Vetted Design Patterns Professionals

“Built an internal RAG assistant for financial documents using FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and vector search, improving document search speed and reducing manual effort for the business team. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI engineering: uses AI heavily for productivity, but keeps human judgment central and has designed retrieval, validation, and summarization workflows end-to-end.”

“Candidate explicitly stated they do not have production agentic/LLM or generative AI experience, aside from spending a few hours becoming familiar with the process. Compensation expectation stated as 225,000.”

Yash Priyadarshi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure

Bengaluru, India2y exp

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer who built a Golang distributed key-value store on AWS using Multi-Paxos, WAL, and non-blocking gRPC replication (cutting write latency ~40%) and proactively addressed tricky failure modes like leader-election livelock. Also developed a Python/Kubernetes cost-optimization scaling engine deployed with Helm/Terraform, delivering ~$40K annual savings while sustaining 99.99% uptime, and drives contract-first API development (OpenAPI/Swagger) to speed frontend integration.”

“Dell engineer with hands-on full-stack and AI-powered internal platform experience, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Python microservices, Kafka streaming, and AWS/Kubernetes deployment. They’ve owned monitoring and anomaly-detection products end to end, including a dashboard that reduced manual log review and helped teams detect issues roughly 30% faster, while also translating complex AI outputs into intuitive experiences for non-technical users.”

“Java/Spring Boot engineer with startup-style ownership experience across e-commerce, banking, and healthcare analytics. Stands out for driving a monolith-to-microservices migration with Kafka that improved checkout reliability under peak load, while also contributing full-stack with Angular and supporting production operations end to end.”

“Unity game developer who built a "constraint-driven match resolution" card-game system that encouraged players to think 1–2 moves ahead while keeping interactions as simple as UNO-style matching; reported longer player sessions and positive feedback. Has used Photon to implement most online features in games and leverages AI tools for code writing to boost productivity.”

“Full-stack engineer with Bank of America experience modernizing a large-scale financial reporting platform. Built React frontends and Java/Spring Boot microservice APIs end-to-end, optimized data-heavy SQL performance (indexing/caching/pagination), and implemented an AI feature for forecasting and anomaly detection using Python/scikit-learn, with deployments supported on AWS.”

Ivan Kadyka

Screened

Staff Technical Lead specializing in Unity and .NET

Warsaw, Poland11y exp

“Unity/gameplay engineer (Playtika) who built a state-machine/ECS-driven slot/bonus engine in a client-server setup, focusing on consistent outcomes under latency and highly engaging reward sequences. Also implemented server-authoritative real-time challenges/contests via an event-driven messaging system (SignalR-like) across iOS/Android/WebGL/UWP, and validates impact through retention/session/engagement analytics.”

“Candidate appears to work at the intersection of enterprise billing/payments systems and AI-powered support automation. They describe owning customer deployments, integrating PayPal/Stripe, building LLM/RAG workflows for finance operations, and handling production incidents affecting millions of invoice events with measurable improvements in resolution time and ticket volume.”

“AI Engineer with hands-on ownership of a production multi-agent RAG platform in financial services, spanning experimentation, architecture, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for measurable impact: 35% retrieval relevance improvement and nearly 50% reduction in manual operational analysis effort, plus strong experience making enterprise LLM systems safer and more reliable in production.”

Supreet Purthpli

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience delivering end-to-end fintech features (Next.js/React/Node/Postgres on AWS) and measurable performance gains. Built and productionized an AI-native credit decisioning workflow combining LLMs, vector retrieval, and a rules engine with strong governance (bias checks, auditability, human-in-loop), improving precision and cutting underwriting turnaround time by 40%.”

Kiran M

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data platforms

Bentonville, AR5y exp

“Backend/ML integration engineer with experience at Accenture and Walmart building Flask-based analytics and prediction APIs on PostgreSQL/MySQL. Strong focus on performance and scalability—uses precomputed aggregates, Redis caching, query tuning (indexes/partitioning/EXPLAIN), and async/background processing; also designs secure multi-tenant isolation with JWT and schema/db-per-tenant strategies.”

“Backend engineer with healthcare and financial services experience (Humana, PNC) who owned production-grade, high-volume ingestion-to-API pipelines end-to-end in C#/.NET and SQL. Strong focus on data quality, handling out-of-order/partial upstream records, and improving reliability/observability via structured logging and telemetry, plus significant SQL performance tuning to reduce peak-load issues.”

“Backend engineer in healthcare data systems who has owned production pipelines end-to-end, from ingesting patient and claims data to serving it through secure APIs. Brings a strong mix of Python, SQL, microservices, cloud deployment, and data reliability practices, with measurable performance gains and experience building resilient integrations with external data sources.”

Apoorva Swaminathan Iyer

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in full-stack engineering and application security

Raleigh, NC3y exp

“Developer who has evolved into an AI-native builder, using Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and multi-agent workflows as collaborators while retaining ownership of architecture and code quality. At OpenPRA, they ramped quickly into NestJS from a Spring Boot background and implemented OAuth/JWT security; on the Aha quiz app, they effectively acted as a tech lead for AI agents across feature delivery, debugging, CI/CD, and Dockerization.”

“Built an employee payroll and leave management system end to end at Northwest Missouri State University, owning stakeholder discovery, UI design, frontend implementation, backend APIs, and payroll business logic. Also has experience modernizing legacy transaction processing with an incremental migration approach from COBOL-based batch systems to Spring Boot services.”

“Backend-focused engineer with production experience across finance and healthcare, currently building real-time payment microservices at JPMorgan Chase handling 3M+ transactions daily and 100k TPS peak. Stands out for combining high-scale distributed systems design, measurable database and ETL performance wins, and strong compliance-minded architecture in regulated domains.”

Sowmya Medabalimi

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in generative AI and FinTech

Denton, TX3y exp

“Product-minded engineer/designer with hands-on experience shipping AI-powered web experiences, including a financial assistant at Intuit, a document verification platform at Mphasis, and a healthcare companion chatbot. Stands out for combining UX design, frontend implementation, and retrieval/LLM backend work to turn ambiguous AI concepts into simple, production-oriented user experiences.”

“Software engineer/QA automation leader with Lowe’s experience owning automation quality strategy for a customer-facing platform supporting large contractor orders. Built TypeScript/React dashboards backed by Spring Boot microservices (MongoDB) and RabbitMQ async messaging, with strong CI/CD test automation and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana). Also created an internal automated test reporting dashboard that improved QA workflow through training-led adoption and iterative refinement.”