Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

“Engineering leader who drove TiVo IPTV’s client-facing API modernization from a monolith to AWS-based microservices (API Gateway, Lambda, EKS, Kafka, DynamoDB/RDS), including phased/blue-green production routing of millions of calls. Emphasizes org scaling through skill-based hiring, mentorship, and a you-build-you-run ownership culture, while balancing technical leadership with executive stakeholder communication and budgeting.”

“React-focused engineer who built a full-stack analytics/test-metrics dashboard (React frontend + Python backend) and turned common UI pieces (data tables, filter panels, chart wrappers) into a reusable internal component library with docs, examples, and basic tests. Strong on profiling-driven performance optimization (React Profiler, memoization) and on owning ambiguous internal-tool projects end-to-end; now planning to package internal patterns into public open-source components.”

“Software engineer with experience at Google and the City and County of San Francisco building production AI systems, including a RAG-based internal support chatbot and ML-driven ticket priority tagging. Has scaled data/ML platforms with Airflow on GCP (1M+ records/day, 99.9% SLA) and deployed multi-component systems with Docker and Kubernetes (GKE), using modern LLM tooling (LangChain/CrewAI, Claude/OpenAI, Pinecone/ChromaDB, Bedrock/Ollama).”

“Backend/AI engineer who built and scaled an internal AMD semiconductor manufacturing microservice platform (SMR), reworking a synchronous lot-request workflow into an event-driven RabbitMQ/Celery/FastAPI pipeline. Diagnosed and fixed peak-load reliability issues using deep observability and Kubernetes autoscaling, cutting notification latency back to sub-second and reducing duplicates via idempotency/DLQs. Also shipped an LLM-powered natural-language search with schema-constrained JSON outputs and guardrails, plus a plan-execute-verify Jira bug-resolution agent that can propose fixes and raise PRs under restricted permissions.”

“Owned and built Bloomberg’s end-to-end bitemporal dividend & dividend-forecast data platform powering BQL for 400k+ terminal users. Architected real-time Kafka ingestion (5k–10k msgs/sec) across 100k+ tickers with strong correctness guarantees (PIT/bitemporal time-travel, immutable history to avoid look-ahead bias) and achieved sub-100ms p95 query latency through indexing and caching, deployed with Kubernetes + DLQ and robust monitoring.”

Sudhir Nelvagal

Screened

Executive Product & Engineering Leader specializing in Cloud/SaaS, AI/ML, and Cybersecurity

Cary, NC30y exp

“Engineering/technology leader with experience at GE, Owl Cyber Defense, and Team Cymru, focused on translating VOC and business strategy into iterative product/technology roadmaps. Led delivery of a Continuous Threat Exposure Management/asset discovery capability integrated with threat intel, reaching GA in ~2 quarters and generating ~$300K in pre-GA orders. Has scaled engineering organizations significantly (to ~100 FTE) and driven big-data security architectures using Kafka and ClickHouse with data-driven cost/performance tradeoffs.”

Alexander Goldberg

Screened

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in AI/AR SaaS and cybersecurity

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Engineering/technology leader with mission-critical experience at JPL NASA on the Mars Curiosity Rover, delivering an AI-driven navigation system designed for zero tolerance for mistakes and reportedly operating with no failures for 15+ years. Also led a monolith-to-microservices, cloud-native migration that improved scalability by 300% and cut deployments from days to hours, and is comfortable switching between executive fundraising/stakeholder communication and deep technical leadership.”

Akanksha Agrawal

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in event-driven data platforms

Bangalore, India5y exp

“Backend engineer with SAP experience modernizing a legacy Flask/PostgreSQL product master data platform into a modular, stateless, containerized service with Kafka-based background processing and improved observability. Also has hands-on academic/side-project experience operationalizing ML (NLP retrieval with TF-IDF/BERT via FastAPI and CV lane-edge detection inference APIs using PyTorch).”

Rishitha Madipelli

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems and streaming data

Austin, TX7y exp

“Backend/product engineer with Tesla experience building and operating a real-time OTA update monitoring and fleet analytics platform at massive scale (telemetry from 3M+ vehicles). Delivered end-to-end systems across Kafka-based ingestion, TimescaleDB/Postgres analytics modeling, FastAPI/GraphQL APIs, and React/TypeScript dashboards, and handled production scaling incidents on AWS EKS during major rollout spikes.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning Amazon IMDb and Northeastern’s NeuroJSON portal, combining consumer product work with complex scientific data applications. Built IMDb’s streaming providers feature—described as the company’s most impactful feature of 2023—and has hands-on experience with React/Angular, GraphQL, AWS, Python services, and production monitoring.”

