Vetted Django Professionals

Raghava Sammeta

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, microservices, and AI systems

Atlanta, GA4y exp

“Built and owned Destination Together, a collaborative travel platform, end-to-end across frontend, backend, data, infrastructure, and payments. Stands out for combining React/Node microservices, PostgreSQL concurrency design, real-time messaging, Dockerized deployment, and Gemini-powered route-aware travel suggestions in a single product.”

Garv Goyal

Screened

Intern software engineer specializing in AI systems and full-stack development

Vienna, VA1y exp

“Full-stack/product-minded engineer with a strong infrastructure foundation who has built both cloud automation systems and an AI voice interview coach. Stands out for combining hands-on coding with pragmatic product thinking: they improved user trust through scorecard redesign, built resilient speech handling around flaky browser APIs, and delivered measurable backend performance gains during startup internships.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent hands-on work across scientific data infrastructure and enterprise analytics. Notably drove a Crossref-to-DataCite DOI migration at CUAHSI, owning metadata mapping, Django integration, ROR funder handling, and safe production rollout, and has contributed broadly to HydroShare, a research data platform used by thousands of researchers.”

“Backend-leaning engineer who has significantly owned the architecture behind complex browser-based internal analytics dashboards for enterprise operations teams. Stands out for connecting Python/FastAPI/Django backend design, async processing, PostgreSQL optimization, and browser performance improvements to make real-time monitoring UIs faster and more usable.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/AI platform experience (Humana), owning an end-to-end high-risk patient prediction feature from React dashboards through FastAPI/TensorFlow real-time inference to AWS EKS operations. Emphasizes production reliability and contract-driven APIs (OpenAPI + generated TS types), plus strong data integration patterns (Kafka, idempotency, DLQs, backfills) in regulated, high-traffic environments.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG chatbots using LangChain/OpenAI with FAISS and FastAPI, focusing on real-world constraints like context windows, concurrency, and latency (reported ~40% latency reduction and <2s average response). Experienced orchestrating AI pipelines with Celery and fault-tolerant long-running workflows with Temporal, and has applied NLP model tradeoff testing (Word2Vec vs BERT) to drive measurable accuracy gains.”

“Paid media performance marketer managing $50K+/month spend across Meta and Google for eCommerce and lead-gen, with a strong creative-testing orientation (UGC/video vs static) that produced ~25–30% lower CPA and ~35% higher ROAS when scaled. Builds full-funnel systems across Meta/TikTok (demand gen) and Google Search/PMax (high-intent capture), using marginal ROAS/CPA, frequency-based fatigue signals, and statistically grounded testing to scale or cut campaigns.”

“Python backend engineer (BetterWorld Technology) who owns microservice systems end-to-end on Azure, including Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, and production monitoring/alerting. Has hands-on experience integrating SQL/NoSQL (including Cosmos DB with vector search/graph workflow) and has built a Kafka + Spark Streaming pipeline to Snowflake with a reported 40% latency reduction.”

“DevOps engineer (State Farm) with hands-on ownership of Python backend services and data pipelines, deploying microservices and workers on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD). Has led complex cloud-to-on-prem/hybrid migrations with staged cutovers and rollback planning, and built Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines with schema governance, autoscaling, and strong observability.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production TypeScript systems in both fintech-style transaction/rewards flows and HIPAA-regulated healthcare platforms. Deep focus on correctness and reliability (idempotency, retries/DLQs, reconciliation, observability) plus strong infra automation (Docker/Terraform/CI-CD) and measurable performance wins (40% query improvement, 90% test coverage).”

Purva Chakravarti

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable web apps, cloud, and blockchain/AI

Chino, California11y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across React/TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS (EC2/ECS/RDS/CloudWatch), including CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Delivered a secure RBAC workflow module end-to-end and achieved measurable gains (~30–40% latency reduction, ~50% error reduction) that lowered infra/ops costs. Comfortable in high-ambiguity startup environments—shipped a payment module within 2 days of joining with no documentation.”

Milan Sharma

Screened

Mid-level Software/Systems Engineer specializing in Python, Linux, and network testing

Richardson, TX9y exp

“Entrepreneurial product builder who has shipped two live App Store apps (Pixo content-based product marketing platform and Clutch AI dating reply helper). Also helped build a real-estate seller platform end-to-end, using AI matching to find buyers and contributing to onboarding nearly paying users and generating active MRR.”

