Vetted REST API Professionals

“Built and deployed a RAG-based student/faculty support chatbot at a university that answers from official syllabus/policy documents and now supports 4,000+ students while reducing repetitive support requests. Hands-on with LangChain, LangGraph, and CrewAI to orchestrate reliable agentic workflows, with a strong focus on testing/monitoring in production and cross-functional delivery (e.g., marketing analytics automation at Steve Madden).”

“Solutions Architect with 5+ years leading pre- and post-sales engagements, focused on taking complex tooling from test/prototype to secure production through a structured discovery-to-deployment approach. Experienced in LLM workflow troubleshooting using tools like Langfuse/Gopher and in developer enablement via concise, hands-on workshops (e.g., Jenkins on Kubernetes at scale). Has navigated internal and external blockers to drive adoption and keep enterprise deals moving (including a Jenkins sale to Love's).”

“Full-stack JavaScript developer in small-company environments building PCB manufacturing web tooling. Owned and delivered blob-storage upload/download infrastructure (including an internal developer library) and a training/compliance tracking tool. Implemented secure, broadly compatible SSO for a customer portal under a <1 month deadline tied to an 8-figure customer deal, despite having no prior authentication experience.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered phone assistant for a healthcare clinic, combining streaming STT/TTS with RAG over approved clinic documents and strict safety guardrails to prevent unverified medical advice, plus seamless human handoff. Also has hands-on Apache Airflow experience building robust daily ML/data pipelines with data validation, retries/timeouts, monitoring, and metric-gated model deployment, and iterates closely with clinic staff using real call reviews.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG system for financial/compliance teams using GPT-4, Claude, and local models to retrieve and summarize thousands of internal documents with strong security controls (role-based retrieval, PII masking). Drove significant operational gains (30+ hours/week saved, ~35% productivity lift, ~45% faster responses) and orchestrated end-to-end ingestion/embedding/index refresh pipelines with Airflow, S3, and SageMaker while partnering closely with compliance stakeholders on auditability and traceability.”

“Master’s-program backend engineer with strong Java/Spring Boot industry experience who also owned a Python analytics service (Flask/Postgres, JWT, Celery/Redis) and optimized large-dataset performance via SQL/batching. Has hands-on Kubernetes microservices deployment and GitLab+Terraform CI/CD/GitOps workflows, plus experience supporting phased on-prem to AWS migrations and building Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines.”

“Robotics-focused full-stack engineer with hands-on ROS experience building sensor-processing and control nodes, plus a track record of debugging and optimizing real-time robot responsiveness via profiling and message-timing analysis. Uses Webots for pre-hardware validation and Docker/CI/CD to standardize deployments and catch issues early.”

“Built a production, real-time insurance claims document-understanding and fraud-detection pipeline using TensorFlow + fine-tuned BERT, deployed on AWS (SageMaker/Lambda/API Gateway) with automated retraining via MLflow and Jenkins. Addressed noisy documents and latency using augmentation and model distillation (3x faster), cutting claims ops manual review by ~50% and reducing fraudulent payouts.”

“Front-end-focused developer at a startup who also handles back-end integration, delivering customer-facing analytics dashboards from Figma designs while collaborating tightly with UX/product and running customer review cycles. Recently helped manage a risky production user-migration issue by stopping deployment, restoring deleted records from backups, and rebuilding the migration process with a safer test environment and validation.”

“Backend engineer with NTT Data experience building Java/Spring Boot services for product-data ingestion, including Kafka-based asynchronous pipelines and Redis read-through caching. Also built a personal RAG system deployed on Google Kubernetes Service using FastAPI, LangChain, and Pinecone with multi-tenant data isolation; holds a Master’s background in Machine Learning.”

“Graduate project contributor/maintainer in the open-source JavaScript ecosystem who built “Intersect,” a blockchain-based certification verification platform. Developed a front-end component library integrating QR generation/scanning and Ethereum smart contract interactions, and improved real-world QR scan reliability across devices via custom image preprocessing and performance profiling-driven React optimizations.”

