Vetted System Design Professionals

Abhishek Ingle

Screened

Junior Full-Stack & AI Software Engineer specializing in React/Next.js and LLM systems

Bloomington, IN2y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building low-latency, high-concurrency real-time chat on AWS (Node.js/Socket.IO/MongoDB) and improving reliability under unstable networks, contributing to ~40% user adoption growth. Also built FastAPI-based AI assistant context retrieval (RAG) APIs with embeddings/vector search, and has strong production experience in rate-limit handling, async refactors with safe rollout, and Supabase Auth/RLS optimization.”

Thanmayi Ravuri

Screened

Entry Software Engineer specializing in cloud backend and microservices

Tempe, AZ1y exp

“Built production-oriented LLM agent systems for incident investigation and CRM workflows using LangGraph, FastAPI, AWS, and retrieval grounding. Stands out for treating agents like real software systems—adding schema enforcement, retries, fallbacks, monitoring, and eval loops—and tying that work to measurable gains in accuracy, latency, and analysis speed.”

Kunal Sanghvi

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in AI, NLP, and LLM systems

USA3y exp

“Built and deployed a production AI customer support chatbot at Unique Design Inc. using FastAPI, AWS, Docker, and retrieval-based grounding on internal documents. Stands out for hands-on ownership across discovery, deployment, incident debugging, and post-launch iteration, with a strong focus on making LLM systems reliable and safe in real business workflows.”

Nicholas Shellabarger

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed FinTech systems

Denver, CO13y exp

“Founder of an early-stage startup who has already raised initial capital through a SAFE and built the platform with minimal funding. Demonstrates practical knowledge of VC and accelerator fundraising, a deliberate equity-preservation strategy, and is now seeking additional financing to create runway and scale the business.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/AI platform experience (Humana), owning an end-to-end high-risk patient prediction feature from React dashboards through FastAPI/TensorFlow real-time inference to AWS EKS operations. Emphasizes production reliability and contract-driven APIs (OpenAPI + generated TS types), plus strong data integration patterns (Kafka, idempotency, DLQs, backfills) in regulated, high-traffic environments.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Software engineer experienced delivering customer-facing, real-time industrial monitoring dashboards (motors/shafts/turbines) by partnering directly with end users to refine charts, alerts, and performance. Strong in API/platform integrations and production troubleshooting—uses feature flags, logging, validation/mapping, containerization, and performance testing to keep systems stable while iterating quickly.”

“Backend engineer who built a Node.js + SQL service integrating with the Google Ads API to periodically upload online and offline conversions via Azure Logic Apps, persisting upload records for ROI reporting. Implemented PII hashing, token validation, redundancy, and detailed failure/status logging for reliability and debuggability. Currently scoping an LLM/agent workflow (likely LangChain) to let marketing bulk-update e-commerce product data using SEO keywords without developer involvement.”

“Startup-focused tech leader with 20+ years of experience who has led engineering teams across multiple startups and pitched inside VC firms. Currently building infrastructure for managing physical wealth—creating a canonical data layer that integrates with wealth management systems to account for precious metals and other tangible assets—and is prepared to raise capital to align with the right partners.”

Christopher Peacock

Screened

Executive CIO and Enterprise Architect specializing in cloud, security, and IT governance

Remote5y exp

“Fractional CIO/founder-type operator at AHDX Inc, a hybrid-cloud/primary storage solutions startup with a compliance focus targeting healthcare; MVP has completed beta and the company has seed funding while pursuing additional investment. Has supported multiple startups (OmniHR, Combat Connect, 3BX) and cites tangible results tied to DoD/security, Medicare/Medicaid, and Air Force LMS contracts, positioning them as a hands-on "fixer" for early-stage technical strategy and architecture.”

Anudeep Reddy Veerla

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and shipped both a solo real-time multiplayer Spades game (TypeScript monorepo with shared client/server engine) and a production internal LLM-powered document Q&A tool for a SaaS company. Demonstrates strong RAG pipeline design (Pinecone + embeddings + reranking), rigorous eval/regression practices, and pragmatic data ingestion/observability work across Confluence, Notion, and messy PDFs/OCR—backed by clear metric improvements (P@1 61%→78%, escalations 40%→22%).”

Ruslan Labza

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in modern web applications

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Built and launched a production AI chat assistant inside a data processing platform, focused on helping users understand large table outputs and job results faster. Brings strong end-to-end product engineering across React/TypeScript frontend, backend APIs, and LLM integration, with a clear emphasis on reliability, safe behavior, and iterative quality improvements after launch.”

