Vetted Database Indexing Professionals

Daniel Berhane Araya

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in production-grade LLM systems for regulated finance

Fairfax, VA9y exp

“AI/LLM engineer with published work who built FinVet, a production financial misinformation detection system using multi-pipeline RAG, confidence-based voting, and evidence-backed outputs (F1 0.85, +37% vs baseline). Also built NexusForest-MCP, a Dockerized Model Context Protocol server exposing structured global deforestation/carbon data via SQL tools for reliable LLM tool use. Previously delivered borrower risk-rating (PD) models at BMO Financial Group that were validated and integrated into an enterprise credit system through close collaboration with credit officers and portfolio managers.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped real-time, customer-facing dashboards and ticketing/payment features at Freshworks and Global Payments. Strong in Python API design (Django/Flask/FastAPI) and React/TypeScript UIs, with hands-on experience scaling PostgreSQL for high transaction volumes and operating services on AWS, including incident response and HIPAA-aligned security controls.”

“Early-stage product engineer who has shipped an AI-assisted workflow web app end-to-end, spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontend, Python-backed LLM APIs, Postgres analytics, and async backend workflows. Strong ownership after launch as well, including usage tracking, prompt and UX iteration, latency reduction, and measurable database performance improvements.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at Charles Schwab owning financial workflow deployments end-to-end, including API/database design, SQL optimization, Python automation, and AWS-based production stabilization. Also brings applied AI quality experience through building LLM/agent validation pipelines focused on scenario testing, edge-case detection, and reducing production risk.”

“Junior developer with over a year of experience who is already applying AI-assisted engineering practices in production, including GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, SonarQube, and OpenAI-based workflows. On a Citibank public portal built with .NET 8 and Angular, they used AI tooling plus CI/CD quality gates to speed delivery and reportedly reduce post-deployment bugs by 30-40% while maintaining strict security and compliance standards.”

“Backend engineer with experience at KPMG evolving an audit/reporting platform from monolithic components to microservices (Spring Boot/Node.js), improving API performance and enabling independent deployments. Demonstrates strong production focus across secure API design (FastAPI, JWT/OAuth2, RBAC/RLS), incremental migrations with feature flags, and robustness improvements like optimistic locking to prevent race conditions.”

“Backend engineer who built the core backend for Air Kitchens’ discovery/booking platform on AWS (Node + Python, DynamoDB, SQS/Lambda), optimizing for fast user-facing APIs and scalable async workflows. Introduced an AI matching service with a deterministic pre-filter + LLM ranking approach to balance latency vs quality, and has hands-on experience with production security (JWT/RBAC/RLS), CI/CD, and blue-green, staged migrations from Django to modular services.”

“Full Stack Engineer with hands-on experience owning customer-facing products end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration via feature flags and risk-based testing for critical user flows. Built TypeScript/React systems with shared types and clean backend layering, and has microservices experience using RabbitMQ to decouple services and manage scale issues like queue backlogs. Also created an internal dashboard for dev/QA to centralize build/test/deploy visibility and iterated on it through lightweight user research and usage metrics.”

“Full-stack engineer who owned end-to-end delivery of a customer-facing financial services web platform and built internal tooling for engineering teams. Strong in microservices and event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), distributed transaction management (saga), and production performance/observability—achieving ~40% backend response-time improvement through database and query optimization.”

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Metasystems Inc. (and Qualcomm) building high-traffic, security-sensitive systems—owned a secure transaction processing module end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django, and React. Strong AWS production operations (EKS/ECS/Lambda/RDS/DynamoDB) with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), observability, and reliability patterns; also delivered resilient ETL/integration pipelines with idempotency/retries/backfills and achieved a 50% deployment-time reduction through CI/CD and modular refactoring.”

“Backend engineer with experience building Spring Boot microservices for financial workflows at Fizzle (thousands of requests/minute) and shipping healthcare data validation automation at CVS Health. Demonstrates strong production reliability/performance skills—deep in database tuning (query plans, indexing, caching, denormalization), observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and resilient multi-step workflow design with retries and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Full-stack engineer experienced shipping production SaaS dashboards with Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining Server Components for initial data loads with interactive client-side analytics. Strong performance/operability focus (reported ~40% UI latency reduction) and deep backend fundamentals across Postgres schema/query optimization and Kafka-based event-driven microservices with idempotency, retries, and DLQs.”

