Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

Rishabh Goyal

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech

USA4y exp

“Python backend engineer focused on real-time e-commerce analytics systems, building FastAPI + Kafka microservices with strong idempotent processing patterns (Postgres upserts, manual offsets, Redis caching). Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps delivery with Argo CD/GitHub Actions, plus experience migrating containerized services from on-prem VMs to AWS using Terraform and blue-green cutovers.”

“Built an employee payroll and leave management system end to end at Northwest Missouri State University, owning stakeholder discovery, UI design, frontend implementation, backend APIs, and payroll business logic. Also has experience modernizing legacy transaction processing with an incremental migration approach from COBOL-based batch systems to Spring Boot services.”

Saikrishna Chandhrasekhar

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in systems, web development, and applied cryptography

College Station, TX

“Worked on CI/CD for a project called NXTFolio, including writing acceptance tests in Cucumber. Also collaborated with customers/operators via weekly check-ins to understand needs and align technical work to requirements.”

Chuangyu Xu

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java backend and distributed systems

New York, NY

“Built and shipped a production AI mock-interview platform where an LLM “interviewer” generates role-specific questions, runs multi-turn follow-ups, and outputs structured scoring/feedback using RAG. Demonstrates strong production-readiness practices (Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, retries/timeouts, fallback models/templates, schema validation, replay-based debugging) and achieved 99%+ availability with ~40% higher session completion. Also has experience integrating agents with messy SAP/ERP-style data sources using a data middleware layer, cleaning/validation, and idempotent write safeguards.”

Andrew Sheehan

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in enterprise architecture and digital transformation

27y exp

“Candidate has spent years working with startups across various industries and has been involved in multiple stages of company building, including hiring, technology choices, and budgeting. They appear especially oriented toward operational discipline, cost control, and evaluating ideas through structured cost, time, and value analysis.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI support platform at Mechanize (FastAPI/LangChain/Pinecone/React) with rigorous evals and guardrails, driving 45% fewer support tickets and ~$280K annual savings. Also led a high-risk legacy modernization at Argo AI, incrementally extracting a monolithic Django backend using Strangler Fig + feature flags while supporting 10K+ concurrent users.”