Vetted REST APIs Professionals

“Early-career candidate with a thoughtful, engineering-first approach to AI-assisted development: they use AI to accelerate implementation while retaining human ownership of architecture and final code quality. They recently built a speech-to-text workflow using Groq Whisper and showed practical judgment by designing around imperfect transcription accuracy with checks and fallback handling.”

“Java/Spring Boot engineer with startup-style ownership experience across e-commerce, banking, and healthcare analytics. Stands out for driving a monolith-to-microservices migration with Kafka that improved checkout reliability under peak load, while also contributing full-stack with Angular and supporting production operations end to end.”

“Financial-services software engineer with experience building both full-stack advisor tools and production AI features at Charles Schwab. They owned an automated portfolio rebalancing workflow and helped launch an LLM-powered reporting assistant that cut report-writing time by 70%, while maintaining compliance through strict tool use, evals, and mandatory human review.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with 7 years of Python experience who has worked on data-heavy products in both healthcare and social media intelligence. Particularly notable for driving Elasticsearch-based search improvements on a B2B social media analytics platform and for building secure healthcare APIs using Flask/Django with OAuth, JWT, and multiple databases.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer at Qualcomm who built and operated a drift monitoring platform for 10k+ edge AI models. Stands out for combining strong TypeScript/React/Node execution with production-grade systems thinking across PostgreSQL tuning, Redis caching, ECS deployments, and Kafka-based architectural improvements that measurably improved reliability and release speed.”

“Customer-facing technical professional with experience supporting LLM/agentic-style workflows and complex integrated systems (APIs, backend logic, databases). Partnered with sales/customer teams at Radix Health to onboard new clients in phased prototypes, translating non-technical requirements into technical scope and implementing core product changes to tailor the appointment-booking solution for providers.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Vanguard, PNC, and Humana building customer-facing investment/banking flows and internal ops tools using Angular/React/TypeScript with Spring Boot microservices. Strong in shipping time-sensitive changes safely via automated testing/CI (JUnit/Mockito, Jenkins, SonarQube) and in operating event-driven microservices with Kafka (idempotency, retries, correlation IDs). Improved internal tool adoption by responding to ops/support feedback with query optimization and clearer search results.”

“Software engineer with experience at Walmart and Amex building customer-facing backend services and microservices at scale (RabbitMQ). Built an internal developer tooling platform integrating Figma with GitHub Copilot to automate consistent React component creation, adopted across multiple teams; emphasizes fast, safe iteration using metrics, feature flags, gradual rollouts, and automated testing.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building a large-scale healthcare claims and provider-enrollment system end-to-end (React frontend, Spring Boot microservices, PostgreSQL on AWS). Optimized high-volume claims processing (millions of records/day) using indexing/pagination and asynchronous workloads via AWS Lambda/Kafka, and deployed containerized services with Docker/Jenkins on AWS.”

“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.”

“Worked at easybee ai building a production-grade "voice of the customer" LLM intake agent, hardening a fragile sandbox prototype with JSON-schema constrained outputs, Python/FastAPI validation middleware, and automated retries. Strong in real-time debugging of agentic workflows (snapshot isolation, modular tracing) and in implementing safety/compliance guardrails like a content-moderation middleware to support enterprise adoption.”

“Maintained and improved a set of JavaScript packages at JPMorgan, including a major refactor of an event-emission layer used in LLM streaming that delivered ~20% runtime speedup with no API changes. Known for a measurement-driven performance approach (profiling + simplification + validation), strong backward-compatibility discipline, and documentation that accelerates internal adoption and reduces support questions.”

“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).”

“ML/GenAI engineer with recent CVS Health experience building a production RAG system over unstructured financial/research documents using LangChain, FAISS, and Pinecone, plus LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning of GPT/LLaMA for domain-aware summarization. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps and data engineering skills (Airflow/Prefect, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLflow) and measurable impact (sub-second retrieval, ~40% better context retrieval, ~25% entity matching improvement).”

“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.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a group scheduling SaaS feature with live availability updates using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, owning production reliability after launch (auth debugging, monitoring, polling/backoff tuning). Has hands-on experience with Postgres schema/index design and query optimization (EXPLAIN ANALYZE) and building durable orchestrated backend workflows with retries and idempotency.”

“GenAI/LLM ML engineer (currently at Webprobo) building an enterprise GenAI platform with document intelligence and automation on AWS and blockchain. Has hands-on experience with RAG, LLM evaluation tooling, and orchestrating production LLM workflows with Apache Airflow, plus deep exposure to reliability challenges in globally distributed/edge deployments. Also partnered with business/marketing stakeholders at a banking client to deliver an AI-driven customer retention insights solution.”

“Data engineer focused on reliable, scalable analytics pipelines and external data collection. Has owned end-to-end pipelines processing 5–10M records/day, serving Snowflake data marts to Power BI/Tableau, and reports ~99% reliability through strong validation/monitoring. Also shipped versioned REST APIs for curated data with query optimization and caching.”

“Built an NYU software engineering capstone called “Smart Cash AI,” a multi-agent LLM-powered web app that curates offline-ready podcasts/articles/videos/news based on user preferences and commute schedules. Architected agent orchestration (discovery/downloader/summarizer), real-time progress via WebSockets, and an ETL normalization layer across RSS/YouTube and other sources with GUID-based deduplication, retries, and failure isolation to keep the system predictable.”

SNEHA KUSUMA

Screened

Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in banking and telecom platforms

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer with experience at T-Mobile and U.S. Bank who maintained a TypeScript utility library (types, tests, build pipeline, and docs) adopted by multiple teams, and improved React workflow performance by refactoring components and optimizing data fetching. Known for pragmatic cross-team support—reproducing issues quickly, shipping well-tested fixes, and managing changes carefully to avoid breaking downstream apps.”

Hamidreza Lotfalizadeh

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and ML systems

Bay Area, CA6y exp

“At Inertia Systems, built a production LLM-powered ingestion pipeline that converts heterogeneous sources (PDF/JSON/IFC/SQL and financial tables) into standardized text and uses GraphRAG to construct a knowledge graph with verified dependency relationships. Also has hands-on HPC orchestration experience with SLURM, including creating a custom wrapper process manager to improve resource utilization under restrictive scheduling policies.”

JiHeon Kim

Screened

Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in Financial Services

Toronto, Canada4y exp

“Frontend engineer focused on React/TypeScript dashboards and end-to-end product delivery, including RBAC with JWT, Redux-based session persistence, and a centralized API layer with token injection. Has experience with real-time MongoDB-backed updates (shared across web and mobile) and has solved production-impacting issues like timezone inconsistencies using date-fns/UTC conversions, backed by Jest + manual QA and rollback-driven release practices.”

Qichen Zhao

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in Applied AI and LLM systems

Los Angeles, CA0y exp

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based conversational "Yelp for AI tools" at Search-AI Inc., focused on personalized, explainable AI tool recommendations from thousands of options. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and performance (hybrid retrieval, async two-stage pipelines) and is also building a multi-agent orchestration layer (MAgIc) with typed memory and controlled coordination policies.”