Vetted REST API Professionals

“Amazon engineer who built an Amazon Bedrock-powered summarization layer over large-scale network/service telemetry (“top talker” insights) to help security engineers triage anomalies faster. Emphasizes production-grade design patterns for LLM features—non-blocking enrichment, deterministic fallbacks, strict structured outputs, and monitoring to preserve trust in source-of-truth telemetry.”

Andrew Liang

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI/ML systems

2y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Amazon and Agora building end-to-end systems: a knowledge-base AI chatbot (React/TypeScript UI + retrieval/response backend + Docker deployment) and an internal approval governance platform using AWS Step Functions and DynamoDB. Emphasizes fast iteration without sacrificing trust via feature-flag rollouts, citation-required answers, abstention on low-confidence retrieval, regression query sets, and strong observability (request IDs, structured logs, latency/error monitoring).”

Ryan Crabbe

Screened

Junior Full-Stack/Mobile Engineer specializing in React Native and NestJS

Remote1y exp

“Built an AI-powered restaurant menu rewriting app that generates diet-constrained menus from photos, with a backend designed around bounded contexts and a lightweight CQRS approach. Demonstrates strong multi-tenant PostgreSQL design (RLS, tenant-scoped queries) and performance tuning (partitioning, keyset pagination, composite/partial indexes), plus AI workflow orchestration using Redis/BullMQ and Vercel AI SDK with structured outputs and evals; reduced p95 latency ~35–50% via racing LLM requests and caching.”

Likhitha Bethi

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, distributed systems, and applied AI

Stony Brook, NY4y exp

“Goldman Sachs engineer who owned end-to-end features for an internal onboarding and case management platform, spanning React/TypeScript UI, a GraphQL gateway, and Node + Spring WebFlux microservices. Built and operated a Kafka-based ingestion and search pipeline with DLQs, retries, idempotency, and strong observability, and improved developer experience via backward-compatible GraphQL API design and schema-driven documentation.”

Shloka Reddy

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech full-stack development

San Francisco Bay Area, CA3y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience spanning early-stage startup work at Rundoo and a higher-trust fintech environment at Wealthfront. They’ve owned complex permission-based household/account experiences end-to-end in Next.js/React, with strong instincts around data flow, UI correctness, performance, and production pragmatism.”

“Built and shipped a production agentic RAG system for healthcare analysts that automated compliance/operations knowledge retrieval across PDFs, reports, and databases. Emphasizes production reliability (monitoring, retries, fallbacks, async queues), strong evaluation/iteration loops, and measurable impact (3–10s responses and ~98% top-k retrieval accuracy).”

“Built a production AI-powered workflow automation system at Netflix that integrated OpenAI and LangChain with FastAPI services on AWS, cutting roughly 320 hours of manual operational effort. Brings a mix of full-stack product development and practical AI systems experience, with strong attention to reliability, maintainability, and non-technical user adoption.”

“Meta engineer focused on reliability/operations tooling who built a unified real-time health dashboard and scalable telemetry pipelines (AWS + Datadog) for thousands of devices. Also shipped an internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant using RAG over wikis/runbooks/logs with strong guardrails and a rigorous eval loop that drove measurable accuracy improvements via automated doc ingestion and embedding updates.”

“Series C (Sigma Computing) full-stack engineer/intern who shipped production features across React/TypeScript and GraphQL, including a Recents/workbook activity reliability improvement that handled unsaved “exploration” events via deterministic backend updates. Emphasizes production quality through Jest/Cypress coverage and feature-flagged staged rollouts, and is recognized for UX-focused improvements (fast, accurate filtering at scale) and proactive cross-functional ownership.”

“Data engineer at Microsoft who owned an end-to-end subscription analytics platform processing 7TB+ daily across 40+ pipelines, combining ADF batch ingestion with Kafka/Spark streaming and rigorous Great Expectations quality gates. Built a Fabric-based self-service ingestion platform with CI/CD and observability, plus a Databricks feature store serving near-real-time ML inference with Delta Lake reliability and versioning.”

Derek Tuggle

Screened

Executive Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in industrial IoT controls

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“VP of New Product Development at Axiom Cloud who built and scaled a "Virtual Battery" product that used supermarket frozen inventory as thermal energy storage—personally prototyped core control/safety logic in Python and led the engineering buildout through deployment and operations. Combines real-world industrial controls and edge deployment experience (LonWorks/Modbus, Docker/CI/CD) with an MS in CS focused on robotics, perception, and ML, including ROS 2 and YOLO-based perception.”

Shreya Roy Koneri

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and real-time payments

Phoenix, AZ5y exp

“Product-minded full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing platforms end-to-end, including a unified web UI platform that increased adoption by 30% using feature flags and phased rollouts. Experienced designing TypeScript/React systems with microservices and RabbitMQ at scale, addressing reliability issues with DLQs, retries, and idempotent consumers, and building internal analytics tooling adopted company-wide within weeks.”

