Vetted Nginx Professionals

Pallavi Thorat

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and AI systems

USA, USA3y exp

“Front-end engineer with strong experience building sophisticated, data-heavy financial dashboards for finance analysts and business stakeholders. Stands out for combining React/Next.js architecture, D3.js visualization, and browser-level performance tuning to deliver measurable impact, including ~40% operational efficiency improvement and ~35% lower session drop-off.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python REST APIs and PostgreSQL, plus AWS containerized deployments using CloudFormation, Jenkins CI/CD, and CloudWatch monitoring/autoscaling. Has built data validation/ETL-style workflows with schema/version checks and targeted reprocessing, modernized legacy batch processing into Java services with phased parallel migrations, and delivered measurable SQL performance gains (~50% query runtime reduction).”

Harshini Jaligama

Screened

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

Remote, USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer (5+ years with Java/Spring Boot and React) who has built and deployed AWS-based microservices platforms using Kafka for real-time rewards/promotions and large-scale telemetry analytics. Demonstrates hands-on scalability expertise (partitioning, consumer groups, durability/acks, idempotency) and production-minded delivery practices (CI/CD, Docker, testing, Swagger, monitoring).”

“Database/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of large-scale GCP data systems in financial services, including customer-facing SaaS investment products with strict SLAs. Stands out for leading an on-prem-to-GCP modernization using Spanner, AlloyDB, Bigtable, and BigQuery, and for building Terraform/Python automation that cut provisioning time by ~70% while improving reliability and self-service.”

“Runs two lean real estate companies remotely by building local on-the-ground contact networks and leveraging free-tier technology to keep total annual business costs under $100. Brings a cost-elimination and MVP/validation-first mindset, preferring to join an established company unless a clearly viable business idea emerges.”

“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.”

Tong Wu

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack SaaS and cloud systems

Ontario, Canada8y exp

“Built and owned Laserfiche's Schedule Custom Report platform end-to-end, spanning Angular frontend, backend orchestration, and production observability for an enterprise reporting workflow. Stands out for integrating multiple independent microservices with RabbitMQ-based event orchestration while also improving UX on complex migration tooling.”

“Software engineer with hands-on AWS operations experience who owned an end-to-end manufacturing image ingestion pipeline (on-prem to AWS S3) integrated with MES/WMS. In an early-stage SaaS internship, diagnosed a load bottleneck using K6/New Relic and shipped an NGINX least-connection load-balancing solution that scaled to ~4000 RPS while reducing latency. Also improved maintainability and performance in a React/Node e-commerce codebase, cutting page load time from ~10s to 2.8s.”

Daniel Jin

Screened

Intern Site Reliability Engineer specializing in Kubernetes, AWS, and observability

New York, NY1y exp

“Backend/data engineering candidate specializing in Python/Flask services and ML-enabled systems, deploying containerized workloads on AWS ECS/EKS with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and PostgreSQL performance tuning. Built multi-tenant architectures with row- and schema-level isolation and optimized a Kubernetes-based Airflow + Spark nightly ETL pipeline for an e-commerce client, improving performance by 250%+ and reliably beating morning reporting deadlines; also contributed to Apache Airflow (SQLAlchemy/PostgreSQL area).”

Aravind Mohan

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI agents and backend systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Backend/AI workflow engineer who built a production event-personalization service (FastAPI + AWS Lambda) and solved real-world reliability/latency issues with deterministic routing, caching, and query/index optimization. Also built an end-to-end Gmail-based job application tracking agent using a lightweight RAG pipeline with Gemini, strong guardrails (Pydantic schemas, confidence thresholds), and offline regression tests to prevent drift and hallucination-driven data corruption.”

Sanket Mungikar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend and AI analytics platforms

California, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

“Backend engineer who designed and evolved an AWS-based event-processing system in Python/PostgreSQL, achieving a 60% p95 latency reduction while improving reliability during traffic spikes. Led a zero-downtime migration from a monolithic Django app to FastAPI microservices using feature flags, strong testing, and cross-team coordination, with production-grade observability (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch) and security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

“Built a web-based online Sudoku game in JavaScript (multiplayer format supporting up to 6 teams with up to 5 players each) and demonstrates strong product/analytics orientation. Uses a KPI-driven approach (DAU/WAU, ARPU, session duration, LTV) and structured prioritization methods (MoSCoW, story mapping, cost of delay, DFV) to iterate toward targets; seeking a remote role around $70k/year.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on manufacturing/production-systems experience at Wallbox, improving the Supernova charger rework process by streamlining part-number/component updates. Strong in building modular Python/Flask services with clean integration layers (Cosmos DB, NetSuite, traceability/label printing), plus deep SQLAlchemy/Postgres performance tuning. Also brings scalable AI/ML integration and deployment experience (OpenAI/Hugging Face/TensorFlow Serving, Docker/FastAPI/Nginx) and multi-tenant schema isolation with RBAC.”

