Vetted FastAPI Professionals

“AI/LLM engineer with published work who built FinVet, a production financial misinformation detection system using multi-pipeline RAG, confidence-based voting, and evidence-backed outputs (F1 0.85, +37% vs baseline). Also built NexusForest-MCP, a Dockerized Model Context Protocol server exposing structured global deforestation/carbon data via SQL tools for reliable LLM tool use. Previously delivered borrower risk-rating (PD) models at BMO Financial Group that were validated and integrated into an enterprise credit system through close collaboration with credit officers and portfolio managers.”

“Backend/integration-focused engineer in the Maryland area with production experience building FastAPI REST services secured with OAuth2.1/JWT and reliability patterns (timeouts, selective retries, idempotency, centralized error handling). Has delivered AWS-integrated MuleSoft/CloudHub solutions and supported AWS Glue ETL workflows, plus demonstrated strong SQL tuning with a 30–40s to 3–5s performance improvement.”

“Software engineer/product owner who has led end-to-end delivery of AI and content-management platforms, including building RAG-based reliability improvements and migrating fragile systems to containerized AWS ECS/Kubernetes with Terraform-managed CI/CD. Experienced designing event-driven microservices (SQS/SNS/RabbitMQ), scaling queue consumers with autoscaling, and creating internal Python tooling to standardize data connectors (e.g., BigQuery/Airtable/internal APIs) to speed iteration.”

“Backend-focused intern who built and refactored the backend for an LLM-driven gifting mobile app using FastAPI, tackling high-latency LLM + product-API workflows. Implemented async worker-pool/queue processing with Redis caching plus retries/fallbacks, cutting end-to-end suggestion latency from ~4–5 seconds to ~1 second while improving reliability and rollout safety via staged migrations and testing.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in payment initiation/processing services built in Python/FastAPI, emphasizing reliability patterns (JWT/RBAC, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers). Has delivered AWS deployments on ECS (ALB, autoscaling, CI/CD to ECR) plus Lambda-based reporting, and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines with schema evolution and CloudWatch monitoring. Also modernized a legacy SAS reporting platform to Python/PostgreSQL with regression parity testing and parallel-run migration, and achieved a 70% SQL performance improvement.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG-based enterprise knowledge assistant to replace slow/inaccurate search across millions of documents, using LangChain orchestration with GPT-4/LLaMA and vector databases. Strong focus on production constraints—latency, hallucination control, and cost—using hybrid retrieval, guardrails, LLM-as-judge validation, and model routing, and has experience translating non-technical stakeholder pain points into measurable outcomes.”

“Built and productionized an enterprise retrieval-augmented generation platform for internal knowledge over large unstructured corpora, emphasizing trust via strict citation/grounding and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + FAISS + cross-encoder re-ranking). Demonstrates strong scaling and cost/latency optimization through incremental indexing/embedding and index partitioning, plus disciplined evaluation/observability practices. Has experience operationalizing pipelines with Airflow/Databricks/GitHub Actions and partnering closely with risk & compliance stakeholders on auditability requirements.”

“AI engineer with production experience building multilingual speech-to-speech translation pipelines (ASR + LLM) for enterprise/media, focused on reliability at scale. Has hands-on orchestration experience (including IBM Watson contexts) and emphasizes production evaluation/monitoring using a mix of traditional metrics and LLM-based evaluators to catch quality regressions while balancing latency and cost.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an end-to-end real-time engineering dashboard for Medtronic robotic surgical systems, streaming high-frequency sensor/kinematic data via Python WebSockets to a React/TypeScript UI. Differentiates through performance/reliability practices (stable core vs experimental layer, observability, caching) and high-impact 3D visualization + session playback that became part of engineers' regular bench-testing workflows.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped 10+ production applications, including InvestIQ on GCP—a production-grade RAG due-diligence engine that ethically scrapes web/PDF sources, builds a ChromaDB knowledge base, and delivers analyst-style dashboards plus a citation-backed chat copilot. Deep focus on reliability (evidence-only answers, hard citations, refusal gating), retrieval tuning, and orchestration (Airflow/Cloud Composer), plus multi-agent systems (CrewAI with 7 specialized finance agents).”

“Full-stack engineer and ML assistant in UC Irvine’s CS department who deployed a lab project showcase platform and integrated on-demand execution of computational projects using Docker for isolation. Also built and optimized Linux cloud/cluster test automation for research, diagnosing RAM and network sync bottlenecks, and later led development of a Python-based predictive analytics tool for musicians using probabilistic graphical models and flexible data pipelines.”

