Vetted Database Schema Design Professionals

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing a large-scale procurement platform at Jio Platforms by breaking a monolith serving 35 business units into Spring Boot microservices, improving uptime and cutting report latency ~30%. Also built high-concurrency FastAPI systems (200ms at ~500 concurrent users) with strong security (JWT/OAuth2/RBAC), event-driven Kafka integrations, and reliability patterns like exactly-once delivery for ~1M monthly triggers.”

THAMES HARRISON

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Engineering Manager specializing in enterprise SaaS, cloud architecture, and AI/ML

Gainesville, FL17y exp

“Senior engineering manager who stays hands-on (~50/50) while leading teams through design reviews, code reviews, and production issue triage. Shipped scalable platform features (notifications, user action tracking via microservices) with strong quality/performance practices (TDD, high-load testing). Owned a complex cross-system SSO/IdP incident end-to-end, identifying a SameSite+iFrame root cause and delivering a configurable product fix plus support documentation.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI Python APIs and AWS-native platforms (Lambda/API Gateway, SQS, ECS Fargate) with Terraform + GitHub Actions CI/CD and strong reliability practices (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts, structured errors/logging). Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines (S3/RDS to curated S3/Athena) with schema evolution and data quality controls, modernized legacy processing via parallel-run validation and phased cutovers, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (seconds to <200ms) plus incident ownership for batch pipeline SLAs.”

“Backend engineer who replaced an Excel-heavy forecasting workflow with a secure, auditable FastAPI system (React UI + relational model + async workers), emphasizing deterministic processing, idempotency, and versioned ledger-style ingestion. Led a monolith-to-FastAPI migration at Bounteous using a strangler approach, feature-flagged incremental rollout, and data reconciliation/shadow-compare to protect integrity while scaling onboarding workflows.”

Manasa Pantra

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, LLM systems, and full-stack development

Stony Brook, NY2y exp

“Product-focused full-stack engineer at startup (Zippy) who shipped a production multi-agent AI system for restaurant operations plus payments workflows. Built end-to-end: RAG grounded on a Notion knowledge base, structured function-calling task routing, FastAPI/JWT multi-tenant backend, and a polished React+TypeScript owner dashboard. Has real production incident experience (duplicate Stripe webhooks) and reports ~94% task-routing accuracy under load.”

“Software engineer with strong full-stack and platform experience (TypeScript/React/Node.js) who has built real-time analytics dashboards and microservices using RabbitMQ. Demonstrates production-minded decision-making under launch pressure (manual fallback for payment-impacting third-party API issues) and has delivered internal DevOps tooling that automates compliance checks via GitHub/Jira integrations.”

“Cofounded a travel app and built a production place recommendation + review system end-to-end using Next.js App Router and TypeScript, including Postgres-backed APIs and post-launch monitoring. Uses structured logging with Sentry and Vercel Analytics to diagnose issues and validate performance improvements, and has some exposure to Temporal-based workflow orchestration with retries/idempotency.”

Sagar Patel

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Python Developer & Data Engineer specializing in ETL and web platforms

Arizona, United States6y exp

“Backend engineer who led major modernization efforts at GoDaddy, migrating legacy Perl services to Python/FastAPI with an incremental rollout strategy, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions). Strong focus on secure, reliable API design (JWT, RBAC, PostgreSQL row-level security), rigorous testing, and data integrity—plus experience hardening an automated web-scraping pipeline against changing site structures and downtime.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience shipping analytics dashboards and an AI-driven support assistant for a cloud analytics platform. They combine Java/Spring Boot backend work with TypeScript frontend development and showed practical knowledge of LLM production concerns like retrieval grounding, latency, caching, retries, and graceful fallbacks. Their shipped dashboard feature improved load times by 35-40% and reduced support issues tied to delayed analytics.”

