Vetted REST APIs Professionals

“SDE who worked on an MGICS Lab robotics project building a multi-agent model to help agents understand tasks and generate robot instructions, emphasizing task-splitting, checking, and a reflection agent to improve accuracy. Also has experience using GitHub with automated CI/CD pipelines.”

“Software engineer with experience delivering customer-facing solutions across consulting and engineering contexts (Deloitte, Coherent), including a finance reconciliation system and a firmware validation tool integrated into existing test infrastructure. Demonstrates strong on-site/customer collaboration, rapid iteration, and high-pressure debugging (CARLA demo fix), with measurable impact and a focus on adoption through familiar workflows and clear documentation.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong data engineering and privacy-domain experience, having owned an automated Data Subject Rights (DSR) processing pipeline end-to-end across Azure SQL and GCP (GCS/BigQuery). Emphasizes production reliability via idempotency, validation checkpoints, structured logging/monitoring, and safe CI/CD-driven deployments, and has also built React+TypeScript + Node/Postgres web apps with scalable, maintainable architecture.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI services on AWS and implementing strong reliability/observability (CloudWatch, ELK, correlation IDs, alarms). Has delivered serverless + container solutions with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform) and Jenkins CI/CD, and built AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution and data-quality safeguards; demonstrated large-scale SQL tuning (45 min to 3 min on a 500M-row workload).”

“Embedded C++ engineer with Bosch automotive infotainment experience, owning real-time audio middleware modules with strict latency/memory constraints. Strong in profiling/optimizing deterministic behavior, debugging hardware-specific intermittent issues, and building automated test + CI pipelines; currently ramping up on ROS2 concepts (DDS, nodes/topics/services) to transition toward robotics.”

“Backend/data engineer from Oliver Wyman who built and ran production Python (FastAPI) services on AWS (ECS/Lambda/API Gateway) supporting risk modeling and regulatory reporting. Strong in reliability/observability, Glue-based ETL with data quality controls, and legacy SAS-to-Python modernization with rigorous parity validation; also demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins and cost-control improvements in serverless scaling. Based in Raleigh, NC and can travel onsite for important Bethesda-area meetings.”

“Built and deployed a production credit card fraud detection platform that scores transactions in real time using TensorFlow/scikit-learn models exposed via a Spring Boot REST API, with strict SLAs, fallback to legacy rules, and Splunk-based monitoring/drift tracking. Also has enterprise orchestration experience with TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW 6.6/BWCE), coordinating REST/SOAP services and JMS messaging (TIBCO EMS) with robust error handling and compensation logic.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing AI recommendation and analytics dashboards end-to-end (backend APIs/data processing through React UI, deployment, and monitoring). Demonstrates strong systems thinking around scaling microservices—using observability, caching, async workflows, and resilience patterns—and also built an internal ops dashboard that became the default tool for on-call incident reviews.”

“Backend-focused intern who owned real-time livestream features: live comment moderation using AWS Comprehend (sentiment/toxicity/PII) with safe fallbacks, plus AI-generated positive commentary via AWS Bedrock (Claude 3 Haiku). Emphasizes reliability/low-latency design, IAM troubleshooting, and disciplined GitOps-style CI workflows for reproducible deployments.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built a resume processing and job application platform using Python/MongoDB/Streamlit, including OpenAI-powered skill/keyword extraction and recruiter-facing search/filtering. Has hands-on cloud deployment experience on AWS/Azure and executed an on-prem reservation portal migration to Azure using a phased trial-and-cutover approach; also automated CI/CD with Jenkins and GitHub Actions.”

“Cloud-focused engineer experienced deploying and stabilizing complex production systems that span APIs, infrastructure, and automated workflows, with a strong observability and safe-release mindset (feature flags/canaries/rollbacks). Has hands-on, customer-facing incident leadership, including executing DR regional failover during an AWS us-east-1 outage to maintain service and reportedly save a client ~$10M.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on IoT and AI product work: built a decoupled Raspberry Pi + AWS IoT Core weather monitoring backend and a Dockerized FastAPI LLM service on AWS ECS using OpenAI/HuggingFace with an emerging RAG layer. Also delivered measurable performance gains at DAZN by redesigning event-driven/serverless ingestion (SNS, S3->Lambda->DynamoDB), cutting latency ~30% and boosting throughput ~25% while automating ~90% of manual sync work.”

