Vetted MySQL Professionals

“Built AI-powered natural language search and summarization features for internal financial platforms at JPMorgan, with a strong focus on trust, compliance, auditability, and failure handling. Stands out for treating AI as one component in a larger enterprise system rather than a magic layer, and for combining hands-on LLM integration experience with thoughtful agent architecture and validation design.”

Kiran Kumar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and GenAI automation

USA4y exp

“Software engineer (4+ years) with hands-on production GenAI experience: built an AI incident triage assistant that summarizes production logs for on-call engineers and iterated it using real incident metrics (time-to-signal, triage duration). Also shipped a RAG-based customer support knowledge assistant using embeddings + vector retrieval with strong guardrails (relevance thresholds/abstain, sanitization, auditing) and a formal eval loop (500-query gold set) that drove measurable retrieval improvements.”

“Director-level Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Discover with roughly a decade in web application engineering leadership, focused on modernizing legacy banking platforms into cloud-native SPA architectures. Stands out for combining large-team people leadership with hands-on technical depth in architecture, debugging, and prototyping, including GenAI experimentation and high-scale customer-facing migrations.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping operational products in inventory and production management, spanning React/TypeScript frontends and Python, Node.js, and Java/Spring Boot backends. Particularly strong in making complex systems usable and reliable in production, including AI-powered anomaly detection with fallback logic, observability, and user-friendly alerting for non-technical operations teams.”

“Architecture leader from Disney who managed system, AI, and data architects while staying hands-on in solution design. Has experience building LLM-based video advertising products, designing Kafka-based real-time data architectures, and using MVP/POC approaches to align product and executive stakeholders.”

“Frontend/product engineer from IXL who built an AI workspace for teachers to generate, edit, and chain classroom resources using LLMs. They show unusual depth in browser fundamentals and rich-text/math UI work, including debugging a rare repaint issue and designing mixed text/LaTeX editing experiences for educators.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a customer-facing advanced performance metrics experience in the Amazon S3 console, spanning React UI, Python/Node services, Redshift/RDS data access, and AWS IaC/CI-CD with CloudWatch/Route53 operational readiness. Demonstrates strong production instincts around resilience (partial failures, multi-region inconsistencies), progressive rollouts/feature flags, and reliable ETL/integration patterns (idempotency, backfills, reconciliation).”

“Backend engineer with production experience on an AWS Lambda-based payment service (manually deployed) and hands-on modernization work using parallel-run + diffing to prove parity before cutover. Has practical production troubleshooting experience for batch/pipeline incidents using monitoring/logs and emphasizes idempotent rerunnable jobs for safe recovery; also improved GraphQL performance by refactoring overly broad queries.”

“Data/ML backend engineer with hands-on production experience spanning RAG services (LlamaIndex/OpenAI) and AWS data platforms. Has delivered Terraform-managed AWS architectures (Lambda + ECS Fargate) with secure secrets handling, built Glue-to-Redshift ETL with schema evolution controls, modernized SAS reporting into Python microservices, and achieved major Redshift query speedups (2+ hours to under 15 minutes).”

“Robotics software engineer who has built end-to-end pipelines spanning backend/data processing through model interfaces and hardware integration. Has hands-on ROS2 experience building Python nodes and debugging real-time behavior via profiling, publish-rate tuning, and latency fixes, plus experience standardizing multi-robot communication with QoS adjustments. Uses Gazebo simulation and Docker/CI/CD to catch integration issues early and speed iteration.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who built an end-to-end personalized chatbot service integrating Amazon Redshift context retrieval with Amazon Bedrock, including prompt construction and production-grade reliability controls. Strong platform experience deploying containerized services to Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD, plus hands-on Kafka streaming and phased infrastructure migration execution.”

“Search/backend engineer with hands-on experience improving Apache Solr-based search systems end-to-end (indexing strategy changes, ETL updates, and Java/Spring Boot Search API work). Demonstrated production rigor with QA partnership, A/B testing, and rollback-safe kill switches, plus measurable product impact (e.g., +1.5% add-to-cart) and operational troubleshooting including traffic/security mitigation.”

“Full stack engineer in the financial/thematic investing domain who built end-to-end applications on AWS. Notably redesigned a slow portfolio analytics workflow by offloading heavy computations to scheduled AWS Lambda jobs and caching results in DynamoDB (TTL), cutting API latency from ~5 seconds to under 300ms while supporting data-heavy daily market processing.”