“Backend Python engineer who has built an LLM agentic tutoring/assignment helper with a custom pipeline for parsing visually complex textbooks (integrating AlibabaResearch VGT and implementing missing preprocessing from the paper), improving RAG grounding with ~90% cleaner extracted text. Also led major platform scaling work by refactoring monolithic image processing into Celery-based async microservices on AWS (GPU/CUDA + S3), and implemented Kafka streaming for payment webhooks with strict ordering, idempotency, and multi-zone fault tolerance.”

Penny Asawadilockchai

Screened

Mid-Level Product Designer specializing in human-centered UX/UI

Oakland, CA4y exp

“Product/UX designer with end-to-end experience building a borrower-facing intake platform that coordinates AI automation and human review across borrowers, loan officers, and processors. Emphasizes explicit system states, clear handoffs, and exception-based visibility to increase trust in high-stakes underwriting/document workflows, using Figma prototyping and close engineering collaboration to ship feasible, scalable interactions.”

Keeravani Chekuri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and MLOps

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and deployed an AI tutoring assistant end-to-end at Nexora School, spanning discovery with school districts, multi-agent LangGraph/RAG architecture, AWS Bedrock migration, and post-launch stabilization. Stands out for combining hands-on LLM systems engineering with strong educator-facing trust building, FERPA-driven architecture decisions, and disciplined production practices around evals, logging, and messy document ingestion.”

“Software candidate with hands-on experience using AI as a productivity multiplier across architecture, refactoring, testing, and code review. Has worked with LangChain-based multi-agent workflows to decompose complex engineering tasks for parallel execution, showing practical familiarity with emerging AI-native development patterns.”

“Backend engineer focused on real-time, event-driven systems (Java microservices) handling high-frequency data with low-latency and reliability requirements. Strong in Kafka-based asynchronous architectures, Redis caching, JVM/query tuning, and scalable deployments on Docker/Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD; no direct ROS/robotics experience but has closely related distributed communication patterns.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong DevOps/AWS experience who ships end-to-end React/TypeScript + Node/Python systems and operates them in production. Built an LLM-assisted recommendations workflow for a SaaS product with robust reliability controls (schema-validated JSON outputs, fallbacks, caching, monitoring) and measured impact via adoption, time saved, and override rates; also experienced delivering MVPs fast in early-stage startup ambiguity.”

“India-based engineering leader/player-coach managing ~20 people and three products, while still shipping hands-on in Python/Golang across 8–10 microservices deployed on GCP (Kubernetes) and AWS (ECS). Has led end-to-end delivery (design through QA) and owned production reliability improvements (including building a Slack alerting bot). Strong domain exposure in utilities (MDM/meter readings, billing/rate calculations) and financial integrations (GL code tagging), plus side projects in Golang around LLM API cost-optimization.”

Tao Chen

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered web products

Mountain View, CA7y exp

“Backend/data engineer who has built production AI video generation services on AWS using a hybrid serverless + container architecture (FastAPI, Lambda, ECS, Postgres/Redis) with strong reliability practices (auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, CloudWatch + Slack alerting). Also delivered AWS Glue ETL pipelines with schema evolution handling and modernized a legacy SAS healthcare reporting workflow to Python with parity validation and parallel-run migration.”

Sai Harsha Kurapati

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems and industrial IoT

Indianapolis, IN4y exp

“Backend/Python engineer focused on real-time sensor/IoT analytics: built dashboards and a high-throughput ingestion pipeline (MQTT -> Python worker -> TimescaleDB) with buffering, batch inserts, and validation. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (Dockerized microservices, HPA, probes, ArgoCD) who has handled production incidents like CrashLoopBackOff under peak load and supported an on-prem analytics migration to AWS using shadow traffic and rollback plans.”

Tanisha Dalwadi

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Product Engineer specializing in TypeScript and React

Arizona, USA4y exp

“Software engineer and co-founder with 0-to-1 SaaS experience who built and owned an end-to-end reporting/analytics dashboard on Next.js App Router + TypeScript, including Postgres schema design, aggregation query optimization, and post-launch performance/monitoring. Has delivered measurable React dashboard performance gains (~35% improvement in time-to-insight) and built durable, idempotent job/state-machine workflows using serverless functions and Postgres.”