Vetted REST API Professionals

Brian Gomez

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in AI/ML, NLP, and computer vision

United States12y exp

“McKinsey & Company ML/NLP practitioner who builds production-grade AI systems across sectors (notably healthcare and finance), including RAG/LLM solutions, entity resolution pipelines, and embedding-powered search with vector databases. Demonstrated measurable impact (40% reduction in data duplication) and strong MLOps/data workflow practices (Airflow, MLflow, Spark, AWS/GCP, Prometheus, CI/CD).”

“Early-career full-stack engineer with internship experience at Bloomberg and Capital One, shipping both data-heavy product features and AI-powered internal tools. Stands out for owning end-to-end user-facing systems, from spreadsheet-to-dashboard automation that cut workflows from hours to seconds to a BERT-based support chatbot that improved reliability by ~25%.”

“Frontend engineer focused on sophisticated, high-performance browser UIs for internal operations teams. They have owned real-time monitoring and transaction-tracking interfaces, combining deep browser performance knowledge with user-centered workflow design to deliver sub-second responsiveness, 60 FPS rendering, and a 30% improvement in task completion speed.”

“Apple product leader with a rare mix of platform, commerce, UX, and AI workflow experience. They led the App Store Connect rebuild for 50,000+ developer partners, shipped high-impact pricing and payments improvements, and recently built Claude-powered investigation tooling that saves engineering time while preserving human judgment. Strong fit for human-centered AI roles where trust, measurable outcomes, and cross-functional execution matter.”

“Software engineer with recent hands-on experience building a Google internal startup-style AML/KYC compliance platform for financial services clients. They combine full-stack product work with backend/data systems expertise, delivering measurable impact including 44% higher screening throughput, 94% fewer false positives, and 33% faster client onboarding.”

“NVIDIA engineer who built and shipped a production LLM-powered enterprise knowledge system (summarization, transcription, and Q&A) that cut document retrieval time ~30%. Deep hands-on experience with RAG (FAISS/Pinecone), GPU-accelerated microservices on AWS, and reliability/safety practices (Guardrails AI, prompt A/B testing, canary releases) plus strong MLOps orchestration across Airflow, Step Functions, and Kubernetes GitOps.”

Sahitya Thota

Screened

Staff/Tech Lead Software Engineer specializing in identity, data platforms, and cloud systems

Fremont, CA20y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who built and owned end-to-end sales-facing data products, including a 360° advertiser insights platform and a sales AI agent for natural-language access to insights. Demonstrated strong architecture and reliability chops (event-driven redesign to eliminate Hive-query throttling; batching/caching to reduce fan-out) plus incident ownership around ads attribution consistency. Also has 0→1 experience building graph-based recommendation/matching systems with explainability and tight user feedback loops.”

“Full-stack front-end leaning engineer who built a browser-based SMS engagement platform for student outreach at NextGen Nest, integrating Twilio, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and Socket.IO. They pair product impact with practical debugging and UI quality work, including fixing elusive third-party browser issues and rebuilding inaccessible React components into more reliable, state-driven interfaces.”

“Backend/AI engineer currently at Stripe building Minions, an internal LLM-based developer agent that automates code generation, bug fixes, and PR creation. They combine strong production LLM architecture skills with reliability engineering, having improved routine PR merge times by ~40-45%, lowered post-merge bug rates by 12%, and previously built an invoice-processing pipeline that achieved 91% straight-through processing in a B2B payments context.”