Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

Pravalika Kasojjala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM, RAG/GraphRAG, and fraud analytics

Charlotte, NC5y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who has deployed a production internal assistant to reduce employee inquiry resolution time while maintaining regulatory compliance. Experienced with RAG, hallucination risk triage, and graph-based orchestration (LangGraph) for enterprise/banking-style workflows, emphasizing schema-validated, citation-backed, tool-constrained agent designs and tight collaboration with non-technical business/compliance stakeholders.”

Luis Aragon

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in data infrastructure and distributed systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Software engineer working on agentic AI SMS customer engagement flows and a Customer Data Profile service that unifies journey data across SMS/web/calls while enforcing precise consent management. Has hands-on production operations experience, including recovering a reporting-critical Elasticsearch outage by standing up a new cluster in Kubernetes, restoring from snapshots, and rewinding Kafka consumers to reprocess missed data.”

Sanjay Mandru

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and real-time analytics

Buffalo, NY3y exp

“Software engineer who built a reusable React component package (UI modules, auth helpers, API client wrappers) for an AI SaaS background-removal project, emphasizing performance (tree shaking/dynamic imports) and reliability (Jest + Storybook). Also delivered a unified REST API for Samsung Big Data Portal, resolving cross-team issues by standardizing schemas, improving validation/logging, and operating effectively amid shifting requirements.”

Weston Carpenter

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Technical/presales engineer with experience at Grubhub and Appen, spanning LLM-adjacent data labeling workflows and production AI troubleshooting. Built an integrations platform at Grubhub and has hands-on experience diagnosing prompt-related AI failures via Splunk, adding JUnit tests and logging to prevent recurrence. Known for shipping customer-specific workflow adaptations (e.g., OCR annotation coordinate transformations for crop/rotation) while keeping timelines intact through iterative delivery and parallelization.”

“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.”

“Data engineer/platform builder who has owned production pipelines end-to-end processing millions of records/day, with strong emphasis on data quality (quarantine workflows) and reliability (monitoring, retries, incremental loads). Also designed large-scale external data collection/crawling with anti-bot handling and backfills, and shipped versioned REST data services optimized for performance and developer usability in an early-stage environment.”

Nikhitha santhoshi Maroju

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices on AWS

Redwood, CA4y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered fraud investigation agent using RAG to generate transaction explanations and draft analyst reports. Emphasizes production robustness (fallbacks, strict structured outputs, async orchestration, monitoring/evals) and reports measurable impact: ~12% precision lift and ~80 high-priority alerts per week with reduced manual effort.”

“Backend engineer with healthcare and financial services experience (Humana, PNC) who owned production-grade, high-volume ingestion-to-API pipelines end-to-end in C#/.NET and SQL. Strong focus on data quality, handling out-of-order/partial upstream records, and improving reliability/observability via structured logging and telemetry, plus significant SQL performance tuning to reduce peak-load issues.”

“Platform/infrastructure engineer with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes, Terraform, VMware, and hybrid on-prem/AWS environments. Stands out for combining deep platform build/upgrade experience with strong incident response and reliability practices, including a Terraform redesign at H&R Block that reduced provisioning time by 40% and hybrid networking improvements that hardened Direct Connect failover.”

“Senior technology leader who has served as the top tech executive at a venture-backed SaaS company and is motivated by the pressure and complexity of early-stage environments. Also co-founded an ecommerce business with his wife, giving him both operator and hands-on entrepreneurial experience.”

Paavani Karuturi

Screened

Junior Backend and ML Engineer specializing in distributed systems and LLM infrastructure

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Backend engineer with strong ownership across authentication, API infrastructure, and AI-powered document workflows. They built and operated a production auth microservice supporting 10,000+ users with measurable latency and security improvements, and also shipped hackathon and applied-AI systems including legal document and medical document retrieval/Q&A products.”

