Vetted Django Professionals

“Software engineer/intern who built an EV charging station management platform from scratch (TypeScript/Next.js/Node/Express/Postgres) with real-time OCPP WebSocket operations and payment processing, iterating quickly based on operator feedback. Also created an internal CloudWatch log aggregation dashboard with Slack alerts that was adopted team-wide, addressing API rate limits and log-format inconsistencies through caching, pagination, and standardized parsing.”

“Frontend engineer who created an in-house React-like framework (“React-Wilcox”) enabling modern, event-driven UI components on extremely legacy browsers (as far back as 2002), including race-condition avoidance via batched state updates. Also does freelance work untangling AI/vibe-coded frontends for nontechnical founders, componentizing UIs and fixing routing/readability, and recently built a React+TS social app for martial artists with privacy-preserving location distance features.”

“Backend engineer who owned the API layer for an AI trust/analytics dashboard (trust scores, stability checks, public verification endpoints) using Python/FastAPI and Postgres. Has hands-on DevOps experience deploying FastAPI and Node.js services to AWS Kubernetes with GitHub Actions + ArgoCD GitOps, plus Kafka-based real-time event streaming and careful staged migration practices (shadow traffic/dual writes, rollback planning).”

“Backend/cloud engineer from Resilient Tech with hands-on experience deploying REST APIs and database migrations into a live ERP used by real customers while maintaining 99% uptime. Has debugged intermittent AWS container timeouts down to security group/load balancer misconfigurations, and has extended Python in an ERPNext system to meet GST/e-invoicing compliance requirements with strong customer collaboration.”

“Built and deployed ForensicLLM, a local domain-specific LLaMA-3.1-8B model for digital forensic investigators using RAFT + RAG over 1000+ curated research papers, with citation-aware responses and rigorous evaluation (BERTScore/G-Eval). Deployed via vLLM and Docker and validated through a chatbot survey with 80+ participants; published at DFRWS EU 2025.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer in fintech/payments who shipped an end-to-end Stripe payments + webhook system for a financial microservices platform, emphasizing ledger accuracy via idempotency, transactional writes, retries, and DLQs. Also delivered a real-time React/TypeScript payment status dashboard informed by user interviews, and improved production performance by 35% p95 latency through PostgreSQL tuning and Redis caching on AWS.”

“Software engineering intern with hands-on ownership of a Java/Spring Boot order management microservice, including production performance tuning via Redis caching and database indexing driven by API logs/metrics. Also contributed to a production mobile-backend LLM feature using RAG with embeddings over structured data and documents (DB + object storage), with guardrails to keep responses grounded.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on production AWS systems: builds multi-tenant FastAPI services on ECS behind API Gateway/ALB with serverless orchestration (Lambda, SQS, Step Functions) and strong reliability practices (JWT/JWKS auth, idempotency, backoff retries, structured logging). Also delivers AWS Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines with schema/data-quality controls and has modernized legacy analytics logic into Python with parity validation; improved a key dashboard SQL query from ~12–25s to ~2–3s.”

“Senior backend/data engineer who has built and maintained HIPAA-compliant, real-time clinical FastAPI services on AWS, orchestrating ML/LLM and vector DB calls with strong reliability patterns (auth, timeouts/retries, graceful degradation, idempotency). Also delivered AWS IaC/CI-CD (Terraform/Helm/GitHub Actions) across EKS/Lambda/SageMaker and built Glue/Spark ETL with schema evolution and data quality controls, plus demonstrated large SQL performance wins (15 min to <9 sec) and hands-on incident ownership.”

“Built and deployed a "personal second brain" product (CloneMind) with an end-to-end RAG pipeline for retrieving information across PDFs, URLs, images, and audio using Next.js/Node.js/Postgres/Supabase/Redis. Demonstrates strong practical depth in retrieval quality tuning, latency reduction via caching, and stateful orchestration with LangChain/LangGraph, plus experience persuading a non-technical professor stakeholder by shipping a working prototype.”

“Unity game developer with hands-on gameplay AI experience (FSM-driven monsters with customized NavMeshAgent movement) focused on creating readable, high-tension survival encounters through iterative tuning. Has shipped/created 4 Unity games solo end-to-end (UI, animations, architecture, state machines) and has also built a full Python game server; some exposure to Photon Fusion and strong client/server REST API implementation experience.”

