Vetted REST API Professionals

Pranav Chand

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and LLM platforms

ServiceNow, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer focused on multi-tenant enterprise AI personalization and recommendation platforms, combining ML/LLM intent extraction with deterministic policy guardrails for compliance and auditability. Has hands-on AWS experience (ECS/Lambda/DynamoDB/S3) and led a careful DynamoDB single-table migration using dual write/read, canary + feature-flag rollouts, and strong observability/security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

pavan kalyan padala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in predictive and generative AI

Daytona Beach, Florida4y exp

“AI/ML engineer with production LLM experience in regulated financial services (J.P. Morgan Chase), building a customer response engine to automate first-contact resolution while addressing privacy, bias, compliance, and scale. Strong MLOps/orchestration background (Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS Step Functions, Azure ML/SageMaker) plus proven ability to integrate with legacy systems and drive stakeholder adoption through dashboards, auditability, and training.”

Harshavardhan Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Data Scientist specializing in NLP, computer vision, and risk analytics

Albany, NY5y exp

“ML/AI engineer with Capital One experience building production-grade customer segmentation and fraud detection systems combining NLP (transformers) and anomaly detection. Strong MLOps and orchestration background (PySpark ETL, MLflow, Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, Azure ML) with real-time monitoring/alerting and performance optimizations like quantization and caching, plus proven ability to deliver business-facing insights through Power BI/Tableau for marketing stakeholders.”

Sankalp Tiwari

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech data pipelines

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer at Goldman Sachs who built LLM-powered reconciliation/reporting services and high-throughput Kafka pipelines (8M+ events/day). Strong in production-grade Python/FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with GitOps-style CI/CD, plus experience migrating legacy reporting/settlement services onto an internal Kubernetes platform using shadow deployments and gradual cutovers.”

Aditya Jaiswal

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, DevOps, and applied AI

Carlsbad, CA1y exp

“Full-stack engineer with startup ownership experience (Aiir) building 15+ TypeScript/Go microservice APIs on GCP Cloud Run with Kafka-based async event streaming and React CRM integrations for billing/analytics. Strong post-launch operator who tuned Oracle performance (partitioning/indexing/query optimization) and validated a 23% retrieval-time reduction via AWR, and has a quality/DevSecOps mindset (94% Pytest coverage, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, Twistlock, CloudWatch) including migrating 18+ production CI/CD pipelines.”

Utkarsh Mittal

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in computer vision and LLM agents

Sunnyvale, CA0y exp

“Software engineering candidate with hands-on experience building and shipping LLM agents: created a production AI enrichment/coding agent at Covalent Metrology using Apollo.io + OpenAI, and built a Mistral hackathon router that dynamically selects among models to reduce token cost while maintaining quality. Also developed a real-time financial margin analysis agent that emails actionable insights and iterated on reliability issues (e.g., fixing misrouted emails, improving news relevance filtering).”

Bhavyasree Chinthala

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and real-time streaming

USA, USA5y exp

“Data engineer with PNC Bank experience owning high-volume financial transaction pipelines end-to-end (Kafka/REST ingestion through Spark/Glue transformations to Redshift serving) for risk and fraud analytics. Built strong reliability and data quality practices (Great Expectations, reconciliation, Airflow alerting, idempotent retries, incremental/windowed processing), reporting 40% ingestion efficiency gains and ~99.9% data accuracy.”

Suloni Praveen

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and ML systems

Los Angeles, CA0y exp

“Built an end-to-end Next.js/TypeScript LLM-based scientific PDF analyzer using local Ollama/Llama inference to prioritize privacy and cost, producing structured research artifacts (e.g., authors/methods/findings) with ~92% extraction accuracy. At Qualtrics, helped replace a batch pipeline with a real-time, low-latency ML inference service (Python/Go on Kubernetes) using Redis caching, Grafana-based observability, and graceful fallbacks to protect UX during failures.”

Lance Chou

Screened

Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and MLOps

Canada1y exp

“PhD-led research engineer who has shipped LLM-powered agents for automated knowledge extraction from STEM textbooks/papers into a graph database, reporting a 90% accuracy improvement and major reductions in manual curation time. Also built an end-to-end multi-agent news aggregation/sentiment pipeline using the Agno framework with Pydantic-structured outputs, retries, and monitoring, and has experience processing messy SEC filings.”

Atharva Bhide

Screened

Entry Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and multimodal systems

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Built and shipped a production healthcare AI platform for a clinic in Brea, LA that combined LLM-based clinical report generation, voice agents for appointment workflows, and camera-based patient monitoring. Stands out for pairing multimodal AI architecture with production-grade reliability and compliance practices, while delivering concrete business results including 90% workflow automation, 200 hours saved per month, and a 60% improvement in customer retention.”

