Vetted SQL Professionals

Harshini Kanamathareddy

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Mid Software Engineer specializing in iOS, backend systems, and AI-powered applications

Hyderabad, India4y exp

“Full-stack/backend engineer with experience spanning React/TypeScript, Flask, Spring Boot, SQL databases, and production mobile optimization. They’ve shipped features end to end, improved query performance and app startup/crash metrics, and helped drive a configuration-driven architecture that enabled faster releases across 30 consumer applications.”

“Growth and loyalty leader who built TangerClub into a large-scale PLG-style membership ecosystem, owning strategy, data infrastructure, lifecycle marketing, and optimization across 10M+ customer profiles. Particularly compelling for growth roles because they translated SaaS-style activation, retention, and experimentation principles into a complex omnichannel retail environment, driving 618K new profiles and about $11M in attributable email revenue in 2025.”

“Senior engineering leader with 8+ years of hands-on and people leadership experience across data-intensive enterprise platforms. He has led legacy-to-AWS modernization for mission-critical identity data workflows at Deep Sync, built and scaled teams rapidly, and previously helped create a 0-to-1 enterprise analytics platform at Kantar that later scaled to handle 10x more data with major performance gains.”

“Full-stack engineer with about 3 years of experience who is deeply hands-on with AI-assisted development and agentic systems. Built TubeAgent using LangChain, Ollama, FAISS, and Llama 3, and has demonstrated measurable impact by cutting review time by 90% and reducing deployment time from 30 minutes to under 5 minutes at NC State. Combines practical experimentation with strong architectural thinking around resilient, composable AI systems.”

“Built and owned core systems for VISTA, a VR drone training simulator in Unity/C#, including modular training scenarios, drone physics, restricted airspace logic, and dynamic weather-aware gameplay. Stands out for combining VR performance discipline on Meta Quest with realistic-yet-trainable flight controls and close collaboration with faculty SMEs to align the simulation with real training workflows.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has built AI-powered search and workflow systems in production, including a semantic resume-matching platform for recruiters and internal security data dashboards at ReliaQuest. Stands out for combining modern AI tooling with pragmatic reliability, performance tuning, and strong product intuition in ambiguous environments.”

“Front-end engineer with strong browser UI and accessibility instincts, including ownership of a complex responsive color/style picker for a major paint brand and foundational theming work for a SaaS CMS. Particularly notable for combining progressive enhancement, cross-browser rigor, and accessibility leadership to make polished interfaces work reliably across devices and user needs.”

“Technical Product Owner with a technical background who led a net-new invoicing and reconciliation product across business stakeholders, architecture, and dependent teams, shipping close to target despite unexpected issues. Also brings a distinctive mentoring profile from tutoring and teaching in data analytics bootcamps, including hands-on support for learners with very low technical literacy.”

Vincent Fearing

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Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech systems

Austin, TX1y exp

“Full-stack engineer with deep experience in high-stakes integrations: owned end-to-end fintech payment notification/installment tracking at an early-stage startup (FastAPI/React/AWS), including multi-environment routing for live banking partners and reliability patterns like idempotency and retries. Also built a Coachella partner ticketing platform (React/TS/Node/Postgres) with strong concurrency controls and zero-downtime migrations, and previously delivered media-asset ETL/file-sharing automation at Sony Pictures using Frame.io with checksum-verified transfers.”

“Geospatial/simulation specialist who built and shipped high-fidelity 3D visual databases for a DoD-used simulation/render engine, owning the full pipeline from dataset selection and ingestion (imagery/LiDAR/OSM/elevation) through performance testing and delivery. Implemented Python-based AI scripts to auto-detect terrain features and drive automated 3D scene population, and has experience with authoritative client-server synchronization (DIS) plus VR headset performance constraints (Varjo/Oculus/HoloLens at 90Hz).”

“Robotics software engineer who built a ROS Noetic-based perception-to-control stack for a pick-and-place robotic arm, integrating OpenCV/TensorFlow vision with motion planning and PID tuning. Demonstrated strong real-time debugging skills (rosbag, queue/latency fixes) and experience deploying reproducible robotics environments with Gazebo simulation, Docker, and GitLab CI.”

