Vetted REST API Professionals

“Founding/early engineer experience across Asante and a Series A startup (Adgency), shifting from data science/ML into owning production full-stack systems end-to-end. Built core product flows (registration, business profiles, map service), AWS-deployed gRPC microservices with CI/CD, and operated low-latency agent/video ad generation workflows with retries/fallbacks and PostHog-based observability.”

David Alvarado

Screened

Junior Business Analyst specializing in data analytics and BI

Orlando, FL3y exp

“Analytics candidate with insurance domain experience at Chubb, combining strong SQL/Python data engineering for claims reporting with business-facing metric design in Power BI. Also built an MLB game outcome predictor that beat Vegas implied probabilities using public data, showing strong product thinking and applied modeling ability beyond standard BI work.”

“Built a production LLM-assisted workflow for customer configuration data migrations, combining agentic parsing with deterministic validation and fail-safe pipeline design. Stands out for turning messy ERP and operational data into reliable, repeatable transformations while improving accuracy and cutting manual effort by more than 80%.”

“Early-career full-stack builder who created an AI interview-prep platform used by 200+ students, tested it with a 25-student study group, and earned recognition through the CUNY Startup accelerator, including prize money and local college adoption. Has also shipped compliance-sensitive AI products in healthcare marketing and operational tools like invoice approval systems, showing unusual breadth across AI, UX, and backend systems.”

“Software engineer who built JobIntel, an end-to-end Python ETL pipeline integrating ATS data from platforms like Greenhouse using Scrapy and FastAPI. Stands out for production reliability work: designing async fault-tolerant architecture, optimizing PostgreSQL write-heavy upserts, and building a Prometheus/Splunk observability stack that cut debugging from hours to minutes.”

“Built OpenGPU features spanning React/TypeScript, Go orchestration, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Stripe, with a strong focus on reliability, transaction integrity, and low-latency distributed systems. Also shipped LLM product infrastructure, including persona-conditioned frameworks and reusable prompt/model abstractions, showing a blend of systems engineering and fast product iteration.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end fintech product, FinSight, for bank statement analysis and financial Q&A using a production-style RAG architecture. Stands out for combining FastAPI, OpenAI embeddings, FAISS, hybrid SQL/vector retrieval, and practical reliability work like chunking optimization, validation, and low-latency performance tuning.”

Chaitanya Annabathana

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI pipelines and enterprise integrations

USA5y exp

“Candidate has 4 years of experience and appears strongest in customer-facing implementation and AI-enabled workflow automation. They describe owning deployments end-to-end, putting an LLM support assistant with RAG and function calling into production, and improving support operations with a 30% reduction in resolution time and 25% gain in agent productivity.”

Naveen K

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI agents and RAG workflows

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Candidate is highly focused on AI-native software development, using tools like GitHub Copilot and OpenAI models within structured plan-code-review-test workflows. They stand out for designing multi-agent coding systems with planner, coder, and tester roles, and for applying tech-lead style governance through constraints, quality gates, and validation-first practices.”

Austin Pierce-Ptak

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and ETL systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership experience across enterprise SaaS and high-volume data systems, including PostgreSQL/.NET services at Visual Lease and ETL pipelines at Broadridge processing millions of records for Fortune 500 clients. Stands out for combining production support, observability thinking, and pragmatic architecture tradeoffs, while also experimenting with LLM-powered job application automation using Claude.”

“Backend-focused engineer with hands-on experience deploying AI-driven document processing and RAG-based workflows using Python, LangChain, FAISS, and REST APIs. Has owned projects from requirements through post-launch monitoring, including debugging production retrieval issues and building reliable pipelines for messy PDFs/scans and compliance-oriented document analysis.”

Naveen K

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered backend systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a real-time analytics and alerting dashboard built with React/TypeScript, Node.js, Kafka, Redis, and PostgreSQL. Also contributed to an internal LLM-powered support automation system, focusing on backend orchestration, RAG-based reliability, and Kubernetes deployment. Stands out for combining product-minded zero-to-one execution with strong distributed systems and AI integration experience.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup-style ownership across backend, frontend, and AI systems, spanning Java/Spring, React, Node/TypeScript, and LLM-powered retrieval. Shipped a workspace intelligence layer using LangChain, OpenAI, and Pinecone to paying customers, while also improving core product metrics like workspace creation success (+30%), latency (450ms to 280ms), and deployment cycle time (-40%).”

