Vetted Django Professionals

Affan Ahmed

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Full-Stack & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in scalable SaaS and cloud AI

Remote, Pakistan7y exp

“Frontend engineer who led an enterprise self-serve analytics dashboard end-to-end using a micro-frontend React/TypeScript architecture with strong integration discipline (contracts, CI gates, ADRs). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (35% faster LCP) through code splitting, lazy loading, and tighter Redux subscriptions, and uses feature flags plus automated E2E coverage for controlled rollouts.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of production systems, including a Kafka-based notification/alerting platform (Node.js + React) deployed on AWS with Docker/GitHub Actions, achieving ~95% email delivery reliability. Demonstrates strong operational maturity (observability, CI/CD, zero-downtime migrations) and experience shipping in ambiguous environments (SJSU project) with evolving requirements.”

David Pang

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps and healthcare APIs

1y exp

“Full-stack developer who built an end-to-end e-commerce application with admin/blog/announcement features using Node/Express and AWS S3, emphasizing security via expiring presigned URLs. Also has strong distributed-systems fundamentals from implementing the Raft consensus algorithm (replication logs, majority acks, leader elections) and has created build automation tools (GNU Makefiles/scripts) to streamline team workflows.”

Dhairya Shah

Screened

Entry-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and systems

Buffalo, NY1y exp

“ML-focused builder who has shipped an end-to-end income-class prediction product: built the data pipeline, trained models, deployed via Streamlit with a live UI, and tracked success via accuracy (84%), adoption, and latency. Demonstrates strong practical MLOps instincts (Docker/Streamlit Cloud, logging/monitoring, caching) and data engineering reliability patterns (schema checks, idempotency, retries, backfills) while iterating quickly in ambiguous, solo-project environments.”

Kevin Thomas

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI, cloud, and backend systems

Torrance, CA1y exp

“Candidate has internship and graduate-project experience building AI agents, including a production log-analysis assistant using a lightweight agentic/RAG-style workflow with local GPT training and validation against historical logs. They also worked on Android/iOS game build and release processes in a Unity-based robot racing game environment, and highlight measurable LLM outcomes including 80% analysis accuracy, 2-5 second latency, and 50% cost reduction.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a large production estate (20+ Power9/Power10 frames and 400+ LPARs) with vHMC and dual-VIOS HA. Has hands-on incident recovery experience (NPIV/RMC issues, LPM restores) and PowerHA failovers, plus modern DevOps exposure using Terraform on AWS and CI/CD with GitHub Actions/Jenkins (including deploying AI/RAG and vision workloads).”

“Backend/AI engineer who built and refactored a production RAG system over IRS Form 990 filings for 60 nonprofits, using a dual-path architecture (deterministic financial ranking + TF-IDF semantic retrieval) to keep latency sub-2s and reduce hallucinations. Demonstrates strong API craftsmanship in FastAPI (contract-first, OpenAPI-driven) plus production-grade security for multi-tenant systems (JWT, RBAC, Supabase-style RLS) and careful migration practices (feature flags, traffic mirroring, incremental rollout).”

“Frontend-focused engineer who leads end-to-end delivery of high-performance React + TypeScript products, including legal-tech client platforms and a large-scale case management dashboard handling thousands of records. Strong in SEO for SPAs, strict code quality automation, and performance work (Lighthouse 95+, 40% FCP reduction), plus disciplined rollout practices using LaunchDarkly, canary releases, and Sentry monitoring.”

Iskhak Ishmakhametov

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and real-time systems

Bellevue, WA7y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with a strong real-time systems focus: built and rolled out a WebSocket-based notifications system (with robust reconnect/resync and event ordering protections) that cut update latency to under 200ms. Also owned a workflow automation platform backend in FastAPI (JWT/RBAC, versioned APIs, standardized errors), designed the PostgreSQL schema for workflows/tasks/executions, and operated deployments on AWS ECS Fargate with blue-green CI/CD and performance stabilization via caching and autoscaling.”

“Machine learning lab assistant at Eastern Illinois University who productionized a voice-enabled conversational AI system: redesigned it with RAG, LoRA fine-tuning (including text-to-SQL), and safety guardrails, then deployed a scalable API supporting ~1,000 daily queries. Also partnered with customer-facing teams during a BlueFi internship by building demos/APIs and accelerating releases via Terraform + AWS CI/CD automation.”

Diego Torres

Screened

Mid-level Mobile Front-End Developer specializing in React Native apps

Anzoategui, Venezuela3y exp

“Mobile/frontend engineer with hands-on ownership of major app initiatives, including migrating a telecom app from Ionic to React Native using an MVVM architecture and Jest unit testing. Built complex airline app experiences in React + TypeScript (booking, seat maps, Stripe payments) and improved maintainability by replacing a complex Redux-like booking flow with a simpler Context-based system; experienced working both as a solo mobile developer and within Agile teams using Jira/Notion.”

Puspa Oli

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, Computer Vision, and FinTech AI

Kathmandu, Nepal2y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG and agentic systems end-to-end (LangChain/FAISS, OpenAI+Gemini, FastAPI, Docker, Streamlit), focusing on retrieval quality and low-latency performance. Also partnered with a non-technical PM at deepNow to deliver a forecasting + summarization pipeline for daily market insights with iterative prototyping and a simple UI.”

Dhwani Patel

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Python Developer specializing in AI/ML and backend APIs

BC, Canada15y exp

“Python/Django backend engineer with open-source experience upgrading Archivematica to Django 4.2 LTS, including resolving a tricky breaking change in datetime parsing by implementing a preservation-safe legacy timestamp conversion layer. Also built a cost-efficient, reproducible Small Language Model (Microsoft Phi-3) fine-tuning pipeline that turns CSV product data into a domain-specific searchable Q&A chatbot, with emphasis on memory optimization and overfitting prevention.”

Venkata Bayarapuneni

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in JavaScript, Python, and cloud-deployed web apps

Remote, USA1y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered travel assistant (Globe Trote) that automates end-to-end trip planning using a multi-step agent pipeline with RAG, external API calls, and enforced structured JSON outputs. Focused on reliability (validation, retries, fallback prompts, logging) and reported a ~30–40% reduction in irrelevant/generic responses after adding retrieval grounding.”

“Builder with hands-on experience shipping full-stack products across AWS cloud infrastructure, React/TypeScript apps, SQL-backed systems, and privacy-focused AI workflows. Stands out for combining cost-aware architecture, strong debugging instincts, and product thinking—from an e-commerce platform automated with IaC to a university admin portal serving 10,000+ users and a locally run AI assistant with configurable guardrails.”