Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

Yuan-Hao Chen

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud infrastructure

Urbana, IL1y exp

“Backend-focused intern who owned real-time livestream features: live comment moderation using AWS Comprehend (sentiment/toxicity/PII) with safe fallbacks, plus AI-generated positive commentary via AWS Bedrock (Claude 3 Haiku). Emphasizes reliability/low-latency design, IAM troubleshooting, and disciplined GitOps-style CI workflows for reproducible deployments.”

Jahnavi Bellapukonda

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web and cloud systems

Remote, USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong data engineering and privacy-domain experience, having owned an automated Data Subject Rights (DSR) processing pipeline end-to-end across Azure SQL and GCP (GCS/BigQuery). Emphasizes production reliability via idempotency, validation checkpoints, structured logging/monitoring, and safe CI/CD-driven deployments, and has also built React+TypeScript + Node/Postgres web apps with scalable, maintainable architecture.”

Guojian Wang

Screened

Entry-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React/Next.js and Node.js

United States0y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building and owning production e-commerce features in Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript, including SSR-driven category browsing with pagination and region-specific pricing. Strong focus on post-launch reliability and performance—optimizes React rendering (lazy loading/Suspense), tunes Postgres queries with indexes/explain plans, and supports durable order-processing workflows with idempotency, retries, and structured logging.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered “Vet agent” that automates pet symptom intake across multimodal inputs (images/files/text/speech) and provides analysis/home-care guidance, reaching thousands of daily active users within two months. Demonstrates strong agent engineering fundamentals: state-machine orchestration with structured JSON, tool/schema validation, high-availability routing/failover, and rigorous offline/online evaluation loops with trace-driven reliability improvements.”

“Founder/CTO-type startup leader who has built cloud-native data and AI platforms from scratch while owning both technical vision and product direction. Brings rare end-to-end startup experience spanning zero-to-one building, growth-stage execution, and fundraising from early stage through exit, with a strong ability to translate technical complexity into clear investor narratives.”

“ML/LLM infrastructure engineer who built and shipped a production internal evaluation + failure-analysis agent (Arthur AI / R3AI context) that orchestrated end-to-end benchmarks with deterministic lineage, regression detection, and root-cause reporting at 5,000+ benchmarks/week. Also built backend observability and data validation systems for analytics pipelines at FullStory processing ~3.4B weekly events, emphasizing schema validation, quarantine fallbacks, and idempotent operations.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end AV operations automation and dashboarding platform for USC event operations, used daily to coordinate hundreds of live events. Delivered a React/TypeScript full-stack system integrating Smartsheet APIs with strong reliability practices (typed contracts, validation/fallbacks, safe rollouts) and experience with queue-based microservice patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQs, monitoring).”

“Software engineer with experience spanning an SEL internship and Walmart, combining backend/data pipeline work (Python, Kafka, relational DBs) with DevOps practices (Docker, Grafana, GitHub/Jenkins CI/CD, GitOps). Notably contributed to a REST-to-GraphQL migration aimed at reducing cloud utilization and implemented testing strategies to validate the transition.”

“Built and deployed an AI-powered insurance claims fraud platform end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, OpenAI, pgvector, and AWS EKS. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG architecture with production-grade scalability and observability, delivering measurable impact including 62% less manual review, 40% better fraud precision, 37% higher throughput, and 99.95% uptime.”

Neeshma Narahari

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in backend microservices and cloud platforms

Irving, TX6y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with strong React and TypeScript depth who has owned dashboard features end-to-end, from UI architecture and rendering optimization through Spring Boot APIs and database query tuning. Particularly compelling for startup or high-growth teams: they’ve shipped 0→1 internal operations platforms, prioritized MVP workflows effectively, and iterated post-launch using user feedback, logs, and usage metrics.”

“Python backend engineer with experience combining traditional API/microservices development and GenAI integrations, including healthcare claims workflows. Particularly compelling for teams building production AI systems: they pair hands-on work with LLMs, RAG, LangChain-style orchestration, and AWS deployment with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and engineering discipline.”

Ming Wang

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech

Hong Kong, Hong Kong1y exp

“Recent college graduate and software engineer who relies heavily on AI-assisted development, reporting that roughly 85% of code in a recent initiative was AI-generated and then manually reviewed. Has built customer-facing AI features including personalized recommendations and an internship chatbot tied to product advertising, with exposure to API communication, database checks, and conversation monitoring.”

