Vetted REST API Professionals

“Amazon engineer who built a production AI agent platform (Python/AWS Strands on Bedrock) that lets teams create tool-using, multi-agent workflows—e.g., agents that auto-triage and resolve customer support tickets by reading internal documentation and collaborating with a research agent. Previously worked in Deloitte on IAM using Ping Identity/Ping DaVinci orchestration, and applies orchestration thinking plus structured evaluation (LLM-as-judge, surveys, automated tests) to improve agent reliability.”

“Full-stack developer (Energywell) who led an internal admin dashboard end-to-end using React/Redux and a Go microservice, emphasizing performance (reduced calls, preload data) and maintainable architecture (modularity, refactoring, PR reviews). Also shipped a Redis-based caching whitelist feature in a fast-paced environment and helped implement a responsive, brand-configurable onboarding/signup frontend.”

“Enterprise platform engineer/product owner who led end-to-end delivery of customer-facing ServiceNow Service Catalog/workflow solutions, emphasizing reliability, security, and fast iteration. Built React/TypeScript portals with Node.js and Spring Boot backends, and improved microservices reliability at scale using Kafka, monitoring, and robust retry/timeout patterns.”

“Frontend engineer who led end-to-end architecture for a cross-platform Payments Checkout SDK at Inai Technologies, scaling it to support iOS/Android/React Native/Flutter/Capacitor and powering 2.4M+ transactions per month. Emphasizes performance (bundle size/tree-shaking), OTA update delivery for mobile wrappers, and strong engineering guardrails (SonarQube, Snyk, CI/CD, regression suites, Sentry/PostHog) to ship quickly with high quality.”

“Backend engineer focused on Python/FastAPI microservices, with hands-on experience deploying to AWS (EKS/ECR) via Jenkins and GitOps-style workflows using ArgoCD. Has built and stabilized real-time Kafka payment-event streaming pipelines and improved production performance under peak load through Redis caching, SQL optimization, and robust retry/DLQ patterns. Also supported phased migrations from on-prem environments to AWS with gradual traffic shifting and monitoring.”

“Built and productionized an autonomous research agent (AutoGPT) in a Docker/Kubernetes environment with Pinecone-based long-term memory and custom Python tools for analysis, visualization, and report drafting. Implemented layered guardrails (prompt templates, automated validation, self-critique loops, and monitoring) and achieved ~25% reduction in manual report generation time while scaling the workflow to support multiple concurrent users.”

“Built and productionized an NLP-powered customer support assistant at JPMorgan Chase for digital banking, focused on reducing response time for repetitive client queries. Strong in real-world AI deployment challenges—sensitive data handling, low-latency FastAPI services, and AWS/Kubernetes operations with CI/CD—plus a metrics- and guardrails-driven approach to reliable AI workflows.”

“Full-stack engineer (backend-led) with recent experience building enterprise workflow orchestration and billing/payment platforms at Intuit using Java/Spring Boot (WebFlux), Kafka, Postgres/Redis, and React/TypeScript. Has operated at high scale (reported ~1200 RPS during month-end billing) and focuses on event-driven microservices, real-time UI updates via streaming, and disciplined API evolution with contract testing.”

“Backend/platform engineer with payments domain experience, having owned core services for MasterCard’s global card tokenization and settlement platform. Built Django/Celery microservices plus Kafka/Redis real-time fraud streaming, delivering 27% latency improvement, sub-100ms fraud checks, and 18% fewer false positives. Strong DevOps/IaC background across Kubernetes, AWS ECS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and GitOps practices for high-scale transaction systems (including UPI at PhonePe).”

“GenAI/data engineering practitioner with production experience across Equinix, Optum, and Citibank—built an Azure OpenAI (GPT-4) + LangChain document intelligence platform processing 1.5M+ docs/month and a HIPAA-compliant Airflow healthcare pipeline handling 5M+ claims/day. Also delivered a real-time fraud detection + explainability system using LightGBM and a fine-tuned T5 NLG component, improving fraud accuracy by 15%+ while partnering closely with compliance stakeholders.”

“Engineering leader who proposed and delivered a new API-based document management platform to replace a vendor-dependent system, improving latency by ~1s and availability to 99.9% while migrating legacy data. Also drove Python-based automation of ~12 workflows via third-party API integrations and led an SSO/auth integration focused on backward compatibility and high login success rates.”

