Vetted Java Professionals

“BNY Mellon engineer who has built and operated production AI systems end-to-end: a LangChain/Pinecone RAG platform scaled via FastAPI + Kubernetes to 1000 RPM with 99.9% uptime, supported by monitoring and data-drift detection. Also deep in data/infra orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Terraform on AWS/EMR/EC2), processing 500GB+ daily and delivering measurable reliability and performance gains, plus strong compliance-facing model explainability using SHAP and Tableau.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built an AI icon-generation SaaS backend (Java/Spring Boot, MongoDB) on AWS, including async job processing with idempotency and S3-based result storage to handle traffic spikes. Also shipped applied AI in finance—an end-to-end fraud detection pipeline with risk scoring—and designed a banking support AI agent with strict guardrails, audit logs, and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning high-scale backend systems and distributed consensus: led a 6-person team delivering a production data querying/visualization platform with major latency improvements via cursor-based pagination and streamed results. Built a RAFT-based distributed logging tool resilient to partitions and storage constraints, and at Nasuni developed FastAPI services processing multi-terabyte workloads for 500+ enterprise customers with secure API key management.”

“Backend engineer currently building an AWS Lambda/FastAPI inventory recommendation system using a LangChain + GPT-4 RAG pipeline and MongoDB vector search; drove major cost optimization via Redis caching (60% reduction) while sustaining 10k+ daily requests under 2s latency. Previously deployed Node.js microservices on AWS OpenShift with Jenkins/Helm at UnitedHealth Group and led a zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices migration at Verizon, including RabbitMQ-based real-time messaging with DLQs and idempotency.”

“JavaScript/Node.js engineer who contributes to open-source utilities focused on API integrations and JSON validation, including a 30–35% throughput improvement by profiling and optimizing deep-clone-heavy code paths. Strong in performance tooling (Node performance hooks, Chrome DevTools flame graphs), incremental/test-driven changes, and community-facing issue triage plus developer-friendly documentation.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent Mutual of Omaha experience building a cloud-native microservices application in Java/Spring Boot with a React/Angular frontend, integrating multiple AWS services (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS). Has hands-on experience operationalizing AI features via OpenAI/AWS Bedrock and improving reliability/performance through caching, async processing, and CI/CD pipeline optimization.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on productionizing LLM applications, including an Android privacy-policy risk summarization app (Kotlin/React Native + FastAPI + Ollama) that cut response times from ~10s to ~5–6s via batching, caching, async, and event-driven architecture. Currently at PRGX building an LLM-based legal contract clause extraction system, partnering closely with legal/procurement SMEs to create schemas, labeled datasets, and evaluation pipelines that improved accuracy from 70% to 85%. Also has experience architecting real-time voice/LLM systems with streaming microservices (Kafka, Kubernetes, gRPC/WebSockets) and an avatar chatbot pipeline (TalkingHead, Google TTS, AnythingLLM).”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with logistics domain experience (DHL) who shipped a real-time shipment status update system using Spring Boot + Kafka and a performance-tuned PostgreSQL tracking schema. Also has AWS production operations experience (ECS/Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible) and has handled peak-load incidents end-to-end by tracing Kafka lag to database bottlenecks and resolving via query/index optimization plus scaling.”

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep insurance claims domain experience who built and operated a microservices + ETL platform (Java/Spring Boot + Python + Kafka/Databricks) processing 1M+ daily transactions. Combines production-grade reliability (99.7% uptime, zero-downtime blue/green releases, strong observability) with customer-facing UI delivery (AngularJS/React+TS dashboards and a hackathon-winning research chatbot).”

“QA engineer with 11+ years (nearly 12) in IT across financial, healthcare, and telecommunications domains, experienced partnering closely with developers throughout Agile delivery. Strong in building/maintaining living test plans, running smoke/regression on new builds, and driving triage with impact-based prioritization using Jira/TestRail/Confluence; targets $100k+ base with standard benefits.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare domain experience (UnitedHealthcare) delivering real-time claims/eligibility dashboards using Spring Boot microservices and React/TypeScript, with strong AWS/Kubernetes DevOps. Demonstrated measurable impact through performance tuning (33% faster retrieval; 45% faster responses during a 60% traffic spike) and HIPAA-aligned security practices. Also built production FastAPI services for high-volume financial transactions with strong testing and observability (95%+ coverage; Prometheus/Grafana).”

“AI/ML-focused backend engineer who shipped two production systems: PersonaPal (agentic LLM chatbot with RAG, FAISS-based retrieval, and Redis semantic caching) and CervixScan (clinical diagnostics platform with PostgreSQL data modeling and human-in-the-loop safety for low-confidence predictions). Demonstrates strong performance/reliability work (indexed vector search, caching, query optimization to ~200ms) and end-to-end ownership from orchestration design through deployment.”

