Vetted OpenAI API Professionals

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused engineer with production ownership in multi-account AWS environments (GE) and EKS-based platforms (Lumeus.ai). Strong in incident response and reliability—diagnosed IAM-driven serverless failures (SQS/Lambda) and Kubernetes deployment issues (CrashLoopBackOff, memory pressure) with rollbacks, policy fixes, and improved monitoring. Built secure Jenkins CI/CD and delivered infrastructure via CloudFormation and Terraform for serverless and EKS stacks.”

“Built and productionized an AI NL-to-SQL capability inside legacy accounts receivable software (React + Spring Boot + Postgres/pgvector RAG), adding semantic caching and a SELECT-only validation layer to satisfy infosec. Achieved measurable impact (3 days to seconds turnaround, 60% token cost reduction, 50% latency reduction) with strong adoption (40 analysts, 50+ queries/week) and documented/monitored via Confluence + logging and user feedback loops.”

“Research Assistant at the University of Houston who built and live-deployed a production RAG system for 1000+ research documents, using hybrid retrieval (dense+BM25+RRF) with cross-encoder reranking and RAGAS-based evaluation; reported 66% MRR, 0.85+ faithfulness, and 68% lower LLM inference costs. Also built a deployed LangGraph multi-agent research system (Researcher/Critic/Writer) with tool integrations (Tavily, arXiv) and dual memory (ChromaDB + Neo4j), plus freelance automation work delivering a WhatsApp chatbot and n8n workflows for a wholesale clothing business.”

Ishaan Umesh Mandliya

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud-native systems

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“At BondiTech, built and deployed customer-facing backend improvements for enterprise dashboards handling 1M+ records, redesigning a .NET/Entity Framework API with server-side pagination/filtering and feature-flagged rollout to cut latency from ~15s to ~2s. Experienced integrating customer systems into existing APIs, including stabilizing a legacy CRM sync by normalizing inconsistent IDs, handling strict rate limits with batching, and adding DLQs plus reconciliation reporting.”

Alex D'Souza

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Researcher specializing in healthcare AI and security

Davis, CA2y exp

“Research-focused AI/ML candidate who built an fMRI-based classifier to predict schizophrenia treatment effectiveness under small-dataset constraints. Demonstrated pragmatic model selection by moving from a complex GNN to graph-summary feature engineering with logistic regression, significantly improving accuracy and AUC; primarily works in Google Colab with script-based workflows.”

sarah robert

Screened

Staff RPA & Automation Engineer specializing in Financial Services

Baton Rouge, LA11y exp

“Blue Prism RPA developer in a small FinTech-aligned team who owned ~20 production bots and drove both delivery and reliability. Built a shared VDI/locking design that cut infrastructure cost ~20–30% and routinely handled ServiceNow-driven production incidents end-to-end, including hotfixes and longer-term SDLC fixes. Also acted as a player-coach, training junior hires and maintaining high bot success rates (up to 99% within SLA).”

Upal Kundu

Screened

Junior Security Engineer specializing in cloud security and DevSecOps

Fort Worth, TX3y exp

“Candidate has hands-on experience building and debugging cloud-based backend workflows across AWS and GCP, including a remote desktop deployment for HP, email-to-Google-Sheets automation, and AI/voice backend testing. They stand out for practical infrastructure troubleshooting, API integration work, and lightweight LLM application development with attention to latency, cost, and operational stability.”

“Front-end engineer with hands-on ownership of a React/TypeScript workforce management platform used by site managers and field workers in the energy sector. Stands out for building scalable, reusable UI architecture for complex task/checklist workflows while also improving real-world usability and performance through pagination, bulk actions, and close feedback loops with operational users.”

“Early-career/new-grad candidate who built TrendScout AI, an evidence-first market intelligence agent that ingests messy news, extracts entities/events, builds a Neo4j knowledge graph, and answers questions via RAG with citations. Achieved ~95% retrieval relevance by combining ChromaDB semantic search with graph-based retrieval and validating outputs through human evaluation and guardrails to prevent hallucinations.”

“Full-stack and AI-focused builder who has shipped both customer-facing personalization at AT&T and internal LLM-powered automation/agent systems in startup environments. Stands out for combining TypeScript-heavy engineering rigor with practical AI orchestration, evaluation, and measurable business impact—from reducing support escalation through personalization to saving 10-11 hours per week by automating fragmented operational workflows.”

Shreya Kamath

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered web platforms

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with a strong blend of fintech and applied AI experience, having built a Stripe-based payments platform end to end and shipped an AI meeting intelligence system using LiveKit, Deepgram, and OpenAI. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can design reliable backend systems, productionize LLM features, and operate effectively in early-stage, ambiguous environments.”

