Vetted Hibernate Professionals

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership experience on a real-time AI-driven payment authorization/orchestration platform at PayPal. They describe strong fintech systems depth across Java/Spring/Kafka microservices, database and latency optimization, and reliability engineering, with concrete impact including 35% fewer processing failures, latency reduced from 420ms to 140ms, 1,200+ weekly manual reviews eliminated, and 40% faster incident response.”

“Candidate brings practical GenAI engineering experience with a disciplined approach to AI-assisted development. They have designed lightweight multi-agent workflows for a RAG-based support copilot, including retrieval, relevance validation, response generation, and groundedness checks to reduce hallucinations.”

“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.”

“Engineer with banking and industrial/IoT experience who has deployed a payment-processing microservice with zero downtime, handling Protobuf schema evolution and sensitive data migration via dual-write/checksum techniques. Demonstrates strong cross-stack troubleshooting (pinpointed intermittent distributed timeouts to a failing ToR switch port) and customer-facing Python ETL customization using plugin-based parsers and Pydantic validation, plus hands-on monitoring/alerting improvements with operators.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built a Python/Flask task-management API with JWT/RBAC, modular service/repository architecture, and PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance optimizations (indexes, lazy loading, bulk ops, pooling). Also implemented multi-tenant data isolation strategies and built an OpenAI-powered document summarization workflow using chunking, async processing, Redis background workers, and caching to improve throughput.”

“Engineering leader/CTO-type with deep experience building and scaling a vehicle routing platform at Transdev On Demand, including a nationwide rollout to 22 US airports ahead of schedule. Drove engineering best practices (CI/CD, high test coverage, pair programming, automated deployments) and led a multi-tenant architectural upgrade to expand the routing engine to additional business lines and external customers.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered SMS survey platform for a nonprofit serving at-risk communities (internet-limited users), using Cloudflare Workers + Twilio and a state-machine survey engine. Scaled it to ~10k active users with near-zero downtime, added English/Spanish support, and iteratively improved LLM behavior (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to handle nuanced, real-world SMS responses reliably.”

“Full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership experience, including building a real-time campaign/inventory dashboard at P&G using React/TypeScript, Spring Boot, GraphQL/REST, Redis, Docker, and AWS (EC2/RDS/S3) with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability focus (p95 tuning, caching, idempotent event-driven ingestion with DLQs/reconciliation) and has shipped MVPs in ambiguous early-stage environments.”

Srinivas Matta

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in cloud-native web platforms

Paducah, KY4y exp

“Software engineer at Capital One who owned and shipped AI-driven personalization and internal insights dashboards end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration with feature flags and tight user feedback loops. Built a TypeScript/React + Spring Boot/Python document automation platform with compute-heavy NLP microservices, async workflows, and production-scale reliability/performance practices (Kafka/RabbitMQ-style queues, Redis caching, tracing).”

SAI RAKAM

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech payments

Remote, USA3y exp

“Capital One engineer focused on fraud and payments platforms, owning end-to-end services and internal tools used by fraud analysts. Built high-traffic Kafka/REST systems and real-time React/TypeScript dashboards (WebSockets, Redis), with strong emphasis on observability, idempotency, and scalable microservices. Successfully drove adoption of AI-assisted fraud classification by pairing transparency and manual overrides with measurable workflow improvements.”

Vaibhav Sharma

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and data platforms

Remote, USA5y exp

“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.”

“Founding Principal Engineer/Head of Engineering at Amberflo (Seed $5M Homebrew; Series A Norwest) who built and shipped an AI Gateway + real-time LLM cost metering/pricing MVP end-to-end (control plane/data plane, AWS infra, CI/CD). Known for extremely fast MVP cycles (often 1–2 weeks), scaling teams (50–60 hires), and driving major pivots (usage-based billing to FinOps) by repurposing an existing metering/pricing platform; based in Chicago and has led a Silicon Valley startup remotely with frequent Bay Area travel.”