“Backend/platform engineer with Paycom experience owning a core enterprise compliance feature (certification approval workflow) end-to-end, including live migration behind feature flags and production monitoring. Delivered measurable impact (40% faster workflow completion, major drop in escalations) and also built GraphQL microservices integrating certification workflows into an enterprise AI platform while driving significant API latency reductions (20s to <6s).”

Ishaan Umesh Mandliya

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud-native systems

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“At BondiTech, built and deployed customer-facing backend improvements for enterprise dashboards handling 1M+ records, redesigning a .NET/Entity Framework API with server-side pagination/filtering and feature-flagged rollout to cut latency from ~15s to ~2s. Experienced integrating customer systems into existing APIs, including stabilizing a legacy CRM sync by normalizing inconsistent IDs, handling strict rate limits with batching, and adding DLQs plus reconciliation reporting.”

Bhakti Patel

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in .NET, Python, and cloud-native systems

Worcester, MA11y exp

“Full-stack engineer who owned an end-to-end production feature for a Piraeus Bank stock exchange module, spanning React/TypeScript, backend services, and cloud operations with Docker + CI/CD, delivering reported 90% faster API responses and improved uptime. Also built a Smartwound research MVP on AWS, creating a Python image-processing/scoring pipeline to ship despite unclear image-analysis specs.”

Rushwant K

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and microservices

United States, Remote4y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Discover, Dell, and Carpus building high-concurrency microservices and secure APIs. Delivered measurable impact in fintech workflows by integrating credit bureaus (TransUnion/Experian), cutting loan processing from days to minutes and reducing latency 65% through PostgreSQL tuning and caching. Strong in production security patterns (JWT/RBAC, Postgres row-level security for multi-tenant isolation) and low-risk migrations (shadow mode + incremental rollout).”

Bandla Sai Giridhar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native microservices

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Backend engineer who built a Python/Flask system for high-volume healthcare claims processing, using PostgreSQL as the source of truth and RabbitMQ workers for scalable async processing. Experienced in SQLAlchemy/Postgres performance tuning, multi-tenant data isolation (including Postgres RLS), and integrating/versioning ML model services (scikit-learn/PyTorch/Hugging Face) with controlled rollouts. Drove measurable performance gains by batching background jobs and adding Redis caching (40% less workload; response times cut from ~10s to 2–3s).”

Corbin Ward

Screened

Junior Product Manager / APM specializing in data tools, CMS platforms, and AI-enabled products

San Jose, CA1y exp

“Data Software Tools Analyst at Q.ai through rapid growth and a $2B Apple acquisition who led an internal CMS for participant/PII workflows using Next.js (App Router) + FastAPI/Postgres with strong security controls (JWT + Postgres RLS). Also drove a major frontend architecture shift toward React Server Components, reporting ~4x faster page loads, and has experience building durable realtime collaboration systems with Supabase/SvelteKit and server-centric state management.”

“Healthcare analytics professional with TCS/Humana experience turning messy claims and eligibility data into reliable reporting assets using SQL and Python. They combine strong data engineering and analytics execution with stakeholder management, including automating monthly claims reporting from half a day to under 5 minutes and driving a provider outreach effort that reduced claim rejection rates by about 20%.”

“Backend engineer in airport operations who built a highly customizable BFF-based system connecting airport staff workflows to a baggage sortation engine. Their architecture cut per-airport customization from 100-150 engineering hours to 1-5 hours, improved long-running operation performance by 45%, and shipped in 4 months instead of 6. They also explored AI-assisted backend customization with human validation and test-based safeguards.”

Niranjaan Munuswamy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud and data engineering

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Cigna evolving REST API services backed by PostgreSQL, emphasizing reliability/correctness, scalability, and observability. Has hands-on production experience with FastAPI (contract-first design, Pydantic schemas), performance tuning (indexes, caching), and secure auth patterns (OAuth/JWT, RBAC, row-level security via Supabase), plus low-risk incremental rollouts using feature flags and dual writes.”

Lawrence Prabhakar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in FinTech

USA5y exp

“Engineer with a thoughtful, hands-on approach to AI-assisted software development, treating AI as a force multiplier for debugging, prototyping, and large-codebase work rather than a substitute for judgment. Particularly strong in multi-agent coding workflows, contract-driven development, and maintaining consistency across backend, frontend, and testing through shared schemas and OpenAPI-based coordination.”

“Backend engineer from Optum who built and optimized a real-time, Kafka-driven healthcare claims processing platform handling 1M+ claims/month. Strong in reliability, state management, and observability for distributed systems, plus production deployment automation with Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD; no direct ROS/robotics simulator experience yet but frames work in robotics-adjacent real-time principles.”