Vetted REST API Professionals

Hrishi Kamal Earla

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech microservices

Remote, CA7y exp

“JavaScript/React engineer with hands-on open-source library contribution experience, including thoughtful PRs that improved error handling, API flexibility, and added features backed by tests and documentation. Demonstrates a profiling-first approach to UI/runtime performance (memoization, component splitting, render-path optimization) and strong community support skills—reproducing edge cases, delivering sustainable fixes, and communicating workarounds and releases.”

Daanesh Potnuri

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in API-driven microservices and cloud delivery

5y exp

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building a decentralized file-sharing dApp, bridging a React frontend with Ethereum smart contracts via Web3.js and integrating IPFS for decentralized storage. Demonstrates a rigorous, measurement-driven approach to performance optimization (profiling + benchmark/regression loop) and strong ownership in high-stakes environments, including Fircosoft sanctions platform optimization and rapid production hotfixes for user-impacting issues.”

Piyush Rajendra

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in production RAG systems and MLOps

Athens, GA4y exp

“Built and deployed a GPT-4 + Pinecone RAG system that lets users query large internal document collections with grounded, cited answers. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering (chunking experiments, hallucination controls, metadata recency boosting) plus production-minded evaluation/monitoring and performance tuning (rate-limit mitigation via pooling/batching). Also effective at translating complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders through prototypes and live demos, helping secure client sponsorship.”

Patrick Seeman

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist and Game Tech Leader specializing in ML, healthcare analytics, and Unity

Manila, Philippines5y exp

“Data scientist at Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute who led a production automation to convert unstructured (and sometimes image-based) pathology reports into structured data for government reporting. Built an on-prem LangGraph + Ollama pipeline with OCR (Tesseract), spell-checking, confidence scoring, and human-audited guardrails to mitigate hallucinations and improve reliability under PHI constraints.”

“Data engineer focused on large-scale financial data platforms, with hands-on ownership of an AWS + Databricks + Snowflake pipeline processing ~2TB/day. Strong in data quality (Great Expectations), schema drift automation, and production reliability (99.9%), plus measurable performance/cost wins (4h→1.2h, ~25% cost reduction). Also built an async Python crawling/ingestion framework with anti-bot mitigation, retries, and Airflow-driven backfills.”

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on experience shipping React/TypeScript applications on AWS serverless infrastructure with Postgres. Stands out for combining measurable performance optimization (~30% faster APIs), UX improvements that lifted activation by 25%, and pragmatic platform thinking through reusable hooks and safe multi-tenant dashboard customization.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of a production POS platform, including architecture, CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment, and live incident handling. Also built a RAG-based document Q&A system using OpenAI/Anthropic with hybrid retrieval, evaluation metrics, and fallback logic, showing both traditional backend depth and practical applied AI experience.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on production Python and AWS: built FastAPI REST services and a containerized ECS Fargate + Lambda architecture deployed via Terraform/CI-CD. Strong in data engineering (Glue/S3/Parquet/RDS) and operational reliability (CloudWatch/SNS, retries, schema-evolution handling), with experience modernizing legacy SAS reporting into Python microservices using feature flags and parity validation.”

Harshitha Ayenugula

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend and FinTech systems

New Jersey, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership of complex web products, including building a real-time collaborative editor end-to-end using React, Spring Boot, WebSockets, Yjs CRDT, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Docker. Stands out for combining product delivery with production reliability and performance work, including reducing QA defects by ~25%, improving internal tool load times to under 2 seconds, and resolving latency issues in live systems.”

“Full-stack/AI product engineer who has shipped both a production-style React finance app and multiple LLM-powered systems end-to-end. Particularly strong in turning early-stage AI concepts into production workflows, including a Bedrock-based multi-turn chatbot with durable session memory and a medical credentialing document parser that cut pipeline failures by 50%+ on large, messy real-world files.”

Surya Padmini Konjula

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and AI for FinTech

San Jose, CA6y exp

“Senior full-stack engineer focused on AI-powered workflow automation and customer support products, with hands-on ownership from React/TypeScript UI through FastAPI microservices, retrieval pipelines, and Kubernetes deployment on GCP. Particularly strong in turning ambiguous zero-to-one AI initiatives into production systems that reduce manual operations, improve turnaround time, and remain reliable through strong orchestration and monitoring practices.”

