Vetted System Design Professionals

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Metasystems Inc. (and Qualcomm) building high-traffic, security-sensitive systems—owned a secure transaction processing module end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django, and React. Strong AWS production operations (EKS/ECS/Lambda/RDS/DynamoDB) with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), observability, and reliability patterns; also delivered resilient ETL/integration pipelines with idempotency/retries/backfills and achieved a 50% deployment-time reduction through CI/CD and modular refactoring.”

“Consulting background (Accenture) delivering technically complex solutions involving on-chain data and strict government security standards, including building isolated sandbox environments to move from PoC to production. Experienced in debugging agentic/LLM-style workflows (e.g., document scanning issues) with deterministic guardrails, preprocessing, and strong logging/monitoring. Has led large-scale crypto wallet workshops (including for the CFTC) and helped win business via clear, layered technical demos; also built internal marketing taxonomy tooling and drove adoption through cross-functional alignment.”

“LLM-focused engineer who has shipped multiple production-grade AI reliability systems: an LLM output validation/monitoring service (FastAPI) with prompt versioning and failure analytics, plus a RAG feature using embeddings/vector DBs with retrieval thresholds, schema/context validation, and safe fallbacks. Strong in evaluation loops (groundedness, schema accuracy, human review) and scalable pipelines for messy document ingestion with observability and early detection of data quality issues.”

“Full-stack engineer experienced shipping production SaaS dashboards with Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining Server Components for initial data loads with interactive client-side analytics. Strong performance/operability focus (reported ~40% UI latency reduction) and deep backend fundamentals across Postgres schema/query optimization and Kafka-based event-driven microservices with idempotency, retries, and DLQs.”

“Full-stack engineer currently at Southern Glazer’s who built and owned a real-time commercial finance expense analytics dashboard end-to-end (Next.js App Router + TypeScript), including post-launch monitoring, data quality checks, and stakeholder-driven iteration. Strong data/analytics backend experience (Postgres modeling and Databricks Delta Lake pipelines) with demonstrated performance wins—e.g., cutting a key reconciliation query from 8–12s to <400ms and improving frontend load time ~40% with a 25% bounce-rate drop at Verizon.”

“Backend/platform engineer with Paycom experience owning a core enterprise compliance feature (certification approval workflow) end-to-end, including live migration behind feature flags and production monitoring. Delivered measurable impact (40% faster workflow completion, major drop in escalations) and also built GraphQL microservices integrating certification workflows into an enterprise AI platform while driving significant API latency reductions (20s to <6s).”

Shashank Venkataramana

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure and data platforms

Scottsdale, AZ4y exp

“Backend/infra-focused software engineer who built an autonomous Python API-orchestration agent using asyncio with strong reliability and observability (trace IDs, structured logs, retries/timeouts) and containerized dev workflow. Experienced deploying Python services to Kubernetes with Helm and running GitOps CI/CD via ArgoCD, plus leading an AWS IAM-to-Identity Center migration using CloudTrail-driven least-privilege role design. Also built and debugged a Kafka/SnapLogic bidirectional pipeline syncing Redshift and HBase, resolving missing-record issues via Kibana-driven investigation.”

Deandra House

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition leader specializing in global recruiting operations

Plano, Texas19y exp

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader who has managed 6–20 person TA Ops teams and led a global "Recruiting 2.0" transformation standardizing intake and structured interviews, automating screening/scheduling, and building Power BI funnel dashboards. Delivered measurable impact including ~30% time-to-fill reduction and improved candidate/hiring manager experience, and has hands-on systems implementation experience across Workday Recruiting, SuccessFactors, Eightfold, DocuSign, and background check integrations.”

Michael Chaves

Screened

Senior Creative Technologist & Full-Stack UX Engineer specializing in Generative AI and XR

Los Altos, CA12y exp

“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.”

Sanjana Kirthi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend platforms and cloud-native systems

USA3y exp

“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.”

Rushwant K

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and microservices

United States, Remote4y exp

“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).”

Sharanya Teegala

Screened

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

Minneapolis, MN5y exp

“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.”