“BNY Mellon engineer who has built and operated production AI systems end-to-end: a LangChain/Pinecone RAG platform scaled via FastAPI + Kubernetes to 1000 RPM with 99.9% uptime, supported by monitoring and data-drift detection. Also deep in data/infra orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Terraform on AWS/EMR/EC2), processing 500GB+ daily and delivering measurable reliability and performance gains, plus strong compliance-facing model explainability using SHAP and Tableau.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a Python-based smart finance assistant backend, building async FastAPI microservices with PostgreSQL/Redis and deploying to AWS EKS via Docker/Helm and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins). Strong in production reliability and migrations—implemented observability (Prometheus/Grafana), security (JWT RBAC), and executed a low-downtime monolith-to-microservices migration plus Kafka-based event streaming with ordering/retry/idempotency patterns.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning high-scale backend systems and distributed consensus: led a 6-person team delivering a production data querying/visualization platform with major latency improvements via cursor-based pagination and streamed results. Built a RAFT-based distributed logging tool resilient to partitions and storage constraints, and at Nasuni developed FastAPI services processing multi-terabyte workloads for 500+ enterprise customers with secure API key management.”

“Backend engineer currently building an AWS Lambda/FastAPI inventory recommendation system using a LangChain + GPT-4 RAG pipeline and MongoDB vector search; drove major cost optimization via Redis caching (60% reduction) while sustaining 10k+ daily requests under 2s latency. Previously deployed Node.js microservices on AWS OpenShift with Jenkins/Helm at UnitedHealth Group and led a zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices migration at Verizon, including RabbitMQ-based real-time messaging with DLQs and idempotency.”

“JavaScript/Node.js engineer who contributes to open-source utilities focused on API integrations and JSON validation, including a 30–35% throughput improvement by profiling and optimizing deep-clone-heavy code paths. Strong in performance tooling (Node performance hooks, Chrome DevTools flame graphs), incremental/test-driven changes, and community-facing issue triage plus developer-friendly documentation.”

“Open-source React dashboard/visualization library maintainer focused on runtime performance and API clarity. Led a significant effort to eliminate severe render lag on large live-updating datasets through profiling-driven refactors (normalized state, memoized selectors) and locked improvements in with CI, linting, and documentation that reduced regressions and improved external contributor onboarding.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned an AI-powered resume optimization service end-to-end (FastAPI + Celery + Redis/Postgres) and optimized it for unpredictable LLM task latency. Strong Kubernetes/GitOps practitioner (Helm, autoscaling, probes, ArgoCD rollbacks) with experience in on-prem-to-cloud migrations using Terraform and CDC-based replication, plus real-time Kafka pipelines monitored via Prometheus/Grafana.”

“LLM/agentic workflow engineer with healthcare domain experience who built a HIPAA-compliant multi-agent RAG system for clinical review automation at UnitedHealth Group, achieving 92% precision and cutting latency 40% through async orchestration and Redis semantic caching. Also has strong data engineering orchestration background (Airflow on AWS EMR with Great Expectations) and a proven clinician-in-the-loop feedback process that improved model faithfulness by 18%.”

“Built and led deployment of an autonomous, self-correcting multi-agent knowledge retrieval and validation system at HCA Healthcare to reduce heavy manual research/validation in clinical/compliance documentation. Deeply focused on production reliability and cost—used LangGraph StateGraph orchestration plus ONNX/CUDA/quantization to cut GPU costs by 25%, and partnered with the Compliance VP using real-time contradiction-rate dashboards to hit a 40% automation goal without compromising compliance.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on productionizing LLM applications, including an Android privacy-policy risk summarization app (Kotlin/React Native + FastAPI + Ollama) that cut response times from ~10s to ~5–6s via batching, caching, async, and event-driven architecture. Currently at PRGX building an LLM-based legal contract clause extraction system, partnering closely with legal/procurement SMEs to create schemas, labeled datasets, and evaluation pipelines that improved accuracy from 70% to 85%. Also has experience architecting real-time voice/LLM systems with streaming microservices (Kafka, Kubernetes, gRPC/WebSockets) and an avatar chatbot pipeline (TalkingHead, Google TTS, AnythingLLM).”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered claims-document summarization system (insurance domain) that cut agent review time from 4–5 minutes to under 2 minutes and saved 1,200+ hours per quarter. Hands-on across orchestration and production infrastructure (Airflow retraining DAGs, Kubernetes, SageMaker endpoints, FastAPI) and recent RAG workflows using n8n + Pinecone, with a strong focus on reliability, cost, and explainability for non-technical stakeholders.”

“AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years of experience (Capital One, Odin Technologies) and a master’s in Data Analytics (4.0 GPA) who has deployed LLM/RAG systems to production for compliance/risk and document review. Strong in orchestration and MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow, GitHub Actions) and in tackling real-world LLM constraints like latency, context limits, and data privacy, with measurable impact (20%+ manual review reduction; 33% faster release cycles).”

“Built and deployed production LLM assistants for internal Q&A and customer-feedback summarization, emphasizing reliability (RAG, prompt tuning, validation/whitelisting) and privacy safeguards. Improved adoption by adding explainable outputs and a user feedback mechanism, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Aflow and Azure Logic Apps.”