Vetted System Design Professionals

“AI-focused engineer who treats models as tightly controlled collaborators rather than autonomous replacements. Built and led a LangGraph-based multi-agent research system with separate stages for decomposition, retrieval, synthesis, and validation, emphasizing modularity, debuggability, and robust failure handling.”

Krishna Guda

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI-native FinTech systems

Mountain View, CA23y exp

“Fintech product engineer working on a large-scale credit monitoring platform (tens of millions of users) with deep experience in regulated banking integrations, PII security, and step-up/MFA flows. Has shipped customer-facing React/TypeScript experiences driven by Optimizely experimentation and built reliable partner-facing microservices/SDKs on AWS, including resolving production traffic loss caused by edge security (DataDome/CAPTCHA) conflicts with payment providers.”

“Full-stack engineer from early-stage startups who has owned AI products end to end, from B2B document intelligence platforms on AWS to an HVAC voice assistant and a GCP-based RAG research system. Stands out for combining hands-on backend/infra depth with team leadership in lean environments, and for shipping scalable AI systems that contributed to roughly 1 million yuan in sponsorship.”

“Engineering-management graduate student at Cornell who has grown from quality engineering into product leadership, with experience spanning telecom, accessibility operations, and an AI healthcare fraud startup. Particularly compelling for PM roles requiring ambiguity handling, cross-functional execution, and thoughtful tradeoffs between AI capability, explainability, cost, and regulatory constraints.”

Manaswini Gogineni

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and full-stack web development

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack/platform engineer who has owned real-time analytics products end-to-end and built scalable TypeScript/React + Node.js systems using event-driven and microservices architectures (Kafka/RabbitMQ). Also created a widely adopted Go CLI that standardized AWS/Terraform provisioning across multiple teams, cutting environment setup from days to minutes through opinionated defaults, documentation, and cross-org partnerships.”

Gagan Reddy Konani

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG for healthcare

Remote, USA2y exp

“AI Engineer (Medtronic) who deployed a production RAG-based clinical assistant grounded in curated biomedical literature (no patient-identifiable data). Deep hands-on experience orchestrating and hardening LLM workflows with LangChain/LangGraph, including stateful agentic flows, rigorous testing, and evaluation; reports a 72% accuracy improvement through retrieval enhancements (query rewriting, multi-query expansion, MMR reranking).”

Yash Nileshkumar Mirani

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI agents, data pipelines, and cloud systems

Sunnyvale, CA5y exp

“Generalist software engineer with recent contract work at Vertex Pharmaceuticals shipping a desktop-integrated RAG assistant for lab scientists (2000+ pages ingested; ~40% support-ticket reduction in pilot). Previously owned Python/AWS financial automation services at Amazon operating at multi-billion-dollar scale, with strong strengths in API design, observability, and database/performance tuning; also built a React/TypeScript AI contract analysis product (ContractsGuy).”

Mustafa Ali

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI

Boston, MA4y exp

“Founding/early backend engineer at ATICA Global who built the company's core hotel property management platform from an empty repo into a production system used by 500+ hotel clients. Combines strong backend architecture with pragmatic product execution, including a dynamic pricing engine that increased partner revenue 17% YoY and an AI-powered sentiment pipeline processing 200K+ reviews/month.”

Utkarsh Mittal

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend and distributed systems

Murray Hill, NJ5y exp

“Backend engineer who has owned large-scale systems from design through rollout, including a Dell rearchitecture that unified two regional platforms and delivered major latency gains while scaling the effort from 6 to 150 contributors. Also built an ESG analysis product in an ambiguous startup environment using AWS Lambda, Bedrock/Claude, Flask, and custom data pipelines, showing a blend of distributed systems depth and practical AI integration.”

“Senior engineering leader with over 20 years of management experience and a hands-on background leading large-scale SaaS, eCommerce, CRM, and customer data platform systems serving millions of users. Stands out for combining deep technical architecture leadership with org-scale people management, including solving multi-tenant SaaS scaling issues, driving self-service product improvements from support patterns, and building governance models for cross-functional delivery.”

“Front-end engineer with experience spanning a real-time warehouse tracking dashboard and internship work on media-heavy mobile web apps embedded in a Swift container. Particularly strong at making complex, fast-changing data understandable in the browser while preserving performance, navigation stability, and user context.”

“Shopify full-stack engineer focused on AI/LLM-powered merchant automation products. They have hands-on experience building React/TypeScript and Python/FastAPI systems for long-running agentic workflows, including orchestration, guardrails, observability, and customer-facing trust features, with measurable gains in task completion and latency.”

“Built a real-time fraud monitoring dashboard in React/TypeScript for high-frequency financial data, with a strong focus on preventing UI lag that could cause analysts to miss costly fraud patterns. Demonstrates deep frontend performance expertise across batching, memoization, virtualization, profiling, and browser layout optimization, plus some graph/visualization work involving layout stabilization and edge bundling.”

Ryan Peterson

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Python web and AI applications

New York, USA8y exp

“Backend-heavy full-stack engineer with startup fintech experience who built a real-time lending eligibility service that cut decision time from 12-24 hours to under 5 seconds and lifted conversion by ~15%. Also has B2B SaaS experience automating construction workflows, with strong hands-on work across React/TypeScript, Python/FastAPI, Node.js, Kafka, Redis, and some Go.”

Garretson Beebe

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in cloud, data, and AI platforms

San Francisco, CA17y exp

“Engineering leader with deep product-platform experience across Splunk and Alation, including owning the multi-year SPL2 initiative at Splunk from customer research and architecture decisions through execution planning and org scaling. Also grew Alation's Data Analytics organization from 8 to 22 engineers across three squads, combining hands-on technical problem solving with strong managerial systems.”