Vetted REST API Professionals

“ML/GenAI engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered governance layer that summarizes verified drift/performance signals into validation reports and release notes, designed for regulated environments with de-identification and non-blocking fallbacks. Strong Airflow-based orchestration background across healthcare and finance, integrating Databricks/Spark and MLflow for scalable retraining/monitoring. Demonstrated ability to partner with non-technical healthcare operations teams to deliver actionable risk-scoring outputs via dashboards and automated reporting.”

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end delivery of both an open-source JavaScript document-comparison library and complex React+TypeScript product features (e.g., Google-Drive-like auto-save with S3 persistence). Demonstrates strong architecture and performance instincts (Redux/hooks patterns, dynamic loading to improve Lighthouse scores) and pragmatic shipping/rollout skills including cross-browser mitigation with feature flags.”

“Backend/AI engineer with experience in both high-scale financial services (JP Morgan trade compliance analytics API on Java/Spring Boot/Postgres/Elasticsearch on AWS EKS processing 1M+ trades/day) and applied LLM systems for legal research (LangChain/OpenAI + Weaviate semantic search). Demonstrated strength in reliability/performance engineering, data consistency during migrations, and production-grade workflow orchestration with observability and human-in-the-loop guardrails.”

“Backend engineer who built Flask-based microservices for a high-throughput risk engine, using Kafka for streaming decoupling and Redis for low-latency caching, with PostgreSQL + Cassandra for mixed relational and time-series needs. Has hands-on experience productionizing ML inference (Azure OpenAI/TensorFlow) behind REST APIs with async queues, batching, and caching, plus multi-tenant isolation via schema separation and RBAC with per-tenant rate limiting.”

“AI engineer who built and shipped a production AI document-understanding/search system at Sumeru Inc, including a full RAG + LLMOps evaluation stack (MLflow, DeepEval, RAGAS) deployed on GCP. Also developed LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent workflows for UAV flight-log analysis and has experience presenting AI solutions to non-technical stakeholders and prospect clients to drive POCs.”

“Built a production-oriented multimodal RAG "Fix Assistant" with FastAPI, Tavily search, BM25 + cross-encoder reranking, and a local Phi-3.5 model, emphasizing strict grounding and fallback/verification modes to prevent hallucinations. Also has hands-on federated learning experience using STADLE to orchestrate edge-node training and aggregation for EV telemetry data, plus experience communicating AI results to non-technical stakeholders (traffic RL/congestion outcomes).”

“Backend/ML engineer working on a battery energy storage system operations dashboard: built a Flask backend integrated with OAuth and a separate FastAPI optimization/simulation service, deployed via Docker CI/CD to Azure Container Apps. Strong in productionizing ML (AzureML to batch endpoints) and in performance/scalability patterns (Postgres indexing/JSONB, per-unit data isolation, async throttling + caching for year-long CPU-intensive simulations across 40+ scenarios).”

“Full-stack engineer with Bank of America experience modernizing a large-scale financial reporting platform. Built React frontends and Java/Spring Boot microservice APIs end-to-end, optimized data-heavy SQL performance (indexing/caching/pagination), and implemented an AI feature for forecasting and anomaly detection using Python/scikit-learn, with deployments supported on AWS.”

“Platform-minded JavaScript/TypeScript engineer who has maintained and evolved shared NPM-distributed libraries at Capital One and HCA Healthcare, treating internal packages like open source (issue triage, PR reviews, roadmap, docs). Known for methodical debugging and performance work—e.g., diagnosing latency spikes via load testing/instrumentation and redesigning middleware to avoid redundant parsing—paired with strong developer enablement through examples and migration notes.”

“Backend/platform engineer who led an end-to-end Python (FastAPI) transaction analytics microservice for real-time financial monitoring, including SQS ingestion, scoring/aggregation, and low-latency APIs. Strong AWS + Kubernetes/GitOps background (EKS, ArgoCD, Jenkins, ECS/ECR, CloudWatch) with hands-on experience scaling event-driven systems and executing phased on-prem to AWS migrations.”

“Backend engineer who built a containerized Flask service powering an engineering metrics dashboard by syncing GitHub and Jira data into PostgreSQL, with strong emphasis on schema design, query performance, caching, and background processing. Has hands-on experience with SaaS multi-tenancy (tenant scoping + Postgres RLS) and integrating AI/ML inference via separate model-serving services (FastAPI + TensorFlow Serving) and external APIs (OpenAI/Hugging Face/PyTorch).”

