Vetted REST API Professionals

“Full-stack engineer who built and iterated a CRM dashboard at ReplyQuick by sitting with end users, prioritizing blockers, and shipping frequent updates—improving usability and performance enough to replace a spreadsheet workflow within ~2 months. Demonstrates strong security fundamentals (OAuth2/JWT + RBAC) and practical microservices experience (decoupling a CRM API from a PDF-processing service via async processing and status tracking).”

“Backend/Node.js-focused engineer who improved a widely used shared config/logging utility library by fixing a real-world async race condition (single disk read under concurrency) and adding stronger validation/testing, resulting in more deterministic services and faster startup/build/CI times. Also builds internal platform automation spanning Python/Go/TypeScript with strong documentation practices and security-conscious customer onboarding (e.g., sensitive Kubernetes clusters, HashiCorp Vault access issues).”

“ML/NLP engineer with Industrial IoT experience who built an end-to-end anomaly detection and GenAI explanation system: AWS (S3, PySpark, EC2/Lambda) pipelines feeding dashboards, plus transformer-embedding vector search to connect anomalies to noisy maintenance notes and past events. Demonstrated measurable impact (15% lift in defect detection; ~35% reduction in manual review; 35% fewer preprocessing errors) and strong productionization practices (orchestration, monitoring, rollback, data-quality controls).”

“Full-stack TypeScript engineer who has owned a real-time workflow/communication platform end-to-end in production (Node/TS + React, Postgres/Redis, Kafka, Docker/CI/CD). Demonstrates strong distributed-systems pragmatism—designing for failure with retries, DLQs, idempotency keys, and atomic writes—plus operational practices like structured logging, monitoring, and zero-downtime deployments.”

“AWS-focused Python backend/data engineer who builds production analytics APIs and ETL pipelines using API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, Glue, S3, and RDS. Strong in operational reliability and performance tuning (including SQL indexing/partitioning) and has modernized legacy SAS statistical processing into validated Python services with phased rollouts and stakeholder sign-off.”

“Product/UX designer who built a cloud-based data management and visualization system for healthcare and manufacturing, translating script-driven and highly technical workflows into guided, step-based experiences. Strong in progressive disclosure, role-based defaults, and trust-building UI patterns, with hands-on prototyping in Figma and close design-engineering collaboration (HTML/CSS, component systems, working TypeScript familiarity) to ship scalable, accessible designs.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience spanning serverless APIs and containerized workers (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS) plus data pipelines (Glue, S3, Athena/Redshift). Has modernized legacy SAS/cron batch systems into Python/AWS with parallel-run parity validation and low-risk cutovers, and has owned ETL incidents end-to-end (CloudWatch detection, backfills, and preventative controls). Targeting $130k–$150k base and strongly prefers remote, with occasional Bethesda onsite acceptable.”

“JavaScript engineer with open-source library contribution experience, including diagnosing a validation-related bug, shipping a tested fix, and improving documentation with practical examples and edge-case guidance to reduce repeated community questions. Emphasizes profiling-driven performance work, small safe refactors, and proactive ownership in fast-moving, unstructured teams.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned an enterprise Django REST + PostgreSQL reporting backend and built Python ETL pipelines to normalize 3M+ legacy customer records, improving data reliability by 85%. Strong Kubernetes/GitOps practitioner (Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins/GitHub Actions) with real-world production debugging experience, plus Kafka streaming at 5M events/day and a zero-downtime monolith-to-event-driven microservices migration on AWS that cut infra costs by 42%.”

“Frontend engineer who led an end-to-end responsive enterprise banking platform in a regulated environment, emphasizing domain-based architecture, strict TypeScript contracts, and explicit state-machine-like flow modeling. Implemented Redux + React Query state separation, claimed 100% Jest coverage, and improved Jenkins CI/CD to speed deployments ~30% while also resolving major re-render performance bottlenecks.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has shipped customer-facing features end-to-end, including a product detail page backed by Java/Spring Boot microservices and a React/TypeScript UI. Demonstrated measurable impact through performance and maintainability improvements (30% faster APIs, 25% less duplicated UI code, 40% reduced API complexity via GraphQL) and has operated/scaled apps on AWS with CI/CD, monitoring, and incident-driven scaling fixes.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a live-streaming edtech platform at KratosIQ, owning the entire frontend and the backend streaming layer. Notably migrated the system from a P2P mesh to an SFU architecture to handle scaling under heavy load, and delivered measurable React performance gains (450ms to 40ms render time) validated via Lighthouse and web vitals.”

Sachin Kulkarni

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, NLP, and AWS MLOps

New York, US3y exp

“Recent master’s graduate in robotics with applied experience across reinforcement learning and ROS 2 autonomy stacks. Built an RL-based drone vertiport traffic controller (PPO) focused on reward design and simulation integration, and has hands-on navigation work in ROS 2 including LiDAR preprocessing, SLAM/path planning, and stabilizing TurtleBot3 wall-following. Also brings deployment experience containerizing robotics nodes and scaling them with Kubernetes on AWS.”

Sai Kumar K

Screened

Mid-Level Frontend Engineer specializing in legal data platforms

5y exp

“Built and operated end-to-end legal-document data pipelines fed by hundreds of scraper sources, emphasizing data quality validation, reliability (CloudWatch monitoring/alerting, retries, backfills), and serving enriched legal data via serverless AWS APIs (Lambda/API Gateway). Experienced in keeping API contracts stable with additive versioning practices and shipping MVPs quickly with CI/CD and observability in place.”

Tarun Gowda

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI and multimodal RAG

Morristown, NJ3y exp

“Full-stack engineer who helped build and launch an internal genAI platform called GAIL, supporting multiple LLMs, confidential document upload for RAG pipelines, and collaborative chat. Worked across FastAPI, React/TypeScript, AWS/DynamoDB, and Azure, with notable ownership of backend RAG logic, MCP integration architecture, and frontend fixes that improved chat usability.”

“Lead developer on a Warner Brothers Discovery media management platform, building Python/Flask APIs and AWS-based workflows. Delivered a serverless search overhaul (Lambda + API Gateway + OpenSearch Serverless) while maintaining parity with legacy Rekognition tag-based search, and implemented event-driven ETL (SNS/SQS) to ingest/validate CSV metadata into PostgreSQL with strong logging and incident response practices.”

“Backend engineer with Paycom experience who deployed a TypeScript web app on AWS and is re-architecting Stripe webhook handling using Kafka for durable, high-throughput asynchronous processing. Also delivered a freelance Python solution for a hospital that ingested sensor API data, normalized inconsistent readings, generated reports, and sent threshold-based email alerts while collaborating directly with hospital staff.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned a near-real-time patient feedback ingestion system, building a FastAPI + Kafka service with Snowflake/Airflow orchestration. Demonstrates strong production Kubernetes/GitOps practices on AWS EKS (Helm, Argo CD, Sealed Secrets) and solved real-time data integrity issues via idempotent processing with Redis.”

Thanuja Mudududla

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack cloud and agentic AI systems

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of production systems across maritime tracking, HR tech, and AI-powered document workflows. They combine strong operational instincts with measurable impact—cutting API latency from 10s to 3s, improving query performance by 60%, reducing deployment time by 50%, and driving 70% infrastructure cost savings with serverless design.”