Vetted System Design Professionals

“Recent J&J intern who built a conversational RAG agent and led a shift from a monolithic model to a modular RAG workflow, cutting response time from several days to under a second by tackling data fragmentation, context retention, and embedding/latency optimization. Also worked on a large (7B-parameter) multimodal VQA pipeline for healthcare research and stays current via NeurIPS/ICLR and open-source contributions.”

“Backend engineer who built and launched a warehouse locations/inventory microservice for Walmart, supporting a new product rollout with on-call war-room ownership and now running across all US distribution centers. Emphasizes reliability and correctness (background syncs, 2PC concepts, alerting) plus design-first API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth/JWT and RBAC, and has led staged legacy-to-microservice migrations with continuous data integrity verification.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG system at Upstart enabling natural-language search across 50k+ scattered internal technical docs. Delivered sub-300ms p95 latency for ~50 active users with strong hallucination safeguards (retrieval-first, thresholds, citations) plus robust testing/monitoring and cost controls (prompt caching cutting API spend ~20%).”

“Software engineer with deep healthcare claims domain experience who has owned customer-facing portals end-to-end (Java/Spring Boot + React/TypeScript) and improved usability/performance based on real user feedback. Built microservices using REST and RabbitMQ with strong observability (Splunk/cloud metrics), and delivered an internal claims investigation dashboard that streamlined operations through centralized data, search, and filtering.”

“Robotics software engineer who built the software layer for an autonomous warehouse sorting system, spanning navigation/path planning, task scheduling, and backend services. Deep hands-on ROS 2 Foxy experience (Nav2/costmaps) and real-time multi-robot debugging, using simulation-driven analysis plus incremental/partial re-planning to handle dynamic obstacles in production-like warehouse environments.”

“Product designer/hardware prototyper building Saccade (VR headset attachment for Apple Vision Pro) to enable earlier, lower-cost Alzheimer's detection via eye-tracking and on-device CV/ML; designed a custom biocompatible snap-on light-shield replacement with integrated cameras/PCB after Apple camera-data restrictions. Also has biomedical manufacturing experience (major fixture-driven throughput gains) and leads a 160-member Assistive Technology Club sponsored by Apple and Google.”

“Engineering/technology leader (CTO-style) with experience scaling orgs and running distributed teams across four continents for over a decade. Led a high-stakes modernization of a securities trading platform at Wedbush—migrating from monolith to microservices on AWS with zero-downtime constraints—driving 45% execution performance improvement and enabling 25% market share growth. Emphasizes business-aligned roadmaps, build-vs-buy rigor, and scalable engineering practices/culture.”

“Backend engineer with enterprise SaaS experience (Zoho) who owned an end-to-end cloud integration between Endpoint Central and ServiceDesk Plus, redesigning device onboarding across 64+ scenarios and building a fault-tolerant sync engine that recovered 100% failed transactions. Also built and operated production systems across the stack—FastAPI services with strong testing/observability, React+TypeScript portals, PostgreSQL performance tuning, and AWS deployments with real incident response (RDS CPU saturation resolved with zero downtime).”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience across React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Java/Spring Boot, operating containerized systems on AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2/RDS/S3) with strong observability (CloudWatch/Grafana). Notable for fixing a real checkout/order-placement failure end-to-end by adding frontend submission guards and backend idempotency with Redis + Kafka deduplication, then validating impact via technical metrics and business KPIs. Has also built Kafka-based integrations/pipelines with robust retry/backfill/reconciliation patterns in retail and banking contexts.”

“Backend/real-time systems engineer transitioning into robotics software: building ROS 2 fundamentals (pub/sub, custom messages, launch files) and experimenting with Nav2 + SLAM in Gazebo/RViz. Demonstrated practical debugging by tuning costmaps/planners and analyzing topic latency to stabilize simulated navigation, and has experience integrating telemetry pipelines and REST-based external interfaces.”

