Vetted Distributed Tracing Professionals

“Backend/AI engineer with production experience in legal tech: built a high-scale licensing/subscription API (FastAPI/Postgres/Stripe) and shipped a RAG-based chatbot for an eDiscovery platform. Designed a robust legal document ingestion workflow that processes thousands of documents into a searchable vector index with clear retry/escalation logic, and has demonstrated measurable Postgres performance wins (200ms to 10ms) using EXPLAIN ANALYZE and composite indexing.”

Akash Mishra

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in ETL pipelines on GCP

Miami, Florida5y exp

“Full-stack engineer from Larix Technologies who led a Next.js migration feature: an internal real-time workflow status dashboard built with App Router/TypeScript using server components for initial render and client polling for live updates. Demonstrates strong post-launch ownership—monitoring latency/error rates, adding caching and payload reductions, and optimizing Postgres queries/indexes—plus experience building durable RabbitMQ-based message routing workflows with idempotency, retries, and dead-letter queues.”

“Backend/integration-focused software engineer who built and debugged a complex location modeling system (data pipelines, APIs, optimization logic connected to a dashboard). No direct ROS/robotics experience yet, but demonstrates strong distributed-systems debugging, containerized deployment (Docker), and CI/CD/testing practices and is actively looking to pivot into robotics software.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned a real-time manufacturing insights streaming service, building FastAPI async microservices with Kafka-style queue buffering, batching/backpressure, and a low-latency snapshot store. Led a serverless-to-Kubernetes (EKS) migration at UGenomeAi using GitOps-style GitHub Actions pipelines, standardized config/secrets, and improved deployment consistency with pinned dependencies and multi-stage Docker builds.”

“Early-stage product engineer who built an AI persona chat system end to end at Super Intro, spanning Next.js frontend, GraphQL/real-time backend, retrieval memory, and LLM-based matching. They combine strong TypeScript rigor with practical AI systems design, and cite measurable impact including ~40% engagement growth, ~30% recall improvement, and lower LLM costs in production.”

Jaiden Kettleson

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Entry-Level Full-Stack & AI Engineer specializing in chatbots and web apps

1y exp

“Data Science honors graduate (Maryville University) who has built Python/SQL backends and a capstone website handling sensitive user data. Emphasizes secure data handling (password encryption, secure database updates) and uses Git/GitHub Pages with CI/CD-style practices for managing and deploying changes.”

“Hands-on technical/product-facing engineer with experience operationalizing LLM/agentic workflows and debugging them in real time using logs, traces, and metrics. Also supports go-to-market by running developer-focused live coding demos and partnering with sales on discovery and integration/maintainability concerns through clear technical documentation.”

“Customer-facing engineer from Popular Tech who built and deployed tailored AI/automation features for enterprise voice systems. Experienced in integrating customer workflows via APIs, handling live production latency incidents through log tracing and rapid stabilization, and validating solutions through phased rollouts, monitoring, and direct on-site collaboration with clients.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered document processing agent (ingestion→OCR→LLM extraction/classification→validation→DB/workflow triggers) using Kafka and PostgreSQL. Emphasizes production reliability with strict JSON schemas, idempotent services, retries/backoff, fallback models, and human-in-the-loop review—driving ~90% automation, minutes-to-seconds processing, and ~10x throughput.”

“Full-stack engineer working on a medical practice SaaS, who owned an end-to-end charge entry module handling patient charges/payment workflows and complex client-side data transformations. Also built a fintech rating platform with real-time WebSocket streaming and TradingView-based charting, and has 10 years of university experience mentoring student "startup" capstone projects under tight deadlines.”

“Built FlowPilot, an AI-powered product that generates complete importable n8n workflows from natural-language prompts using a RAG pipeline (Qdrant + LangChain) and a multi-stage agent with a scoring/repair 'Judge' loop for intent alignment. Experienced in backend architecture across Laravel/Node microservices and production AI/RAG systems, plus performance debugging from async job offloading to database index tuning after ORM migrations.”