Vetted Integration Testing Professionals

Ashwini Ramesh Kumar

Screened

Junior AI Software Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and agent workflows

Remote1y exp

“Backend/ML-leaning engineer who built a content-based event recommender for FlowMingle using embeddings + HNSW vector search on Google Cloud, with Firebase as the backend and a managed recommendation lifecycle (15 recs/user, daily async generation, weekly deletion) now serving 1500+ users. Also led a cost-driven migration of ConvAI services to Azure AI using parallel request testing from a Unity client, with post-migration monitoring via logs and model evals; contributed to a Massachusetts law-enforcement conversation analysis system by expanding ingestion to PDF/TXT/Excel and multi-file inputs.”

Luis Aragon

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in data infrastructure and distributed systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Software engineer working on agentic AI SMS customer engagement flows and a Customer Data Profile service that unifies journey data across SMS/web/calls while enforcing precise consent management. Has hands-on production operations experience, including recovering a reporting-critical Elasticsearch outage by standing up a new cluster in Kubernetes, restoring from snapshots, and rewinding Kafka consumers to reprocess missed data.”

Shweta Gupta

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices, Kafka, and AWS

Seattle, WA6y exp

“AI engineer who shipped a production chat assistant for a storage company by building the underlying RAG-style knowledge base (document ingestion, chunking/embeddings, FAISS vector store) and an admin update interface to keep content current. Also has full-stack delivery experience (Python REST APIs + React/TypeScript UI) and AWS operations using Terraform/Jenkins, including handling a real production performance incident by optimizing DB queries and adding auto-scaling.”

Shruthi Nandakumar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

St. Louis, MO5y exp

“Backend/AI engineer who owned a high-scale Java/Spring Boot microservice for a financial application (millions of requests/day) and led major reliability/performance fixes (including ORM/query and PostgreSQL tuning) achieving ~60% latency reduction. Also shipped application-layer LLM features for ops teams (summarization + tool-calling) with strong guardrails (PII redaction, validation, audit/feedback) and designed a state-driven agent workflow with retries, circuit breakers, and human escalation.”

Niharika Bhasin

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and real-time web apps

New York City, NY0y exp

“New-grad/early-career engineer who led high-stakes modernization of a field-operations platform from Firebase to AWS using an incremental/dual-write strategy, achieving zero downtime and ~30–32% infra cost reduction while improving scalability. Also built and productionized an AI-native code assistant (LangChain + Pinecone RAG) with measurable online metrics and safety guardrails, and has experience working directly with CEO/CTO/CPO and embedded with customer teams to ship enterprise features quickly.”

Karan Javali

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native web platforms

Salt Lake City, Utah5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Goldman Sachs and Arizona State University’s Learning Engineering Institute, shipping production backend systems including a vendor equities invoice-generation service designed for extensibility across multiple vendors. Built Django REST + PostgreSQL backends with JWT auth and Pytest coverage, and delivered data-heavy, responsive Angular dashboards; also has exposure to AWS EC2 deployments and GitLab CI/CD automation.”

Nikhitha santhoshi Maroju

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices on AWS

Redwood, CA4y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered fraud investigation agent using RAG to generate transaction explanations and draft analyst reports. Emphasizes production robustness (fallbacks, strict structured outputs, async orchestration, monitoring/evals) and reports measurable impact: ~12% precision lift and ~80 high-priority alerts per week with reduced manual effort.”

“Backend engineer with healthcare and financial services experience (Humana, PNC) who owned production-grade, high-volume ingestion-to-API pipelines end-to-end in C#/.NET and SQL. Strong focus on data quality, handling out-of-order/partial upstream records, and improving reliability/observability via structured logging and telemetry, plus significant SQL performance tuning to reduce peak-load issues.”

“ML/AI engineer focused on taking LLM products from experiment to production, with hands-on ownership of a RAG-based customer support system that improved response quality by 35% and cut latency by 30%. Stands out for combining product impact with production rigor across retrieval tuning, safety guardrails, monitoring, and reusable Python/FastAPI services that accelerated adoption across teams.”

Brendan Dwyer

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and cloud platforms

Colorado Springs, CO10y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience turning research-style RAG concepts into production underwriting systems at Prudential Financial. Built an internal document intelligence assistant end-to-end with strong monitoring, safety, and evaluation practices, driving a 38% faster review process and 31% better retrieval accuracy. Also improved platform engineering at VivSoft by standardizing Python-based ML deployment across 60+ models.”

