Vetted REST API Professionals

“Software engineer focused on backend/full-stack, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI-related work. Stands out for using AI and multi-agent workflows as an engineering accelerator while maintaining rigorous testing, logging, and system-level validation, including work on telemetry and monitoring platforms where reliability and correctness are critical.”

“Full-stack developer who has built and shipped both traditional web products and AI-powered applications, including a Spotify playlist-combining app, a recruiter-facing RAG chatbot embedded in a portfolio, and a fine-tuned GPT-2 art review generator. Stands out for combining privacy-conscious engineering, practical LLM guardrails, and scrappy production problem-solving—from queue-based inference systems to newsroom digital transformation with multi-tenant WordPress.”

“AI/backend engineer who has built multiple applied AI systems end-to-end, including an underwriting document intelligence copilot, ambient clinical documentation workflows, and a financial analysis agent. Stands out for combining practical LLM architecture choices with reliability mechanisms like human-in-the-loop review, eval frameworks, and grounded retrieval in production settings.”

“Intern-level full-stack engineer who has built across accessibility tech, ad-tech, healthcare software migration, and consumer analytics projects. Stands out for combining hands-on React/frontend work with backend integration, accessibility-aware routing logic, OAuth debugging, and pragmatic product decisions in highly ambiguous environments.”

Rozaliia Russkikh

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI systems

5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience leading early AI product initiatives, including a RAG dashboard prototype and a production-ready agentic workflow integrating Front, Airtable, and Slack. Stands out for combining Angular/TypeScript frontend leadership with FastAPI backend work, plus a strong focus on evals, observability, and hardening LLM systems before launch.”

“AI/full-stack engineer who has built zero-to-one internal products around LLMs, RAG, and NLP pipelines, including a conversational data interface and a production AI agent system. Stands out for combining frontend UX for non-technical users with backend/cloud architecture and measurable impact, including a reported 60% reduction in data retrieval time.”

Abhinava Sai Tirunagari

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, healthcare, and FinTech systems

Gainesville, FL2y exp

“Frontend-leaning software engineer who built significant parts of an AI platform at Cognura Health, translating complex document-processing and extraction workflows into usable browser interfaces for business and operations teams. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript UI ownership with backend API collaboration, performance tuning, and thoughtful UX for asynchronous AI workflows.”

“Full-stack AI engineer who built HireMate end to end using FastAPI, React, and TypeScript to automate resume-to-job matching and tailoring with LLMs. Demonstrates strong practical judgment around grounding, validation, hallucination prevention, and human-in-the-loop design, and has also shipped an early-stage multi-agent rental research workflow that processed 200-300 listings in parallel.”

Dolly Shyam

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI-driven platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend-focused developer with primary experience in Python, Node.js, databases, and API development. Served as the sole backend engineer on a customer dashboard project, owning database review, API endpoint creation, and coordination with frontend developers for integration.”

Lenny Lin

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and distributed systems

Champaign, IL3y exp

“Built and owned a hackathon project (Gritto) with a Python/FastAPI backend that routes user text through a sequence of Gemini agents to produce structured JSON outputs. Has hands-on production deployment experience using Docker/Docker Compose, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS App Runner, MongoDB, and secrets management (Doppler + migration to AWS Secrets Manager), plus implemented a chat-like experience via multiple HTTP requests when SSE wasn’t viable.”

“Software engineer using AI pragmatically to accelerate development while keeping human review central to quality. Has hands-on experience applying AI and lightweight multi-agent workflows in a microservices environment spanning Java Spring Boot APIs, React modules, and Kafka event flows, with strong emphasis on architecture validation and production safeguards.”

Prabhav Karve

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and AI applications

Rochester, NY4y exp

“Data engineer/automation builder with experience at Rochester Regional Health and Accenture, focused on replacing fragile manual reporting with production-grade Azure, Python, and Snowflake pipelines. Stands out for combining strong systems thinking, rigorous validation, and practical AI/LLM usage to drive measurable outcomes, including a 34% throughput improvement and support for regulatory reporting that helped avoid €150M in penalties.”

“Intern/full-stack developer who built a sports player statistics dashboard with Next.js, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Zustand, and PostgreSQL. Demonstrated solid ownership across the stack, including API design, state consistency, production debugging, query/index optimization, and phased zero-downtime schema migrations.”

