Vetted REST API Professionals

“Accenture engineer who built and shipped a production RAG-based automation/chatbot for SAP incident triage and troubleshooting, embedding thousands of runbooks/logs/tickets into a semantic search pipeline and integrating it into Teams/Slack. Reported major productivity gains (30–60% time reduction), >90% validated answer accuracy, and sub-2-second responses, with strong orchestration (Airflow/Prefect/LangGraph) and reliability practices (guardrails, testing, monitoring).”

“Early-career CS/data professional with hands-on experience integrating analytics dashboards into a production MERN system, including a Redux state redesign and schema validation that delivered zero-downtime release and measurable performance gains (~30% faster APIs, 25% faster reporting). Previously a data analyst at Reliance Jio, where they extended Python-based reporting pipelines (CSV/MySQL) with automated validation and anomaly detection to improve KPI dashboard reliability and cut investigation time by ~30%.”

“Backend Python engineer who architected an event-driven order integration engine connecting EDI vendors to ERP/WMS/3PL systems, including a canonical order model and adapter framework to eliminate per-customer hardcoding. Has hands-on Kubernetes production experience (microservices, Celery workers, CronJobs, HPAs) and implemented GitOps/CI-CD using GitHub Actions, Docker, and ArgoCD, including moving deployments from on-prem to Azure.”

“Backend-focused engineer who owned an AI mentoring workflow platform built in Django with LangGraph multi-agent orchestration, optimizing it to stay under 200ms latency while scaling past 1,200 active users using profiling, caching, load testing, and OpenTelemetry-style tracing. Also has hands-on experience containerizing and deploying Python/ML services to AWS ECS via GitHub Actions/GitOps, and building reliable real-time pipelines with webhooks and Redis queues (idempotency, backpressure, DLQ).”

“Full-stack engineer focused on data-heavy platforms, building Spring Boot microservices and Angular/React dashboards end-to-end. Has hands-on experience improving large-scale API and UI performance (including cutting 8–10s response times) and ensuring cross-service consistency using Kafka, idempotent consumers, and strong validation/transaction patterns on AWS with CI/CD and observability (Prometheus/ELK).”

“Full-stack engineer who built a cloud-native customer servicing platform at Synchrony using React 18/Next.js (SSR) and Spring Boot microservices on AWS. Experienced with high-volume, event-driven systems (Lambda/SNS/SQS) and strong distributed-systems rigor around data integrity (idempotency, DynamoDB conditional writes) plus production-grade security/observability (JWT/OAuth2, WAF, Actuator, Splunk).”

“Full-stack AI engineer who built Skillmatch AI, an LLM/RAG-based job matching platform using FastAPI microservices, Airflow-orchestrated async pipelines, and Pinecone vector search (sub-second retrieval across 50k+ vectors) deployed on GCP with autoscaling. Also partnered directly with a cancer researcher to automate SEER + PubMed-driven report generation via an AI pipeline, emphasizing rapid prototyping and outcome-focused communication.”

“Built a production AI pipeline at EyCrowd to automatically grade shaky outdoor user-submitted brand videos using CV + CLIP/BLIP and a LangChain RAG layer per brand, with GPT-4 generating structured JSON explanations and grades. Optimized for latency and cost (batch PyTorch inference, caching), cutting review time from ~8 minutes to <2 minutes while reaching ~90% alignment with human graders and supporting thousands of videos/day.”

“Backend engineer who built an Emergency Alert System with Virginia Tech for the City of Alexandria, focusing on real-time ingestion, secure dashboards, and AI-assisted prioritization. Emphasizes high-stakes reliability with guardrails (hybrid rules+LLM, confidence-based fallbacks), scalable async processing, and defense-in-depth security (JWT/RBAC plus database row-level security).”

“Founding engineer with strong end-to-end product delivery across IoT + mobile + serverless cloud: built firmware for a Bluetooth-connected device (ESP32), a native Swift iOS app, and an AWS serverless backend (API Gateway/Lambda/SQS/SNS/DynamoDB) including payments via Stripe. Also shipped a separate startup product in 6 months: a React visual tool that generated HTTP/REST APIs with a Django backend, admin panel, and a code-generating CLI.”

