Vetted Java Professionals

Vidhi Chhatbar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and FinTech

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience across enterprise (AIG, MSCI) and an early-stage startup (Job Map), owning production systems end-to-end. Built secure insurance microservices on Spring Boot with JWT/RBAC and AWS-based CI/CD/observability, plus Kafka streaming pipelines for financial data. Also shipped a GenAI personalization MVP using FastAPI and LLM APIs in a high-ambiguity startup environment.”

John Krikorian

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AR, UI/UX, and interactive applications

12y exp

“AR/Unity-focused engineer who built a multi-user whiteboarding app for smart glasses, including vector-based collaborative drawing, spatial object persistence, and a voice-driven AI assistant that could manipulate the scene through custom tools. Their work spans real-time networking, spatial UX, and LLM integration, with systems robust enough that some features were reused by other developers internally.”

“VR/social platform engineer with experience at AltspaceVR, Mozilla Hubs, and Dopple, spanning Unity/C#, custom engine networking, and early voice-agent systems. Particularly compelling for roles at the intersection of multiplayer, XR, and AI: they’ve built data-driven avatar systems, ownership-based netcode, VR replay capture, and a custom real-time voice->LLM->voice stack integrated with hardware and computer vision.”

“Candidate has hands-on experience delivering production data and AI systems, including an AWS-based real-time data platform for a financial client at Deloitte and a production RAG workflow that cut manual search time by 40%. They stand out for combining strong data engineering depth with practical LLM governance, incident debugging, and stakeholder management across business and risk/compliance teams.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning an SEL internship and Walmart, combining backend/data pipeline work (Python, Kafka, relational DBs) with DevOps practices (Docker, Grafana, GitHub/Jenkins CI/CD, GitOps). Notably contributed to a REST-to-GraphQL migration aimed at reducing cloud utilization and implemented testing strategies to validate the transition.”

Vinay Naidu

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in Healthcare and FinTech

5y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered incident assistant integrated with monitoring, logs, and metrics systems that reduced triage time by 30–40% and improved MTTR. Stands out for a strong reliability-first approach to agent design, including deterministic orchestration, strict schemas, fallback flows, grounding checks, and safeguards for messy operational data.”

Aarushi Mahajan

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, Generative AI, and MLOps

New York, USA4y exp

“Internship experience shipping production AI systems: built an end-to-end RAG platform (Python/FastAPI + LangChain/LangGraph + vector search) to answer support questions from unstructured internal docs, with a strong focus on hallucination prevention through confidence gating and rigorous offline/online evaluation. Also delivered an AI-driven personalization/analytics feature using an unsupervised clustering pipeline, iterating with PMs to align statistically strong clusters with actionable business segmentation.”

“Built internal product features at Sysco's Collab Cafe across React/TypeScript frontend and Spring Boot/PostgreSQL backend, including a full project invite flow and an early AI-style project matching capability. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, improving React dashboard performance with profiling and component refactoring, and making pragmatic 0→1 tradeoffs to ship quickly.”

“Built and deployed an AI-powered insurance claims fraud platform end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, OpenAI, pgvector, and AWS EKS. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG architecture with production-grade scalability and observability, delivering measurable impact including 62% less manual review, 40% better fraud precision, 37% higher throughput, and 99.95% uptime.”

“Senior software engineer with hands-on experience leading multi-agent AI workflows in financial trading infrastructure. Most notably, they applied a specialized agent setup on a high-frequency trading backend to cut delivery time from three weeks to ten days while improving validation against risk, performance, and compliance requirements.”

Neeshma Narahari

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in backend microservices and cloud platforms

Irving, TX6y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with strong React and TypeScript depth who has owned dashboard features end-to-end, from UI architecture and rendering optimization through Spring Boot APIs and database query tuning. Particularly compelling for startup or high-growth teams: they’ve shipped 0→1 internal operations platforms, prioritized MVP workflows effectively, and iterated post-launch using user feedback, logs, and usage metrics.”

“Built end-to-end financial workflow platforms at Citi spanning React frontends, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, and Oracle. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can modernize legacy systems into real-time architectures—the candidate cites a 48x throughput improvement from a batch-to-Kafka modernization effort.”

