Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

“Backend-focused engineer at Wells Fargo owning production payments features end-to-end, including Spring Boot REST services, CI/CD + containerized AWS deployments, and CloudWatch-based observability. Has hands-on experience stabilizing high-traffic transaction workflows and building reliable ingestion/integration flows using idempotency, retries/backoff, and reconciliation.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Razorpay and Groww, focused on hardening high-throughput financial systems for reliability and low tail latency through incremental improvements (SQL/index tuning, Redis caching, timeouts, idempotency). Also built/refactored a commodity risk tracker using Supabase Auth + Postgres RLS for strict per-user isolation, with a strong emphasis on API contracts, observability, and safe migrations.”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on data visualization, extending Chart.js/React with custom plugins for real-time streaming dashboards. Designed an end-to-end telemetry pipeline using Apache Kafka and Azure Cosmos DB, optimizing partitioning, batching, caching, and client throttling to keep latency low and support thousands of concurrent users. Demonstrates strong ownership in fast-changing environments, including building full-stack AI applications and ingestion/ETL pipelines at Robotics Technologies LLC.”

“Backend engineer who has delivered large, measurable performance wins (10x throughput, 67% latency reduction) by combining Flask microservices, Redis caching, and AWS autoscaling/observability. Has hands-on depth in SQLAlchemy/Postgres optimization and production scaling pitfalls (cache consistency, connection exhaustion), plus experience deploying real-time ML inference (XGBoost) on AWS Lambda and building secure multi-tenant Kubernetes isolation.”

“Software engineer with production experience building a serverless monolith and multi-layer video pipeline at easyML, plus hands-on integration of multiple LLM providers (Grok/Claude/OpenAI) into a full-stack app. Interested in robotics via computer vision (OpenCV/OpenMMLab), with a strong real-time systems mindset around SLOs, latency, determinism, and reliability; also has low-level OS experience writing a keyboard device driver.”

“Senior technology/executive leader with 30+ years building and scaling mission-critical platforms across blockchain, cloud, cybersecurity, and fintech, including leading 100+ person global teams and managing $100M P&Ls. Founded Pharus (2022) after driving Web2-to-Web3/DeFi/metaverse initiatives at SDK Co, using a first-principles, PoC-driven approach to deliver secure, compliance-aware transformations (GDPR/NYDFS) and multi-million-dollar optimizations, with a focus on quantum-resistant Web3 and ethical AI governance.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered internal operations automation platform using LangChain RAG (Pinecone) and FastAPI microservices, deployed on AWS EKS, serving 10k+ daily interactions. Implemented a rigorous evaluation/observability stack (golden datasets, prompt regression tests, MLflow, retrieval metrics, hallucination monitoring) that drove hallucinations below 2% and improved reliability, and partnered closely with non-technical ops leaders to cut manual lookup work by 60%+.”

“Software engineer with hands-on ownership of both fintech checkout improvements (saved payment methods/one-click checkout with tokenization and feature-flag rollouts) and production LLM/RAG systems for customer support. Demonstrates strong operational rigor via guardrails, evaluation loops integrated into CI/CD, and scalable data pipelines handling messy PDFs/CSVs/logs with reliability and observability.”

Jeetendra Girish Vasisht

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Bangalore, India2y exp

“Backend engineer (Nokia) who designs and migrates cloud-native microservices at scale, including a secure low-latency system handling 500k+ daily transactions. Strong in Kubernetes/OpenShift operations, CI/CD standardization, and production security (OAuth2/JWT/RBAC) with SOC2-aligned controls and zero critical security incidents. Demonstrated expertise in safe migrations (canary/blue-green, dual writes, reconciliation) and concurrency correctness in real-time systems.”

Sri Harsha patallapalli

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Mid-level Machine Learning & Data Infrastructure Engineer specializing in MLOps on AWS

Boston, MA5y exp

“Built and deployed a fine-tuned Qwen 2.5 14B model into production at Dextr.ai as the backbone for hotel-operations agentic workflows, running on AWS EKS with Triton and TensorRT-LLM. Demonstrates strong cost-aware LLM engineering (QLoRA, FP8/BF16 on H100) plus rigorous benchmarking/observability (Prometheus, LangSmith) with reported sub-30ms TTNT. Previously handled long-running ETL orchestration with Airflow at GE Healthcare and Lowe's.”

Hetvi Shah

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in React/Angular and Node.js

Toronto, Ontario6y exp

“Frontend lead who owned architecture and quality for TELUS’s Next Generation Sales Platform, building a modular React+TypeScript experience that scaled across wireline/wireless products and channels. Experienced in hardening UIs against unreliable backend integrations (API abstraction, retries/fallbacks, caching, logging) and delivering real-time dashboards via WebSockets, with strong CI/CD testing and blue-green release practices for high-stakes launches like Black Friday.”

