Vetted React Professionals

Benjamin Kozel

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning & Software Engineer specializing in RAG systems and ML infrastructure

Atlanta, GA4y exp

“Built and deployed an in-house RAG LLM system ("MONTY") using LLaMA 3B + FAISS to help teams quickly understand long internal/external specifications. Delivered usable production performance despite severe compute limits (single RTX 3080) by tuning retrieval/reranking and model choice, and is planning a LightRAG/knowledge-graph rewrite to improve accuracy and latency.”

Shuju Sun

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in real-time data pipelines and ML deployment

PA, USA4y exp

“Ticketmaster data engineer who built CDC-driven Kafka pipelines feeding Snowflake for analytics and data science teams. Hands-on in production operations—scaled Kafka during sudden playoff-driven transaction spikes and improved monitoring for preemptive scaling. Known for using small-batch experiments and quantitative metrics to align stakeholders and drive cost-saving architecture changes (e.g., buffering to reduce AWS Lambda invocation frequency).”

Ruturaj Ghatage

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack, cloud infrastructure, and applied AI

Herndon, Virginia2y exp

“Master’s student at UC San Diego who built an LLM-powered healthcare chatbot for patient history-taking and sepsis-related output, using a Node.js backend integrated with FastAPI for RAG/LLM interactions and a Flutter client. Also has healthcare AI startup experience deploying on AWS (ECS/Terraform/Docker) and implementing Kubernetes autoscaling to improve efficiency and reduce costs, with strong iterative evaluation in collaboration with a physician.”

“Second most active contributor at Daice Labs, owning a production AI-powered software development collaboration platform’s end-to-end execution infrastructure (TypeScript/Next.js backend, Node.js CLI, shared libs). Built the full multi-agent pipeline (planning/codegen/summary), Supabase-backed context assembly and realtime state, Git/GitHub automation, and a provider-agnostic LLM abstraction with strict Zod validation and retries, backed by extensive tests and design specs.”

“Building a confidential startup in the software security space (no capital raised yet). Has been learning the VC/accelerator landscape through a network of founders and independent research, with a focus on investor readiness and relationship-driven access to VCs. Motivated to found due to repeated layoffs and late-stage hiring pauses, seeking more control while prioritizing family financial stability.”

William Elderton

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in FinTech, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Austin, TX26y exp

“Seasoned operator with 30 years of experience at multiple startup companies, primarily in venture-backed environments, plus some exposure to private equity-backed firms. The candidate is highly familiar with the VC and accelerator ecosystem, though they clarified they were pursuing a CTO role rather than actively planning to found a startup.”

“Frontend developer/designer who built an in-house real estate dashboard for Okhara & Company, owning the flow from Figma design through React implementation and production iteration. Worked in a small team environment, focused on turning complex backend outputs into usable, polished interfaces with responsive design, PWA support, and performance optimizations.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production document intelligence and GenAI systems, spanning model experimentation, AWS deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for turning document-heavy workflows into reliable, near real-time products with measurable gains in accuracy, latency, and manual-effort reduction, while also shipping citation-grounded RAG features that drove user trust and adoption.”

Harsh Sanas

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI systems and cloud applications

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with a strong applied AI bent who has built both a real-time EV charging platform and a production text-to-SQL system. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can bridge frontend, backend, infrastructure, and LLM evaluation/safety work, with experience shipping under early-stage ambiguity and integrating software with real-world hardware.”

“Backend engineer who built and iterated a secure, multi-tenant RAG system over a large document corpus, emphasizing strict RBAC/ACL isolation, hybrid retrieval (vector+keyword), reranking, and strong observability to balance relevance, latency, and cost. Also led production refactors/migrations using strangler + feature flags/dual writes and has experience catching subtle real-world failure modes (including in a sensor calibration optimization pipeline).”

“Backend/data engineer from ASML who modernized a legacy SAS-based statistical processing system into a cloud-native AWS platform (Lambda/FastAPI, Step Functions/EventBridge, Glue, S3/RDS) with strong reliability and data-quality practices. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (RDS query reduced from 90+ seconds to <5 seconds) and hands-on incident ownership for production ETL pipelines.”

“Amazon experience integrating LLM-powered chat automation into Amazon Connect contact-center workflows, taking prototypes to production with compliance-minded guardrails, schema/policy validation, and robust fallbacks. Regularly supports rollout and adoption via developer workshops, integration guides, and customer calls, with strong production triage and observability practices.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Amazon building an API-driven service (APS) for large-scale prompt optimization jobs using AWS Step Functions, Batch/Fargate, DynamoDB, and S3, emphasizing idempotency, observability, and secure execution boundaries. Also led a multi-tenant enterprise policy/configuration backend refactor at MAMIT Cyber with versioned schemas, shadow writes, feature-flagged rollout, and PostgreSQL RLS-based tenant isolation.”

