Vetted Django Professionals

Apurva Banka

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack & AI Engineer specializing in cloud, data platforms, and LLM automation

Houston, TX5y exp

“Software engineer/product builder who has owned an agentic affiliate lead-gen platform end-to-end (Django + React/TypeScript) and deployed it on Kubernetes in anticipation of 10x user growth from ~5K DAUs. Also has healthcare claims microservices experience using Kafka, including hands-on performance tuning to address consumer lag and broker pressure, and built an internal downtime alerting tool adopted across the organization.”

Vedang Jadhav

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices on AWS

New York City, NY5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience across healthcare and fintech platforms (Anthem, Citia) building high-throughput Python microservices with strong compliance/security focus (HIPAA, tenant isolation). Has integrated ML workflows into production systems (ResNet embedding-based image similarity) using async pipelines (Celery/Redis) and AWS (Lambda/S3/ECS), delivering measurable performance and fraud/content-integrity improvements at scale.”

vineetha Pulipati

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and cloud data pipelines

MO, USA4y exp

“Backend engineer with Morgan Stanley experience building and owning an end-to-end Python FastAPI microservice for high-volume market data used by trading and risk systems. Strong in performance tuning and reliability (PySpark, Redis caching, async APIs), real-time streaming with Kafka, and production operations (Docker/Kubernetes, GitOps-style CI/CD, monitoring). Has led cloud/on-prem migration work across AWS and Azure, including fixing Azure Synapse performance issues via query and pipeline redesign.”

Ali Taquie

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech payments

Santa Cruz, CA2y exp

“Forward-deployed software engineer at PayStand who uses LLM prototyping tools (e.g., Cursor, Lovable) to rapidly build customer-specific demo environments and drive sales outcomes—citing ~$100K in technical buy-in before production development. Experienced supporting an enterprise expense management product (Teampay) with agentic AI workflows, emphasizing observability (Grafana/Loki/Tempo) and cross-functional communication with sales, product, developers, and customers.”

Kwadwo Poku

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud platforms

Yonkers, NY3y exp

“Software engineer who built and launched an end-to-end Ad Scheduler that automated campaign creation across Google Ads and Meta using Azure Functions/Service Bus, PostgreSQL, and a React frontend—reducing manual marketing ops work. Also shipped a production internal RAG chatbot leveraging a data warehouse + Cube semantic layer, Gemini embeddings, vector search, and Claude, with Langfuse tracing and brand-based access controls; work was cut short due to layoffs.”

Robert Wheeler

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in cloud, AI/ML, and scalable product platforms

Manhattan, USA25y exp

“Technical leader and hands-on engineer with 20+ years of experience who has previously raised funding and exited a venture. Currently bootstrapping a new AI-direction startup with personal and family capital, leveraging structured financial planning and a relationship-driven approach to investor outreach.”

Teage Johnson

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and machine learning

California, USA3y exp

“Software engineer at early-stage startup Cari with hands-on experience shipping AI-enabled production workflows, including an LLM chatbot for a micro-transit platform and an automated image-processing pipeline integrated with Claude. Stands out for combining practical agent reliability patterns—schema validation, fallbacks, caching, and idempotency—with strong ML evaluation instincts and experience cleaning messy operational invoice data.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has owned complex internal platforms end-to-end, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Flask/Redis backend systems, and relational data design. Particularly strong at turning technically dense workflows into intuitive user experiences, including a synthetic-imagery platform adopted by multiple Army research labs and a marketing analytics system with 99.99%+ uptime.”

“Full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership of a production customer plan activation and account management flow at T-Mobile, spanning Java/Spring Boot APIs, React frontend, and Docker-based CI/CD deployments. Demonstrated performance/scalability work (query optimization, indexing, caching) and measured success via improved retrieval speed and reduced support tickets.”

Harika M

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and enterprise platforms

Plano, TX6y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI-assisted development, using tools like Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate coding while maintaining strict validation for correctness, security, and performance. Particularly notable for building a multi-agent incident-resolution workflow for a financial platform, with specialized agents for log analysis, root cause identification, fix suggestions, and test generation.”

“ML engineer at CGI who built demand forecasting models end-to-end, from feature engineering and training through AWS deployment. Stands out for a production-first mindset and strong skepticism of AI-generated code, including catching a Copilot-generated SQL query that would have caused a costly full table scan in production.”

