Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

“Hands-on AI/LLM practitioner who built a RAG-based customer support chatbot and tackled production issues like data chunking complexity and response-time lag. Uses techniques such as overlapping chunks, semantic search, context engineering, and query routing, and has experience presenting technical demos/workshops to developer audiences.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a gun-parts price tracking platform focused on accurate historical pricing and fast graph-ready APIs. Experienced migrating an Express backend to NestJS incrementally with parallel routing, feature flags, and careful data integrity controls, and has a security-focused approach to API design (JWT/OAuth, RBAC, row-level access via scoped queries).”

“Backend/platform engineer with production experience building a Python SDK over a microservices ecosystem, emphasizing reliability (JWT auth, retries/timeouts, custom exceptions) and integration testing. Has delivered AWS EKS microservices with Jenkins+Helm CI/CD, strong secrets/config separation using AWS Secrets Manager, and set up Datadog APM/deployment/change monitoring. Also modernized legacy VB applications to C#/.NET WPF via incremental migration with parity testing and stakeholder sign-off.”

“LLM/agent builder who shipped a live consumer AI-agent app (kalpa.chat) that visualizes complex reasoning as interactive graphs and abstracts multi-provider model usage via a unified wallet. Professionally has applied LangChain/LangGraph to IVR parsing and to scaling a football video-generation pipeline at DAZN, including shipping a VAR-specific retrieval/order fix via SQL after iterating with a non-technical PM.”

“LLM-focused engineer with end-to-end experience shipping an OpenAI-powered edtech teacher assistant into production, using Humanloop-driven prompt iteration, rigorous observability (Datadog), and A/B testing tied to real learning metrics (25% comprehension lift). Also led adoption-driving technical demos at SiriusXM (event-driven AWS Lambda/Kotlin/CDK pipeline cutting processing from 24 hours to seconds) and partnered with sales at Spresso.ai to close eCommerce SDK deals and boost activation from 40% to 85%.”

“Built and owned end-to-end TypeScript/React dashboards with a Node.js backend, including post-launch additions like role-based access and new reporting views enabled by modular architecture and clean API boundaries. Also created an internal real-time operations/engineering dashboard that replaced spreadsheets and reduced manual tracking, iterating quickly based on direct team feedback.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building and maintaining a React accessibility utility/component library (open-source-style) used across university portals, emphasizing WCAG 2.2 compliance, robust focus/keyboard behavior, and Jest/React Testing Library coverage. Also built and maintained .NET Core microservices at the Florida Department of Transportation, including integrating AI-driven features, with strong ownership around observability, incident response, and performance-focused refactoring.”

“Full-stack Java developer (~4 years) who built a telecom asset management system end-to-end with React and Spring Boot, and led/participated heavily in migrating it from a monolith to Spring Cloud-based microservices. Experienced with high-volume, data-driven workloads using Kafka (partitioning, batching, resilient consumers) and production observability via centralized logging with ELK and Splunk.”

“Backend engineer with cloud-native Python/Flask experience building high-throughput financial platforms (loan origination intelligent document processing and real-time fraud detection). Has scaled microservices on AKS with event-driven Azure messaging, delivered measurable performance gains (e.g., 700ms→180ms query latency; ~40% API improvements), and implemented strong security controls (OAuth2/JWT, Azure AD RBAC, audit logging, AES-256/TLS) for sensitive regulated data.”

“Backend/full-stack Java engineer at PNC Bank specializing in real-time fraud detection systems. Built event-driven Spring Boot + Kafka microservices with PostgreSQL/Redis performance tuning, and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG feature for fraud analysts with strong guardrails (grounded internal data, structured prompts with references, human-in-the-loop) plus an evaluation loop using labeled historical fraud cases.”

Vidit Naik

Screened

Junior AI/ML & Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Forward-deployed engineer who built a production AI drone-control chatbot that lets users fly a drone via natural language while viewing a real-time feed. Implemented RAG over drone SDK documentation (vector DB + top-k retrieval) and LoRA fine-tuning, with a focus on latency, token efficiency, and cost reduction, and regularly works with non-technical clients to integrate and explain AI system architecture.”

Filmon Tesfay

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and AI platforms

New York, NY8y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership: built and operated a real-time transaction monitoring/fraud-alerting system using Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, and AWS with CI/CD. Demonstrates metrics-driven operations (latency, stability, consumer lag, true/false positives) and reliability patterns for integrations (idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQs, reconciliation/backfills), plus modern React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres architecture experience.”