Brian Lam

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech

New York, NY12y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer working in Next.js/React who has owned complex internal and partner-facing browser workflows, including a multi-step CSV onboarding wizard and an admin quiz editor. Stands out for practical debugging skill on production-only timezone issues and for building resilient, typed form-heavy UIs with strong error handling.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer focused on data instrumentation and tracking-plan automation. They built an end-to-end publish architecture plus an MCP/agent workflow that turns PRDs, Figma files, and meeting transcripts into tracking plans and implementation-ready code, reportedly shrinking work from 4-5 days to minutes. They also show strong judgment around productionizing LLM systems, with tool-centric prompt design, backend guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls for high-risk actions.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned a generative-AI pipeline end-to-end inside the Vibecut video editor using Next.js App Router/TypeScript, Gemini-based prompt routing, and Zustand state management, including concurrency-safe requests. Also integrated Python services to access newly released AI tooling, optimized Postgres/S3 data flows for thumbnails, and built Modal-to-Amplitude workflows for Reddit-driven sentiment/metrics in a pre-seed environment while also handling marketing.”

“Software engineer with hands-on ownership of both fintech checkout improvements (saved payment methods/one-click checkout with tokenization and feature-flag rollouts) and production LLM/RAG systems for customer support. Demonstrates strong operational rigor via guardrails, evaluation loops integrated into CI/CD, and scalable data pipelines handling messy PDFs/CSVs/logs with reliability and observability.”

Jhansi D

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Chicago, Illinois4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience building secure, cloud-native document/workflow platforms handling high-volume customer and medical data across microservices on Kubernetes. Demonstrated impact improving performance via event-driven AWS architectures (Lambda + DynamoDB Streams) and strengthening compliance/security for S3-stored documents using IAM and KMS. Has delivered end-to-end APIs and UIs using Java/Spring Boot with Angular/React, plus Docker and CI/CD.”

Ti Wu

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in web apps and reinforcement learning

Hsinchu, Taiwan1y exp

“Built an AI basketball shooting coach that analyzes player form against NBA players and recruited 30+ beta users via Reddit to drive iterative UI/workflow improvements. Also has internship experience building an administrative server and coordinating API/database compatibility with another client server, emphasizing communication and integration quality.”

“AI/full-stack product engineer with experience shipping agentic systems in both fintech and enterprise compliance contexts, including an Anthropic-powered compliance Q&A tool at American Express and a home-equity assessment experience for seniors. Stands out for combining strong product instincts, typed full-stack implementation, and rigorous LLM evaluation/monitoring practices to improve trust, adoption, and operational efficiency.”

“Backend engineer with TaskRabbit experience building and operating payment/booking services in Python/Django on AWS (ECS + Lambda) with Kafka/SQS eventing. Demonstrates strong production reliability and incident ownership in high-stakes payment flows (idempotency, strict timeouts, retries, monitoring/alerting) plus data/ETL work in AWS Glue and measurable SQL performance wins.”

“Data engineer/backend engineer with experience in healthcare (Cardinal Health provider enrollment) and finance (Northern Trust) building and stabilizing data pipelines and REST services. Worked with APIs and Kafka at ~200k–300k records/day, improving data quality (DLQ + validation), performance (SQL/indexing), and reliability/observability (logging, alerts, consumer lag metrics), and stood up an early-stage financial data service with Jenkins-based CI/CD.”

Ashwitha Reddy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices and AWS

Ohio, United States3y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a real-time business analytics dashboard backend (Python/Flask/MongoDB) and built Kafka event-streaming pipelines with idempotent processing and DLQs. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying containerized microservices to AWS EKS with CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/CodePipeline) and ArgoCD auto-sync/drift detection, plus hands-on support for phased hybrid cloud/on-prem migrations using feature flags and replication.”

Narendra R

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

Dallas, TX7y exp

“Backend engineer focused on scalable Python/Flask services and high-performance PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy systems, with demonstrated wins like reducing N+1-driven response times to under 200ms and cutting P95 latency below 1s via background queues and caching. Has production experience operationalizing ML models as Dockerized APIs on AWS (S3/Lambda) with monitoring (CloudWatch/ELK), plus robust multi-tenant isolation using JWT-driven tenant context and row-level security.”