Vetted Node.js Professionals

“Built and owned Alight's AI-powered Search Summary feature end-to-end, using a RAG pipeline with OpenSearch and Bedrock, and drove a 20% increase in user feedback scores. Stands out for bringing rigorous production evaluation to LLM systems via live LLM-as-a-judge monitoring, and for experience with advanced agentic architectures, hybrid search, and reranking at scale.”

“Backend/product-minded engineer from Ramp with strong travel-tech experience, having built an end-to-end booking platform integrating multiple external providers, policy enforcement, and reporting infrastructure. They also shipped an LLM-powered personalization workflow using embeddings and Google Gemini that cut trip planning time by 22%, and demonstrated strong production reliability instincts through circuit breakers, health checks, and schema-driven normalization.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built end-to-end apps and internal tools spanning React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres. Stands out for pragmatic shipping under ambiguity, creating reusable platform primitives like a centralized notification API, and designing safe multi-tenant configurable dashboards with schema validation.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer who has built AI-heavy systems spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontends, Python/FastAPI backends, queues, databases, and workflow infrastructure. Stands out for combining strong technical depth with UX instincts—improving trust in AI assistants, shipping ambiguous client features quickly, and creating reusable primitives for AI generation and analysis products.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

Keyan Luo

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Intern-level software engineer specializing in backend and AI-powered applications

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Built a zero-to-one AI-powered resume tailoring platform as a personal project, owning everything from user problem discovery to frontend, backend, and AI agent architecture. Particularly strong in turning complex multi-agent AI workflows into a simple product experience for non-technical users, with a practical focus on output quality, validation, and rapid MVP iteration.”

Keerthi Pericherla

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech applications

Remote, USA5y exp

“Frontend engineer with HCL Tech experience building loan operations dashboards and React/TypeScript data-heavy interfaces. Stands out for combining maintainable component architecture with hands-on performance tuning, including a reported 30% load-time improvement in a production visualization-heavy application.”

PavanKumar Varkala

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-driven web applications

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Built and shipped an AI-driven operational workflow platform at Adobe that handled 12k+ monthly requests using React, Node.js, TypeScript, OpenAI APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, and RAG. Stands out for combining full-stack product ownership with production-grade LLM architecture, evals, and human-in-the-loop controls, delivering measurable gains including 38% higher accuracy and 40% less manual triage.”

Raymond Hunce

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

New York, NY5y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with 5+ years of professional experience across startups and Capital One, combining UI design instincts with hands-on React/TypeScript implementation. Has owned polished browser interfaces end-to-end, built custom analytics instrumentation with DynamoDB, and improved complex internal tooling by redesigning data-heavy workflows based on direct user feedback.”

“Built full-stack features for an AI healthcare copilot at Prompt Opinion, combining React/Next.js, Node/Express, PostgreSQL, and LLM/MCP integrations over FHIR-compliant patient data. Stands out for healthcare data interoperability knowledge, production ownership, and measurable impact, including scaling chatbot throughput and improving model response accuracy by 30% through better MCP tool architecture.”

PrabhjyotKaur Bamrah

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in enterprise apps and AI/ML

Redwood City, CA4y exp

“Engineer with experience scaling enterprise AI products in production, including a C3 AI deployment expanded from 2 to 4 sites across the US and Canada. Also built a GPT-4o-powered RAG assistant for plant operators, combining structured and unstructured data with human-in-the-loop safeguards and iterative evals to improve answer quality.”

“Frontend-focused product engineer with hands-on experience designing and shipping real-time dashboards and alerting systems in regulated domains like banking and healthcare. Has led both UX/design and implementation work, combining React/TypeScript and Angular frontend expertise with Kafka-driven event architectures, performance optimization, and production monitoring.”

“Frontend-focused product engineer with experience at IBM and Intel building internal enterprise platforms, especially incentive and employee operations workflows. They repeatedly describe owning both UX/design decisions and the React frontend implementation, with strong emphasis on reusable components, API integration, and shipping ambiguous workflow products into production.”