Zheng Wu

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud messaging

Mountain View, CA1y exp

“Data/ML engineer who has owned end-to-end systems across email deliverability/segmentation and production LLM apps. Built a Spark+Airflow segmentation engine that materially improved deliverability (99.9%) and open rates (>50%), and shipped a PDF-to-quiz RAG product using LangChain/Vertex AI/Chroma with strong guardrails and an eval loop that cut hallucinations to <5%.”

Jingyao Chen

Screened

Junior Backend/Platform Engineer specializing in AI microservices and cloud-native systems

Pittsburgh, PA2y exp

“Cofounder at MeowyAI who shipped a production multimodal (vision/voice/text) AI task manager using Gemini, tackling real-world issues like hallucinations, tool-calling safety, and RAG-based preference memory. Also built a production multi-agent RAG system orchestrated with LangGraph (and contributes to LangChain), with strong emphasis on latency optimization, observability (OpenTelemetry), and rigorous testing/evaluation including A/B tests and adversarial prompting.”

KARTHIKBABU VADLOORI

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring Boot, React, and cloud microservices

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Meta and Accenture building regulated-data systems (healthcare/financial) using Python/Flask and Postgres. Has scaled high-throughput services to millions of daily requests, delivering measurable latency wins (~40% API latency reduction; ~35% faster DB-backed endpoints), and has productionized ML inference services using Docker/Kubernetes and AWS (ECS/SageMaker).”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer from Roku who led and shipped a cross-platform real-time multiplayer system spanning Meta Quest VR and iOS/Android, including AI/LLM-driven NPC behavior. Reported strong post-launch outcomes (+40% VR retention, +25% engagement) with stable networking (server-authoritative, delta compression/prediction) and robust debugging/observability via logging and replay tools.”

“Built GenMedX, a multi-module clinical AI system for emergency department decision support spanning triage prediction, diagnosis, medication Q&A, and visit summarization. Stands out for combining medical LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and rigorous evaluation/monitoring to drive a major triage recall improvement from 38.5% to 76.6%, with a strong focus on safety, edge-case detection, and production reliability.”

“Engineer with a rare mix of Android, backend, and AI workflow automation experience, spanning Amazon Flex mobile features and legal-tech document automation. Built a globally used in-app recording pipeline at Amazon and previously helped cut immigration legal drafting time by ~50% through AI-assisted document parsing, form filling, and human-in-the-loop review.”

“Spatial computing software engineer focused on making Apple Vision Pro/visionOS accessible, including building VoiceOver and Live Captions features. Debugged a complex Live Captions issue involving dual audio inputs during FaceTime screen sharing by leveraging iOS implementation docs and creating concurrent audio sources; also has safety-critical testing experience from train control systems and is interested in pivoting into robotics.”

“Internship experience deploying cloud-based services into production, including navigating security/resource provisioning and coordinating approvals across impacted teams. Built a Python backend for a local Ollama-based app using open-source models, and has hands-on distributed systems experience implementing and debugging Paxos with extensive logging/state tracing.”

“AppSec/customer security specialist with Atlassian enterprise cloud migration experience, advising on SSO and API token hardening and driving adoption through phased rollouts. Implemented Snyk (SCA) and SonarQube (SAST) in Bitbucket Pipelines with Jira-based vuln workflows, cutting critical vuln MTTR from 30 to 7 days for financial services customers. Strong in SSO troubleshooting (Okta/SAML) and secure AWS/EKS-based agent integrations with secrets management and Datadog observability.”

Chris Du

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps and AI systems

Mountain View, CA0y exp

“Product/UX designer who builds end-to-end systems across both consumer wellness and industrial/technical domains. Designed BloomPath (mental-wellness platform for therapists and young professionals) using research-driven, emotionally safe interaction patterns, and also simplified a Bosch autonomous parking vision-language mapping pipeline into a developer-facing real-time UI with layered debug tooling. Comfortable collaborating deeply with engineers and contributing in React/JS.”

Yongyan Cao

Screened

Principal Vehicle Dynamics & Control Systems Engineer specializing in autonomous driving and hybrid powertrains

Fremont, CA25y exp

“Robotics controls engineer with experience spanning an RV/trailer automatic hitching and towing robot (vision + EKF sensor fusion, anti-jackknife/anti-sway, multi-loop torque assistance control) and 3 years on a ROS-based RoboTaxi autonomous driving stack at Pegasus Technology. Improved MPC trajectory generation robustness by converting hard constraints to soft constraints with slack variables, and built an AI-powered PR review agent (Claude-code) integrated into CI/CD to reduce bugs.”