“Master’s-level IoT course project that the candidate helped evolve into a research lab effort by “ROSifying” a soil-fertility detection rover (autonomous navigation within a GPS geofence, sensor fusion, and rover-to-base-station telemetry via NRF24 to a Raspberry Pi dashboard). Also built a ROS/Gazebo vision-based teleoperation system using a SigLIP hand-gesture model mapped to geometry_msgs/Twist, and improved stability by instrumenting and filtering a latency-prone perception-to-control pipeline.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered grading platform that automates rubric-aligned scoring and feedback, with strong guardrails (RAG grounding, structured JSON, validation/retries) and operational rigor (metrics, drift monitoring). Experienced using CrewAI to orchestrate multi-agent workflows end-to-end and validating quality via gold-set benchmarking against human graders with regression testing on every prompt/model change.”

“Backend/data engineer who has maintained high-traffic FastAPI microservices and delivered a hybrid AWS serverless+containers platform using Terraform and GitHub Actions, with secrets managed via Secrets Manager/SSM. Also led modernization of a mission-critical 10,000+ line SAS financial reporting engine into Python microservices and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines feeding a centralized data lake.”

“Early-career engineer with Charles Schwab internship experience building and testing production-bound internal APIs, emphasizing architectural fit, stakeholder alignment, and systematic debugging. Also has academic Python/ML experience analyzing Oura Ring biometric data and exposure to multi-agent robotics through coursework and RoboSub.”

“Built a production SQL chatbot for access-log analytics that replaced manual custom report requests with natural-language querying, using LangGraph and a ChromaDB-backed RAG pipeline for grounded, consistent answers. Implemented a privacy-preserving design where the LLM never sees raw customer data (only query metadata) and has experience building multi-agent/tool-calling systems with LangGraph (DeepAgents), including solving sub-agent communication drift via self-reflection.”

“Backend-focused JavaScript/Node.js engineer with e-commerce domain depth from Decathlon, working on foundational microservices for order management, inventory, and fulfillment integrations. Led an infrastructure redesign and shipped a Shopify-based persistent cart experience, diagnosing early production issues via monitoring/log analysis and improving reliability through stronger session persistence and fault-tolerant architecture.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-based RAG agent platform adopted by multiple business teams (Marketing, GTM, Recruiting, Customer Support) to automate knowledge search, Q&A, and content generation. Emphasizes production-grade reliability (grounding/validation/guardrails), rigorous evaluation/monitoring, and cost-aware scaling via model tiering, prompt/retrieval optimization, and caching using LangChain/LangGraph orchestration.”

“Open-source JavaScript library contributor/maintainer focused on performance and usability—uses profiling and user feedback to optimize large-dataset processing and modernize abstractions. Refactored a nested-callback event handling system into an observer-pattern dispatcher with batched event queues, reducing CPU usage and improving maintainability; also handles community-reported crashes by reproducing issues, fixing memory leaks, and updating docs.”

“Backend engineer/technical lead with experience building and operating real-time blockchain analytics systems at Merkle Science. Owned high-traffic Django/DRF services and Kafka streaming pipelines processing millions of events daily, with deep focus on performance (N+1 fixes, indexing, caching) and reliability (DLQs, retries, monitoring). Also led containerization and Kubernetes/GitOps-style CI/CD on Google Cloud, including a migration off Google App Engine to reduce cost and improve scalability.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owns policy-lifecycle workflow microservices built in Python/FastAPI with async + DDD, Kafka event processing, SQLAlchemy, JWT/RBAC, and Redis caching (cut DB load ~40%). Experienced deploying Java and Python microservices to Kubernetes with Helm and GitOps (ArgoCD) plus Jenkins/GitHub Actions pipelines to AWS/ECR, and has supported phased on-prem-to-cloud migrations with dependency mapping and data consistency strategies.”

“ML/NLP practitioner who built a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system for large financial and operational document sets using Sentence-Transformers (all-mpnet-base-v2) and a vector DB (e.g., Pinecone), with a strong focus on retrieval evaluation and chunking strategy optimization. Experienced in entity resolution (rules + embedding similarity with type-specific thresholds) and in productionizing scalable Python data workflows using Airflow/Dagster and Spark.”

“Change management and HR/people strategy leader with repeated experience partnering with senior executives through high-impact transformations, including QuickChek’s post-acquisition integration into Fortune 500 Murphy USA. Uses structured frameworks (McKinsey 7S, ADKAR) and KPI-driven systems thinking to execute org design, system migrations, and workforce analytics initiatives, and has handled complex employee relations investigations with risk-based decision tools.”