Vetted Database Schema Design Professionals

“Player-coach engineering leader focused on scalable data security scanning and risk detection in hybrid cloud, owning architecture and core implementation of an incremental/parallel DSPM scanning engine. Shipped production improvements including 60% lower scan latency and 30% fewer false positives, with strong emphasis on correctness under concurrency, multi-tenant observability (SLOs/burn-rate alerts), and disciplined rollout practices (feature flags, shadow scans, canaries).”

Xun He

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and security engineering

25y exp

“Senior backend/infrastructure engineer with experience at Microsoft, DocuSign, Pinterest, and Harness, focused on security and developer productivity systems. Stands out for building Pinterest's first vulnerability management platform from scratch for a 100,000-EC2 production environment and driving major performance gains, while also delivering CI/Docker infrastructure and Python test intelligence features shaped by customer demand.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who described owning an artist search and detail experience across UI, backend integrations, and data modeling. They show practical strength in scalable React architecture, TypeScript safety, and performance tuning, with a product-minded approach to shipping 0→1 features quickly and iterating after launch.”

“Backend/infra-focused engineer with experience spanning Go-based MCP servers for an AI-assisted Kubernetes on-call diagnosis chatbot and a Python/Flask PagerDuty automation integration. Previously at Tesla, optimized high-volume battery test data in PostgreSQL using JSONB, partitioning, and a timestamp normalization pipeline; also built PyTorch PINN training workflows and achieved a 20x speedup via batch vectorization.”

Joseph Fusco

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered developer tooling and backend platforms

Marin, CA10y exp

“Backend/product engineer from Postman Flows who has owned complex platform features end-to-end, including production versioning and an LLM-powered flow-building orchestration layer. Stands out for combining product-minded backend design, agentic AI workflow implementation, and strong production reliability work, including re-architecting a failing event pipeline from in-memory to managed queues.”

UDAY JARAJAPU

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-native products and large-scale platforms

Fremont, CA22y exp

“Experienced cross-functional operator with background in AI, edtech, consumer mobile, cloud, and real estate search, including roles at Apple, AWS, and Trulia. Currently building Typerighter, an AI-native writing workspace focused on compliance, authenticity, and human-verifiable content, with a nuanced understanding of institutional requirements and startup/accelerator dynamics.”

“Software engineer at Intel who owns a production Go/Kubernetes backend for supply-chain transparency and end-to-end hardware integrity verification in a hybrid cloud setup (AWS control plane + Azure data plane). Also built and shipped an AI agent workflow for real-estate due diligence that turns raw Excel spreadsheets into structured investment outputs and auto-generated PowerPoint insights using LangGraph, with strong emphasis on verification, observability, and reliability guardrails.”

“Deloitte consultant who led cross-functional teams delivering a Snowflake/AWS data ingestion, warehousing, and analytics platform, with a strong track record of executive alignment and risk mitigation. Built reusable business-development accelerators (including an end-to-end Appian app and a Java integration-config tool) credited with helping secure $75M+ in contracts, and has high-confidentiality experience consulting for DoD and FDA.”

Vatsal Gabani

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI-enabled platforms

California, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a support ticket intelligence platform, spanning React/TypeScript frontend work and backend API, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Docker-based deployment. They stand out for driving practical architecture and performance improvements in production, including moving heavy processing async and cutting response times from about 300ms to 150ms while improving reliability.”

Kaustubh Rai

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native microservices

PA, USA2y exp

“Software engineer with ~2 years at UnitedHealth Group plus CMU coursework/TA experience, spanning backend modernization and cloud-native operations. Worked on migrating a customized open-source EDI system from Python 2 to Python 3 while improving SQLite database traceability via JSON exports, and has hands-on Kubernetes microservices deployment on Azure using Helm, HPA, and Jenkins-based Git-triggered CI/CD. Also built a large-scale real-time ride-hailing simulation using Kafka + Samza with explicit fault-tolerance strategies.”

Timothy Lee

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI platforms and scalable web systems

Live Oak, FL12y exp

“Built and shipped production agentic/LLM systems that could safely perform real customer and subscription operations, not just answer questions. Demonstrates unusually strong depth in agent orchestration, tool safety, evals, tracing, and backend workflow design across Node.js/TypeScript, Go, Redis, Postgres, Kafka, and GPT-4.”