Vetted Microservices Professionals

Atharva Hankare

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and FinTech systems

Westford, MA2y exp

“Product-minded full-stack engineer/designer who has shipped both user-facing web experiences and infrastructure automation. Most notably built an AI support chat and escalation flow for a million-user insurance platform that cut ticket volume by 60%, and separately scoped and built an SRE agent for Kubernetes incident remediation in an ambiguous fast-moving environment.”

“Founding engineer who built a multi-tenant AWS backend from scratch focused on ultra-fast, configuration-driven client onboarding and low operational cost. Automated tenant provisioning/deployments with Terraform + GitHub Actions (new client infra in ~13 minutes) and scaled to 62 production clients handling ~75k requests/day without a major rewrite. Hands-on with migrations (DynamoDB->MongoDB), reliability/observability, and performance tuning (indexes, Redis, queueing, connection management).”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building real-time sensor telemetry platforms: FastAPI + PostgreSQL services with strong observability, plus AWS serverless and Glue-based ETL into Redshift. Has modernized legacy SAS pipelines into Python microservices and delivered measurable performance wins (Postgres query latency cut to <1 minute and ~60% DB CPU reduction) while owning incident response and reliability improvements.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience scaling a CVE processing platform by re-architecting it into a Kafka-based distributed system, boosting throughput to 200k+ records/min while designing for HA, deduplication, and fault tolerance. Also led a Flyway-driven migration affecting 15M+ records with staged dev→stage→prod rollout, and has implemented production security patterns (Auth0, OAuth2/HTTPS, AWS IAM RBAC) including least-privilege hardening.”

“Frontend engineer who co-built an AI-enabled marketing automation platform with multi-workspace tenancy, implementing database-scoped queries and RLS for isolation plus real-time UX (chat, voice transcription via Deepgram, autosave, Supabase Realtime). Emphasizes quality and speed through CI practices (linting/unit tests, planned Playwright) and has shipped fast iterations like Stripe prepaid card detection from overnight build through staged QA to production.”

“AI engineer at Cleveland Clinic building production LLM/NLP systems for radiology documentation, focused on HIPAA-aware, real-time performance across ~298 campuses. Re-architected infrastructure with AWS event-driven services to handle scaling and improved SLA compliance ~40%, and complements this with a personal multi-agent debate system (CrewAI) using local Llama/Mistral plus rigorous evaluation (A/B tests, red teaming, observability).”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built and operated event-driven microservices platforms (FastAPI/React/TypeScript, Kafka, Kubernetes) and internal DevOps tooling. Delivered measurable impact through user-feedback-driven iteration (WebSockets update mechanism cutting redundant API calls ~30%) and operational improvements (deployment monitoring dashboard reducing rollback time ~40%), with strong focus on reliability, observability, and data consistency at scale.”

“Software engineer and University of Chicago graduate teaching assistant who built a full-stack internal analytics dashboard (React/TypeScript + Node/Express) and worked in RabbitMQ-based microservices with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Also created an AI-powered ERD diagram generator (React + MermaidJS + OpenAI) adopted by students to save hours on database assignments, using validation loops to ensure valid Mermaid output.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who builds modular Flask services on AWS and specializes in performance/scalability work across data-heavy APIs. Has concrete wins in query optimization (1.5s to <200ms) and high-throughput async processing (Celery+Redis, ~40% throughput gain), plus experience serving scikit-learn text classification models via containerized REST services and designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned React/TypeScript + Spring Boot dashboard products end-to-end, including real-time performance/alerts and data aggregation across services. Strong in shipping MVPs quickly with feature flags, automated testing and CI/CD, and using monitoring/click-path analytics to prioritize work—achieved a 40% page-load reduction. Experienced operating microservices with RabbitMQ at scale, addressing retries/idempotency/observability and fixing duplicate-processing incidents with idempotent consumer patterns and DLQs.”

“Backend/DevX engineer with startup experience who built internal JavaScript SDKs for POS integrations, including a daily GMV calculation feature standardized across multiple POS providers. Strong in performance debugging (used Jaeger to resolve legacy WebSocket bottlenecks) and developer enablement—built a cronjob migration tool (ArgoWorkflow to internal platform) with documentation that let teams migrate in ~30 seconds, plus handled on-call and internal support.”

“Built and deployed an enterprise RAG application at Centene to help clinical teams retrieve insights from large internal policy document sets, cutting manual research by 30–40%. Implemented custom domain-adapted embeddings (SageMaker + BERT transfer learning) and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + Pinecone) to drive a 22% relevance lift, and ran the system in production on AWS EKS with CI/CD, MLflow, and Prometheus monitoring (99% uptime, ~40% latency reduction).”

“Python backend engineer who owned an end-to-end Django/DRF authentication and account-management module (JWT, RBAC, email verification) and optimized token validation performance. Has hands-on Kubernetes + Helm delivery with GitOps via ArgoCD (multi-environment app-of-apps, drift detection/rollback) and has supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration using staged testing and phased cutover. Also built and scaled a Kafka-based real-time user activity tracking pipeline with reliability and backpressure controls.”