Alexander Ahlberg

Screened

Senior Unity/Unreal Gameplay & Simulation Engineer specializing in immersive training

Remote, USA10y exp

“Game developer with hands-on end-to-end ownership as a solo Unity/C# developer, building a node/grid-based 2D gameplay system designed for fast iteration via event-driven, component-based architecture. Also prototyped Unity-to-external LLM integration over WebSockets (JSON world snapshots, async responses) and has Unreal Engine multiplayer experience (server-authoritative replication/RPCs) plus VR performance/UI optimization work.”

“Backend engineer in airport operations who built a highly customizable BFF-based system connecting airport staff workflows to a baggage sortation engine. Their architecture cut per-airport customization from 100-150 engineering hours to 1-5 hours, improved long-running operation performance by 45%, and shipped in 4 months instead of 6. They also explored AI-assisted backend customization with human validation and test-based safeguards.”

“Early-career/new-grad candidate who built TrendScout AI, an evidence-first market intelligence agent that ingests messy news, extracts entities/events, builds a Neo4j knowledge graph, and answers questions via RAG with citations. Achieved ~95% retrieval relevance by combining ChromaDB semantic search with graph-based retrieval and validating outputs through human evaluation and guardrails to prevent hallucinations.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across Cigna, Cognizant, and a university environment, focused on reliability, distributed systems, and regulated-domain workflows. Stands out for combining Kubernetes/Kafka/AWS infrastructure expertise with a production RAG-based healthcare compliance assistant that cut manual reporting work from 30-45 minutes to under 2 minutes while maintaining strong uptime and data-quality controls.”

Lawrence Prabhakar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in FinTech

USA5y exp

“Engineer with a thoughtful, hands-on approach to AI-assisted software development, treating AI as a force multiplier for debugging, prototyping, and large-codebase work rather than a substitute for judgment. Particularly strong in multi-agent coding workflows, contract-driven development, and maintaining consistency across backend, frontend, and testing through shared schemas and OpenAPI-based coordination.”

Aniket Dhanawade

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native and AI-powered applications

USA3y exp

“Candidate has a thoughtful, hands-on approach to AI-assisted software development, treating AI as a pair programmer while retaining ownership of architecture, tradeoffs, and final code quality. They have practical experience using multi-agent workflows to ship small features end-to-end, including planning, execution, and gap detection under human oversight.”

“Backend engineer from Optum who built and optimized a real-time, Kafka-driven healthcare claims processing platform handling 1M+ claims/month. Strong in reliability, state management, and observability for distributed systems, plus production deployment automation with Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD; no direct ROS/robotics simulator experience yet but frames work in robotics-adjacent real-time principles.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on production-grade Python microservices and AWS platforms, including a hybrid Lambda + ECS Fargate architecture managed with Terraform and CI/CD. Has hands-on reliability experience (JWT/OAuth, timeouts, retries, centralized error classification) and built AWS Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines consolidating PostgreSQL/RDS, MongoDB, and S3 sources into curated partitioned Parquet datasets. Demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (8 minutes to 25 seconds) and disciplined legacy-to-modern migrations with parity validation and UAT sign-off.”

“Software engineer/product owner experience at UnitedHealth Group owning a high-volume claims eligibility console end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Spring Boot microservices) processing 1M+ transactions/day. Strong in event-driven architecture (Kafka/RabbitMQ), HIPAA-aligned security (OAuth/JWT/RBAC), and building internal observability tools that improve incident triage and production reliability.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built an end-to-end greenwashing detection system for corporate ESG reports: Python preprocessing pipeline, logistic regression + fine-tuned DistilBERT models, and a Dockerized FastAPI inference service optimized for latency. Internship experience maintaining GitLab CI/CD for TypeScript services (Jest/Playwright), improving pipeline stability and test determinism; familiar with Kubernetes/GitOps concepts and AWS CLI/SSO.”

“Backend-focused engineer who has built and refactored FastAPI services backed by MongoDB, emphasizing async concurrency, stateless design for horizontal scaling, and performance tuning via indexing and request-level timing. Has implemented production authentication patterns (JWT, SSO, OAuth2 + PKCE) and user/org-scoped access controls, and improved reliability of LLM document-extraction APIs with fallback mechanisms.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer from ADP’s Global View team who owned major backend components of an enterprise payroll dashboard, including a fault-tolerant multi-step payroll processing workflow and error visibility features. Strong in Java/Spring Boot + PostgreSQL schema design and Redis caching, with additional production experience in Python services (JWT, testing, SonarQube) and AWS deployments via Terraform/Jenkins with autoscaling.”