“AI-native software engineer who uses agentic development as a core workflow, including a three-agent setup for planning, validation, and implementation. In their most recent role, they acted as the lead orchestrator for AI agents, with a strong emphasis on production safety, architectural control, and rigorous validation.”

Hansraj Pabbati

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/LLM systems and cloud backend platforms

Remote, CA8y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end AI-powered natural-language-to-SQL deployment within Oracle OCI/Autonomous Database, including enrichment pipelines, RAG-based retrieval, SQL generation APIs, and post-launch monitoring. Stands out for combining LLM production engineering with strong guardrails, stakeholder management, and operational rigor around accuracy, latency, hallucination mitigation, and reliability.”

Nilesh Dixit

Screened

Executive AI engineering leader specializing in agentic AI and enterprise platforms

San Francisco, CA24y exp

“Bay Area engineering leader and startup co-founder with a rare mix of deep hands-on architecture experience, large-scale people leadership, and cross-functional product ownership. He helped launch GE Digital's industrial IoT efforts, holds multiple patents in the space, has scaled teams to 60-70 people, and has led both enterprise platform modernization and AI startup product development.”

“Healthcare-focused full-stack/platform engineer with recent hands-on experience in Go, React, Python, Kubernetes, and AWS. They have worked in high-reliability, compliance-heavy environments, driving infrastructure modernization, internal operational tooling, and observability improvements that reduced troubleshooting friction for clinician platform and support teams.”

“SRE-focused engineer with experience at Sony Interactive Entertainment productionizing high-throughput LLM/agentic systems on Kubernetes, including GPU-aware autoscaling and warm-pool strategies to manage latency and cost under traffic spikes. Demonstrates strong incident response using Prometheus/Grafana + Jaeger tracing (e.g., resolving recursive agent loops and restoring 99.9% availability within minutes) and partners closely with sales/customer teams through PoV demos and developer workshops.”

“Backend engineer from Palantir who built and productionized an enterprise LLM-based document intelligence/search platform, evolving it into a hybrid lexical+vector retrieval system. Emphasizes reliability and cost control via strict LLM gating, robust fallback paths, and evaluation frameworks (e.g., MMLU/BLEU), plus disciplined migration practices (feature flags, dual-writes, shadow reads) to ship changes safely at scale.”

“Robotics software engineer with extensive ROS2 experience building and integrating full autonomous navigation stacks (sensor fusion, ICP/occupancy-grid mapping, planning). Hands-on computer vision work for drones, including monocular depth-from-RGB pipelines (Open3D/OpenCV) and model swaps to improve low-light performance. Also experienced in multi-drone coordination with Crazyswarm2 and Vicon-based state estimation, plus Gazebo simulation for TurtleBot, Franka Emika, and a Lunabotics-style excavation rover.”

“AI engineer at Anote.ai who built and shipped a production multi-agent LangGraph/LangChain/Ray RAG platform for enterprise search and workflow automation, supporting 3 commercial products and 100+ developers. Drove measurable gains (30% accuracy improvement, lower latency) and improved reliability with Redis-based state checkpointing, message-queue synchronization, and Milvus retrieval optimizations, while partnering with PMs/clients to add transparency features like confidence scores and real-time logs.”

Akhilaa Sonduri

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in SaaS and AI-powered web apps

Cambridge, MA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience at HubSpot, Accolite, and an early-stage USC alumni startup (Workup). Built and shipped end-to-end workflow automation features (dynamic input configuration with strict schema validation) driving ~25% faster configuration, and delivered an AI interview customization feature in a high-ambiguity startup setting that increased adoption by ~40%. Comfortable operating production systems on AWS with CloudWatch observability and CI/CD, and has built real-time web apps with caching/indexing for performance.”

Feras Alsaiari

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AWS data platforms and event-driven systems

4y exp

“Capital One engineer leading the architecture and delivery of a large-scale AWS Glue/Spark/Delta Lake batch messaging pipeline that decoupled batch from real-time flows, added multi-region failover and automated retries, and delivered ~40% AWS cost savings with ~3x performance gains. Currently building an LLM-powered Slack bot using RAG to automate message investigations by querying CloudWatch, Snowflake, and internal documentation with privacy-aware masking of NPI/PII.”

Pranav Puranik

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and multimodal NLP

Austin, TX5y exp

“Built a production LLM/RAG assistant for insurance/health claims agents that ingests 100–200 page patient PDFs via OCR (migrated from local Tesseract to Azure Document Intelligence) and delivers grounded claim detail retrieval plus summaries with PII/PHI guardrails. Experienced orchestrating large workflows with Celery worker pipelines and AWS Step Functions (S3-triggered, Fargate-based batch inference/accuracy aggregation), and collaborates closely with non-technical SMEs (claims agents/nurses) through shadowing, iterative demos, and SME-defined evaluation.”