Vetted FastAPI Professionals

“Built and owned major parts of a real-time distributed AI fraud-detection pipeline (ingestion, inference microservice integration, and automated action layer), optimizing latency and observability and reducing false positives by ~35%. Understands ROS/ROS2 concepts (nodes/topics/services) and planned hands-on ramp-up via ROS2 pub/sub exercises and Gazebo simulation, but has not worked on physical robots or ROS in production.”

“Software engineer working on an e-commerce platform, currently building a RAG-based recommendation system with a team new to the technology. Has delivered an end-to-end React/TypeScript website for a local car dealer and built an internal "encryption as a service" tool to secure sensitive data across repositories and through release/UAT, with experience debugging microservices integration issues.”

“Built and deployed a RAG-based clinical knowledge assistant at GE Healthcare to help clinicians query large volumes of messy, unstructured clinical documents with grounded, cited answers. Hands-on across the full stack (OCR/ETL, de-identification for PHI, Azure OpenAI embeddings, Cosmos DB indexing, FastAPI/Django) with production monitoring via LangSmith and performance tuning through batching and index optimization.”

“Software engineer with experience building a Vue.js/TypeScript internal component library (with Jest testing standards) and improving JS runtime performance via profiling, code splitting, and lazy loading. Also led documentation and community support for a Python ML utility library, diagnosing metric-calculation bugs for imbalanced datasets and driving large reductions in support inquiries through targeted docs, tests, and rapid hotfixes in a startup environment.”

“Software Developer at NYU (GEMSS) focused on scaling and optimizing a data-heavy asset management web app, including migrating/optimizing data access via Google Sheets API and Firestore. Previously an SDE at Sainapse working on Spring Boot microservices POCs (Kafka, Hadoop at 2B+ record scale). Built an end-to-end Apple Wallet coupon generation/redemption system using PassKit + Google Apps Script with measurable ops impact (40% efficiency gain).”

“Backend/platform engineer who built an AI RAG system on FastAPI/Postgres/AWS with 10+ microservices, vector search optimization (ANN + two-stage re-ranking), and GitOps-driven CI/CD that cut deploy time from hours to minutes. Also deployed Java identity services on Kubernetes at TSMC for 200K+ users using ArgoCD/Azure Pipelines, and built a reliable real-time IoT pipeline (MQTT/Node/MongoDB) with strong consistency controls.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered recruiting workflow that ranks resumes against job descriptions, generates evidence-based justifications, and finds "hidden fit" candidates using embeddings + RAG. Demonstrates strong production engineering around hallucination control, latency, and predictable LLM cost management (budget checks, top-K pruning, tenant caps), plus orchestration experience with Airflow/Prefect/Kubernetes and a structured evaluation/monitoring methodology for AI agents.”

“Built and deployed an AWS-based LLM/RAG ticket triage and knowledge retrieval system (Pinecone/FAISS + Step Functions + MLflow) that cut support resolution time by 20%. Demonstrates strong production focus on hallucination reduction, PII security, and low-latency orchestration, with measurable evaluation improvements (e.g., ~25% grounding accuracy gain via re-ranking) and proven collaboration with support operations stakeholders.”

“Built and shipped multiple production AI systems, including Auto DocGen (LLM-generated OpenAPI docs kept in sync via AST diffs, schema-constrained generation, and CI/CD on Render) and a multimodal sign-language recognition pipeline at USC orchestrated with FastAPI, MediaPipe, and PyTorch. Also partnered with Esri’s non-technical community team to fine-tune an LLaMA-based spam classifier with a review UI, cutting moderation time by 70%.”

