Vetted System Design Professionals

Khaliun Gerel

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, web, and mobile platforms

New York, NY7y exp

“Full-stack product engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of multi-client platforms: Finy (agriculture platform with 3 role-based web dashboards plus 2 field mobile apps) and Ugoku (Japanese studio platform with React/TypeScript dashboards, Node/Mongo backend, and mobile AR video playback). Strong in scalable architecture and performance—offline-first mobile for low connectivity, and AWS-based asynchronous video/AR processing with S3/CloudFront—plus building internal ops tools adopted quickly due to measurable workflow improvements.”

Zia Karim

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive AI and technology leader specializing in regulated enterprise and FinTech

Stamford, CT26y exp

“Founder with 10+ years in the startup ecosystem who is actively building an early-stage company and raising capital through partners in Singapore, Dubai, and LatAm. Deeply familiar with VC and accelerator models but intentionally pursuing a partner-led, B2B enterprise route to accelerate revenue, preserve control, and leverage direct customer and distribution access.”

“AI engineer (2+ years; pursuing an online MS at UIUC) who has shipped an AI-powered voice screening platform end-to-end on GCP with strong production monitoring and measurable hiring-process impact (80% reduction in unqualified pass-through; ~50+ hours saved per role). Also built and deployed an AWS-based context-aware hybrid search system using OpenSearch as a vector store, and has hands-on experience with multi-agent LLM orchestration (ReAct) and structured-output guardrails.”

Ajith P

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in AI workflow automation for finance and healthcare

4y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with healthcare domain experience who built a patient journey analytics API (FastAPI/PostgreSQL/Snowflake/Redis) and debugged peak-hour latency down from ~900ms to ~50ms via indexing and query optimization. Shipped an LLM-powered clinical summary/recommendation assistant end-to-end and designed a multi-step risk evaluation agent workflow with safety guardrails against hallucinations and unsafe outputs.”

Akashleena Sarkar

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in robotics and real-time distributed systems

Mountain View, CA2y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on low-compute navigation/SLAM: built a 6-DOF SLAM validation pipeline (IMU + 2D LiDAR + ultrasonic) producing ~1cm OctoMap accuracy and deployed it on an Intel Atom by optimizing particle-filter SLAM with a greedy max-likelihood update. Deep ROS 2 experience (executors, composable/lifecycle nodes, QoS, timestamping) plus simulation and deployment tooling (Gazebo C++ plugins, Docker, CI/CD, ROS 2 build farm) and drone navigation work with MAVROS/PX4.”

“Amazon engineer with a blend of backend platform and applied AI experience, spanning Kafka/Spring Boot/Django financial workflows and internal LLM-powered RAG systems for reconciliation investigations. Stands out for owning deployments end-to-end, improving reliability in high-volume transaction processing, and adding practical guardrails like confidence checks and human review to production AI workflows.”

“Backend/AI engineer at Intuit who built a production AI-powered case assistant for support agents (FastAPI on AWS EKS) combining Postgres case data, OpenSearch retrieval with embedding reranking, and internal LLMs. Improved peak-season reliability by diagnosing P95/P99 timeout spikes and cutting P95 latency from ~800ms to <400ms via composite indexing, keyset pagination, connection pool tuning, and caching, while adding grounded-generation guardrails (evidence packs, confidence thresholds, fallbacks, human-in-the-loop).”

“Open-source contributor to a JavaScript visualization library who focused on runtime/rendering performance—eliminating unnecessary full redraws via memoization and diff-based updates validated with Chrome profiling. Also strengthened the project’s developer experience by adding TypeScript definitions, writing practical documentation, building minimal example apps, and handling community issues with reproducible debugging and public fixes.”

CHIRAG ARORA

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

San Jose, CA9y exp

“Backend engineer with PayPal experience building a high-reliability onboarding API platform (Java/Spring Boot) integrating KYC/compliance and serving 1M+ users annually. Also shipped an internal LLM-driven developer tool that automates PR review insights and OpenAPI documentation with rigorous evaluation, schema-bound guardrails, and production observability.”

“Data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines ingesting ~500GB/day from APIs/databases/Kafka into an S3 data lake (Glue/Spark) with Airflow-orchestrated Great Expectations quality gates. Built resilient external data collection systems with idempotent jobs, exponential-backoff retries, raw data capture, and backfills; also shipped Snowflake-backed APIs with caching, versioned endpoints, and backward-compatible data contracts. Led an early-stage Azure data platform build with phased delivery and GitHub Actions CI/CD, resolving schema-mismatch incidents quickly without downstream corruption.”