Lucca Chantre

Screened

Intern Front-End Developer specializing in web and 3D graphics

Boston, MA0y exp

“Frontend candidate with unusually strong graphics-oriented experience, including React Three Fiber, Three.js, and WebGL. They have built interactive 3D UI behavior and physics-style simulations, and they speak concretely about rendering performance, mesh optimization, and camera-aware animation logic.”

“Built both a fantasy sports analytics product and a privacy-sensitive AI assistant for therapists, showing range across consumer and healthcare use cases. Particularly notable for designing self-hosted, HIPAA-conscious LLM systems with RAG, structured outputs, observability, and human-in-the-loop guardrails for clinical workflows.”

Jaeseong Yoon

Screened

Intern-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI applications

Incheon, Korea0y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer who built Smart Place Analytics, a browser-based facility operations dashboard combining occupancy analytics, alerts, live monitoring, recommendations, and decision history. Stands out for pairing strong UI architecture in Next.js/TypeScript with hands-on browser media work like getUserMedia, canvas capture, throttling, and cleanup to make complex monitoring workflows feel stable and operator-friendly.”

“Backend/cloud engineer who built an AWS serverless IoT system that computes Bluetooth beacon locations from telemetry using heavy scientific Python (NumPy/SciPy/pandas) packaged as Dockerized Lambda, integrated with Java microservices and scheduled batch orchestration. Has deep AWS delivery experience (CI/CD with Code* tools, CloudFormation, cost controls) and has led high-severity incident response including CloudTrail forensics and infrastructure recovery after a compromised-keys crypto-mining attack.”

“Senior full-stack engineer with startup experience building multi-tenant B2B SaaS platforms for manufacturing and financial operations. Strongest in Python back-end development and React/TypeScript front ends, with hands-on AWS microservices, enterprise integrations like Siemens, and measurable performance gains including a 30% reduction in application load times.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building complex, real-time React/TypeScript products, including an AI-powered document Q&A dashboard and a geospatial analytics platform. Stands out for measurable performance wins—cutting UI interaction latency from roughly 300-800ms to 20-50ms—and for scaling map-based visualizations to tens of thousands of live entities using Mapbox GL, Deck.gl, WebGL, Web Workers, and Redux Toolkit.”

“Senior hands-on full-stack engineer with recent Python/React/TypeScript experience at Terakeet and prior Go-focused backend work at Checkly. Stands out for building and scaling analytics and monitoring platforms in startup-style environments, with strong depth in PostgreSQL performance, containerized deployments, and turning ambiguous business goals into reliable production systems.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership across React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL who has built real-time collaboration and analytics workflows end-to-end. Particularly compelling for high-growth AI product teams: they’ve also shipped a 0→1 AI-assisted dataset retrieval and summarization capability, balancing MVP speed with scalable architecture and post-launch performance tuning.”

“UE5 Blueprint-focused gameplay/system designer who shipped an XR interactive experience (“Echoes of the Moon”), owning interaction logic, progression triggers, state management, and animation syncing through ship. Emphasizes modular component-based architecture with interfaces and data-table-driven tuning, plus strong profiling/optimization skills (refactoring Tick-heavy systems to event-driven) validated through 20–30 user playtests and mobile XR (Android) frame-budget constraints.”

“Software engineer who has shipped both core web platform features (secure user authentication/profile management) and production LLM systems. Built an internal documentation knowledge assistant using a full RAG pipeline (OpenAI embeddings, vector DB, semantic search, reranking) with evaluation loops and a scalable document-ingestion pipeline for PDFs/FAQs, iterating based on metrics and user feedback.”

“Software engineer with robotics and data-platform experience from CVS Health, spanning Java/Spring Boot microservices, secure APIs, React dashboards, and Snowflake/SSIS ETL optimization. Hands-on ROS 2 developer who built real-time LiDAR obstacle-detection nodes, improved SLAM performance, and coordinated multi-robot communication using DDS, with simulation/testing via Gazebo and CI/CD deployments using Docker and Jenkins.”