“Founding Principal Engineer/Head of Engineering at Amberflo (Seed $5M Homebrew; Series A Norwest) who built and shipped an AI Gateway + real-time LLM cost metering/pricing MVP end-to-end (control plane/data plane, AWS infra, CI/CD). Known for extremely fast MVP cycles (often 1–2 weeks), scaling teams (50–60 hires), and driving major pivots (usage-based billing to FinOps) by repurposing an existing metering/pricing platform; based in Chicago and has led a Silicon Valley startup remotely with frequent Bay Area travel.”

“Firmware architect/lead engineer for automotive LiDAR sensors, designing RTOS-based, layered firmware and solving high-throughput real-time constraints using DMA and lock-free buffering. Built ROS nodes to bridge embedded sensor output to higher-level perception (point clouds, diagnostics, configuration) while isolating real-time logic in firmware. Established an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline with GTest unit tests plus SIL/HIL automation and Dockerized build/test environments.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership of search and listing systems (React/TypeScript frontend with Node.js + Spring Boot backends), focused on shipping fast while managing risk via feature flags, testing, and metrics. Demonstrated measurable UX/performance wins (reduced latency and search abandonment) and built internal observability tooling (dashboard + alerts) that improved incident response. Experienced with microservices reliability patterns including idempotency and dead-letter queues.”

“Senior frontend engineer with experience leading high-impact React/TypeScript products at HelloFresh and CAA, including an A/B-tested onboarding flow shipped across multiple international brands. Modernized a legacy .NET frontend to Next.js using SSR and performance techniques (caching/memoization/lazy loading) and implemented robust testing/monitoring (Cypress, Honeycomb, GA) in fast-paced, production-deploy environments.”

“Development manager focused on developer productivity and platform enablement in a polyglot microservices environment. Drove ~50% productivity gains by evaluating and rolling out AI coding copilots with team training and cross-team demos, and designed a Disaster Recovery framework adopted by 50+ microservice teams. Also led edge-focused Python runtime optimization and relies on heavy test automation to safely execute large refactors during major platform upgrades.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong DevOps/AWS production experience who builds and operates multi-agent AI systems end-to-end (Streamlit/Python through Docker/Kubernetes and ECS/Fargate). Has delivered measurable outcomes: sub-2s latency and ~92% routing accuracy for an AI wellness assistant, shipped an AI-for-BI prototype in under 6 weeks cutting analysis time ~40%, and improved pipeline iteration speed ~35% via modularization and CI/regression checks.”

“Head of Robotics at Orbital Composites who built the full ROS-based software stack ("OrbOS") for multi-robot KUKA-arm 3D printing of carbon-fiber composite geometries. Deep in motion planning and real-time control—created a pipeline to turn underconstrained toolpaths into optimal joint trajectories at massive command scale, plus redundant safety gatekeeping and a 250Hz synchronized robot+extruder controller. Has operated in a technical-founder capacity for ~6 years and values an engineering culture of openness, honesty, accountability, and high ownership.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup experience who owned end-to-end features on Impact’s Hiring Solutions platform, including a hiring inbox spanning React UI and Postgres data models; the product helped drive 500+ jobs filled shortly after launch. Comfortable designing modern React/TypeScript + Node architectures (GraphQL, testing, migrations) and operating on AWS (RDS, EC2/Fargate, S3, Datadog, CircleCI). Also founded their own startup (Bibbr) and made early-stage stack/infrastructure decisions under high ambiguity.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building a distributed ticketing system on AWS (Terraform, Go, MySQL) focused on high-concurrency reliability (locks/queues to prevent duplicate ticket confirmations) and load-tested performance. Also independently owned and shipped an Airflow automation script to stop/restart workflows during deployments with email notifications, reducing manual operational effort.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech/trading domain experience (Fidelity) and startup SaaS CRM/billing platform work (Zoho), building real-time portfolio analytics and trade-processing systems. Strong in microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka/WebSockets), and AWS/Kubernetes operations with measurable performance gains (~34–35% latency reduction) and maintainability improvements (~40% faster deployments). Targeting a founding full-stack engineer role in NYC with meaningful equity.”

“Built and operated a production TypeScript backend for a stateful conversational quoting chatbot at Tringapps, orchestrating multi-step workflows and session state while integrating with Salesforce and NetSuite. Implemented validation/retry logic, modular architecture, and strong logging/observability to handle real-world edge cases and external API failures.”