Vetted REST API Professionals

“Full-stack product engineer with a strong real-time systems focus: built and rolled out a WebSocket-based notifications system (with robust reconnect/resync and event ordering protections) that cut update latency to under 200ms. Also owned a workflow automation platform backend in FastAPI (JWT/RBAC, versioned APIs, standardized errors), designed the PostgreSQL schema for workflows/tasks/executions, and operated deployments on AWS ECS Fargate with blue-green CI/CD and performance stabilization via caching and autoscaling.”

“Solo builder of OGym, shipping production AI features for gyms that turn member behavior/health data (workouts, attendance, nutrition, payments, device metrics) into prioritized, actionable owner and member insights. Designed and implemented FastAPI backends, PostgreSQL-based RAG workflows, guardrails (RBAC/validation/rate limiting), and real-user evaluation loops, with a strong focus on latency/cost optimization and reliable data pipelines.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered customer support assistant using a Python/FastAPI backend with RAG (embeddings + vector search) over internal docs and product/operational data. Instrumented the system with logging/metrics and ran continuous eval loops; post-launch improvements focused on retrieval quality (chunking/ranking) and performance/cost tradeoffs (query classification, caching, validation guardrails).”

“Machine learning lab assistant at Eastern Illinois University who productionized a voice-enabled conversational AI system: redesigned it with RAG, LoRA fine-tuning (including text-to-SQL), and safety guardrails, then deployed a scalable API supporting ~1,000 daily queries. Also partnered with customer-facing teams during a BlueFi internship by building demos/APIs and accelerating releases via Terraform + AWS CI/CD automation.”

“Backend/integration-focused software engineer who built and debugged a complex location modeling system (data pipelines, APIs, optimization logic connected to a dashboard). No direct ROS/robotics experience yet, but demonstrates strong distributed-systems debugging, containerized deployment (Docker), and CI/CD/testing practices and is actively looking to pivot into robotics software.”

“Backend engineer with production ERP experience deploying microservices and improving performance/reliability using a metrics-driven approach (logs, latency, error rates). Has hands-on cloud/hybrid operations across AWS and Azure with Docker/Kubernetes, and has resolved real-world mobile sync issues by tuning timeouts/retries and reducing payload sizes. Builds configurable Python services to deliver customer-specific behavior without destabilizing the core codebase.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on climate/emissions data platforms, building production Python (FastAPI) microservices and AWS serverless/ETL pipelines (Glue/Athena/Lambda/EventBridge). Demonstrated strong reliability and observability practices plus measurable optimization wins, including cutting PostgreSQL query runtimes from minutes to seconds and reducing AWS costs from ~$6k/month to ~$400/month.”

“Backend/data engineer with healthcare/medical-device experience who scaled a HIPAA-constrained local data platform to 50k users and 1B+ records, boosting processing from <500 to ~50k datapoints/sec using sharding, indexing, and SQL over Parquet (DuckDB). Strong security and reliability focus (JWT/RLS, least privilege, heavy unit/E2E testing) and a TypeScript specialist who uses type design to eliminate edge-case failures.”

“Unity/C# game developer/designer who created a lobby “Race” minigame that incentivized core gameplay engagement; leadership reported roughly a $10k weekly revenue intake increase after release. Has foundational networking experience (sockets, REST) and self-taught Photon, and uses AI tools to quickly refresh and implement newer Unity systems like the Input System.”

“Mobile/frontend engineer with hands-on ownership of major app initiatives, including migrating a telecom app from Ionic to React Native using an MVVM architecture and Jest unit testing. Built complex airline app experiences in React + TypeScript (booking, seat maps, Stripe payments) and improved maintainability by replacing a complex Redux-like booking flow with a simpler Context-based system; experienced working both as a solo mobile developer and within Agile teams using Jira/Notion.”

“Frontend-focused early-career developer who led a student club web app from stakeholder discovery and Figma UX/UI through a scalable React + TypeScript build, emphasizing accessibility, reusable components, and tight API alignment with backend. Also has freelance experience translating non-technical client needs into polished sites (including Wix) and has refactored/optimized an existing codebase for maintainability and performance.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal document Q&A system using LangChain, vector search, and a dockerized FastAPI LLM service. Focused on reliability by systematically reducing hallucinations and improving retrieval through prompt grounding/abstention strategies, chunking and top-k tuning, and iterative evaluation with logged metrics and manual validation.”