“ML engineer/data scientist who deployed a production credit risk + insurance claims triage platform at Hartford Financial, combining XGBoost default prediction with BERT-based document classification. Demonstrated strong MLOps by cutting inference latency to sub-500ms and building drift monitoring plus automated retraining/deployment pipelines (MLflow, CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, SageMaker) with human-in-the-loop review and SHAP-based explainability for underwriting adoption.”

“AI/ML engineer who led production deployment of a multimodal (text/video/image) RAG system on GCP using Gemini 2.5 + Vertex AI Vector Search, scaling to 10M+ documents with sub-second latency and +40% retrieval accuracy. Strong MLOps/orchestration background (Kubernetes, CI/CD, Airflow, MLflow) with proven impact on reliability (75% fewer incidents) and deployment speed (92% faster), plus experience delivering explainable ML (XGBoost + SHAP + Tableau) to non-technical retail stakeholders.”

“NLP/ML engineer with hands-on healthcare and support-ticket text experience, building clinical-note structuring and semantic linking systems using spaCy, BERT clinical embeddings, and FAISS. Emphasizes production-grade delivery (Airflow/Databricks, PySpark, Docker, AWS/FastAPI/Lambda) and rigorous validation via clinician-labeled datasets, retrieval metrics, and user feedback.”

“Software engineer with experience at Synchrony and HCL delivering end-to-end production systems: a secure, Kafka-driven transaction processing microservice with React real-time status tracking, containerized and deployed on AWS Kubernetes via Jenkins with ELK/CloudWatch monitoring. Has hands-on incident ownership and performance tuning (DB/query/index/pooling) driving ~20–30% latency improvements, plus built internal Python monitoring APIs with strong reliability and observability.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with healthcare payer experience at HCSC, focused on connecting messy unstructured clinical notes to structured claims/provider data to improve fraud-analytics workflows. Has hands-on experience fine-tuning transformers in AWS SageMaker, building large-scale embedding search with FAISS, and implementing robust entity resolution using golden datasets, precision/recall calibration, and production monitoring for drift.”

“QA automation engineer with 7+ years across finance/healthcare/utility/services, specializing in Selenium + Cucumber and building automation frameworks. Has tested machine-learning-powered claims prediction features and uncovered complex timing/concurrency failures in subscription payments by simulating delayed webhooks and parallel execution, then driving production fixes end-to-end using disciplined Jira workflows.”

“CMS-focused developer who has built internal dashboard widgets to migrate and publish client website data when standard tooling fell short, with strong attention to data integrity and rollback. Proactively pushed a hardcoded client homepage toward an admin-configurable widget by creating wireframes and advocating for maintainability. Uses LLM tools to speed up personal automation projects, including Blender-based SVG-to-3D batch processing.”

“Full-stack developer who built a workout tracker feature end-to-end on the PERN stack (Postgres/Express/React), including relational schema design, REST APIs, and optimistic UI updates. Also has Next.js App Router experience (dynamic routes, SSG/React Server Components) and a strong quality mindset from Boston Scientific, where they used TDD to support clinically sound ECG analysis software and drove backend test coverage to 97%.”

“Built and shipped an AI-powered driver ranking/assignment system at AffirmoAI using LLM intent classification + RAG over pgvector/Postgres, served via FastAPI with a React UI that explains scores. Drove measurable improvements through optimization and iteration (latency down to <800ms, adoption 60%→90%+) and implemented rigorous eval loops with dispatcher ground truth plus cold-start handling for new drivers.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building real-time, event-driven systems at Walgreens, including a Kafka-based prescription status notification service and scalable pipelines for messy prescription/inventory data. Strong focus on reliability patterns (retries, idempotency, DLQs) and iterating based on pharmacist feedback to improve usability.”

“Backend/ML engineer with healthcare experience at Kaiser Permanente building HIPAA-compliant Java/Spring Boot + GraphQL APIs integrated with Epic HealthConnect, including hands-on reliability/performance debugging using Prometheus/Grafana and resolver-level N+1 elimination. Also built an end-to-end malaria parasite detection ML feature (CNN/R-CNN) with evaluation, guardrails, and workflow integration, and has experience designing robust state-machine-based automation with retries, DLQs, and alerting.”