Vetted SQL Professionals

Zack Pagano

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and data platforms

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Engineer in a highly regulated banking environment who has built both a full-stack digest product that cut notification volume 40% and an internal LLM-powered on-call assistant that reduced triage time by 30%+. Stands out for combining strong AWS/serverless and TypeScript architecture skills with careful AI safety, observability, and compliance-minded design.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with PayPal experience building payment orchestration, settlement, and merchant risk systems at production scale. Stands out for combining cloud-native AWS delivery, database/query performance tuning, and reliability work in event-driven microservices, including a monolith-to-microservices migration that doubled deployment frequency and cut incident response time by 40%.”

Justin Edwards

Screened

Senior Product Manager specializing in GTM systems and data infrastructure

New York, NY14y exp

“Solutions-oriented technical consultant with enterprise experience spanning Bank of America cloud migration and large-scale marketing architecture redesigns at Disney Streaming and SiriusXM. Stands out for combining pre-sales solutioning, compliance-heavy enterprise integration, and hands-on building—including a self-built gen AI child nutrition app that evaluates 1.4 trillion meal combinations in about 4 seconds.”

Jake Arena

Screened

Mid-level growth marketer and producer specializing in entertainment and live events

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Startup-minded operator and event-business builder who created an outbound pipeline from scratch at Beat Repeat using POS and ticketing data, driving 30% higher repeat attendance and 15% lower costs. Also founded Drinklink, a bar subscription service sold face-to-face, and showed strong market instinct by identifying and negotiating an early strategic partnership with Posh before it was widely established in Los Angeles.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-based PDF extraction pipeline for Medicaid policy documents by fine-tuning Gemini Flash 2.0 and deploying via Vertex AI, adding validation/guardrails to improve trust and reliability. Also built and scaled a SaaS platform (cnotes) for cable operators and regularly partners with customers and sales teams through interactive demos, rapid iteration, and real-time workflow debugging.”

Akhila Gadige

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Python, Java, cloud, and GenAI

Remote4y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built and operated high-throughput GPU telemetry and task/event platforms using React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, and Kubernetes. Stands out for hands-on ownership of production performance at scale, including partitioning 100M+ row tables, fixing timeout bottlenecks, and delivering measurable gains like 3x throughput and 95% fewer timeout errors.”

“CRM/lifecycle marketer with roughly 5 years of experience in finance and healthcare, focused on hands-on execution in Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Adobe platforms. They combine technical email development, API-triggered journeys, segmentation, and KPI analysis, and cited results including a 15% engagement improvement and 20% sales lift while scaling campaigns from 1M to 10M recipients.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has built and run production Python/Flask + Kafka microservices processing RFID and camera/RFID fusion streams for near-real-time retail cart updates at ~4–5M events/day. Strong in reliability/performance debugging (p99 latency, Kafka lag, Cosmos DB RU hot partitions) with measurable impact including ~30% database cost reduction, and has also shipped an end-to-end vulnerability scanning workflow with DynamoDB-backed state, idempotency, and robust retry/verification guardrails.”

“Full-stack/AI-focused builder who shipped a production Career Advisor app using LLMs + RAG + vector DB (React/Node/MongoDB/Claude API) and grew it to 2000+ users, handling real deployment issues and CI/CD on Vercel/Render. Also developing an AI-powered iOS “3D World Explorer” (text-to-3D) and has cloud experience across Azure and AWS (S3/SageMaker/EC2).”

“UPenn robotics researcher who architected a real-time autonomous driving decision-making engine, integrating LSTM trajectory prediction with MPC in CARLA and adding conformal prediction to deliver 95% statistical safety guarantees under strict latency constraints. Also built and debugged an autonomous quadrotor stack with ESKF-based 6-DoF tracking and optimized A*/Dijkstra planning to eliminate latency-induced instability, with experience bridging heterogeneous simulation/control systems.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who recently owned an end-to-end large-scale financial data platform delivering real-time decision support for finance and operations. Has hands-on experience modernizing legacy batch pipelines into AWS cloud-native ELT with parallel-run cutovers, strong data quality controls (dbt-style tests, reconciliation), and measurable improvements in runtime, cost, and SLA compliance. Also builds scalable, secure FastAPI microservices using Docker, ALB-based horizontal scaling, Redis caching, and managed auth with Cognito/Supabase plus Postgres RLS.”

“Autonomous robotics student who built an end-to-end ROS2 semantic goal navigation system as a solo course project, integrating CLIP-based vision-language understanding with SLAM Toolbox and Nav2 to execute natural-language commands in Gazebo/RViz. Also implemented and tuned an RRT planner from scratch in Python and uses Docker plus GitHub workflows for reproducible, tested robotics codebases.”

