Vetted Django Professionals

“Backend engineer with experience spanning regulated financial systems at Oracle Financial Services and early-stage product building at Apli.ai. Has owned production onboarding infrastructure end-to-end, improved reliability through strong observability and incident response, and also built AI-backed backend workflows using AWS, Bedrock, and RAG.”

Naveena Musku

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in agentic AI and LLM systems

5y exp

“Backend engineer focused on productionizing LLM systems: built a FastAPI-based RAG and multi-agent automation platform deployed with Docker/Kubernetes, prioritizing safe execution and reduced hallucinations. Experienced in refactoring monolithic ML services with feature-flagged incremental rollouts, and implementing JWT/RBAC plus row-level security (e.g., Supabase) for secure, scalable APIs.”

Kunal Mahato

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI, full-stack systems, and platform engineering

Virginia, USA6y exp

“Full-stack/AI engineer with experience spanning supply-chain product deployments, biomedical agentic search, and research-grade RAG evaluation. Stands out for owning customer-facing migrations at scale (including 216,000 historical shipments), building measurable LLM systems, and pairing AI experimentation with rigorous evals, rollout controls, and auditability.”

“Built and iterated an end-to-end virtual waiting room for a real-time ticketing prototype, making concrete architecture tradeoffs (polling + Redis Pub/Sub) and improving performance post-launch with Redis caching (+30% throughput, -15% p99 latency). Also has hands-on experience building Spark/HDFS ETL pipelines with strong reliability/observability patterns and running disciplined NLP model evaluation loops on review-rating classification.”

“Frontend engineer with experience building complex enterprise web applications used by thousands of manufacturing plants globally. Stands out for pragmatic architecture decisions—especially using a BFF to tame legacy APIs and improving delivery by abandoning an overbuilt custom grid effort—while also focusing on accessibility, browser-level debugging, and regression prevention.”

“Backend/platform engineer from Dune Security with strong experience turning messy, fragmented workflows into reusable production systems. They’ve built a shared database abstraction layer, integrated multiple enterprise security platforms into a unified workflow, and shipped AWS Bedrock-powered security insight features with guardrails and human review.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has shipped an LLM-powered enterprise support-ticket agent at Comcast, building a production-grade microservices pipeline (FastAPI, SQS, Redis) with strong observability (OpenTelemetry/Splunk/Prometheus/Grafana) and reliability patterns (async, caching, circuit breakers, idempotency). Demonstrated quantified impact at scale—processing 10k+ tickets/day while improving response SLAs and routing accuracy through evaluation and human feedback loops.”

“Backend engineer with TaskRabbit experience building and operating payment/booking services in Python/Django on AWS (ECS + Lambda) with Kafka/SQS eventing. Demonstrates strong production reliability and incident ownership in high-stakes payment flows (idempotency, strict timeouts, retries, monitoring/alerting) plus data/ETL work in AWS Glue and measurable SQL performance wins.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across GCP and AWS: built FastAPI microservices on Cloud Run and delivered AWS Lambda + ECS Fargate systems with Terraform/GitHub Actions. Strong in data engineering (Glue/Spark, S3/Redshift) and modernization (SAS to Python/SQL), with proven reliability and incident ownership—including cutting a 20+ minute reporting query to under 2 minutes.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an internal user-activity tracking and reporting system end-to-end using React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres, deployed on AWS (EC2/ALB, S3/CloudFront) with CloudWatch observability. Emphasizes reliability and data correctness via idempotent ingestion, retries with exponential backoff, backfills/reconciliation, and performance tuning as data scales, and has experience shipping quickly in ambiguous early-stage startup conditions.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building secure Django/DRF APIs (JWT RS256 + rotating refresh tokens), background processing with Celery, and strong reliability practices (timeouts, retries/backoff, structured logging, audit trails). Has delivered AWS solutions spanning Lambda + ECS with IaC/CI-CD and built Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines with schema evolution and data-quality quarantine patterns; also modernized a legacy SAS pipeline to Python/PySpark with parallel-run parity validation and phased rollout.”

“LLM/GenAI engineer with US Bank experience building a production financial-document intelligence platform using LangChain/LangGraph, GPT-4, and Amazon OpenSearch. Delivered a RAG-based assistant for compliance/audit teams with grounded, cited answers, focusing on reducing hallucinations and latency, and deployed securely on AWS (SageMaker/EKS) with CI/CD and evaluation tooling (LangSmith, RAGAS).”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer with experience at AirKitchenz, Uber, and Vivma Software, building production systems on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions). Has a track record of major performance wins (DynamoDB latency 2s to <150ms; Postgres query 2s to ~180ms) and shipping LLM-powered onboarding and ticket-routing workflows with strong guardrails (schema validation, confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop escalation).”

