Vetted Database Design Professionals

Priyanka Ramesh

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot and React

Boston, MA2y exp

“Backend engineer (IpserLab) who owned Python services for a production quiz/analytics platform, focusing on reliability and low-latency behavior under peak load. Hands-on with Kubernetes + Docker deployments and GitHub Actions CI/CD in a GitOps-style workflow, including solving configuration drift and enabling fast rollbacks. Also implemented Kafka-based event streaming with idempotent consumers and strong observability (lag tracking, structured logging, alerting).”

“Data science/AI intern at University at Buffalo Business Services who built and deployed production systems spanning classic ML and LLM assistants. Delivered real-time competitor intelligence for a Cornell-partnered, $1B beverage launch by scraping/cleaning 5,000+ SKUs and deploying models via API, then built a domain-aware LLM assistant to modernize Excel-based workflows with strong grounding, privacy controls, and sub-5s latency.”

Nash Boisvert

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in web, mobile, and cloud platforms

Edmonton, Canada5y exp

“Frontend engineer who built a live sports games hub end-to-end: ingesting and normalizing data from 4 external APIs, populating a high-volume live table, and delivering a real-time WebSocket-driven React/TypeScript dashboard. Strong on scalable architecture (SOLID, layered design, queues), performance/load testing with Docker, and startup-style ownership across code review, QA, and staged rollouts to web and app stores.”

YESHA BHAVSAR

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI applications

Alpharetta, GA0y exp

“Built and deployed an "AI Closet" application as a personal product, owning full-stack and applied AI features end to end. Particularly interesting for recruiters because they combined Next.js/TypeScript product engineering with practical AI systems work, including OpenAI vision-based smart form fill, personalized recommendation learning, and a grounded RAG application with evaluation and regression testing.”

“Veteran software development PM with 20+ years spanning custom development, COTS implementations, governance, and modernization in complex public-sector environments. Recently led a 12-month consolidation of three NRC legacy systems into a single Microsoft Power Platform workflow and helped the IRS stand up portfolio governance and executive reporting for IRA-funded initiatives using JIRA Align.”

Preet Talati

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in .NET Core and React

2y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped end-to-end, customer-facing features in an education/student-population context, including an authorized incident-reporting workflow with RBAC and a PostgreSQL-backed data model. Has 0→1 React+TypeScript/Redux product experience (CTO at Jiffur) and hands-on production operations with CI/CD (Azure Pipelines/GitHub Actions), including resolving a real CPU-saturation outage via operational mitigation and scaling changes.”

“Healthcare analytics professional with hands-on experience turning messy claims, eligibility, and utilization data into validated BI-ready models using SQL and Python. They combine strong data engineering and KPI design skills with stakeholder-facing delivery, including Power BI prototyping, retention metric operationalization, and analyses that supported care management interventions and cost-control decisions.”

“Full-stack web developer who reports owning both backend and frontend design, including database-first design and jQuery-based web UI work (shared a GitHub project link). Claims to have delivered a project planned for 4 months in just 2 weeks and emphasizes strong personal code quality standards.”

“Software engineer with a graphic design/marketing background who led a 4-month U.S. Department of State Diplomacy Lab project delivering a proprietary React/Electron + Flask + PostgreSQL scheduling app, including OKTA SSO integration under strict government confidentiality constraints. Also has hands-on production web experience fixing a broken WordPress/Elementor content system by scripting automated recategorization and date corrections.”

Sasi Kanduri

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and workflow platforms

Sacramento, CA7y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong React and Python backend depth who has owned complex analytical products end-to-end, from performant UIs to FastAPI services, SQLAlchemy data models, Redis caching, and production observability. Particularly compelling is their 0→1 automation work in the water systems domain, where they built Airflow- and LLM-powered workflows that reduced manual notification and correction work by 90%.”

“Solo full-stack builder who shipped a restaurant loyalty app across iOS and Android and independently built revenue-generating job data APIs on Apify. Combines product discovery with hands-on engineering, having grown his scraping/API products to 1,800+ MAUs, 1M+ monthly results, and over $8.5K in cumulative revenue.”

