Vetted REST APIs Professionals

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned end-to-end production services for a fleet analytics/GenAI platform, spanning FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS + Lambda) event-driven workloads. Strong in reliability/observability (OpenTelemetry, circuit breakers, idempotency), data pipelines (Glue/Airflow/Snowflake), and measurable performance/cost wins (SQL 10s to <800ms P95; ~30% compute cost reduction).”

“AI/LLM practitioner at iFrog Marketing Solutions who drove a RAG chatbot from prototype to production in a legacy, AI-resistant environment by validating customer needs and building a business case. Implemented production-grade LLM practices (CI/CD eval gating, rollbacks, prompt/context engineering) and led internal workshops to bring non-AI-native developers up to speed while partnering with sales on tailored demos to drive adoption.”

“GenAI/ML engineer with production experience at Cognizant and Ally Financial, building end-to-end LLM/RAG systems and ML pipelines. Delivered a domain chatbot trained from 90k tickets and 45k docs, improving intent accuracy (65%→83%), scaling to 800+ concurrent users with 99.2% uptime and sub-150ms latency, and driving +14% customer satisfaction. Strong in Azure ML + DevOps CI/CD, Dockerized deployments, and explainable/PII-safe modeling using SHAP/LIME to satisfy stakeholder trust and GDPR needs.”

“Software engineer who built and owned a centralized Asset Management platform at Hyundai Mobis used daily by multiple internal teams, delivering everything from UI/TypeScript React frontend to Spring Boot services, databases, deployment, and post-release support. Experienced in scaling microservices with Kafka-based async workflows, improving data consistency/real-time updates, and implementing reliability patterns like standardized API contracts, retries, DLQs, and targeted caching.”

“Backend engineer focused on AI-enabled systems, having built a production-style RAG pipeline (vector search + LLM) exposed via Python/Flask endpoints with strong observability and hallucination-reduction techniques. Demonstrates deep performance work in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (5x faster analytics queries) and high-throughput optimization using Celery + Redis (800ms to 120ms latency, 3x throughput), plus schema-per-tenant multi-tenancy with tenant-aware middleware and logging.”

“Robotics software engineer who built the software layer for an autonomous warehouse sorting system, spanning navigation/path planning, task scheduling, and backend services. Deep hands-on ROS 2 Foxy experience (Nav2/costmaps) and real-time multi-robot debugging, using simulation-driven analysis plus incremental/partial re-planning to handle dynamic obstacles in production-like warehouse environments.”

“Backend/ML systems engineer who built a Flask + PostgreSQL internal ticketing platform and demonstrates strong database/ORM performance depth (indexes, partitioning, RLS multi-tenancy). Notably optimized a high-throughput attachment OCR/embedding pipeline with batching, deduplication, and Redis caching, cutting median latency from 45s to 10s and reducing worker cost by 35% while increasing throughput 4x.”

“Software/full-stack engineer focused on deploying and integrating microservice applications into production AWS and hybrid cloud/on-prem industrial environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting by tracing intermittent user failures to network routing/packet loss caused by load balancer and NIC misconfiguration, then adding monitoring to prevent recurrence. Also delivers customer-specific Python extensions with strong validation, testing, and backward compatibility.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building real-time applications (Socket.io chat app) and data-heavy systems in banking/loan management. Comfortable across React and backend services (Spring Boot/Node), with a focus on scalable API design, database performance (indexing/pagination/caching), and deployment via CI/CD and cloud infrastructure.”

“Backend engineer who built and optimized a high-traffic e-commerce platform in Python/Flask, focusing on scalability and reliability through service decomposition, Redis caching, and Celery-based background processing. Also integrated an AI intent-classification chatbot as a separately deployable inference service on AWS and has hands-on experience designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies in PostgreSQL.”

“Full-stack engineer who owned enterprise workflow platforms end-to-end at Northern Trust and Elevance Health—building NestJS/Java Spring Boot APIs, React UIs, and cloud deployments on GCP Cloud Run. Strong in data-heavy applications (hundreds of thousands of records) with proven production performance tuning (indexing/query rewrites, Cloud Run concurrency/min instances) and secure RBAC via Azure AD.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of FastAPI/Django services using MongoDB and React integration, focused on production reliability and performance (Redis caching, Celery background jobs, automated testing). Has delivered AWS container deployments via GitHub Actions to ECR with scripted rollouts/health checks, and supported phased migrations with replication and rollback planning. Also built a real-time user-activity streaming pipeline addressing partition hot spots and consumer lag through partition-key strategy, idempotency, and monitoring.”