“QA automation engineer with hands-on ownership of Selenium (C#) and Cypress (JavaScript) suites, including CI integration in GitLab with PR smoke gating and nightly regressions with JUnit reports/screenshots. Drove a reported ~60% reduction in manual effort, improved suite maintainability through reuse/merging tests, and proactively shaped requirements/acceptance criteria in sprint planning to prevent defects (including claims calculation and server/log-related issues).”

“Full-stack engineer (4+ years) with Citigroup experience building a modular banking dashboard using React/TypeScript/Redux and a Java Spring Boot microservices backend (12+ services) integrated with Kafka. Strong in reliability/observability and cloud operations on AWS (EC2/S3/Lambda, CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK, IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation), with quantified improvements in latency, development speed, and data pipeline correctness.”

“Software engineer with Prudential Financial experience building enterprise Spring Boot microservices for policy/risk assessment, including integrating Python ML models via Flask and hardening services with resiliency patterns. Also led an AWS lift-and-shift modernization during an internship (EC2/ELB/Route53/Auto Scaling) and built a personal diffusion-model text-to-music project using BERT tokens mapped to Mel spectrograms.”

“Full-stack engineer from HPE GreenLake who built and owned a cloud/hypervisor resource management experience end-to-end, including Postgres modeling, typed REST/GraphQL integrations, and resilient provisioning workflows. Drove a centralized Redux-based UI architecture that boosted dev velocity by 50% across 30+ teams, and continued post-launch ownership with DR integrations (AWS/GCP/Azure) plus expanded Cypress testing and observability.”

“Worked on a long-running, high-dependency production rollout in financial post-trade systems, delivering trade-booking functionality on post-trade feeds used by multiple downstream teams. Emphasizes cross-team/external-team coordination and extensive testing to avoid disruptions, with additional experience improving application reliability via VPN-based resiliency measures.”

Hiya Kothari

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Built a Python-based geospatial machine learning backend for PFAS contamination risk mapping, including reproducible feature pipelines, ensemble modeling, and a FastAPI layer for visualization/analysis. Emphasizes data integrity and robustness (CRS/coverage checks, fail-fast validation) and has led safe backend refactors using feature flags, idempotent backfills, and Postgres RLS for secure, queryable results delivery.”

Shantrisse Broughton

Screened

Entry-Level QA Tester specializing in game and web/app testing

1y exp

“Game QA tester with experience on multiple commercial (non-AAA) titles including Amateur Surgeon 4 (separate iOS/Android test plans), Desync, and Rick and Morty VR. Focuses on gameplay/performance risks and is known for clear, visual bug reporting (screenshots and hand-drawn visuals) to help teams reproduce and understand issues; worked in a structured QA org where supervisors handled developer-facing verification tracking.”

Serkan Yildirim

Screened

Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer / Tech Lead specializing in scalable web platforms

Chicago, IL12y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end delivery of a bag tag management application and contributed to a bank wealth application using micro-frontends. Emphasizes scalable architecture, reusable component systems (Storybook), performance techniques (lazy loading/code splitting), and quality/security tooling (Veracode, Wiz Scan, SonarQube) with a disciplined multi-environment release process.”

Suraj Thangellapally

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in machine learning and data science

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Python backend engineer who built a personal LLM-powered AI code review tool that parses code into context-preserving diff chunks and uses the OpenAI API to analyze and summarize changes. Has hands-on Kubernetes deployment experience (replicas, rolling updates, ConfigMaps/Secrets, health probes) and follows GitOps-style, declarative CI/CD workflows; also has experience designing streaming/event-style processing with attention to reliability and observability.”

Somil Shah

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in generative AI, RAG platforms, and LLM agents

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped 10+ production applications, including InvestIQ on GCP—a production-grade RAG due-diligence engine that ethically scrapes web/PDF sources, builds a ChromaDB knowledge base, and delivers analyst-style dashboards plus a citation-backed chat copilot. Deep focus on reliability (evidence-only answers, hard citations, refusal gating), retrieval tuning, and orchestration (Airflow/Cloud Composer), plus multi-agent systems (CrewAI with 7 specialized finance agents).”

Omkar Tulsidas Parab

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps, data pipelines, and ML

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Software engineer who owned an Order Management System end-to-end at Reliance Jio, improving large-table performance via UI virtualization shipped behind feature flags and refined through direct ops-user observation. Also built an OCR automation tool at Piramal Realty using Python/Tesseract with validation and manual correction fallbacks, driving adoption by operations teams. Experienced integrating with Kafka-based microservices and improving observability using structured logging and correlation IDs.”

Saniya Athani

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native DevOps and GenAI

San Francisco Bay Area, CA2y exp

“Cloud-focused engineer with hands-on experience deploying production cloud-native REST APIs on AWS using Pulumi IaC, containerization, and CI/CD, with strong emphasis on secure credential management and operational monitoring via CloudWatch. Also has IoT troubleshooting experience across edge hardware constraints and networking (TLS handshake failures), plus Python-based configurable data-processing tools and customer-facing requirements translation.”