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Vetted Node.js Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech backend systems
Principal AI Infrastructure Engineer specializing in distributed systems and streaming platforms
Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed payments and streaming systems
Mujahid Shaik
Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable FinTech and analytics platforms
“Senior full-stack engineer with 5 years of experience across Bank of America, AT&T, and NextAI/XAI, building cloud-native, high-availability products spanning React, Node, Java, Kotlin, Python, and AWS. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can own architecture, implementation, DevOps, and UX polish end-to-end—from a real-time loan eligibility platform handling 50,000+ daily requests to live event dashboards that improved operations and helped drive $250K in ARR.”
Arif Shaikh
Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-native platforms and distributed systems
“Engineering leader and hands-on architect from Sony Pictures Entertainment who has led large-scale platform modernization, digital supply chain delivery, and multiple GenAI/RAG initiatives in media and rights-management domains. Notable for combining people leadership with deep AWS/LLM architecture work, including a 1M+ record GenAI title search system and AI-driven contract insights that reportedly helped unlock a 20% revenue increase.”
Brian Sanders
Senior Backend Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and scalable data pipelines
“Backend/ML platform engineer from Snapsheet who owned production Python services and data pipelines for insurance claims, including an AI document classification/summarization FastAPI service on ECS/Fargate processing 1M+ documents/year. Strong in AWS infrastructure (Terraform, CI/CD, secrets/IAM, autoscaling), Glue/PySpark ETL with schema evolution controls, and legacy SAS-to-microservices modernization with safe, feature-flagged rollouts and measurable performance wins.”
Shahla Almasri-Hafez
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in mobile platforms and digital transformation
“Mobile engineering leader who built Glassdoor's mobile org from 5 to 35 engineers while overseeing both iOS and Android. Started as a lead iOS engineer at CVS Health, moved into management, and combines hands-on technical depth with org building, talent development, and customer-driven product prioritization.”
Christopher Kanten
Senior Backend Engineer specializing in Node.js, Java, and regulated SaaS platforms
“Built a production LLM-powered root cause analysis agent for supply chain alerts that helped operations managers avoid manual dashboard investigation. Demonstrates unusually strong depth in agent reliability, orchestration, and observability, with concrete production practices like hallucination blocking, shadow testing on 500 cases, and data-driven improvements that raised user agreement to 94% while cutting GPT-4 usage by 60%.”
Kishan H
Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Java microservices and cloud-native platforms
“Backend-focused engineer with Walmart Global Tech experience building shipment and seller workflow systems using Spring Boot, GraphQL, Kafka, and async processing. Stands out for improving bulk label API performance by 60-75%, designing item-level partial-failure workflows that improved user clarity, and also exploring AI-powered debugging/RCA platforms with Java, Python, LangChain, and LLM integrations.”
Christopher Chu
Senior Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud microservices
“Backend/data engineer with experience at Nike building high-volume order orchestration and validation APIs using FastAPI microservices on AWS EKS with Kafka, Redis, and Postgres. Strong in production reliability (timeouts/retries/idempotency), GitOps (Argo CD) + Terraform deployments, and data pipelines (AWS Glue/S3), with hands-on incident ownership and legacy modernization into API-driven services.”
Akhil Maram
Senior Data Engineer specializing in real-time data platforms and lakehouse architectures
“Senior, product-focused engineer who has built real-time customer-facing web applications and a microservices backend (TypeScript/React/Node) using RabbitMQ, MongoDB, and Redis. Demonstrates strong operational maturity (idempotency, tracing/observability, backpressure) and built an internal console that became the primary tool for debugging, replaying jobs, and managing system behavior.”
Dennis Noto
Executive Technology & Security Leader specializing in FinTech, AI platforms, and enterprise modernization
“Technology transformation leader who builds board-approved roadmaps and scales engineering orgs with strong Agile execution. Led large modernization efforts (e.g., Scottrade: 3,000 programs/4M LOC in 18 months) and scaled POCs into enterprise SaaS platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform for high-concurrency workloads.”