“Full-stack engineer with a strong builder mentality who has designed greenfield cloud-native ingestion platforms, customer-facing CAD/configuration tools for manufacturing automation, and self-service forecasting products. Particularly compelling is their ability to translate ambiguous workflows into robust systems spanning React, Node.js, shared TypeScript/Zod schemas, cloud queues, and even proprietary hardware runtimes.”

“Backend and distributed-systems engineer with experience integrating LLM capabilities into clinical data workflows at CVS. Stands out for treating AI as an engineering accelerator rather than a shortcut, with strong emphasis on validation, observability, Kafka-based async pipelines, and safe multi-agent orchestration for production systems.”

“Senior product leader who helped transform Submittable from a single-program grant tool into a multi-program impact platform, driving ARR from $20M to $70M+ while improving retention and margins. Particularly strong in enterprise platform strategy and human-centered AI, with a clear philosophy of using AI to augment expert judgment rather than replace it.”

Bryan Kekauoha

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web applications

Seattle, WA4y exp

“Technical consultant with experience supporting enterprise process optimization and POC engagements for major brands including Expedia, Airbnb, and T-Mobile. Strong at translating between engineering and business stakeholders, shaping workflow automation and integration solutions, and improving pre-sales execution through Python-based automation.”

“AI/full-stack builder with a track record of shipping practical LLM products in both hackathon and professional settings. Built ScoutR, an agentic football scouting platform that won Best Use of Gemini at HackCU 2026, and at Merkle shipped a GPT-4-based review-tagging tool that cut analyst tagging time by 90%.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-driven data harmonization/record-matching pipeline for pharmaceutical datasets, combining normalization, embeddings/vector search, and an LLM validation step. Emphasizes production reliability via guardrails, confidence thresholds, idempotent/retryable stages, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, with monitoring focused on manual review and error rates to reduce false positives.”

“Engineer with a solutions-engineering profile who has operated at the intersection of enterprise SaaS architecture, customer-facing technical discovery, and implementation in logistics and fintech environments. He has supported high-scale warehouse management systems processing 500,000+ daily transactions, led integration and security discussions, and improved release efficiency by 50% through CI/CD automation.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience scaling a CVE processing platform by re-architecting it into a Kafka-based distributed system, boosting throughput to 200k+ records/min while designing for HA, deduplication, and fault tolerance. Also led a Flyway-driven migration affecting 15M+ records with staged dev→stage→prod rollout, and has implemented production security patterns (Auth0, OAuth2/HTTPS, AWS IAM RBAC) including least-privilege hardening.”

“AI engineer at Cleveland Clinic building production LLM/NLP systems for radiology documentation, focused on HIPAA-aware, real-time performance across ~298 campuses. Re-architected infrastructure with AWS event-driven services to handle scaling and improved SLA compliance ~40%, and complements this with a personal multi-agent debate system (CrewAI) using local Llama/Mistral plus rigorous evaluation (A/B tests, red teaming, observability).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical document understanding and summarization system for healthcare, focused on reducing manual review time while meeting strict accuracy, latency, and compliance needs. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Azure ML Pipelines) and a rigorous approach to hallucination mitigation through layered, source-grounded safeguards and stakeholder-driven requirements with physicians/compliance teams.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built and operated event-driven microservices platforms (FastAPI/React/TypeScript, Kafka, Kubernetes) and internal DevOps tooling. Delivered measurable impact through user-feedback-driven iteration (WebSockets update mechanism cutting redundant API calls ~30%) and operational improvements (deployment monitoring dashboard reducing rollback time ~40%), with strong focus on reliability, observability, and data consistency at scale.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who builds modular Flask services on AWS and specializes in performance/scalability work across data-heavy APIs. Has concrete wins in query optimization (1.5s to <200ms) and high-throughput async processing (Celery+Redis, ~40% throughput gain), plus experience serving scikit-learn text classification models via containerized REST services and designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned React/TypeScript + Spring Boot dashboard products end-to-end, including real-time performance/alerts and data aggregation across services. Strong in shipping MVPs quickly with feature flags, automated testing and CI/CD, and using monitoring/click-path analytics to prioritize work—achieved a 40% page-load reduction. Experienced operating microservices with RabbitMQ at scale, addressing retries/idempotency/observability and fixing duplicate-processing incidents with idempotent consumer patterns and DLQs.”