Vetted JavaScript Professionals

Anthony Tilotta

Screened

Senior Developer Advocate specializing in Web3 and API platforms

Remote, USA9y exp

“Seasoned AI developer advocate with 8 years of experience translating complex engineering concepts into developer-friendly content and workflows. Built an open source repository that gives AI agents structured API knowledge, which the candidate says drove a 55% increase in API adoption and reduced support tickets. Currently at Moralis, combining API implementation support, LLM tuning, and developer education across video, documentation, and hands-on guidance.”

“Engineering director and hands-on architecture leader who combines people management with strong systems design depth across performance optimization, serverless event-driven platforms, and developer-facing AI tooling. Notable wins include cutting API latency 30%, reducing shipping time 20%, and refactoring a product into a Claude Code-native workflow optimized for token efficiency and developer context management.”

“Backend/real-time systems engineer transitioning into robotics software: building ROS 2 fundamentals (pub/sub, custom messages, launch files) and experimenting with Nav2 + SLAM in Gazebo/RViz. Demonstrated practical debugging by tuning costmaps/planners and analyzing topic latency to stabilize simulated navigation, and has experience integrating telemetry pipelines and REST-based external interfaces.”

“Backend/microservices engineer (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, Angular microfrontends) with Teradata experience building distributed analytics/query routing platforms and delivering 20–30% latency reductions through event-driven redesign and reliability hardening. Also built and shipped an end-to-end multimodal medical imaging AI feature (LLaVA/Mistral 7B + LoRA) with production guardrails like confidence-based human review, drift monitoring, and audit logs.”

“Backend engineer who built a real-time, event-driven alerting platform (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB) processing millions of events per day on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes), including hands-on performance debugging of Kafka consumer lag at peak. Also shipped an end-to-end LLM-based alert summarization feature and designed a multi-step incident triage agent workflow with retries and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience across React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Java/Spring Boot, operating containerized systems on AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2/RDS/S3) with strong observability (CloudWatch/Grafana). Notable for fixing a real checkout/order-placement failure end-to-end by adding frontend submission guards and backend idempotency with Redis + Kafka deduplication, then validating impact via technical metrics and business KPIs. Has also built Kafka-based integrations/pipelines with robust retry/backfill/reconciliation patterns in retail and banking contexts.”

“Backend engineer who architected and owned a mission-critical outage management/decision-support platform, replacing a legacy system that failed under load. Emphasizes auditability, deterministic validation, and server-side concurrency controls (section locking, scoped autosaves), plus redundancy/load balancing and monitoring to keep the system stable for 24/7 operations handling 1,500+ weekly outage events.”

“Built a healthcare app backend and supporting product pieces from scratch for Maverick Health—covering database schema, API structure, Node.js implementation, and UI design in Figma—while targeting 10,000 patients and keeping AWS run costs to ~$20–$30/month. Shipped an Android closed beta on Google Play and handled real-world launch hurdles like privacy policy compliance and push notification infrastructure.”

“Backend/integration-focused engineer in the Maryland area with production experience building FastAPI REST services secured with OAuth2.1/JWT and reliability patterns (timeouts, selective retries, idempotency, centralized error handling). Has delivered AWS-integrated MuleSoft/CloudHub solutions and supported AWS Glue ETL workflows, plus demonstrated strong SQL tuning with a 30–40s to 3–5s performance improvement.”

“Software engineer/product owner who has led end-to-end delivery of AI and content-management platforms, including building RAG-based reliability improvements and migrating fragile systems to containerized AWS ECS/Kubernetes with Terraform-managed CI/CD. Experienced designing event-driven microservices (SQS/SNS/RabbitMQ), scaling queue consumers with autoscaling, and creating internal Python tooling to standardize data connectors (e.g., BigQuery/Airtable/internal APIs) to speed iteration.”

“Accenture engineer who owned an insurance e-application end-to-end and drove incremental releases that reduced recurring production issues. Also built a TypeScript/React (Next.js) + NestJS microservices platform using PostgreSQL, Redis, Stripe, and Kafka, with strong focus on decoupling, eventual consistency, and scaling consumers under load. Created a hackathon chat-based internal assistant that used live form context and documentation-grounded answers to help agents resolve customer queries during form filling.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an end-to-end real-time engineering dashboard for Medtronic robotic surgical systems, streaming high-frequency sensor/kinematic data via Python WebSockets to a React/TypeScript UI. Differentiates through performance/reliability practices (stable core vs experimental layer, observability, caching) and high-impact 3D visualization + session playback that became part of engineers' regular bench-testing workflows.”

“Software engineer/product owner experience at GE Healthcare, owning a patient records and claims workflow product end-to-end. Built React/TypeScript + Spring Boot systems with contract-driven APIs (OpenAPI) and operated Spring Boot microservices using RabbitMQ, focusing on reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs) and performance improvements driven by clinical feedback. Also created an internal monitoring/deployment dashboard that became the default tool for on-call and production support.”

“Full-stack engineer and ML assistant in UC Irvine’s CS department who deployed a lab project showcase platform and integrated on-demand execution of computational projects using Docker for isolation. Also built and optimized Linux cloud/cluster test automation for research, diagnosing RAM and network sync bottlenecks, and later led development of a Python-based predictive analytics tool for musicians using probabilistic graphical models and flexible data pipelines.”

“Software engineer experienced in e-commerce systems, building customer-facing features and internal operations tools with TypeScript/React frontends and Spring Boot microservices. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (order-tracking API improved from ~2s to <700ms) and strong event-driven reliability practices with RabbitMQ (idempotency, DLQs, retry/backoff), including resolving a production queue backlog incident. Built an ops dashboard with real-time cross-service order tracing that became a daily tool for support/ops and reduced escalations to engineering.”

“Built and productionized an internal LLM-powered search tool that helps engineers find the right SolidWorks macros using plain-English queries, using OpenAI embeddings and ChromaDB with strong logging/fallback safeguards. Experienced in diagnosing RAG/agentic workflow issues in real time and in hands-on API support, including fixing customer macros after SolidWorks version updates and driving adoption through reusable solutions and best practices.”

“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.”

“Engineering/IT leader with 12+ years of people management and deep ERP ecosystem experience, including SAP S/4HANA and large-scale integrations (APIs/EDI/e-commerce). Managed an 11-person cross-functional team supporting multiple business domains and led process improvements like support-cycle/ticketing and documentation, plus regression test automation strategy driven by business-critical prioritization.”

“Built and maintained a Node.js backend for a restaurant recommendation project that became widely reused by other students, effectively acting like an internal open-source library. Refactored a messy filtering system into modular query/validation/pagination utilities, added tests, and upgraded docs (JSDoc, README, demo app) to reduce repeat issues and make contributions easier. Comfortable owning end-to-end improvements (design, performance, documentation, and support) in unstructured environments.”

“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).”