Vetted High Availability Professionals

Nithin Reddy

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in distributed systems and event-driven architectures

Santa Clara, California4y exp

“Built and maintained an internal JavaScript/React real-time event monitoring UI used by multiple Goldman Sachs teams (e.g., Private Wealth Management and Bulk Trading Systems). Focused on scaling performance under hundreds of events/sec—using profiling, memoization, batching, and debouncing—and paired it with strong internal documentation and disciplined incident diagnosis via synthetic load testing and logs/metrics.”

“Full-stack product engineer who owned a live-events digital ticketing platform end-to-end, including blockchain-based ticket validation and high-traffic booking flows. Stands out for combining Angular/React frontend work with Java/Spring Boot backend architecture, plus strong production reliability practices around concurrency control, queues, observability, and UX optimization.”

Rob Wlaschin

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in AI platforms, FinTech, and Healthtech

Santa Clara, CA24y exp

“Serial entrepreneur building three distinct products: a context-aware AI chatbot, a connected TV companion-screen platform with an implementation client, and gamerogue.net, a mobile-optimized web-based virtual tabletop marketplace currently seeking funding. Brings hands-on fundraising experience, familiarity with the VC/accelerator ecosystem including YC, and a notably pragmatic approach to validating ideas based on existing market demand rather than speculative adoption.”

“Implementation leader with 7 years of client-facing experience delivering source-to-pay and contract management SaaS projects, including full ownership of governance, configuration, integrations, migration, and training. At Intelagree, managed 6-10 concurrent CLM implementations end-to-end and regularly worked with legal, procurement, IT, and C-level stakeholders to drive complex enterprise go-lives.”

“Built and launched an internal AI troubleshooting assistant focused on safe, retrieval-first root cause analysis for enterprise systems, with strong attention to monitoring, fallback behavior, and post-launch iteration. Also owns full-stack product work across React and Java/Spring Boot, including high-volume financial operations workflows, and reports measurable LLM improvements such as ~30-40% latency reduction.”

“Internship at ActiveVM where they tackled large-scale Spring Boot 2→3/library migrations across hundreds of downstream products by combining OpenRewrite (AST-based recipes) with an LLM/RAG-based classifier that routed risky files to human experts. Reported ~70% reduction in manual effort and 90%+ accuracy after testing across multiple branches and cutovers; also built a CTR-driven book recommendation capstone showcased at the Google office in Cambridge.”

Sravanti Dandu

Screened

Mid-level Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS & Azure infrastructure automation

Arizona, USA6y exp

“Backend/platform engineer (American Express) who built a Flask-based orchestration layer to automate infrastructure provisioning and integrated Azure AD/JWT RBAC security. Strong in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance optimization (70%+ query-time reduction) and scalable async/event-driven architectures, including ML inference pipelines (SageMaker/Azure ML/Hugging Face) and high-throughput job queues (Celery/Redis) with reliability patterns like DLQs and idempotency.”

“ML/AI engineer at PNC who has shipped enterprise-grade RAG and document intelligence systems for compliance and policy workflows. Stands out for combining LLM product thinking with production rigor—owning FastAPI/Kubernetes deployments, monitoring, evaluation, and human-feedback loops that drove measurable gains like 40% faster policy search and 30% faster compliance review.”

“Engineer with a process-driven approach to AI-assisted software development, focused on orchestrating where AI adds value while maintaining human review and verification. Has applied this in backend work such as an S3-based invoice pipeline and used multi-agent workflows to speed up large API refactors across many endpoints.”

“Backend-focused engineer at Wells Fargo owning production payments features end-to-end, including Spring Boot REST services, CI/CD + containerized AWS deployments, and CloudWatch-based observability. Has hands-on experience stabilizing high-traffic transaction workflows and building reliable ingestion/integration flows using idempotency, retries/backoff, and reconciliation.”

“Backend engineer who has delivered large, measurable performance wins (10x throughput, 67% latency reduction) by combining Flask microservices, Redis caching, and AWS autoscaling/observability. Has hands-on depth in SQLAlchemy/Postgres optimization and production scaling pitfalls (cache consistency, connection exhaustion), plus experience deploying real-time ML inference (XGBoost) on AWS Lambda and building secure multi-tenant Kubernetes isolation.”