“Built a lightweight internal JavaScript analytics tracker capturing user interactions (clicks, page views, custom events) with debounced batching, automatic session tracking, and offline event caching via a localStorage-backed append-only queue. Demonstrates practical performance optimization mindset (profiling, memoization/caching) and React performance tuning.”

“Founding engineer for an AI product (“world’s first funny AI”) who designed and implemented the full-stack architecture (React/TypeScript + Node) and migrated production from Vercel to AWS. Shipped a Lambda-based image pipeline that eliminated lag/missing images and brought page load times to under a second, and has hands-on experience integrating multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok) with structured-output and self-check reliability techniques.”

“Backend engineer who has led major platform evolution to cloud-native microservices (Spring Boot on AWS with Terraform) and built scalable, secure FastAPI APIs. Demonstrates strong production rigor with metric-driven validation, canary/phased rollouts, and incremental migrations using shadow traffic/feature flags/parallel writes—achieving faster deployments, fewer incidents, and zero-downtime traffic spikes and migrations.”

“Machine learning/NLP engineer who built a production-oriented retrieval-based AI system at Morgan Stanley for healthcare use cases, combining RAG over unstructured patient records with deep-learning medical image segmentation (U-Net/Mask R-CNN). Strong in end-to-end pipelines and MLOps (Spark/MongoDB, AWS SageMaker, CI/CD, monitoring, automated retraining) and in entity resolution/data quality validation for noisy clinical data.”

“Software engineer in the mortgage/financial services domain (Freddie Mac) who builds end-to-end loan origination and credit risk capabilities using Spring Boot microservices, Angular dashboards, and data pipelines. Delivered measurable impact (30% reduction in underwriting turnaround time) and emphasizes production reliability/compliance with strong guardrails, observability, and evaluation loops for risk scoring systems.”

“Engineering leader/player-coach who led a high-stakes 0→1 in-house usage-based billing/rating platform to replace a third-party system, saving millions and protecting 30M+ in revenue. Deep experience in event-driven microservices on AWS (Lambda/SQS/DynamoDB), billing correctness, migrations, and incident response, while scaling teams through hiring, coaching, and lightweight execution processes.”

“Uber engineer who has owned internal products end-to-end across backend (Spring Boot microservices, MySQL) and frontend (React), including performance optimization and secure JWT-based auth. Also shipped a production internal RAG/embeddings LLM support assistant over policy docs and support tickets, with guardrails (confidence thresholds, human review) and an evaluation loop that directly reduced hallucinations.”

Allan Farinas

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python and AWS

West Covina, CA11y exp

“Backend/data engineer who has built production Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS-native platforms for event ingestion and analytics, combining ECS/Fargate + Lambda with CloudFormation-driven environments and strong secrets/IAM practices. Experienced modernizing legacy logic with parallel-run parity validation and safe phased cutovers, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning wins (20–30s down to 1–2s) plus incident ownership in Glue/Step Functions ETL pipelines.”

Ethan Lam

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in data platforms and full-stack development

Toronto, Ontario3y exp

“Software engineer with Warner Music Group experience owning and shipping analyst-facing data products (marketing/streaming data dashboards) end-to-end with high adoption through continuous stakeholder feedback. Also builds side projects with TypeScript/React and domain-driven API design, emphasizing flexibility (including swapping databases mid-development) and pragmatic microservices reliability patterns (logging, timeouts, retry backoff).”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered healthcare support agent at UnitedHealthGroup, using LangChain + FAISS RAG on AWS SageMaker with CloudWatch monitoring and human-in-the-loop fallbacks for safety. Strong focus on reliability engineering (confidence gating, retries/timeouts, caching) and continuous evaluation loops; reported ~40% improvement in query resolution efficiency while reducing manual support workload.”

“Senior software engineer (5+ years) from Walmart Global Tech who owned and operated high-scale supplier inventory submission systems, including a microservice handling submissions up to 500k items and a data platform processing ~10TB/day. Strong in AWS/Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka/Spark streaming + batch pipelines, and production operations (on-call, metrics/alerting), with demonstrated performance wins (30% faster responses, 50% faster processing).”