Vetted Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Professionals

“ML/NLP engineer currently working in NYC on a system that connects complex unstructured data sources to deliver personalized insights, using embeddings + vector DB retrieval and a RAG architecture (LangChain, Pinecone/OpenSearch). Strong focus on production constraints—especially low-latency retrieval—using FAISS/ANN, PCA, index partitioning, and Redis caching, plus PEFT fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA) and KPI/SLA-driven promotion to production.”

“Former PwC Director with hands-on early-stage venture experience (e.g., BridgeLights, a big-data analytics concept for early fintech) spanning concept creation, platform architecture, and go-to-market experimentation. Strong focus on building scalable, modular data platforms with rigorous governance/compliance (data lineage, quality controls) and supporting technical diligence in investor-aligned environments.”

“Data engineer/backend engineer who owns large-scale, real-time event pipelines on AWS end-to-end, including a petabyte-scale CDC ingestion flow from multiple Postgres DBs into Redshift. Re-architected a legacy DynamoDB+S3 approach into a Delta Lake + DuckDB/PyArrow-compatible design, improving performance dramatically (e.g., ~600s to ~10s for 1k records) and increasing reliability at high file volumes.”

Advitha Bawgi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

India1y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on IoT and AI product work: built a decoupled Raspberry Pi + AWS IoT Core weather monitoring backend and a Dockerized FastAPI LLM service on AWS ECS using OpenAI/HuggingFace with an emerging RAG layer. Also delivered measurable performance gains at DAZN by redesigning event-driven/serverless ingestion (SNS, S3->Lambda->DynamoDB), cutting latency ~30% and boosting throughput ~25% while automating ~90% of manual sync work.”

Prateek Patil

Screened

Engineering Leader specializing in Digital Health, AI, and Cloud Platforms

Santa Clara, CA16y exp

“Senior Engineering Manager at Roche leading two Scrum teams building internally shared (“inner-sourced”) tools and libraries for a healthcare enterprise. Has led security/compliance-first architecture decisions (e.g., Python AI modules running inside a Java container) and front-end modularization (Angular monorepo to module federation), with a strong focus on developer experience via automated Swagger/OpenAPI documentation and robust testing/versioning practices.”

Jahnavi Bellapukonda

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web and cloud systems

Remote, USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong data engineering and privacy-domain experience, having owned an automated Data Subject Rights (DSR) processing pipeline end-to-end across Azure SQL and GCP (GCS/BigQuery). Emphasizes production reliability via idempotency, validation checkpoints, structured logging/monitoring, and safe CI/CD-driven deployments, and has also built React+TypeScript + Node/Postgres web apps with scalable, maintainable architecture.”

“Built end-to-end financial workflow platforms at Citi spanning React frontends, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, and Oracle. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can modernize legacy systems into real-time architectures—the candidate cites a 48x throughput improvement from a batch-to-Kafka modernization effort.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built production LLM-enabled systems at PRGX, including an interpretable contract opportunity scoring engine (Bradley-Terry pairwise ranking) that reached 0.82 weighted Spearman agreement with SME auditors and was integrated into workflow. Also built a Duke student advisor chatbot and hardened it for real-world reliability/security with schema-driven tool calling, normalization, and off-domain defenses; led staged production rollouts with shadow testing and achieved 0.90 F1 on a new extraction field before shipping.”

“Backend engineer focused on Python/FastAPI microservices, with hands-on experience deploying to AWS (EKS/ECR) via Jenkins and GitOps-style workflows using ArgoCD. Has built and stabilized real-time Kafka payment-event streaming pipelines and improved production performance under peak load through Redis caching, SQL optimization, and robust retry/DLQ patterns. Also supported phased migrations from on-prem environments to AWS with gradual traffic shifting and monitoring.”

“Built a lightweight internal JavaScript analytics tracker capturing user interactions (clicks, page views, custom events) with debounced batching, automatic session tracking, and offline event caching via a localStorage-backed append-only queue. Demonstrates practical performance optimization mindset (profiling, memoization/caching) and React performance tuning.”

“Uber engineer who has owned internal products end-to-end across backend (Spring Boot microservices, MySQL) and frontend (React), including performance optimization and secure JWT-based auth. Also shipped a production internal RAG/embeddings LLM support assistant over policy docs and support tickets, with guardrails (confidence thresholds, human review) and an evaluation loop that directly reduced hallucinations.”

Ethan Lam

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in data platforms and full-stack development

Toronto, Ontario3y exp

“Software engineer with Warner Music Group experience owning and shipping analyst-facing data products (marketing/streaming data dashboards) end-to-end with high adoption through continuous stakeholder feedback. Also builds side projects with TypeScript/React and domain-driven API design, emphasizing flexibility (including swapping databases mid-development) and pragmatic microservices reliability patterns (logging, timeouts, retry backoff).”

