Vetted REST API Professionals

Anushka Bhagchandani

Screened

Intern Product & Software Engineer specializing in GenAI/LLM and e-commerce platforms

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Software engineer (2+ years in India) and current GenAI intern who shipped LLM-powered review-writing enhancements at Myntra (Walmart-backed), using pilots and A/B tests to lift review quality by 5% in 30 days. Demonstrates strong LLM operations discipline (logging, dashboards, alerts, rollback) and fast incident response, plus experience delivering developer-focused workshops and public technical talks.”

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.”

“Senior frontend engineer focused on complex internal operations and payment products, with deep experience building React/TypeScript dashboards for payments, subscriptions, and observability workflows. Stands out for going beyond UI implementation to shape API contracts, real-time architectures, performance strategy, and product behavior across support, finance, and engineering use cases.”

“Backend/data engineer with Optum healthcare claims domain experience building high-reliability Python microservices (FastAPI/Kafka/Postgres) and AWS data platforms (EKS, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrated strong production ownership: fixed duplicate Kafka processing via transactional outbox/idempotency, scaled to millions of daily events, and delivered major SQL performance gains (40+ min to <5 min, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking remote-only work; targets $130k base.”

“Built and productionized a dual-agent LLM invoice-processing system for GFI Partners, adding guardrails and audit trails to earn stakeholder trust and drive adoption while cutting operational burden by 75%. Uses LangSmith observability to diagnose real-time workflow regressions and has experience teaching agentic AI concepts (e.g., at Carnegie Mellon) through hands-on, scaffolded demos.”

“Backend engineer who built gnocal, a ~150-line stateless Go service that turns on-chain event data into standards-compliant .ics calendar feeds consumable by Apple/Google Calendar, deployed on Fly.io. Also refactored MCTS into Monte Carlo Graph Search (Python-to-Rust) using deterministic tests and state canonicalization to handle transpositions, and implemented decentralized role-based ACLs in Gno for a smart-contract web hosting network (gno.land / All in Bits).”

“Built production LLM systems focused on reliability and safety, including a plain-English deployment tool that generates validated plans and provisions to Kubernetes while preventing unsafe actions via schema enforcement and plan/execute separation. Also created multi-LLM workflows (LangGraph) and stakeholder-friendly demos at Bosch, including a PyQt/FastAPI/CUDA app comparing SAM2 vs SAMWISE for on-device object detection with intuitive UX for business users.”

“Backend/data engineer who has owned production Python APIs and high-throughput async workflows on AWS (FastAPI, Docker, ECS/EKS/Lambda) with mature reliability practices like idempotency, bounded retries, circuit breakers, and strong observability. Also built AWS Glue ETL into an S3/Redshift lakehouse and modernized legacy batch systems via parallel-run parity testing and feature-flagged migrations, including a SQL tuning win cutting a multi-minute query to under 10 seconds.”

“Software engineer with 2.5 years at Amazon working on the Package Tracking page (Amazon’s most visited page), delivering new customer actions like Cancel Delivery and Buy Again within a Spring Boot-based stack. Has hands-on experience with feature-flagged rollouts (Weblab), A/B testing, and scaling/load testing for Prime Day-level traffic, and is upskilling into React while leveraging modern AI coding tools on side projects.”

“Full-stack engineer (Snowflake) who shipped an AI/LLM-powered data exploration product end-to-end, spanning Spring Boot/Python services and a polished React UI with streaming responses and robust fallbacks. Experienced operating high-scale AWS deployments (Docker/Kubernetes, SNS/SQS, RDS Postgres, CloudWatch, Jenkins CI/CD) supporting thousands to tens of thousands of concurrent users, including handling real traffic-spike scaling incidents.”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building a multi-GPU LLM inference platform using TensorRT and vLLM, achieving ~40% p95 latency reduction through batching/KV caching, quantization, and CUDA/runtime tuning. Also has end-to-end orchestration experience (Kubernetes, Airflow) and has delivered real-time fraud detection systems at Accenture in close collaboration with non-technical risk and product stakeholders.”

