Vetted Firebase Professionals

“Backend engineer with TaskRabbit experience building and operating payment/booking services in Python/Django on AWS (ECS + Lambda) with Kafka/SQS eventing. Demonstrates strong production reliability and incident ownership in high-stakes payment flows (idempotency, strict timeouts, retries, monitoring/alerting) plus data/ETL work in AWS Glue and measurable SQL performance wins.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an internal user-activity tracking and reporting system end-to-end using React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres, deployed on AWS (EC2/ALB, S3/CloudFront) with CloudWatch observability. Emphasizes reliability and data correctness via idempotent ingestion, retries with exponential backoff, backfills/reconciliation, and performance tuning as data scales, and has experience shipping quickly in ambiguous early-stage startup conditions.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a policy management and notifications platform end-to-end: Java/Spring Boot microservices with PostgreSQL plus a React/Redux UI, deployed on AWS with Docker and Jenkins CI/CD. Demonstrates strong real-world scaling and reliability practices (Redis caching, Kafka, query/index tuning, ACID transactions, locking, and idempotent processing) to handle high-volume concurrent workloads.”

Yijun Chen

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in IoT and cloud systems

Toronto, ON4y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer who built a full movie recommendation system from concept to production, comparing classic collaborative filtering with LLM-based recommendation approaches on AWS. Emphasizes scalable architecture, strict TypeScript data contracts, and high-quality Next.js/React UI patterns (defensive states, scoped state management, performance optimization) with disciplined QA and feature-flagged rollouts.”

Jake Lee

Screened

Junior Full-Stack/Systems Engineer specializing in AI, embedded systems, and healthcare apps

Boston, MA3y exp

“Led architecture for “Solstice/Solstis,” a safety-aware, hands-free AI medical assistant that guides users through minor emergencies with a structured, state-machine-driven LLM agent integrated with device hardware. Built RAG grounded in Red Cross procedures plus guardrails, fallbacks, and emergency escalation, and improved real-world usability by shifting from open-ended chat to a deterministic step-by-step workflow measured via completion rate, repeat prompts, and latency.”

“Built and deployed a GenAI-powered PhD career intelligence platform at NYU that maps academic backgrounds to career paths and converts long academic CVs into job-ready resumes. Stands out for treating LLM systems as structured production pipelines—combining NLP extraction, embeddings, orchestration, and AWS deployment—to improve recommendation quality and cut resume preparation time by 70%.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of banking microservices from initial design to launch and production support, including security, CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Stands out for measurable modernization impact—~35% faster backend processing, ~40% lower query latency, and ~30% better deployment cycles—and for a pragmatic approach to both Kafka-based async systems and controlled LLM integration in enterprise workflows.”

“Built and shipped a production Python service integrating with a helium mass spectrometer for real-time sensing and remote control/monitoring. Combines hardware integration, observability, and Playwright-based automation expertise, with a strong track record of turning brittle or ambiguous real-world processes into reliable systems— including reducing dashboard automation failures from about 20% to under 2%.”

“Unity game developer who built a "constraint-driven match resolution" card-game system that encouraged players to think 1–2 moves ahead while keeping interactions as simple as UNO-style matching; reported longer player sessions and positive feedback. Has used Photon to implement most online features in games and leverages AI tools for code writing to boost productivity.”

“Backend engineer who built a containerized Flask service powering an engineering metrics dashboard by syncing GitHub and Jira data into PostgreSQL, with strong emphasis on schema design, query performance, caching, and background processing. Has hands-on experience with SaaS multi-tenancy (tenant scoping + Postgres RLS) and integrating AI/ML inference via separate model-serving services (FastAPI + TensorFlow Serving) and external APIs (OpenAI/Hugging Face/PyTorch).”

“Backend-leaning product engineer with DevSecOps depth who has shipped real-time, Kafka-driven data pipelines and AI-enabled customer-facing features to production on AWS. Built a Spring Boot API layer serving real-time predictions at 100K+ requests/day, improving latency by 35% and user task completion by ~25%, and delivered a React/TypeScript dashboard plus a Postgres audit/history model optimized for search and large event volumes.”

