Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

Sirisha Maddikunta

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in enterprise LLM and healthcare AI solutions

O Fallon, MO6y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end LLM-powered fraud investigation assistant that automated case summaries and risk analysis, cutting analyst investigation/documentation time by 40%. Stands out for translating RAG concepts into a production-grade internal platform with strong evaluation, monitoring, and reusable Python service architecture that improved both analyst trust and engineering velocity.”

“Director-level Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Discover with roughly a decade in web application engineering leadership, focused on modernizing legacy banking platforms into cloud-native SPA architectures. Stands out for combining large-team people leadership with hands-on technical depth in architecture, debugging, and prototyping, including GenAI experimentation and high-scale customer-facing migrations.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping operational products in inventory and production management, spanning React/TypeScript frontends and Python, Node.js, and Java/Spring Boot backends. Particularly strong in making complex systems usable and reliable in production, including AI-powered anomaly detection with fallback logic, observability, and user-friendly alerting for non-technical operations teams.”

Mos Fard

Screened

Senior Distributed Systems Architect specializing in backend platforms and FinTech

Scottsdale, AZ12y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built an AI-powered visual product discovery feature end to end across web, mobile, backend, and ML integration. Particularly strong in TypeScript-first monorepo architecture, serverless AWS microservices, and productionizing computer vision/LLM pipelines with monitoring, prompt refinement, and human-in-the-loop quality controls.”

“Architecture leader from Disney who managed system, AI, and data architects while staying hands-on in solution design. Has experience building LLM-based video advertising products, designing Kafka-based real-time data architectures, and using MVP/POC approaches to align product and executive stakeholders.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a customer-facing advanced performance metrics experience in the Amazon S3 console, spanning React UI, Python/Node services, Redshift/RDS data access, and AWS IaC/CI-CD with CloudWatch/Route53 operational readiness. Demonstrates strong production instincts around resilience (partial failures, multi-region inconsistencies), progressive rollouts/feature flags, and reliable ETL/integration patterns (idempotency, backfills, reconciliation).”

Eric Lee

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI-powered systems

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Software engineer with experience spanning startup-style full-stack product work and large-scale Amazon backend systems. Built and owned an AI-powered recruiting workflow in Next.js/TypeScript/Prisma/PostgreSQL, and previously improved Alexa service scalability at Amazon by driving a caching change that cut API traffic by about 30%.”

“Backend engineer with production experience on an AWS Lambda-based payment service (manually deployed) and hands-on modernization work using parallel-run + diffing to prove parity before cutover. Has practical production troubleshooting experience for batch/pipeline incidents using monitoring/logs and emphasizes idempotent rerunnable jobs for safe recovery; also improved GraphQL performance by refactoring overly broad queries.”

“Search/backend engineer with hands-on experience improving Apache Solr-based search systems end-to-end (indexing strategy changes, ETL updates, and Java/Spring Boot Search API work). Demonstrated production rigor with QA partnership, A/B testing, and rollback-safe kill switches, plus measurable product impact (e.g., +1.5% add-to-cart) and operational troubleshooting including traffic/security mitigation.”

“Software engineer with experience at Striim and Amazon who ships end-to-end production systems across UI, backend, ML, and operations. Built a real-time PII detection capability for a streaming data platform by integrating Python ML inference into a Java monolith via gRPC sidecars, achieving ~3M events/hour throughput and ~93% accuracy, and helped drive enterprise adoption (Fiserv, CVS). Also modernized internal Amazon tooling for multi-region scale with modularization and fully automated deployments.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across edtech, logistics, and AWS internal systems—owned a production course recommender end-to-end (model serving + APIs + caching/observability), delivering +30% CTR and -20% latency. Has scaled real-time delivery visibility/rerouting on Kubernetes/EKS to sub-200ms P95 during demand spikes and built billion-events/day telemetry pipelines on AWS (Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, S3, Redshift) with schema evolution, dedupe, and replay support.”

“Backend/ML systems engineer with Stripe payments experience who built an asynchronous processing upgrade handling millions of API requests, cutting peak latency ~20–25% while preserving strict financial consistency via idempotency-safe retries and robust validation/fallbacks. Also built scalable ETL pipelines for messy CSV/Excel/API data with strong observability (structured logging/monitoring) and reliability mechanisms.”

Akshaya Rajagopalan

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud SaaS and accessible web apps

Waterloo, Canada6y exp

“Frontend engineer who leads end-to-end delivery of complex workflow-driven React + TypeScript products on top of Rails/GraphQL backends, with a strong emphasis on typed API contracts, scalable architecture, and automated quality gates. Shipped major features (e.g., inventory reservation at Jobber) using feature-flagged rollouts, close QA collaboration, and performance-focused iteration.”