Sandeep Rohilla

Screened

Principal Platform Engineer specializing in AI-driven document automation

San Francisco, CA20y exp

“Backend engineer who built an event-driven, multi-service resume review system integrating AI/ML workflows. Demonstrated strong performance engineering (e.g., composite indexing dropping latency from ~600ms to ~35ms and major P95 gains) and high-throughput pipeline optimization via caching, batching, and worker concurrency tuning, with multi-tenant isolation implemented across DB and Redis.”

greg farhadian

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and Java microservices

Remote4y exp

“Backend/data engineer with experience building Kafka-driven real-time pipelines that support ML code deployment and downstream integrations. Currently migrating high-throughput mainframe (COBOL/assembly) processing to Java, using Spark/Databricks to preserve performance and employing rigorous A/B testing across dev/pre-prod/prod with years of historical data.”

Daniel Luzzatto

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, computer vision, and robotics

Tirat Carmel, Israel1y exp

“Built and deployed an agentic, multimodal LLM system that automates privacy redaction pipelines (audio/video/tabular) using LangChain orchestration and a closed-loop self-correction design. Personally implemented and performance-optimized core CV tooling (face blurring with tracking/Kalman filter) achieving >100 FPS on CPU, and validated reliability with golden-dataset benchmarking across 100+ privacy intents and measurable redaction metrics.”

“Built both traditional data infrastructure and LLM-powered product workflows, spanning a Python/SQL ETL deployment at Amazon and an adaptive learning system for their DataLingo platform. Particularly interesting for roles at the intersection of data engineering, applied AI, and customer-facing product delivery, with hands-on experience stabilizing probabilistic LLM systems in production.”

Chaithanya Konda

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in multi-cloud analytics platforms

Waltham, MA6y exp

“Data engineer with hands-on GCP platform experience spanning BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Dataflow, and Cloud Composer, including both production operations and cloud migration work. They led a migration from legacy SQL Server/Oracle systems to a cloud-native BigQuery architecture and cite measurable impact: processing reduced from hours to minutes, query latency improved 60%+, and ingestion time improved 40%.”

Robert Davis

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in backend and distributed systems

Remote, US19y exp

“Backend engineer who co-launched SkyKick’s Office 365 SharePoint/Exchange backup product, built the MVP, and then architected and led its design for 9 years. Stands out for high-scale systems expertise, including an algorithmic redesign that cut cloud costs by an order of magnitude, plus earlier experience integrating speech recognition systems in noisy real-world customer environments.”

Akhilesh Patil

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech and generative AI

Remote, USA2y exp

“Built an end-to-end AI bug triage dashboard that combined React/TypeScript, FastAPI, Postgres, and classical ML to reduce manual engineering triage work by about 40%. Stands out for pragmatic, product-minded AI engineering: choosing interpretable models when they were sufficient, designing human-in-the-loop UX for trust, and separately building an agentic RAG project with vector search, Neo4j knowledge graphs, and reranking.”

Ethan Hu

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and embedded systems

Seattle, WA1y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer on Qualtrics' Online Samples team working on audience sampling systems and APIs used by researchers. They have hands-on ownership of TypeScript/React/Express services, emphasize multi-layer testing and production observability with Splunk/VictorOps, and have built APIs for both internal and external developers.”

“Built and deployed PIKA, an internal multi-agent platform for FDA-regulated software development, owning it from concept through production. The candidate combines strong full-stack engineering with rigorous LLM orchestration, human-in-the-loop controls, and production eval systems, delivering measurable impact: 3x more design issues caught, ~90% fewer false positives, and ~40% efficiency gains on documentation-heavy workflows.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning early-stage startup architecture and large-scale Amazon product development. They’ve driven search and data-platform decisions in a 20-person startup, built full-stack React/Python tools that automate internal workflows, and shipped marketplace expansion and personalization features impacting 200k sellers and millions of end users.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning a lean startup at AppLovin and production financial systems at Vanguard. They’ve built core user-facing platforms from scratch, including a B2B advertiser/publisher dashboard and a resilient client onboarding system using Spring Boot, NestJS, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and AWS. Particularly strong in ambiguous environments where they work directly with stakeholders and own delivery end to end.”

“Built and owned an LLM support copilot at Stripe focused on improving agent ticket resolution. Designed the backend and ML system end to end, using RAG, Redis caching, hybrid vector search, and LoRA fine-tuning to achieve 40% lower latency and 22% higher response accuracy, with continuous quality monitoring via Ragas and related evaluation frameworks.”

“Built internal banking operations products spanning full-stack dashboards and AI-assisted workflow tools. Shipped a RAG-based assistant using PostgreSQL/Redis retrieval with OpenAI and Claude APIs, and used audit-log measurement plus evals/traces to drive a reported ~30% reduction in manual review time.”