Vetted REST API Professionals

Brian Lam

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech

New York, NY12y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer working in Next.js/React who has owned complex internal and partner-facing browser workflows, including a multi-step CSV onboarding wizard and an admin quiz editor. Stands out for practical debugging skill on production-only timezone issues and for building resilient, typed form-heavy UIs with strong error handling.”

“AI/full-stack engineer who has built a production-style LLM knowledge assistant from scratch, combining FastAPI, LangChain, FAISS, semantic retrieval, and a user-facing chat interface. Stands out for owning both the technical architecture and the product usability layer, including latency optimization, prompt refinement, and source-backed responses to improve trust for non-technical users.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer focused on data instrumentation and tracking-plan automation. They built an end-to-end publish architecture plus an MCP/agent workflow that turns PRDs, Figma files, and meeting transcripts into tracking plans and implementation-ready code, reportedly shrinking work from 4-5 days to minutes. They also show strong judgment around productionizing LLM systems, with tool-centric prompt design, backend guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls for high-risk actions.”

Jared Alonzo

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Mid-level Customer Engineer specializing in enterprise search and technical delivery

New York, NY7y exp

“Search-focused technical consultant/customer success engineer with 6+ years in B2B SaaS, supporting government, higher ed, mid-market, and enterprise customers including Fortune 500 brands like Mondelez, Hasbro, and Sanofi. Particularly strong in enterprise search architecture, personalization data design, and expansion use cases, with hands-on experience shaping solution decisions for retailers such as Snipes and Rue Gilt Groupe.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building React/Next.js/TypeScript production features, including a driver partner registration site and a statistics dashboard with interactive maps. Demonstrates practical strength in reusable component design, CSS/layout debugging, responsive UI quality, and performance optimization for data-heavy interfaces.”

“Built internal product features at Sysco's Collab Cafe across React/TypeScript frontend and Spring Boot/PostgreSQL backend, including a full project invite flow and an early AI-style project matching capability. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, improving React dashboard performance with profiling and component refactoring, and making pragmatic 0→1 tradeoffs to ship quickly.”

“Banking-focused full-stack engineer who has owned products from requirements through deployment, including a transaction review dashboard and an AI-assisted search tool for internal support teams. Brings a strong mix of React/TypeScript, Spring Boot, database performance tuning, and practical LLM/RAG experience with human-in-the-loop safeguards for regulated workflows.”

“Series A startup engineer with broad full-stack ownership across backend, data, and frontend, including a real-time ingestion platform that scaled to 10x higher daily volume without downtime while cutting latency from minutes to seconds. Brings strong fintech and B2B SaaS experience building auditable, high-throughput systems for analysts, operations, and compliance teams in regulated environments.”

“Frontend engineer with production experience at UWM and Ford.com, focused on complex UI architecture, dynamic form systems, and high-performance interactive experiences. Stands out for rebuilding problematic React/Redux patterns into reactive RxJS-driven architectures, with measurable wins like reducing an 8-second, 5,000-request widget to a fast, stable experience, and for also building advanced personal projects in Solid.js, mapping, and WebGL.”

Jahid Hasan

Screened

Mid-level AI Product Leader specializing in agentic systems and developer platforms

Ames, IA4y exp

“Cofounder of Tometo AI who built a multi-agent engineering manager platform aimed at giving startup founders FAANG-style team visibility and blocker detection. Stands out for combining product leadership, AI evaluation rigor, and user-driven UX pivots, with tangible traction including a #2 Product Hunt launch and 150+ customers onboarded.”

Ravi Gairola

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI platforms and cloud infrastructure

San Francisco, CA15y exp

“Engineering leader and hands-on architect with experience managing three teams spanning product, internal tooling, and ML, while also building AI chat and digital twin systems. Particularly notable for a patented memory architecture used to impersonate users in meetings/chat, plus prior delivery of a consumer digital payments system for Razer under tight deadlines and heavy tech debt.”

“Built and operated a real-time multiplayer card game end to end, with hands-on ownership of frontend, backend, persistence, and production stability. Demonstrates strong systems thinking around concurrency, idempotency, and extensible architecture, including refactoring a tightly coupled PvP game into a modular engine that could also support bot players.”

