Vetted Express Professionals

“Backend engineer on Morgan Stanley’s trade risk and compliance platform, building Java/Spring Boot microservices that validate equity and fixed-income trades at multi-million-events/day scale. Shipped an LLM-assisted trade exception analysis feature using RAG over internal policy documents and trade history, with production-grade guardrails (confidence thresholds, audit logs, human-in-the-loop) and measurable performance wins (~30–35% faster reporting) through PostgreSQL tuning and Redis caching.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across SDK tooling, APIs, and operations. At Statsig, built real-time SDK diagnostics spanning 16 SDKs and improved incident response (40% faster mitigation) with Datadog SLOs/alerting; also shipped an enterprise Console API + interactive OpenAPI-based docs with robust versioning/migration practices. Has early-stage startup experience at Layup Parts, translating AS-9100 compliance needs into production workflows under rapidly changing requirements.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with production experience in both healthcare (claims enrichment/interoperability at Abacus) and finance (Goldman Sachs pricing/risk APIs + React dashboards). Built an event-driven AI grading platform using Postgres Debezium CDC + Kafka + FastAPI on AWS that cut manual grading ~70% and served 1000+ students, with strong emphasis on reliability, testing, and performance tuning.”

“Software engineer at Fidelity who led a digital-first transformation of life insurance/annuity sales by building a self-service customer flow (questionnaires, auto-contract generation, eSign) and abstracting complex internal eSign APIs adopted across 8+ teams. Also builds modern real-time web apps (Next.js/React/TypeScript, Supabase/Postgres, WebSockets) and operates services with CI/CD, performance testing, and observability (Jenkins, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana) on AWS EKS.”

“Software engineer with payments-domain experience (Visa) building real-time transaction monitoring and analytics systems. Strong end-to-end ownership across Spring Boot/Kafka microservices, PostgreSQL modeling, and AWS/Kubernetes operations, plus React+TypeScript dashboards—focused on low-latency processing, secure APIs, and zero-downtime production releases.”

“Software engineer with experience across TCS, Rakuten, and USC who has owned production integrations and data pipelines end-to-end. Notably improved a trading platform payment flow by replacing fragile polling with a webhook-driven status system with robust fallbacks, and has shipped LLM-assisted design-to-webpage automation plus evaluation-driven prompt iteration (NYT Connections).”

“Full-stack engineer who built and supported production features in a productivity/task-tracking app using Next.js App Router + TypeScript (server components for initial render, client components for interactivity, API route handlers for mutations). Also designed and optimized Postgres data models/queries and implemented resilient, event-driven payment processing with idempotency, retries, audit logs, and strong testing/observability practices.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech trading-platform experience who shipped and operated a real-time portfolio P&L/performance feature end-to-end (React + Node/WebSockets + MongoDB) on AWS, including significant performance tuning under peak trading load. Also built a Spark-based trading analytics pipeline with idempotency and reconciliation for auditability, and has a personal React/TS + Node/Express project (Artsy) with JWT auth and schema-evolution practices.”

Mandeep Kandhari

Screened

Senior Front-End Software Engineer specializing in in-vehicle React applications

Waterloo, Canada7y exp

“Frontend engineer on Ford EV infotainment HMIs building React + TypeScript workflows for Apple CarPlay/Android Auto device projection and high-stakes reset flows. Deep experience integrating a React HMI with legacy Qt expectations and C++ services via MQTT, using Redux Saga/state-machine patterns to manage complex async device and system operations with strong QA and performance optimization practices.”

Ashank Dsouza

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Node.js/React and cloud DevOps

Bengaluru, India4y exp

“Software engineer with startup and capstone experience who improved an ~8-hour database refresh workflow by moving API calls to asynchronous execution and then addressing API rate limits via throttling. Emphasizes performance profiling/logging, strong developer onboarding documentation practices, and disciplined Agile/Jira bug triage and expectation-setting with stakeholders.”