Shriya Bannikop

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and distributed systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-assisted job-matching dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, keeping LLM logic server-side and improving performance via deduplication, caching/revalidation, and streaming (35% fewer duplicate LLM calls; 40% faster first render). Also has strong data/backend chops: designed Postgres models and optimized queries at million-record scale (1.8s to 120ms) and built durable AWS multi-region telemetry workflows with idempotency, retries, and monitoring.”

Antara Bhavsar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native systems and Android development

Bloomington, IN3y exp

“Application-focused software engineer with experience at Amazon and Motorola shipping production systems ranging from developer monitoring/on-call tooling (Alcazar, ~40% MTTR improvement) to consumer AI features used by 100K+ users. Currently building an AI/ML-driven platform with a Python/FastAPI backend on AWS (ECS/RDS/S3) and has handled real production latency/scaling incidents end-to-end.”

Jignesh Desai

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in fraud detection and payments platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA26y exp

“Engineering manager/player-coach who focuses on laying technical foundations and improving team execution: kickstarted Visa standard UI library adoption, standardized API exception handling, and introduced a test automation framework that enabled a shift from quarterly to monthly releases. Led a phased latency/throughput initiative that doubled throughput, and owned a production incident caused by a dependency’s expired certificate, driving monitoring and certificate-expiry notification improvements across dependent systems.”

Abraham Musa

Screened

Senior Solutions Architect specializing in cloud AI infrastructure and security

Union City, NJ9y exp

“Cloud-native architect focused primarily on AWS, with experience designing Kubernetes and AI/ML infrastructure for customers rather than owning day-to-day operations. Particularly interesting for AI platform roles: they described using Amazon Bedrock to analyze Terraform and automatically generate compliant IaC templates and runbooks for new multi-cloud AI environments.”

“Built and shipped production LLM agents that automate document processing and decision workflows, with a strong focus on reliability, guardrails, and measurable business impact. Stands out for combining RAG, tool calling, evals/monitoring, and ERP integration to deliver 30-35% manual effort reduction and higher throughput without additional headcount.”

“Product-minded software engineer with experience shipping AI-powered financial insights (spend forecasting, cashflow, credit optimization) and building real-time analytics systems using React/TypeScript and FastAPI. Has designed microservices with RabbitMQ/gRPC and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry), and also built an internal Figma plugin adopted by designers that reduced export time by 50%.”

Krishna Guda

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI-native FinTech systems

Mountain View, CA23y exp

“Fintech product engineer working on a large-scale credit monitoring platform (tens of millions of users) with deep experience in regulated banking integrations, PII security, and step-up/MFA flows. Has shipped customer-facing React/TypeScript experiences driven by Optimizely experimentation and built reliable partner-facing microservices/SDKs on AWS, including resolving production traffic loss caused by edge security (DataDome/CAPTCHA) conflicts with payment providers.”

“Full-stack engineer from early-stage startups who has owned AI products end to end, from B2B document intelligence platforms on AWS to an HVAC voice assistant and a GCP-based RAG research system. Stands out for combining hands-on backend/infra depth with team leadership in lean environments, and for shipping scalable AI systems that contributed to roughly 1 million yuan in sponsorship.”

“Software engineer intern at Nutanix who independently shipped and maintained an internal smoke-test/failure-analysis dashboard, integrating failure data from multiple upstream systems (e.g., Jira, Jenkins, CircleCI) via REST APIs. Also has prior data-science experience building Postgres-based asset management analytics with automated reporting and indexing for faster time-series retrieval.”

“Amazon engineer who owned customer-facing Alexa features and built automation-heavy delivery practices (API/service-level testing in CI/CD) to ship quickly without sacrificing stability. Also built an internal self-service feature management/beta access platform (Angular + Spring Boot + event publishing) that replaced a multi-team ticket workflow with instant, auditable operations, and has deep microservices/Kafka experience with strong observability and reliability patterns.”

Swagat Adhikary

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in LLM agents and FinTech platforms

Raleigh, NC1y exp

“AI/LLM engineer with Fidelity Investments experience who built and shipped a production GraphRAG system that augmented prompts with codebase context, improving business analyst efficiency by 15% and saving ~$3.5M annually. Strong in AWS EKS/Kubernetes/Helm and enterprise IAM/OIDC patterns (including cross-account S3 access), with experience mentoring interns and collaborating with non-technical leaders to extend AI pipelines (e.g., adding SQL functionality during MVP).”