Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

“Engineer who uses AI in a disciplined, practical way—leveraging it to speed debugging, generate edge-case tests, and improve coverage while retaining ownership of system design and production validation. Has experimented with chained AI tools but prefers simpler workflows when they reduce noise and review overhead.”

Tara Munjuluri

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI systems

Ames, IA3y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with end-to-end ownership experience on internal platforms at John Deere, including a workforce and skills system that cut manual review time by 40%. Brings a strong reliability and compliance mindset across Java/Python microservices, AWS infrastructure, and production operations, and has also built an LLM-powered RAG system over 1M+ records with emphasis on grounded outputs and observability.”

Varshitha Macherla

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Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in Java microservices and cloud platforms

Overland Park, KS2y exp

“Full-stack engineer (~2.6 years) with strong Java/Spring Boot backend experience and React/Angular frontend exposure, who has worked on enterprise-scale systems at Dell processing ~1.8M daily transactions/events. Built secure, partner/internal-facing APIs (OAuth2/JWT) across 14 integrations and implemented Kafka-based order/payment workflows with idempotency and sub-700ms processing targets, plus CI/CD and Selenium-based release validation.”

Timothy Chu

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and data pipelines

Atlanta, GA11y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer from Home Depot who operated in small, startup-like teams with end-to-end ownership of critical production systems. Stands out for combining Go/Python backend depth, React/TypeScript collaboration, and strong reliability instincts—improving search latency by 40%, cutting DB latency by 35%, and hardening high-volume data and compliance pipelines.”

Rathin Shah

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Senior Robotics Systems Engineer specializing in autonomous mobility and optimal control

Pittsburgh, PA6y exp

“Robotics technical lead who architected and built a high-speed autonomous lunar rover mobility software system for GPS-denied environments, integrating MPC/LQR control, trajectory optimization, state and slip estimation, terrain-aware planning, and perception. Has deployed Deep RL policies trained in NVIDIA Isaac Sim onto real rover hardware via a ROS2 inference-node interface, with strong focus on real-time performance profiling, sim-to-real, and safety/HIL testing.”

“Frontend developer/designer who built an in-house real estate dashboard for Okhara & Company, owning the flow from Figma design through React implementation and production iteration. Worked in a small team environment, focused on turning complex backend outputs into usable, polished interfaces with responsive design, PWA support, and performance optimizations.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with strong end-to-end production ownership across predictive ML, RAG systems, and LLM routing. They pair solid platform engineering skills with measurable business impact, including 15% churn reduction, 35% support ticket deflection, 45% GenAI cost savings, and a shared inference library that cut deployment time from weeks to days.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production document intelligence and GenAI systems, spanning model experimentation, AWS deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for turning document-heavy workflows into reliable, near real-time products with measurable gains in accuracy, latency, and manual-effort reduction, while also shipping citation-grounded RAG features that drove user trust and adoption.”

Michael Matonte

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Senior Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems and AI-enabled platforms

Jersey City, NJ7y exp

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership experience in high-stakes environments spanning Citibank and industrial operations. They built an internal banking platform that automated complex entitlement workflows across thousands of business units with an 80% reduction in redundant processing, and they are now applying AI through OpenAI-powered agent workflows with RAG, vector databases, and security controls.”

Harsh Sanas

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Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI systems and cloud applications

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with a strong applied AI bent who has built both a real-time EV charging platform and a production text-to-SQL system. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can bridge frontend, backend, infrastructure, and LLM evaluation/safety work, with experience shipping under early-stage ambiguity and integrating software with real-world hardware.”

“Senior Engineering Manager with a player-coach style who stays technically engaged through heavy code reviews and pair programming. Led prioritization and stakeholder alignment for a scalable, resilient feature-flag evaluation service with strict sub-50ms latency goals, including a major caching-strategy redesign and incremental rollout approach. Experienced in incident response/retrospectives and in coaching engineers toward improved performance and promotions.”

Kaustubh Rai

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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.”

