Vetted REST Professionals

“Providing technical guidance to a small team exploring a biomedical startup focused on earlier disease detection, including for remote/underserved areas. The venture is in ideation with initial research completed and is moving toward prototyping while exploring initial investment/support.”

Sai Kondapaka

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in microservices, data pipelines, and FinTech fraud detection

Remote, USA5y exp

“Backend engineer with PayPal experience owning a high-throughput, low-latency fraud detection pipeline processing billions of transactions/day, integrating LLM-based models into real-time Kafka streams and payment decisioning APIs. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (declarative, auditable deployments; autoscaling/probe tuning) with migration experience modernizing legacy systems onto AKS/OpenShift.”

SNEHA KUSUMA

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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.”

Aravind Mohan

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI agents and backend systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Backend/AI workflow engineer who built a production event-personalization service (FastAPI + AWS Lambda) and solved real-world reliability/latency issues with deterministic routing, caching, and query/index optimization. Also built an end-to-end Gmail-based job application tracking agent using a lightweight RAG pipeline with Gemini, strong guardrails (Pydantic schemas, confidence thresholds), and offline regression tests to prevent drift and hallucination-driven data corruption.”

“Front-end engineer with experience building high-stakes internal products in financial services at Visa and Wells Fargo. They combine deep browser-performance knowledge with pragmatic typed architecture and close user observation, delivering measurable outcomes like cutting AML case resolution from 12 days to 4 and improving trader alert response through data-driven UI changes.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep experience building enterprise compliance and certification systems at Paycom, including complex approval workflows, live migrations, and large-scale assignment processing. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous business rules into reliable backend workflow logic and at designing trustworthy GraphQL/AI-assisted user experiences backed by real-time system data.”

Sanket Mungikar

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend and AI analytics platforms

California, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

“Full-stack developer who built an end-to-end Hotel Management System using React and Spring Boot with MongoDB and AWS. Has hands-on experience debugging API/data-fetching issues with Postman and validating results against the database, plus exposure to handling large data workloads with chunking and monitoring via Grafana/Tabula.”

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped and owned production analytics dashboards using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining server components for data-heavy pages with client components for interactive charts/filters. Also built a Temporal-orchestrated payment reconciliation workflow with versioning, idempotency, and exponential-backoff retries, and has hands-on Postgres query/index optimization using EXPLAIN ANALYZE.”

Saicharitha Yanamandala

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Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in Java, Cloud, and Microservices

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend/Python engineer who owned an end-to-end FastAPI + AWS internal natural-language document Q&A system (Textract extraction, embeddings/vector DB, LLM integration) with strong focus on reliability and latency. Hands-on with Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD, Helm, rolling updates/auto-rollback) and built/optimized Kafka streaming pipelines using Prometheus/Grafana. Also supported a zero-downtime on-prem to cloud migration with parallel run and gradual traffic cutover.”

Shashank Nawathe

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Senior Front-End Engineer specializing in React, micro frontends, and GraphQL

Sunnyvale, CA8y exp

“Frontend engineer with Walmart Labs experience who contributed to the React Query (TanStack) open-source ecosystem by reproducing and helping fix a tricky cache invalidation edge case via a detailed GitHub issue and merged PR. Led measurable runtime performance improvements on a large B2B dashboard (D3.js), using memoization, component refactors, web workers, and virtualization to cut render time ~60% and eliminate UI freezes, and standardized data-fetching patterns to reduce data-related bugs ~30%.”

“Former founding engineer and eventual CTO at 2Plus2 Partners (25 years ago) with additional experience in two private-equity-backed companies (apex analytix and HICX). Interested in helping build another company before retirement; comfortable with entrepreneurial risk but cannot self-fund significant capital.”

Paavani Karuturi

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Junior Backend and ML Engineer specializing in distributed systems and LLM infrastructure

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Backend engineer with strong ownership across authentication, API infrastructure, and AI-powered document workflows. They built and operated a production auth microservice supporting 10,000+ users with measurable latency and security improvements, and also shipped hackathon and applied-AI systems including legal document and medical document retrieval/Q&A products.”

Mike Bagley

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Senior Unity Developer specializing in games, WebGL, and XR

Rogers, AR19y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with unusually broad hands-on range: built a reusable FSM and visual state editor at EA that was applied to AI, meta systems, multiplayer conversion, and console TRC flows, including first-pass Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo certification. Also spans LLM-assisted narrative systems, multiplayer networking, UWP/VR porting, and even arcade hardware/software integration down to designing and hand-building a wiring harness to hit a trade show deadline.”