Vetted REST API Professionals

Chandra Shekar Akkandra

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection and risk analytics in Financial Services

Newark, CA5y exp

“Finance-domain ML/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems including a RAG-based financial insights assistant with a custom post-generation validation layer that verifies atomic claims against retrieved source text to prevent hallucinations in compliance-critical workflows. Also built large-scale MLOps automation on AWS using Kubeflow + MLflow + CI/CD for fraud detection and credit risk models processing 500M+ transactions/day with a 99.99% uptime goal, and partnered closely with JP Morgan risk/compliance stakeholders on NLP-driven compliance monitoring.”

Narendra R

Screened

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

Dallas, TX7y exp

“Backend engineer focused on scalable Python/Flask services and high-performance PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy systems, with demonstrated wins like reducing N+1-driven response times to under 200ms and cutting P95 latency below 1s via background queues and caching. Has production experience operationalizing ML models as Dockerized APIs on AWS (S3/Lambda) with monitoring (CloudWatch/ELK), plus robust multi-tenant isolation using JWT-driven tenant context and row-level security.”

Meghanath kethireddy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack/Backend Engineer specializing in Java microservices and cloud platforms

Dallas, TX5y exp

“PayPal ML/AI practitioner who built and productionized a hybrid recommendation engine (BERT/LLM embeddings + collaborative filtering + XGBoost ranking) on AWS with end-to-end MLOps and orchestration. Addressed real-world issues like cold start and embedding latency (ONNX, clustering, caching, PySpark/Delta Lake) and drove a 27% lift in upsell conversion via A/B testing and stakeholder collaboration with marketing.”

Ashwitha Reddy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices and AWS

Ohio, United States3y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a real-time business analytics dashboard backend (Python/Flask/MongoDB) and built Kafka event-streaming pipelines with idempotent processing and DLQs. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying containerized microservices to AWS EKS with CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/CodePipeline) and ArgoCD auto-sync/drift detection, plus hands-on support for phased hybrid cloud/on-prem migrations using feature flags and replication.”

“Hands-on implementation-focused candidate with experience owning cloud deployments and putting LLM/RAG workflows into production. They stand out for combining customer-facing deployment ownership with practical AI systems work, including retrieval tuning, hallucination mitigation, production incident response, and document-processing pipelines for messy real-world inputs.”

“Built and deployed a GenAI-powered PhD career intelligence platform at NYU that maps academic backgrounds to career paths and converts long academic CVs into job-ready resumes. Stands out for treating LLM systems as structured production pipelines—combining NLP extraction, embeddings, orchestration, and AWS deployment—to improve recommendation quality and cut resume preparation time by 70%.”

Sharath Kasula

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React, TypeScript, and real-time web applications

New York, NY7y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer at T-Mobile who owned a real-time operational dashboard end-to-end, from Figma collaboration through React/TypeScript implementation to backend/API and SQL performance coordination. Stands out for diagnosing cross-layer production issues, improving onboarding with measurable drop-off reduction, and turning repeated product needs into reusable primitives adopted across multiple teams.”

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership of both a real-time community Q&A platform and a production payroll reorder batching system. Stands out for combining backend architecture, React frontend work, and pragmatic performance improvements, including a 2-3x speed gain through batching and thoughtful UI/UX refinements that reduced user errors.”

Kavya Aitagoni

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web platforms and live events

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with experience shipping user-facing web products end-to-end, including an event analytics dashboard and checkout improvements at Eventbrite. Stands out for combining frontend polish, backend reliability, and production-minded practices like idempotent APIs, query optimization, CI/CD, logging, and monitoring to improve conversion and reduce engineering dependency.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant that let analysts query company documents in natural language, using LangChain/LangGraph with Pinecone and a FastAPI service for integration. Emphasizes reliability in production through hallucination mitigation (retrieval tuning + prompt guardrails) and measurable evaluation/monitoring (accuracy, latency, task completion, hallucination rate), iterating based on user feedback.”

“Built an enterprise RAG-based document intelligence system at Freddie Mac for regulatory and financial documents, helping analysts cut search time from hours to minutes while improving retrieval accuracy by ~30%. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with compliance-grade auditability, production monitoring, and scalable Python/FastAPI service design.”