Arlo Purcell
Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms and distributed systems
“Software engineer with experience across early-stage startups and production full-stack systems, including migration work from a Go monolith to a Node.js backend and a clinical research application deployed on Kubernetes in AWS. Has worked across Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, SQL databases, and B2B SaaS data-streaming products.”
Alexander Schaab
Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in ADAS and software-defined vehicles
“Automotive technology leader who has driven ADAS/autonomous driving (L2++ to L4) and AI-assistance roadmaps for Mercedes and Volkswagen Group. In current role, built a software-defined vehicle organization from a handful of people to ~150 supporting VW, Porsche, and Audi, while setting scalable architecture foundations across brands and vehicle classes.”
Kusumita Dasgupta
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in data platforms, cloud systems, and LLM products
“Engineering leader/player-coach with recent hands-on work delivering an agentic AI MVP on Amazon Bedrock (conversational UI + supervisor agent routing between internal knowledge and external sources). Previously drove large-scale data platform cost optimization at Twitter, saving ~$3M–$5M annually, and has owned production incidents end-to-end with a focus on analytics/monitoring improvements and team coaching.”
Sanket Patel
Director-level Front-End Engineering Leader specializing in scalable web and mobile apps
“Amazon engineer/leader who drove a major modernization of the AWS Database Migration Service Console, migrating a monolithic UI to a micro-frontend architecture while improving performance, reliability, and engineering standards. Operates as a player-coach (80/20 hands-on/management), with demonstrated incident ownership and process improvements across Amazon and Walmart Labs.”
Chinedu Enwere
Mid Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend systems
“Engineering candidate deeply embedded in AI-native development, currently using tools like Cursor and Claude Code to generate most of their code and building internal agents for on-call monitoring, anomaly detection, and automated incident mitigation. Particularly interesting for teams exploring AI-first engineering workflows, multi-agent development setups, and operational automation at scale.”
Kishore Velchuri
Executive platform engineering leader specializing in multi-cloud SaaS and data platforms
“Senior engineering leader with a rare blend of deep platform/infrastructure expertise and large-scale people leadership, spanning hands-on cloud-native architecture through management of globally distributed organizations of up to roughly 180 engineers. Particularly strong in Kubernetes platform modernization, reliability engineering, and scaling high-throughput SaaS systems while aligning platform investments to customer and business outcomes.”
Xun He
Staff Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and security engineering
“Senior backend/infrastructure engineer with experience at Microsoft, DocuSign, Pinterest, and Harness, focused on security and developer productivity systems. Stands out for building Pinterest's first vulnerability management platform from scratch for a 100,000-EC2 production environment and driving major performance gains, while also delivering CI/Docker infrastructure and Python test intelligence features shaped by customer demand.”
Jim Reifsnyder-Smith
Executive Technology Leader and Senior Software Engineer specializing in SaaS platforms
“Engineering/product leader with repeated experience defining roadmaps and delivering platform migrations across SaaS and enterprise contexts. Scaled an education system from two districts to 2M+ students statewide, and led an Elasticsearch-based architecture for an internal Disney product serving ~100K employees. Known for rigorous execution (RAID/OKRs/sprints), strong stakeholder communication (weekly AI summaries), and empowering teams via end-to-end ownership and customer-connected development.”
Brett Potter
Director-level Blockchain Engineer specializing in smart contracts and Web3 infrastructure
“Technical leader with startup and venture experience who recently had a modest exit from a crypto protocol called Buck. Previously served as Technology Director at Launch Code Capital and has worked across multiple startups, bringing both operator and VC-side perspective.”
Jiayi Zhang
Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI automation for FinTech and logistics
“Full-stack product engineer focused on operational automation with AI in invoice, billing, and shipment workflows. Has shipped production systems using OpenAI APIs and AI agents that materially reduced manual work and cut bill transcription costs by 99%, while also improving UX through human-in-the-loop interfaces and performance tuning.”