Vetted Express Professionals

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building Python/Flask microservices using PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy, JWT auth, Docker, and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Strong in performance and scalability work—migrated heavy processing to Celery/Redis, tuned queries with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and indexing, and delivered 50%+ API latency reduction. Also integrates AI workflows (OpenAI APIs) with batching/caching/fallbacks and has implemented multi-tenant data isolation patterns.”

“Interned at SLB and owned an end-to-end GenAI chatbot deployment for a finance team, including invoice PDF data extraction and an LLM-driven layer (LangGraph/LangChain) that translated natural language to SQL and returned results in natural language. Validated LLM JSON outputs against benchmarks using DeepDiff and deployed the solution via Docker to Kubernetes, managing pods with k9s.”

“Backend/data engineering candidate with Netflix experience designing and migrating analytics platforms from batch to real-time streaming (Kafka/Flink) across AWS and GCP. Delivered measurable improvements (40% lower data delay, 99.9% accuracy) using phased rollouts, automated data validation (Great Expectations), and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and proactively hardened pipelines with idempotency to prevent duplicate Kafka processing.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who has owned a large enterprise footprint (40 Power8/9 frames, 400+ AIX LPARs) with deep hands-on VIOS/HMC, NIM, performance tuning, and PowerHA recovery. Demonstrated high-impact incident response (avoided DB reboot saving ~4 hours; restored clustered services in <20 minutes) plus strong RCA and preventative remediation. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience building GitHub Actions pipelines and Terraform-managed AWS EKS/VPC/RDS/S3 environments.”

Yeshwanth Sai Pala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud microservices and AI-driven FinTech

Remote, USA4y exp

“Stripe engineer who shipped an end-to-end merchant fraud insights dashboard, spanning Spring Boot/Kafka risk-scoring services and a React+TypeScript UI. Focused on low-latency, high-volume transaction processing and production operations on AWS (EKS/CloudWatch), including handling a real traffic-spike latency incident via query optimization, indexing, and rate limiting.”

“Built and shipped a production agentic RAG system for healthcare analysts that automated compliance/operations knowledge retrieval across PDFs, reports, and databases. Emphasizes production reliability (monitoring, retries, fallbacks, async queues), strong evaluation/iteration loops, and measurable impact (3–10s responses and ~98% top-k retrieval accuracy).”

Zheng Wu

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud messaging

Mountain View, CA1y exp

“Data/ML engineer who has owned end-to-end systems across email deliverability/segmentation and production LLM apps. Built a Spark+Airflow segmentation engine that materially improved deliverability (99.9%) and open rates (>50%), and shipped a PDF-to-quiz RAG product using LangChain/Vertex AI/Chroma with strong guardrails and an eval loop that cut hallucinations to <5%.”

KARTHIKBABU VADLOORI

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring Boot, React, and cloud microservices

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Meta and Accenture building regulated-data systems (healthcare/financial) using Python/Flask and Postgres. Has scaled high-throughput services to millions of daily requests, delivering measurable latency wins (~40% API latency reduction; ~35% faster DB-backed endpoints), and has productionized ML inference services using Docker/Kubernetes and AWS (ECS/SageMaker).”

“Seed-stage startup engineer owning features end-to-end across full-stack development, DevOps, rollout, and post-launch maintenance. Built data ingestion and evaluation workflows for an LLM data-quality platform using Next.js, MongoDB, Postgres, and GCP Pub/Sub, with a strong focus on reliability, caching, and pragmatic performance improvements.”

Meredith Ma

Screened

Entry-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in generative AI and computer vision

Pittsburgh, PA2y exp

“Built and owned a production RAG coding assistant at Magna International used by 200 engineers, with hands-on work across React/TypeScript, retrieval infrastructure, and Postgres observability. Also brings an unusual blend of product UX thinking from AR game onboarding work, showing strength in both technical systems reliability and user activation.”