Ming Wang

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech

Hong Kong, Hong Kong1y exp

“Recent college graduate and software engineer who relies heavily on AI-assisted development, reporting that roughly 85% of code in a recent initiative was AI-generated and then manually reviewed. Has built customer-facing AI features including personalized recommendations and an internship chatbot tied to product advertising, with exposure to API communication, database checks, and conversation monitoring.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building event-driven Java/Spring Boot and Kafka systems, plus AI-assisted document-classification workflows in enterprise environments. Stands out for a thoughtful, risk-aware approach to AI: uses it to accelerate delivery, but emphasizes validation layers, confidence thresholds, observability, and human review before AI can affect downstream business actions.”

“Software engineer with Intuit experience shipping an end-to-end real-time financial insights product on AWS, using event-driven architecture with Kafka and Spark Streaming to process millions of records with low latency. Also delivers customer-facing React + TypeScript dashboards and has hands-on production operations experience, including resolving a database scaling incident via read replicas, query tuning, and connection pooling.”

“Worked on Sophia the humanoid robot, building production animation pipelines and enhancing human-robot interaction via perception and behavior orchestration. Experienced in stabilizing noisy perception-driven state transitions and designing smooth, user-centered behavioral flows, collaborating closely with artists, animators, and experience designers to translate creative intent into measurable system behavior.”

“Built and owned Prism, a real-time collaborative coding platform, making key architectural choices around deterministic event ordering and a backend source-of-truth to improve trust under concurrent edits. Also created a Python-based bug analysis and test automation suite that became part of standard engineering workflow, cutting debugging time by ~95% while improving fault detection coverage.”

“Backend engineer who built a Logistics-as-a-Service platform in Go, proactively refactoring a monolithic REST service into gRPC microservices to improve performance and maintainability. Led a 3-person team with disciplined code reviews, Dockerized DB migrations, and a canary-style rollout (5% traffic) monitored for latency and failures; also implemented JWT/OAuth2 RBAC and production-minded edge-case handling in an ordering system.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered personalized client engagement assistant in the financial domain, balancing real-time recommendations with strict privacy/compliance requirements. Demonstrates strong MLOps/LLMOps depth (Airflow + MLflow, containerized microservices, drift monitoring) and a privacy-by-design approach validated in collaboration with risk and compliance teams.”

“Enterprise platform engineer/product owner who led end-to-end delivery of customer-facing ServiceNow Service Catalog/workflow solutions, emphasizing reliability, security, and fast iteration. Built React/TypeScript portals with Node.js and Spring Boot backends, and improved microservices reliability at scale using Kafka, monitoring, and robust retry/timeout patterns.”

“Amazon engineer who built a production AI agent platform (Python/AWS Strands on Bedrock) that lets teams create tool-using, multi-agent workflows—e.g., agents that auto-triage and resolve customer support tickets by reading internal documentation and collaborating with a research agent. Previously worked in Deloitte on IAM using Ping Identity/Ping DaVinci orchestration, and applies orchestration thinking plus structured evaluation (LLM-as-judge, surveys, automated tests) to improve agent reliability.”

“Early-career (fresher) candidate who built and deployed a production AI medical document chatbot using a RAG architecture (LangChain + Hugging Face LLM + Pinecone) with a Flask backend on AWS EC2 via Docker. Has experience troubleshooting real deployment constraints (model dependencies, disk space, container stability) and setting up continuous-style evaluation with fixed query test sets tracking relevance, latency, and error rate.”

“Frontend engineer who led end-to-end architecture for a cross-platform Payments Checkout SDK at Inai Technologies, scaling it to support iOS/Android/React Native/Flutter/Capacitor and powering 2.4M+ transactions per month. Emphasizes performance (bundle size/tree-shaking), OTA update delivery for mobile wrappers, and strong engineering guardrails (SonarQube, Snyk, CI/CD, regression suites, Sentry/PostHog) to ship quickly with high quality.”

“Backend engineer focused on Python/FastAPI microservices, with hands-on experience deploying to AWS (EKS/ECR) via Jenkins and GitOps-style workflows using ArgoCD. Has built and stabilized real-time Kafka payment-event streaming pipelines and improved production performance under peak load through Redis caching, SQL optimization, and robust retry/DLQ patterns. Also supported phased migrations from on-prem environments to AWS with gradual traffic shifting and monitoring.”