“Software engineer with Capital One experience contributing to shared internal “open-source style” JavaScript/React/TypeScript libraries (component library and hooks/utilities). Drove measurable performance gains (~25% improvement) by refactoring hooks to prevent unnecessary re-renders, and improved adoption via stronger documentation, testing (Jest), semver discipline, and code review/PR workflows; also stabilized a backend service by adding monitoring and automated tests in an unstructured project.”

“Development manager focused on developer productivity and platform enablement in a polyglot microservices environment. Drove ~50% productivity gains by evaluating and rolling out AI coding copilots with team training and cross-team demos, and designed a Disaster Recovery framework adopted by 50+ microservice teams. Also led edge-focused Python runtime optimization and relies on heavy test automation to safely execute large refactors during major platform upgrades.”

“Backend/DevOps-focused engineer with healthcare and financial systems experience, including an ICU readmission risk platform delivering real-time ML scores via a secure FastAPI service (PyTorch model serving, PostgreSQL, Celery/Redis) deployed on AWS with strong observability. Has hands-on Kubernetes GitOps delivery (Helm, ArgoCD, HPA) and has supported a JPMC on-prem-to-AWS microservices migration using phased validation and blue-green cutovers, plus Kafka/Avro streaming for real-time transaction processing.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech/trading domain experience (Fidelity) and startup SaaS CRM/billing platform work (Zoho), building real-time portfolio analytics and trade-processing systems. Strong in microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka/WebSockets), and AWS/Kubernetes operations with measurable performance gains (~34–35% latency reduction) and maintainability improvements (~40% faster deployments). Targeting a founding full-stack engineer role in NYC with meaningful equity.”

Yukti Kamthan

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and data systems

Mumbai, India10y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM/AI agent systems including an NL-to-SQL query agent with semantic search and Redis-based caching, using schema-aware prompting and threshold validation to reduce hallucinations. Has orchestration experience running ML microservices on Kubernetes and automating event-driven insurance (P&C) workflows (claims/policy + fraud checks), reporting ~60% manual overhead reduction and ~99% uptime, with strong monitoring/drift-detection and business-facing Power BI reporting.”

“Built and shipped production LLM/RAG systems at Mayo Clinic, including a conversational AI assistant for patient pre-consultation and a clinical-trial matching tool for doctors. Implemented HIPAA-compliant de-identification and guardrails, plus real-time feedback logging and fine-tuning that improved response accuracy by 15% and reduced admin workload by 25%.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered customer support triage/resolution agent that automated ~60% of tickets, cutting response times from hours to seconds and improving first-response resolution by ~40%. Experienced designing multi-tenant, tenant-isolated agent architectures with RAG, schema-based tool calling/strict JSON validation, and strong reliability practices (guardrails, retries, fallbacks, monitoring), including safe integration with messy ERP-like data.”

Keerthana Kondabathini

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in Healthcare IT and FinTech

4y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience in both financial services and healthcare, including a Capital One credit application platform and an AI-assisted medical-records-to-EMR pipeline. Stands out for owning systems end-to-end, improving response times by 30%, operating services at 50K+ daily requests, and applying strong validation/observability practices in regulated environments.”

Akhil Nakka

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full Stack Engineer in fintech (JPMorgan) who owns products end-to-end across React UIs and Spring Boot/Kafka backends, with a strong track record of shipping quickly while maintaining reliability via testing, monitoring, and feature flags. Has hands-on experience scaling microservices for high-volume transactions and debugging production latency using ELK/CloudWatch, plus built an internal Python/Flask automation tool adopted by backend engineers to speed API validation and debugging.”

Vasudev Konde

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in APIs and cloud microservices

Phoenix, AZ5y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped a production document-intelligence agent that automated internal support workflows using RAG, tool calling, and robust fallback controls. Stands out for combining hands-on architecture with measurable business impact: 85% faster query resolution, 35% lower LLM cost, 40% fewer LLM calls, and enough automation to avoid adding 2-3 support engineers.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on high-throughput document/financial data platforms, building Angular/React front ends and Spring Boot microservices with Python/Flask services for heavy processing. Experienced in designing non-blocking, asynchronous workflows (Celery/RabbitMQ) and deploying containerized systems to AWS ECS with auto-scaling and CloudWatch monitoring.”