Vetted Mocha Professionals

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI Python APIs and AWS-native platforms (Lambda/API Gateway, SQS, ECS Fargate) with Terraform + GitHub Actions CI/CD and strong reliability practices (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts, structured errors/logging). Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines (S3/RDS to curated S3/Athena) with schema evolution and data quality controls, modernized legacy processing via parallel-run validation and phased cutovers, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (seconds to <200ms) plus incident ownership for batch pipeline SLAs.”

Vigneshwari Shankiri

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

5y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led enterprise-scale UI delivery end-to-end on a microservices platform, designing modular Angular SPAs (v12-17) tightly aligned to Spring Boot REST APIs. Emphasizes quality and release velocity through layered testing (Karma/Jasmine), CI/CD automation (Jenkins/Azure DevOps), performance tuning with RxJS/lazy loading, and incremental rollouts with close product/design/QA collaboration.”

“Full-stack product engineer who owned a live-events digital ticketing platform end-to-end, including blockchain-based ticket validation and high-traffic booking flows. Stands out for combining Angular/React frontend work with Java/Spring Boot backend architecture, plus strong production reliability practices around concurrency control, queues, observability, and UX optimization.”

“Built and launched an internal AI troubleshooting assistant focused on safe, retrieval-first root cause analysis for enterprise systems, with strong attention to monitoring, fallback behavior, and post-launch iteration. Also owns full-stack product work across React and Java/Spring Boot, including high-volume financial operations workflows, and reports measurable LLM improvements such as ~30-40% latency reduction.”

“ML/AI practitioner in healthcare (Syneos Health) who has deployed production clinical NLP and risk models. Built a BERT-based physician-note information extraction system on Docker + AWS SageMaker (reported ~42% retrieval improvement) and automated retraining/deployment with Airflow and drift detection, while partnering closely with clinicians to drive adoption (reported ~18% readmission reduction).”

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an internal analytics dashboard for sales (React/TypeScript + Node/Express + NoSQL), delivering it two weeks early with zero production issues and a reported 10% sales-efficiency lift. Experienced with microservices and async messaging patterns (retries/DLQs/idempotency), and emphasizes rapid iteration with strong CI/CD and automated testing plus user-driven adoption.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built a Spring Boot timesheet API on AWS (Postgres, Docker, Nginx) used by hundreds of daily users and resolved severe deadline-driven latency/5XX incidents via query optimization, connection pool tuning, and Redis caching. Also shipped application-layer LLM features (Mistral + LangChain chatbot) and designed a Planner/Executor/Verifier troubleshooting agent with verification-based guardrails to prevent hallucinated root-cause analyses.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with production experience in both healthcare (claims enrichment/interoperability at Abacus) and finance (Goldman Sachs pricing/risk APIs + React dashboards). Built an event-driven AI grading platform using Postgres Debezium CDC + Kafka + FastAPI on AWS that cut manual grading ~70% and served 1000+ students, with strong emphasis on reliability, testing, and performance tuning.”

“Software engineer with payments-domain experience (Visa) building real-time transaction monitoring and analytics systems. Strong end-to-end ownership across Spring Boot/Kafka microservices, PostgreSQL modeling, and AWS/Kubernetes operations, plus React+TypeScript dashboards—focused on low-latency processing, secure APIs, and zero-downtime production releases.”

Danilo Plazas

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Frontend (React/JavaScript)

Vancouver, Canada10y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer with full-stack experience who modernized a legacy HR platform (CoffeeScript/Marionette) by migrating key UIs to React/Redux and adding TypeScript for robustness. Built an internal client monitoring tool end-to-end with a microservices-oriented approach and strong testing practices (Jest/Selenium), and also led a major GraphQL v1→v2 migration delivered incrementally over ~6 weeks while optimizing Django/MySQL/DynamoDB performance.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has built and scaled production Java/Spring Boot + Kafka services on AWS/Kubernetes (1M+ msgs/day) and led reliability/performance fixes that restored SLAs (25–30% latency improvement; 99.9% uptime). Also shipped an AI customer-support chatbot end-to-end using retrieval + guardrails and rigorous evaluation/observability, improving resolution time 40% and satisfaction 25%, with a strong plan/execute/verify approach to agentic workflow reliability.”