“Frontend/fullstack lead who inherited a messy psychological app with production issues, drove a rapid stabilization (2–3 weeks) and major performance/architecture overhaul (Redux Toolkit, memoization, caching, lazy loading, CDN offload to S3/CloudFront). Also owns delivery and infrastructure practices (multi-env, Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS ECS + load balancing) and led a 1-week POC for an AI-powered trucking management system (app.neblo.ai).”

“Built and deployed a production AI accessibility platform that turns chart and image-based graphs into real-time audio narratives for visually impaired users. Implemented a ResNet-based CV + OCR + NLP + TTS pipeline and improved performance through preprocessing, Redis caching, and Kubernetes autoscaling/rolling updates on AWS to handle traffic spikes with no downtime.”

“Backend/data engineer who built an end-to-end real-time stock analytics platform: ingesting multi-source market data via Kafka/APIs, transforming it into dashboard metrics (e.g., Bollinger Bands), and storing in BigQuery/MySQL. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying Python/Node microservices on Kubernetes with Docker/Helm, CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), and ArgoCD, plus hands-on troubleshooting and migration work.”

“Graduate-school lab engineer who built and owned the final architecture of a Microservices Hub that integrates REST APIs, issues API keys, monitors 10+ Linux servers, and visualizes service dependencies via a topology graph. Strong in bridging legacy and modern stacks (Dockerized and non-Dockerized services like Apache/screen) using deep Linux/networking knowledge, plus practical real-time audio streaming for STT/TTS and experience mentoring others.”

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing legacy systems and building modular Python/Flask services, including a REST-to-GraphQL migration for an e-commerce platform that improved API response time by 45%. Strong in performance and scalability work across PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (indexing, JSONB, N+1 fixes, connection pooling) and high-throughput systems (Celery + Redis), plus integrating ML microservices with TorchServe, Kafka streaming, feature stores, and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned the full backend build of an AI-driven platform for UK golf clubs, including FastAPI microservices, vector search, and a tuned LangChain+Pinecone RAG pipeline focused on cost and hallucination reduction. Experienced deploying Django/FastAPI/Flask stacks on AWS-backed Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD-style delivery, plus executing legacy-to-AWS migrations and building Kafka-based real-time analytics pipelines.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered customer support system using a RAG architecture with structured document ingestion, embedding retrieval, and prompt templates for product-specific grounding. Experienced diagnosing live agent/workflow failures (e.g., retrieval regressions after new docs) by refactoring ingestion/chunking and adding grounding constraints plus evaluation benchmarks. Also supports go-to-market by joining discovery calls, shaping MVP workflows into demos/prototypes, and creating post-launch documentation to drive adoption.”

“Backend engineer who has led redesigns and migrations for a real-time logistics platform, improving scalability and resilience while managing eventual consistency tradeoffs. Demonstrates strong distributed-systems rigor (idempotency, transactions, async queues, monitoring) and builds secure, versioned FastAPI APIs with JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, and database row-level security.”

“Frontend engineer who led a React + TypeScript scientific-results wiki end-to-end, coordinating multiple developers and maintaining quality through continuous reviews and user testing. Has experience optimizing web performance when using Three.js/Blender 3D assets and managing releases with non-breaking merges and rollbacks. Also delivered a user storage feature with QA, staged iteration, and client-driven prioritization.”

“Frontend engineer who led the mentorAi SaaS platform UI end-to-end at IBL.ai, building real-time React/Redux experiences backed by WebSockets and scaling quality with Playwright E2E tests in GitHub CI. Also worked at Paymentology for ~2 years on fintech features (token management, Visa card creation/assignment and funding flows), modernizing an existing React codebase by introducing TypeScript and strengthening CI/coverage with SonarQube to reduce deployment bugs.”

“Built and deployed production LLM applications including a natural-language-to-read-only-SQL system focused on ambiguity handling and query safety (schema whitelisting, intent validation, confidence checks, deterministic execution). Experienced with LangChain-based, modular agent orchestration and RAG document QA for large PDFs, with a metrics-driven testing/evaluation approach and cross-functional delivery with marketing on an AI content recommendation/search tool.”

“Frontend engineer in fintech who led a client onboarding platform end-to-end, building a scalable React/TypeScript architecture with Redux-driven multi-step verification workflows. Strong focus on quality at scale through UI automation/E2E testing and CI/CD (GitHub Actions + Docker), enabling faster releases (bi-weekly to daily) while staying stable despite evolving backend APIs.”