Vetted System Design Professionals

“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.”

“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.”

Serkan Yildirim

Screened

Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer / Tech Lead specializing in scalable web platforms

Chicago, IL12y exp

“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.”

Harshitha K

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack .NET Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Greensboro, NC5y exp

“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.”

Hritvik Gupta

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and healthcare AI

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“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.”

Harshith Jaladi

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech distributed systems

Chennai, India1y exp

“Game developer with early-stage startup experience who worked directly with a CEO to integrate an AI-based API into Skyrim Elder Scrolls V, helping showcase the product and win Riot Games as a client. Currently owns multiple financial reporting ingestion workflows and has driven meaningful time savings through cross-functional execution, combining gaming/AI experience with operational impact in fintech.”

John Chance

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in conversational AI and healthcare ML

Greenwood, LA9y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of both classical recommender systems and safety-sensitive LLM agent platforms. They combine production MLOps depth with behavioral health domain experience, including clinical safety validation, explainability, and multi-agent orchestration, and cite measurable impact in both business metrics and latency reduction.”

Koushik Ravikumar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native Java and AI platforms

Kyle, TX4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong cloud and platform experience spanning React, Go, AWS, Kafka, and Terraform. Has led complex migrations from monolithic/containerized systems to microservices and cloud deployments, built compliance-oriented logging infrastructure, and improved a broken frontend codebase to achieve a 3x performance gain while making it easier for other developers to extend.”

“Full Stack Software Engineer with enterprise experience across healthcare, insurance, and internal SaaS systems, combining React/TypeScript/Node.js depth with hands-on LLM feature delivery. Stands out for building secure RBAC architecture and shipping production AI workflow assistance with strong guardrails, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop decisioning in regulated environments.”

Jaisurya Kolluru

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native backend and AI systems

Virginia, USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership across React/TypeScript frontends, Node.js backends, and PostgreSQL on AWS. Stands out for production-focused database optimization, including execution-plan analysis, indexing, safe migrations, and architectural improvements that reduced database bottlenecks through a centralized REST API layer.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building enterprise workflow management platforms across React/TypeScript, Node.js/Express, Angular, and .NET Core microservices. They stand out for owning features through production, solving real-world data consistency and legacy-data issues, and driving architectural and SQL performance improvements that made dashboards faster and more reliable.”

“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.”

“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.”

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.”

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).”

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.”

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.”