“CMU IoT coursework project builder who implemented an end-to-end TinyML gesture recognition system on a Particle Photon + ADXL345, streaming data via MQTT/Node-RED to a real-time Node.js frontend and deploying a quantized logistic regression model on-device. Also explored multi-drone coordination, implementing leader-follower offset control and a pivot/arc turning strategy to avoid collisions, and brings practical Docker/Kubernetes plus CI/CD workflow experience from internships.”

“Senior engineering leader in the Bay Area with experience spanning VMware, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Barracuda, and Palo Alto Networks, including leading open-source work (Apache Knox) and architecting large-scale security platforms. Has driven disaster recovery and cloud security products, designed Python microservices for Microsoft 365 security, and scaled teams (3x) while formalizing enterprise readiness practices with automated documentation using Notebook LLM.”

Chris Du

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps and AI systems

Mountain View, CA0y exp

“Product/UX designer who builds end-to-end systems across both consumer wellness and industrial/technical domains. Designed BloomPath (mental-wellness platform for therapists and young professionals) using research-driven, emotionally safe interaction patterns, and also simplified a Bosch autonomous parking vision-language mapping pipeline into a developer-facing real-time UI with layered debug tooling. Comfortable collaborating deeply with engineers and contributing in React/JS.”

Anushka Bhagchandani

Screened

Intern Product & Software Engineer specializing in GenAI/LLM and e-commerce platforms

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Software engineer (2+ years in India) and current GenAI intern who shipped LLM-powered review-writing enhancements at Myntra (Walmart-backed), using pilots and A/B tests to lift review quality by 5% in 30 days. Demonstrates strong LLM operations discipline (logging, dashboards, alerts, rollback) and fast incident response, plus experience delivering developer-focused workshops and public technical talks.”

“Full-stack product engineer who built a semantic word game end-to-end across web and mobile, including a custom ML-based scoring pipeline that replaced an expensive third-party API. Also has experience shipping real-time social learning features at BU Spark, with strong instincts around product ownership, UX polish, and pragmatic infrastructure choices.”

“Built multiple AI-powered products from scratch, including ConnectAbility, an accessibility tool combining computer vision and LLMs to describe visual content for users with disabilities, and SpamBack!, a macOS app that detects scam texts and auto-generates responses. Stands out for full-stack/backend ownership of applied AI systems, especially around async workflows, inference performance, and reliability safeguards.”

“AI/LLM-focused engineer with hands-on experience building RAG pipelines, prompt engineering workflows, and multi-agent systems using tools like LangChain. Stands out for combining AI-assisted development with production-grade validation and for leading the architecture/orchestration of agent-based recommendation systems that improved response time, accuracy, and scalability.”

“Backend/data engineer with Optum healthcare claims domain experience building high-reliability Python microservices (FastAPI/Kafka/Postgres) and AWS data platforms (EKS, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrated strong production ownership: fixed duplicate Kafka processing via transactional outbox/idempotency, scaled to millions of daily events, and delivered major SQL performance gains (40+ min to <5 min, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking remote-only work; targets $130k base.”

“Backend/data engineer who has owned production Python APIs and high-throughput async workflows on AWS (FastAPI, Docker, ECS/EKS/Lambda) with mature reliability practices like idempotency, bounded retries, circuit breakers, and strong observability. Also built AWS Glue ETL into an S3/Redshift lakehouse and modernized legacy batch systems via parallel-run parity testing and feature-flagged migrations, including a SQL tuning win cutting a multi-minute query to under 10 seconds.”

“Machine learning software engineer intern experience at Amazon, where they built a production testing framework to inject frames/videos onto devices to measure embedded CV model inference and ensure broad model compatibility via automatic NNA metadata handling. Also built side projects spanning LLM/RAG orchestration (LangChain/LangGraph with reranking and citations) and applied CV/healthcare work (nail disease detection, medical retrieval chatbot).”

Ethan Hu

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and embedded systems

Seattle, WA2y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer on Qualtrics' Online Samples team working on audience sampling systems and APIs used by researchers. They have hands-on ownership of TypeScript/React/Express services, emphasize multi-layer testing and production observability with Splunk/VictorOps, and have built APIs for both internal and external developers.”