Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

“Robotics software engineer focused on system-level C++/Linux stacks for multi-robot platforms, owning the communication layer and validation/testing infrastructure. Built Python simulation/replay and fault-injection tooling integrated with Docker + GitLab CI/CD, and debugged real-time localization issues by instrumenting IPC timing and refactoring multi-threaded pipelines for deterministic performance.”

“LLM/agentic systems practitioner who repeatedly takes customer-facing LLM prototypes into production by operationalizing prompts, hardening RAG pipelines, and adding monitoring/guardrails. Has hands-on experience debugging intermittent production failures under high traffic (vector store timeouts/empty retrieval) and implementing fail-safe behavior plus alerting. Also partners closely with sales in pilots/POCs, customizing demos with customer data and running side-by-side comparisons to drive adoption.”

“Frontend/platform-leaning engineer who owned a shared React component library (design-system style) adopted across multiple SPAs, with strong discipline around SemVer, deprecation strategy, and developer documentation. Also has backend/distributed-systems experience diagnosing and fixing a Kafka microservice race condition and has led prioritization/migration planning in an unstructured monolith-to-microservices environment (Centene).”

“Graduate student researcher on the EARTH project (college collaboration with Moog) working on robotics for an arm/bucket system. Implemented waypoint-based path planning, built an Apriltag data pipeline, and developed ROS 2 tooling including a joystick-to-DeltaCAN teleop node; exploring reinforcement learning policies trained from Tera simulator + ROS 2 bag data to optimize trajectory planning under varying pressure/load conditions.”

“Built and productionized an AI NL-to-SQL capability inside legacy accounts receivable software (React + Spring Boot + Postgres/pgvector RAG), adding semantic caching and a SELECT-only validation layer to satisfy infosec. Achieved measurable impact (3 days to seconds turnaround, 60% token cost reduction, 50% latency reduction) with strong adoption (40 analysts, 50+ queries/week) and documented/monitored via Confluence + logging and user feedback loops.”

“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.”

Smriti Rai

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend APIs and distributed systems

Sunnyvale, CA4y exp

“JavaScript engineer with Walmart experience contributing to the Yup validation library—reproduced a nested-object validation bug, fixed merge logic, and added test coverage. Strong in systematic debugging/performance isolation (DevTools + timing logs), plus end-to-end ownership including documentation, monitoring, and issue triage.”

Vansh Amara

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and robotics infrastructure

Madison, WI1y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 experience building real-time perception/control infrastructure and multi-sensor fusion (radar/ultrasonic + GNSS/IMU) with deterministic latency and safety fallbacks. Debugged rover navigation drift via rosbag replay and timing analysis, improving state estimation by gating GNSS and switching to SLAM when GPS degraded. Also brings strong distributed-systems and build/CI tooling experience (gRPC/Protobuf, Docker, Bazel cross-compilation for ARM/RISC-V, GitHub Actions).”

Sanjana Kirthi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend platforms and cloud-native systems

USA3y exp

“Backend engineer from Emphasis who modernized legacy, tightly coupled workflow systems into observable, event-driven microservices using Kafka. Led a monolith-to-microservices refactor with shadow traffic, feature flags, canary rollout, dual writes, and reconciliation, and strengthened reliability with idempotent consumers, DLQ/replay, and an outbox pattern to prevent DB/event inconsistency. Strong focus on secure multi-tenant APIs (OIDC/JWT, RBAC/ABAC, Supabase-style RLS) and frontend enablement via OpenAPI and typed client generation.”

“Hands-on ML practitioner who built and deployed an end-to-end phishing email classifier (CLI + simple web app), achieving 98% accuracy and reducing manual security triage. Emphasizes production reliability through input validation, graceful failure modes, monitoring/logging, and iterative error analysis, with experience hardening pipelines against messy backend/database data using fallbacks and idempotent processing.”

“Healthcare ML/AI engineer at Cigna who has owned a clinical RAG pipeline from prototype through production, monitoring, compliance, and iteration. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with healthcare-grade safety and explainability, driving a 38% retrieval precision gain, 42% hallucination reduction, and meaningful improvements in team velocity and system reliability.”

“Full-stack engineer who described building Matrix, a meeting-room booking system across React, ASP.NET Core, and SQL Server. Stands out for owning the workflow end-to-end, emphasizing backend-enforced booking conflict validation, React performance optimization, and integrations like Google Calendar and email notifications.”

“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.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across Cigna, Cognizant, and a university environment, focused on reliability, distributed systems, and regulated-domain workflows. Stands out for combining Kubernetes/Kafka/AWS infrastructure expertise with a production RAG-based healthcare compliance assistant that cut manual reporting work from 30-45 minutes to under 2 minutes while maintaining strong uptime and data-quality controls.”

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 who shipped a Spring Boot transactions/points feature while using AI selectively for boilerplate and test ideas, keeping core system design decisions in human hands. Stands out for rigorous validation of AI output against database behavior, concurrency, idempotency, and failure scenarios, and has also built a lightweight planner -> code gen -> validator agent-style pipeline with step-level logging and retries.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning AI-powered product features and healthcare fraud detection systems. Has built end-to-end LLM-enabled applications, customer-facing recommendation systems at scale, and operational platforms that improved real-time investigations and flagged over 1,200 high-risk cases quarterly.”

“Currently serving as VP of Technology since January 2025, this candidate was brought in to build a fintech lending platform from the ground up, including hiring a global team and delivering a unified AI-enabled platform. They combine executive-level ownership with hands-on architecture work, including a customer-facing document agent and Plaid integration, and emphasize pragmatic AI adoption tied to measurable engineering productivity.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer with strong AWS/Snowflake experience who built an internal feature flag platform and helped migrate a cybersecurity insights product into a multi-agent AI chat interface. They report production scale of 1M+ embeddings and 50k+ monthly queries, with outcomes including an 80% reduction in analyst work and dashboard generation in 7 minutes; the work was also featured by Claude and AWS.”

“Early-career/new-grad candidate who built TrendScout AI, an evidence-first market intelligence agent that ingests messy news, extracts entities/events, builds a Neo4j knowledge graph, and answers questions via RAG with citations. Achieved ~95% retrieval relevance by combining ChromaDB semantic search with graph-based retrieval and validating outputs through human evaluation and guardrails to prevent hallucinations.”

Mayur Jain

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, blockchain, and cloud systems

Akron, OH5y exp

“Founding engineer who has built core product and backend architecture from scratch at two startups, spanning a full-stack NFT marketplace and an AI voice assistant for sales qualification and scheduling. Brings 5+ years of full-stack experience with strong React/TypeScript and Python backend depth, plus hands-on production experience with LLM workflows, evaluation, and AI-assisted developer tooling.”

Sai Naveen Reddy Reganti

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and Healthcare systems

null4y exp

“Full-stack engineer working on customer-facing utility and banking platforms, with hands-on experience across React/React Native, Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django, AWS, and SQL performance tuning. Stands out for owning production systems end to end, improving CI/CD and deployment reliability, and delivering a measurable database optimization that cut CPU utilization from about 80% to 40%.”