“Built a voice-driven desktop assistant for users with mobility impairments, integrating Whisper and Google Gemini and adding voice-authentication via speaker embeddings for secure command execution. Has hands-on experience with AWS serverless/microservices patterns (Lambda, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch) and CI/CD, plus built an internal MySQL-to-MongoDB migration tool used by the CTO and dev team with an emphasis on safe, low-impact data transformation.”

“ML/NLP engineer who has built production systems end-to-end: a real-time recommendation platform (100k+ profiles) using BERTopic-style clustering and a RAG-based news summarization/recommendation stack with ChromaDB. Strong focus on scaling and reliability (GPU batching, Redis caching, Kafka ingestion, Docker/Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana) and on maintaining model quality over time via drift monitoring and retraining triggers.”

“Application-focused engineer who has shipped end-to-end products across mobile and web, including a music-based dating app feature for sending searchable/previewable songs in chat and a geospatial events service integrating external APIs. Demonstrates strong product + engineering instincts: performance-minded PostgreSQL modeling, Dockerized deployments with env-based config, and UX/accessibility polish backed by user studies, plus hands-on incident mitigation using Vercel logs.”

“Python/Django backend engineer with open-source experience upgrading Archivematica to Django 4.2 LTS, including resolving a tricky breaking change in datetime parsing by implementing a preservation-safe legacy timestamp conversion layer. Also built a cost-efficient, reproducible Small Language Model (Microsoft Phi-3) fine-tuning pipeline that turns CSV product data into a domain-specific searchable Q&A chatbot, with emphasis on memory optimization and overfitting prevention.”

“Full-stack developer who owned and shipped an end-to-end web application for LeafNBeyond (React/Node/Postgres), deployed to production at leafnbeyond.com, with reported 35% sales growth and strong UX feedback. Also built Azure-based ETL pipelines using lakehouse/medallion architecture with validation and retry logic, and has AWS fundamentals from a master’s coursework (EC2, RDS, IAM, load balancing).”

“Student full-stack builder shipping real products: a mobile app (Sirat) where they delivered end-to-end theme settings with testing and fast post-launch fixes, and a sports web app (Scorva) that generates AI game summaries from game stats with Postgres-backed caching to control LLM costs. Available for full-time work starting June 2026 and targeting $95k–$110k.”

“Robotics software engineer who built an assistive Kinova Gen3 manipulation system for activities of daily living, spanning RealSense+ArUco perception, MoveIt2-based motion planning/task sequencing, and a React Native tablet UI with rosbridge and voice control. Optimized real-robot trajectories by blending OMPL with Cartesian/PILZ planning and created simulation workflows to test without lab/robot availability.”

“Unity developer with strong real-time 3D and mobile performance optimization experience (rendering, memory, GC), building interactive environments and physics-based interactions. Built a mobile Unity game prototype largely solo end-to-end, emphasizing state-driven architecture and clean separation between game logic, UI, and data—skills that translate directly to AR/VR despite no shipped Meta Quest titles.”

“LLM/RAG engineer at Connex AI who built and deployed a production healthcare agent to extract clinical insights from medical data/notes. Strong focus on real-world reliability—hallucination mitigation (citations, schema validation, confidence thresholds, rejection logic), custom LangChain orchestration (query rewriting, fallback paths), and production evaluation/observability—while collaborating closely with clinical SMEs to ensure clinical fit and time savings.”

“Built a university campus assistant chatbot (BabyJ/WWJ) using RAG and agentic routing with a FastAPI + React stack and JWT auth, focusing heavily on production concerns like latency and reliability. Uses techniques like speculative prefetching, smart intent routing, and rigorous eval/testing (golden sets, regression, edge cases) while collaborating closely with campus admin/advising teams to iterate based on real user feedback.”

“Frontend engineer focused on scalable React + TypeScript dashboards and workflows, using feature-based architecture and a reusable component/hook approach. Has hands-on experience improving performance in table-heavy admin UIs (pagination, lazy loading) and shipping major features quickly with staging/manual QA, gradual rollouts, and rapid iteration based on production feedback.”

“Software engineering intern who built and deployed a full-stack telemedicine platform (React/Node/MongoDB) used daily in a pediatric clinic, incorporating PyTorch-based predictive features. Demonstrated strong customer-facing iteration and production performance debugging—resolved a live slowdown by indexing/optimizing MongoDB queries and adding caching, improving response times by ~50%.”