Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

Sanket Dumbare

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech platforms

USA3y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who led an end-to-end Python (FastAPI) transaction analytics microservice for real-time financial monitoring, including SQS ingestion, scoring/aggregation, and low-latency APIs. Strong AWS + Kubernetes/GitOps background (EKS, ArgoCD, Jenkins, ECS/ECR, CloudWatch) with hands-on experience scaling event-driven systems and executing phased on-prem to AWS migrations.”

Daniel Jin

Screened

Intern Site Reliability Engineer specializing in Kubernetes, AWS, and observability

New York, NY1y exp

“Backend/data engineering candidate specializing in Python/Flask services and ML-enabled systems, deploying containerized workloads on AWS ECS/EKS with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and PostgreSQL performance tuning. Built multi-tenant architectures with row- and schema-level isolation and optimized a Kubernetes-based Airflow + Spark nightly ETL pipeline for an e-commerce client, improving performance by 250%+ and reliably beating morning reporting deadlines; also contributed to Apache Airflow (SQLAlchemy/PostgreSQL area).”

Hadi Jaffery

Screened

Junior Data Engineer specializing in Snowflake and investment data platforms

Boston, MA3y exp

“Private markets/private credit data engineer owning core Snowflake/AWS data infrastructure (S3 → ActiveBatch → Snowflake) with automated iceDQ quality checks and curated datasets for internal Power BI/React reporting. Drove major reliability and delivery improvements, including cutting DB CI/CD deploy time 50% and reducing downstream table errors by 90%+, and also built an internal React/FastAPI app to visualize the team’s data infrastructure in an ambiguous early-stage environment.”

Harini Vinu

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, big data, and test automation

New York, United States1y exp

“Internship experience at Qualitest building and deploying an LLM-powered test automation system that reduced manual test creation and improved efficiency (~40%). Demonstrates strong production engineering for LLM systems (timeouts/retries/monitoring/caching, prompt optimization, batching) and has scaled workflows to 100+ concurrent jobs; also has orchestration experience with AWS Step Functions and Kubernetes.”

Prashant Salunke

Screened

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

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”

“Data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines processing a few million records/day, using Python/Airflow/SQL/PySpark with Snowflake serving to BI (Power BI). Built resilient external web data collection systems (anti-bot, schema-change detection, backfills) and shipped versioned REST APIs for internal consumers, improving pipeline success rates to 99% through monitoring, retries, and idempotent design.”

Wilson Harron

Screened

Director-level AI/ML & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in robotics and multimodal AI

Los Angeles, CA15y exp

“Candidate is not currently pursuing entrepreneurship (no business plan and no capital raised) and is not familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape. They show pragmatic, problem-first thinking about evaluating startup ideas—prioritizing real customer pain points and the quality of the founding team—and are open to working for others rather than founding "at all costs."”

Aravind Mohan

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI agents and backend systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Backend/AI workflow engineer who built a production event-personalization service (FastAPI + AWS Lambda) and solved real-world reliability/latency issues with deterministic routing, caching, and query/index optimization. Also built an end-to-end Gmail-based job application tracking agent using a lightweight RAG pipeline with Gemini, strong guardrails (Pydantic schemas, confidence thresholds), and offline regression tests to prevent drift and hallucination-driven data corruption.”

“Candidate appears to work at the intersection of enterprise billing/payments systems and AI-powered support automation. They describe owning customer deployments, integrating PayPal/Stripe, building LLM/RAG workflows for finance operations, and handling production incidents affecting millions of invoice events with measurable improvements in resolution time and ticket volume.”

Supreet Purthpli

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience delivering end-to-end fintech features (Next.js/React/Node/Postgres on AWS) and measurable performance gains. Built and productionized an AI-native credit decisioning workflow combining LLMs, vector retrieval, and a rules engine with strong governance (bias checks, auditability, human-in-loop), improving precision and cutting underwriting turnaround time by 40%.”

“Engineer focused on AI-assisted and multi-agent software development, with hands-on experience designing structured agent workflows for implementation, testing, validation, and architectural review. Stands out for treating AI as an accelerator rather than a replacement, combining practical experimentation with strong attention to engineering fundamentals and operational concerns like observability, latency, and cost.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep experience building enterprise compliance and certification systems at Paycom, including complex approval workflows, live migrations, and large-scale assignment processing. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous business rules into reliable backend workflow logic and at designing trustworthy GraphQL/AI-assisted user experiences backed by real-time system data.”

