Vetted Rate Limiting Professionals

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a gun-parts price tracking platform focused on accurate historical pricing and fast graph-ready APIs. Experienced migrating an Express backend to NestJS incrementally with parallel routing, feature flags, and careful data integrity controls, and has a security-focused approach to API design (JWT/OAuth, RBAC, row-level access via scoped queries).”

“LLM/agent builder who shipped a live consumer AI-agent app (kalpa.chat) that visualizes complex reasoning as interactive graphs and abstracts multi-provider model usage via a unified wallet. Professionally has applied LangChain/LangGraph to IVR parsing and to scaling a football video-generation pipeline at DAZN, including shipping a VAR-specific retrieval/order fix via SQL after iterating with a non-technical PM.”

Shivam Lahoti

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in TypeScript/React and microservices

Boston, USA2y exp

“Software engineer who built and owned an internal workflow automation + analytics platform end-to-end (TypeScript/React/Node) with a microservices, RabbitMQ-based async architecture. Drove adoption by shipping iterative prototypes and prioritizing reliability/performance (Redis caching, query optimization), delivering ~30–35% latency improvements and ~30–40% reduction in manual operational work.”

Shabari Vignesh

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and AI agents

Santa Clara, CA6y exp

“Data/Backend engineer who has owned end-to-end merchant analytics systems on AWS: orchestrated multi-source ingestion (FISERV/Shopify/Clover) with Step Functions/Lambda, enforced strong data quality gates, and served curated datasets via Redshift and a FastAPI layer. Also built an early-stage Merchant Insights AI agent that converts natural language questions into SQL using OpenAI models, with full CI/CD and observability.”

Larry Tuck

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO/VP) specializing in Healthcare IT, Security & Enterprise Integrations

Palmer, AK19y exp

“Candidate indicated they have an existing startup but have not raised capital. They expressed strong concerns about AI-enabled social engineering and ended the screening due to perceived irrelevance of the startup-focused questions to the job.”

“Early-career full-stack builder who created an AI interview-prep platform used by 200+ students, tested it with a 25-student study group, and earned recognition through the CUNY Startup accelerator, including prize money and local college adoption. Has also shipped compliance-sensitive AI products in healthcare marketing and operational tools like invoice approval systems, showing unusual breadth across AI, UX, and backend systems.”

“Software engineer who built JobIntel, an end-to-end Python ETL pipeline integrating ATS data from platforms like Greenhouse using Scrapy and FastAPI. Stands out for production reliability work: designing async fault-tolerant architecture, optimizing PostgreSQL write-heavy upserts, and building a Prometheus/Splunk observability stack that cut debugging from hours to minutes.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end fintech product, FinSight, for bank statement analysis and financial Q&A using a production-style RAG architecture. Stands out for combining FastAPI, OpenAI embeddings, FAISS, hybrid SQL/vector retrieval, and practical reliability work like chunking optimization, validation, and low-latency performance tuning.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup-style ownership across backend, frontend, and AI systems, spanning Java/Spring, React, Node/TypeScript, and LLM-powered retrieval. Shipped a workspace intelligence layer using LangChain, OpenAI, and Pinecone to paying customers, while also improving core product metrics like workspace creation success (+30%), latency (450ms to 280ms), and deployment cycle time (-40%).”

“Software engineer who has shipped both core web platform features (secure user authentication/profile management) and production LLM systems. Built an internal documentation knowledge assistant using a full RAG pipeline (OpenAI embeddings, vector DB, semantic search, reranking) with evaluation loops and a scalable document-ingestion pipeline for PDFs/FAQs, iterating based on metrics and user feedback.”

“Built ReflectlyAI, an AI-powered interview coach, implementing a low-latency Python/Flask backend with modular LLM/Whisper services, retries/fallbacks, caching/batching, and async/background processing. Demonstrates strong PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, composite indexes, selectinload) and multi-tenant isolation patterns (tenant-scoped schemas, tenant_id middleware), reporting ~50% response-time reduction.”

“Software engineer who built and open-sourced reusable React/Node.js modules (chat, auth, caching) from an AI education platform, emphasizing intuitive APIs and strong documentation. At TCS, improved a healthcare scheduling platform by diagnosing SQL/server bottlenecks and redesigning database + caching, cutting appointment load times by ~40% and reducing support complaints.”

