Vetted Firebase Professionals

Cornelius O'Donnell

Screened

Director-level Engineering & Program Leader specializing in AI product platforms

San Diego, CA25y exp

“Technical Program Manager and one of three internal "founders" of HP’s Hardware-as-a-Service home printer subscription initiative, spanning DTC shipping, simplified setup, ink replenishment, and warranty coverage. Led roadmap definition/execution, scaled delivery rapidly to 15+ scrum teams (including vendors) with SAFe-like coordination and shared engineering standards, and drove key architecture trade-offs (building an interim subscription management service) to accelerate time-to-market by about a year.”

Sarath Dunga

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud microservices and AI/ML integration

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer (~3 years) with eBay production experience building and operating high-scale, event-driven Python microservices for order processing and AI-powered recommendations (Kafka/Redis/FastAPI on AWS with Prometheus/Grafana). Also delivered polished React+TypeScript analytics dashboards and designed high-concurrency PostgreSQL schemas with significant latency reductions. Recently built AI-agent orchestration and an interactive node-based requirements dashboard for Siemens Polarion via MCP servers, improving user interaction by ~17.8%+.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning Amazon IMDb and Northeastern’s NeuroJSON portal, combining consumer product work with complex scientific data applications. Built IMDb’s streaming providers feature—described as the company’s most impactful feature of 2023—and has hands-on experience with React/Angular, GraphQL, AWS, Python services, and production monitoring.”

Chitra Uppalapati

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and machine learning applications

Sunnyvale, CA1y exp

“Built production Python data integrations and dashboard automation for incident analytics, with a strong focus on data quality, observability, and reliability for leadership-facing reporting. Also translated an ambiguous manual creator evaluation process at startup Spring into an automated predictive scoring feature, showing a blend of backend data engineering, test automation, and cross-functional product thinking.”

Pavan Kishore Ramavath

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in machine learning and backend systems

Leesburg, VA1y exp

“Built an AI-powered medical coding system at Clinpex that mapped 88,000+ clinical terms to standardized codes, achieving about 86% accuracy and cutting manual review time by over 80%. Brings hands-on backend ownership in a healthcare AI setting, with experience using semantic retrieval, LLM validation, and human review to handle ambiguity and reliability in a regulated domain.”

“Backend/ML-systems engineer with experience (including Amazon) building real-time face recognition services using PyTorch (MTCNN/FaceNet) and AWS (SQS/S3/Lambda/EC2) with a focus on low latency, burst handling, and cost control. Also led a revenue-critical legacy pricing workflow migration to a serverless event-driven architecture using strangler-pattern rollout, simulation-based validation, and strong security practices (JWT/RBAC/RLS).”

Sahil Kakadiya

Screened

Junior Embedded Systems & Wireless Software Engineer specializing in BLE/Wi-Fi performance

Mountain View, CA2y exp

“Master’s capstone contributor on an autonomous rover navigation project, serving as an embedded/robotics software designer. Built low-level wheel control and odometry from encoders, integrated RealSense and RPLidar via ROS, and solved sensor-fusion/coordinate-frame issues by creating custom TF transforms. Used Gazebo to debug sim-to-real behavior and improved reliability on rough terrain by moving to dual-channel encoders when IMU data proved unreliable.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered clinical assistant at a healthcare startup, re-architecting a prototype into a robust RAG system on AWS with guardrails, citations, monitoring, and automated tests for clinical reliability. Works closely with clinicians to convert workflow feedback into evaluation criteria and iterative system improvements, and has hands-on experience debugging agentic systems in real time (including during live client demos).”

“Frontend-focused engineer with 5 years at Shopify building and maintaining internal tooling. Led modernization from ERB/jQuery to React/TypeScript/GraphQL and improved performance on large datasets with server-side pagination. Also delivered an end-to-end search feature with filters, URL-driven state, pagination, and error correction, using strong review/testing and zero-downtime rollout practices.”

“Full-stack engineer with Cisco supply-chain and Wipro internal platform experience, focused on customer-facing UI performance and secure backend services. Built a bulk Excel inventory upload feature (Spring Boot/Apache POI) that cut manual effort ~80%, and delivered high-scale Angular/React dashboards with strong reliability/observability (FastAPI, JWT, Docker, AWS, AppDynamics).”

