Vetted FastAPI Professionals

Sharanya Rao

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and RAG for finance and healthcare

Remote, USA3y exp

“Built an AI lending assistant (RAG + DeBERTa) used by credit analysts to retrieve policies and past loan decisions, tackling real production issues like hallucinations, document quality, and sub-second latency. Deployed a modular, Dockerized AWS architecture (ECS/EMR + load balancer) with load testing, caching/precomputed embeddings, and CloudWatch monitoring, and used Airflow to automate scheduled data/embedding/vector DB refresh pipelines with retries and alerts.”

Madhu Sriram Sengottu Velan

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and distributed services

Chennai, IN2y exp

“Backend/AI engineer from an early-stage Japan-based startup (WorkAI) who built a multi-tenant RAG system integrating Notion/Slack/Google Drive with Pinecone and OpenAI, including a chatbot retrieval workflow. Experienced in production reliability (rate limits, retries, verification layers), strong Python/FastAPI engineering practices, and PostgreSQL performance optimization; currently based in India and needs sponsorship.”

Ali Taquie

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech payments

Santa Cruz, CA2y exp

“Forward-deployed software engineer at PayStand who uses LLM prototyping tools (e.g., Cursor, Lovable) to rapidly build customer-specific demo environments and drive sales outcomes—citing ~$100K in technical buy-in before production development. Experienced supporting an enterprise expense management product (Teampay) with agentic AI workflows, emphasizing observability (Grafana/Loki/Tempo) and cross-functional communication with sales, product, developers, and customers.”

Asvad Shaik

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and NLP

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Backend engineer who built and migrated a large-scale document intelligence platform used by legal, healthcare, and insurance clients, processing millions of pages. Experienced moving from a monolithic, LLM-heavy approach to a modular FastAPI service architecture with ML classification + RAG, strong validation/auditability, and enterprise security (JWT/OAuth, RBAC, PostgreSQL RLS) with zero-downtime incremental rollouts.”

“Built a Python pipeline to monitor and classify public posts from sources like Hacker News and Reddit for SWE/tech job opportunities, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and recoverable failures. Also currently building a court queueing system for the UCSD Badminton Club, showing an ability to turn messy, informal real-world processes into practical automation through iterative user feedback.”

“Healthcare AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production ML and LLM systems at McKesson, spanning clinical risk prediction and RAG-based documentation tools. Stands out for combining deep clinical-data experience, HIPAA-aware deployment practices, and measurable impact through reduced readmissions, clinician workflow gains, and 20% to 30% faster ML delivery for engineering teams.”

Phani K

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, NLP, and healthcare-financial ML

Terre Haute, IN4y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping healthcare AI systems, including an oncology risk prediction platform and RAG-based clinical decision support tools. Stands out for combining clinical domain context with strong production engineering across Spark, FastAPI, AWS SageMaker, monitoring, evaluation, and safety guardrails.”

“Multi-time founding team member who helped raise capital at HotSchedules and Axial Shift, contributing investor-facing narratives around cost to serve, technology vision, scalability, and market opportunity. Motivated by building companies from the ground up, they bring a hands-on zero-to-one mindset paired with a strong understanding of what angels and VCs need to see in a scalable, standards-compliant product.”

“Automation-focused engineer with hands-on experience building production Python integrations, maintaining 60+ Jenkins pipelines across six product lines, and hardening CI systems in real-world environments. Most notably, they turned a tribal-knowledge Windows server maintenance process into a production workflow across nine servers, saving about 500 engineering hours annually.”

Devang Borkar

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLM agents and evaluation systems

California, USA4y exp

“Built an end-to-end Python integration for an emotion-aware presentation feedback system that processed uploaded or live video and analyzed facial emotion, tone, and gestures. Also has Playwright automation experience in a loan management workflow, with emphasis on reliability, observability, security, and iterative delivery under ambiguous requirements.”

“Full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership of a production customer plan activation and account management flow at T-Mobile, spanning Java/Spring Boot APIs, React frontend, and Docker-based CI/CD deployments. Demonstrated performance/scalability work (query optimization, indexing, caching) and measured success via improved retrieval speed and reduced support tickets.”

