Vetted System Design Professionals

Kevin Wang

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems

Adams, MA8y exp

“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.”

“Security-oriented software engineer with experience building high-impact internal and platform features at TikTok and Reddit, including session hijacking prevention, an internal password manager, and a reusable Android passkey SDK. Stands out for combining backend/API ownership, user-driven product improvements, and deep attention to security, performance, and cross-platform compatibility.”

“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

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in event-driven backend and AI-enabled systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“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.”

Ao Chen

Screened

Entry Software Engineer specializing in cloud APIs and distributed systems

United States, USA1y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of AWS-based production systems, including resource-based policy support for Aurora DSQL and a VPC endpoint service name API. Stands out for combining security-sensitive authorization design, strong reliability instincts, and end-to-end product ownership that helped unblock enterprise adoption and customer onboarding.”

“Engineering leader with deep distributed-systems expertise who led Oracle's replacement of a legacy Fusion Applications authorization service with a cloud-native Go/Kubernetes RBAC platform delivering sub-10ms latency. Combines hands-on architecture depth with org-building experience, having grown a geo-distributed team from 4 to 26 and led managers, architects, and cross-functional delivery across Oracle and Microsoft environments.”