Pallavi Hogalagere Anandareddy

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and FinTech

Tampa, FL4y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer with experience spanning banking implementations at FIS and hands-on product building in React, TypeScript, Node.js, SQL, and Python. Stands out for owning six bank go-lives end-to-end, building an AI resume evaluator, and proactively automating manual operations workflows to reduce errors and improve consistency.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a production "Financial Insight" assistant dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, integrating a RAG pipeline (embeddings + ChromaDB + LLM) via route handlers and owning post-launch performance (latency, token cost, retrieval relevance). Also built/optimized Postgres-backed workflows for an outbound dialer and callback routing engine handling ~10,000 daily contacts, validating query performance with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS).”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building real-time analytics and logistics platforms across modern JavaScript and Java stacks. They combine strong production ownership and database optimization skills with architectural leadership, including redesigning bottlenecks with SQS/Lambda and driving a monolith-to-microservices migration on Kubernetes that cut deployment time by 50%.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who has built and operated a cloud-native media ingestion/processing platform in Python (Django/DRF, FastAPI) with Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, emphasizing multi-tenant security and reliability. Delivered AWS production systems combining EKS and Lambda with Terraform + GitHub Actions/Helm, and built Glue-based ETL pipelines with strong schema-evolution and data-quality practices; also modernized SAS analytics into Python on AWS. Seeking fully remote roles with a $120K–$140K base range.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned end-to-end production services for a fleet analytics/GenAI platform, spanning FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS + Lambda) event-driven workloads. Strong in reliability/observability (OpenTelemetry, circuit breakers, idempotency), data pipelines (Glue/Airflow/Snowflake), and measurable performance/cost wins (SQL 10s to <800ms P95; ~30% compute cost reduction).”

“Software engineer with deep healthcare claims domain experience who has owned customer-facing portals end-to-end (Java/Spring Boot + React/TypeScript) and improved usability/performance based on real user feedback. Built microservices using REST and RabbitMQ with strong observability (Splunk/cloud metrics), and delivered an internal claims investigation dashboard that streamlined operations through centralized data, search, and filtering.”

“Software engineer with BitSight experience owning and revitalizing a critical internal Entity Management Portal (Django/React), clearing 30+ backlog items and boosting internal workflow efficiency ~40% through performance re-architecture (Redis caching) and disciplined testing. Also built a collaborative chore management platform (React/FastAPI) emphasizing responsiveness (optimistic UI) and scalability (connection pooling, Docker), and improved microservices security by centralizing secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager across multi-cloud environments.”

“Built a college AI chatbot during a master’s program, owning the full Python/Flask backend plus Google Gemini integration and a Postgres persistence layer (course info + conversation history), including caching/performance tuning. Also deployed and migrated ETL/ELT workloads from AWS Lambda into Kubernetes/EKS with GitHub Actions-based GitOps CI/CD, IRSA permissions, and Secrets Manager/S3/Postgres connectivity.”

“JavaScript/React performance-focused engineer who contributed upstream to an open-source virtualization/pagination library, fixing overlapping-fetch race conditions and introducing prefetch/deduping patterns that cut load times from ~3s to <900ms and reduced render thrash ~35%. Also built healthcare automation systems (clinical summary and claims triage), including a FastAPI + RAG pipeline that retrieved CPT/ICD evidence, improving decision accuracy from 67% to 86% and reducing turnaround time by 40%.”

“Backend engineer who built and optimized a high-traffic e-commerce platform in Python/Flask, focusing on scalability and reliability through service decomposition, Redis caching, and Celery-based background processing. Also integrated an AI intent-classification chatbot as a separately deployable inference service on AWS and has hands-on experience designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies in PostgreSQL.”

“Software engineer with experience delivering customer-facing and internal tools across GE Renewables, GE Healthcare (supply chain/production systems), and a Boulder-based event app startup. Recently focused on scaling backend performance using Redis and RabbitMQ, and has hands-on experience resolving hard-to-reproduce production issues in legacy authentication/session systems; also deployed a personal project (Journal Buddy) publicly.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of FastAPI/Django services using MongoDB and React integration, focused on production reliability and performance (Redis caching, Celery background jobs, automated testing). Has delivered AWS container deployments via GitHub Actions to ECR with scripted rollouts/health checks, and supported phased migrations with replication and rollback planning. Also built a real-time user-activity streaming pipeline addressing partition hot spots and consumer lag through partition-key strategy, idempotency, and monitoring.”