Vetted Design Patterns Professionals

“IoT/connected-device and SaaS product builder with deep connected health/telehealth experience, including patient care delivery and remote patient monitoring. In their current org, they expanded a nutrition product business by prototyping and piloting a digital pre/post-surgical coaching care-delivery service with real providers/clinics/patients, then building an MVP and taking it to market.”

“UX/product designer with deep healthcare and mission-critical software experience across 3M Healthcare, GE Healthcare, and Motorola. Has designed complex lab automation and radiology workflows end-to-end, combining rigorous field research with hands-on engineering (HTML/CSS/TypeScript/React, Storybook) and even building live prototypes (Firebase + Angular) and production-ready UI control libraries to ship.”

“Built and shipped a production generative-AI recipe feature on AWS serverless (Lambda + Bedrock), evolving it post-launch from fully AI-generated outputs to user-guided structured generation based on real usage patterns and system metrics. Emphasizes reliability via prompt constraints plus deterministic validation, with automated/human eval loops and CloudWatch-based observability to manage latency, cost, and output consistency.”

“Data/analytics engineer who built and operated a DocuSign-based real-time analytics platform end-to-end, processing 20–50k webhook events/day with ~99.5% reliability. Strong in idempotent event processing, schema-evolution-safe ingestion (raw JSON + dynamic parsing), and serving data via versioned, low-latency REST APIs with solid CI/CD and observability.”

“BlackRock application engineer/product owner focused on enterprise AI platforms, building internal GenAI and ML workflow products for operations and business teams. Stands out for combining consultative solution design with hands-on implementation, including a contract review platform that cut first-draft review time by 60%+ and an AI mailbox tool that drew interest from 17 additional teams during the POC stage.”

Kaustubh Rai

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in scalable distributed systems and cloud platforms

Pittsburgh, PA2y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at UnitedHealth Group redesigning a high-traffic Spring Boot microservice from blocking to reactive architecture during peak season, cutting median latency by 47% for a service used by ~10M customers annually. Strong in Kubernetes-based deployment/scaling and pragmatic rollout strategies (blue-green/incremental traffic shifting) with performance and database troubleshooting.”

“Backend-focused engineer who uses AI pragmatically as a force multiplier rather than a substitute for engineering judgment. They stand out for applying structured, agent-style workflows to code generation, debugging, and production log analysis while maintaining strong emphasis on correctness, performance, and reliability in backend and microservices environments.”

“Engineering leader who managed a 20-person cross-functional team building customer-driven software solutions, delivering a 50% reduction in simulation/test lifecycle and securing a long-term strategic SLA. Strong in scalable data ingestion architectures (FastAPI + Kafka + multiprocess workers), operational diagnostics (correlation IDs/centralized logging), and microservice decoupling for analytics/visualization. Active open-source contributor who shipped a NATS bug fix and improved SDK onboarding with automation that cut ramp time by 30%.”

“Product/design leader in financial services who has driven measurable UX impact at Truist, including moving digital banking visual appeal from 9th to 3rd in JD Power through research-led refinement rather than a costly full redesign. Brings hands-on AI product experience with personalized banking insights, strong stakeholder leadership across complex enterprise environments, and a personal commitment to human-centered AI shaped by tutoring experience and a background overcoming poverty through education.”