Vetted Microservices Professionals

“Full-stack engineer with about 3 years of experience who is deeply hands-on with AI-assisted development and agentic systems. Built TubeAgent using LangChain, Ollama, FAISS, and Llama 3, and has demonstrated measurable impact by cutting review time by 90% and reducing deployment time from 30 minutes to under 5 minutes at NC State. Combines practical experimentation with strong architectural thinking around resilient, composable AI systems.”

“Built and owned core systems for VISTA, a VR drone training simulator in Unity/C#, including modular training scenarios, drone physics, restricted airspace logic, and dynamic weather-aware gameplay. Stands out for combining VR performance discipline on Meta Quest with realistic-yet-trainable flight controls and close collaboration with faculty SMEs to align the simulation with real training workflows.”

Bill Cheng

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms and AI systems

Remote, USA26y exp

“Entrepreneurial candidate building an LLC focused on applying AI to improve call center customer service, with an early go-to-market focus on local government call centers. They are already in discussions with a government prospect and have a clear thesis around solving high turnover and low knowledge retention through AI-assisted training and support systems.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has built AI-powered search and workflow systems in production, including a semantic resume-matching platform for recruiters and internal security data dashboards at ReliaQuest. Stands out for combining modern AI tooling with pragmatic reliability, performance tuning, and strong product intuition in ambiguous environments.”

“Backend/data engineer who has maintained high-traffic FastAPI microservices and delivered a hybrid AWS serverless+containers platform using Terraform and GitHub Actions, with secrets managed via Secrets Manager/SSM. Also led modernization of a mission-critical 10,000+ line SAS financial reporting engine into Python microservices and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines feeding a centralized data lake.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered grading platform that automates rubric-aligned scoring and feedback, with strong guardrails (RAG grounding, structured JSON, validation/retries) and operational rigor (metrics, drift monitoring). Experienced using CrewAI to orchestrate multi-agent workflows end-to-end and validating quality via gold-set benchmarking against human graders with regression testing on every prompt/model change.”

“Frontend engineer who led the end-to-end UI for an internal employee catalog tool at Genetec, building React/TypeScript dashboards with complex search filters. Emphasizes tight product-owner feedback loops (weekly demos), Figma-based design alignment, and disciplined delivery practices using CI/CD, automated tests, and version tagging for rollouts/reverts.”

“Backend-focused JavaScript/Node.js engineer with e-commerce domain depth from Decathlon, working on foundational microservices for order management, inventory, and fulfillment integrations. Led an infrastructure redesign and shipped a Shopify-based persistent cart experience, diagnosing early production issues via monitoring/log analysis and improving reliability through stronger session persistence and fault-tolerant architecture.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer in lending/financial services (Kotak Mahindra Bank Autos360; currently at Ally Financial) working on Spring Boot microservices with React dashboards. Has built reliability improvements for credit-bureau integrations (Experian) and created an internal monitoring/reporting platform that aggregates metrics/logs/ETL across services, cutting troubleshooting by ~40%.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience leading architecture and quality practices for React/Angular apps, including design system selection, code review/branching workflows, and Jest-based unit testing with a 100% coverage target. Built a React + TypeScript financial tool using Zustand/React-Redux, improved performance via lazy loading, and implemented input-sanitization utilities. Has managed fast-paced releases with Rally-based defect tracking and resolved a production deployment issue via rollback and YAML configuration fixes.”

“Open-source JavaScript library contributor/maintainer focused on performance and usability—uses profiling and user feedback to optimize large-dataset processing and modernize abstractions. Refactored a nested-callback event handling system into an observer-pattern dispatcher with batched event queues, reducing CPU usage and improving maintainability; also handles community-reported crashes by reproducing issues, fixing memory leaks, and updating docs.”

“Backend engineer/technical lead with experience building and operating real-time blockchain analytics systems at Merkle Science. Owned high-traffic Django/DRF services and Kafka streaming pipelines processing millions of events daily, with deep focus on performance (N+1 fixes, indexing, caching) and reliability (DLQs, retries, monitoring). Also led containerization and Kubernetes/GitOps-style CI/CD on Google Cloud, including a migration off Google App Engine to reduce cost and improve scalability.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owns policy-lifecycle workflow microservices built in Python/FastAPI with async + DDD, Kafka event processing, SQLAlchemy, JWT/RBAC, and Redis caching (cut DB load ~40%). Experienced deploying Java and Python microservices to Kubernetes with Helm and GitOps (ArgoCD) plus Jenkins/GitHub Actions pipelines to AWS/ECR, and has supported phased on-prem-to-cloud migrations with dependency mapping and data consistency strategies.”

“AI/ML Engineer who built a production RAG-based LLM system for insurance policy documents, turning thousands of messy PDFs into a searchable index using LangChain, Azure AI Search vectors, hybrid retrieval, and FastAPI. Strong focus on evaluation (MRR/precision@k/recall@k, REGAS) and performance optimization (vLLM), with prior clinical NLP experience using BERT-based NER validated on ground-truth datasets.”

“University hackathon finalist (2nd place) who built CareerSpark, a production-style multi-agent career guidance app in 24 hours using a hierarchical debate architecture with a moderator/judge agent. Has startup internship experience at LiveSpheres AI using LangChain for multi-LLM orchestration, and demonstrates a structured approach to testing/evaluation (golden sets, integration sims, latency/accuracy KPIs) plus strong non-technical stakeholder communication.”

“Built a secure, on-prem/private GPT assistant to replace manual SharePoint-style search across thousands of policies/SOPs/engineering docs, using a production RAG stack (LangChain/LangGraph, FAISS/Chroma, PyMuPDF+OCR, vLLM). Implemented layout-aware ingestion (including table-to-JSON) and a multi-agent retrieval/generation/verification workflow with strong observability and compliance guardrails, delivering ~70% reduction in search time.”

“Robotics engineer with hands-on experience scaling a multi-vendor heterogeneous warehouse robot fleet, building a distributed “traffic manager” for collision avoidance and real-time rerouting using CBS/MAPF and DCOP-style negotiation. Strong real-time/safety-critical systems background (RTOS, deterministic lock-free multithreading) plus modern perception and simulation tooling (CNN-LSTM/transformers, CARLA/Isaac Sim, VIO/GTSAM, camera-IMU calibration). Startup-oriented and comfortable moving quickly from prototype to production.”