Vetted GitHub Copilot Professionals

Joshua Smith

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI automation and enterprise transformation

Banks, OR23y exp

“Technology leader with deep accelerator and zero-to-one product experience across the Department of Defense, Fortune 100 enterprises, academia, and GovTech. Most notably, they built a seven-tier solution that generated over $10M in first-year savings and was adopted by 300+ DoD organizations, positioning them as a strong CTO-type operator for mission-driven startups and complex enterprises.”

“Internship experience building an end-to-end medical AI pipeline that extracts and normalizes messy medical PDFs, fine-tunes BioBERT to classify tumor-related statements (including negation/ambiguity handling), and integrates image-model outputs (MedSAM/GroundingDINO) for tumor localization and classification. Also worked on an LLM/RAG system to draft IPO prospectuses using retrieved regulatory/financial sources (including SEC EDGAR) with structured prompts to reduce hallucinations.”

“Backend engineer currently at Citigroup working on real-time transaction processing systems with Kafka. Stands out for using AI tools pragmatically in a regulated banking environment to improve debugging, testing, and developer productivity while keeping human control over architecture, security, and performance decisions.”

“Frontend engineer at Mailchimp who leads end-to-end React/TypeScript features on the in-app homepage, including onboarding and campaign discovery components. Demonstrated measurable performance impact by cutting homepage LCP by ~2.5s and successfully shipped a major feature on an accelerated deadline using structured QA and staged rollout.”

“Deloitte engineer who built and shipped AI-powered, Kafka-driven workflow automation for transportation/document processing, including LLM-based semantic search. Strong in production reliability (idempotency, offset management, retries), observability (Datadog/CloudWatch), and database performance tuning (PostgreSQL/Flyway), with measurable latency improvements.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with production experience in both healthcare (claims enrichment/interoperability at Abacus) and finance (Goldman Sachs pricing/risk APIs + React dashboards). Built an event-driven AI grading platform using Postgres Debezium CDC + Kafka + FastAPI on AWS that cut manual grading ~70% and served 1000+ students, with strong emphasis on reliability, testing, and performance tuning.”

Ashank Dsouza

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Node.js/React and cloud DevOps

Bengaluru, India4y exp

“Software engineer with startup and capstone experience who improved an ~8-hour database refresh workflow by moving API calls to asynchronous execution and then addressing API rate limits via throttling. Emphasizes performance profiling/logging, strong developer onboarding documentation practices, and disciplined Agile/Jira bug triage and expectation-setting with stakeholders.”

“Cloud-focused platform/infrastructure engineer centered on AWS and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience building EKS environments via Terraform/Terragrunt, bootstrapping clusters with Cilium and ArgoCD, and integrating persistent storage and backup tooling like EFS/EBS CSI and Velero. While no longer focused on on-prem or hybrid operations, they also bring prior VMware/Hyper-V and migration-to-AWS experience, making them strongest in modern cloud platform engineering roles.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Visa and Ansel, owning cloud-native, event-driven microservices end-to-end in high-volume and business-critical environments. Stands out for combining scalable Java/Spring/Kafka architecture with strong production rigor, incident ownership, and a pragmatic approach to AI workflow integration that emphasizes guardrails over blind model trust.”

“Built and owned an enterprise LLM/RAG document intelligence platform for PNC Financial Services in a compliance-heavy environment, focused on grounded answers over internal finance and policy documents. Stands out for combining GenAI product delivery with production engineering discipline, delivering 60% faster document review and materially better answer quality while creating reusable FastAPI-based AI services for multiple teams.”

Sangita Satapathy

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and AI applications

Las Vegas, NV11y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI development, using tools like Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate coding while maintaining strong engineering fundamentals. Has led a RAG-based multi-stage AI solution spanning retrieval, context building, and response generation, with an emphasis on validation, prompt quality, and reliability.”

“Software developer with a one-year Philips co-op who has already applied AI-assisted coding in production, not just side projects. Stands out for using multi-agent development setups with task-specific sub-agents and a clear human-led orchestration philosophy focused on context, quality control, and security.”

