Vetted Django Professionals

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who ships AI-enabled products end-to-end: built CodeChat, a production internal codebase Q&A tool using RAG with Pinecone and a model-agnostic wrapper across OpenAI/Anthropic/AWS Bedrock, cutting AWS costs ~50% and latency ~45%. Also built and operated RealityStream, a Flask-based real-time forecasting API with JWT/RBAC, MLflow model versioning, and Prometheus/Grafana observability, including handling a real production latency incident via rollback, preloading, and caching.”

“QA engineer with Citibank experience owning mobile automation and cross-platform validation (Android/iOS), including push notifications, RBAC, and backend API/data sync checks. Demonstrates strong Cypress/JavaScript E2E expertise—stabilizing CI-flaky React tests via cy.intercept—and builds pragmatic GitLab CI pipelines with smoke/regression gating plus rich reporting (Cypress Dashboard, Slack).”

“Built a healthcare app backend and supporting product pieces from scratch for Maverick Health—covering database schema, API structure, Node.js implementation, and UI design in Figma—while targeting 10,000 patients and keeping AWS run costs to ~$20–$30/month. Shipped an Android closed beta on Google Play and handled real-world launch hurdles like privacy policy compliance and push notification infrastructure.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in payment initiation/processing services built in Python/FastAPI, emphasizing reliability patterns (JWT/RBAC, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers). Has delivered AWS deployments on ECS (ALB, autoscaling, CI/CD to ECR) plus Lambda-based reporting, and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines with schema evolution and CloudWatch monitoring. Also modernized a legacy SAS reporting platform to Python/PostgreSQL with regression parity testing and parallel-run migration, and achieved a 70% SQL performance improvement.”

“Full-stack engineer and ML assistant in UC Irvine’s CS department who deployed a lab project showcase platform and integrated on-demand execution of computational projects using Docker for isolation. Also built and optimized Linux cloud/cluster test automation for research, diagnosing RAM and network sync bottlenecks, and later led development of a Python-based predictive analytics tool for musicians using probabilistic graphical models and flexible data pipelines.”

“Built and productionized an internal LLM-powered search tool that helps engineers find the right SolidWorks macros using plain-English queries, using OpenAI embeddings and ChromaDB with strong logging/fallback safeguards. Experienced in diagnosing RAG/agentic workflow issues in real time and in hands-on API support, including fixing customer macros after SolidWorks version updates and driving adoption through reusable solutions and best practices.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning high-scale backend systems and distributed consensus: led a 6-person team delivering a production data querying/visualization platform with major latency improvements via cursor-based pagination and streamed results. Built a RAFT-based distributed logging tool resilient to partitions and storage constraints, and at Nasuni developed FastAPI services processing multi-terabyte workloads for 500+ enterprise customers with secure API key management.”

“JavaScript/Node.js engineer who contributes to open-source utilities focused on API integrations and JSON validation, including a 30–35% throughput improvement by profiling and optimizing deep-clone-heavy code paths. Strong in performance tooling (Node performance hooks, Chrome DevTools flame graphs), incremental/test-driven changes, and community-facing issue triage plus developer-friendly documentation.”

“Open-source React dashboard/visualization library maintainer focused on runtime performance and API clarity. Led a significant effort to eliminate severe render lag on large live-updating datasets through profiling-driven refactors (normalized state, memoized selectors) and locked improvements in with CI, linting, and documentation that reduced regressions and improved external contributor onboarding.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned an AI-powered resume optimization service end-to-end (FastAPI + Celery + Redis/Postgres) and optimized it for unpredictable LLM task latency. Strong Kubernetes/GitOps practitioner (Helm, autoscaling, probes, ArgoCD rollbacks) with experience in on-prem-to-cloud migrations using Terraform and CDC-based replication, plus real-time Kafka pipelines monitored via Prometheus/Grafana.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent Mutual of Omaha experience building a cloud-native microservices application in Java/Spring Boot with a React/Angular frontend, integrating multiple AWS services (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS). Has hands-on experience operationalizing AI features via OpenAI/AWS Bedrock and improving reliability/performance through caching, async processing, and CI/CD pipeline optimization.”

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep insurance claims domain experience who built and operated a microservices + ETL platform (Java/Spring Boot + Python + Kafka/Databricks) processing 1M+ daily transactions. Combines production-grade reliability (99.7% uptime, zero-downtime blue/green releases, strong observability) with customer-facing UI delivery (AngularJS/React+TS dashboards and a hackathon-winning research chatbot).”