“Backend engineer with experience building queue-driven Python/Flask systems using Celery, Redis/RabbitMQ, and SQLAlchemy/Postgres, including async/non-blocking architectures for concurrency. Also built a patient-facing full-stack app integrating LLMs (OpenAI/Claude) with streaming responses for real-time UX, and previously delivered high-throughput, reliability-critical background workflows at Dropbox (document expiration with batching, retries, and cache/side-effect handling).”

“Built a production GenAI-powered analytics assistant to reduce reliance on data analysts by enabling natural-language Q&A over Databricks/Power BI dashboards, backed by vector search (Pinecone/Milvus) and a Neo4j knowledge graph, including multimodal support via OpenAI Vision. Demonstrates strong real-world LLM reliability engineering with strict RAG, LangGraph multi-step verification, and Guardrails/custom validators, plus broad orchestration and production monitoring experience (Airflow, ADF, Step Functions, Kubernetes, Prometheus/CloudWatch).”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience building and owning high-traffic e-commerce checkout flows in Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript across microservices (REST/GraphQL). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (30% checkout improvement; 85% initial load reduction at 20th Century FOX) and strong production rigor (APM/logs, CloudWatch, Postgres indexing + EXPLAIN ANALYZE), including offloading PDF generation to AWS Lambda.”

“JP Morgan engineer and Texas A&M student web developer who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a real-time ML training workflow that improved internal search relevance by 30%. Experienced with AWS cloud migrations and operating containerized services on ECS with CloudWatch+ELK observability, Terraform infra, and Spinnaker CI/CD; also built event-driven pipelines with RabbitMQ and Elasticsearch at 1M+ record scale.”

“Software engineer with experience across enterprise (AIG, MSCI) and an early-stage startup (Job Map), owning production systems end-to-end. Built secure insurance microservices on Spring Boot with JWT/RBAC and AWS-based CI/CD/observability, plus Kafka streaming pipelines for financial data. Also shipped a GenAI personalization MVP using FastAPI and LLM APIs in a high-ambiguity startup environment.”

“LLM engineer who has deployed production RAG systems for regulated document QA (PDFs/knowledge bases), emphasizing grounded answers with citations, RBAC, monitoring, and continuous feedback. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval quality (semantic chunking, hybrid BM25+embeddings, re-ranking), reliability (guardrails, deterministic workflows), and measurable evaluation (golden sets, log replay, A/B tests) while partnering closely with compliance/operations stakeholders.”

“Software engineer with Intuit experience shipping an end-to-end real-time financial insights product on AWS, using event-driven architecture with Kafka and Spark Streaming to process millions of records with low latency. Also delivers customer-facing React + TypeScript dashboards and has hands-on production operations experience, including resolving a database scaling incident via read replicas, query tuning, and connection pooling.”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer who built production-grade orchestration systems for hardware security verification at Silicon Assurance (Nextflow/Python/Postgres) and a multi-agent LLM-driven regulatory code checking system at the University of Florida. Emphasizes reliability: strict plan/execute/verify boundaries, queue-based isolation, and strong observability/auditability with Prometheus/Grafana and persisted prompts/tool calls.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across C3.ai (supply chain demand planning) and Amdocs (telecom), working on large-scale data systems and microservices. Has driven first-time adoption experiments of Snowflake + Spark to handle billion-record workloads, built Jenkins-to-Kubernetes delivery pipelines with Nexus artifact management, and implemented Kafka streaming between microservices with HA and retry/error-handling patterns.”

“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.”

“Software engineering intern at China Telecom who built and continuously evolved a real-time transaction platform ("Smart Tangerine") focused on strong consistency and peak-hour concurrency. Implemented microservices with Redis and RabbitMQ to decouple heavy processing and cut latency (~80ms to ~30ms), and led a zero-downtime migration from a monolith using strangler pattern, dual-write, and traffic shadowing.”