Vetted REST API Professionals

“Healthcare-focused ML/LLM engineer who built a production hybrid RAG workflow to automate prior authorization by retrieving from medical guidelines/historical cases (FAISS) and generating grounded rationales for clinicians. Strong in operationalizing ML with Airflow/Kubeflow/MLflow on SageMaker, optimizing latency (ONNX/quantization/async), and reducing hallucinations via evidence-only prompting; also partnered closely with clinical ops to deploy a readmission prediction tool used in daily rounds.”

“CloudData engineer who productionized an LLM assistant for a warehouse/logistics customer by wrapping it as a versioned, containerized API with guardrails, deterministic post-processing, and full observability. Experienced diagnosing real-time RAG/agentic incidents (latency spikes and confident-wrong answers) using trace-based isolation, replay in staging, retrieval tuning, and canary releases. Regularly runs technical demos/workshops and partners with sales on security/IAM, SLAs, and pilot rollouts to drive adoption.”

“Security-focused engineer/customer-facing technical lead with SaaS platform experience at Ipsilon Lab, advising customers on API security and secure SDLC improvements. Has implemented production AppSec tooling (SAST/SCA), designed AWS least-privilege agent/scanning deployments, and led Kubernetes CI/CD security-agent integrations with Secrets Manager and PR gating. Strong track record troubleshooting complex customer integrations end-to-end (logs/metrics/traces through DB execution plans) and driving measurable stability/security posture improvements.”

“QA automation engineer with hands-on ownership of both UI and API test automation, including building an API test module from scratch to validate all Swagger-exposed endpoints with positive/negative coverage and pairwise optimization. Experienced stabilizing flaky Cypress tests through improved selectors (data-cy) and API-call synchronization, and integrating tiered test suites into GitLab CI with merge/release gates plus JUnit/HTML reporting and Slack notifications.”

“Built a contract and customer documentation retrieval solution for Urban Studio, designing a RAG + Elasticsearch hybrid search stack (RRF + cross-encoder reranking) with a strong emphasis on chunking/data quality and hallucination reduction. Experienced in diagnosing LLM workflow issues via observability traces and tailoring technical demos to developer concerns like reliability and high concurrency.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Western Union and Aptly (for Microsoft), building production systems spanning React/TypeScript frontends and .NET Core/microservices backends. Has delivered an engineer-facing diagnostics/configuration console with TanStack Query caching/background refresh and has hands-on experience hardening transaction-processing workflows with Kafka, Azure Functions, and Resilience4j, plus Postgres modeling and query optimization.”

“Backend engineer who evolved Coca-Cola bottlers' Trade Promotion Optimization platform at Coke One North America, building domain-focused microservices in Node.js and Python (Flask/FastAPI) with PostgreSQL. Experienced in multi-tenant security (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, row-level scoping by bottler/region), API contract/versioning discipline, and Azure DevOps-driven incremental rollouts with strong observability.”

“Built multiple systems from scratch at DSSD and Aglint, including an NGO sustainability reporting dashboard and a production LLM-powered phone screening agent using Twilio/Retell AI with RAG grounded in PostgreSQL candidate/job data. Strong focus on real-world reliability: guardrails, monitoring, and lightweight eval/regression loops that reduced recruiter score overrides by ~30%. Currently on OPT through May 2026 (plans STEM OPT extension) and committed to relocating to NYC for in-person work; seeking $90k–$120k base with meaningful equity for founding engineer roles.”

“Backend engineer focused on real-time, event-driven systems (Java microservices) handling high-frequency data with low-latency and reliability requirements. Strong in Kafka-based asynchronous architectures, Redis caching, JVM/query tuning, and scalable deployments on Docker/Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD; no direct ROS/robotics experience but has closely related distributed communication patterns.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong DevOps/AWS experience who ships end-to-end React/TypeScript + Node/Python systems and operates them in production. Built an LLM-assisted recommendations workflow for a SaaS product with robust reliability controls (schema-validated JSON outputs, fallbacks, caching, monitoring) and measured impact via adoption, time saved, and override rates; also experienced delivering MVPs fast in early-stage startup ambiguity.”

“Built Meet.AI end-to-end and made concrete architecture/performance decisions (RPC with type-safe integration; SSR + query prefetching for instant data display). Also created a Python tool at Abbott to resynchronize Ansible inventories and eliminate manual intervention by scheduling it in a Jenkins pipeline; has hands-on Docker/microservices experience including serving a pretrained LLM.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Azure and AWS: built FastAPI + PostgreSQL services with Azure AD OAuth2/JWT auth and strong reliability patterns (timeouts, retries, correlation IDs). Delivered AWS Lambda/ECS solutions with Terraform/CI-CD and cost controls (SQS buffering, reserved concurrency), and built/operated AWS Glue ETL pipelines into Redshift while modernizing legacy SAS reporting into Python microservices with parity testing.”

