Vetted FastAPI Professionals

“Internship experience at Paycom owning an end-to-end personalized course recommendation feature for an LMS, spanning SQL-based data pipelines, ML integration, and FastAPI REST services for real-time recommendations. Focused on production tradeoffs (latency vs. accuracy), scaling/SQL optimization, and post-launch iteration driven by engagement metrics.”

Harsh Chauhan

Screened

Junior AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and NLP

Remote, US3y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped a production RAG platform at Ticker Inc. on GCP (Qdrant + Postgres) delivering sub-second retrieval over 550k+ items, with measurable gains in latency and answer quality (HNSW optimization, MMR re-ranking). Also built an asynchronous LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent research system (10x faster cycles) and partnered with Indiana University doctors on synthetic patient records and ML error analysis using clinician-friendly F1/loss dashboards.”

Hari Krishna Kona

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and LLM-powered NLP

Boston, MA3y exp

“LLM/AI engineer who built a production automated document-understanding pipeline on Azure using a grounded RAG layer, designed to reduce manual review time for unstructured financial documents. Demonstrates strong real-world scaling and reliability practices (Service Bus queueing, Kubernetes autoscaling, observability, retries/circuit breakers) plus rigorous evaluation (shadow testing, replaying traffic, multilingual edge-case suites) and stakeholder-friendly, evidence-based explainability.”

Sangat Shah

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and React/Node.js

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a serverless AWS platform for large-scale live screening events with real-time chat/feedback and streaming (API Gateway/Lambda/DynamoDB/WebSockets/IVS, IaC via Pulumi). Led production refactors and phased migrations using feature flags and dual-write strategies, and has hands-on experience implementing JWT auth, RBAC, and database-enforced row-level security for multi-tenant systems.”

Sujay Surendranath Pookkattuparambil

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and reinforcement learning

Chicago, IL3y exp

“Early-stage engineer with hands-on embedded prototyping experience (Arduino/Raspberry Pi) who helped build an award-winning smart glasses project enabling phone notifications via Bluetooth. Strong computer vision performance optimization background, including accelerating 120 FPS inference by moving from TensorFlow to PyTorch and deploying through ONNX + TensorRT quantization, plus Docker-based GPU deployment and CI/ML practices.”

Adam Danicki

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and machine learning

0y exp

“Robotics software builder who delivered an end-to-end gesture-controlled drone system using an ESP32+IMU stream and real-time ML inference mapped to Tello SDK commands. Drove reliability improvements by instrumenting the pipeline with timestamps/logging and matching training vs runtime preprocessing, reaching ~94% gesture classification accuracy; experienced with Docker/Compose for reproducible multi-service deployments.”

Vishesh Kumar

Screened

Intern Software & AI Engineer specializing in distributed systems and LLM applications

Palo Alto, CA1y exp

“Stony Brook Fall 2024 capstone contributor who built a ROS2-based warehouse mobile robot prototype, owning perception and SLAM integration end-to-end. Strong in real-time robotics optimization on Jetson Orin (TensorRT/CUDA, ROS2 tracing/Nsight) and in distributed ROS2 communications (DDS discovery/QoS, MAVLink-to-ROS2 bridging), with a full simulation/testing/deployment toolchain (Gazebo, CI tests, Docker/K3s).”

Anudeep Reddy Veerla

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and shipped both a solo real-time multiplayer Spades game (TypeScript monorepo with shared client/server engine) and a production internal LLM-powered document Q&A tool for a SaaS company. Demonstrates strong RAG pipeline design (Pinecone + embeddings + reranking), rigorous eval/regression practices, and pragmatic data ingestion/observability work across Confluence, Notion, and messy PDFs/OCR—backed by clear metric improvements (P@1 61%→78%, escalations 40%→22%).”

Mayur Agrawal

Screened

Entry-Level Backend Engineer specializing in analytics automation and cloud data pipelines

Bengaluru, India1y exp

“Forward Deployment Engineer focused on application security and production integrations, with hands-on experience hardening API-driven ticketing systems (JWT/RBAC/rate limiting/log redaction) and implementing CI/CD security controls (Bandit SAST, SCA, container hardening). Strong in diagnosing peak-load production issues using logs/metrics/infra signals and driving durable fixes like adaptive throttling and backoff, while aligning engineering, business, and leadership stakeholders on risk and SLA impact.”

Jayasri Guthula

Screened

Mid-level Applied ML Engineer specializing in LLM evaluation and multimodal agent systems

Remote5y exp

“Full-stack engineer working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, building developer-facing interfaces for AI voice agents in XR/immersive environments plus telemetry-heavy analytics dashboards. Experienced in Postgres telemetry data modeling and performance tuning, and in designing durable multi-step LLM pipelines with idempotency, retries, and strong observability; has operated in fast-moving startup-like teams (Biocom, HandshakeAI).”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built AI-assisted CRM and agent workflows in Project SARA and operational systems like payroll for a staffing platform. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript, Django/Postgres, real-time systems, and LLM orchestration with strong product instincts—delivering measurable gains in response time, conversion, and engineering leverage.”