Sanket Mungikar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend and AI analytics platforms

California, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

Sai Divya Mulukala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and distributed systems

USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience building operational dashboards at Walmart and improving digital banking experiences at Bank of America. Stands out for tracing performance issues across frontend, APIs, and backend services, including cutting response times from 1.2s to 700ms and resolving duplicate event-processing problems in distributed systems.”

“Fullstack engineer from Prudential who built a workflow automation platform for internal service reps, combining Angular/React frontends with NestJS, GraphQL, Kafka, MongoDB, and Redis. Stands out for translating ambiguous business problems into scalable metadata-driven systems, validating architecture through hands-on POCs, and delivering a measurable 40% reduction in transaction handling time.”

Nithyashree Raghunathan

Screened

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

Santa Clara, CA5y exp

“QA/data pipeline engineer with hands-on AI product building experience, spanning enterprise AWS migration testing for Belgium postal services and personal multi-agent systems in fintech and recruiting. Stands out for combining rigorous validation and production stability work with modern LLM orchestration, guardrails, and messy-document normalization workflows.”

Murali Marupudi

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in Python microservices and scalable cloud systems

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on high-throughput Python/Flask systems on AWS, with strong scaling and performance tuning experience (e.g., PostgreSQL join reduced from ~3s to <200ms; background aggregation cut from 10 minutes to <90 seconds with 8x throughput). Has also integrated ML model serving into production APIs (churn prediction) using Celery/Redis batching and AWS Lambda/S3, and designed secure multi-tenant architectures with PostgreSQL schema isolation and row-level security.”

“Backend engineer focused on Java/Spring Boot microservices, workforce scheduling APIs, and event-driven systems. He uses AI tools pragmatically—roughly 25-30% assistance for scaffolding and optimization—while keeping architecture, debugging, testing, and final decisions under tight manual control. Strong on reliability and observability, with hands-on experience in Kafka-based workflows, distributed tracing, and evaluating agent frameworks like LangChain against production needs.”

“Built and owned an AI-powered real-time financial fraud detection and monitoring platform end-to-end, spanning product decisions, backend architecture, frontend dashboards, deployment, and production support. Their work scaled to 120M transactions/day and materially improved fraud detection accuracy from 78% to 94%, showing rare breadth across distributed systems, observability, and React-based operational analytics.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on production-deployed industrial automation, owning robot behavior end-to-end across integration and production support. Has hands-on experience coordinating multiple robots with PLC safety, conveyors, and vision, using state-machine orchestration, deep debugging (logging/I-O tracing), and performance tuning to achieve stable run-at-rate operation. Also builds ROS/ROS 2 distributed systems in C++/Python and tunes DDS/QoS for reliable multi-machine communication.”

“Backend/Founding-Engineer-style builder who architected AESOP, a multi-agent distributed platform for biomedical literature evidence synthesis. Implemented an async FastAPI stack on AWS with LangGraph orchestration, Redis/Postgres+pgvector, and Celery-based background processing, plus defense-in-depth security (JWT refresh/rotation and DB-level isolation). Notable for hardening LLM workflows with multi-layer validation and convergence safeguards to prevent hallucinations and infinite agent loops.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership who built a "Problem Workspace" coding feature using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining Server Components for fast initial render with WebSocket-driven real-time execution updates. Demonstrates deep reliability and data-consistency expertise (idempotency keys, Postgres constraints/indexing, EXPLAIN ANALYZE) and has implemented durable async orchestration (Temporal-style workflows) to reduce failures and timeouts under load.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience designing and refactoring scalable Node.js/MongoDB systems and building Python/FastAPI services. Emphasizes production-grade security (JWT, refresh tokens, RBAC, Supabase Auth, RLS) and reliability practices like strong testing, monitoring, and rollback planning, including resolving concurrency and token/validation edge cases.”

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade pipelines and external data collection systems on AWS (S3/Lambda/SQS/Glue/EMR) using PySpark/SQL, serving curated datasets to Snowflake/Redshift for finance and fraud teams. Has operated a large-scale crawler ingesting millions of records/day with anti-bot tactics, schema versioning/quarantine, and CloudWatch/Datadog monitoring, and also shipped a versioned REST API with caching and query optimization.”