Vetted Django Professionals

“Full-stack/AI engineer who has shipped production systems spanning real-time analytics dashboards and an internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant. Experienced with RAG pipelines (embeddings/vector DB, semantic retrieval, query rewriting) plus evaluation loops and guardrails, and builds observable Kafka-based data pipelines monitored with Prometheus/Grafana.”

Harshitha Ayenugula

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend and FinTech systems

New Jersey, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership of complex web products, including building a real-time collaborative editor end-to-end using React, Spring Boot, WebSockets, Yjs CRDT, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Docker. Stands out for combining product delivery with production reliability and performance work, including reducing QA defects by ~25%, improving internal tool load times to under 2 seconds, and resolving latency issues in live systems.”

“Full-stack/AI product engineer who has shipped both a production-style React finance app and multiple LLM-powered systems end-to-end. Particularly strong in turning early-stage AI concepts into production workflows, including a Bedrock-based multi-turn chatbot with durable session memory and a medical credentialing document parser that cut pipeline failures by 50%+ on large, messy real-world files.”

“Early-stage founder with a privacy-focused concept to simplify at-home self-hosting for services like email, photos, files, and local AI. They are approaching the idea in staged phases to test traction and minimize upfront capital, and have some familiarity with the startup accelerator ecosystem through a Techstars-affiliated company.”

“Backend and distributed-systems engineer with experience integrating LLM capabilities into clinical data workflows at CVS. Stands out for treating AI as an engineering accelerator rather than a shortcut, with strong emphasis on validation, observability, Kafka-based async pipelines, and safe multi-agent orchestration for production systems.”

“Founding engineer who built a multi-tenant AWS backend from scratch focused on ultra-fast, configuration-driven client onboarding and low operational cost. Automated tenant provisioning/deployments with Terraform + GitHub Actions (new client infra in ~13 minutes) and scaled to 62 production clients handling ~75k requests/day without a major rewrite. Hands-on with migrations (DynamoDB->MongoDB), reliability/observability, and performance tuning (indexes, Redis, queueing, connection management).”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience scaling a CVE processing platform by re-architecting it into a Kafka-based distributed system, boosting throughput to 200k+ records/min while designing for HA, deduplication, and fault tolerance. Also led a Flyway-driven migration affecting 15M+ records with staged dev→stage→prod rollout, and has implemented production security patterns (Auth0, OAuth2/HTTPS, AWS IAM RBAC) including least-privilege hardening.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building real-time sensor telemetry platforms: FastAPI + PostgreSQL services with strong observability, plus AWS serverless and Glue-based ETL into Redshift. Has modernized legacy SAS pipelines into Python microservices and delivered measurable performance wins (Postgres query latency cut to <1 minute and ~60% DB CPU reduction) while owning incident response and reliability improvements.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical document understanding and summarization system for healthcare, focused on reducing manual review time while meeting strict accuracy, latency, and compliance needs. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Azure ML Pipelines) and a rigorous approach to hallucination mitigation through layered, source-grounded safeguards and stakeholder-driven requirements with physicians/compliance teams.”

“Software engineer and University of Chicago graduate teaching assistant who built a full-stack internal analytics dashboard (React/TypeScript + Node/Express) and worked in RabbitMQ-based microservices with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Also created an AI-powered ERD diagram generator (React + MermaidJS + OpenAI) adopted by students to save hours on database assignments, using validation loops to ensure valid Mermaid output.”

“Python backend engineer who owned an end-to-end Django/DRF authentication and account-management module (JWT, RBAC, email verification) and optimized token validation performance. Has hands-on Kubernetes + Helm delivery with GitOps via ArgoCD (multi-environment app-of-apps, drift detection/rollback) and has supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration using staged testing and phased cutover. Also built and scaled a Kafka-based real-time user activity tracking pipeline with reliability and backpressure controls.”

“Software engineer with healthcare domain experience (patient monitoring and provider systems) who improves reliability and performance in complex React/Flask applications. Led API standardization for shared internal React utilities using an RFC + deprecation strategy, and optimized a live WebSocket dashboard to handle 3000+ concurrent clinics while reducing client CPU usage. Strong in production debugging, data ingestion validation, and operational improvements like structured logging and alerting.”

“AAA sports game QA tester who supported full development through launch and live updates, owning gameplay stability/regression risk. Experienced in triage-driven prioritization and in diagnosing complex crash issues (including thread synchronization) using evidence-backed Jira reports, then hardening coverage with stress/concurrency/soak and CI-integrated regression suites.”

Jarin Tasnim

Screened

Staff/Lead Software Engineer specializing in distributed data and ML platforms

Mountain View, CA6y exp

“Defense-domain AI engineer who built a production ReAct-style RAG system for military training data/material generation, scaling to ~1000 users and cutting generation time by 50%. Also has experience designing GPU-cluster parallel computation with PyTorch and handling production incidents involving database performance and schema design.”

Ido Avnon

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, geospatial, and full-stack applications

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Early-stage startup engineer with experience at pre-seed and roughly Series A-stage companies, including Rage Events Inc. Shipped production full-stack features with Next.js/TypeScript, designed Postgres-backed workflow systems, and took ownership of post-launch support and fixes in fast-moving environments.”

Aaron Rodrigues

Screened

Junior Business & Data Analyst specializing in FinTech and banking analytics

Jacksonville, FL5y exp

“Analytics professional with Travelex experience spanning SQL ETL, Python-based machine learning workflows, and Power BI dashboarding in risk, fraud, and AML contexts. Stands out for replacing a $150K+ third-party compliance tool with internal dashboards and for materially improving operational efficiency through alert tuning, cutting alert volume by 50% and false positives by 60%.”

“Built and owned production GenAI systems for both infrastructure automation and customer support. Most notably, they created a self-healing multi-cloud incident response system that automated 65% of tier-1 alerts and reduced application crashes by 75%, and also shipped a hybrid RAG support triage agent that automated 60% of tier-1 inquiries with human escalation guardrails.”

“Backend/infrastructure-focused engineer building AI-agent products for small businesses, including a customer-service agent platform with intent routing, RAG over Pinecone, and external booking API integration. Has shipped Python/FastAPI services with JWT auth, versioned APIs, Docker deployments to AWS EC2 via GitHub Actions, and production monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana.”

Bhanu Akepogu

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend, full-stack, and AI systems

USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with 3+ years of backend and frontend experience who has built production AI products for enterprise document and policy workflows. Stands out for owning end-to-end systems that combine React, FastAPI, RAG, vector search, and AWS deployment, with measurable impact including 65% less manual review time and significantly faster knowledge-query resolution.”

“Frontend engineer who built a production GPS trip tracking system at MTM Transit for fraud investigators and operations teams, turning raw vehicle telemetry into an interactive map and timestamp workflow. Stands out for hands-on experience with React/TypeScript, Google Maps, and performance tuning of heavy geospatial UIs handling thousands of pings.”

“Entrepreneurial product builder who created chaintrigger.com in response to early Web3 demand for real-time on-chain event reactions, offering an alternative to The Graph Protocol and achieving adoption among games and other Web3 projects. Currently developing new tools, dogfooding internally, and building distribution via personal network and a niche Twitter/X following to gather feedback and iterate quickly.”

“Engineer with startup SaaS experience in small, cross-functional teams, contributing across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and production operations. Most notable impact shared was a CI/CD redesign that cut deployment time from 2 hours to 20 minutes while maintaining production stability.”