Vetted FastAPI Professionals

“Backend/data platform engineer with production experience at Walmart and Molina Healthcare, building Python microservices on AWS (EKS + Lambda) for real-time inventory and recommendation systems. Strong in reliability/observability and incident leadership, plus modernizing legacy healthcare workflows and building resilient AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines with schema evolution and data quality controls.”

“Backend/AI engineer with healthcare domain experience who built a patient journey analytics API (FastAPI/PostgreSQL/Snowflake/Redis) and debugged peak-hour latency down from ~900ms to ~50ms via indexing and query optimization. Shipped an LLM-powered clinical summary/recommendation assistant end-to-end and designed a multi-step risk evaluation agent workflow with safety guardrails against hallucinations and unsafe outputs.”

“AI engineer (2+ years; pursuing an online MS at UIUC) who has shipped an AI-powered voice screening platform end-to-end on GCP with strong production monitoring and measurable hiring-process impact (80% reduction in unqualified pass-through; ~50+ hours saved per role). Also built and deployed an AWS-based context-aware hybrid search system using OpenSearch as a vector store, and has hands-on experience with multi-agent LLM orchestration (ReAct) and structured-output guardrails.”

“LLM/agentic systems practitioner who specializes in moving customer prototypes into production within microservices environments, emphasizing reliability, latency, security, and measurable success metrics. Experienced in real-time troubleshooting using logs/traces and in enabling adoption through hands-on developer workshops (including live coding in Java Spring Boot) and pre-sales POCs that address technical objections and integration risk.”

“Full-stack developer with capstone and project experience delivering production-ready systems in unstructured environments, including a Faculty Tracking system for real departmental use. Strong in React performance debugging (re-render optimization with useMemo), Prisma-backed multi-database setups (MySQL local / SQL Server production on a UCI Health VM), and end-user support workflows that feed back into improved Help documentation.”

“Backend/event-driven systems engineer who built an end-to-end “software robot” for AI-driven invoice processing: FastAPI ingestion + OCR integration + classification mapping, with strong emphasis on reliability (idempotency, retries) and scalability (background workers, event-driven architecture). Experienced in production-grade distributed systems tooling (Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) and real-time debugging via tracing/telemetry, and expects $10k–$12k/month.”

“Systems-focused engineer who built an OS kernel with multithreading, priority scheduling, system calls, and synchronization primitives, and debugged race conditions end-to-end. While not yet hands-on with ROS/SLAM, they clearly connect low-level concurrency and scheduling decisions to deterministic, reliable robotics-style real-time workloads.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM Q&A and summarization platform for internal documents, emphasizing grounded answers with structured prompting and citations to reduce hallucinations. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end LLM workflows with LangChain plus cloud pipelines (Azure ML Pipelines, AWS), and runs iterative evaluation using both metrics (accuracy/hallucination/latency/cost) and real user feedback to drive reliability.”

“Applied ML/LLM practitioner working in healthcare-facing products, using RAG and LoRA fine-tuning on medical data and implementing production monitoring (confidence scoring) for clinician oversight. Has hands-on experience debugging agentic/LLM pipelines (including OCR preprocessing fixes) and regularly delivers technical demos to doctors, investors, and conferences—contributing to adoption and even helping close a funding round through end-to-end pipeline walkthroughs.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience building event-driven logistics systems (orders, warehouse execution, real-time delivery tracking) using Spring Boot/PostgreSQL/Redis and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana). Led a zero-downtime migration from monolithic MySQL to a sharded architecture for ~2M users with dual-write, checksum validation, and fast auto-rollback, and has strong security expertise including PostgreSQL RLS for multi-tenant SaaS and robust OAuth/JWT handling.”

“Built and deployed a live LLM-powered platform that takes a LinkedIn job URL + resume and generates job-specific resumes and personalized outreach at scale, with production-grade logging/monitoring/retries on Vercel + Railway. Experienced with agent orchestration (AWS Bedrock/Strands, LangGraph, CrewAI) and rigorous AI workflow testing, plus stakeholder-facing prototypes like data lineage/metadata and NL-to-SQL + dashboard generation.”

