Vetted Kotlin Professionals

“Frontend engineer with production experience at UWM and Ford.com, focused on complex UI architecture, dynamic form systems, and high-performance interactive experiences. Stands out for rebuilding problematic React/Redux patterns into reactive RxJS-driven architectures, with measurable wins like reducing an 8-second, 5,000-request widget to a fast, stable experience, and for also building advanced personal projects in Solid.js, mapping, and WebGL.”

“Backend engineer who has delivered large, measurable performance wins (10x throughput, 67% latency reduction) by combining Flask microservices, Redis caching, and AWS autoscaling/observability. Has hands-on depth in SQLAlchemy/Postgres optimization and production scaling pitfalls (cache consistency, connection exhaustion), plus experience deploying real-time ML inference (XGBoost) on AWS Lambda and building secure multi-tenant Kubernetes isolation.”

Prachika Agarwal

Screened

Senior Solutions Architect and Data Analyst specializing in cloud data platforms and experimentation

New York, NY4y exp

“Software engineer who built and scaled an internal automation/auditing tool for analyzing Google and Adobe tagging containers, adopted by 13 internal clients and saving ~15 hours per audit. Has experience shipping containerized, Kubernetes-orchestrated systems and integrating OpenAI APIs into an agentic chatbot feature (plus prior NLP chatbot work during a Cyber Peace Foundation internship).”

Nicholas Leytem

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in high-throughput retail data systems

Minneapolis, MN12y exp

“Software engineer at a global public growth company since 2015, with experience owning a legacy Java ETL analytics application and helping design and launch a Kotlin/Java data sourcing platform for customer order data. Brings hands-on experience across React, Spring Boot, AWS/Kubernetes deployment, and multi-database architectures, including an inventive pseudo-graph implementation in DynamoDB to support flexible document matching.”

Sri Lalitha

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

California, USA6y exp

“Backend engineer who owned a Python task management API with JWT auth, async notifications, and performance work (DB optimization/caching) to handle high volumes. Led an on-prem to Azure private cloud migration at Morgan Stanley using GitOps and IaC (Terraform/ARM) with phased rollout and rollback planning. Also built a Kafka real-time streaming pipeline with exactly-once/idempotent consumers and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.”

Rohit Vibhu Channananjundarya

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and full-stack platforms

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Engineer who treats AI as a force multiplier rather than a replacement for judgment, with hands-on experience using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Codex across planning, coding, testing, and review. Particularly notable for building a multi-agent PR review system that automated summarization, risk scanning, schema validation, and test suggestions, helping the team shift reviewer time toward architecture and business logic.”

“Senior engineering executive with 8+ years leading large-scale SaaS modernization across AI, compliance, ecommerce, streaming, IoT, and travel. Has led a 150+ global engineering org, modernized seven cloud-native platforms for a $400M business, and consolidated travel systems processing $1B+ annually while staying hands-on in architecture, incident response, and AI integration.”

“Financial-services software engineer with experience building both full-stack advisor tools and production AI features at Charles Schwab. They owned an automated portfolio rebalancing workflow and helped launch an LLM-powered reporting assistant that cut report-writing time by 70%, while maintaining compliance through strict tool use, evals, and mandatory human review.”

“Providing technical guidance to a small team exploring a biomedical startup focused on earlier disease detection, including for remote/underserved areas. The venture is in ideation with initial research completed and is moving toward prototyping while exploring initial investment/support.”

“Engineering Manager/player-coach leading Data Infrastructure, ML/DS, and AI Engineering pods who recently shipped multiple production agentic GenAI features. Built privacy-preserving LLM workflows (PII redaction via Microsoft Presidio) and drove an AI expense-approval agent from ambiguous ask to GA, cutting approval time from ~2.5 days to <4 hours with >85% accuracy. Also owned a major LLM cost overrun incident and implemented cost observability plus circuit breakers to prevent runaway agent loops.”

Harini Vinu

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, big data, and test automation

New York, United States1y exp

“Internship experience at Qualitest building and deploying an LLM-powered test automation system that reduced manual test creation and improved efficiency (~40%). Demonstrates strong production engineering for LLM systems (timeouts/retries/monitoring/caching, prompt optimization, batching) and has scaled workflows to 100+ concurrent jobs; also has orchestration experience with AWS Step Functions and Kubernetes.”

Supreet Purthpli

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience delivering end-to-end fintech features (Next.js/React/Node/Postgres on AWS) and measurable performance gains. Built and productionized an AI-native credit decisioning workflow combining LLMs, vector retrieval, and a rules engine with strong governance (bias checks, auditability, human-in-loop), improving precision and cutting underwriting turnaround time by 40%.”

“Full-stack developer who uses AI thoughtfully as a productivity multiplier rather than a substitute for engineering judgment. Built a stock search platform with React, Node.js, and MongoDB, and has experimented with multi-agent workflows across frontend, backend, debugging, and documentation while keeping rigorous human review over logic, testing, and maintainability.”

“Full-stack developer who built an end-to-end Hotel Management System using React and Spring Boot with MongoDB and AWS. Has hands-on experience debugging API/data-fetching issues with Postman and validating results against the database, plus exposure to handling large data workloads with chunking and monitoring via Grafana/Tabula.”

Weston Carpenter

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Technical/presales engineer with experience at Grubhub and Appen, spanning LLM-adjacent data labeling workflows and production AI troubleshooting. Built an integrations platform at Grubhub and has hands-on experience diagnosing prompt-related AI failures via Splunk, adding JUnit tests and logging to prevent recurrence. Known for shipping customer-specific workflow adaptations (e.g., OCR annotation coordinate transformations for crop/rotation) while keeping timelines intact through iterative delivery and parallelization.”

Akhilesh Babu Tumati

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native and AI-integrated systems

3y exp

“Built and deployed a Virginia Tech CS department blog/archive application using a MERN/Next.js stack and a fully serverless AWS architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, Route 53), including CI/CD via the Serverless Framework. Implemented RBAC for student/faculty/admin users and added an article export feature backed by MongoDB.”

Rami Jaloudi

Screened

Senior Applications Engineer specializing in legal technology and eDiscovery

New York, NY16y exp

“Early-stage founder candidate exploring an AI-enabled legal tech startup focused on document intelligence, secure workflows, and enterprise automation. Brings a rare blend of technical architecture fluency and product/business thinking, with clear firsthand insight into legal and document-heavy operational pain points.”

“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.”