“Software developer with a one-year Philips co-op who has already applied AI-assisted coding in production, not just side projects. Stands out for using multi-agent development setups with task-specific sub-agents and a clear human-led orchestration philosophy focused on context, quality control, and security.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who built internal product capabilities at Mercedes-Benz R&D, including a vehicle exploration platform, test drive booking flow, and a 0→1 vehicle comparison feature. Stands out for combining strong React architecture and performance optimization with practical backend/API ownership in Node/Express and MongoDB.”

“Built Nexthire-AI, shipping an end-to-end LLM-powered resume–job description matching product (React + Node.js) using embeddings and retrieval to generate match scores and skill-gap recommendations. Improved post-launch engagement by making feedback cleaner and more actionable, and added production guardrails (validation, timeouts, fallbacks) to handle messy resume formats and AI API instability.”

“Engineer with a process-driven approach to AI-assisted software development, focused on orchestrating where AI adds value while maintaining human review and verification. Has applied this in backend work such as an S3-based invoice pipeline and used multi-agent workflows to speed up large API refactors across many endpoints.”

Aman Kushwaha

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Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in React, Next.js, and FinTech UI architecture

Bangalore, India4y exp

“Frontend/product engineer with strong ownership across architecture, deployment, and cross-functional product decisions, especially in finance workflow systems. Built a metadata-driven React/TypeScript framework at Hyperbots that cut feature development effort by ~70% and manual effort by 50%+, and has also driven backend API cleanup, real-time experiences, and a full GA4 tracking architecture redesign.”

Brian Lam

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech

New York, NY12y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer working in Next.js/React who has owned complex internal and partner-facing browser workflows, including a multi-step CSV onboarding wizard and an admin quiz editor. Stands out for practical debugging skill on production-only timezone issues and for building resilient, typed form-heavy UIs with strong error handling.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer focused on data instrumentation and tracking-plan automation. They built an end-to-end publish architecture plus an MCP/agent workflow that turns PRDs, Figma files, and meeting transcripts into tracking plans and implementation-ready code, reportedly shrinking work from 4-5 days to minutes. They also show strong judgment around productionizing LLM systems, with tool-centric prompt design, backend guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls for high-risk actions.”

Michael Zhu

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Mid-level Frontend Software Engineer specializing in React and e-commerce UI

West Hollywood, CA5y exp

“Frontend engineer with strong React/TypeScript depth who has shipped reusable CMS-driven UI architecture and improved production performance by eliminating inefficient per-component API calls. Particularly strong in maintainable component design, pagination/state management, and practical UX optimization using tools like Chrome DevTools and Theme UI.”

“Built internal product features at Sysco's Collab Cafe across React/TypeScript frontend and Spring Boot/PostgreSQL backend, including a full project invite flow and an early AI-style project matching capability. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, improving React dashboard performance with profiling and component refactoring, and making pragmatic 0→1 tradeoffs to ship quickly.”

“Not primarily a mobile specialist, but has meaningful React Native experience extending existing apps and building reusable UI components. Most notably, they led a migration of a notification system from a batch cron job to an event-driven GCP architecture using Pub/Sub, task queues, and serverless functions, with a cautious rollout via parallel systems and A/B testing.”

“Master’s CS candidate with backend internship experience modernizing live operational workflows at NatWest/NetWess, focusing on reliability improvements, safer CI/CD deployments, and incremental refactors using feature flags and rollback paths. Built FastAPI-based APIs with strong security patterns (JWT + 2FA/TOTP, centralized authorization, RLS) and demonstrated attention to edge cases like idempotency and data consistency in a Netflix-clone project.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who took a PDF-heavy agent from prototype to production for an Africa-based client, combining Pinecone retrieval with robust PDF parsing (unstructured.io, OCR, structured table extraction). Demonstrates strong production mindset (eval metrics, prompt hardening, security/scalability) and measurable optimization impact (30% efficiency gain, 2x faster responses), and has helped close deals by building security-focused POCs for skeptical IT stakeholders.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on enterprise, cloud-native microservices—building Spring Boot backends and React/Angular front ends with strong security (OAuth/JWT), AWS infrastructure (RDS/S3), and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes). Has delivered data-heavy order/account/transaction platforms and healthcare solutions including EHR integrations for secure patient data exchange, with emphasis on testing, performance tuning, and reliability (load testing).”