Vetted Hibernate Professionals

“Player-coach engineer/lead on a high-scale research integrity platform ("Lighthouse") that flags fraud/manipulation signals across ~3M academic manuscripts per year. Owns architecture decisions (ADRs), implements across Go/Java/React services, and introduced NLP (SciBERT embeddings + human-in-the-loop) to assess out-of-context citations while also handling production incidents with a data-consistency-first approach.”

Rashi Agrawal

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native microservices

Novi, MI4y exp

“Backend engineer (4 years) who built an end-to-end Python backend for a patent-pending in-car massager/heater system, including GraphQL data modeling and Bluetooth integration with an ESP32 microcontroller (reverse engineered a niche protocol). Also has strong platform experience: on-prem Kubernetes/CI-CD (Jenkins/GitLab, exploring ArgoCD GitOps), Terraform-based infra workflows, a RabbitMQ messaging library used across microservices, and an on-prem migration of ~30 critical applications with rollback/parallel-run strategy.”

“Technology-first venture builder with strong familiarity in the VC/accelerator landscape, specializing in greenfield innovation, M&A, and large-scale transformation/modernization. Described building a venture-funded retail banking greenfield startup to integrate lending-as-a-service for SME lending while meeting federal and local financial services compliance requirements.”

Kunj Amrutbhai Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend systems on AWS

Seattle, WA4y exp

“Built production systems in the AWS ecosystem, including an internal AI assistant for diagnosing account transfer and permissions issues and an end-to-end account transfer workflow used by enterprise customers. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG design with strong distributed systems reliability practices, emphasizing guardrails, fallbacks, and operational trust in high-stakes workflows.”

Lawrence Cheng

Screened

Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in FinTech platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, CA6y exp

“Backend/platform-focused engineer who builds scalable onboarding and data ingestion pipelines for complex client data formats, emphasizing staged validation, idempotent job boundaries, and safe rollouts behind feature flags. Strong in production diagnostics (Kibana/Logstash, SQL, debugger traces) with a concrete example of finding a regression causing incorrect Tax Loss Harvesting alert counts within a day, and experienced enabling both engineers and customer-facing teams through docs, runbooks, and technical walkthroughs.”

“Meta engineer who emphasizes AI-native development workflows, using Claude Code heavily to ship UI and performance fixes quickly. Notable examples include a location-aware ad relevance feature that increased CTR and revenue, and a vehicle insights chatbot whose UX improved through metric-driven prompt tuning.”

“Engineer with startup experience at a Series B company, where they worked through high ambiguity and personally led an observers feature for a video conferencing platform. They also bring B2B SaaS experience building feature-flagged, permission-sensitive products for customers ranging from startups to large enterprises, plus migration experience moving an acquired app from .NET into a React/Next.js ecosystem.”