“Full-stack engineer building real-time internal banking operations dashboards (Java/Spring Boot microservices + React/TypeScript) with Kafka-based streaming and post-launch performance optimizations. Also shipped a production internal AI support assistant using RAG (Confluence/PDF/support docs ingestion, embeddings + vector DB retrieval) with guardrails, evaluation loops, and observability to reduce hallucinations and prevent regressions.”

Lamar Petty

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Product Engineer specializing in data-driven web apps and healthcare systems

San Francisco, CA13y exp

“Full-stack engineer with production experience shipping a healthcare-focused web app (Pregnancy-Pal) using Next.js/TypeScript on GCP, integrating a Python/Flask middleware and FHIR server for patient/practitioner dashboards and messaging. Former Wikimedia Foundation Android engineer who led the end-to-end 'Year in Review' feature and built robust automated testing/CI practices (Espresso, GitHub Actions matrix). Strong emphasis on reliability via rigorous validation, comprehensive Postman testing, and detailed API documentation.”

Felix Li

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in data pipelines and full-stack web development

New York, NY1y exp

“Internship at Radar (geolocation infrastructure) where they owned automation of multiple geospatial data ingestion pipelines (including US/Canadian address ingestion), orchestrating Spark (Scala) jobs via Python-based Airflow and using GitOps-style CI/CD workflows.”

“Architecture leader from Disney who managed system, AI, and data architects while staying hands-on in solution design. Has experience building LLM-based video advertising products, designing Kafka-based real-time data architectures, and using MVP/POC approaches to align product and executive stakeholders.”

“Data/ML backend engineer with hands-on production experience spanning RAG services (LlamaIndex/OpenAI) and AWS data platforms. Has delivered Terraform-managed AWS architectures (Lambda + ECS Fargate) with secure secrets handling, built Glue-to-Redshift ETL with schema evolution controls, modernized SAS reporting into Python microservices, and achieved major Redshift query speedups (2+ hours to under 15 minutes).”

“Software engineer with experience at Striim and Amazon who ships end-to-end production systems across UI, backend, ML, and operations. Built a real-time PII detection capability for a streaming data platform by integrating Python ML inference into a Java monolith via gRPC sidecars, achieving ~3M events/hour throughput and ~93% accuracy, and helped drive enterprise adoption (Fiserv, CVS). Also modernized internal Amazon tooling for multi-region scale with modularization and fully automated deployments.”

Lavanya Chilakalapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native web apps and APIs

Tampa, FL5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building microservice-based systems that integrate LLM workflows (code review suggestions, documentation generation, test scaffolding) using REST APIs, Celery/Redis, and OpenTelemetry for observability. Demonstrates hands-on database and performance optimization in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (bulk inserts, lock mitigation, cursor-based pagination) plus multi-tenant data isolation via tenant-aware models, middleware scoping, and schema/row-level strategies.”

“Student founder/operator with hands-on startup experience spanning GTM, CRM automation, AI dashboard building, and early customer development. At Doppelganger Foods, they built automated systems that surfaced $242K in revenue opportunities, and in their own venture, Startup Foundry, they secured 2 school pilots and onboarded 150+ founders.”

“Robotics software intern (Summer 2025) at Ola Krutrim working on 2W/4W ADAS: integrated an ASM330LHH IMU over I2C, performed camera-LiDAR intrinsic/extrinsic calibration, built an interactive calibration GUI, and optimized a camera-LiDAR fusion pipeline (cut latency from ~500ms to ~200ms) including CUDA parallelization and Kalman filter-based lane tracking. Strong ROS 2 background with URDF/Gazebo simulation and custom ROS2 Arduino bridge work for hardware control.”

“Backend-focused full-stack engineer who built an MVP at Neon AI for PhD students: a FastAPI backend integrating multiple cloud and local LLMs plus a RAG pipeline with session/identity management, designed to be modular and extensible across domains. Also has VMware experience debugging production issues and executing safe, API-compatible refactors with staged rollouts and strong security controls.”