Vetted System Design Professionals

“Software engineer with hands-on ownership of both fintech checkout improvements (saved payment methods/one-click checkout with tokenization and feature-flag rollouts) and production LLM/RAG systems for customer support. Demonstrates strong operational rigor via guardrails, evaluation loops integrated into CI/CD, and scalable data pipelines handling messy PDFs/CSVs/logs with reliability and observability.”

Kyle Holmquist

Screened

Senior Gameplay Engineer specializing in Unity/Unreal gameplay, AI, and narrative systems

11y exp

“Game developer with 13 years in the games industry who built a Unity VR feature using machine learning to recognize player-drawn spell symbols, training an accurate neural network from an existing dataset and solving tricky screen-space/world-space input constraints. Actively uses AI assistants for targeted code snippets and code review while emphasizing understanding over "vibe coding," and is interested in expanding into multiplayer/networking.”

Sai Harshith Tanguturi

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and AWS cloud-native systems

Grapevine, TX3y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-critical analytics and course intelligence platforms end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node/Express + SQL), including an internal self-serve Reporting & Analytics Center adopted by 1,000+ users. Demonstrates strong systems thinking across performance (2× faster heavy reports), reliability (feature flags, testing), and distributed architecture (RabbitMQ microservices with idempotency, DLQs, and correlation-ID observability).”

Preetham Reddy Konuganti

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI applications and scalable web platforms

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with customer-facing delivery experience who built and deployed a multi-platform social media automation product (Next.js/Node/MongoDB) and optimized it using BullMQ/Redis background jobs, retries, and rate limiting for reliable posting at scale. Also delivered an AI-powered false-positive analysis service in a cybersecurity context, resolving production pipeline stalls via log-driven debugging, parallelization, caching, and LLM guardrails.”

Rutuja Sanjay Risbood

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in enterprise web and mobile applications

San Jose, CA8y exp

“Front-end engineer with unusually deep browser-systems knowledge, having built and owned a real-time merchant analytics platform for financial analysts handling millions of live transactions. Stands out for combining low-level performance engineering, typed React architecture, and expert-user UX polish, with strong measurable outcomes across speed, usability, and maintainability.”

“Full-stack engineer who owned an enterprise AI agent automation platform at KeyBank, building React/TypeScript interfaces and Python/AWS microservices for document-heavy business workflows. Stands out for translating complex AI automation into usable products for non-technical users, with reported productivity gains of about 35% and reduced manual processing.”

“Full-stack/backend-leaning engineer with experience spanning fintech platforms, internal AI/RAG assistants, real-time analytics systems, and a zero-to-one academic web platform. Stands out for combining hands-on backend and infrastructure work with product ownership, team guidance, and measurable impact like cutting troubleshooting lookup time from 30 minutes to under 8 minutes and creating reusable UI components adopted across multiple projects.”

“Candidate brings a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI-assisted software development, using AI as a pair programmer and conceptually applying multi-agent workflows across coding, testing, and review. They stand out for putting strong guardrails around AI usage—manual review, testing, SonarQube, peer review, and keeping critical logic manual—to improve speed without compromising security or code quality.”

“Worked at AMD on Vivado tool releases, focusing on adding and integrating new IP/SoC functionality into the Vivado flow and validating expected behavior through testing. Comfortable engaging with customers and open to travel for hands-on customer-facing work.”

“Backend/platform engineer from Dune Security with strong experience turning messy, fragmented workflows into reusable production systems. They’ve built a shared database abstraction layer, integrated multiple enterprise security platforms into a unified workflow, and shipped AWS Bedrock-powered security insight features with guardrails and human review.”

“Built and shipped an internal Financial Insights Assistant for banking analysts, owning the experience from workflow design through React frontend, FastAPI backend, and AI search integration. Particularly strong in making AI products usable and trustworthy by surfacing sources, experts, suggested prompts, and search history to improve confidence and speed.”

“Built and shipped an AI-powered support assistant at PNC Bank, owning both the React/TypeScript frontend and Python/FastAPI + LangChain/OpenAI backend. Stands out for applying RAG in a regulated banking environment with measurable impact: 34% better knowledge retrieval accuracy and 27% faster support lookup time.”

