Vetted REST API Professionals

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).”

“Analytics-focused candidate with experience building SQL/Python pipelines and dashboards for donor, campaign, and website performance reporting. They have worked with messy multi-source data, standardized metric definitions, and delivered automated reporting that reportedly reduced manual effort by about 80%.”

Praveen LAKSHMAN

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and workflow automation

Birmingham, AL4y exp

“Early-career AI engineer currently pursuing a Master's, with hands-on experience building and improving RAG pipelines using LangChain. They stand out for moving beyond naive retrieval into multi-step retrieval and feedback-loop designs to reduce hallucinations, and are now exploring multi-agent systems with distinct retrieval, coding, and validation roles.”

“Full-stack engineer who described building Matrix, a meeting-room booking system across React, ASP.NET Core, and SQL Server. Stands out for owning the workflow end-to-end, emphasizing backend-enforced booking conflict validation, React performance optimization, and integrations like Google Calendar and email notifications.”

Niranjaan Munuswamy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud and data engineering

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Cigna evolving REST API services backed by PostgreSQL, emphasizing reliability/correctness, scalability, and observability. Has hands-on production experience with FastAPI (contract-first design, Pydantic schemas), performance tuning (indexes, caching), and secure auth patterns (OAuth/JWT, RBAC, row-level security via Supabase), plus low-risk incremental rollouts using feature flags and dual writes.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across Cigna, Cognizant, and a university environment, focused on reliability, distributed systems, and regulated-domain workflows. Stands out for combining Kubernetes/Kafka/AWS infrastructure expertise with a production RAG-based healthcare compliance assistant that cut manual reporting work from 30-45 minutes to under 2 minutes while maintaining strong uptime and data-quality controls.”

Lawrence Prabhakar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in FinTech

USA5y exp

“Engineer with a thoughtful, hands-on approach to AI-assisted software development, treating AI as a force multiplier for debugging, prototyping, and large-codebase work rather than a substitute for judgment. Particularly strong in multi-agent coding workflows, contract-driven development, and maintaining consistency across backend, frontend, and testing through shared schemas and OpenAPI-based coordination.”

Abdur Rahman Shaik

Screened

Mid-level Front-End Software Engineer specializing in browser-based enterprise UI

Hyderabad, India4y exp

“Frontend engineer with strong ownership of complex internal tooling at Phenom, including a high-volume logging and event-trails dashboard used to debug production issues across enterprise clients like MERCK and Regions Bank. Brings a rare mix of UI architecture, browser-performance depth, and product-minded polish, with measurable impact in micro-frontend optimization, developer productivity, and enterprise adoption.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning AI-powered product features and healthcare fraud detection systems. Has built end-to-end LLM-enabled applications, customer-facing recommendation systems at scale, and operational platforms that improved real-time investigations and flagged over 1,200 high-risk cases quarterly.”

Janki Mehta

Screened

Senior Frontend React Developer specializing in scalable web applications

Fremont, CA10y exp

“Frontend-focused product engineer in healthcare who has owned patient/provider scheduling experiences end-to-end, from product requirements and API design through React implementation, deployment, and post-launch measurement. Particularly strong in real-time operational dashboards, performance optimization, and cross-functional work with backend and product teams on complex scheduling workflows.”

“Frontend/product engineer with strong Angular and TypeScript experience who has owned internal products like a configuration-driven reporting platform and bulk-operation workflows end to end. Stands out for combining product ownership, backend/API collaboration, and AI-powered analytics work, including a Gemini-based sentiment dashboard that helps the business mine user feedback for retention and subscription insights.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer with strong AWS/Snowflake experience who built an internal feature flag platform and helped migrate a cybersecurity insights product into a multi-agent AI chat interface. They report production scale of 1M+ embeddings and 50k+ monthly queries, with outcomes including an 80% reduction in analyst work and dashboard generation in 7 minutes; the work was also featured by Claude and AWS.”

“Early-career/new-grad candidate who built TrendScout AI, an evidence-first market intelligence agent that ingests messy news, extracts entities/events, builds a Neo4j knowledge graph, and answers questions via RAG with citations. Achieved ~95% retrieval relevance by combining ChromaDB semantic search with graph-based retrieval and validating outputs through human evaluation and guardrails to prevent hallucinations.”

“Full-stack and AI-focused builder who has shipped both customer-facing personalization at AT&T and internal LLM-powered automation/agent systems in startup environments. Stands out for combining TypeScript-heavy engineering rigor with practical AI orchestration, evaluation, and measurable business impact—from reducing support escalation through personalization to saving 10-11 hours per week by automating fragmented operational workflows.”

Mayur Jain

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, blockchain, and cloud systems

Akron, OH5y exp

“Founding engineer who has built core product and backend architecture from scratch at two startups, spanning a full-stack NFT marketplace and an AI voice assistant for sales qualification and scheduling. Brings 5+ years of full-stack experience with strong React/TypeScript and Python backend depth, plus hands-on production experience with LLM workflows, evaluation, and AI-assisted developer tooling.”

Shreya Kamath

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered web platforms

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with a strong blend of fintech and applied AI experience, having built a Stripe-based payments platform end to end and shipped an AI meeting intelligence system using LiveKit, Deepgram, and OpenAI. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can design reliable backend systems, productionize LLM features, and operate effectively in early-stage, ambiguous environments.”

Sai Naveen Reddy Reganti

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and Healthcare systems

null4y exp

“Full-stack engineer working on customer-facing utility and banking platforms, with hands-on experience across React/React Native, Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django, AWS, and SQL performance tuning. Stands out for owning production systems end to end, improving CI/CD and deployment reliability, and delivering a measurable database optimization that cut CPU utilization from about 80% to 40%.”

Bibek Poudel

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and E-commerce

Artesia, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning enterprise AI and e-commerce, including building an agentic orchestration platform and owning a RAG system pipeline at JP Morgan Chase. Stands out for combining React/Node backend delivery with LLM security work, RBAC-heavy system design, and practical SQL/query optimization in production.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer at a B2B startup who ships high-stakes customer-facing features fast: delivered a Spanish AI support agent in 2 weeks by benchmarking LLMs and using native Spanish system prompts, reaching 90% resolution. Built the company’s first monetization system (hybrid subscription + usage) with Stripe/Firebase, emphasizing secure JWT-based flows and idempotent webhooks, and led a microservices decoupling effort that cut developer onboarding time by 50%.”

“Backend engineer from Optum who built and optimized a real-time, Kafka-driven healthcare claims processing platform handling 1M+ claims/month. Strong in reliability, state management, and observability for distributed systems, plus production deployment automation with Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD; no direct ROS/robotics simulator experience yet but frames work in robotics-adjacent real-time principles.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for healthcare teams (care managers/support) to answer questions from clinical and policy documentation, emphasizing trustworthiness via improved retrieval, reranking, and strict grounding prompts to reduce hallucinations. Also has hands-on orchestration experience with Apache Airflow for end-to-end ETL/ML workflows and applies rigorous testing/metrics (hallucination rate, tool-call accuracy, latency, cost) to ensure reliable AI agent behavior.”