Vetted Express Professionals

“Backend/platform engineer who has built and run production Python/Flask + Kafka microservices processing RFID and camera/RFID fusion streams for near-real-time retail cart updates at ~4–5M events/day. Strong in reliability/performance debugging (p99 latency, Kafka lag, Cosmos DB RU hot partitions) with measurable impact including ~30% database cost reduction, and has also shipped an end-to-end vulnerability scanning workflow with DynamoDB-backed state, idempotency, and robust retry/verification guardrails.”

“Interned at Zonda where he built an AI-driven semantic search solution over ~280M housing/builder records. Iterated from local LLMs via llama.cpp quantization to a vector-embedding retrieval system, then boosted semantic accuracy with a custom spaCy NER layer and re-ranking, optimizing for latency through precomputation. Collaborated with economics-focused stakeholders to reduce manual document/paperwork time by enabling natural-language search over internal data.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered SMS survey platform for a nonprofit serving at-risk communities (internet-limited users), using Cloudflare Workers + Twilio and a state-machine survey engine. Scaled it to ~10k active users with near-zero downtime, added English/Spanish support, and iteratively improved LLM behavior (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to handle nuanced, real-world SMS responses reliably.”

“AWS Solutions Architect intern who advised customers on securing a multi-tenant LLM-based SaaS, including isolation strategy tradeoffs and production guardrails against prompt injection. Has experience investigating a prompt-injection incident using logs/traces and TTP-style documentation, and designing scalable SDK/agent integrations via asynchronous worker architecture with prompt versioning.”

“Financial-services AI engineer who shipped a production investment research assistant using RAG over internal research reports, SEC filings, and meeting transcripts, with a strong emphasis on truthfulness and guardrails. Built a structured evaluation loop (200+ golden test cases, RAG Triad metrics) that directly improved retrieval quality (e.g., fixing year-mismatch retrieval, boosting sensitive-query performance by 18% and cutting hallucinations to near zero) and scaled ingestion to ~10k messy documents with RabbitMQ + OpenTelemetry.”

Srinivas Matta

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in cloud-native web platforms

Paducah, KY4y exp

“Software engineer at Capital One who owned and shipped AI-driven personalization and internal insights dashboards end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration with feature flags and tight user feedback loops. Built a TypeScript/React + Spring Boot/Python document automation platform with compute-heavy NLP microservices, async workflows, and production-scale reliability/performance practices (Kafka/RabbitMQ-style queues, Redis caching, tracing).”

John Chen

Screened

Junior Full-Stack & Data Scientist specializing in ML/NLP and analytics products

Redwood City, CA2y exp

“Built and deployed profitprops.io, a sports betting player-props prediction product using ML/AI. Implemented backend APIs with FastAPI/Express.js and Supabase, trained models on AWS GPU (P3) using Docker + RAPIDS, and set up CI/CD with GitHub Actions while working around cost constraints and data-collection hurdles (EC2 proxy rotation/rate limits).”

Belal Beydoun

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI and data analytics

Detroit, MI2y exp

“Software engineer focused on real-time, low-latency AI pipelines: built an end-to-end mobile-to-backend image classification system using React Native/Expo, Node.js, gRPC, MySQL, and Google Vision AI, optimizing throughput and latency. Also integrated an AI model into a real-time field workflow at DTE via Node.js + Azure Databricks, adding data cleaning/validation and safe fallback logic for reliability in operations.”

SAI RAKAM

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech payments

Remote, USA3y exp

“Capital One engineer focused on fraud and payments platforms, owning end-to-end services and internal tools used by fraud analysts. Built high-traffic Kafka/REST systems and real-time React/TypeScript dashboards (WebSockets, Redis), with strong emphasis on observability, idempotency, and scalable microservices. Successfully drove adoption of AI-assisted fraud classification by pairing transparency and manual overrides with measurable workflow improvements.”

Sankalp Tiwari

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech data pipelines

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer at Goldman Sachs who built LLM-powered reconciliation/reporting services and high-throughput Kafka pipelines (8M+ events/day). Strong in production-grade Python/FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with GitOps-style CI/CD, plus experience migrating legacy reporting/settlement services onto an internal Kubernetes platform using shadow deployments and gradual cutovers.”

Naga Manasa Bandaru

Screened

Mid-level Frontend Software Engineer specializing in React, Next.js, and TypeScript

Dallas – Fort Worth, TX4y exp

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with FedEx experience building an internal logistics dashboard for near real-time shipment status and performance metrics using Next.js App Router + TypeScript. Strong in production ownership and performance work—uses React Profiler/Chrome DevTools to eliminate expensive re-renders and applies Postgres indexing/query tuning validated via EXPLAIN ANALYZE to improve dashboard responsiveness.”

Srushti Milind Jamsandekar

Screened

Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in backend, cloud, and GenAI

CA, USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with fintech and AI feature experience who shipped an AI-powered project summary module in Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) with secure server-side fetching and route handlers to a FastAPI backend, then owned monitoring and performance fixes in production. Demonstrated measurable UX wins (30% faster dashboard loads) and strong backend fundamentals (Postgres indexing/EXPLAIN ANALYZE, SQS-orchestrated idempotent reconciliation workflows with DLQs and retries).”

