Vetted OpenAI API Professionals

Keyan Luo

Screened

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.”

PavanKumar Varkala

Screened

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.”

“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.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure, including real-time systems (Kafka/Postgres) and observability (Datadog). Built and productionized an AI-native RAG support assistant (OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone) with prompt/guardrail design, achieving 48% agent adoption and 30% faster responses. Experienced in legacy modernization and reliability work using feature flags, event/transaction replay, and rapid embedded delivery.”

“Built and productionized an internal LLM-powered document Q&A system at Morgan Stanley using a LangChain-based RAG pipeline (FAISS + OpenAI) with AWS ingestion (S3/Lambda), handling 100k+ pages and cutting lookup time ~35% while keeping responses under 3 seconds. Strong on reliability: automated evals/CI (pytest + GitHub Actions), CloudWatch monitoring, drift detection (prompt drift and fraud-model drift), and security controls (IAM + app-level authorization) in a financial-services environment.”

Sachin Reddy Kunta

Screened

Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in payments, fraud systems, and AI agent infrastructure

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Early-career engineer who owned an end-to-end objective assessment/coding contest platform at an edtech startup, using Postgres + S3 and Redis (queues + ZSET) to decouple and scale code submission processing with worker sandboxes. Also implemented idempotency controls and set up monitoring and CI/CD while the rest of the team focused on curriculum.”

“Built and shipped production LLM/RAG systems at Mayo Clinic, including a conversational AI assistant for patient pre-consultation and a clinical-trial matching tool for doctors. Implemented HIPAA-compliant de-identification and guardrails, plus real-time feedback logging and fine-tuning that improved response accuracy by 15% and reduced admin workload by 25%.”

“Recent graduate with internship experience at Bausch + Lomb building Copilot Studio HR chatbots that reduced HR time spent on repetitive inquiries. Strong focus on conversational flow design, prompt-based steering for predictability, and thorough technical/end-user documentation; also building a personal YouTube AI SEO analyzer.”

Jayanti Lahoti

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI and cloud-native systems

San Diego, USA2y exp

“Backend/systems-oriented engineer focused on building production-constrained LLM agent workflows that automate repetitive operator tasks via intent/entity extraction, retrieval grounding, and structured action recommendations with human-in-the-loop review. Emphasizes reliability through deterministic orchestration, strict tool/function schemas, observability, and disciplined evaluation/feedback loops, with strong experience handling messy multi-service operational data and idempotent execution.”

Cuichan Wu

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable, AI-powered web apps

Bettendorf, IA1y exp

“Frontend-leaning engineer with production React experience and hands-on Next.js App Router patterns (Server/Client Components, Route Handlers, caching/revalidate decisions). Has built internal sales dashboards and optimized both React UI performance and SQL Server-backed analytics queries, and previously created an onboarding framework at Adobe that evolved into a configurable, multi-team reusable platform in a lean environment.”

Mathew Martin

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and LLM applications

New York, USA4y exp

“LLM/agent builder with experience shipping production LLM features at an early-stage ed-tech mental wellness startup (conversation analysis + structured feedback via FastAPI, OpenAI API, Render, CI/CD). Also built a multi-step dining concierge agent using OpenSearch over Yelp data with fallback query relaxation, and has enterprise data engineering experience at Capgemini migrating databases to Snowflake with robust ETL normalization and data-quality handling.”

Ravi Ada

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in digital health platforms, cloud & AI, and FHIR/HL7 interoperability

Carrollton, TX22y exp

“Healthcare diagnostics/health tech founder building Casandra.ai, an API-driven lab test catalog and ordering platform designed to standardize fragmented test catalogs and integrate into provider workflows via FHIR. Bootstrapped and built a deploy-ready product, drawing on prior startup experience and accelerator participation (Health Box, DreamIt Ventures).”

Yash Rangucha

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and real-time streaming

Illinois, USA4y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end LLM-powered enterprise retrieval pipeline at ServiceNow, spanning ingestion of structured/semi-structured sources through vector retrieval and real-time API serving. Focused heavily on reliability and quality (multi-stage validation, monitoring, evaluation pipelines) while also driving performance improvements (~35% faster responses) via caching, async processing, and SQL/query optimization.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience across both classical ML and Generative AI, including a real-time banking fraud detection platform at Deloitte and a RAG-based cybersecurity threat analysis feature at Accenture. Stands out for owning systems end-to-end—from feature pipelines and model tuning through deployment, monitoring, retraining, and API/platform reliability—with measurable impact on fraud accuracy, false positives, and SOC analyst efficiency.”

“Built production-scale dashboards and real-time data systems across fintech and autonomous driving, with hands-on ownership from React frontend architecture through Python/Kafka/Elasticsearch backend pipelines. At Zoox, led development of an automated safety signal attribution platform that replaced manual engineering calculations and surfaced trends through dashboards.”

Yuchen Shen

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and graph-based applications

Sunnyvale, CA2y exp

“Front-end engineer with experience at Walmart and Sam's Club building sophisticated browser-based UIs, including an internal AI chat experience that combined chat, document rendering, editing, and visualization in one workflow. Stands out for pairing modular React/TypeScript architecture with hands-on browser performance debugging and Apollo/GraphQL optimization for highly interactive enterprise interfaces.”

“Full-stack product builder with strong GTM and applied AI experience, including end-to-end ownership of a production lead intelligence platform that combined React/TypeScript, Python services, external data enrichment, and LLM orchestration. Notably reduced SDR research time from 15-20 minutes to under 2 minutes per account and also drove an 8% revenue increase at Finding Pi by building a customer segmentation framework from analysis of 45k+ users.”

“Product-oriented startup operator with hands-on AI experience across chatbot UX, PRDs, and technical RAG pipeline design. They’ve worked across early-stage builds and portfolio-company product strategy, including improving engagement by 46% on an internal AI product through better workflows, content pipelines, and analytics-driven iteration.”