Vetted REST API Professionals

“Software engineer (Lance Soft Engineering) who built a Java/gRPC real-time request tracking system supporting ~20K simultaneous requests, using Kafka event streaming and PostgreSQL to improve transparency and cut support requests by 35%. Demonstrates strong production operations skills—resolved live latency spikes with Kafka async messaging (+48% throughput) and executed safe migrations using parallel runs, staging validation, and blue-green deployments.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across frontend, backend, and cloud ops. Led an AdTech “Status Centre” initiative at Beautiful Code that automated DSP integrations (XML/SOAP/REST) and reduced manual work by 90%+, using an event-driven architecture with retries and OTEL/Datadog observability. Also built and hosted a MERN app (Onegrad), load-tested with k6, and has experience running large migrations (~8k users) with validation and alerting.”

“Built a production AI-powered university marking system that automates question generation and grading from PDF course materials using a RAG pipeline (S3 + Pinecone) orchestrated with LangChain/LangGraph and deployed on AWS ECS via Docker/ECR and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Addressed a key real-world LLM challenge—grading consistency—by implementing rubric-based scoring, retrieval re-ranking, and standardized context summarization, validated against human instructors.”

“PhD in computer engineering who has built production-oriented ML/NLP systems for space-weather prediction using Spark-based ETL on noisy satellite sensor logs. Strong in entity resolution and semantic search—fine-tuned E5 embeddings with contrastive learning and deployed to Pinecone, improving top-5 retrieval precision by 25%—and emphasizes scalable, observable pipelines with Airflow, Docker, and CI/CD.”

“Built and owned Python backend APIs for real-time educational dashboards at ASU’s Machine Learning lab, improving responsiveness by cutting latency ~35% through caching, batching, and profiling-driven optimizations. Has hands-on experience containerizing Node.js/Python services and running GitOps-style CI/CD with GitHub Actions, plus supporting smaller infrastructure transitions with reproducible, portable configs.”

“Frontend-leaning engineer who shipped an end-to-end map-based discovery feature in a React Native mobile app, integrating location-based REST APIs with strong UX polish (loading/empty/error states) and cross-platform performance fixes. Also has experience building a Python backend with JWT auth and layered service structure, plus prior infrastructure work setting up centralized logging and monitoring.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/ops analytics experience at PatientXpress, shipping a real-time operational dashboard end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres on AWS) that cut manual reporting by 50%. Strong in performance and reliability work—pagination/caching, Postgres indexing/partitioning, Terraform-based AWS provisioning, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and production incident response with improved monitoring (CloudWatch/Prometheus).”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with strong performance and reliability instincts: improved production page responsiveness by 15% via lazy loading and render optimization, and built a polished React+TypeScript filtering dashboard with URL-synced state for shareable views. Also designed and operated a Django REST backend with versioning, token auth, structured logging, and API tests, and has handled real production scaling issues through PostgreSQL query-plan analysis and indexing.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who owned a cloud-native, AWS-based microservices backend for an HRIS product used by ~10,000 users, including onboarding and workflow orchestration. Strong production focus on event-driven architecture, idempotency/retries, observability, and developer-friendly API design (OpenAPI, versioning, JWT), plus hands-on Selenium automation for resilient checkout-style flows.”

“Built and productionized an AI-assisted merchant onboarding automation workflow for Kort Payments, replacing slow manual underwriting document review with structured extraction, cross-document validation, and human-in-the-loop guardrails. Emphasizes reliability via scenario-based testing, repeatability checks, and deep observability (timestamped logs), plus incremental rollout with legacy fallback to prevent regressions.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building partner-facing Python APIs (FastAPI, Celery, Postgres/Redis) and AWS serverless data platforms (Lambda, SQS, Step Functions, Glue). Emphasizes reliability and governance—JWT tenant-scoped auth, secrets/config hygiene, data-quality quarantine, and incident ownership—plus measurable SQL tuning that eliminated timeouts and stabilized reporting workloads.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong AWS operations experience who helped replace a long-standing manual logistics reporting process by building a production-grade, event-driven On-Time-Performance rules system. Personally owned the Vue-based rule configuration frontend end-to-end (design collaboration through QA/UAT and post-release support) and measures success via accuracy validation against historical data, reduced manual adjustments/tickets, and system latency/error metrics.”

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end delivery of internal and analytics dashboards in React + TypeScript, with a strong emphasis on scalable architecture, disciplined state separation, and performance under real-time data loads. Uses practical profiling (React Profiler/DevTools), virtualization, and feature-flagged rollouts with solid QA and rapid post-launch iteration to keep quality high as products scale.”

“Unity gameplay/multiplayer engineer who has architected event-driven systems and built NGO + Steam Relay multiplayer using a command-pattern approach. Experienced scaling Photon-based multiplayer via matchmaking across application instances, and optimizing VR (Meta Quest) and mobile performance by addressing CPU/GPU bottlenecks and GC/memory allocation issues.”

“Unity/VR developer who shipped a Meta Quest 2 immersive 360 training experience for Staffordshire Police as a solo programmer, including biometric gaze/reaction tracking and real-time data capture to an HTTP endpoint. Also building a Tomb Raider-like sci-fi adventure demo (Nexus 7) featuring FSM-driven character logic, motion-capture animation, custom controller optimization, and spline-following AI movement.”