Chitra Uppalapati

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and machine learning applications

Sunnyvale, CA1y exp

“Built production Python data integrations and dashboard automation for incident analytics, with a strong focus on data quality, observability, and reliability for leadership-facing reporting. Also translated an ambiguous manual creator evaluation process at startup Spring into an automated predictive scoring feature, showing a blend of backend data engineering, test automation, and cross-functional product thinking.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building financial operations and transaction monitoring products from 0→1 through production scale. They stand out for owning React UI architecture, backend/API integration, and data-layer performance decisions while making pragmatic startup tradeoffs and improving features post-launch based on latency, error, and user feedback.”

Shreya B

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud-native, and GenAI systems

Redmond, WA5y exp

“Software engineer with strong Java/Spring Boot backend depth and hands-on full-stack experience building AI-powered enterprise knowledge assistants and customer-facing order tracking systems. Stands out for combining RAG/LLM product work, event-driven microservices, and user-trust-focused product iteration, including shipping prototypes that became the basis for broader production workflows.”

“Product leader with experience at Amazon and Temenos, focused on AI-powered consumer experiences at scale. They led critical Alexa+ launches, including the first Suno music-generation integration on Alexa, combining strong UX instincts, LLM quality frameworks, and partner negotiation to unblock launches and drive major engagement gains. They also bring people leadership and a thoughtful human-in-the-loop perspective on AI, especially across multilingual and culturally nuanced markets.”

Aakash Khepar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in agentic AI systems

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership across production SaaS and AI agent systems, including a multi-tenant enterprise analytics product at Fractal Analytics and an archive intelligence platform for a real nonprofit. Stands out for combining deep backend/system design, secure AI/RAG implementation, and rapid zero-to-one execution—plus multiple hackathon wins and leadership roles.”

“Full-stack engineer with 5+ years of experience who built real-time data visualization and analytics systems at Uber, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Node/GraphQL services, Kafka pipelines, and PostgreSQL. Particularly compelling for teams needing a hands-on builder who can turn ambiguous customer needs into scalable products, and who has also applied RAG with LangChain/OpenAI over 1.8M support files to surface actionable insights.”

“Software engineer with 5+ years of experience building and scaling high-traffic web systems, including e-commerce-style purchasing/reservation flows and broker back-office platforms. He has hands-on experience across Next.js front ends, Python integrations, Go load-testing tools, and MySQL/Redis-backed architectures, with notable exposure to financial reporting, MT5 integrations, and commission logic.”

Melbourne Brown

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI-driven cloud-native platforms

Atlanta, GA12y exp

“Engineer with unusual breadth: from a tiny startup building racehorse medical-record systems on credit-card chips for live racetrack demos to modern AI-powered contract intelligence platforms in production. Brings hands-on full-stack and backend depth across React, Python, .NET, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and Azure, with a track record of making complex, reliability-sensitive systems work in real-world conditions.”

“Gameplay engineer with hands-on experience across Unreal Engine 5 and Unity, owning systems from level streaming/teleportation to motion-matched character movement. Has shipped/implemented multiplayer features including GAS-based replication with prediction/reconciliation and a deterministic lockstep runner using fixed-point math. Strong at diagnosing hard-to-repro physics issues and balancing performance/feel (e.g., mobile voxel A* pathfinding at 60 FPS, Chaos destruction tuned to avoid trapping players).”

“Robotics software engineer at Tesla who led end-to-end development of a distributed real-time control and orchestration platform for autonomous systems. Deep production ROS 2 experience (nav2, slam_toolbox), with demonstrated wins reducing end-to-end latency 25–30%+ via profiling, multithreaded executors, and QoS tuning, plus simulation and deployment at scale using Gazebo/Webots, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD.”

“LLM engineer who has deployed privacy-preserving, real-time workplace risk monitoring over massive enterprise chat/email streams, tackling latency, hallucinations, and extreme class imbalance with model benchmarking, RAG + fine-tuning, and a pre-filter alerting layer. Also built an agentic legal contract drafting system (Jurisagent) using LangGraph/LangChain with deterministic multi-agent control flow, structured outputs, and reliability-focused evaluation/telemetry.”

“Built a production LLM-powered analyst assistant at Discern Security to speed up SOC investigations using a RAG pipeline over security vendor documentation (Python PDF ingestion, vector search). Demonstrates deep, security-critical LLM engineering: structure-aware chunking with custom table parsing, grounded/cited responses, prompt-injection defenses, and post-generation validation, validated via golden datasets and adversarial testing; tool is used daily by analysts.”

“Software engineer who owned customer-facing, high-traffic TypeScript/React + TypeScript backend systems end-to-end, emphasizing safe velocity through feature flags, staged rollouts, observability, and rollback-ready incremental delivery. Reports shipping more frequently with fewer production incidents and faster recovery due to these guardrails.”