“Software engineer with experience at Wipro Technologies and Wells Fargo building React-based SPAs, reusable component libraries, and developer documentation. Demonstrated strong performance engineering (React.memo, list virtualization, code splitting) with reported >50% rendering-time improvement, plus hands-on production support by diagnosing API outages via monitoring/logs and implementing traffic/server fixes. Comfortable leading workstreams in fast-changing environments using Kanban and tight stakeholder feedback loops.”

“Customer-facing technical professional with experience spanning engineering and product who advises on application security tradeoffs (threat modeling, API/auth risks, SOC2 mapping) and drives pragmatic remediation plans. Hands-on with Kubernetes/CI-CD agent integrations, secrets management, and log-driven troubleshooting; documented and escalated complex customer environment issues and reported a 40% reduction in bug reporting through workflow automation.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership in fast-moving environments: designed and shipped a pre-order/campaign inventory system (NestJS + Strapi + Datadog) that freed 34% warehouse space and reduced stock risk to ~5.7%. Also built rapid, high-impact logistics features (Spot Sales) that drove last-mile cost to ~0 in ~40 days, and has hands-on AWS/Terraform/CI-CD experience including deploying a global RAG system with Pinecone, Datadog, and PagerDuty.”

Daanesh Potnuri

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in API-driven microservices and cloud delivery

5y exp

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building a decentralized file-sharing dApp, bridging a React frontend with Ethereum smart contracts via Web3.js and integrating IPFS for decentralized storage. Demonstrates a rigorous, measurement-driven approach to performance optimization (profiling + benchmark/regression loop) and strong ownership in high-stakes environments, including Fircosoft sanctions platform optimization and rapid production hotfixes for user-impacting issues.”

Piyush Rajendra

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in production RAG systems and MLOps

Athens, GA4y exp

“Built and deployed a GPT-4 + Pinecone RAG system that lets users query large internal document collections with grounded, cited answers. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering (chunking experiments, hallucination controls, metadata recency boosting) plus production-minded evaluation/monitoring and performance tuning (rate-limit mitigation via pooling/batching). Also effective at translating complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders through prototypes and live demos, helping secure client sponsorship.”

Sravya Chunduri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM, NLP, and MLOps

Virginia, USA4y exp

“AI/ML Engineer with 3+ years of experience spanning RAG pipelines, MLOps, large-scale data workflow automation, and resilient Playwright-based UI automation. At Black Hawk Network and Wipro, they describe shipping production systems with strong observability and compliance controls, including reducing flaky automation failures from 30% to under 2% and automating 3+ TB/day reconciliation workflows.”

“Full-stack engineer with a strong builder mentality who has designed greenfield cloud-native ingestion platforms, customer-facing CAD/configuration tools for manufacturing automation, and self-service forecasting products. Particularly compelling is their ability to translate ambiguous workflows into robust systems spanning React, Node.js, shared TypeScript/Zod schemas, cloud queues, and even proprietary hardware runtimes.”

“Senior product leader who helped transform Submittable from a single-program grant tool into a multi-program impact platform, driving ARR from $20M to $70M+ while improving retention and margins. Particularly strong in enterprise platform strategy and human-centered AI, with a clear philosophy of using AI to augment expert judgment rather than replace it.”

Sai Chinthalapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack .NET Developer specializing in cloud and microservices

United States4y exp

“Software engineer with healthcare platform experience at CVS Health, focused on APIs, SQL performance, and distributed systems. Worked on a 5-6 engineer team building a healthcare simulation platform and drove API/query tuning and caching improvements that cut response times by 50% for real-time, high-volume telemetry workflows.”

“Founding engineer who built a multi-tenant AWS backend from scratch focused on ultra-fast, configuration-driven client onboarding and low operational cost. Automated tenant provisioning/deployments with Terraform + GitHub Actions (new client infra in ~13 minutes) and scaled to 62 production clients handling ~75k requests/day without a major rewrite. Hands-on with migrations (DynamoDB->MongoDB), reliability/observability, and performance tuning (indexes, Redis, queueing, connection management).”

Eric Guzman

Screened

Senior Solutions Architect specializing in MLOps and AI platform operations

New York, NY7y exp

“Audio/music editor and mixer with Symphony Space promotional work (e.g., Uptown Showdown, Selected Shorts), focused on shaping emotion and pacing through tempo automation, tension-building harmonic choices, and precise cut-to-music timing. Pro Tools certified (Institute of Audio Research) with hands-on mixing workflows across Logic, Reason, and Cubase, and experience iterating based on commercial/producer feedback.”