Vetted REST API Professionals

“At CVS Health, the candidate productionized a RAG-based LLM solution in a regulated healthcare setting, emphasizing reliable data pipelines, LoRA fine-tuning, monitoring, safety guardrails, and A/B testing. They have hands-on experience troubleshooting real-time RAG failures (e.g., chunking/embedding issues) and regularly lead developer-focused demos/workshops while translating technical architecture into business value for stakeholders.”

“Backend engineer with experience building Spring Boot microservices for financial workflows at Fizzle (thousands of requests/minute) and shipping healthcare data validation automation at CVS Health. Demonstrates strong production reliability/performance skills—deep in database tuning (query plans, indexing, caching, denormalization), observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and resilient multi-step workflow design with retries and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused engineer with production ownership in multi-account AWS environments (GE) and EKS-based platforms (Lumeus.ai). Strong in incident response and reliability—diagnosed IAM-driven serverless failures (SQS/Lambda) and Kubernetes deployment issues (CrashLoopBackOff, memory pressure) with rollbacks, policy fixes, and improved monitoring. Built secure Jenkins CI/CD and delivered infrastructure via CloudFormation and Terraform for serverless and EKS stacks.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Capital One and Prime Softech owning production systems end-to-end: secure authentication (Java/Spring Security + React/Redux) through AWS ECS deployments with Terraform and CI/CD. Strong reliability/observability focus (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK/CloudWatch) with quantified improvements (15% reliability gain, 30% fewer post-release defects). Also led legacy monolith-to-microservices refactors and built real-time Kafka/Spark ingestion pipelines for analytics/fraud detection.”

“Full-stack engineer with payments-domain experience from ACI Worldwide who shipped an end-to-end MFA system for payment workflows (React/TypeScript + backend APIs + Postgres), then owned it in production with logging/monitoring and client adoption tracking. Also improved checkout responsiveness across Apple Pay/PayPal flows via React performance profiling, component refactors, and state/network optimizations.”

“Full-stack engineer experienced shipping production SaaS dashboards with Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining Server Components for initial data loads with interactive client-side analytics. Strong performance/operability focus (reported ~40% UI latency reduction) and deep backend fundamentals across Postgres schema/query optimization and Kafka-based event-driven microservices with idempotency, retries, and DLQs.”

“Full-stack engineer currently at Southern Glazer’s who built and owned a real-time commercial finance expense analytics dashboard end-to-end (Next.js App Router + TypeScript), including post-launch monitoring, data quality checks, and stakeholder-driven iteration. Strong data/analytics backend experience (Postgres modeling and Databricks Delta Lake pipelines) with demonstrated performance wins—e.g., cutting a key reconciliation query from 8–12s to <400ms and improving frontend load time ~40% with a 25% bounce-rate drop at Verizon.”

“Research Assistant at the University of Houston who built and live-deployed a production RAG system for 1000+ research documents, using hybrid retrieval (dense+BM25+RRF) with cross-encoder reranking and RAGAS-based evaluation; reported 66% MRR, 0.85+ faithfulness, and 68% lower LLM inference costs. Also built a deployed LangGraph multi-agent research system (Researcher/Critic/Writer) with tool integrations (Tavily, arXiv) and dual memory (ChromaDB + Neo4j), plus freelance automation work delivering a WhatsApp chatbot and n8n workflows for a wholesale clothing business.”

“Built and deployed a live production LLM document Q&A platform (DocumindAI) with an adaptive RAG pipeline (Claude + Cohere embeddings + pgvector), source-cited structured outputs, and engineered fallbacks for reliability and sub-2s latency. Also has enterprise integration experience at Tech Mahindra working with messy IFS ERP XML integrations, using validation/normalization and JTA transactions to prevent partial writes and data corruption.”

“Data engineer focused on sales/marketing analytics pipelines, owning ingestion from CRMs/ad platforms through warehouse serving and dashboards at ~hundreds of thousands of records/day. Built reliability-focused systems including dbt/SQL/Python data quality gates with alerting, a resilient web-scraping pipeline (retries/backoff, anti-bot tactics, schema-change detection, backfills), and a versioned internal REST API with caching and strong developer usability.”

“Accenture consultant who shipped an LLM-based production solution during a client cloud migration to parse application code and identify only the database objects actually used, cutting migration time by 30% and accelerating realization of cloud cost benefits. Emphasizes production robustness with timeouts/retries/fallback routing, validation, observability, and a disciplined eval/monitoring loop that turns failures into regression tests.”

Ishaan Umesh Mandliya

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud-native systems

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“At BondiTech, built and deployed customer-facing backend improvements for enterprise dashboards handling 1M+ records, redesigning a .NET/Entity Framework API with server-side pagination/filtering and feature-flagged rollout to cut latency from ~15s to ~2s. Experienced integrating customer systems into existing APIs, including stabilizing a legacy CRM sync by normalizing inconsistent IDs, handling strict rate limits with batching, and adding DLQs plus reconciliation reporting.”

Bhakti Patel

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in .NET, Python, and cloud-native systems

Worcester, MA11y exp

“Full-stack engineer who owned an end-to-end production feature for a Piraeus Bank stock exchange module, spanning React/TypeScript, backend services, and cloud operations with Docker + CI/CD, delivering reported 90% faster API responses and improved uptime. Also built a Smartwound research MVP on AWS, creating a Python image-processing/scoring pipeline to ship despite unclear image-analysis specs.”

