-end features for an internal onboarding and case management platform, spanning React/TypeScript UI, a GraphQL gateway, and Node + Spring WebFlux microservices. Built and operated a Kafka-based ingestion and search pipeline with DLQs, retries, idempotency, and strong observability, and improved developer experience via backward-compatible GraphQL API design and schema-driven documentation.”

Rediet Gesesse

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and full-stack platforms

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Built a kitchen capacity management system for merchants, owning deployment through stabilization and continuously tuning capacity based on fulfillment and cancellation outcomes. Also designed customer-support decision workflows for refunds/credits with a focus on fraud cost reduction, and has hands-on experience with Kafka, Flink, relational databases, and production incident mitigation via feature-flag rollbacks.”

“Built both traditional data infrastructure and LLM-powered product workflows, spanning a Python/SQL ETL deployment at Amazon and an adaptive learning system for their DataLingo platform. Particularly interesting for roles at the intersection of data engineering, applied AI, and customer-facing product delivery, with hands-on experience stabilizing probabilistic LLM systems in production.”

“Backend/platform engineer with deep payments experience who built and operated a real-time transaction routing service end-to-end on AWS (Spring Boot, PostgreSQL/RDS, Redis, Kubernetes), delivering ~40% latency reduction and 99.99% uptime via strong resiliency and observability practices. Also productionized an internal LLM-powered RAG knowledge assistant with guardrails and a user-feedback-driven evaluation loop, and has led incremental monolith-to-microservices modernization using Strangler Fig and shadow traffic.”

“Data/analytics engineer who built and operated a DocuSign-based real-time analytics platform end-to-end, processing 20–50k webhook events/day with ~99.5% reliability. Strong in idempotent event processing, schema-evolution-safe ingestion (raw JSON + dynamic parsing), and serving data via versioned, low-latency REST APIs with solid CI/CD and observability.”

Pranav Puranik

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and multimodal NLP

Austin, TX5y exp

“Built a production LLM/RAG assistant for insurance/health claims agents that ingests 100–200 page patient PDFs via OCR (migrated from local Tesseract to Azure Document Intelligence) and delivers grounded claim detail retrieval plus summaries with PII/PHI guardrails. Experienced orchestrating large workflows with Celery worker pipelines and AWS Step Functions (S3-triggered, Fargate-based batch inference/accuracy aggregation), and collaborates closely with non-technical SMEs (claims agents/nurses) through shadowing, iterative demos, and SME-defined evaluation.”

“Internship experience at TikTok and nCino, with hands-on work spanning production Python data pipelines, recommendation-system feature workflows, Salesforce Apex automation, and flaky UI automation for a live stock recommendation platform. Stands out for a reliability-focused approach: anticipating failure modes, instrumenting observability, and turning ambiguous business processes into maintainable automated systems.”