“Software engineer with 4 years of experience spanning scalable backend systems, full-stack product development, and production LLM integrations in finance, insurance, and e-commerce contexts. They describe shipping an AI-powered internal financial analysis tool, improving document-review workflows by 40%, and driving a zero-to-one B2B SaaS subscription launch with cross-functional GTM alignment.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup with hands-on production experience spanning Angular frontend features, backend safety checks for an image-generation workflow (OpenAI Safety), and AWS operations. Built CI/CD to ECS with GitHub Actions, implemented CloudWatch observability, and improved release reliability via Blue/Green deployments with automatic rollback.”

“Backend engineer in healthcare data systems who has owned production pipelines end-to-end, from ingesting patient and claims data to serving it through secure APIs. Brings a strong mix of Python, SQL, microservices, cloud deployment, and data reliability practices, with measurable performance gains and experience building resilient integrations with external data sources.”

“Candidate approaches AI-assisted coding like a senior developer supervising junior contributors: they define precise technical requirements, enforce code quality and documentation, and review outputs before approval. They also actively lead multi-agent workflows using OpenClaw and a Kanban-style AI project management setup, coordinating both coding and non-technical agents.”

VINAY KUMAR VIPPALA

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech backend systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership from React UI through Spring Boot APIs and SQL data layers, focused on transaction-heavy fintech workflows. Built both a transaction reconciliation system and a 0-to-1 AI-based anomaly detection workflow at LeisurePay, combining performance-minded frontend engineering with pragmatic product delivery.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on AI-powered enterprise document automation, especially transforming unstructured financial documents into structured outputs. Stands out for treating LLMs and agents as components within robust production systems, with emphasis on validation, security, observability, and scalable multi-agent architecture.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of Spring Boot microservice deployments in Freddie Mac's mortgage workflow domain, including measurable gains in reliability and MTTR. Brings strong production debugging skills around distributed transaction pipelines and has also built a full-stack AI chatbot project using React, Express, and Google Gemini API.”

Arya Thorat

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed cloud-native FinTech systems

Texas, USA5y exp

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep experience building real-time fraud and credit-risk systems. Shipped an event-driven fraud monitoring platform (Kafka→MongoDB/Redis→WebSockets) delivering sub-200ms updates to 3000+ concurrent internal users, and built a Java/Spring Boot credit risk decisioning API that improved turnaround time by 30–40%. Strong AWS production operations (ECS Fargate/RDS/Redis) with proven incident response and performance tuning.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Wipro and Cisco building real-time monitoring and observability platforms from scratch. Stands out for combining streaming/data-pipeline depth (Kafka, Fluentd, Elasticsearch, Redis) with strong React/TypeScript frontend execution, and for delivering measurable impact such as cutting troubleshooting time by nearly a third.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on fintech risk and fraud products, with hands-on experience building React/TypeScript dashboards and Spring Boot microservices backed by PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS. Has also contributed to AI-driven fraud detection workflows using AWS Bedrock, with a strong emphasis on production reliability, analyst usability, and measurable quality metrics.”

Adam Williams

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack distributed systems

Remote8y exp

“Mailchimp engineer with unusually broad full-stack ownership, spanning React/TypeScript front ends, Go services, and Java/Spring Boot GraphQL platforms. Stands out for building a monolith-replacement campaigns widget in just four weeks while navigating new multi-region Aurora DSQL infrastructure, and for pairing strong product sense with pragmatic migration and reliability decisions in a B2B SaaS environment.”

“Full-stack engineer who built BrewAI, a cloud-native AI resume optimization platform on GCP using React, TypeScript, LangChain, and Gemini, with scalable async job processing and LLM safety guardrails. The product gained real-world traction when an undergraduate college in India asked students to use it for internship resume drafting, and the candidate also has team lead experience shipping an early-stage ERP system.”

“Growth-stage startup engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across React, Java/Spring Boot, MySQL, and cloud deployment. They led workflow automation products that replaced manual operational processes, improved efficiency and reliability, and evolved the platform into a more configurable B2B workflow system shaped by user feedback.”