Vetted System Design Professionals

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on experience building end-to-end data pipelines and Spring Boot services, including systems processing up to 1 million records per day. Demonstrates practical strength in reliability engineering, API versioning, external data ingestion, and early-stage delivery with CI/CD, observability, and pragmatic architecture choices.”

Bhanu Akepogu

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend, full-stack, and AI systems

USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong fintech/financial-systems experience who built an automated reconciliation and reporting system end-to-end (Python/Django/FastAPI + React, Docker on AWS), cutting reconciliation time by ~25% and improving audit traceability. Experienced designing typed REST APIs and Postgres data models, operating production workloads on AWS (EC2/Lambda/RDS/DynamoDB/CloudWatch), and building reliable ETL/integration pipelines with idempotency, retries, and reconciliation.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned an operations/reporting dashboard end-to-end, spanning React/TypeScript frontend architecture, ASP.NET Core APIs, and SQL data access. Stands out for combining strong UI performance optimization with pragmatic backend decisions, post-launch monitoring, and 0→1 startup platform building that improved API speed by 35% while supporting 2,000+ transactions per hour.”

Seymour Douglas

Screened

Executive Data & AI Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms and data-intensive systems

18y exp

“Data/ML and product leader with large-scale consumer and enterprise experience (including Walmart) who blends hands-on prototyping with executive stakeholder alignment. Has delivered measurable outcomes across personalization, semantic search/knowledge graphs, and fraud/security architecture, and has scaled organizations rapidly (30→180 in 12 months) by upskilling and building modern data/ML engineering capabilities.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on AWS data platform work (S3 + Glue + Lambda/Step Functions) and Kubernetes GitOps delivery (Argo CD + GitHub Actions). Has led ingestion and transformation of semi-structured event data, built internal APIs for ETL operations/monitoring, and implemented Kafka-based near-real-time streaming with enrichment and Elasticsearch for search/analytics, plus experience supporting an on-prem ERP migration to AWS.”

“Executive/engineering leader with 18+ years at an established company who helped turn a top-3 telco data opportunity into meaningful revenue and a continuing partnership to launch new data-driven products. Brings a security/privacy-first approach (compliance assessments and documentation) and a structured North Star + technical planning method for building with limited resources; interested in joining an early-stage founding journey with the right vision and team.”

“Built a production LLM-powered crypto trading platform in PHP/Laravel that combined RAG, market data, sentiment signals, and operator review workflows to generate buy/sell recommendations. Stands out for a disciplined approach to agentic systems: the application owns orchestration, risk controls, audit trails, and approvals, while the LLM is treated as a bounded advisory component rather than the control plane.”