Joe Zayd

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and cloud-native platforms

Woodbridge, VA8y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has operated in a very lean startup setting, helping a non-technical founder turn an AI-focused education product idea into a shipped MVP in roughly six weeks. Also brings B2B SaaS experience from a real estate rental platform with payment flows and Experian-based background and credit check integrations.”

“Software engineer currently building for a wealth management platform, with hands-on ownership across React/TypeScript front ends, Azure serverless backends, and SQL data systems. Stands out for turning hackweek concepts into production features, building observability infrastructure from scratch, and delivering measurable gains in latency, uptime, incident response, and client satisfaction.”

“Full-stack AI engineer who built Skillmatch AI, an LLM/RAG-based job matching platform using FastAPI microservices, Airflow-orchestrated async pipelines, and Pinecone vector search (sub-second retrieval across 50k+ vectors) deployed on GCP with autoscaling. Also partnered directly with a cancer researcher to automate SEER + PubMed-driven report generation via an AI pipeline, emphasizing rapid prototyping and outcome-focused communication.”

Navya Kesani

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in Java, Spring Boot, and cloud-native web apps

Lubbock, TX3y exp

“Former Wipro engineer who contributed to an open-source JavaScript utility library focused on frontend validation/formatting, including adding a cross-browser date-formatting module. Experienced in OSS maintenance (bug fixes, PR reviews, docs), performance profiling/benchmarking (Chrome DevTools, Node.js performance hooks), and improving community support workflows with issue templates and diagnostic logging.”

Mahiyadav Sidda

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and on-device AI

Bangalore, India2y exp

“Built an "Offline Study Assistant" that runs LLM inference locally on a 5-year-old Android device using Llama.cpp and the Android NDK, achieving a 27x speedup and cutting time-to-first-token from 11 minutes to 30 seconds. Also has applied backend/API experience with FastAPI, Supabase (Auth + RLS), and production hardening of a RAG system at Hashmint using Celery and Redis to eliminate PDF-processing-related query failures.”

Meghana Divve

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native enterprise applications

Tampa, FL6y exp

“Built and launched a production internal AI support assistant at CompuCom, focused on reducing time spent searching across systems by combining retrieval, internal tool use, and grounded LLM responses. Stands out for pragmatic zero-to-one execution: scoped the product in phases, prioritized safety over premature autonomy, and iterated using real user feedback to improve relevance, usability, latency, and cost.”

“Analytics-oriented candidate with hands-on GTM and sales operations experience in financial services plus applied project leadership at Northeastern. Built reporting systems in Power BI/Tableau, used Salesforce for client segmentation and campaign tracking, and created reusable launch-management tools adopted by multiple teams.”

“Early-career backend engineer and solo builder of FrameFindr, an AI/OCR-based marathon photo tagging product used at live events. Demonstrated pragmatic scaling under tight infrastructure constraints (2GB VPS) and hands-on ownership of architecture, API design, auth (Google OAuth/JWT), and a MongoDB-to-MySQL migration with data-integrity safeguards.”

“Computer science-oriented builder developing an iOS receipt-splitting app for real users (roommates), focusing on login security, receipt history storage, and future web access for broader usability. Demonstrates a practical, customer-facing mindset with structured integration/debugging practices (Dockerized environments, incremental testing, rollback strategy) and prior experience in communication-heavy retail/bakery roles.”

“Backend engineer who built a Node.js + SQL service integrating with the Google Ads API to periodically upload online and offline conversions via Azure Logic Apps, persisting upload records for ROI reporting. Implemented PII hashing, token validation, redundancy, and detailed failure/status logging for reliability and debuggability. Currently scoping an LLM/agent workflow (likely LangChain) to let marketing bulk-update e-commerce product data using SEO keywords without developer involvement.”

Lincoln Oh

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack/MES Software Engineer specializing in manufacturing systems

Glendale, KY5y exp

“Software engineer with hands-on experience delivering production-floor applications in manufacturing environments: built a PDA-friendly web app integrated with Oracle PL/SQL and deployed it on-site in a live warehouse, then iterated via tight feedback loops. Also rebuilt a broken assembly QR label printing workflow as a WPF Windows desktop tool and rolled it out across factory processes with operator training; additionally built a TypeScript/Node/Express/MongoDB app deployed on AWS (EC2/S3).”