Vetted REST API Professionals

“Asset Management Risk professional at Fidelity Investments who built and productionized an agentic RAG platform enabling compliance and analysts to query 10,000+ fund documents with cited answers in seconds. Implemented structure-aware semantic chunking (AWS Textract), hierarchical retrieval, and hybrid search to raise accuracy from 68% to 94%, and built an evaluation framework tracking accuracy/latency/cost/hallucinations—delivering 40+ hours/month saved and zero critical production failures.”

“Backend engineer with healthcare-domain experience building a security-critical RBAC identity/authentication/authorization microservice suite used across hospital imaging platforms (X-Ray, Ultrasound, etc.). Demonstrates strong security mindset (mTLS, cert hygiene, JWT, pen-testing collaboration) and pragmatic scaling/reliability practices (Nginx load balancing, Redis caching, automated tests, canary rollouts).”

“LLM engineer who has shipped production AI systems, including an RFP requirements extraction platform (OpenAI o4-mini + Azure AI Search + FastAPI) achieving 90%+ accuracy and ~5x throughput through grounding, structured outputs, parallelization, and caching. Also partnered with legal/compliance stakeholders at Nexteer Automotive to deliver an AI document comparison tool with traceability and confidence indicators, adopted by non-technical users and saving ~2 FTEs of review time.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on production-grade autonomy in GPS-denied environments, building full navigation stacks (perception, EKF/UKF sensor fusion, planning, control) in ROS2. Integrated YOLOv8/semantic segmentation/RL policies into real-time NAV2 pipelines via a custom perception-aware costmap layer, with emphasis on deterministic control loops, embedded GPU performance, and robust system observability/fault tolerance.”

“Engineering leader who drove TiVo IPTV’s client-facing API modernization from a monolith to AWS-based microservices (API Gateway, Lambda, EKS, Kafka, DynamoDB/RDS), including phased/blue-green production routing of millions of calls. Emphasizes org scaling through skill-based hiring, mentorship, and a you-build-you-run ownership culture, while balancing technical leadership with executive stakeholder communication and budgeting.”

“Backend engineer who built a Python-based data profiling/statistics platform processing up to 50M rows and ~300 metrics, using a DAG execution model, multithreading, and smart caching to cut processing time by up to 70%. Also improved PostgreSQL query performance from 12s to 2s via indexing/query rewrites, integrated an LLM (LangChain + OpenAI) for explainable “chat with the pipeline” functionality, and designed an AWS EC2+SQS architecture for scalable, isolated per-user processing.”

“Software engineer with experience at Google and the City and County of San Francisco building production AI systems, including a RAG-based internal support chatbot and ML-driven ticket priority tagging. Has scaled data/ML platforms with Airflow on GCP (1M+ records/day, 99.9% SLA) and deployed multi-component systems with Docker and Kubernetes (GKE), using modern LLM tooling (LangChain/CrewAI, Claude/OpenAI, Pinecone/ChromaDB, Bedrock/Ollama).”

“Backend/AI engineer who built and scaled an internal AMD semiconductor manufacturing microservice platform (SMR), reworking a synchronous lot-request workflow into an event-driven RabbitMQ/Celery/FastAPI pipeline. Diagnosed and fixed peak-load reliability issues using deep observability and Kubernetes autoscaling, cutting notification latency back to sub-second and reducing duplicates via idempotency/DLQs. Also shipped an LLM-powered natural-language search with schema-constrained JSON outputs and guardrails, plus a plan-execute-verify Jira bug-resolution agent that can propose fixes and raise PRs under restricted permissions.”

“Built a production LLM/RAG-based “model excellence scoring” system at Uber to automatically evaluate hundreds of ML models, standardizing quality assessment and cutting evaluation time from days to minutes on GCP. Also delivered an NLP document classification solution for insurance claims at Globe Life, partnering closely with compliance/operations and improving routing accuracy from ~85% manual to 93% with the model.”

“Data engineer with eBay experience owning end-to-end pipelines for real-time order and user behavior analytics at 10M+ records/day. Strong in PySpark/SQL transformations, Airflow reliability patterns, and production observability (CloudWatch), with measurable outcomes including improved data quality and 30–40% query performance gains. Also built Python data APIs for analytics/ML consumers with versioning and backward compatibility.”

Akanksha Agrawal

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in event-driven data platforms

Bangalore, India5y exp

“Backend engineer with SAP experience modernizing a legacy Flask/PostgreSQL product master data platform into a modular, stateless, containerized service with Kafka-based background processing and improved observability. Also has hands-on academic/side-project experience operationalizing ML (NLP retrieval with TF-IDF/BERT via FastAPI and CV lane-edge detection inference APIs using PyTorch).”