“Built and productionized LLM-driven sentiment scoring for earnings call transcripts at Goldman Sachs, replacing legacy NLP to deliver a cleaner trading signal while managing latency/cost via batching, caching, and distilled models. Also implemented an Airflow-orchestrated fraud modeling pipeline at MetLife with drift-based retraining and SageMaker deployment, and has a disciplined evaluation/rollout framework for reliable AI workflows.”

“Industrial AI/ML practitioner with experience deploying real-time monitoring and anomaly detection in a regulated Sanofi vaccine manufacturing facility, including root-cause workflows, logging/alerting, and SOP-aligned validation—achieving ~90% faster anomaly detection. Also built Python/NLP-style automation to accelerate instrumentation & control documentation (~40% faster) and delivered end-to-end predictive analytics for an agri-food operations/distribution client using close operator and leadership feedback loops.”

“Backend/platform engineer focused on high-traffic financial systems, owning real-time event-driven ingestion and Kafka streaming pipelines using Python/FastAPI, Avro schemas, and AWS services. Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps/CI-CD experience (ArgoCD/Jenkins) and supported large-scale migrations from legacy VMs to containerized microservices with zero/low-downtime cutovers.”

“Backend/AI engineer at Intuit who built a production AI-powered case assistant for support agents (FastAPI on AWS EKS) combining Postgres case data, OpenSearch retrieval with embedding reranking, and internal LLMs. Improved peak-season reliability by diagnosing P95/P99 timeout spikes and cutting P95 latency from ~800ms to <400ms via composite indexing, keyset pagination, connection pool tuning, and caching, while adding grounded-generation guardrails (evidence packs, confidence thresholds, fallbacks, human-in-the-loop).”

“FinTech/AI engineer who has shipped an end-to-end discrepancy-detection product for financial managers using Next.js, FastAPI/GraphQL, Pinecone, and AWS (with dev/staging/prod, observability, A/B testing, and documentation). Also built an AI-native “AI Genesis” system with agentic cyclic workflows, routing, and tool use, and has experience modernizing legacy systems via the strangler fig pattern while coordinating with senior stakeholders on a 5G autonomous simulation platform.”

“Backend/ML systems engineer with experience at SDSC, UCSD, and Media.net, building production semantic dataset/model discovery using embeddings + Solr KNN and LLM-based intent/reranking at 5M+ dataset scale. Emphasizes offline/online separation for predictable serving, has delivered measurable gains (23% retrieval accuracy, 38% latency reduction) and helped secure a $3M+ NSF grant.”

“Engineering leader with BCG consulting background who has built roadmaps and scaled AI and data platforms for pharma and manufacturing clients. Led architecture shifts (Django monolith to event-driven microservices) for high-volume IoT SaaS products, improving deployment speed and enabling zero-downtime releases. Also established a near-shore engineering team in São Paulo and has managed distributed teams across multiple countries, leveraging strong stakeholder communication and a prior professional acting background for storytelling.”

“Applied LLMs and a graph-RAG architecture in Neo4j to automate an accounting firm's cross-checking of transactional books against tax regulations, indexing 1,000+ pages into a knowledge graph with vector search. Combines agentic LLM workflows with classical NER (Hugging Face/NLTK) and validates using expert-labeled held-out data plus precision/recall and measured accountant time savings after deployment.”

“20-year technology builder with ~8 years in healthcare AI, currently at Keycentrix modernizing a legacy pharmacy solutions business. Shipped an OCR MVP within days and delivered a rebate-based product generating ~$50K/month, leveraging Claude/LangGraph agentic automation to replace work typically requiring a much larger engineering team. Developing a "Longevity AI Copilot" B2B platform that synthesizes research, labs, and wearable data into personalized longevity protocols for HNW and corporate wellness markets; concept validated but not yet incorporated or funded.”