Vetted REST API Professionals

Namrata Shivshankar patil

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Mid-level Backend/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and distributed systems

Arlington, TX6y exp

“Built and shipped internal AI support systems spanning Angular/TypeScript frontends, Java/Spring/AWS backends, and Claude-powered troubleshooting workflows. Stands out for combining full-stack product delivery with practical LLM engineering, including RAG, structured outputs, production evals, and careful human-in-the-loop safety decisions. Has shipped systems serving 150-800 daily sessions at 99.5% availability while reducing repetitive support burden.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped real-time, customer-facing dashboards and ticketing/payment features at Freshworks and Global Payments. Strong in Python API design (Django/Flask/FastAPI) and React/TypeScript UIs, with hands-on experience scaling PostgreSQL for high transaction volumes and operating services on AWS, including incident response and HIPAA-aligned security controls.”

Saumay Killa

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI SaaS and web applications

New York, NY3y exp

“Built a career platform feature end-to-end that generates tailored resumes and cover letters using a React/TypeScript frontend, Postgres, and AWS Lambda/SQS backend. Strong in event-driven, serverless architecture and pragmatic product iteration, with a quantified 60% improvement in onboarding completion after redesigning the UX with resume parsing and a multi-step flow.”

“Early-career candidate with a thoughtful, engineering-first approach to AI-assisted development: they use AI to accelerate implementation while retaining human ownership of architecture and final code quality. They recently built a speech-to-text workflow using Groq Whisper and showed practical judgment by designing around imperfect transcription accuracy with checks and fallback handling.”

“Java/Spring Boot engineer with startup-style ownership experience across e-commerce, banking, and healthcare analytics. Stands out for driving a monolith-to-microservices migration with Kafka that improved checkout reliability under peak load, while also contributing full-stack with Angular and supporting production operations end to end.”

“Financial-services software engineer with experience building both full-stack advisor tools and production AI features at Charles Schwab. They owned an automated portfolio rebalancing workflow and helped launch an LLM-powered reporting assistant that cut report-writing time by 70%, while maintaining compliance through strict tool use, evals, and mandatory human review.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with 7 years of Python experience who has worked on data-heavy products in both healthcare and social media intelligence. Particularly notable for driving Elasticsearch-based search improvements on a B2B social media analytics platform and for building secure healthcare APIs using Flask/Django with OAuth, JWT, and multiple databases.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer at Qualcomm who built and operated a drift monitoring platform for 10k+ edge AI models. Stands out for combining strong TypeScript/React/Node execution with production-grade systems thinking across PostgreSQL tuning, Redis caching, ECS deployments, and Kafka-based architectural improvements that measurably improved reliability and release speed.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building data-heavy financial and climate visualization dashboards in React/TypeScript. Stands out for combining performance tuning, maintainable component architecture, and geospatial UI work, including a reported 40% reduction in initial load time on a production dashboard.”

“Frontend engineer who served as the sole developer for Walmart's locker management feature, now live in 2500+ auto care stores and credited with reducing customer check-in/checkout time by 18%. Brings hands-on experience across React/TypeScript architecture, operational dashboards, analytics, testing, and cross-functional delivery with backend and mobile teams.”

“Frontend-focused builder who developed Lushgreen, an ML-powered harvest forecasting and recommendation platform for farmers, agricultural businesses, and home gardeners. Stands out for combining React UI engineering, performance optimization, and user-centered simplification of complex ML outputs for non-technical users.”

“Frontend engineer with experience at US Bank and S&P Global building complex React dashboards for analysts working with real-time, high-volume transaction and model-performance data. Stands out for combining performance tuning, scalable state architecture, and usability improvements that directly reduced manual analysis effort for expert users.”

“Customer-facing technical professional with experience supporting LLM/agentic-style workflows and complex integrated systems (APIs, backend logic, databases). Partnered with sales/customer teams at Radix Health to onboard new clients in phased prototypes, translating non-technical requirements into technical scope and implementing core product changes to tailor the appointment-booking solution for providers.”