Rayyan Alam

Screened

Junior Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in autonomy and RAG systems

Arlington, VA1y exp

“New-grad robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 autonomy experience (Nav2, SLAM Toolbox, AMCL) and a strong track record debugging real-world instability (QoS, lifecycle timing, sensor dropouts). Built an HRI speech system on a Stretch 3 robot with deterministic, context-aware templates to manipulate trust/competence/emotion conditions, and integrated an LLM high-level planner that outputs PDDL for classical task planning and replanning.”

Vansh Amara

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and robotics infrastructure

Madison, WI1y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 experience building real-time perception/control infrastructure and multi-sensor fusion (radar/ultrasonic + GNSS/IMU) with deterministic latency and safety fallbacks. Debugged rover navigation drift via rosbag replay and timing analysis, improving state estimation by gating GNSS and switching to SLAM when GPS degraded. Also brings strong distributed-systems and build/CI tooling experience (gRPC/Protobuf, Docker, Bazel cross-compilation for ARM/RISC-V, GitHub Actions).”

Rong Hu

Screened

Junior Robotics Data Engineer specializing in multi-sensor perception datasets

Milpitas, CA2y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on perception data pipelines and multi-robot coordination. Built ROS 2 (rclpy) nodes for synchronized RGB/ToF/pose processing and scaled a perception training data generation pipeline from single-object to multi-object while preserving backward compatibility. Also has strong DevOps experience deploying containerized APIs on Kubernetes with Kustomize and automated releases via GitHub Actions.”

Michael Chaves

Screened

Senior Creative Technologist & Full-Stack UX Engineer specializing in Generative AI and XR

Los Altos, CA12y exp

“Design engineer/product designer who built an end-to-end creator + review/moderation system for a UGC platform, spanning automated checks, human QA, final review, and creator feedback. Comfortable working directly with HTML/CSS/TypeScript and component systems, using prototyping and field observation to reduce reviewer hesitation, improve consistency, and prevent creator errors upstream.”

Jorge Mendoza

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in Python, AWS serverless, and data workflows

Remote11y exp

“Backend/data engineer from ALDI Tech Hub who modernized legacy analytics (Excel/SAS) into production-grade Python services on AWS serverless (FastAPI on Lambda behind API Gateway with Step Functions). Strong in reliability and operations (Cognito auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, CloudWatch alarms) and data pipelines (Glue ETL with schema evolution); delivered measurable SQL tuning gains (30s to 2s, 70% CPU reduction).”

Sanjana Kirthi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend platforms and cloud-native systems

USA3y exp

“Backend engineer from Emphasis who modernized legacy, tightly coupled workflow systems into observable, event-driven microservices using Kafka. Led a monolith-to-microservices refactor with shadow traffic, feature flags, canary rollout, dual writes, and reconciliation, and strengthened reliability with idempotent consumers, DLQ/replay, and an outbox pattern to prevent DB/event inconsistency. Strong focus on secure multi-tenant APIs (OIDC/JWT, RBAC/ABAC, Supabase-style RLS) and frontend enablement via OpenAPI and typed client generation.”

Rushwant K

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and microservices

United States, Remote4y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Discover, Dell, and Carpus building high-concurrency microservices and secure APIs. Delivered measurable impact in fintech workflows by integrating credit bureaus (TransUnion/Experian), cutting loan processing from days to minutes and reducing latency 65% through PostgreSQL tuning and caching. Strong in production security patterns (JWT/RBAC, Postgres row-level security for multi-tenant isolation) and low-risk migrations (shadow mode + incremental rollout).”

Sai Venkata Sathwik Golla

Screened

Mid-level Backend & Applied ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and scalable APIs

Palo Alto, CA3y exp

“Backend engineer who significantly evolved an internal analytics/reporting platform (Python API + Postgres) powering self-service dashboards for product/business teams, focusing on reliability under heavy concurrent load and fast query performance. Demonstrates strong production engineering practices across API design (FastAPI), observability, incremental rollouts with feature flags, and data security using JWT/RBAC plus Postgres row-level security.”

Gabriel Hatewa

Screened

Senior Customer Success Engineer specializing in SaaS and FinTech client solutions

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“AppSec-focused customer-facing practitioner with Worldpay experience advising clients on fraud reduction via stronger transaction validation and monitoring, translating technical controls into quantified business risk to secure buy-in. Has quickly learned and supported SonarQube in production by integrating it into CI/CD and guiding remediation, and has implemented security integrations in Kubernetes with secrets management and observability while resolving RBAC/network policy issues.”

Shashank Venkataramana

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure and data platforms

Scottsdale, AZ4y exp

“Backend/infra-focused software engineer who built an autonomous Python API-orchestration agent using asyncio with strong reliability and observability (trace IDs, structured logs, retries/timeouts) and containerized dev workflow. Experienced deploying Python services to Kubernetes with Helm and running GitOps CI/CD via ArgoCD, plus leading an AWS IAM-to-Identity Center migration using CloudTrail-driven least-privilege role design. Also built and debugged a Kafka/SnapLogic bidirectional pipeline syncing Redshift and HBase, resolving missing-record issues via Kibana-driven investigation.”