“Analytics candidate with hands-on experience at BCBS building HIPAA-compliant SQL/Snowflake/Tableau pipelines across fragmented legacy healthcare systems. Stands out for turning a 5-day claims reporting process into a near real-time 10-minute dashboard and for pairing strong data engineering discipline with reproducible Python-based churn modeling that drove measurable retention outcomes.”

“Built Laborate.app, a full-stack lab notebook and inventory product for scientists, largely solo using Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Postgres, Prisma, and AWS S3. Stands out for combining product ownership with practical concerns like encrypted data storage, autosave reliability, caching, tenant isolation, and scalability planning.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with deep experience building React/TypeScript + serverless/SQL systems and improving both operational reliability and user activation. They stand out for connecting low-level architecture decisions like idempotency and atomic updates with business outcomes such as reduced support burden and lower 30-day cancellations, while also designing configurable multi-tenant product systems with strong guardrails.”

“Built a production Python microservice around Grafana Loki focused on reliability, with checkpointing, idempotency, replay tooling, tracing, and alerting to prevent data loss and silent lag. Also has hands-on experience hardening brittle Playwright automations against dynamic UIs, auth expiry, rate limits, MFA, and bot-detection constraints, plus turning tribal-knowledge SOPs into explicit state-machine-driven workflows.”

“Built and owned Alight's AI-powered Search Summary feature end-to-end, using a RAG pipeline with OpenSearch and Bedrock, and drove a 20% increase in user feedback scores. Stands out for bringing rigorous production evaluation to LLM systems via live LLM-as-a-judge monitoring, and for experience with advanced agentic architectures, hybrid search, and reranking at scale.”

“Data-engineering-oriented candidate with hands-on experience building an agentic AI product and operational automation workflows. They described automating inventory-to-ERP discrepancy reconciliation with anomaly detection and daily reporting, and also have practical scraping/automation experience dealing with Cloudflare-protected sites using Selenium and Puppeteer.”

“ML/AI practitioner with hands-on experience shipping production time-series forecasting and RAG-based customer insights platforms in an enterprise setting. At BASF, he improved seed sales forecasting beyond naive baselines using model selection tailored by brand size, and he also led a RAG solution over Salesforce reports, complaints, and surveys that reached 2,000+ users with strong daily engagement.”

Amit Dharam

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud deployment

Tempe, AZ3y exp

“Built multiple end-to-end automation and data systems, including an Accio RAG pipeline combining PDF parsing, FastAPI, Neo4j, and vector search, plus Selenium-based scraping for a virtual try-on product. Stands out for reliability-minded engineering: automated testing, structured logging, validation layers, and a data-driven approach to debugging flaky automation that improved CI pass rates to over 98%.”

“AI/backend engineer who has owned production applied-ML systems end to end, including a Jitsi meeting intelligence platform with custom RoBERTa boundary detection, LLM summarization, and automated retraining from user feedback. Also has healthcare AI experience building a diabetes medication titration system with strict validation, drift monitoring, and safety guardrails—showing both product speed and high-stakes engineering rigor.”

“Backend/product-minded engineer from Ramp with strong travel-tech experience, having built an end-to-end booking platform integrating multiple external providers, policy enforcement, and reporting infrastructure. They also shipped an LLM-powered personalization workflow using embeddings and Google Gemini that cut trip planning time by 22%, and demonstrated strong production reliability instincts through circuit breakers, health checks, and schema-driven normalization.”

Rayhaan Mohamed

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI and full-stack development

Alpharetta, GA1y exp

“Early-career software engineer with internship experience at CirrusLabs building a voice-enabled CRM workflow that integrated Google Text-to-Speech and GPT-based processing for automated deal creation. Stands out for a reliability-focused approach to AI integrations, including validation, structured logging, prompt refinement, and hardening asynchronous API/UI behavior in real-world application flows.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of a production LLM/RAG system at Goldman Sachs, focused on workflow automation and large-scale document search for operational teams. They combine strong MLOps and backend engineering skills with practical GenAI evaluation and safety practices, and cite measurable impact including 22% better task guidance accuracy and sub-second search across millions of records.”

Keyan Luo

Screened

Intern-level software engineer specializing in backend and AI-powered applications

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Built a zero-to-one AI-powered resume tailoring platform as a personal project, owning everything from user problem discovery to frontend, backend, and AI agent architecture. Particularly strong in turning complex multi-agent AI workflows into a simple product experience for non-technical users, with a practical focus on output quality, validation, and rapid MVP iteration.”

“Veteran software engineer with an unusual path from founding a game development company and shipping dozens of games to rebuilding a B2B product data platform after bankruptcy reduced engineering to a two-person skeleton crew. Particularly strong in legacy modernization, data synchronization, enterprise UI/backend architecture, and customer-safe migrations where old and new systems must coexist in production.”