“Backend engineer with legal-tech and AI workflow experience: built JurisAI, an end-to-end legal research system using OCR + embeddings + Pinecone vector search to deliver citation-grounded LLM answers with safe failure modes (~90% recall@K). Also led a GW Law metadata migration into Caspio with batch validation and parallel rollout, and has strong FastAPI/GCP production reliability and observability practices.”

“Built and deployed production NLP/LLM systems including a multilingual (5-language) health misinformation detection pipeline with latency optimization (batching/quantization/caching) and explainability (gradient-based attention visualizations). Experienced orchestrating end-to-end AI workflows with Airflow and Prefect, and partnering with customer support ops to deliver an AI agent for ticket summarization and priority classification with clear, measurable acceptance criteria.”

“Backend/data engineer who has built production AI video generation services on AWS using a hybrid serverless + container architecture (FastAPI, Lambda, ECS, Postgres/Redis) with strong reliability practices (auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, CloudWatch + Slack alerting). Also delivered AWS Glue ETL pipelines with schema evolution handling and modernized a legacy SAS healthcare reporting workflow to Python with parity validation and parallel-run migration.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an AI-based inventory/procurement query system at Botlily/Botlerly using Flask and Google Sheets as a live knowledge base, overcoming Sheets latency with caching and structured in-memory models. Demonstrated strong LLM product engineering (40% accuracy improvement via preprocessing/prompting) and customer-driven iteration with bar/restaurant owners, evolving the tool into a more comprehensive inventory management and forecasting solution.”

“Frontend product builder who has shipped and maintained a two-mobile-app ecosystem (user + employee) backed by Node.js, emphasizing separation of concerns, shared libraries for reuse, and TypeScript type safety. Re-architected a Sunmor Research codebase using MVC, improving readability and collaboration and taking the product from unusable to working, with a strong regression-testing mindset and customer-feedback-driven iteration.”

“Led an end-to-end build of bhangrascape.ca, making key architecture choices across Next.js/Node/Postgres on AWS and implementing S3-based media storage with presigned URLs. Strong focus on quality and reliability via Zod validation, Jest tests, Postman endpoint testing, and CI/CD with GitHub Actions, plus hands-on UX ownership from Figma prototyping through reusable React components and A/B testing.”

“Built and deployed a production GenAI resume screening and matching system for Florida Atlantic University, focused on improving recruiter efficiency and search relevance. Demonstrates strong RAG engineering (embeddings, query rewriting, metadata filtering, threshold tuning) plus practical reliability work (grounding constraints, fallbacks, and evaluation using real user queries) using Python REST APIs and orchestration frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex.”

“Built a production Apple-focused LLM Q&A bot that answers user issues using similar past discussion records, including large-scale scraping and cleaning of thousands of forum threads. Used BeautifulSoup + Playwright for static/dynamic extraction, PySpark + NLP for preprocessing, and LangChain RAG with a custom response-likeliness metric to evaluate performance.”

“Founding engineer at a startup building LLM/agentic workflows for public-safety customers, with hands-on experience delivering a hybrid on-prem + secure cloud solution to meet strict compliance needs. Implemented OpenTelemetry observability for multimodal agentic systems behind closed networks and used the resulting traces to optimize prompting/token usage for customer-specific security integrations. Regularly runs technical workshops and supports pre/post-sales by translating integration feedback into product roadmap decisions.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent enterprise experience building Spring Boot/Spring Cloud microservices on AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) and a React/TypeScript frontend. Has hands-on experience solving microservice communication timeouts via API Gateway/load balancing and implementing centralized JWT-based security, plus performance work for large data workloads using indexing, caching, and async processing.”

“Early-career engineer who built a self-directed production-grade security scanning/analysis pipeline that normalizes multi-scanner results, correlates CVEs, and uses an LLM to generate exploit hypotheses—then hardened it for real-world reliability (timeouts, confidence scoring, feature flags, graceful degradation). Also integrated a real-time audio ML model into Discord/Zoom and debugged intermittent latency/dropouts across Python inference, virtual audio drivers, and network jitter; experienced with IAM integrations (Entra ID/Salesforce) and cloud tooling (AWS/Docker/Kubernetes).”