“Built an "Offline Study Assistant" that runs LLM inference locally on a 5-year-old Android device using Llama.cpp and the Android NDK, achieving a 27x speedup and cutting time-to-first-token from 11 minutes to 30 seconds. Also has applied backend/API experience with FastAPI, Supabase (Auth + RLS), and production hardening of a RAG system at Hashmint using Celery and Redis to eliminate PDF-processing-related query failures.”

“Technology leader with experience driving multi-year transformations at Jewelry Supply, including migrating a legacy custom e-commerce platform to SaaS and leading a 3-year ERP program from requirements through implementation and training. Also led a major architecture shift from self-hosted virtualized infrastructure to cloud Kubernetes with a strong DevOps/DevEx focus, emphasizing stakeholder buy-in and scalable processes for distributed engineering teams.”

“Hands-on builder and workshop facilitator focused on getting LLM/agentic and dev-tools products from prototype to production. Has delivered iterative production deployments for a construction client (estimating/invoicing on EC2), debugs LLM regressions with monitoring plus prompt optimization, and has facilitated multiple developer workshops while helping founders improve onboarding and time-to-first-success using tools like PostHog.”

“Gameplay/systems developer with shipped VR experience on Meta Quest (Litesport), owning a real-time workout scoring and progression system end-to-end including hit validation, HUD/UI, session state, and persistence. Known for event-driven architecture that decouples gameplay from UI, data-driven tunables for multiple modes, and rigorous VR performance work to hold 72 FPS using on-device profiling and debugging.”

“QA automation-focused candidate with hands-on ownership of unit and integration test suites, including CI/CD integration in GitLab. Caught a database-query regression that would have shipped incomplete API data by relying on automated integration tests, and has practical Cypress experience stabilizing flaky tests using cy.intercept()/cy.wait() and stable selectors.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with strong Linux production operations experience, deploying microservices to AWS on Docker/Kubernetes. Has built and operated secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and Terraform IaC workflows with approvals, remote state, and drift detection, and has hands-on incident recovery experience in containerized environments; limited direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA exposure.”

“Backend developer (recent co-op at Ticker) building and architecting financial backend services with near real-time data needs, including third-party API integrations. Improved performance and reliability via Redis caching (tiered refresh + TTL) and PostgreSQL query tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE + composite indexes), and has exposure to AI-agent/RAG concepts for validating stock-market information against trusted sources.”

“Backend-focused TypeScript/Node.js engineer who owned a production microservice for transactional workflows in a React + microservices platform, integrating REST and Kafka event processing. Emphasizes operability and correctness (idempotency keys, exponential backoff retries, DLQs, centralized logging/metrics/alerts) plus strong API DX via versioning and Swagger/OpenAPI with improved error contracts based on developer feedback.”

“Research assistant at St. Louis University who built and deployed a production document-intelligence RAG system (Python/TensorFlow, vector DB, FastAPI) on AWS, focusing on grounding to reduce hallucinations and latency optimization via caching/async/batching. Also developed a personalized recommendation system for the Frenzy social platform and partnered closely with product/UX to define metrics and iterate on hybrid recommenders and cold-start handling.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including an AI request-routing service (FastAPI + BART MNLI + OpenAI/Gemini) that improved accuracy ~25% after launch via eval-driven prompt/category iteration. Also built an enterprise document intelligence/RAG platform on Azure (Blob/SharePoint/Teams ingestion, OCR/NLP chunking, embeddings in Azure Cognitive Search) with PII guardrails (Presidio), confidence gating, and scalable event-driven pipelines handling millions of documents.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/AI platform experience (Humana), owning an end-to-end high-risk patient prediction feature from React dashboards through FastAPI/TensorFlow real-time inference to AWS EKS operations. Emphasizes production reliability and contract-driven APIs (OpenAPI + generated TS types), plus strong data integration patterns (Kafka, idempotency, DLQs, backfills) in regulated, high-traffic environments.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across React/TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS (EC2/ECS/RDS/CloudWatch), including CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Delivered a secure RBAC workflow module end-to-end and achieved measurable gains (~30–40% latency reduction, ~50% error reduction) that lowered infra/ops costs. Comfortable in high-ambiguity startup environments—shipped a payment module within 2 days of joining with no documentation.”