Vetted Django Professionals

Prayasha Chaudhary

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Senior Engineering Leader specializing in cloud architecture and AI-powered data platforms

Remote5y exp

“Hands-on startup operator with experience across three startups, including companies built from inception and a PEAK6-backed environment. Particularly compelling for early-stage roles: they have rebuilt technical foundations, scaled platforms during growth, and pair strong product ownership with a practical, user-validation-first approach to building scalable systems.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has built AI-powered search and workflow systems in production, including a semantic resume-matching platform for recruiters and internal security data dashboards at ReliaQuest. Stands out for combining modern AI tooling with pragmatic reliability, performance tuning, and strong product intuition in ambiguous environments.”

“Geospatial/simulation specialist who built and shipped high-fidelity 3D visual databases for a DoD-used simulation/render engine, owning the full pipeline from dataset selection and ingestion (imagery/LiDAR/OSM/elevation) through performance testing and delivery. Implemented Python-based AI scripts to auto-detect terrain features and drive automated 3D scene population, and has experience with authoritative client-server synchronization (DIS) plus VR headset performance constraints (Varjo/Oculus/HoloLens at 90Hz).”

“Graduate robotics engineer from Boston University who led development of a perception-to-decision pipeline for a multi-robot, perception-driven navigation and coordination system. Strong in ROS/ROS2 C++ on Linux, with hands-on experience hardening real-time behavior on hardware (timing sync, QoS/queue/executor tuning) and validating via Gazebo/Webots plus real-robot testing; also uses Docker and basic CI for regression checks.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered grading platform that automates rubric-aligned scoring and feedback, with strong guardrails (RAG grounding, structured JSON, validation/retries) and operational rigor (metrics, drift monitoring). Experienced using CrewAI to orchestrate multi-agent workflows end-to-end and validating quality via gold-set benchmarking against human graders with regression testing on every prompt/model change.”

“Backend/data engineer who has maintained high-traffic FastAPI microservices and delivered a hybrid AWS serverless+containers platform using Terraform and GitHub Actions, with secrets managed via Secrets Manager/SSM. Also led modernization of a mission-critical 10,000+ line SAS financial reporting engine into Python microservices and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines feeding a centralized data lake.”

“Built and shipped production RAG/agentic systems in high-stakes domains (biomedical and legal), including an enterprise biomedical document retrieval platform over ~10k scientific docs and a multilingual African-law assistant at the World Bank. Deep hands-on experience with LangChain/LangGraph/LlamaIndex and evaluation tooling (LLM-as-a-judge, safety/hallucination detection), with measurable gains in retrieval quality and hallucination reduction.”

“Backend engineer/technical lead with experience building and operating real-time blockchain analytics systems at Merkle Science. Owned high-traffic Django/DRF services and Kafka streaming pipelines processing millions of events daily, with deep focus on performance (N+1 fixes, indexing, caching) and reliability (DLQs, retries, monitoring). Also led containerization and Kubernetes/GitOps-style CI/CD on Google Cloud, including a migration off Google App Engine to reduce cost and improve scalability.”

“Built a production industrial anomaly detection system for a laminator using only limited runtime logs (time/pressure/temperature) and scarce abnormal examples. Addressed inconsistent manual labeling across customers by creating an operator feedback loop for remarking predictions and retraining customized models, and communicated results to a non-technical company liaison using clear tables, trend plots, and interactive demos.”

“Hands-on backend/AI engineer who solo-built two production Claude-based agent systems: an internal Slack RAG over Confluence/Jira/code/regulatory docs and a HIPAA/GDPR-compliant patient chatbot with embedding guardrails and expert-in-the-loop evals. Also architected a multi-region patient portal + microservices platform with Terraform/CI-CD and federated gateways, delivering major onboarding automation and strong reliability wins (PgBouncer, chaos/perf testing).”

“Backend engineer (Marsh McLennan) who evolved a high-volume claims automation pipeline in Python, emphasizing thin APIs with background job processing, strong validation/retries, and production-grade observability. Experienced in secure FastAPI API design (centralized JWT/RBAC), multi-tenant Postgres/Supabase-style row-level security, and low-risk refactors using parallel runs and feature flags; targeting founding-engineer scope roles.”

“Data engineer with healthcare domain experience who has owned end-to-end pipelines and APIs at UnitedHealth Group, processing ~8M records per batch. Strong focus on data quality (multi-layer validation), reliability (monitoring/logging, retries/idempotency), and performance (Spark/SQL tuning, caching), with experience standing up early-stage systems using Python, Docker, and CI/CD.”