“Backend engineer who built an e-commerce order processing service in Python/Flask with PostgreSQL, focusing on correctness and reliability (idempotency, Redis locks, async payment processing with circuit breakers). Also integrated an ML recommendation system as a separate FastAPI inference service with caching and async embedding updates, reporting ~25% CTR lift, and has experience with multi-tenant isolation using PostgreSQL row-level security.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned end-to-end production systems in financial/claims domains, including a transaction analytics microservice platform processing ~10M daily operations and cutting latency from ~150ms to <70ms. Also productionized an LLM-powered monitoring/alerting capability (Llama 3 + FastAPI) with prompt design, guardrails, and production evaluation, and led monolith-to-microservices modernization on AWS using feature flags and parallel runs.”

Jaideep bommidi

Screened

Senior ML Engineer & Data Scientist specializing in LLM agents, retrieval/ranking, and MLOps

Denton, TX8y exp

“Machine Learning Engineer currently at Webster Bank building an enterprise-scale LLM agent for Temenos Journey Manager/Maestro, using RAG-style multi-stage retrieval with FAISS/Pinecone, hybrid dense+sparse search, and LoRA fine-tuning optimized via NDCG/MAP and A/B testing. Previously handled messy incident/telemetry data at Deuta Werke GmbH with deterministic + fuzzy entity resolution, and has strong production data engineering experience across Spark/Hadoop and Python ETL systems.”

“Data/analytics-focused engineer who builds end-to-end KPI reporting and validation products used daily by plant leads and leadership to track yield, downtime, and defects. Combines Python/SQL + Power BI data pipelines with strong data-quality practices (automated validation, monitoring/alerts) and has experience designing scalable frontend architecture in TypeScript/React and working in distributed/microservices-style data systems.”

“Backend engineer with TaskRabbit experience building and operating payment/booking services in Python/Django on AWS (ECS + Lambda) with Kafka/SQS eventing. Demonstrates strong production reliability and incident ownership in high-stakes payment flows (idempotency, strict timeouts, retries, monitoring/alerting) plus data/ETL work in AWS Glue and measurable SQL performance wins.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an internal user-activity tracking and reporting system end-to-end using React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres, deployed on AWS (EC2/ALB, S3/CloudFront) with CloudWatch observability. Emphasizes reliability and data correctness via idempotent ingestion, retries with exponential backoff, backfills/reconciliation, and performance tuning as data scales, and has experience shipping quickly in ambiguous early-stage startup conditions.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across GCP and AWS: built FastAPI microservices on Cloud Run and delivered AWS Lambda + ECS Fargate systems with Terraform/GitHub Actions. Strong in data engineering (Glue/Spark, S3/Redshift) and modernization (SAS to Python/SQL), with proven reliability and incident ownership—including cutting a 20+ minute reporting query to under 2 minutes.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a policy management and notifications platform end-to-end: Java/Spring Boot microservices with PostgreSQL plus a React/Redux UI, deployed on AWS with Docker and Jenkins CI/CD. Demonstrates strong real-world scaling and reliability practices (Redis caching, Kafka, query/index tuning, ACID transactions, locking, and idempotent processing) to handle high-volume concurrent workloads.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Vanguard, PNC, and Humana building customer-facing investment/banking flows and internal ops tools using Angular/React/TypeScript with Spring Boot microservices. Strong in shipping time-sensitive changes safely via automated testing/CI (JUnit/Mockito, Jenkins, SonarQube) and in operating event-driven microservices with Kafka (idempotency, retries, correlation IDs). Improved internal tool adoption by responding to ops/support feedback with query optimization and clearer search results.”

“Platform-minded JavaScript/TypeScript engineer who has maintained and evolved shared NPM-distributed libraries at Capital One and HCA Healthcare, treating internal packages like open source (issue triage, PR reviews, roadmap, docs). Known for methodical debugging and performance work—e.g., diagnosing latency spikes via load testing/instrumentation and redesigning middleware to avoid redundant parsing—paired with strong developer enablement through examples and migration notes.”

“Backend-leaning product engineer with DevSecOps depth who has shipped real-time, Kafka-driven data pipelines and AI-enabled customer-facing features to production on AWS. Built a Spring Boot API layer serving real-time predictions at 100K+ requests/day, improving latency by 35% and user task completion by ~25%, and delivered a React/TypeScript dashboard plus a Postgres audit/history model optimized for search and large event volumes.”

Sanket Dumbare

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech platforms

USA3y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who led an end-to-end Python (FastAPI) transaction analytics microservice for real-time financial monitoring, including SQS ingestion, scoring/aggregation, and low-latency APIs. Strong AWS + Kubernetes/GitOps background (EKS, ArgoCD, Jenkins, ECS/ECR, CloudWatch) with hands-on experience scaling event-driven systems and executing phased on-prem to AWS migrations.”