Sriram Degala

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare and finance AI

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Built production-grade medical AI systems at MD Anderson, including an end-to-end RAG chatbot used by clinical researchers for real-time drug interaction and trial literature queries. Stands out for combining healthcare domain knowledge with strong MLOps, evaluation, and safety practices, and for delivering measurable gains in latency, retrieval precision, and team adoption.”

“Software engineer with 4 years of experience spanning scalable backend systems, full-stack product development, and production LLM integrations in finance, insurance, and e-commerce contexts. They describe shipping an AI-powered internal financial analysis tool, improving document-review workflows by 40%, and driving a zero-to-one B2B SaaS subscription launch with cross-functional GTM alignment.”

“Backend engineer in healthcare data systems who has owned production pipelines end-to-end, from ingesting patient and claims data to serving it through secure APIs. Brings a strong mix of Python, SQL, microservices, cloud deployment, and data reliability practices, with measurable performance gains and experience building resilient integrations with external data sources.”

VINAY KUMAR VIPPALA

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech backend systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership from React UI through Spring Boot APIs and SQL data layers, focused on transaction-heavy fintech workflows. Built both a transaction reconciliation system and a 0-to-1 AI-based anomaly detection workflow at LeisurePay, combining performance-minded frontend engineering with pragmatic product delivery.”

Apoorva Swaminathan Iyer

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in full-stack engineering and application security

Raleigh, NC3y exp

“Developer who has evolved into an AI-native builder, using Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and multi-agent workflows as collaborators while retaining ownership of architecture and code quality. At OpenPRA, they ramped quickly into NestJS from a Spring Boot background and implemented OAuth/JWT security; on the Aha quiz app, they effectively acted as a tech lead for AI agents across feature delivery, debugging, CI/CD, and Dockerization.”

“Full-stack software engineer who has owned production workflows spanning React/Next.js, FastAPI, Redis-backed async processing, and PostgreSQL in a multi-tenant invoice-processing product. Shows strong product instincts as well—improving UX for long-running operations, iterating MVPs based on real user behavior, and balancing reusable abstractions with practical implementation constraints.”

“Entry-level backend engineer currently building AI infrastructure for a legal-tech product, including message APIs between frontend and LLMs and MCP-based integrations to enterprise legal systems. Stands out for owning backend components end-to-end in an ambiguous early-stage environment and for resolving a critical pre-demo bug under intense time pressure.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of Spring Boot microservice deployments in Freddie Mac's mortgage workflow domain, including measurable gains in reliability and MTTR. Brings strong production debugging skills around distributed transaction pipelines and has also built a full-stack AI chatbot project using React, Express, and Google Gemini API.”

“Backend engineer with experience at HSBC and Machinations who has delivered major production performance wins (cutting large trade-file upload times from ~13–15s to ~2s) using chunked parallel processing with strong reliability controls. Also built and shipped an applied AI RAG workflow using Langflow + Cohere embeddings + FAISS with hosted/local LLM fallbacks (Hugging Face, Ollama) and production-grade guardrails, observability, and evaluation.”

“Full-stack engineer who built BrewAI, a cloud-native AI resume optimization platform on GCP using React, TypeScript, LangChain, and Gemini, with scalable async job processing and LLM safety guardrails. The product gained real-world traction when an undergraduate college in India asked students to use it for internship resume drafting, and the candidate also has team lead experience shipping an early-stage ERP system.”

“Growth-stage startup engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across React, Java/Spring Boot, MySQL, and cloud deployment. They led workflow automation products that replaced manual operational processes, improved efficiency and reliability, and evolved the platform into a more configurable B2B workflow system shaped by user feedback.”

Rishabh Goyal

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech

USA4y exp

“Python backend engineer focused on real-time e-commerce analytics systems, building FastAPI + Kafka microservices with strong idempotent processing patterns (Postgres upserts, manual offsets, Redis caching). Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps delivery with Argo CD/GitHub Actions, plus experience migrating containerized services from on-prem VMs to AWS using Terraform and blue-green cutovers.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered customer support assistant (“Notable Assistant”) focused on automating common post-customer queries while maintaining multi-turn context and meeting scalability/latency needs. Experienced with production orchestration and operations using Kubernetes and Apache Airflow (DAG-based ETL, scheduling, monitoring/alerts), and has partnered closely with customer service stakeholders to align chatbot behavior with brand voice through iterative testing.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building reliable Python FastAPI services on Kubernetes and delivering AWS EKS + Terraform CI/CD with strong secrets isolation and rollback practices. Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution handling and data-quality controls, modernized legacy analytics into modular Python services with parallel-run parity validation, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (minutes to seconds) plus ownership of batch pipeline incidents end-to-end.”