Aditya Jaiswal

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, DevOps, and applied AI

Carlsbad, CA1y exp

“Full-stack engineer with startup ownership experience (Aiir) building 15+ TypeScript/Go microservice APIs on GCP Cloud Run with Kafka-based async event streaming and React CRM integrations for billing/analytics. Strong post-launch operator who tuned Oracle performance (partitioning/indexing/query optimization) and validated a 23% retrieval-time reduction via AWR, and has a quality/DevSecOps mindset (94% Pytest coverage, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, Twistlock, CloudWatch) including migrating 18+ production CI/CD pipelines.”

Alexey Elkin

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud analytics and web applications

New York, NY2y exp

“LLM/agentic workflow engineer with hands-on experience turning demo-grade LLM analytics into production-ready features by tackling tail latency, observability, and cost/reliability controls. Strong at diagnosing real-time customer incidents via trace-driven debugging across retrieval, tool calls, retries, and prompt/version metadata, and frequently partners with sales as a technical lead to de-risk enterprise pilots through transparent failure-mode walkthroughs.”

Suloni Praveen

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and ML systems

Los Angeles, CA0y exp

“Built an end-to-end Next.js/TypeScript LLM-based scientific PDF analyzer using local Ollama/Llama inference to prioritize privacy and cost, producing structured research artifacts (e.g., authors/methods/findings) with ~92% extraction accuracy. At Qualtrics, helped replace a batch pipeline with a real-time, low-latency ML inference service (Python/Go on Kubernetes) using Redis caching, Grafana-based observability, and graceful fallbacks to protect UX during failures.”

“Early-career builder with hands-on project experience spanning Python data processing, a Chrome extension for autofilling job applications, and a sign-language glove system integrating sensors, microcontrollers, and a web interface. Stands out for approaching student and project work with a production-minded focus on validation, modularity, edge cases, and reliability.”

Murali Marupudi

Screened

Entry-level Computer Science graduate specializing in software and engineering

Jersey City, NJ

“Backend engineer focused on high-throughput Python/Flask systems on AWS, with strong scaling and performance tuning experience (e.g., PostgreSQL join reduced from ~3s to <200ms; background aggregation cut from 10 minutes to <90 seconds with 8x throughput). Has also integrated ML model serving into production APIs (churn prediction) using Celery/Redis batching and AWS Lambda/S3, and designed secure multi-tenant architectures with PostgreSQL schema isolation and row-level security.”

“Backend/product-minded engineer from Ramp with strong travel-tech experience, having built an end-to-end booking platform integrating multiple external providers, policy enforcement, and reporting infrastructure. They also shipped an LLM-powered personalization workflow using embeddings and Google Gemini that cut trip planning time by 22%, and demonstrated strong production reliability instincts through circuit breakers, health checks, and schema-driven normalization.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built end-to-end apps and internal tools spanning React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres. Stands out for pragmatic shipping under ambiguity, creating reusable platform primitives like a centralized notification API, and designing safe multi-tenant configurable dashboards with schema validation.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer who has built AI-heavy systems spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontends, Python/FastAPI backends, queues, databases, and workflow infrastructure. Stands out for combining strong technical depth with UX instincts—improving trust in AI assistants, shipping ambiguous client features quickly, and creating reusable primitives for AI generation and analysis products.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership of search and listing systems (React/TypeScript frontend with Node.js + Spring Boot backends), focused on shipping fast while managing risk via feature flags, testing, and metrics. Demonstrated measurable UX/performance wins (reduced latency and search abandonment) and built internal observability tooling (dashboard + alerts) that improved incident response. Experienced with microservices reliability patterns including idempotency and dead-letter queues.”

“Frontend-focused engineer operating at a staff level with experience at Amazon and startups, known for rescuing high-impact, frontend-heavy systems through architecture, performance, and quality improvements. Delivered outsized results including cutting load times from ~90s to ~3s, raising test coverage from <1% to >80%, and enabling multi-team adoption of modern state management via training sessions for 50+ engineers.”

“Senior frontend engineer with experience leading high-impact React/TypeScript products at HelloFresh and CAA, including an A/B-tested onboarding flow shipped across multiple international brands. Modernized a legacy .NET frontend to Next.js using SSR and performance techniques (caching/memoization/lazy loading) and implemented robust testing/monitoring (Cypress, Honeycomb, GA) in fast-paced, production-deploy environments.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong DevOps/AWS production experience who builds and operates multi-agent AI systems end-to-end (Streamlit/Python through Docker/Kubernetes and ECS/Fargate). Has delivered measurable outcomes: sub-2s latency and ~92% routing accuracy for an AI wellness assistant, shipped an AI-for-BI prototype in under 6 weeks cutting analysis time ~40%, and improved pipeline iteration speed ~35% via modularization and CI/regression checks.”