Harika M

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and enterprise platforms

Plano, TX6y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI-assisted development, using tools like Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate coding while maintaining strict validation for correctness, security, and performance. Particularly notable for building a multi-agent incident-resolution workflow for a financial platform, with specialized agents for log analysis, root cause identification, fix suggestions, and test generation.”

“ML engineer at CGI who built demand forecasting models end-to-end, from feature engineering and training through AWS deployment. Stands out for a production-first mindset and strong skepticism of AI-generated code, including catching a Copilot-generated SQL query that would have caused a costly full table scan in production.”

Aswin Jojo

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development and machine learning

Houston, TX3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience owning products end-to-end in both insurtech/financial workflows and AI-enabled IT operations. Built scalable React/Node and FastAPI systems, improved reliability under peak transaction load with SQS/Redis, and shipped an AI ticket-classification platform that cut response times from 3 days to 1 day.”

KUSHWANTH MUTHYALA

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech

Irvine, CA6y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience building and deploying end-to-end ML inference pipelines using SageMaker, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, and Kafka-backed real-time data systems. Brings a strong distributed-systems mindset and has already operated in a tech lead capacity through architecture decisions, code reviews, and cross-functional coordination. Especially compelling for teams building production AI/ML platforms that need both practical execution and sound engineering judgment.”

“Early-career engineer who built and launched a zero-to-one AI-driven approval workflow at SDSU that is used daily by roughly 2,000 university users. They owned the system end-to-end—from FastAPI/PostgreSQL backend to React UI—and showed strong judgment around LLM reliability, using a two-step pipeline, validation checks, and human-review fallbacks to cut manual processing time by about 80%.”

Yogita Adari

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in generative and multimodal systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Built and productionized an agentic LLM automation system for an insurance client to determine medication eligibility, using prompt-chaining plus a RAG pipeline over policy rules and deploying on AWS (Lambda/Step Functions, Bedrock) with a serverless architecture. Addressed major data/schema mismatch issues via a semantic matching pipeline and validated performance through human agreement scoring, A/B testing, KPI monitoring, and confidence-based human-in-the-loop review.”

Bhagyashree Patil

Screened

Intern Applied AI Engineer specializing in LLM systems and data engineering

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on production experience across both traditional SaaS and LLM-powered support tooling. They owned a real-time ecommerce order tracking dashboard that improved support response times by 40%, and helped ship an AI support assistant using the OpenAI GPT API that cut ticket handling time by 30% through strong prompt design, retrieval grounding, validation, and human-in-the-loop safeguards.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped both enterprise workflow software and AI-powered document intelligence products. Stands out for combining practical product judgment with strong production debugging skills across Spring Boot, GraphQL, FastAPI, vector search, and RAG systems, and for improving adoption by making AI search experiences intuitive for non-technical users.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer who has shipped both operational SaaS and LLM-powered research tools to production. Built a dispatch optimization system at Quickflora that cut manual effort by ~50%, and also developed grounded RAG and agentic systems using tools like LlamaIndex, Gemini, pgvector, and FastAPI with a strong emphasis on citations, reliability, and practical user workflows.”

“Frontend-focused engineer building production-grade, browser-based AI products, including a live clinical decision support platform for Stanford clinicians. Stands out for combining sophisticated React/TypeScript streaming UI architecture with strong browser performance expertise, including Core Web Vitals and rendering-pipeline optimization.”

Kinjal Patel

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech

Austin, TX7y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building a core consent management service for an open banking platform using Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, and secure REST APIs. Stands out for combining domain knowledge in financial data sharing and consent controls with practical system design that improved customer self-service and reduced support dependency.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a production "Financial Insight" assistant dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, integrating a RAG pipeline (embeddings + ChromaDB + LLM) via route handlers and owning post-launch performance (latency, token cost, retrieval relevance). Also built/optimized Postgres-backed workflows for an outbound dialer and callback routing engine handling ~10,000 daily contacts, validating query performance with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS).”