Hansraj Pabbati

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/LLM systems and cloud backend platforms

Remote, CA8y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end AI-powered natural-language-to-SQL deployment within Oracle OCI/Autonomous Database, including enrichment pipelines, RAG-based retrieval, SQL generation APIs, and post-launch monitoring. Stands out for combining LLM production engineering with strong guardrails, stakeholder management, and operational rigor around accuracy, latency, hallucination mitigation, and reliability.”

“Healthcare-focused full-stack/platform engineer with recent hands-on experience in Go, React, Python, Kubernetes, and AWS. They have worked in high-reliability, compliance-heavy environments, driving infrastructure modernization, internal operational tooling, and observability improvements that reduced troubleshooting friction for clinician platform and support teams.”

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent, voice-based conversational assistant for older adults’ daily health management using Vertex AI, FastAPI, Firebase/Firestore, and Cloud Run, with a custom cross-session memory design to keep responses context-aware at low latency. Also partnered with caregivers/elderly users and health officials, translating needs into workflows and explaining HIV risk predictions with SHAP and dashboards.”

“AI engineer at Anote.ai who built and shipped a production multi-agent LangGraph/LangChain/Ray RAG platform for enterprise search and workflow automation, supporting 3 commercial products and 100+ developers. Drove measurable gains (30% accuracy improvement, lower latency) and improved reliability with Redis-based state checkpointing, message-queue synchronization, and Milvus retrieval optimizations, while partnering with PMs/clients to add transparency features like confidence scores and real-time logs.”

Feras Alsaiari

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in AWS data platforms and event-driven systems

4y exp

“Capital One engineer leading the architecture and delivery of a large-scale AWS Glue/Spark/Delta Lake batch messaging pipeline that decoupled batch from real-time flows, added multi-region failover and automated retries, and delivered ~40% AWS cost savings with ~3x performance gains. Currently building an LLM-powered Slack bot using RAG to automate message investigations by querying CloudWatch, Snowflake, and internal documentation with privacy-aware masking of NPI/PII.”

Manjory saran

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Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

5y exp

“LLM infrastructure engineer who built a production-critical real-time personalization and memory retrieval system for a user-facing product, adding <100ms P99 latency while improving relevance ~20–25% and holding SLA through 3x traffic. Experienced designing tiered retrieval backends (Redis + vector store), deploying on Kubernetes with autoscaling/circuit breakers, and running rigorous observability, incident response, and agent evaluation (shadow traffic, A/B tests, regression/replay).”

Paiman Nodoushani

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in AI-powered transformation for enterprise SaaS

New York, NY35y exp

“Former Cisco professional who successfully pitched and got funding for adding virtualization to access routers to enable third-party application development, framing the opportunity with clear revenue upside and risk management. Highly interested in AI—especially agent-based development—and believes it lowers the barrier to building and shipping new products with small, high-caliber teams.”

“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.”

“Built and architected ML-integrated payment processing systems for PlayStation at Sony Interactive Entertainment, covering fraud determination, provider routing optimization, and model-training feedback loops in production. Brings a strong reliability and observability mindset, with concrete experience designing fallbacks, retries, correlation-ID tracing, and statistically grounded evaluation for non-deterministic systems.”

“Software engineer at Paradigm who is deeply hands-on with agentic development workflows and AI-assisted coding. He built an in-house OAuth layer to replace a third-party service and reduce projected integration costs, and also created an "ambient agent" that proactively responds to user behavior on the website. He stands out for combining full-stack architecture thinking with a disciplined, model-aware workflow for designing, implementing, and reviewing AI-generated code.”

“Senior engineering leader from IBM who has built and scaled enterprise AI/GenAI platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, combining executive-level org leadership with hands-on debugging of production distributed systems. Particularly compelling for Director/VP roles needing someone who can unify architecture, platform strategy, and engineering execution across multiple teams.”

“Built and shipped customer-facing AI systems in banking, including an AI fraud support workflow and virtual assistant at Citi/Citibank that handled over 1 million conversations per month. Combines full-stack engineering, LLM/RAG architecture, and strong compliance-minded design with PII masking, audit logging, confidence thresholds, and human escalation for regulated environments.”