Mike Khorrami

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in enterprise SaaS and cloud-native platforms

Woodland Hills, CA25y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who modernized a legacy C#/SQL Server system to Snowflake + Python on GCP, enabling ~30x scale and supporting hundreds of millions of transactions per day per customer. Strong in architecture tradeoffs (Snowflake vs Databricks), production reliability (New Relic, logging/alerting), and lightweight process improvements like a rigorous Definition of Done and structured PR reviews.”

“Backend engineer with experience spanning regulated financial systems at Oracle Financial Services and early-stage product building at Apli.ai. Has owned production onboarding infrastructure end-to-end, improved reliability through strong observability and incident response, and also built AI-backed backend workflows using AWS, Bedrock, and RAG.”

“Backend/AI infrastructure engineer focused on production-ready LLM systems and distributed workflows. They described building a RAG-based multi-step agent with strong reliability controls, evaluation loops, and graceful degradation that improved latency by 30%, retrieval accuracy by 15%, and reduced support workload by 40%.”

Ravindrareddy B

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Junior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in enterprise web applications

Ames, IA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building an internal telecom order-tracking/dashboard platform at T-Mobile across React, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, from scalable frontend architecture and TypeScript patterns to API design, query optimization, CI/CD, and post-launch monitoring in AWS CloudWatch.”

“Data engineer/backend engineer with healthcare domain experience at Centene, where they owned an end-to-end claims processing pipeline handling over 1 million monthly records. They combine Python/SQL pipeline work with API and event-driven service development, and cite a measurable 35% reduction in incident detection time through automated monitoring and validation.”

Naveena Musku

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in agentic AI and LLM systems

5y exp

“Backend engineer focused on productionizing LLM systems: built a FastAPI-based RAG and multi-agent automation platform deployed with Docker/Kubernetes, prioritizing safe execution and reduced hallucinations. Experienced in refactoring monolithic ML services with feature-flagged incremental rollouts, and implementing JWT/RBAC plus row-level security (e.g., Supabase) for secure, scalable APIs.”

Jaya Rathi

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud platforms

Ottawa, Canada15y exp

“Software professional with 13 years of experience across Canada and India, now seeking a first US role in California. Has practical experience applying LLMs and IDE agents like Cursor, ChatGPT, and Gemini to streamline engineering documentation workflows, especially automating Jira/Confluence process work to reduce manual effort and errors.”

bikramjit ganguly

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Staff Full-Stack Engineer specializing in API-driven web platforms and distributed systems

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Highly agent-centric builder who uses Codex daily to generate and manage full application repos, including Next.js CRUD apps, GitHub automation, and AWS lifecycle scripts to avoid long-lived cloud artifacts. They also experiment with multi-agent workflows for parallel development and correctness checking, showing strong practical fluency with emerging AI-native software development patterns.”

“Engineering leader with 11 years at Nokia/Janus International scaling an engineering organization from 3 to roughly 50 people, plus recent startup experience building an AI-powered virtual property manager platform. Particularly compelling for roles needing a rare mix of hands-on architecture depth, people leadership, and cross-functional execution across backend, web, mobile, QA, and even hardware-integrated products.”

“Senior engineering leader with a rare blend of principal-level technical depth and large-scale people management, spanning identity/auth modernization, platform architecture, and cloud integration work. At Paylocity, they helped transform a legacy .NET/SQL environment into a more modular, microservices-oriented platform and dramatically reduced deployment times, while also leading teams as large as 80+.”

“Full-stack engineer who owned an enterprise AI agent automation platform at KeyBank, building React/TypeScript interfaces and Python/AWS microservices for document-heavy business workflows. Stands out for translating complex AI automation into usable products for non-technical users, with reported productivity gains of about 35% and reduced manual processing.”

“Database/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of large-scale GCP data systems in financial services, including customer-facing SaaS investment products with strict SLAs. Stands out for leading an on-prem-to-GCP modernization using Spanner, AlloyDB, Bigtable, and BigQuery, and for building Terraform/Python automation that cut provisioning time by ~70% while improving reliability and self-service.”

Nicholas Leytem

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in high-throughput retail data systems

Minneapolis, MN12y exp

“Software engineer at a global public growth company since 2015, with experience owning a legacy Java ETL analytics application and helping design and launch a Kotlin/Java data sourcing platform for customer order data. Brings hands-on experience across React, Spring Boot, AWS/Kubernetes deployment, and multi-database architectures, including an inventive pseudo-graph implementation in DynamoDB to support flexible document matching.”