Vetted Java Professionals

Sergio Nunez

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Senior Unity Engineer specializing in XR, mobile, and AI avatar experiences

Los Angeles, CA9y exp

“Unity/C# game engineer from Genies who built the avatar wearable customization system for Silver Studio and supported AI companion features through client-side LLM integrations. Stands out for combining clean architecture, analytics-driven product thinking, and practical optimization work across latency, AI cost controls, and mobile performance.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping regulated financial AI systems at JPMC and Capgemini, spanning credit risk, fraud detection, and generative AI assistants. Stands out for combining modern LLM/RAG architectures with strong MLOps, real-time infrastructure, and explainability/compliance practices, while delivering measurable business impact in latency, accuracy, cost, and risk reduction.”

Farhan Shahbaz

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer with deep experience in security and access-management platforms at JPMorgan Chase, including owning automation for migrating 50+ engineering teams from CyberArk to HashiCorp Vault. Stands out for combining regulated-environment rigor, infrastructure automation, and production operations with practical AI integration in internal access workflows.”

“Backend/ML-focused engineer with experience spanning fintech, sales enablement, and medtech, including a Capital One capstone and a Singapore medtech startup internship. Stands out for owning end-to-end AI/backend systems, from a GenAI sales pitch platform that cut prep time by 50% to an ultrasound-guidance MVP for non-expert operators in a highly ambiguous domain.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience across frontend, backend, and data systems, including React/TypeScript UI work at CitiGroup, ETL pipeline ownership at Accenture, and personal 0→1 builds like an AI chatbot and a real-time multiplayer typing platform. Stands out for combining product-minded prioritization with strong implementation depth in performance optimization, type-safe frontend architecture, and resilient data pipeline design.”

“AI/ML-focused engineer with practical experience building RAG-based and multi-agent systems, including architectures for retrieval, reasoning, context processing, and response generation. Stands out for combining LLM productivity gains with disciplined software engineering practices like validation, monitoring, and reproducibility.”

Sanjay Santhanam

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Mid-level AI Software Developer specializing in backend and LLM applications

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Backend/AI systems engineer focused on productionizing agentic document-processing workflows for large financial PDFs. They describe owning deployments end-to-end, combining Python, Redis, LLM function calling, RAG/ReAct-style orchestration, and strong reliability practices to deliver 80% faster processing, reduce parsing errors from 12% to ~1%, and sustain 99.9% uptime in high-concurrency environments.”

Malyadri Peruru

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and IoT automation

Greater San Francisco, CA13y exp

“Software engineer with strong systems design experience spanning both core product infrastructure and AI-enabled support workflows. Co-led a from-scratch B2B SaaS billing platform for complex customer pricing models, and also improved an orchestrated agent system by tightening context, metadata, and human-review safeguards for misrouted support tickets.”

“Engineering leader with experience owning product engineering strategy, architecture, and org scaling across hospitality/workforce management and insurance startup environments. They describe being brought in to help Fourth Inc. revamp engineering for large-scale enterprise customers, while also scaling teams at The Zebra and staying hands-on with production monitoring, performance analysis, and cross-team architectural execution.”

“Software engineer with hands-on embedded/robotics coursework experience (Arduino sensor integration and input handling built from scratch without external libraries) and strong DevOps/engineering productivity impact at work, including leading a CI/CD enhancement that runs only impacted tests to catch issues before PR approval.”

“Serial venture builder/operator across ad tech, media delivery, search engines, international content management, and ecommerce; has raised up to $150M and been involved in 8 acquisitions or IP-acquisition events. Known for refactoring/re-engineering smaller or troubled platforms into higher-value businesses, including building yield-management algorithms and a Kafka-like system to improve ad delivery profitability.”

“Robotics-focused candidate with multiple university robotics projects (MTE 380, MTE 544) and ROS 2 (Humble/Galactic) experience spanning perception, navigation, and simulation. Built a vision-based line-following and retrieval robot using HSV filtering and homography, and debugged real-time PID overshoot issues via timestamping/rate-limiting. Comfortable with distributed ROS 2 architectures (Python perception + C++ control), DDS/QoS, Gazebo testing, and Dockerized deployment.”