“Backend/data engineer who helped evolve Bitnimbus LLC’s Kafka-as-a-service MVP from a monolith into an event-driven distributed system, using careful design, parallel rollouts, and idempotent event handling to maintain correctness. Also built production-grade API and database security (JWT scopes, rate limiting, explicit Postgres policies/RLS-style controls) and improved Prometheus monitoring by eliminating false outages via heartbeat metrics and windowed aggregation.”

“Entrepreneur/fintech product builder who raised a $100K pre-seed from ex-Google/Microsoft execs and built a real-time, direct-to-vendor bill pay micropayments platform. Previously helped scale Norton LifeLock to 1M users (2003) and also created Karma LA, a fraud-resistant, verified donation system (including VA veteran verification) aimed at improving trust and conversion in giving.”

“LLM/agentic-systems practitioner who has repeatedly taken LLM-driven pricing/decision services from prototype to production using pilots, guardrails, observability, and staged rollouts. Demonstrates strong real-time incident troubleshooting (dependency timeouts, cached fallbacks) and post-incident hardening (isolation/async/alerts), and also supports go-to-market via developer workshops, technical demos, and sales-aligned POCs.”

“Co-op engineer at EnFi who built and maintained a multi-tenant prompt library and LLM workflow tooling used by internal teams and external enterprise clients. Led TypeScript/React package design and standardized a typed workflow abstraction across disparate implementations (React, Go, JSON), improving reliability and developer adoption. Delivered measurable performance gains (~25% latency reduction) and owned end-to-end execution including docs, demos, debugging, and deployment.”

“Backend engineer working on Plumas Bank’s digital modernization, building a FastAPI-based loan origination/processing system with OAuth2/JWT security, AWS Lambda-driven PDF document generation to S3, and MongoDB integration. Has led a legacy workflow migration to a new microservice using dual-write/dual-read and monitoring, and emphasizes multi-tenant isolation via layered API controls plus row-level security.”

“Backend-focused software engineer building distributed, event-driven Java/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka for low-latency, high-frequency processing. Has hands-on experience modernizing a legacy Java system into containerized microservices deployed on Kubernetes with GitHub Actions CI/CD, and has integrated retrieval-based AI components into production workflows; no ROS/robot hardware experience yet.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer from Valcom who maintained Django/PostgreSQL services for mass-notification/paging servers used by education/commercial/government customers. Notable for hardening authentication and reliability (JWT refresh + rotation tokens, WebSockets/EventStream) and for modernizing a legacy Ext.js/PHP stack into a React + Django architecture with strong CI/testing and production incident ownership.”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building medical RAG systems to automate chart review, including retrieval + re-ranking and rigorous evaluation. Notably uncovered errors/bias in physician-curated ground truth by tracing answers back to source note chunks and presented evidence to an academic partner, accelerating deployment. Also built a RAG-based FAQ chatbot for a health insurance company and delivered it to non-technical stakeholders via demos.”

“Built a production GPT-4/LangChain/Pinecone RAG “AI Copilot” at Northern Trust to automate financial report generation and analyst Q&A over internal structured (SQL warehouse) and unstructured policy data. Focused on real-world production challenges—grounding and latency—achieving major speed gains (seconds to milliseconds) via MiniLM embedding optimization and Redis caching, and implemented rigorous testing/evaluation with MLflow-backed metrics while aligning compliance and finance stakeholders for deployment.”

“Forward-deployed, full-stack/platform engineer who owns production features end-to-end across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure (AWS serverless, Terraform, React). Has modernized critical fintech/payment systems (zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices with Kafka event sourcing) and productionized AI-native support workflows (LLM + RAG on Pinecone) with measurable gains in latency, incidents, CSAT, and support efficiency.”

“LLM/agent engineer who built a production multi-agent research automation system using LangGraph (planner, retriever with FAISS, supervisor, evaluator) with structured outputs and citation tracking for traceable reports. Emphasizes reliability and operations—LangSmith-based observability, multi-level testing, hallucination mitigation, and latency/cost controls—plus prior experience as a Computer Vision Software Engineer at Deepsight AI Labs working directly with non-technical customers.”