“Robotics software engineer who built a lightweight, ROS-free distributed control and telemetry stack for a Caltrans long-range culvert inspection robot. Strong in integrating heterogeneous hardware (UART motor controllers, Ethernet sensors, MJPEG cameras) and delivering real-time operator data via FastAPI/WebSockets, including reverse-engineering undocumented protocols and debugging network-induced latency with control-loop redesign.”

Sharan Raj Sivakumar

Screened

Senior Software Developer specializing in AI/ML automation and cloud-native systems

New York City, NY6y exp

“ML/MLOps practitioner who built production systems for telecom network analytics, including an automated labeling + multi-label Random Forest solution that cut labeling effort by 90% and sped up RCA. Led an Ericsson auto-deployment platform using Airflow, Azure IoT Hub, Docker, and Celery to orchestrate 120+ containerized ML/rule-based deployments, saving ~80 hours of setup per deployment.”

Alex Johnson

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in observability and developer tools

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Product-leaning full-stack engineer (65% product / 35% infra) who built core components of the LightFoot feature flag platform: end-to-end client/server SDKs with OpenTelemetry-based observability and a React+TypeScript UI for flag management and metrics dashboards. Strong focus on performance (memoization/lazy loading/caching), reliable API design, and Postgres modeling for read-heavy flag evaluation workloads, with AWS production experience (EC2/ECS/Lambda/API Gateway/VPC).”

“Former founding engineer and eventual CTO at 2Plus2 Partners (25 years ago) with additional experience in two private-equity-backed companies (apex analytix and HICX). Interested in helping build another company before retirement; comfortable with entrepreneurial risk but cannot self-fund significant capital.”

Apoorva Swaminathan Iyer

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in full-stack engineering and application security

Raleigh, NC3y exp

“Developer who has evolved into an AI-native builder, using Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and multi-agent workflows as collaborators while retaining ownership of architecture and code quality. At OpenPRA, they ramped quickly into NestJS from a Spring Boot background and implemented OAuth/JWT security; on the Aha quiz app, they effectively acted as a tech lead for AI agents across feature delivery, debugging, CI/CD, and Dockerization.”

“Entry-level backend engineer currently building AI infrastructure for a legal-tech product, including message APIs between frontend and LLMs and MCP-based integrations to enterprise legal systems. Stands out for owning backend components end-to-end in an ambiguous early-stage environment and for resolving a critical pre-demo bug under intense time pressure.”

“Backend engineer with experience at HSBC and Machinations who has delivered major production performance wins (cutting large trade-file upload times from ~13–15s to ~2s) using chunked parallel processing with strong reliability controls. Also built and shipped an applied AI RAG workflow using Langflow + Cohere embeddings + FAISS with hosted/local LLM fallbacks (Hugging Face, Ollama) and production-grade guardrails, observability, and evaluation.”

“Full-stack engineer who built BrewAI, a cloud-native AI resume optimization platform on GCP using React, TypeScript, LangChain, and Gemini, with scalable async job processing and LLM safety guardrails. The product gained real-world traction when an undergraduate college in India asked students to use it for internship resume drafting, and the candidate also has team lead experience shipping an early-stage ERP system.”

Chuangyu Xu

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java backend and distributed systems

New York, NY

“Built and shipped a production AI mock-interview platform where an LLM “interviewer” generates role-specific questions, runs multi-turn follow-ups, and outputs structured scoring/feedback using RAG. Demonstrates strong production-readiness practices (Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, retries/timeouts, fallback models/templates, schema validation, replay-based debugging) and achieved 99%+ availability with ~40% higher session completion. Also has experience integrating agents with messy SAP/ERP-style data sources using a data middleware layer, cleaning/validation, and idempotent write safeguards.”