“Built and scaled an AI-powered voice/chat patient engagement platform at Penn Medicine from early prototype into production clinical workflows, focusing on latency, edge cases, and user trust. Strong in LLM reliability engineering (structured prompts, validation/fallbacks), real-time troubleshooting with observability, and cross-functional enablement through pilots, demos, and sales/customer partnership.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong data/regulatory reporting background (BNY) who owns customer-facing and internal reporting products end-to-end—from ETL/SQL transformations through React/TypeScript UIs and Spring Boot APIs. Built role-based, audit-friendly dashboards and designed RabbitMQ-based event-driven microservices with reliability patterns (idempotent consumers, publisher confirms, Saga) to scale workflows across teams.”

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end delivery of a bag tag management application and contributed to a bank wealth application using micro-frontends. Emphasizes scalable architecture, reusable component systems (Storybook), performance techniques (lazy loading/code splitting), and quality/security tooling (Veracode, Wiz Scan, SonarQube) with a disciplined multi-environment release process.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built an AI icon-generation SaaS backend (Java/Spring Boot, MongoDB) on AWS, including async job processing with idempotency and S3-based result storage to handle traffic spikes. Also shipped applied AI in finance—an end-to-end fraud detection pipeline with risk scoring—and designed a banking support AI agent with strict guardrails, audit logs, and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Built and maintained a Node.js backend for a restaurant recommendation project that became widely reused by other students, effectively acting like an internal open-source library. Refactored a messy filtering system into modular query/validation/pagination utilities, added tests, and upgraded docs (JSDoc, README, demo app) to reduce repeat issues and make contributions easier. Comfortable owning end-to-end improvements (design, performance, documentation, and support) in unstructured environments.”

“Full-stack .NET engineer with cloud and applied GenAI experience who shipped a real-time policy status tracking module at Lincoln Financial using ASP.NET Core/.NET 8, Kafka, Angular, SQL Server, Redis, and AKS autoscaling. Also delivered a production internal LLM+RAG support assistant at Honeywell with strong security/guardrails (PII masking, RBAC) and a rigorous eval/regression loop built on a 200-question gold set.”

“AI/ML-focused backend engineer who shipped two production systems: PersonaPal (agentic LLM chatbot with RAG, FAISS-based retrieval, and Redis semantic caching) and CervixScan (clinical diagnostics platform with PostgreSQL data modeling and human-in-the-loop safety for low-confidence predictions). Demonstrates strong performance/reliability work (indexed vector search, caching, query optimization to ~200ms) and end-to-end ownership from orchestration design through deployment.”

“Software engineer with Prudential Financial experience building enterprise Spring Boot microservices for policy/risk assessment, including integrating Python ML models via Flask and hardening services with resiliency patterns. Also led an AWS lift-and-shift modernization during an internship (EC2/ELB/Route53/Auto Scaling) and built a personal diffusion-model text-to-music project using BERT tokens mapped to Mel spectrograms.”

“Design engineer/product designer who built an end-to-end creator + review/moderation system for a UGC platform, spanning automated checks, human QA, final review, and creator feedback. Comfortable working directly with HTML/CSS/TypeScript and component systems, using prototyping and field observation to reduce reviewer hesitation, improve consistency, and prevent creator errors upstream.”

“Backend engineer from Emphasis who modernized legacy, tightly coupled workflow systems into observable, event-driven microservices using Kafka. Led a monolith-to-microservices refactor with shadow traffic, feature flags, canary rollout, dual writes, and reconciliation, and strengthened reliability with idempotent consumers, DLQ/replay, and an outbox pattern to prevent DB/event inconsistency. Strong focus on secure multi-tenant APIs (OIDC/JWT, RBAC/ABAC, Supabase-style RLS) and frontend enablement via OpenAPI and typed client generation.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Discover, Dell, and Carpus building high-concurrency microservices and secure APIs. Delivered measurable impact in fintech workflows by integrating credit bureaus (TransUnion/Experian), cutting loan processing from days to minutes and reducing latency 65% through PostgreSQL tuning and caching. Strong in production security patterns (JWT/RBAC, Postgres row-level security for multi-tenant isolation) and low-risk migrations (shadow mode + incremental rollout).”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Wells Fargo and Salesforce building regulated, customer-facing financial systems and internal DevOps tooling. Deep in microservices and event-driven architectures (Spring Boot, Kafka/RabbitMQ) with strong CI/CD automation, contract testing, and observability; delivered measurable impact including 60% faster deployments and 40% fewer support tickets.”