“Engineering/technology leader (CTO-style) with experience scaling orgs and running distributed teams across four continents for over a decade. Led a high-stakes modernization of a securities trading platform at Wedbush—migrating from monolith to microservices on AWS with zero-downtime constraints—driving 45% execution performance improvement and enabling 25% market share growth. Emphasizes business-aligned roadmaps, build-vs-buy rigor, and scalable engineering practices/culture.”

“QA engineer with Citibank experience owning mobile automation and cross-platform validation (Android/iOS), including push notifications, RBAC, and backend API/data sync checks. Demonstrates strong Cypress/JavaScript E2E expertise—stabilizing CI-flaky React tests via cy.intercept—and builds pragmatic GitLab CI pipelines with smoke/regression gating plus rich reporting (Cypress Dashboard, Slack).”

“Backend/full-stack engineer from Foxconn Industrial Internet who led development of a production TypeScript/Node.js facility monitoring platform delivering near real-time manufacturing metrics (e.g., downtime and OEE) using MySQL + InfluxDB and a React dashboard. Demonstrates strong production operations mindset with queue-based workers, idempotency/DLQ patterns, structured observability, and automated Docker + GitLab CI/CD deployments.”

“Built and launched a personalized sprint-planning dashboard to reduce recurring planning friction, choosing a simple, reliable scoring approach over a complex model. Iterated based on team feedback (more control, dependency clarity, performance), achieving a reported 20% drop in task spillovers; transparent about not yet shipping production LLM/RAG features but actively learning.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience across React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Java/Spring Boot, operating containerized systems on AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2/RDS/S3) with strong observability (CloudWatch/Grafana). Notable for fixing a real checkout/order-placement failure end-to-end by adding frontend submission guards and backend idempotency with Redis + Kafka deduplication, then validating impact via technical metrics and business KPIs. Has also built Kafka-based integrations/pipelines with robust retry/backfill/reconciliation patterns in retail and banking contexts.”

“Backend/real-time systems engineer transitioning into robotics software: building ROS 2 fundamentals (pub/sub, custom messages, launch files) and experimenting with Nav2 + SLAM in Gazebo/RViz. Demonstrated practical debugging by tuning costmaps/planners and analyzing topic latency to stabilize simulated navigation, and has experience integrating telemetry pipelines and REST-based external interfaces.”

“Built a healthcare app backend and supporting product pieces from scratch for Maverick Health—covering database schema, API structure, Node.js implementation, and UI design in Figma—while targeting 10,000 patients and keeping AWS run costs to ~$20–$30/month. Shipped an Android closed beta on Google Play and handled real-world launch hurdles like privacy policy compliance and push notification infrastructure.”

“Backend/integration-focused engineer in the Maryland area with production experience building FastAPI REST services secured with OAuth2.1/JWT and reliability patterns (timeouts, selective retries, idempotency, centralized error handling). Has delivered AWS-integrated MuleSoft/CloudHub solutions and supported AWS Glue ETL workflows, plus demonstrated strong SQL tuning with a 30–40s to 3–5s performance improvement.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG-based enterprise knowledge assistant to replace slow/inaccurate search across millions of documents, using LangChain orchestration with GPT-4/LLaMA and vector databases. Strong focus on production constraints—latency, hallucination control, and cost—using hybrid retrieval, guardrails, LLM-as-judge validation, and model routing, and has experience translating non-technical stakeholder pain points into measurable outcomes.”

“Software engineer/product owner experience at GE Healthcare, owning a patient records and claims workflow product end-to-end. Built React/TypeScript + Spring Boot systems with contract-driven APIs (OpenAPI) and operated Spring Boot microservices using RabbitMQ, focusing on reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs) and performance improvements driven by clinical feedback. Also created an internal monitoring/deployment dashboard that became the default tool for on-call and production support.”

“Software engineer who owned an Order Management System end-to-end at Reliance Jio, improving large-table performance via UI virtualization shipped behind feature flags and refined through direct ops-user observation. Also built an OCR automation tool at Piramal Realty using Python/Tesseract with validation and manual correction fallbacks, driving adoption by operations teams. Experienced integrating with Kafka-based microservices and improving observability using structured logging and correlation IDs.”

“Cloud-focused engineer with hands-on experience deploying production cloud-native REST APIs on AWS using Pulumi IaC, containerization, and CI/CD, with strong emphasis on secure credential management and operational monitoring via CloudWatch. Also has IoT troubleshooting experience across edge hardware constraints and networking (TLS handshake failures), plus Python-based configurable data-processing tools and customer-facing requirements translation.”