“Built a production internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (Python, LLM APIs, cloud services) that answers employee questions with sourced, grounded responses from internal documents. Demonstrates strong practical depth in retrieval tuning (chunking/metadata filters), orchestration with LangChain, and production reliability practices (latency optimization, automated embedding refresh, evaluation metrics, logging/monitoring) while partnering closely with non-technical operations teams.”

Sai Vamsi

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and cloud-native systems

TX, USA4y exp

“ServiceNow engineer who built an AI-powered ticket summarizer end-to-end (RAG with vector DB + GPT, Redis latency optimizations, fallback summarization, and a React UI widget for agent feedback). Also has hands-on ROS 2 experience building real-time sensor-fusion nodes (LiDAR/IMU), debugging SLAM/navigation issues via rosbag + EKF tuning, and bridging heterogeneous robots by translating ROS 2 topics to MQTT/JSON. Strong DevOps background with Docker, Jenkins CI/CD, and Kubernetes orchestration for scalable deployments.”

Mike Khorrami

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in enterprise SaaS and cloud-native platforms

Woodland Hills, CA25y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who modernized a legacy C#/SQL Server system to Snowflake + Python on GCP, enabling ~30x scale and supporting hundreds of millions of transactions per day per customer. Strong in architecture tradeoffs (Snowflake vs Databricks), production reliability (New Relic, logging/alerting), and lightweight process improvements like a rigorous Definition of Done and structured PR reviews.”

Naveena Musku

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in agentic AI and LLM systems

5y exp

“Backend engineer focused on productionizing LLM systems: built a FastAPI-based RAG and multi-agent automation platform deployed with Docker/Kubernetes, prioritizing safe execution and reduced hallucinations. Experienced in refactoring monolithic ML services with feature-flagged incremental rollouts, and implementing JWT/RBAC plus row-level security (e.g., Supabase) for secure, scalable APIs.”

“Early-career solutions engineer with experience spanning Dell Technologies and insurance operations, combining enterprise hybrid cloud pre-sales exposure with hands-on AI and API integration work. Completed a master's at Illinois Institute of Technology while building customer-facing experience in technical discovery, POCs, security/compliance discussions, and workflow automation.”

“Database/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of large-scale GCP data systems in financial services, including customer-facing SaaS investment products with strict SLAs. Stands out for leading an on-prem-to-GCP modernization using Spanner, AlloyDB, Bigtable, and BigQuery, and for building Terraform/Python automation that cut provisioning time by ~70% while improving reliability and self-service.”

“Runs two lean real estate companies remotely by building local on-the-ground contact networks and leveraging free-tier technology to keep total annual business costs under $100. Brings a cost-elimination and MVP/validation-first mindset, preferring to join an established company unless a clearly viable business idea emerges.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer with hands-on ownership across compute and SAN, including resolving a high-severity ERP latency incident by tracing it to SAN slow-drain on Cisco switches and orchestrating a port redistribution fix. Experienced running production HA/DR with HACMP and LPAR mobility (quarterly failover tests plus annual SunGard DR simulations) and building Bash-based monitoring/alerting automation to prevent outages.”

“Operations/industrial automation engineer with several years supporting and upgrading controls, PLCs, networks, and IoT across 300+ North American sites. Led a zero-downtime IoT safety-device integration into an existing plant control/SCADA environment by building a parallel secure network and a Python/Flask + AWS/SQL telemetry pipeline, avoiding a major outage and saving ~$300K. Also co-founded an IoT + ML flood monitoring pilot shaped through direct collaboration with urban planners, emphasizing geospatial flood mapping for decision-making.”

“Backend-focused Python/Flask engineer with strong performance and scalability experience across PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy optimization, caching, and async processing. Has implemented multi-tenant data isolation (schema/db per tenant with RBAC and encryption) and integrated TensorFlow-based ML inference behind a Flask REST API using Redis caching, batching, and async execution; reports measurable wins like cutting endpoints from 6–8s to ~2s and increasing throughput 3–4x via Celery queues.”