“Product and engineering leader with experience driving large-scale transformation in regulated and enterprise environments, including security modernization at LPL Financial and developer platform standardization at General Motors. He combines hands-on technical judgment, UX modernization, and people leadership, and also brings a former teacher’s perspective to human-centered AI in education.”

Javon Lee

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms and cloud-native systems

Baltimore, MD8y exp

“Engineer with startup CTO experience and recent hands-on full-stack work at Microsoft and Clarity, focused on compliance and AML workflow platforms for financial services. Stands out for building scalable data and audit systems that reduced manual processing and improved performance, while operating effectively in ambiguous early-stage environments.”

“Frontend engineer with JP Morgan Chase experience building data-heavy React/TypeScript products, including an AI-powered enterprise search application and workforce analytics dashboards. Stands out for combining reusable component architecture, Redux-driven state flow, responsive CSS, and production performance tuning for large-scale internal enterprise tools.”

“Backend engineer with Citigroup experience who built and evolved a self-service user provisioning/identity backend, cutting onboarding from 45 minutes to under 2 minutes. Demonstrates strong production-grade integration and reliability practices (isolated integrations, retries, rollback logic, heavy logging) plus secure API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth scope-based authorization and incremental, low-risk rollout strategies.”

“Backend engineer who built a Logistics-as-a-Service platform in Go, proactively refactoring a monolithic REST service into gRPC microservices to improve performance and maintainability. Led a 3-person team with disciplined code reviews, Dockerized DB migrations, and a canary-style rollout (5% traffic) monitored for latency and failures; also implemented JWT/OAuth2 RBAC and production-minded edge-case handling in an ordering system.”

“Built a lightweight internal JavaScript analytics tracker capturing user interactions (clicks, page views, custom events) with debounced batching, automatic session tracking, and offline event caching via a localStorage-backed append-only queue. Demonstrates practical performance optimization mindset (profiling, memoization/caching) and React performance tuning.”

“Engineering leader who proposed and delivered a new API-based document management platform to replace a vendor-dependent system, improving latency by ~1s and availability to 99.9% while migrating legacy data. Also drove Python-based automation of ~12 workflows via third-party API integrations and led an SSO/auth integration focused on backward compatibility and high login success rates.”

“Uber engineer who has owned internal products end-to-end across backend (Spring Boot microservices, MySQL) and frontend (React), including performance optimization and secure JWT-based auth. Also shipped a production internal RAG/embeddings LLM support assistant over policy docs and support tickets, with guardrails (confidence thresholds, human review) and an evaluation loop that directly reduced hallucinations.”

“Senior software engineer (5+ years) from Walmart Global Tech who owned and operated high-scale supplier inventory submission systems, including a microservice handling submissions up to 500k items and a data platform processing ~10TB/day. Strong in AWS/Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka/Spark streaming + batch pipelines, and production operations (on-call, metrics/alerting), with demonstrated performance wins (30% faster responses, 50% faster processing).”

Allan Farinas

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python and AWS

West Covina, CA11y exp

“Backend/data engineer who has built production Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS-native platforms for event ingestion and analytics, combining ECS/Fargate + Lambda with CloudFormation-driven environments and strong secrets/IAM practices. Experienced modernizing legacy logic with parallel-run parity validation and safe phased cutovers, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning wins (20–30s down to 1–2s) plus incident ownership in Glue/Step Functions ETL pipelines.”

Vineeth Reddy Vallapureddy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and enterprise AI tools

Redwood City, California5y exp

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across C3.ai (supply chain demand planning) and Amdocs (telecom), working on large-scale data systems and microservices. Has driven first-time adoption experiments of Snowflake + Spark to handle billion-record workloads, built Jenkins-to-Kubernetes delivery pipelines with Nexus artifact management, and implemented Kafka streaming between microservices with HA and retry/error-handling patterns.”

SaiTeasmitha Kaja

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot and cloud microservices

Houston, TX4y exp

“Backend-focused Python/Flask engineer who has built authentication/profile services with clean modular architecture (blueprints + service layer) and tuned SQLAlchemy/Postgres for scale using indexing, query rewrites, and pagination. Has production-style integration experience for AI/ML via TensorFlow Serving and OpenAI APIs (batching, rate limiting, caching), plus multi-tenant data isolation and high-throughput background processing with Celery/Redis and idempotent jobs.”