“AI/ML-focused backend engineer who shipped two production systems: PersonaPal (agentic LLM chatbot with RAG, FAISS-based retrieval, and Redis semantic caching) and CervixScan (clinical diagnostics platform with PostgreSQL data modeling and human-in-the-loop safety for low-confidence predictions). Demonstrates strong performance/reliability work (indexed vector search, caching, query optimization to ~200ms) and end-to-end ownership from orchestration design through deployment.”

“Backend engineer who built the core backend for Air Kitchens’ discovery/booking platform on AWS (Node + Python, DynamoDB, SQS/Lambda), optimizing for fast user-facing APIs and scalable async workflows. Introduced an AI matching service with a deterministic pre-filter + LLM ranking approach to balance latency vs quality, and has hands-on experience with production security (JWT/RBAC/RLS), CI/CD, and blue-green, staged migrations from Django to modular services.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Cigna evolving REST API services backed by PostgreSQL, emphasizing reliability/correctness, scalability, and observability. Has hands-on production experience with FastAPI (contract-first design, Pydantic schemas), performance tuning (indexes, caching), and secure auth patterns (OAuth/JWT, RBAC, row-level security via Supabase), plus low-risk incremental rollouts using feature flags and dual writes.”

“Backend/data engineer from ALDI Tech Hub who modernized legacy analytics (Excel/SAS) into production-grade Python services on AWS serverless (FastAPI on Lambda behind API Gateway with Step Functions). Strong in reliability and operations (Cognito auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, CloudWatch alarms) and data pipelines (Glue ETL with schema evolution); delivered measurable SQL tuning gains (30s to 2s, 70% CPU reduction).”

“Backend engineer from Emphasis who modernized legacy, tightly coupled workflow systems into observable, event-driven microservices using Kafka. Led a monolith-to-microservices refactor with shadow traffic, feature flags, canary rollout, dual writes, and reconciliation, and strengthened reliability with idempotent consumers, DLQ/replay, and an outbox pattern to prevent DB/event inconsistency. Strong focus on secure multi-tenant APIs (OIDC/JWT, RBAC/ABAC, Supabase-style RLS) and frontend enablement via OpenAPI and typed client generation.”

“Backend engineer who significantly evolved an internal analytics/reporting platform (Python API + Postgres) powering self-service dashboards for product/business teams, focusing on reliability under heavy concurrent load and fast query performance. Demonstrates strong production engineering practices across API design (FastAPI), observability, incremental rollouts with feature flags, and data security using JWT/RBAC plus Postgres row-level security.”

“At BondiTech, built and deployed customer-facing backend improvements for enterprise dashboards handling 1M+ records, redesigning a .NET/Entity Framework API with server-side pagination/filtering and feature-flagged rollout to cut latency from ~15s to ~2s. Experienced integrating customer systems into existing APIs, including stabilizing a legacy CRM sync by normalizing inconsistent IDs, handling strict rate limits with batching, and adding DLQs plus reconciliation reporting.”

“JavaScript engineer with Walmart experience contributing to the Yup validation library—reproduced a nested-object validation bug, fixed merge logic, and added test coverage. Strong in systematic debugging/performance isolation (DevTools + timing logs), plus end-to-end ownership including documentation, monitoring, and issue triage.”

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Metasystems Inc. (and Qualcomm) building high-traffic, security-sensitive systems—owned a secure transaction processing module end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django, and React. Strong AWS production operations (EKS/ECS/Lambda/RDS/DynamoDB) with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), observability, and reliability patterns; also delivered resilient ETL/integration pipelines with idempotency/retries/backfills and achieved a 50% deployment-time reduction through CI/CD and modular refactoring.”

“Backend engineer who built a Python/Flask system for high-volume healthcare claims processing, using PostgreSQL as the source of truth and RabbitMQ workers for scalable async processing. Experienced in SQLAlchemy/Postgres performance tuning, multi-tenant data isolation (including Postgres RLS), and integrating/versioning ML model services (scikit-learn/PyTorch/Hugging Face) with controlled rollouts. Drove measurable performance gains by batching background jobs and adding Redis caching (40% less workload; response times cut from ~10s to 2–3s).”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused engineer with production ownership in multi-account AWS environments (GE) and EKS-based platforms (Lumeus.ai). Strong in incident response and reliability—diagnosed IAM-driven serverless failures (SQS/Lambda) and Kubernetes deployment issues (CrashLoopBackOff, memory pressure) with rollbacks, policy fixes, and improved monitoring. Built secure Jenkins CI/CD and delivered infrastructure via CloudFormation and Terraform for serverless and EKS stacks.”