Yash Prakashbhai Shah

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in Java, microservices, and cloud infrastructure

Santa Clara, CA6y exp

“Backend/platform engineer at Aryaka Networks who built a centralized resiliency and security Spring Boot library to standardize Keycloak RBAC and fault-tolerance across 25+ Kubernetes-migrated microservices. Uses profiling and observability (Prometheus/Grafana) to drive measurable performance and reliability gains (25% faster APIs, 70% faster environment setup) and accelerates adoption via golden-path starter repos and Swagger/OpenAPI live docs.”

Anudeep Reddy Veerla

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and shipped both a solo real-time multiplayer Spades game (TypeScript monorepo with shared client/server engine) and a production internal LLM-powered document Q&A tool for a SaaS company. Demonstrates strong RAG pipeline design (Pinecone + embeddings + reranking), rigorous eval/regression practices, and pragmatic data ingestion/observability work across Confluence, Notion, and messy PDFs/OCR—backed by clear metric improvements (P@1 61%→78%, escalations 40%→22%).”

Mayur Agrawal

Screened

Entry-Level Backend Engineer specializing in analytics automation and cloud data pipelines

Bengaluru, India1y exp

“Forward Deployment Engineer focused on application security and production integrations, with hands-on experience hardening API-driven ticketing systems (JWT/RBAC/rate limiting/log redaction) and implementing CI/CD security controls (Bandit SAST, SCA, container hardening). Strong in diagnosing peak-load production issues using logs/metrics/infra signals and driving durable fixes like adaptive throttling and backoff, while aligning engineering, business, and leadership stakeholders on risk and SLA impact.”

Jai Vilatkar

Screened

Junior AI/ML Developer specializing in GenAI, LLM agents, and RAG systems

Pune, India2y exp

“Built and shipped an agentic RAG chatbot module for NexaCLM to answer questions across large volumes of contracts while minimizing hallucinations and incorrect legal interpretations. Implemented routing between vector retrieval and ReAct-style agent retrieval plus an automated grading/validation layer (cosine-similarity thresholds, retries) and deployed via GitHub Actions to Azure Container Apps, partnering closely with legal stakeholders to define risk/clause-focused objectives.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built AI-assisted CRM and agent workflows in Project SARA and operational systems like payroll for a staffing platform. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript, Django/Postgres, real-time systems, and LLM orchestration with strong product instincts—delivering measurable gains in response time, conversion, and engineering leverage.”

“Analytics professional with hands-on experience turning messy Excel-based operational data into SQL/Python pipelines and Power BI dashboards, including a production bottleneck project that improved workflow efficiency by 20%. Also brings applied machine learning experience from a Databricks/PySpark loan risk scoring project using logistic regression and XGBoost on large-scale S3 data.”

“Currently acts as a tech lead for a team of AI agents building a mobile application, with agents handling requirements, design, development, testing, documentation, and JIRA/Confluence updates. Stands out for combining multi-agent orchestration with strong human-in-the-loop review and a clear interest in AI governance and authorization controls.”

Pranav Gaikwad

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native platforms and supply chain systems

Atlanta, GA8y exp

“Backend and platform engineering leader with deep supply chain and warehouse systems experience, including building a company-wide MDM platform across five ERP systems and supporting a 72-microservice warehouse execution environment. Particularly compelling for AI-forward logistics roles: currently pursuing an AI-focused PhD, has published supply chain AI research, and holds a utility patent for AI-driven predictive analysis.”

Alex Archer

Screened

Staff Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Python, AI systems, and cloud SaaS

Anna, TX8y exp

“Full-stack startup engineer from a 20-30 person company who led a legacy monolith breakup into microservices, improving response times by 30% and database performance by 20%. Has hands-on experience across React/Next.js, TypeScript, Go, Python, and AI/data pipeline work, including building AI-driven platforms for freight and publisher-focused B2B SaaS products.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, low-latency event processing for market data and social-signal sentiment systems. Has led a monolith-to-event-driven migration with feature-flagged incremental rollout, and emphasizes production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, secrets management, Supabase RLS) and data integrity (deduplication/idempotency) under high-volume spike conditions.”

“Backend Python engineer who has built an LLM agentic tutoring/assignment helper with a custom pipeline for parsing visually complex textbooks (integrating AlibabaResearch VGT and implementing missing preprocessing from the paper), improving RAG grounding with ~90% cleaner extracted text. Also led major platform scaling work by refactoring monolithic image processing into Celery-based async microservices on AWS (GPU/CUDA + S3), and implemented Kafka streaming for payment webhooks with strict ordering, idempotency, and multi-zone fault tolerance.”