Nishad Kane

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist & AI Engineer specializing in RAG, agentic AI, and production ML

5y exp

“AI/data engineer who built a production LLM-powered schema drift detection system (LangChain/LangGraph) to catch semantic data changes before they break downstream analytics/ML. Deployed on AWS with Docker/S3 and implemented an LLM-as-a-judge evaluation framework to improve trust, reduce hallucinations, and control false positives/alert fatigue. Collaborated with non-technical risk/business analytics stakeholders at EY by delivering human-readable drift explanations that improved confidence in financial analytics dashboards.”

Anirudh Raghavan

Screened

Entry-level Computer Vision/Autonomy Engineer specializing in perception and object detection

West Lafayette, IN0y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 + Autoware perception experience, focused on building benchmarking infrastructure for object detection models inside a real-time autonomous driving stack. Strong in evaluation rigor (synchronization, deterministic playback, format standardization) and practical ROS2 debugging/validation workflows using RViz and Gazebo.”

Harini Vinu

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, big data, and test automation

New York, United States1y exp

“Internship experience at Qualitest building and deploying an LLM-powered test automation system that reduced manual test creation and improved efficiency (~40%). Demonstrates strong production engineering for LLM systems (timeouts/retries/monitoring/caching, prompt optimization, batching) and has scaled workflows to 100+ concurrent jobs; also has orchestration experience with AWS Step Functions and Kubernetes.”

Prashant Salunke

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-driven data harmonization/record-matching pipeline for pharmaceutical datasets, combining normalization, embeddings/vector search, and an LLM validation step. Emphasizes production reliability via guardrails, confidence thresholds, idempotent/retryable stages, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, with monitoring focused on manual review and error rates to reduce false positives.”

“Built and owns the full ProteinMenus AI pipeline end-to-end, spanning the iOS client, FastAPI backend, Gemini integration, Firestore, and Cloud Run deployment. Strongest signal is full-stack product ownership in an AI-driven consumer workflow, including monetization logic via an atomic credit system and architecture choices optimized for fast iteration after launch.”

Sanket Mungikar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and real-time analytics

California, USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

Supreet Purthpli

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience delivering end-to-end fintech features (Next.js/React/Node/Postgres on AWS) and measurable performance gains. Built and productionized an AI-native credit decisioning workflow combining LLMs, vector retrieval, and a rules engine with strong governance (bias checks, auditability, human-in-loop), improving precision and cutting underwriting turnaround time by 40%.”

Ajay Desai

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and backend platforms

USA4y exp

“Built an AI-native legal research platform that automated analysis across 100,000+ dense legal documents, combining LLM workflows, async backend architecture, and conversational retrieval in production. Also brings cross-domain experience in investment-analysis agents and healthcare claims/billing systems, with a strong emphasis on reliability, deterministic orchestration, and safe handling of messy operational data.”

“Full-stack developer who uses AI thoughtfully as a productivity multiplier rather than a substitute for engineering judgment. Built a stock search platform with React, Node.js, and MongoDB, and has experimented with multi-agent workflows across frontend, backend, debugging, and documentation while keeping rigorous human review over logic, testing, and maintainability.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who led a major redesign of a hybrid streaming+batch analytics platform processing 10+ TB/day (Airflow/Hive/BigQuery) with strong data-quality automation. Also built a production RAG PDF assistant with concrete mitigations for hallucinations and prompt injection (re-ranking, grounding, verifier step) and has deep experience executing low-risk migrations (dual-write, blue-green, rapid rollback) and implementing JWT-based row-level security.”

“Backend engineer who built an async FastAPI data pipeline at GHN Career Academy to replace a manual Excel-based workflow, migrating 30k+ contact records into Airtable with validation/deduplication and best-effort GPT-based enrichment. Emphasizes reliability under messy real-world data and partial failures via structured logging, retries, and resumable processing, unlocking downstream automations (e.g., Zapier and chatbots).”

“Robotics/ROS2-focused early-career engineer who built a stereo visual-odometry SLAM system for autonomous navigation and optimized it to run reliably in real time on Raspberry Pi. Strong in sensor fusion (camera+IMU), ROS2 debugging/profiling, and distributed robotics/IoT pipelines (ROS2 + MQTT + cloud), with added experience extracting WiFi CSI for sensing/localization and shipping via Docker + GitHub Actions CI/CD.”