Vetted REST APIs Professionals

“Self-taught frontend developer with React/TypeScript project experience and strong QA background. Contributed as a QA tester on a Skunkworks web app by refining large story tickets, defining happy-path/edge test cases, and setting sprint metrics; also improved a legacy PHP web app by modularizing SFTP bulk upload code and enhancing page navigation.”

“Software engineer with hands-on production experience deploying Spring Boot services to AWS using Docker and Jenkins CI/CD, focused on stable releases, easy rollback, and performance improvements through monitoring/logging and query optimization. Has proven cross-layer troubleshooting skills (identified packet loss causing intermittent timeouts via network traces) and experience collaborating on-site with operators in industrial/IoT-style environments, including working alongside robotics/PLC teams.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production experience improving performance and reliability of data-heavy analytics products. Has shipped end-to-end features spanning Node/Express + PostgreSQL + Redis and React/TypeScript, deployed via Docker/GitHub Actions to AWS EKS with Helm, and monitored with Datadog/CloudWatch; also built a Python compliance automation backend for AWS security monitoring with RBAC, versioned REST APIs, and resilient throttling-aware processing.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on Next.js (App Router) and TypeScript who has shipped and owned production role-based dashboards end-to-end, including post-launch reliability/performance work. Demonstrated measurable UI performance improvements (35–40% faster initial load) and strong backend rigor with Postgres query/index optimization (300ms to 30ms) plus durable Temporal-orchestrated onboarding/data-sync workflows with idempotency and retry strategy.”

“Software engineer (internship experience) who built and owned an AWS serverless multi-user “challenge” feature end-to-end (UI + REST APIs + DynamoDB + deployment), delivering measurable gains in latency (-30%), debugging time (-50%), and join drop-offs (~-30%). Also productionized a multilingual RAG-based QA system with vector retrieval and guardrails, improving accuracy to ~85% and driving ~20% DAU growth.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered incident response agent for a microservices platform, automating alert triage and safe remediation recommendations with strong guardrails (RAG grounding, structured JSON outputs, rule-based validation, and human-in-the-loop). Implemented state-machine orchestration (Redis/Kafka), comprehensive eval/monitoring, and an error categorization pipeline that cut hallucination errors ~40% and reduced MTTR ~30%.”

Jackie Nguyen

Screened

Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead specializing in cloud-native microservices

Overland Park, KS8y exp

“LLM/agentic-systems practitioner who shipped a recruiting resume-assistant from prototype to production, tackling hallucinations and multi-format document ingestion (PDF/images with OCR). Strong in real-time workflow debugging (logs/traces, reproducing prod issues) and pragmatic mitigation (feature flags), and helped drive customer adoption by presenting impact data and creating educational materials.”

Nischit Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Development Engineer specializing in Python, APIs, and AWS

NC, US5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing legacy systems and building modular Python/Flask services, including a REST-to-GraphQL migration for an e-commerce platform that improved API response time by 45%. Strong in performance and scalability work across PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (indexing, JSONB, N+1 fixes, connection pooling) and high-throughput systems (Celery + Redis), plus integrating ML microservices with TorchServe, Kafka streaming, feature stores, and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.”

Pallavi Deshmukh

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React, Node.js, and Android media SDKs

USA5y exp

“Backend/data engineer who built an end-to-end real-time stock analytics platform: ingesting multi-source market data via Kafka/APIs, transforming it into dashboard metrics (e.g., Bollinger Bands), and storing in BigQuery/MySQL. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying Python/Node microservices on Kubernetes with Docker/Helm, CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), and ArgoCD, plus hands-on troubleshooting and migration work.”

Akram Ali

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in Node.js/TypeScript, cloud, and data engineering

Chicago, United States10y exp

“Frontend/fullstack lead who inherited a messy psychological app with production issues, drove a rapid stabilization (2–3 weeks) and major performance/architecture overhaul (Redux Toolkit, memoization, caching, lazy loading, CDN offload to S3/CloudFront). Also owns delivery and infrastructure practices (multi-env, Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS ECS + load balancing) and led a 1-week POC for an AI-powered trucking management system (app.neblo.ai).”

“Full-stack developer with seven years of experience who has built production systems across AWS serverless infrastructure, Django applications, and user-facing web products in domains like emergency response, fintech/investing, recruiting, and conference management. Particularly notable for combining technical architecture with product thinking—e.g., modernizing a crash-tracking platform for emergency responders and materially improving trust-driven conversion in a trading-card fractionalization product.”

“Built an end-to-end agentic population health strategy copilot for healthcare leadership, turning broad chronic disease questions into structured, evidence-backed strategy briefs. Stands out for combining healthcare domain knowledge with production-grade GenAI implementation, including LangGraph orchestration, Databricks/MLflow deployment, human review, and quality gates focused on citations, metrics, risks, and safety.”

