Vetted REST API Professionals

“Capgemini engineer with 4+ years building and deploying high-availability, low-latency fraud detection APIs and multi-cluster distributed systems for a Fortune 20 bank, including zero-downtime production rollouts and multi-layer (SQL/network/hardware) performance debugging. Also built a Python + OpenAI/LangChain LLM-powered grading workflow for Austin School for Women, cutting feedback time from 90 minutes to 5 minutes per submission for 200+ learners.”

Satya Kumar Itekela

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in high-performance React/Next.js web apps

Remote, Canada8y exp

“Frontend engineer with experience at Autodesk and Quantify, leading and scaling Next.js/React + TypeScript products from architecture through QA. Strong focus on performance (Core Web Vitals, ISR, caching/CDN) and real-time interfaces (WebSockets, Chart.js/D3), with measurable wins like 30–40% bundle reduction and ~60% less data overfetching using GraphQL/Apollo.”

Mark Kemp

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director of Product Management specializing in FinTech and financial data platforms

Austin, TX15y exp

“Product leader in financial services who has built both customer-facing and internal AI-enabled products, including an award-nominated retirement plan platform that drove submissions from 40% to 98% in good order and unlocked a $10M revenue stream. Also built product process and team structure from the ground up at Consero, with experience applying AI/LLMs to workflow automation and reporting in complex, data-heavy environments.”

“Frontend engineer who built the full frontend for gameofstreaks.com using React/Next.js with an emphasis on responsive design, accessibility, SEO, and performance profiling. Has experience refactoring legacy HTML/CSS/JS sites into reusable React components and shipping quickly with unit tests, CI/CD, and branch-based deployments; also collaborates with designers in hackathon settings (e.g., an AI interview practice app).”

Deeksha V

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and FinTech payments

Atlanta, GA4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on financial systems, having evolved payments and reconciliation platforms using Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL with an emphasis on idempotency, validation, and consistency. Has led monolith-to-services migrations using feature flags and shadow traffic, and implements defense-in-depth security (OAuth2/JWT plus DB-level row security) for multi-tenant environments.”

“Technical Product Manager with hands-on experience shipping and running live free-to-play games (including Cartoon Network BMX Champions) across web and mobile, with exposure to Roblox and some console. Focuses on data-driven live ops—daily rewards, streaks, push notifications, and limited-time events—paired with A/B testing and funnel/retention analytics to improve engagement and IAP performance.”

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing a large-scale procurement platform at Jio Platforms by breaking a monolith serving 35 business units into Spring Boot microservices, improving uptime and cutting report latency ~30%. Also built high-concurrency FastAPI systems (200ms at ~500 concurrent users) with strong security (JWT/OAuth2/RBAC), event-driven Kafka integrations, and reliability patterns like exactly-once delivery for ~1M monthly triggers.”

THAMES HARRISON

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Engineering Manager specializing in enterprise SaaS, cloud architecture, and AI/ML

Gainesville, FL17y exp

“Senior engineering manager who stays hands-on (~50/50) while leading teams through design reviews, code reviews, and production issue triage. Shipped scalable platform features (notifications, user action tracking via microservices) with strong quality/performance practices (TDD, high-load testing). Owned a complex cross-system SSO/IdP incident end-to-end, identifying a SameSite+iFrame root cause and delivering a configurable product fix plus support documentation.”

“Unity VR senior developer with ~8 years in VR and ~3 years focused on Meta Quest, building multiplayer training/digital-twin style experiences. Strong Photon (PUN/Fusion) background, including solving tricky networked object attachment/jitter issues via ownership and local-physics strategies. Demonstrated hands-on performance turnarounds in VR scenes using Mesh Baker, LODs, and impostors, plus experience shipping social multiplayer VR activities with Photon Voice.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI Python APIs and AWS-native platforms (Lambda/API Gateway, SQS, ECS Fargate) with Terraform + GitHub Actions CI/CD and strong reliability practices (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts, structured errors/logging). Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines (S3/RDS to curated S3/Athena) with schema evolution and data quality controls, modernized legacy processing via parallel-run validation and phased cutovers, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (seconds to <200ms) plus incident ownership for batch pipeline SLAs.”

“Frontend-focused engineer (~8 years) with strong React/TypeScript and Angular experience who leads end-to-end UI architecture, performance budgets, and quality practices at scale. Known for restructuring large, tightly coupled codebases into feature-based domains to eliminate UI freezes and improve team throughput, and for tight Product/Design/QA alignment via a “3 Amigos” process that catches workflow gaps early. Currently seeking a new frontend role due to GE Vernova outsourcing; has been acquired twice by large companies.”

Emmanuel Ngalima

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in geospatial AI and cloud security automation

San Ramon, CA5y exp

“Cloud engineer and cloud OS SME (Chevron) who productionized large-scale security remediation—using Tanium and Ansible to address CIS benchmark noncompliance across 5,000+ servers with robust logging and RCA handoffs. Also drives adoption of a geospatial AI refinery inspection product by consolidating siloed imagery into an enterprise geospatial database, and presents internally on agentic/LLM tooling (LangChain/LangGraph, LangSmith observability).”

Randall Agate

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Sales Engineering leader specializing in enterprise SaaS

8y exp

“Sales Engineering leader with 8 years of progression from Business Analyst to Senior Director, spanning LegalTech, private markets, and insurance SaaS. Stands out for combining hands-on enterprise solution consulting, security/compliance diligence, and architecture fluency with team scaling and operational buildout, including growing an SE org from 2 to 8 and earning multiple pre-sales awards.”

“Built and operates a production LLM agent for enterprise IT operations that triages and drafts resolutions for high-volume ServiceNow tickets using LangChain + RAG (Pinecone/pgvector) and AWS Bedrock/OpenAI. Emphasizes reliability with schema-validated stages, offline eval datasets from real tickets, and CloudWatch-driven monitoring/guardrails; system scales to 40K+ tickets/month and cut resolution time ~28%.”

Vigneshwari Shankiri

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

5y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led enterprise-scale UI delivery end-to-end on a microservices platform, designing modular Angular SPAs (v12-17) tightly aligned to Spring Boot REST APIs. Emphasizes quality and release velocity through layered testing (Karma/Jasmine), CI/CD automation (Jenkins/Azure DevOps), performance tuning with RxJS/lazy loading, and incremental rollouts with close product/design/QA collaboration.”

“AI-focused product engineer working on LLM routing, prompt engineering, and multimodal API integrations at production scale. They describe improving system accuracy, latency, and token usage, fine-tuning an internal model to reduce third-party API dependence, and adding safety guardrails through prompt-injection testing and red-team evaluation.”