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Vetted System Design Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Russell Wong
Senior Software Engineer specializing in large-scale backend reliability and media platforms
“Backend/data engineer with experience on large-scale consumer platforms (Google and Meta), building high-traffic Python microservices (REST/gRPC) on Kubernetes with strong reliability/observability practices. Delivered AWS container-based deployments with CI/CD and IaC, and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines on S3 with schema evolution and data quality controls; also has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (15% latency reduction) and incident ownership for batch pipelines.”
Max Zhu
Staff Software Engineer specializing in Cloud Healthcare Data Platforms
“Backend/data engineer with deep healthcare data experience (FHIR, de-identification) across both GCP and AWS. Has built and operated production microservices and ETL pipelines (FastAPI, Dataflow, Glue) with strong reliability practices, and led modernization of a legacy SAS compliance reporting system to cloud services with validated parity and stakeholder-facing Looker comparisons.”
Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and AI infrastructure
Staff Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and distributed systems
Staff Software Engineer specializing in large-scale commerce and payments
Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI platforms, real-time collaboration, and observability
Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms, payments, and consumer systems
Staff Software Engineer specializing in data platforms, distributed systems, and AI workflows
Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in frontend-heavy FinTech and marketplace platforms
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM training, RAG, and scalable inference
Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms, AI systems, and EdTech
Senior AI Engineer specializing in NLP and large language models
Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM applications, RAG systems, and MLOps
Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Generative AI and NLP
Senior Software Engineer specializing in ML, distributed systems, and GenAI search
Kevin Wang
Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems
“Amazon engineer focused on productionizing LLM-powered developer workflows, including code assistance, debugging automation, and internal AI tooling. Stands out for combining hands-on ML systems work with strong platform engineering, including an orchestration engine that reportedly saved about $10K/day and reduced a manual workflow from 12 hours to under a second.”
Pradeep Nadella
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM optimization and real-time fraud/risk modeling
“ML engineer with 5 years at Stripe building and productionizing real-time fraud detection at massive scale (3M+ transactions/day; $5B+ annual payment volume). Delivered measurable impact (22% accuracy lift, 18% loss reduction, +3–5% authorization rates) and has strong MLOps/orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow, CI/CD, monitoring/rollback) plus a structured approach to LLM agent/RAG evaluation.”
Muneendra M
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in event-driven backend and AI-enabled systems
“Full-stack engineer at Stripe who owned a webhook monitoring and retry platform end-to-end, spanning backend services, React dashboards, and production operations. Stands out for combining strong distributed-systems judgment with product polish, including a reported 31% improvement in webhook delivery reliability and UI improvements that reduced support burden.”
Executive engineering and product leader specializing in SaaS, cloud, and telecom
Senior Software Engineer specializing in high-scale backend systems on Google Cloud