“UX/product designer in a medical laboratory B2B portal context who prototypes beyond Figma—built a GPT-based settings chatbot to address findability and low settings adoption, iterating through 11 tested versions with regression safeguards and structured prompts to mitigate instruction truncation/hallucinations. Also redesigned clinic order management by separating doctor vs assistant experiences and introducing step-based status views for a long, multi-stage lab order lifecycle; former full-stack engineer who improves design-to-dev handoffs via templates and readiness rituals.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an LLM-powered productivity web app (LifeOS) end-to-end with TypeScript/Next.js, Prisma, and Postgres, emphasizing fast iteration with stable API contracts and an isolated AI service boundary. Also built a security/compliance login-verification workflow at Medpace used within an internal admin portal for thousands of employees, and has AWS experience orchestrating batch GPU workloads with robust retry/idempotency patterns.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical decision support system that enables real-time semantic search over unstructured EHR notes and delivers patient risk insights. Strong in healthcare-grade MLOps and compliance (HIPAA, PHI handling, encryption, RBAC, audit logs) and scaled embedding/retrieval pipelines using Spark/Databricks and Airflow. Partnered with clinicians via Power BI dashboards and explainability, contributing to an 18% reduction in patient readmissions.”

“Unity gameplay/AI engineer with driving-simulator experience who re-architected state-based AI using multithreading (including a threaded 2D collision/location checker) to nearly double AI traffic while improving frame rate. Has shipped on a Photon-networked title (Frankie's Revenge / RoboRevengeSquad) and is comfortable debugging tricky multiplayer spawning/movement issues with practical client-server test setups.”

“Built and deployed an enterprise GenAI knowledge assistant over thousands of internal PDFs/reports using a RAG stack (GPT-4 + Hugging Face embeddings + vector DB) to reduce manual search and SME escalations. Uses LangGraph/LangChain to orchestrate modular agent workflows with relevance filtering and fallback handling, and applies rigorous evaluation (golden datasets, edge cases, A/B tests) with production monitoring metrics.”

“Interned at Zonda where he built an AI-driven semantic search solution over ~280M housing/builder records. Iterated from local LLMs via llama.cpp quantization to a vector-embedding retrieval system, then boosted semantic accuracy with a custom spaCy NER layer and re-ranking, optimizing for latency through precomputation. Collaborated with economics-focused stakeholders to reduce manual document/paperwork time by enabling natural-language search over internal data.”

“Built an LLM multi-agent “ingredient safety” analyzer for cosmetics that cuts consumer research time from ~20+ minutes to minutes, using LangGraph orchestration, hybrid retrieval (Qdrant + Tavily), and safety-focused critic validation (false rejections reduced ~30%→~8%). Also has research-internship experience building computer-vision pipelines to classify emerald color/clarity by translating gem-expert heuristics into quantitative model features.”

“Engineer with banking and industrial/IoT experience who has deployed a payment-processing microservice with zero downtime, handling Protobuf schema evolution and sensitive data migration via dual-write/checksum techniques. Demonstrates strong cross-stack troubleshooting (pinpointed intermittent distributed timeouts to a failing ToR switch port) and customer-facing Python ETL customization using plugin-based parsers and Pydantic validation, plus hands-on monitoring/alerting improvements with operators.”

“JavaScript engineer with hands-on experience improving performance in data-heavy table UIs (thousands of rows), including an open-source DataTables extension fix that reduced redundant AJAX calls via debouncing and was merged upstream. Comfortable profiling/benchmarking, optimizing DOM and network behavior, and collaborating with OSS maintainers through GitHub issues/PRs while also producing clear developer documentation and quick-start examples.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using embeddings, a vector database, and a RAG pipeline to reduce time spent searching PDFs/manuals. Experienced in orchestrating end-to-end LLM workflows with Airflow/LangChain, improving reliability via monitoring/error handling, and driving measurable quality through retrieval and hallucination-focused evaluation metrics.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered PDF document Q&A system to eliminate manual searching through long documents, focusing on scalability and answer reliability. Implemented semantic chunking (using headings/paragraphs/tables), overlap, and preprocessing/quality checks to reduce hallucinations, and orchestrated the end-to-end pipeline with Airflow using retries, alerts, and parallel tasks.”

“Built and deployed an LLM + RAG + memory system on a Furhat social robot, adding continuous face/voice recognition embeddings over WebSockets to enable persistent, natural conversations across sessions. Experienced working around real-world hardware/latency constraints and uses Datadog plus structured debugging/rollback practices for stabilizing customer-facing LLM workflows.”