Satwik Alla

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable APIs and real-time AI apps

United States of America3y exp

“Lead software engineer (3+ years) who built and scaled an AI product backend at Cosmo AGI from the ground up using FastAPI/Postgres/Redis/vector DB, targeting sub-200ms latency and supporting 1000+ active users. Strong in production-grade security and observability (OAuth/JWT, RBAC, Postgres RLS, Prometheus/Sentry), plus DevOps automation (Docker, GitHub Actions, blue-green deploys) with measurable impact on uptime, incidents, engagement, and deployment speed.”

SaiTeasmitha Kaja

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot and cloud microservices

Houston, TX4y exp

“Backend-focused Python/Flask engineer who has built authentication/profile services with clean modular architecture (blueprints + service layer) and tuned SQLAlchemy/Postgres for scale using indexing, query rewrites, and pagination. Has production-style integration experience for AI/ML via TensorFlow Serving and OpenAI APIs (batching, rate limiting, caching), plus multi-tenant data isolation and high-throughput background processing with Celery/Redis and idempotent jobs.”

Nirmal Attarde

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Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in backend microservices and cloud

3y exp

“Software engineer with Oracle experience deploying a BioCatch fraud-detection integration into HDFC Bank’s core banking platform, using phased rollout and real-time monitoring and reporting ~80% fraud reduction. Also built a modular speech-to-text product (VocalSense AI) achieving ~95% accuracy and has strong production incident response skills (15-minute recovery) plus AWS serverless API hardening for messy inputs.”

Chaitanya Prasad Reddy Narala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech risk and fraud systems

USA4y exp

“Senior AI/ML engineer focused on production LLM systems, combining RAG, fine-tuning, distributed training, and AI safety to ship scalable real-time moderation and conversational AI platforms. Stands out for pairing deep AWS/Kubernetes MLOps expertise with measurable impact: 40% lower latency/cost, 30-50% fewer hallucinations, and major reliability gains through observability and automation.”

“Robotics-focused candidate with multiple university robotics projects (MTE 380, MTE 544) and ROS 2 (Humble/Galactic) experience spanning perception, navigation, and simulation. Built a vision-based line-following and retrieval robot using HSV filtering and homography, and debugged real-time PID overshoot issues via timestamping/rate-limiting. Comfortable with distributed ROS 2 architectures (Python perception + C++ control), DDS/QoS, Gazebo testing, and Dockerized deployment.”

“Backend engineer at Goldman Sachs who deployed internal LLM-powered utilities to summarize operational logs/tickets, with a strong emphasis on data sensitivity and reliability. Built deterministic workflows with template-based prompts, confidence checks, and rule-based fallbacks, and used monitoring plus failure-rate metrics to tune performance; also has hands-on Temporal orchestration experience for resilient async backend jobs.”

Rajesh Nagula

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in real-time control and perception

Manchester, NH4y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on controls and motion planning for autonomous flight systems using ROS 2 (rclcpp), Gazebo/RViz, and BehaviorTree.CPP. Has hands-on real-time control experience (1ms loop rate) and has improved system performance by tracing latency issues and refactoring vision components (singleton camera init). Also built low-latency Ethernet/TCP comms on top of the IgH Ethernet stack and uses digital-twin simulation (Gazebo, MuJoCo; beginner Isaac Sim) to validate algorithms.”

Poojitha MaheshShyla

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Mid-level Java Backend Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Sunnyvale, CA5y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with Walmart experience building and operating high-volume media upload and processing systems. Strong in Java/Spring Boot, Postgres performance tuning (EXPLAIN/ANALYZE), and durable workflows using Kafka/Spring Batch with retries and idempotency, plus production ownership via monitoring and optimization; familiar with Next.js/TypeScript and modern React performance patterns.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong enterprise delivery experience across manufacturing and semiconductor use cases, owning deployments from discovery through post-launch support. Stands out for combining traditional product engineering with applied GenAI workflows and data pipeline reliability work, including a manufacturing app that reportedly saved a Fortune 500 customer about $6M and an AI chat panel adopted by 70% of pricing analysts.”

“Early-career candidate with a thoughtful, engineering-first approach to AI-assisted development: they use AI to accelerate implementation while retaining human ownership of architecture and final code quality. They recently built a speech-to-text workflow using Groq Whisper and showed practical judgment by designing around imperfect transcription accuracy with checks and fallback handling.”

“Built and deployed an enterprise GenAI knowledge assistant over thousands of internal PDFs/reports using a RAG stack (GPT-4 + Hugging Face embeddings + vector DB) to reduce manual search and SME escalations. Uses LangGraph/LangChain to orchestrate modular agent workflows with relevance filtering and fallback handling, and applies rigorous evaluation (golden datasets, edge cases, A/B tests) with production monitoring metrics.”

“AI/ML engineer currently at BlackRock who deployed an AI-powered sentiment analysis microservice into a task management platform to prioritize and escalate high-risk/frustrated tickets from free-text comments. Experienced running production microservices on AWS EKS with Docker/Kubernetes/Helm and provisioning infrastructure via Terraform, with strong MLOps rigor (MLflow evaluation pipelines, canary rollouts, and real-time monitoring) and cross-functional collaboration with product/operations.”