Vetted Express Professionals

Kaustubh Rai

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in scalable distributed systems and cloud platforms

Pittsburgh, PA2y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at UnitedHealth Group redesigning a high-traffic Spring Boot microservice from blocking to reactive architecture during peak season, cutting median latency by 47% for a service used by ~10M customers annually. Strong in Kubernetes-based deployment/scaling and pragmatic rollout strategies (blue-green/incremental traffic shifting) with performance and database troubleshooting.”

“Backend engineer from Palantir who built and productionized an enterprise LLM-based document intelligence/search platform, evolving it into a hybrid lexical+vector retrieval system. Emphasizes reliability and cost control via strict LLM gating, robust fallback paths, and evaluation frameworks (e.g., MMLU/BLEU), plus disciplined migration practices (feature flags, dual-writes, shadow reads) to ship changes safely at scale.”

“AI engineer at Anote.ai who built and shipped a production multi-agent LangGraph/LangChain/Ray RAG platform for enterprise search and workflow automation, supporting 3 commercial products and 100+ developers. Drove measurable gains (30% accuracy improvement, lower latency) and improved reliability with Redis-based state checkpointing, message-queue synchronization, and Milvus retrieval optimizations, while partnering with PMs/clients to add transparency features like confidence scores and real-time logs.”

Akhilaa Sonduri

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in SaaS and AI-powered web apps

Cambridge, MA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience at HubSpot, Accolite, and an early-stage USC alumni startup (Workup). Built and shipped end-to-end workflow automation features (dynamic input configuration with strict schema validation) driving ~25% faster configuration, and delivered an AI interview customization feature in a high-ambiguity startup setting that increased adoption by ~40%. Comfortable operating production systems on AWS with CloudWatch observability and CI/CD, and has built real-time web apps with caching/indexing for performance.”

“Frontend-leaning product engineer who has owned complex, data-heavy interfaces across Stitch Fix, Amplitude, Salesforce, and C3Drone. Stands out for modernizing legacy UIs into React, improving performance for large and real-time datasets, and stepping beyond frontend into backend sync logic, middleware, and query/parser work to ship collaborative product features.”

“Senior full-stack engineer with seed-stage fintech experience who has led payment API development, implemented compliance-related standards, and built production systems across React, Go, Python, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. Notable impact includes enabling a first major client launch, reducing logistics response times by 30%, improving page load times by 40%+, and cutting analytics report generation from minutes to seconds.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong AI systems and B2B SaaS experience across BrightOps, Zapier, Nordstrom, and Calendly. They’ve owned architecture for an AI-powered tutoring platform, improved retrieval quality with a hybrid vector-plus-keyword approach, and built Go services processing over 1 million student events per day. Particularly compelling for teams building data-intensive, reliability-critical products with LLM, workflow automation, or compliance-oriented use cases.”

“Built and shipped customer-facing AI systems in banking, including an AI fraud support workflow and virtual assistant at Citi/Citibank that handled over 1 million conversations per month. Combines full-stack engineering, LLM/RAG architecture, and strong compliance-minded design with PII masking, audit logging, confidence thresholds, and human escalation for regulated environments.”

“Product-minded software engineer with experience shipping AI-powered financial insights (spend forecasting, cashflow, credit optimization) and building real-time analytics systems using React/TypeScript and FastAPI. Has designed microservices with RabbitMQ/gRPC and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry), and also built an internal Figma plugin adopted by designers that reduced export time by 50%.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building credit/fraud enrichment services and checkout pipelines on AWS (EKS + Lambda) using FastAPI, Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, with a strong focus on reliability patterns (timeouts/retries/circuit breakers) and observability. Has also built AWS Glue/PySpark ETL into S3/Redshift with schema evolution and data quality controls, and modernized legacy credit decisioning into Java/Node microservices with parallel-run parity validation and feature-flag rollouts.”

“Financial systems engineer who built an automated rebalance-day order reporting and analytics tool on kdb+ pipelines, cutting a high-visibility manual process from 2–3 hours to ~2 minutes and expanding it from North America to EMEA/APAC. Also proposed an early production RAG-based incident knowledge assistant trained on ServiceNow postmortems, with guardrails to scope retrieval by application.”

Jahnavi Rao

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech

USA5y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with Bank of America experience building production internal payment operations dashboards and modernizing legacy service integrations. Stands out for owning both design and implementation, from React/TypeScript UI architecture to Spring Boot APIs, with strong attention to performance, reliability, and production observability in complex financial systems.”