Narayan Anantha Krishnan

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and cybersecurity

Syracuse, NY2y exp

“AI/full-stack builder with hands-on experience shipping conversational and agentic products, including a travel itinerary assistant, a multi-agent data analysis platform, and a self-correcting RAG system. Also brings academic research depth from Syracuse University, where they helped develop tiny-LLM-based IoT threat mitigation and presented an accepted paper at FLAIRS 39.”

Antonio Walker

Screened

Senior Technical Lead and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms

Irvine, CA13y exp

“Engineering leader and player-coach who says he joined Freeing Returns during a transition from sales-led services to SaaS, architected the platform from the ground up, and helped hire a 10+ person team across engineering, product, and delivery. He also describes leading an AI-based fraud detection system on Salesforce with data lake and pipeline architecture, combining startup build-from-scratch execution with hands-on technical leadership.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with 9 years of Go experience, focused on financial-services platforms where performance, reliability, and regulatory auditability are critical. He has built low-latency market data infrastructure (p99 under 8ms) and optimized compliance/reporting systems used by finance and audit teams, combining strong systems design with practical production operations.”

“Backend engineer (Encore) who led the evaluation and redesign of a high-volume, low-latency real-time retrieval/ranking and inference platform on AWS, shifting from tightly coupled services to a modular architecture for better fault isolation and independent scaling. Strong focus on production reliability, observability, and security (JWT/RBAC, multi-tenant scoping, Postgres/Supabase RLS), with disciplined migration playbooks (feature flags, shadow traffic, dual writes/reconciliation).”

“Startup engineer who owned an end-to-end carpool marketplace experience at FavorIt (React Native, Firebase/Firestore, Cloud Functions, Stripe) and iterated rapidly using Mixpanel + feature flags while applying rigorous integrity controls for booking and payments. Also built a TypeScript/React + Go/Postgres workout tracker and previously worked on Spring Boot microservices for financial-institution workflow automation with event-driven patterns (outbox, idempotency, backpressure tuning).”

“Frontend engineer in fintech who led a client onboarding platform end-to-end, building a scalable React/TypeScript architecture with Redux-driven multi-step verification workflows. Strong focus on quality at scale through UI automation/E2E testing and CI/CD (GitHub Actions + Docker), enabling faster releases (bi-weekly to daily) while staying stable despite evolving backend APIs.”

“Backend/DevOps-leaning engineer who has owned a Python serverless platform on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions), including complex multi-step business workflows with transaction-based consistency and robust failure handling. Also supported an on-prem SQL to Azure Data Lake migration by building and monitoring Python + Azure Data Factory ETL pipelines, and led GitOps-style CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions (tests, security scans, automated deployments).”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building end-to-end applications using Java/Spring Boot and React, including Dockerized deployment and RabbitMQ-based messaging. Worked on a high-volume payment processing system at Alacriti, focusing on performance (query optimization, caching) and reliability with monitoring via AWS CloudWatch.”

Rizwana Shaik

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native apps and AI copilots

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Internship project building and deploying a LLaMA-based, RAG-enabled copilot inside a Professional Services Automation platform, enabling natural-language navigation, text-to-SQL reporting, and project/resource/budget insights across multiple modules. Addressed real production issues like context drift and vague queries with hybrid search, metadata enrichment, and an intent classification/rewriting layer, orchestrated via Apache Airflow—ultimately cutting PMO reporting time by 40%.”

David Momoh

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web, mobile, and cloud platforms

Lagos, Nigeria6y exp

“Frontend engineer/lead who has shipped multiple production applications including VentureRamp (multi-platform crowdfunding app, deployed early 2024), DataPotter (large-scale stakeholder tracking dashboard), and Nasdmobile (OTC stock trading app). Emphasizes scalable microfrontend/modular architecture, strong state management (React + TypeScript + Redux Toolkit), and disciplined release practices (feature flags, phased rollouts, monitoring) while leading teams through sprints and knowledge-sharing.”

Joel Zangue

Screened

Senior Full-Stack & Mobile Engineer specializing in React and React Native

Canada6y exp

“Frontend engineer/team lead currently overseeing a 5-person team building an AI trading mobile application, using modular architecture and Jest-based testing to maintain quality as features scale. Also develops a trading/research platform in Next.js/React/TypeScript with Tailwind and Redux, including complex broker registration workflows and experience separating on-device AI components from core business logic.”

Thota Rajkumar

Screened

Junior Cloud & AI Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Agentic AI and AWS

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Built and deployed a production AI career-advice agent designed to combat unreliable/generic LLM guidance by grounding outputs in retrieval-first RAG over resumes/job/hiring data, with multi-step reasoning, structured memory, and evidence-only prompting to reduce hallucinations. Implemented the system with LangChain/Python and deployed on AWS as scalable microservices orchestrated via REST and asynchronous calls, iterating closely with career coaches and students.”