Mohith Venkata

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native APIs and data workflows

Tukwila, WA4y exp

“Built and owned end-to-end ordering and inventory/order management systems for a wholesale distributor, delivering an MVP quickly and iterating based on direct observation of daily users. Experienced with TypeScript/React + Node.js layered architectures and microservices using RabbitMQ, including real-world scaling issues (duplicates, backpressure) and observability practices (correlation IDs, structured logging).”

Ashank Dsouza

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native web platforms

Bengaluru, KA4y exp

“Engineer with startup experience who emphasizes disciplined Agile execution (requirements analysis, Jira tasking, sprint planning) and production readiness (testing/QA/PR review). Uses profiling/logging for high-observability debugging and prioritizes incidents by impact. Has demoed engineering processes and worked directly with a client (Canadian music service) to position product capabilities and future extensions to drive adoption.”

Harika Reddymalle

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in backend automation and insurance systems

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on production ownership across Angular/.NET/SQL and React+TypeScript/Node/Postgres stacks, including CI/CD and AWS operations (EC2/ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch). Delivered an internal insurance document upload and tracking feature end-to-end, adding audit/history and async processing, then validated success through monitoring metrics and reduced support tickets. Comfortable shipping MVPs in ambiguous environments using feature flags, strong validation, and backward-compatible database migrations.”

“Early-career full-stack builder who created an AI interview-prep platform used by 200+ students, tested it with a 25-student study group, and earned recognition through the CUNY Startup accelerator, including prize money and local college adoption. Has also shipped compliance-sensitive AI products in healthcare marketing and operational tools like invoice approval systems, showing unusual breadth across AI, UX, and backend systems.”

“Built OpenGPU features spanning React/TypeScript, Go orchestration, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Stripe, with a strong focus on reliability, transaction integrity, and low-latency distributed systems. Also shipped LLM product infrastructure, including persona-conditioned frameworks and reusable prompt/model abstractions, showing a blend of systems engineering and fast product iteration.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end fintech product, FinSight, for bank statement analysis and financial Q&A using a production-style RAG architecture. Stands out for combining FastAPI, OpenAI embeddings, FAISS, hybrid SQL/vector retrieval, and practical reliability work like chunking optimization, validation, and low-latency performance tuning.”

“Software engineer focused on backend and full-stack development who is already integrating AI deeply into day-to-day engineering workflows. Stands out for experimenting with multi-agent setups where separate agents handle planning, coding, review, testing, and documentation, while maintaining strong human oversight around quality, security, and performance.”

Naveen K

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered backend systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a real-time analytics and alerting dashboard built with React/TypeScript, Node.js, Kafka, Redis, and PostgreSQL. Also contributed to an internal LLM-powered support automation system, focusing on backend orchestration, RAG-based reliability, and Kubernetes deployment. Stands out for combining product-minded zero-to-one execution with strong distributed systems and AI integration experience.”

“Backend/cloud engineer who built an AWS serverless IoT system that computes Bluetooth beacon locations from telemetry using heavy scientific Python (NumPy/SciPy/pandas) packaged as Dockerized Lambda, integrated with Java microservices and scheduled batch orchestration. Has deep AWS delivery experience (CI/CD with Code* tools, CloudFormation, cost controls) and has led high-severity incident response including CloudTrail forensics and infrastructure recovery after a compromised-keys crypto-mining attack.”

“Senior hands-on full-stack engineer with recent Python/React/TypeScript experience at Terakeet and prior Go-focused backend work at Checkly. Stands out for building and scaling analytics and monitoring platforms in startup-style environments, with strong depth in PostgreSQL performance, containerized deployments, and turning ambiguous business goals into reliable production systems.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on high-scale, event-driven AWS ingestion systems (SQS/Lambda/EKS) processing millions of events per day, with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, bounded retries) and deep observability using Datadog distributed tracing. Has delivered Terraform/GitHub Actions CI/CD and improved secret rotation via Secrets Manager + IRSA, plus Glue-based ETL with schema-evolution handling and Postgres SQL optimization (including JSONB/GIN indexing). Candidate is currently living outside the US and states they do not have US work authorization.”

“Software engineer who has shipped both core web platform features (secure user authentication/profile management) and production LLM systems. Built an internal documentation knowledge assistant using a full RAG pipeline (OpenAI embeddings, vector DB, semantic search, reranking) with evaluation loops and a scalable document-ingestion pipeline for PDFs/FAQs, iterating based on metrics and user feedback.”