“Enterprise Architecture leader with insurance domain experience (Farmers Insurance) who drove a multi-phase roadmap to modernize a siloed CRM landscape—migrating from legacy Siebel to Salesforce Financial Services Cloud with Customer 360, MDM, and omnichannel capabilities. Also led a high-impact architecture decision to implement offline billing to reduce customer-facing downtime, including complex SAP/on-prem-to-cloud integration and transaction sync.”

“Software engineer with experience at Striim and Amazon who ships end-to-end production systems across UI, backend, ML, and operations. Built a real-time PII detection capability for a streaming data platform by integrating Python ML inference into a Java monolith via gRPC sidecars, achieving ~3M events/hour throughput and ~93% accuracy, and helped drive enterprise adoption (Fiserv, CVS). Also modernized internal Amazon tooling for multi-region scale with modularization and fully automated deployments.”

“Live-service sports game economy/progression designer focused on Madden Ultimate Team player rewards. Owns OVR/power escalation planning, ability unlock cadence, and cost tuning, using Tableau telemetry plus MUT.GG sentiment/market pricing to iterate on metas and engagement. Drove year-over-year program lift by introducing temporary chemistry boosts, improved reward/progression structures, and a fan-vote program mechanic.”

“Backend/platform engineer with payroll domain depth who built high-volume payroll processing microservices (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis) on AWS Kubernetes and debugged major peak-cycle latency by redesigning transaction boundaries and moving to async Kafka processing (>50% latency reduction). Also shipped an LLM-powered HR assistant using RAG with strong security/guardrails (RBAC, PII masking, audit logs) that cut support tickets by 40%, and designed reliable multi-step agent workflows with retries, circuit breakers, and idempotency.”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer with PayPal experience building workflow-driven financial compliance systems (Python/Java, Postgres, AWS/EKS) at thousands of executions/day. Has shipped production LLM-powered document extraction with strict schema/rule validation, auditability, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, and has deep expertise in reliability (idempotency, locking, state machines) and Postgres performance tuning.”

“Backend/LLM engineer who built a production-critical Amazon Bedrock + RAG correction and compliance layer for employee communications, integrating tightly with existing Spring Boot/AWS microservices to reduce manual review while keeping outputs explainable and auditable. Also designed an event-driven system processing 10M+ events/day (SQS/Lambda/DynamoDB/Elasticsearch) and handled on-call incidents with strong observability and reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, hotspot mitigation).”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer with primary ownership in enterprise Linux and AWS/Azure production environments (including financial systems). Built secure, repeatable CI/CD pipelines deploying containerized workloads to EKS/ECS and implemented Terraform/CloudFormation IaC with drift detection and rollback practices; lacks direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience.”

“Backend/ML systems engineer with Stripe payments experience who built an asynchronous processing upgrade handling millions of API requests, cutting peak latency ~20–25% while preserving strict financial consistency via idempotency-safe retries and robust validation/fallbacks. Also built scalable ETL pipelines for messy CSV/Excel/API data with strong observability (structured logging/monitoring) and reliability mechanisms.”

“Data engineer with healthcare (CVS Health) experience who migrated production PySpark workloads to native BigQuery SQL and built a Great Expectations-based validation microservice on GKE (Flask + REST) integrated into Cloud Composer. Has operated high-volume pipelines (~300–400GB/day) and designed external vendor ingestion on AWS (Lambda/Step Functions/Glue) with schema-drift detection, alerting, and backfill-safe controls to protect downstream Snowflake/BigQuery tables.”

Lavanya Chilakalapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native web apps and APIs

Tampa, FL5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building microservice-based systems that integrate LLM workflows (code review suggestions, documentation generation, test scaffolding) using REST APIs, Celery/Redis, and OpenTelemetry for observability. Demonstrates hands-on database and performance optimization in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (bulk inserts, lock mitigation, cursor-based pagination) plus multi-tenant data isolation via tenant-aware models, middleware scoping, and schema/row-level strategies.”

Madhu Swetha Kommi

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and internal tools

1y exp

“Built an internal Meta tool (HiVA Bot) for notification customization and end-to-end task tracking around advertiser-reported issues, including chat-thread creation, org-hierarchy opt-ins, SLA reminders, and search/typeahead features. Implemented the system with a Java/Spring Boot microservices approach and asynchronous patterns, and supported adoption via internal wiki documentation.”