Sarath Dunga

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud microservices and AI/ML integration

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer (~3 years) with eBay production experience building and operating high-scale, event-driven Python microservices for order processing and AI-powered recommendations (Kafka/Redis/FastAPI on AWS with Prometheus/Grafana). Also delivered polished React+TypeScript analytics dashboards and designed high-concurrency PostgreSQL schemas with significant latency reductions. Recently built AI-agent orchestration and an interactive node-based requirements dashboard for Siemens Polarion via MCP servers, improving user interaction by ~17.8%+.”

Vismay Patel

Screened

Senior AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, GenAI, and MLOps

Berkeley, CA7y exp

“ML/GenAI practitioner with healthcare domain depth who built and deployed a production cervical-cancer EMR classification system using a hybrid rules + medical BERT approach, optimized for high recall under severe class imbalance and PHI constraints. Experienced running end-to-end production ML/LLM pipelines with Apache Airflow (validation, promotion/rollback, monitoring, retraining) and partnering closely with clinicians to calibrate thresholds and implement human-in-the-loop review.”

ChinmaySanjay Kawle

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud developer tools and backend APIs

Seattle, WA2y exp

“Summer intern on AWS Lambda tooling team who shipped Finch support in AWS SAM CLI, adding OS/runtime detection and robust fallback behavior to preserve Docker compatibility across developer environments. Also built an end-to-end RAG system for querying arXiv quantitative finance papers using Postgres/pgvector with two-stage retrieval, citation-grounded prompting, and rigorous evaluation loops driven by IR metrics and user feedback.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning Amazon IMDb and Northeastern’s NeuroJSON portal, combining consumer product work with complex scientific data applications. Built IMDb’s streaming providers feature—described as the company’s most impactful feature of 2023—and has hands-on experience with React/Angular, GraphQL, AWS, Python services, and production monitoring.”

“Built an AI-powered job outreach application for his own job search and took it from idea to production use, owning architecture, FastAPI backend, retrieval/generation pipeline, frontend workflow, deployment, and iteration. Especially compelling for teams needing a pragmatic full-stack engineer who can turn LLM-based product ideas into usable, maintainable tools with measurable workflow impact.”

Chitra Uppalapati

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and machine learning applications

Sunnyvale, CA1y exp

“Built production Python data integrations and dashboard automation for incident analytics, with a strong focus on data quality, observability, and reliability for leadership-facing reporting. Also translated an ambiguous manual creator evaluation process at startup Spring into an automated predictive scoring feature, showing a blend of backend data engineering, test automation, and cross-functional product thinking.”

“Built end-to-end LLM/RAG systems for biological data and scientific literature analysis in a drug discovery setting, helping researchers explore disease insights and treatment hypotheses faster. Combines applied GenAI product work with strong production engineering, including monitoring, retrieval optimization, reusable Python services, and scalable deployment on AWS/Kubeflow.”

Pavan Kishore Ramavath

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in machine learning and backend systems

Leesburg, VA1y exp

“Built an AI-powered medical coding system at Clinpex that mapped 88,000+ clinical terms to standardized codes, achieving about 86% accuracy and cutting manual review time by over 80%. Brings hands-on backend ownership in a healthcare AI setting, with experience using semantic retrieval, LLM validation, and human review to handle ambiguity and reliability in a regulated domain.”

“Data/pipeline engineer with experience in space and scientific data systems, including JPL-related satellite transmission workflows and customer deployments involving NOAA/Argo standards. Stands out for building autonomous production pipelines, debugging subtle logic failures in data integrations, and improving processing efficiency while reducing manual operational work.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building financial operations and transaction monitoring products from 0→1 through production scale. They stand out for owning React UI architecture, backend/API integration, and data-layer performance decisions while making pragmatic startup tradeoffs and improving features post-launch based on latency, error, and user feedback.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience using AI coding tools like Claude Code and Augment in daily development, combined with real-world distributed systems work at Arista Networks. Built or worked on a Go-based platform that separated RBAC, audit logging, and provisioning into asynchronously communicating services, enabling scalable and independently evolving access-control workflows.”

Keano Zamora

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, platform, and cloud infrastructure

King of Prussia, PA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience owning a customer-facing data platform at GDIT, built on Django and Next.js. Demonstrated pragmatic architecture choices to handle image-heavy deployments and helped evolve the frontend from Alpine.js to a consistent React-based stack.”

Shreya B

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud-native, and GenAI systems

Redmond, WA5y exp

“Software engineer with strong Java/Spring Boot backend depth and hands-on full-stack experience building AI-powered enterprise knowledge assistants and customer-facing order tracking systems. Stands out for combining RAG/LLM product work, event-driven microservices, and user-trust-focused product iteration, including shipping prototypes that became the basis for broader production workflows.”