“Built production AI systems in high-stakes domains, including a medical RAG chatbot focused on reducing hallucinations and a document-processing workflow that automated manual PDF extraction. Demonstrates strong end-to-end ownership across backend services, APIs, LLM integration, and iterative reliability improvements based on real usage and failure analysis.”

Rohit Vibhu Channananjundarya

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and full-stack platforms

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Engineer who treats AI as a force multiplier rather than a replacement for judgment, with hands-on experience using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Codex across planning, coding, testing, and review. Particularly notable for building a multi-agent PR review system that automated summarization, risk scanning, schema validation, and test suggestions, helping the team shift reviewer time toward architecture and business logic.”

“Growth-focused B2B SaaS operator with hands-on experience improving enterprise adoption for a cloud governance and FinOps platform. They combine customer discovery, ROI-driven messaging, automation, and funnel instrumentation to improve conversion and handoffs, citing an 18% lift in enterprise adoption and roughly $200K-$3M in influenced pipeline.”

“Built an internal RAG assistant for financial documents using FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and vector search, improving document search speed and reducing manual effort for the business team. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI engineering: uses AI heavily for productivity, but keeps human judgment central and has designed retrieval, validation, and summarization workflows end-to-end.”

“AI and platform engineer with 5 years of experience who built a production knowledge assistant for Verizon end-to-end, from architecture through deployment, monitoring, and incident hardening. Stands out for combining modern LLM/RAG systems with enterprise-grade rigor, including validation layers, observability, versioning safeguards, and measurable impact on technician productivity and retrieval quality.”

“Currently building a DBC (Digital Birth Certificate) agentic AI system to speed root cause investigation for quality issues at their company. They bring hands-on experience designing and leading multi-agent workflows, including orchestrator/root-agent patterns, evaluation agents, clarification agents, and practical guardrails for hallucination, bias, and rate-limit management.”

“Developer with a pragmatic, disciplined approach to AI-assisted coding: uses tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini to speed up debugging, optimization, unit testing, and documentation while maintaining ownership of design and code quality. Interested in expanding from single-agent workflows into multi-agent setups for larger coding tasks and stays current through hands-on use and AI ecosystem updates.”

“Senior engineering executive with 8+ years leading large-scale SaaS modernization across AI, compliance, ecommerce, streaming, IoT, and travel. Has led a 150+ global engineering org, modernized seven cloud-native platforms for a $400M business, and consolidated travel systems processing $1B+ annually while staying hands-on in architecture, incident response, and AI integration.”

Yash Priyadarshi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure

Bengaluru, India2y exp

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer who built a Golang distributed key-value store on AWS using Multi-Paxos, WAL, and non-blocking gRPC replication (cutting write latency ~40%) and proactively addressed tricky failure modes like leader-election livelock. Also developed a Python/Kubernetes cost-optimization scaling engine deployed with Helm/Terraform, delivering ~$40K annual savings while sustaining 99.99% uptime, and drives contract-first API development (OpenAPI/Swagger) to speed frontend integration.”

“Early-career software/AI intern with startup and hackathon experience who blends backend engineering with product communication and user-feedback-driven iteration. Worked in a fast-paced SaaS environment at Airmeet and has experience pitching technical products, refining onboarding/workflows, and thinking beyond pure implementation toward adoption and growth.”

“AI/full-stack engineer in gaming analytics who joined Omnic.ai at a 2-person stage, helped grow with the company, and built both backend and frontend for real-time gameplay analysis products. He combines computer vision production experience with LLM/RAG systems work, and has already led 4 employees while shipping 12 models in a fast-moving startup environment.”

MohmmadHussain Syed

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in customer-facing web platforms

USA4y exp

“Full-stack product builder who described owning an AI-powered journaling platform end to end using React/Vue, FastAPI, Supabase, PostgreSQL, and Hugging Face APIs. Also shipped a customer-facing document upload feature for First National Bank by solving micro frontend integration issues with web components, and has built internal tooling such as a GitHub PR review app.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with strong ownership in network observability and analytics products, including BT Group's SMARTS platform and SSpain.ai at Texas A&M. Stands out for building data-dense, near-real-time dashboards and shaping products end-to-end across React/Angular frontends, FastAPI backends, PostgreSQL, AWS, and even React Native mobile surfaces.”