Vetted REST API Professionals

“Software engineer with experience across early-stage startups and production full-stack systems, including migration work from a Go monolith to a Node.js backend and a clinical research application deployed on Kubernetes in AWS. Has worked across Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, SQL databases, and B2B SaaS data-streaming products.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong startup experience across small distributed teams, owning everything from React UIs to Go services and Python data pipelines. He stands out for designing stable APIs and data models in ambiguous compliance-heavy environments, with measurable impact including a 38% reduction in manual cleanup and a 27% drop in customer-visible incidents. He has also worked deeply in B2B SaaS at Ashby, supporting mission-critical recruiting workflows where data correctness, permissions, and integration stability were essential.”

Kusumita Dasgupta

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in data platforms, cloud systems, and LLM products

United States22y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach with recent hands-on work delivering an agentic AI MVP on Amazon Bedrock (conversational UI + supervisor agent routing between internal knowledge and external sources). Previously drove large-scale data platform cost optimization at Twitter, saving ~$3M–$5M annually, and has owned production incidents end-to-end with a focus on analytics/monitoring improvements and team coaching.”

Chinedu Enwere

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend systems

Redmond, WA4y exp

“Engineering candidate deeply embedded in AI-native development, currently using tools like Cursor and Claude Code to generate most of their code and building internal agents for on-call monitoring, anomaly detection, and automated incident mitigation. Particularly interesting for teams exploring AI-first engineering workflows, multi-agent development setups, and operational automation at scale.”

“Senior engineering leader with a rare blend of deep platform/infrastructure expertise and large-scale people leadership, spanning hands-on cloud-native architecture through management of globally distributed organizations of up to roughly 180 engineers. Particularly strong in Kubernetes platform modernization, reliability engineering, and scaling high-throughput SaaS systems while aligning platform investments to customer and business outcomes.”

Xun He

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and security engineering

25y exp

“Senior backend/infrastructure engineer with experience at Microsoft, DocuSign, Pinterest, and Harness, focused on security and developer productivity systems. Stands out for building Pinterest's first vulnerability management platform from scratch for a 100,000-EC2 production environment and driving major performance gains, while also delivering CI/Docker infrastructure and Python test intelligence features shaped by customer demand.”

Pavithra Kollu

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and search systems

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Backend/ML infrastructure engineer with experience at Perplexity and Meta building production evaluation, monitoring, and retrieval systems for AI search, autonomous agents, and LLM-powered workflows. Particularly strong in turning messy manual quality-review processes into reusable Python/FastAPI automation with measurable impact, including major gains in search relevance, latency, and grounded answer quality.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience at NVIDIA and Microsoft, including building a RAG-based enterprise knowledge assistant that improved accuracy by 42% and scaled to thousands of queries. Deep in inference optimization (TensorRT-LLM, Triton, quantization, speculative decoding) and MLOps/observability (Prometheus/Grafana, MLflow, LangSmith), plus orchestration with Kubeflow/Airflow across multi-cloud.”

“Engineering leader with a mix of large-scale platform experience at Microsoft and product/customer-facing work across GM, Panasonic, Acuity, and other environments. Stands out for combining people leadership with hands-on depth in accessibility, web performance at 120M+ MAU scale, and cross-functional delivery spanning enterprise permissions, e-commerce, AI, and automotive systems.”

“Seasoned business leader with decades of leadership experience (including Fortune 50/500) and prior Silicon Valley startup exposure, now pursuing entrepreneurship. Building “Datascension,” a gamified, story/episode-based career coaching platform that includes hands-on tasks (e.g., SQL queries, Python scripts) plus a participation-based credit/currency system and certification/badging, informed by feedback from recruiters and coaching/recruiting firms.”