Vetted System Design Professionals

“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.”

“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.”

“Currently serving as VP of Technology since January 2025, this candidate was brought in to build a fintech lending platform from the ground up, including hiring a global team and delivering a unified AI-enabled platform. They combine executive-level ownership with hands-on architecture work, including a customer-facing document agent and Plaid integration, and emphasize pragmatic AI adoption tied to measurable engineering productivity.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer with strong AWS/Snowflake experience who built an internal feature flag platform and helped migrate a cybersecurity insights product into a multi-agent AI chat interface. They report production scale of 1M+ embeddings and 50k+ monthly queries, with outcomes including an 80% reduction in analyst work and dashboard generation in 7 minutes; the work was also featured by Claude and AWS.”

“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.”

Bibek Poudel

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and E-commerce

Artesia, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning enterprise AI and e-commerce, including building an agentic orchestration platform and owning a RAG system pipeline at JP Morgan Chase. Stands out for combining React/Node backend delivery with LLM security work, RBAC-heavy system design, and practical SQL/query optimization in production.”

“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.”

“Full-stack engineer with ~3.5 years of Java Spring Boot and React experience who built an end-to-end banking transaction platform using microservices, Kafka streaming, AWS RDS, and Dockerized CI/CD. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability engineering (async processing, DLQ/retries, idempotency, caching) plus secure cloud deployment practices; has also worked across banking, healthcare, and insurance domains.”

Arunkumar Gangula

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud microservices

Tempe, Arizona11y exp

“Product-minded full-stack engineer from CouponDunia who owned end-to-end notification and recommendation services at million-user scale. Built internal admin/analytics and operations dashboards in React/TypeScript with typed contracts and scalable Node.js REST APIs, and has deep microservices experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ (idempotency, retries/DLQs, partitioning, consumer tuning, and observability).”

Manikanta Kopparapu

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native web applications

TX, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing and internal web portals end-to-end (API, database, React UI, and deployment). Experienced designing multi-service architectures with Node/Express and Java/Spring Boot plus RabbitMQ/Kafka messaging, emphasizing contract/versioning discipline, observability, and operational tooling that measurably reduces support load and manual work.”

Bhanu Gummadi

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

Bellevue, WA4y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with Mastercard experience building and operating high-volume transaction-processing microservices. Has owned customer-facing banking services end-to-end and built an internal on-call analytics tool that centralized logs/metrics with real-time filtering to speed root-cause analysis and reduce incident investigation time.”

“Founding engineer at Novum AI building a real-time call analytics/suggestion backend (transcription + sentiment/tone + context retrieval) using a serverless architecture. Drove major latency improvements (about 4s down to sub-1.5s) and has practical experience hardening production APIs (FastAPI/Pydantic, auth with Cognito/Redis) and payment systems (Stripe) by surfacing overlooked subscription and multi-tenant billing edge cases.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of real-time, Kafka-driven systems in production, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Node backends, and AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2) operations. Notable for modernizing legacy batch workflows into event-driven architectures with measurable impact (35% faster risk calculations, 30% better accuracy) and scaling to 2x volume using reliability patterns like idempotency, retries, and staged rollouts.”

Ketan Verma

Screened

Junior Applied AI Engineer specializing in data pipelines and ML systems

College Station, TX2y exp

“Built an end-to-end wafer-data anomaly detection and reporting system at Samsung using PySpark, Random Forest models, SQL, and Grafana to help engineers track faults and take corrective action. Also has strong UX prototyping and validation practices in Figma plus hands-on front-end/full-stack experience (HTML/CSS/TypeScript), including a student project recognized as best design out of 25 teams, and early-stage startup experience pivoting a product based on user interviews into a real-time in-context feedback overlay.”

Nisarg Shah

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in geospatial analytics and computer vision

Tempe, Arizona1y exp

“Built and evolved a geospatial ETL + API platform that processes pixel-wise satellite imagery in PostgreSQL/PostGIS into low-latency farm-level time-series metrics for an interactive dashboard, using precomputed hotspot analysis to reduce latency by 75–80%. Experienced in FastAPI-style API contract design (OpenAPI), caching, server-side filtering/compression, and production-minded security patterns (RBAC, session-derived authorization, password hashing) with disciplined rollback/versioning practices.”

Rajesh Sivakumar

Screened

Senior Software Engineering Manager specializing in cloud-native distributed systems (FinTech & Healthcare)

San Francisco, CA26y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who has led 40+ developers across multiple teams on large financial services web applications (Wells Fargo) and previously delivered a banking mobile app MVP in 6 months with a junior team by setting patterns and CI/CD foundations. Strong in production reliability practices (Splunk monitoring, feature flags, throttled rollouts) and has driven measurable quality/velocity wins, including a 60% faster E2E test framework and a rapid 2-day hotfix during a React 16→18 migration.”

Erick Folckemer

Screened

Senior Gameplay Systems Programmer specializing in AAA game systems and networking

Raleigh, NC8y exp

“Gameplay engineer with shipped experience (Just Cause 4) and strong systems ownership in C++/Unreal Engine 5, including a loot spawning/loot table pipeline optimized through profiling-driven memory copy elimination and validated via custom simulation tools. Also built a server-authoritative fast travel system in a proprietary engine, handling multi-player/vehicle spawn coordination with client-side collision checks and latency testing across NYC and Stockholm.”