“Robotics engineer with a 2024 internship building an end-to-end software stack for an autonomous humanoid robot that follows natural-language audio commands to make coffee and deliver snacks, including perception (OpenCV), mapping, and ROS Navigation. Also contributing to a robotics foundation model effort by building data preprocessing pipelines using GroundingDINO and SAM2, and has multi-robot coordination experience with algorithms designed to handle real-world communication drops.”

“Robotics engineer/team lead who built an autonomous lunar rover for the NASA Lunabotics challenge, owning electrical systems, comms (UART/WiFi), and autonomy using RealSense + custom YOLO on a Jetson Orin Nano. Also has extensive ROS 2 experience, including creating a ROS2+Gazebo environment with ros2_control custom controllers for a large-scale additive manufacturing printer and research/thesis work in multi-robot coordination and robustness.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience across containers (ECS) and serverless (API Gateway/Lambda/SQS), plus Glue-based ETL to Parquet for Athena/Redshift. Demonstrates hands-on reliability and security depth (Cognito OAuth2/JWT with JWKS rotation, idempotency/DLQs, monitoring) and measurable performance wins (Redis caching + query tuning), along with legacy-to-services modernization using parallel-run parity and feature-flagged cutovers.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience scaling a Python/Flask incident-logging platform processing thousands of daily logs. Strong in performance tuning (PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy query optimization, partitioning, summary tables) and reliability patterns (Redis caching, Celery background workers, Docker + Jenkins CI/CD), with some multi-tenant data isolation experience via separate DBs/schemas.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-based real-time stance detection system for social media, fine-tuning LLaMA 3.1 on A100s with DeepSpeed ZeRO/FSDP and iteratively refining data to handle sarcasm and context-dependent meaning. Also has Kubernetes operations experience (Kafka/Logstash/Elasticsearch observability pipeline) and delivered an OCR automation project during a Worley India internship that saved 20+ hours/week for on-site energy safety stakeholders.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for semiconductor manufacturing failure analysis, reducing engineer triage effort by grounding outputs in retrieved evidence and gating responses with SPC + ML signals (LSTM anomaly scores, XGBoost probabilities). Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph to ship reliable, observable multi-step agents with branching/fallback logic, and evaluates impact using both technical metrics and business KPIs like mean time to triage and downtime reduction.”

“Early-career technologist with internship experience deploying and fixing production/demo service configurations despite poor documentation, using step-through debugging and prior demo references to restore progress quickly. Also has hands-on IT technician experience diagnosing hardware failures (hard drive damage), recovering files, and replacing drives, plus QA test development in Python for customer-reported bugs and a strong focus on networking (monitoring, IP activity analysis).”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience improving performance and reliability in financial workflows (settlements/loan processing), spanning React/TypeScript and Angular frontends plus Spring Boot microservices. Has delivered measurable latency improvements using PostgreSQL optimization and Redis caching, and has operated Kafka-based systems at scale with idempotent processing and backoff/retry strategies while iterating internal ops tooling with support/finance teams.”

“Customer-facing technical professional experienced in productionizing complex systems (including LLM/agentic workflows) and high-volume cloud data pipelines. Built and hardened a near-real-time data extraction/caching solution that significantly reduced latency and became a reusable pattern for other enterprise use cases; also runs developer demos/workshops with hands-on test environments and has driven 30–50% latency improvements.”

“Software engineer/product-focused builder who has delivered customer-facing dashboards (React/TypeScript + Spring Boot) and microservices using RabbitMQ, emphasizing safe, fast iteration with CI/CD, feature flags, and monitoring. Also built an internal monitoring/reporting tool adopted by ops/support by involving users early and iterating based on feedback.”

“Software engineer working on an e-commerce platform, currently building a RAG-based recommendation system with a team new to the technology. Has delivered an end-to-end React/TypeScript website for a local car dealer and built an internal "encryption as a service" tool to secure sensitive data across repositories and through release/UAT, with experience debugging microservices integration issues.”