Joshua Hewitt

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI product development

San Francisco, USA9y exp

“AI product builder at Padlet who shipped multiple production LLM features for education workflows, including an AI document generator (AI Recipes) and a RAG-enabled in-product chat assistant. Built an AI microservice layer (LangChain) to swap model providers easily and created automated + human-in-the-loop evaluation systems (including ~100-test runs) to iterate on prompts and quality.”

Tuukka Luolamo

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI, cloud, and distributed platforms

Remote14y exp

“Engineering leader who stays hands-on in high-leverage technical areas (architecture, scalability, reliability) while operating at an executive level. Led StagePilot’s shift from a tightly coupled legacy system to a cloud-native, event-driven real-time platform proven at 1M+ concurrent users, and previously scaled multiple SRE teams at McGraw-Hill with SLOs, on-call, and blameless ops practices.”

Mukul Sai Pendem

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and DevOps

United States (Remote)4y exp

“Backend engineer with strong Python/FastAPI microservices ownership, including an ML-serving service with embeddings, async DB access, and Redis caching to reduce latency under high load. Experienced deploying and operating containerized services on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD/Helm) with automated CI/CD, plus hands-on Kafka streaming pipeline tuning and enterprise migration work (Infosys) using blue-green/active-passive strategies.”

Ankita A Khartmol

Screened

Junior Backend Software Engineer specializing in conversational AI and cloud APIs

Bangalore, India1y exp

“Backend/ML-focused software engineer who built and evolved a Python/FastAPI backend for a large-scale conversational AI platform, decoupling API and inference services to improve stability and deployment velocity. Experienced in production hardening (timeouts/fallbacks/monitoring), secure multi-tenant systems (JWT/RBAC/RLS), and low-risk migrations using shadow deployments and incremental traffic ramp-ups.”

Soham Patil

Screened

Junior Cloud & AI/ML Engineer specializing in AWS GovCloud and MLOps

Washington, DC2y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 autonomy experience on an obstacle-avoiding quadrotor (ROS 2 + Gazebo + PX4 + Nav2/SLAM), including custom work to extend Nav2 into a 3D aerial domain and output PX4 trajectory setpoints. Also built cost-saving ML infrastructure (PostgreSQL + AWS data-cleaning pipeline) and improved object detection accuracy by 40% using CUDA/PyTorch, with strong containerization and CI/CD practices (Docker + Kubernetes, aggressive version pinning) to prevent environment drift.”

Ramtin Kazemi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Django, AWS, and AI/ML

San Diego, California1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-powered personal statement editor in Next.js (App Router + TypeScript), including dynamic routing, server-side data fetching, and typed API route handlers. Post-launch, they handled production monitoring/debugging and shipped reliability/performance upgrades (rate limiting, retries, rollback, DB indexing), and report a 40% latency reduction using Suspense/streaming and React concurrency patterns. Also implemented a durable Temporal-orchestrated AI document workflow with robust retry/idempotency strategies.”

Tong Wu

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack SaaS and cloud systems

Ontario, Canada8y exp

“Built and owned Laserfiche's Schedule Custom Report platform end-to-end, spanning Angular frontend, backend orchestration, and production observability for an enterprise reporting workflow. Stands out for integrating multiple independent microservices with RabbitMQ-based event orchestration while also improving UX on complex migration tooling.”

“Built and deployed an AI-driven expense categorization workflow integrating OpenAI API and PGVector to automate general ledger coding. Stands out for combining LLM/embedding architecture with finance operations context, stakeholder-facing deployment ownership, and measurable impact of roughly 30%+ reduction in manual coding effort.”

“Developer with a pragmatic, disciplined approach to AI-assisted coding: uses tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini to speed up debugging, optimization, unit testing, and documentation while maintaining ownership of design and code quality. Interested in expanding from single-agent workflows into multi-agent setups for larger coding tasks and stays current through hands-on use and AI ecosystem updates.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped real-time, customer-facing dashboards and ticketing/payment features at Freshworks and Global Payments. Strong in Python API design (Django/Flask/FastAPI) and React/TypeScript UIs, with hands-on experience scaling PostgreSQL for high transaction volumes and operating services on AWS, including incident response and HIPAA-aligned security controls.”

“Dell engineer with hands-on full-stack and AI-powered internal platform experience, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Python microservices, Kafka streaming, and AWS/Kubernetes deployment. They’ve owned monitoring and anomaly-detection products end to end, including a dashboard that reduced manual log review and helped teams detect issues roughly 30% faster, while also translating complex AI outputs into intuitive experiences for non-technical users.”