“Red Hat ML/LLM engineer who designed and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support automation system using RAG, improving latency by 30% via PEFT and vector search optimization. Built security and governance into retrieval (access-level filtering, encrypted Pinecone/ChromaDB) and delivered SHAP-based explainability via a dashboard for non-technical stakeholders. Experienced orchestrating distributed ML/RAG pipelines across AWS SageMaker and OpenShift with Airflow/Prefect, plus multi-agent workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped real-time, customer-facing dashboards and ticketing/payment features at Freshworks and Global Payments. Strong in Python API design (Django/Flask/FastAPI) and React/TypeScript UIs, with hands-on experience scaling PostgreSQL for high transaction volumes and operating services on AWS, including incident response and HIPAA-aligned security controls.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer who built and shipped subscription/billing features end-to-end (FastAPI + React/TypeScript), including a self-serve cancellation flow with save-offers that reduced support tickets and improved churn insights. Experienced operating on AWS (ECS/EC2, RDS, S3/CloudFront) and handling real production scaling incidents through DB/query optimization, idempotent API design, and strong observability practices.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG document intelligence/Q&A system for healthcare prior authorization, reducing manual medical document review time and improving decision efficiency. Strong in end-to-end LLM application engineering (LangChain/LangGraph), retrieval quality improvements (hybrid search, embedding tuning, chunking strategies), and rigorous evaluation/monitoring for reliability.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent JPMorgan experience building GPT-4-powered customer sentiment/feedback analytics products (Next.js 14 App Router + FastAPI + Postgres) and owning them post-launch with CloudWatch/Datadog observability. Also implemented Temporal-based transaction reconciliation workflows with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQ, versioning) and has prior high-scale healthcare dashboard experience at Optum.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has built and run production Python/Flask + Kafka microservices processing RFID and camera/RFID fusion streams for near-real-time retail cart updates at ~4–5M events/day. Strong in reliability/performance debugging (p99 latency, Kafka lag, Cosmos DB RU hot partitions) with measurable impact including ~30% database cost reduction, and has also shipped an end-to-end vulnerability scanning workflow with DynamoDB-backed state, idempotency, and robust retry/verification guardrails.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who recently owned an end-to-end large-scale financial data platform delivering real-time decision support for finance and operations. Has hands-on experience modernizing legacy batch pipelines into AWS cloud-native ELT with parallel-run cutovers, strong data quality controls (dbt-style tests, reconciliation), and measurable improvements in runtime, cost, and SLA compliance. Also builds scalable, secure FastAPI microservices using Docker, ALB-based horizontal scaling, Redis caching, and managed auth with Cognito/Supabase plus Postgres RLS.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built a high-scale audience segmentation and real-time targeting system using Spark/Glue + S3/Hudi and low-latency API services backed by Redis/relational stores. Demonstrates strong production rigor: Spark performance tuning to eliminate OOM failures, API idempotency/caching to cut p95 latency ~40%, and careful dual-run/feature-flag migrations with reconciliation and rollback runbooks. Experienced implementing layered security with JWT/OAuth, RBAC/ABAC, and database row-level security to prevent privilege escalation.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an LLM-powered productivity web app (LifeOS) end-to-end with TypeScript/Next.js, Prisma, and Postgres, emphasizing fast iteration with stable API contracts and an isolated AI service boundary. Also built a security/compliance login-verification workflow at Medpace used within an internal admin portal for thousands of employees, and has AWS experience orchestrating batch GPU workloads with robust retry/idempotency patterns.”

“AI/ML engineer who built a production agentic system to automate computational research experiments (simulation execution, parameter exploration, and numerical analysis) and mitigated context-window failures using constrained tool-calling/prompt-chaining patterns in LangChain with OpenAI tool-enabled models. Also has adtech/big-data pipeline experience at InMobi, orchestrating Spark jobs in Airflow to filter bot-like user IDs and publish clean IDs to an online NoSQL store for live serving, plus Apache open-source collaboration experience.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-driven Dungeons & Dragons game where the model acts as a dungeon master, adding a structured combat system and a macro-state tree to ensure campaigns converge to a clear ending. Fine-tuned Gemini 2.5 Flash on Vertex AI and deployed on GCP with Kubernetes, using RAG over DnD rules/spells plus multi-agent orchestration (intent-based routing between narrative and combat agents) to reduce hallucinations and improve reliability.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building a fraud-transaction monitoring system in Python/Flask, architected as Dockerized microservices and integrated with Kafka for high-volume streaming. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability chops across PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, N+1 fixes, bulk ops), multi-tenant data isolation, and scaling via background workers + Redis caching, plus real-time ML inference deployment using TensorFlow on AWS.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical decision support system that enables real-time semantic search over unstructured EHR notes and delivers patient risk insights. Strong in healthcare-grade MLOps and compliance (HIPAA, PHI handling, encryption, RBAC, audit logs) and scaled embedding/retrieval pipelines using Spark/Databricks and Airflow. Partnered with clinicians via Power BI dashboards and explainability, contributing to an 18% reduction in patient readmissions.”