“Built and shipped a production Chrome extension (Promptly) that lets users select text on any webpage and transform it in place (rewrite/shorten/translate) using on-device AI plus external LLMs. Implemented a custom lightweight orchestration layer for prompt chaining, context flow, and output validation, and tackled tricky browser Selection API issues to preserve formatting while keeping the UX simple and fast.”

“Built production LLM systems including a real-time customer feedback analysis and workflow automation platform using RAG and multi-agent orchestration with confidence-based human escalation, addressing privacy and legacy integration challenges. Also automated ML operations with Airflow/Kubernetes (e.g., daily churn model retraining) cutting retraining time to under 30 minutes, and demonstrates a rigorous testing/monitoring approach plus strong non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”

“Built a production "sentinel insight engine" to tame information overload from millions of product reviews and support transcripts, combining Azure OpenAI (GPT-3.5) zero-shot classification with a fine-tuned T5 summarizer to generate weekly actionable product insights. Demonstrated strong MLOps/production engineering by adding drift monitoring with embedding-based detection, integrating REST with legacy SOAP/queue-based CRM via FastAPI middleware, and scaling reliably on Kubernetes with HPA.”

“Healthcare-focused data engineer/ML practitioner with experience at Lightbeam Health Solutions and Humana building production entity-resolution and semantic similarity pipelines across EMR, lab, and claims data. Uses NLP/ML (spaCy, scikit-learn, BioBERT/LightGBM) plus Snowflake/Airflow and vector search (Pinecone) to improve linkage accuracy (reported 90%) and semantic match quality (reported +12–15%), while reducing manual cleanup by 40%+.”

“Solo-built and launched an AI logo generator SaaS in ~2 months using React/Next.js/TypeScript with managed auth and payments, deploying via Vercel/GitHub CI/CD. Also has hands-on AWS production experience running containerized services with Terraform-managed multi-environment infrastructure and strong reliability patterns for integrations/pipelines.”

“Software engineer with Citi Bank experience building real-time fraud validation/scoring for loan processing, spanning Spring Boot microservices and a FastAPI Python service secured with OAuth2/JWT. Delivered React/TypeScript operations dashboards and deployed containerized services via Docker/Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD, while also tuning databases (Oracle/Postgres) and handling high-volume latency/scaling issues using ELK, caching, and autoscaling on AWS.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused production engineer with experience running 99.95% uptime platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP. Strong in incident response and performance troubleshooting (including a 30% MTTR reduction), and in building secure CI/CD and Terraform-based IaC for AKS/GKE microservices with robust change controls and rollback practices. Notably does not have direct IBM Power/AIX/VIOS/HMC or PowerHA/HACMP ownership.”

“Senior software engineer with Amazon experience who owned end-to-end improvements to a real-time payment authorization service, rebuilding it as a reactive Spring WebFlux microservice with saga orchestration and Kafka event streaming, deployed on AWS EKS with strong observability. Also built React+TypeScript and Node/Express full-stack workflow apps (onboarding, campaign management, admin review) and has experience shipping quickly in ambiguous startup environments while maintaining reliability and data correctness.”

“Backend-leaning product engineer with DevSecOps depth who has shipped real-time, Kafka-driven data pipelines and AI-enabled customer-facing features to production on AWS. Built a Spring Boot API layer serving real-time predictions at 100K+ requests/day, improving latency by 35% and user task completion by ~25%, and delivered a React/TypeScript dashboard plus a Postgres audit/history model optimized for search and large event volumes.”

“Data engineer with end-to-end ownership of large-scale retail and clinical data ingestion/processing on AWS, including real-time streaming and batch pipelines. Delivered measurable outcomes: 20M daily transactions processed, latency cut from 4 hours to 5 minutes, ~70% fewer failures, and 120+ pipelines running at 99.8% reliability with full audit compliance.”

“Backend/AI engineer who owned a high-scale Java/Spring Boot microservice for a financial application (millions of requests/day) and led major reliability/performance fixes (including ORM/query and PostgreSQL tuning) achieving ~60% latency reduction. Also shipped application-layer LLM features for ops teams (summarization + tool-calling) with strong guardrails (PII redaction, validation, audit/feedback) and designed a state-driven agent workflow with retries, circuit breakers, and human escalation.”