“LLM solutions practitioner with SOC/alert-triage experience who takes LLM prototypes to production using RAG (Pinecone), FastAPI services, guardrails, CI/CD, monitoring, and robust fallback logic. Known for rapid real-time debugging of embedding/vector and agent workflow issues, and for driving adoption through code-first workshops and sales-aligned custom demos with measurable improvements (35% faster triage; 40% increase in correct tool usage).”

“Software engineer with healthcare domain experience (patient monitoring and provider systems) who improves reliability and performance in complex React/Flask applications. Led API standardization for shared internal React utilities using an RFC + deprecation strategy, and optimized a live WebSocket dashboard to handle 3000+ concurrent clinics while reducing client CPU usage. Strong in production debugging, data ingestion validation, and operational improvements like structured logging and alerting.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who owned a very large production estate (12 Power9 E980 frames and 400+ AIX 7.2 LPARs) with deep hands-on expertise in VIOS/vHMC, DLPAR, and PowerHA. Demonstrated strong incident response (zero-downtime DLPAR fix; split-brain prevention during storage failure) and modernization skills spanning Jenkins/Ansible CI/CD and Terraform automation for IBM Power Virtual Server/PowerVC.”

xavier mendez

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in React, PHP, and AWS

Dallas, TX2y exp

“Software engineer working on a benefits/deductions product, owning a fast-turnaround feature spanning multiple client/internal UI flows. Built a centralized service layer and a PHP validation pipeline supporting a React/TypeScript frontend, coordinated two other developers to deliver in parallel, and emphasized quality via test cases, documentation, and QC collaboration.”

Sabita Kumari

Screened

Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in LLM/RAG agentic systems

Boston, MA11y exp

“Built and deployed JobMatcher AI, an LLM-driven workflow automation product for job seekers that extracts requirements from job descriptions, matches to user skills, and generates tailored outreach. Demonstrated strong production engineering by cutting per-run cost ~70%, improving reliability with retries/backoff/fallbacks, and reducing hallucinations via schema validation and templating; also orchestrated the system with LangGraph plus Docker Compose across API, vector DB, and workers.”

Vivekananda Reddy

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java, React, and AWS

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on cloud-native microservices on AWS, owning Python/Flask ingestion services integrated with S3/Lambda and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD. Has led phased migrations from manually managed EC2 setups to automated CloudFormation + pipeline-driven releases, and designed event-driven near-real-time pipelines with idempotency, retry/backoff, and strong observability.”

“Data/analytics engineer focused on finance and e-commerce integrations, building end-to-end pipelines and services across Odoo, QuickBooks, Snowflake, and Tableau. Replaced a costly third-party Walmart connector with a serverless AWS Lambda pipeline deployed via Terraform/GitHub and monitored with CloudWatch/Datadog, and shipped a bi-directional Odoo↔QuickBooks invoice sync with distributed locking plus Slack-based finance approvals.”

“Built and shipped an AI-driven interview evaluation pipeline at SeekOut that automated recruiter screening via a multi-stage LLM agent workflow (.NET backend, RabbitMQ orchestration, Python workers). Emphasizes production-grade reliability (idempotency, retries, strict JSON/schema validation), strong observability with OpenTelemetry, and measurable efficiency gains including ~40% reduction in token usage/cost.”

Sai Nikhil Kanchukatla

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Golang microservices and IAM/SSO

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at DigitalOcean and BNY Mellon, specializing in secure, highly available authentication and API platforms. Built an enterprise SSO system integrating Okta via OIDC with resilience patterns (gRPC contracts, circuit breakers, Kafka) and strong encryption, and led a careful monolith-to-Golang microservices migration using shadow traffic, dual writes, and feature flags to preserve data integrity.”

Hy Serure

Screened

Executive Technology Leader & Architect specializing in enterprise digital transformation

Oakhurst, NJ29y exp

“Longtime S-Corp founder (20+ years) who evolved from running a web agency to becoming a Shopify expert contracted by agencies/brands to upskill teams and lead enterprise eCommerce builds. Recently built and launched a payment-links/QR-code web app in weeks that gained 20 users on day one without advertising; now looking to pivot toward building a scalable product business not tied to hourly contracting.”

Anay Dongre

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GenAI and LLM fine-tuning

Pomona, California1y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on hard real-time autonomy for legged robots, building a quadruped navigation stack that combines vision SLAM with MPC and maintains a deterministic 500Hz control loop. Deep performance optimization experience across CUDA (sub-2ms perception latency), ROS 2/DDS real-time tuning, and motion planning (cut 500ms spikes to sub-5ms). Also designed distributed ROS 2 + Zenoh communications between quadrupeds and aerial drones and validated robustness under lossy wireless conditions.”