“Backend engineer who optimized an AI-driven portfolio analytics/insights platform at Fidelity, addressing latency and traffic growth by moving services toward microservices, improving service communication, and tuning API/DB performance. Experienced scaling Python/FastAPI services with Docker + Kubernetes autoscaling, and strengthening security/privacy for sensitive client portfolio data used in LLM-based reporting.”

“Paystand engineer/intern who built a multi-agent LLM orchestration system (with logging/feedback loops) that became part of the team workflow and reportedly cut development time ~70%. Partnered with sales/product on enterprise demos and implemented a dynamic RBAC system that helped drive adoption of an intern-built product to multiple enterprise clients, contributing to seven-figure ARR. Also founded and pitched a student-entrepreneur business management/payments project (HustleHub) and won a university startup competition.”

“Full-stack engineer with financial services experience (Lincoln Financial) who owned a customer-facing financial portal end-to-end using TypeScript/React and Node/Express. Has hands-on microservices and RabbitMQ event-driven workflows, addressing scale issues like retries/duplicates with idempotency and traceable logging, and built an internal real-time ops/support dashboard to improve monitoring and incident response.”

“Backend-focused engineer who has built and refactored FastAPI services backed by MongoDB, emphasizing async concurrency, stateless design for horizontal scaling, and performance tuning via indexing and request-level timing. Has implemented production authentication patterns (JWT, SSO, OAuth2 + PKCE) and user/org-scoped access controls, and improved reliability of LLM document-extraction APIs with fallback mechanisms.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has built production Spring Boot APIs on AWS (JWT auth, Redis/MySQL) and solved a real-world silent data integrity issue by implementing idempotency keys plus DB constraints/transactions. Also shipped an LLM-based document Q&A feature using a RAG pipeline with evaluation + human review, and designed multi-step agent workflows with verification, retries, and escalation guardrails.”

Fatemeh Taghvaei

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer and Instructor specializing in deep learning, computer vision, and NLP

Chicago, IL2y exp

“Computer-vision practitioner and educator who built a real-time license plate recognition system (OpenCV/Python + KNN) optimized to run on a Raspberry Pi with camera integration. Also designs hands-on deep learning coursework, incorporating recent transformer-based vision research (Vision Transformers) into practical labs on real datasets.”

Sai Rahul Dasari

Screened

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

USA3y exp

“Built and deployed a production clinical claim validation RAG system at GE HealthCare that automated nurses’ patient-history/claims checks, cutting manual review time by ~65%. Designed the full stack (retrieval, embeddings, Pinecone, prompt/verification guardrails, FastAPI backend) with PHI-compliant anonymization via NER and orchestrated pipelines using Airflow, Azure ML Pipelines, and MLflow with drift monitoring.”

Gary Chang

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-first cloud-native systems

Los Angeles, CA9y exp

“End-to-end engineer who has productionized AI automation and RAG capabilities, building full-stack systems (React/Node/Redis/Postgres + vector DB) with evaluation-driven quality gates and monitoring. Reported ~60% reduction in manual ops time and major turnaround improvements, and has experience modernizing legacy systems safely via feature flags and parallel runs while working across product, data, and ops teams (System1).”

“Analytics professional with Intuit experience spanning modern data stack work, behavioral segmentation, and applied AI. They built dbt/Snowflake pipelines powering retention and churn dashboards, automated feedback classification with OpenAI/LangChain, and partnered closely with product and marketing teams to turn analytics into onboarding, targeting, and lifecycle messaging decisions.”

Will Long

Screened

Principal Gameplay Programmer specializing in game systems and cross-platform architecture

Remote, US16y exp

“Principal-level game engineer with deep Unity/C# systems experience who rebuilt a core procedural reels framework for long-term extensibility and partner-team adoption. Also stands out for early, hands-on AI/LLM gameplay work in a multiplayer text game, including NPC memory/personality systems, custom model deployment, and cost-scaled inference infrastructure, plus shipped VR RTS experience across Quest/Rift-era and mobile VR platforms.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building real-time operational products across banking, insurance, and startup e-commerce environments. They’ve owned features end-to-end—from React/TypeScript dashboards and Redux performance tuning to Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS Lambda, and production monitoring—and have also shipped 0→1 capabilities where business impact was immediate, such as reducing overselling through inventory visibility.”

“Built a production-grade LLM document processing and workflow orchestration platform at CBRE for internal operations teams, handling highly variable long-form documents with a reusable architecture involving 50+ coordinated LLM calls per request. Stands out for treating agentic systems like distributed backend infrastructure, with strong emphasis on evaluation, observability, reliability, and vendor-agnostic orchestration across Bedrock, Vertex AI, and OpenAI.”

“Built both a React/Supabase kanban product and CodeVoyage, a multi-agent platform for navigating large TypeScript/Node.js codebases. Stands out for being unusually rigorous about AI-assisted development: they quantify AI usage, manually verify generated code, and have firsthand experience debugging failures in persistence layers, retrieval quality, and long-context agent orchestration.”