“Frontend engineer focused on marketing and analytics products, including a real-time multi-touch attribution dashboard. Uses Next.js (SSR/ISR) with React/TypeScript and Tailwind, and emphasizes quality at scale via automated testing, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), feature-flagged staged rollouts, and Mixpanel-driven iteration. Experienced modern state management patterns (React Query + Zustand) and performance tuning (code-splitting, dynamic imports, lazy loading).”

“Unity game developer who built a "constraint-driven match resolution" card-game system that encouraged players to think 1–2 moves ahead while keeping interactions as simple as UNO-style matching; reported longer player sessions and positive feedback. Has used Photon to implement most online features in games and leverages AI tools for code writing to boost productivity.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Vanguard, PNC, and Humana building customer-facing investment/banking flows and internal ops tools using Angular/React/TypeScript with Spring Boot microservices. Strong in shipping time-sensitive changes safely via automated testing/CI (JUnit/Mockito, Jenkins, SonarQube) and in operating event-driven microservices with Kafka (idempotency, retries, correlation IDs). Improved internal tool adoption by responding to ops/support feedback with query optimization and clearer search results.”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on performance and maintainability in data visualization libraries—refactored legacy ES5 into modular ES6, added tests/docs, and delivered ~30% faster load times with positive community adoption. Also optimized a React dashboard (~40% load-time reduction) and took ownership in an ambiguous AI product initiative by setting milestones, standing up an initial ML pipeline, and shipping a prototype in ~6 weeks that became the basis for production.”

“Software engineer who owned end-to-end delivery of customer-facing agricultural forecast reporting (crop yield/health) and iterated quickly via rigorous edge-case testing and customer feedback. Also built an internal ML training platform (TypeScript/React + Flask/Python + MongoDB) used by every developer, with architecture designed to stay responsive under heavy compute load.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered governance layer that summarizes verified drift/performance signals into validation reports and release notes, designed for regulated environments with de-identification and non-blocking fallbacks. Strong Airflow-based orchestration background across healthcare and finance, integrating Databricks/Spark and MLflow for scalable retraining/monitoring. Demonstrated ability to partner with non-technical healthcare operations teams to deliver actionable risk-scoring outputs via dashboards and automated reporting.”

“Backend engineer who built Flask-based microservices for a high-throughput risk engine, using Kafka for streaming decoupling and Redis for low-latency caching, with PostgreSQL + Cassandra for mixed relational and time-series needs. Has hands-on experience productionizing ML inference (Azure OpenAI/TensorFlow) behind REST APIs with async queues, batching, and caching, plus multi-tenant isolation via schema separation and RBAC with per-tenant rate limiting.”

“Backend/ML engineer working on a battery energy storage system operations dashboard: built a Flask backend integrated with OAuth and a separate FastAPI optimization/simulation service, deployed via Docker CI/CD to Azure Container Apps. Strong in productionizing ML (AzureML to batch endpoints) and in performance/scalability patterns (Postgres indexing/JSONB, per-unit data isolation, async throttling + caching for year-long CPU-intensive simulations across 40+ scenarios).”

“Full-stack engineer with Bank of America experience modernizing a large-scale financial reporting platform. Built React frontends and Java/Spring Boot microservice APIs end-to-end, optimized data-heavy SQL performance (indexing/caching/pagination), and implemented an AI feature for forecasting and anomaly detection using Python/scikit-learn, with deployments supported on AWS.”

“Platform-minded JavaScript/TypeScript engineer who has maintained and evolved shared NPM-distributed libraries at Capital One and HCA Healthcare, treating internal packages like open source (issue triage, PR reviews, roadmap, docs). Known for methodical debugging and performance work—e.g., diagnosing latency spikes via load testing/instrumentation and redesigning middleware to avoid redundant parsing—paired with strong developer enablement through examples and migration notes.”

“Backend engineer who built a containerized Flask service powering an engineering metrics dashboard by syncing GitHub and Jira data into PostgreSQL, with strong emphasis on schema design, query performance, caching, and background processing. Has hands-on experience with SaaS multi-tenancy (tenant scoping + Postgres RLS) and integrating AI/ML inference via separate model-serving services (FastAPI + TensorFlow Serving) and external APIs (OpenAI/Hugging Face/PyTorch).”