Vetted OAuth Professionals

Bill Cheng

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms and AI systems

Remote, USA26y exp

“Entrepreneurial candidate building an LLC focused on applying AI to improve call center customer service, with an early go-to-market focus on local government call centers. They are already in discussions with a government prospect and have a clear thesis around solving high turnover and low knowledge retention through AI-assisted training and support systems.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer in lending/financial services (Kotak Mahindra Bank Autos360; currently at Ally Financial) working on Spring Boot microservices with React dashboards. Has built reliability improvements for credit-bureau integrations (Experian) and created an internal monitoring/reporting platform that aggregates metrics/logs/ETL across services, cutting troubleshooting by ~40%.”

“Backend engineer/technical lead with experience building and operating real-time blockchain analytics systems at Merkle Science. Owned high-traffic Django/DRF services and Kafka streaming pipelines processing millions of events daily, with deep focus on performance (N+1 fixes, indexing, caching) and reliability (DLQs, retries, monitoring). Also led containerization and Kubernetes/GitOps-style CI/CD on Google Cloud, including a migration off Google App Engine to reduce cost and improve scalability.”

Apurva Banka

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack & AI Engineer specializing in cloud, data platforms, and LLM automation

Houston, TX5y exp

“Software engineer/product builder who has owned an agentic affiliate lead-gen platform end-to-end (Django + React/TypeScript) and deployed it on Kubernetes in anticipation of 10x user growth from ~5K DAUs. Also has healthcare claims microservices experience using Kafka, including hands-on performance tuning to address consumer lag and broker pressure, and built an internal downtime alerting tool adopted across the organization.”

Asvad Shaik

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and NLP

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Backend engineer who built and migrated a large-scale document intelligence platform used by legal, healthcare, and insurance clients, processing millions of pages. Experienced moving from a monolithic, LLM-heavy approach to a modular FastAPI service architecture with ML classification + RAG, strong validation/auditability, and enterprise security (JWT/OAuth, RBAC, PostgreSQL RLS) with zero-downtime incremental rollouts.”

“Backend engineer who built and launched a warehouse locations/inventory microservice for Walmart, supporting a new product rollout with on-call war-room ownership and now running across all US distribution centers. Emphasizes reliability and correctness (background syncs, 2PC concepts, alerting) plus design-first API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth/JWT and RBAC, and has led staged legacy-to-microservice migrations with continuous data integrity verification.”

“Entry-level software engineer who built an agentic AI backend in Python/FastAPI, including APIs for conversation history retrieval and user data storage, and worked through async/concurrency challenges for multiple agents querying simultaneously. Also has practical AWS experience using S3 for static hosting with Lambda and RDS for backend/data access.”

“Frontend engineer with experience delivering complex, data-heavy React + TypeScript dashboards in financial services (Morgan Stanley), including React 18 migration and rigorous quality practices (~80% test coverage). Also improved an existing collaboration product (Heycollab) by reducing duplication and boosting performance ~30% using component modularization, API optimizations, code splitting, and virtualization; experienced with phased rollouts and feature flags for risk-sensitive releases.”

“Backend engineer who built and optimized a high-traffic e-commerce platform in Python/Flask, focusing on scalability and reliability through service decomposition, Redis caching, and Celery-based background processing. Also integrated an AI intent-classification chatbot as a separately deployable inference service on AWS and has hands-on experience designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies in PostgreSQL.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who ships AI-enabled products end-to-end: built CodeChat, a production internal codebase Q&A tool using RAG with Pinecone and a model-agnostic wrapper across OpenAI/Anthropic/AWS Bedrock, cutting AWS costs ~50% and latency ~45%. Also built and operated RealityStream, a Flask-based real-time forecasting API with JWT/RBAC, MLflow model versioning, and Prometheus/Grafana observability, including handling a real production latency incident via rollback, preloading, and caching.”

Siddhartha Alapati

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices and full-stack web apps

Denton, TX4y exp

“Software/full-stack engineer focused on deploying and integrating microservice applications into production AWS and hybrid cloud/on-prem industrial environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting by tracing intermittent user failures to network routing/packet loss caused by load balancer and NIC misconfiguration, then adding monitoring to prevent recurrence. Also delivers customer-specific Python extensions with strong validation, testing, and backward compatibility.”

Cia Hang

Screened

Executive IT and Operations leader specializing in digital transformation and security

Chicago, IL13y exp

“Candidate is very familiar with the venture capital and broader investment landscape, but is not interested in founding a company. They have worked with several TPG-backed or TPG-owned organizations, helping drive business scaling, cost reduction, and execution against investor governance requirements.”

“Backend engineer who architected and owned a mission-critical outage management/decision-support platform, replacing a legacy system that failed under load. Emphasizes auditability, deterministic validation, and server-side concurrency controls (section locking, scoped autosaves), plus redundancy/load balancing and monitoring to keep the system stable for 24/7 operations handling 1,500+ weekly outage events.”

“Backend/integration-focused engineer in the Maryland area with production experience building FastAPI REST services secured with OAuth2.1/JWT and reliability patterns (timeouts, selective retries, idempotency, centralized error handling). Has delivered AWS-integrated MuleSoft/CloudHub solutions and supported AWS Glue ETL workflows, plus demonstrated strong SQL tuning with a 30–40s to 3–5s performance improvement.”

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of on-prem OpenStack/VMware and Kubernetes clusters deployed via Kubespray, including OpenStack-integrated networking and Ceph-backed storage. Built a GitOps-style Terraform delivery model in GitLab with CI/CD and security scanning (SAST/DAST/Checkov), and operated a hybrid on-prem/AWS ecommerce architecture with PCI-segmented payment systems over site-to-site VPN.”