Omkar Lahurikar

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Senior engineering founder specializing in AI systems and automotive controls

Dearborn, MI13y exp

“Builder-minded founder/operator currently at Ford who previously co-founded MeruDynamics, an "Uber for manufacturing" platform, and took it from zero to paying customer without raising capital. He also independently built and deployed RDD, an AI copilot for engineering decision capture, with evals, prompt versioning, and LLM cost telemetry—showing unusual depth in both product thinking and practical AI execution.”

“Backend-focused engineer who uses AI tools pragmatically for rapid development while staying deeply attentive to concurrency, deadlocks, and system reliability. Built foundational AI retrieval architecture for MastadonTutorAI using ChromaDB and RAG pipelines, and is especially interested in applying multi-agent systems to automate complex backend testing and root-cause analysis.”

Vineet Jujjavarapu

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native data platforms

College Park, MD3y exp

“Software engineer with hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and LangChain-based agent workflows in RAG/LLM projects. Stands out for combining practical multi-agent experimentation with strong grounding in system design, distributed systems, and production-minded validation of AI-generated outputs.”

“Software engineer with a CS/Computer Engineering background who has worked on ML/NLP (Hugging Face, clinical NLP, text generation and structured extraction) and has a school robotics project integrating a trained ML model with microprocessor-controlled hardware to drive motor movement and writing. Currently focused on building and deploying applications and ML models to AWS/Azure using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD; targeting ~$150K compensation.”

“AI engineer with hands-on production experience building an end-to-end RAG system that reduced document-answering time from hours to minutes, improving accuracy through chunk overlap and hybrid BM25+semantic retrieval. Also built a LangGraph-based agent that researches company financial news via web search (Google Serper), using Pydantic structured outputs and checkpointing for reliability; experienced collaborating with non-technical stakeholders at JPMC and communicating ROI.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer (Amazon; also Bank of America) pivoting into robotics software. Built and owned an end-to-end cross-region event processing service for Aurora Global Databases, emphasizing correctness under latency/clock skew, fault tolerance, and strong observability; brings deep Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD experience to robotics infrastructure and reliability work while ramping up on ROS 2.”

Kanan Bandaliyev

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, computer vision, and medical imaging

Istanbul, Turkey2y exp

“Unity developer with deep GPU compute experience who shipped a web-deployed CAD-style app requiring real-time mesh manipulation, solving performance and browser memory-limit issues via compute shaders and mesh chunking. Built an independent Unity gravity simulation using Schwarzschild approximation and geodesic integration, and has also worked on game-engine threading/job-queue architecture using AI-assisted workflows.”

Manasa Reddy Nagendla

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Mid-level Full-Stack Java Engineer specializing in microservices, cloud, and event-driven systems

Cincinnati, OH6y exp

“Software engineer at Procter & Gamble focused on warehouse/operations systems, building near-real-time order/inventory visibility using Java/Spring Boot, React, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis with measurable latency and load-time gains. Also shipped internal LLM/RAG knowledge assistants grounded in company runbooks and workflows, implementing guardrails and an evaluation loop that drove concrete retrieval improvements (document chunking) and regression prevention.”

Sharath Kasula

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React, TypeScript, and real-time web applications

New York, NY7y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer at T-Mobile who owned a real-time operational dashboard end-to-end, from Figma collaboration through React/TypeScript implementation to backend/API and SQL performance coordination. Stands out for diagnosing cross-layer production issues, improving onboarding with measurable drop-off reduction, and turning repeated product needs into reusable primitives adopted across multiple teams.”

“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.”

Rohit Vibhu Channananjundarya

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and full-stack platforms

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Engineer who treats AI as a force multiplier rather than a replacement for judgment, with hands-on experience using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Codex across planning, coding, testing, and review. Particularly notable for building a multi-agent PR review system that automated summarization, risk scanning, schema validation, and test suggestions, helping the team shift reviewer time toward architecture and business logic.”

“Engineer working on high-throughput financial systems who uses AI pragmatically to accelerate development without sacrificing design ownership, correctness, or compliance. Particularly interesting for teams building regulated, real-time platforms: they have hands-on experience integrating fraud detection models into microservices, handling transaction ingestion, scoring, decisioning, and throughput-sensitive asynchronous workflows.”