“Built a production AI-powered customer support Q&A system using an internal knowledge base to reduce repetitive ticket work and improve customer satisfaction, with an emphasis on source-backed answers and expert oversight. Also has experience defining deployment services in a microservices architecture and integrating large-scale APIs (including work connected to US HHS/COVID-19).”

Pallavi Thorat

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and AI systems

USA, USA3y exp

“Front-end engineer with strong experience building sophisticated, data-heavy financial dashboards for finance analysts and business stakeholders. Stands out for combining React/Next.js architecture, D3.js visualization, and browser-level performance tuning to deliver measurable impact, including ~40% operational efficiency improvement and ~35% lower session drop-off.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has built and scaled production Java/Spring Boot + Kafka services on AWS/Kubernetes (1M+ msgs/day) and led reliability/performance fixes that restored SLAs (25–30% latency improvement; 99.9% uptime). Also shipped an AI customer-support chatbot end-to-end using retrieval + guardrails and rigorous evaluation/observability, improving resolution time 40% and satisfaction 25%, with a strong plan/execute/verify approach to agentic workflow reliability.”

“Backend-focused engineer at Wells Fargo owning production payments features end-to-end, including Spring Boot REST services, CI/CD + containerized AWS deployments, and CloudWatch-based observability. Has hands-on experience stabilizing high-traffic transaction workflows and building reliable ingestion/integration flows using idempotency, retries/backoff, and reconciliation.”

“Master’s CS candidate with backend internship experience modernizing live operational workflows at NatWest/NetWess, focusing on reliability improvements, safer CI/CD deployments, and incremental refactors using feature flags and rollback paths. Built FastAPI-based APIs with strong security patterns (JWT + 2FA/TOTP, centralized authorization, RLS) and demonstrated attention to edge cases like idempotency and data consistency in a Netflix-clone project.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on ROS 2 localization/SLAM: built a particle-filter (Monte Carlo) localization system in Python with likelihood-field modeling to handle noisy LiDAR and dynamic environments. Strong in debugging ROS 2 integration issues (tf2 frame sync, DDS/QoS message reliability) and in profiling/optimizing pipelines to reach real-time performance (~10 Hz) using precomputation and KD-trees.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python REST APIs and PostgreSQL, plus AWS containerized deployments using CloudFormation, Jenkins CI/CD, and CloudWatch monitoring/autoscaling. Has built data validation/ETL-style workflows with schema/version checks and targeted reprocessing, modernized legacy batch processing into Java services with phased parallel migrations, and delivered measurable SQL performance gains (~50% query runtime reduction).”

“Software engineer with a CS/Computer Engineering background who has worked on ML/NLP (Hugging Face, clinical NLP, text generation and structured extraction) and has a school robotics project integrating a trained ML model with microprocessor-controlled hardware to drive motor movement and writing. Currently focused on building and deploying applications and ML models to AWS/Azure using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD; targeting ~$150K compensation.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Razorpay and Groww, focused on hardening high-throughput financial systems for reliability and low tail latency through incremental improvements (SQL/index tuning, Redis caching, timeouts, idempotency). Also built/refactored a commodity risk tracker using Supabase Auth + Postgres RLS for strict per-user isolation, with a strong emphasis on API contracts, observability, and safe migrations.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building a SaaS analytics platform: FastAPI-based microservices with Redis caching and reliability patterns (RBAC, retries/backoff, centralized error handling). Also delivered AWS data pipelines (Glue/PySpark to Redshift) and owned real production incidents using CloudWatch/SNS, plus hands-on PostgreSQL query tuning on multi-million-row reporting workloads.”

“Backend engineer with experience evolving a real-time transaction and rewards processing platform from a tightly coupled architecture into domain-based microservices. Uses REST plus Kafka for synchronous vs. asynchronous workflows, and builds Python/FastAPI APIs with Pydantic contracts, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, and JWT/OAuth-based security; has also supported analytics/dashboard use cases (Power BI).”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on data visualization, extending Chart.js/React with custom plugins for real-time streaming dashboards. Designed an end-to-end telemetry pipeline using Apache Kafka and Azure Cosmos DB, optimizing partitioning, batching, caching, and client throttling to keep latency low and support thousands of concurrent users. Demonstrates strong ownership in fast-changing environments, including building full-stack AI applications and ingestion/ETL pipelines at Robotics Technologies LLC.”