“Analytics professional with hands-on experience turning messy Excel-based operational data into SQL/Python pipelines and Power BI dashboards, including a production bottleneck project that improved workflow efficiency by 20%. Also brings applied machine learning experience from a Databricks/PySpark loan risk scoring project using logistic regression and XGBoost on large-scale S3 data.”

Srinivasan Gomadam Ramesh

Screened

Mid-level AI/Data Engineer specializing in agentic AI and data platforms

Redmond, WA7y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production resume-parsing and candidate-matching platform at Quadrant Technologies, combining agentic LangChain workflows, VLM-based document template extraction (~85% accuracy), and a hybrid RAG backend for resume-to-JD search. Notably integrated automated LLM evals and metric-based CI/CD quality gates to catch silent prompt/model regressions, and led a 3-person team across frontend/backend/testing.”

Pranav Gaikwad

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native platforms and supply chain systems

Atlanta, GA8y exp

“Backend and platform engineering leader with deep supply chain and warehouse systems experience, including building a company-wide MDM platform across five ERP systems and supporting a 72-microservice warehouse execution environment. Particularly compelling for AI-forward logistics roles: currently pursuing an AI-focused PhD, has published supply chain AI research, and holds a utility patent for AI-driven predictive analysis.”

“Built and shipped AI products at Humanitarians AI, including a full-stack multi-agent platform that consolidated six faculty AI tools into one interface and achieved 100+ user adoption, 70% less workflow switching, and a 6x latency improvement. Also designed a grounded document parser using FAISS and structured LLM outputs that reduced hallucinations by 60%, showing strong depth in both product-minded engineering and production AI systems.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a production AI knowledge assistant used by 10,000+ daily users. Combines React/Next.js frontend work with FastAPI, AWS serverless, and RAG architecture using GPT-4, LangChain, and Pinecone, with measurable impact on relevance, latency, uptime, and support deflection.”

Saswata Deb

Screened

Mid Backend Engineer specializing in AI systems and LLM infrastructure

India4y exp

“Early-to-growth-stage B2B SaaS engineer from Sentisum who combined Python backend, data pipeline, and applied AI work with direct customer-facing product input. Particularly compelling for startup roles: they owned systems end-to-end, migrated transcription infrastructure to cut costs by ~93%, and built scalable async export and data-processing workflows over large enterprise conversation datasets.”

Alex Archer

Screened

Staff Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Python, AI systems, and cloud SaaS

Anna, TX8y exp

“Full-stack startup engineer from a 20-30 person company who led a legacy monolith breakup into microservices, improving response times by 30% and database performance by 20%. Has hands-on experience across React/Next.js, TypeScript, Go, Python, and AI/data pipeline work, including building AI-driven platforms for freight and publisher-focused B2B SaaS products.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, low-latency event processing for market data and social-signal sentiment systems. Has led a monolith-to-event-driven migration with feature-flagged incremental rollout, and emphasizes production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, secrets management, Supabase RLS) and data integrity (deduplication/idempotency) under high-volume spike conditions.”

“Backend Python engineer who has built an LLM agentic tutoring/assignment helper with a custom pipeline for parsing visually complex textbooks (integrating AlibabaResearch VGT and implementing missing preprocessing from the paper), improving RAG grounding with ~90% cleaner extracted text. Also led major platform scaling work by refactoring monolithic image processing into Celery-based async microservices on AWS (GPU/CUDA + S3), and implemented Kafka streaming for payment webhooks with strict ordering, idempotency, and multi-zone fault tolerance.”

“Backend/data engineer with aerospace telemetry and reporting experience across RTX and other orgs, spanning Python/FastAPI microservices, AWS serverless/containers, and AWS Glue-to-Redshift analytics pipelines. Has led legacy modernization with parallel-run parity validation and incremental rollout, and demonstrates strong operational ownership (monitoring, incident response, and cost optimization).”

“Developed and productionized VL-Mate, a vision-language, LLM-powered assistant aimed at helping visually impaired users understand their surroundings and query internal knowledge. Emphasizes reliability and safety via confidence thresholds, uncertainty-aware fallbacks, hallucination grounding checks, and rigorous offline + user-in-the-loop evaluation, with experience orchestrating multi-step LLM pipelines (LangChain-style and custom Python async) and deploying on containerized infrastructure.”

“Co-founder at Skoolive who built a multi-agent LLM application to help users understand complex research papers (including PDF interaction and flowchart-style representations), moving from prototype to production using Gemini SDK and deployment to Runway. Also developed and demoed a web-agent benchmarking framework, running hands-on sessions with customer-facing teams to improve agent reliability and drive adoption.”

“Robotics/ML engineer who benchmarks and adapts open-source robot action models, building synthetic datasets in Isaac Sim and modifying vendor code to scale training across multiple GPUs. Also built a production-style computer vision pipeline at Zortag—training a tiny YOLO-based classifier for fake-vs-real label detection and deploying it in a real-time iOS app with additional display/spoof detection.”