“Data/analytics-focused engineer who builds end-to-end KPI reporting and validation products used daily by plant leads and leadership to track yield, downtime, and defects. Combines Python/SQL + Power BI data pipelines with strong data-quality practices (automated validation, monitoring/alerts) and has experience designing scalable frontend architecture in TypeScript/React and working in distributed/microservices-style data systems.”

“Technically oriented operator with experience driving a strategic migration to Microsoft Azure to modernize a company toward microservices and CI/CD, improving scalability and positioning for long-term optimization. Evaluates product ideas through an operational lens (efficiency, decision support, process optimization) and emphasizes building viable products with paying customers while maintaining revenue resilience.”

“Built and shipped production systems spanning real-time operational dashboards and an LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using RAG (embeddings + vector DB). Demonstrates strong focus on reliability and iteration: implemented guardrails and evaluation loops (human review, hallucination tracking, regression prevention) and improved performance/scalability through query optimization, caching, and retrieval tuning.”

“Built an autonomous decision analytics LLM agent for end-to-end tabular binary classification, using RAG (FAISS) to retain context across multi-step queries. Deployed as a FastAPI service with production-style reliability features (schema-aware validation, fallbacks, retries, structured outputs) plus offline/online evaluation and monitoring to reduce analysis time and improve consistency versus stateless approaches.”

“Data engineer/backend engineer with experience in healthcare (Cardinal Health provider enrollment) and finance (Northern Trust) building and stabilizing data pipelines and REST services. Worked with APIs and Kafka at ~200k–300k records/day, improving data quality (DLQ + validation), performance (SQL/indexing), and reliability/observability (logging, alerts, consumer lag metrics), and stood up an early-stage financial data service with Jenkins-based CI/CD.”

Sri Lalitha

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

California, USA6y exp

“Backend engineer who owned a Python task management API with JWT auth, async notifications, and performance work (DB optimization/caching) to handle high volumes. Led an on-prem to Azure private cloud migration at Morgan Stanley using GitOps and IaC (Terraform/ARM) with phased rollout and rollback planning. Also built a Kafka real-time streaming pipeline with exactly-once/idempotent consumers and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.”

Yijun Chen

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in IoT and cloud systems

Toronto, ON4y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer who built a full movie recommendation system from concept to production, comparing classic collaborative filtering with LLM-based recommendation approaches on AWS. Emphasizes scalable architecture, strict TypeScript data contracts, and high-quality Next.js/React UI patterns (defensive states, scoped state management, performance optimization) with disciplined QA and feature-flagged rollouts.”

Bobby Sanders

Screened

Mid-level Game Designer specializing in systems and gameplay

Anaheim, California6y exp

“Game QA tester/designer hybrid with hands-on Unreal Engine 5 technical debugging experience, focused on NPC AI navigation and performance. At Lantern Tower Games (Telmahre), owned end-to-end quality for an NPC system (dynamic navmesh, moving platforms, EQS, actor pooling), using Unreal Insights and asset reference refactors (hard->soft + async loading) to resolve critical memory/performance issues while collaborating closely with engineering and level design in Scrum.”

Jake Lee

Screened

Junior Full-Stack/Systems Engineer specializing in AI, embedded systems, and healthcare apps

Boston, MA3y exp

“Led architecture for “Solstice/Solstis,” a safety-aware, hands-free AI medical assistant that guides users through minor emergencies with a structured, state-machine-driven LLM agent integrated with device hardware. Built RAG grounded in Red Cross procedures plus guardrails, fallbacks, and emergency escalation, and improved real-world usability by shifting from open-ended chat to a deterministic step-by-step workflow measured via completion rate, repeat prompts, and latency.”

Ashwitha Reddy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices and AWS

Ohio, United States3y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a real-time business analytics dashboard backend (Python/Flask/MongoDB) and built Kafka event-streaming pipelines with idempotent processing and DLQs. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying containerized microservices to AWS EKS with CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/CodePipeline) and ArgoCD auto-sync/drift detection, plus hands-on support for phased hybrid cloud/on-prem migrations using feature flags and replication.”