Vetted Visual Studio Code Professionals

“Backend engineer who built a Python-based data profiling/statistics platform processing up to 50M rows and ~300 metrics, using a DAG execution model, multithreading, and smart caching to cut processing time by up to 70%. Also improved PostgreSQL query performance from 12s to 2s via indexing/query rewrites, integrated an LLM (LangChain + OpenAI) for explainable “chat with the pipeline” functionality, and designed an AWS EC2+SQS architecture for scalable, isolated per-user processing.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built an internal wiki LLM chatbot end-to-end using FastAPI, Kubernetes, and ChromaDB vector search, including frontend integration. Also has strong DevOps/migration experience—automating large work-item and repo migrations (Jira/FogBugz/ADO on-prem to cloud) via Python scripts, JSON mappings, REST APIs, and validation test suites.”

Travoy Spelling

Screened

Senior Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and NLP

Texarkana, TX10y exp

“ML/NLP engineer focused on production GenAI and data linking systems: built a large-scale RAG pipeline over millions of support docs using LangChain/Pinecone and added a LangGraph-based validation layer to cut hallucinations ~40%. Also built scalable PySpark entity resolution (95%+ accuracy) and fine-tuned Sentence-BERT embeddings with contrastive learning for ~30% relevance lift, with strong CI/CD and observability practices (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana).”

ChinmaySanjay Kawle

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud developer tools and backend APIs

Seattle, WA2y exp

“Summer intern on AWS Lambda tooling team who shipped Finch support in AWS SAM CLI, adding OS/runtime detection and robust fallback behavior to preserve Docker compatibility across developer environments. Also built an end-to-end RAG system for querying arXiv quantitative finance papers using Postgres/pgvector with two-stage retrieval, citation-grounded prompting, and rigorous evaluation loops driven by IR metrics and user feedback.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning Amazon IMDb and Northeastern’s NeuroJSON portal, combining consumer product work with complex scientific data applications. Built IMDb’s streaming providers feature—described as the company’s most impactful feature of 2023—and has hands-on experience with React/Angular, GraphQL, AWS, Python services, and production monitoring.”

“Software engineer with experience at PayPal and JPMC building large-scale onboarding/account setup systems using React/TypeScript with Spring Boot/Node microservices and Kafka. Also built an Ignition-based SCADA monitoring tool at Mainspring Energy that became the default for manufacturing/test engineers by aggregating real-time telemetry and historical test data.”

“Full-stack engineer (~4 years) who has owned and shipped customer-facing SaaS onboarding and a role-based real-time analytics dashboard using TypeScript/React with a modular backend. Experienced in microservices with RabbitMQ and strong observability practices (correlation IDs, structured logging, queue metrics), and built an internal deployment tracker integrated with CI/CD that replaced manual spreadsheet/Slack processes.”

“Backend engineer focused on cloud/distributed systems, deploying Java 17/Spring Boot microservices on AWS EKS with RDS and Kafka. Demonstrated strong production readiness work (DB lock mitigation, Kafka idempotency, gradual rollouts) and delivered a major latency improvement (~400ms to ~100ms). Also has proven cross-layer troubleshooting skills, isolating intermittent API timeouts to a specific Kubernetes node’s network interface issue, and partners closely with ops teams to build dashboards and workflow automation (including Python scripts).”

“Data/Backend engineer with experience at Naukri building large-scale analytics products over a 130M+ user base, including Spark/Airflow pipelines and Kafka-based clickstream validation with Confluent Schema Registry. Also built an audience segmentation backend (Athena/S3 + Spring Boot APIs) for non-technical internal teams and recently shipped a GenAI customer data audit system (FastAPI/Postgres/Llama) that cut sales-planning validation from ~3 months to ~1 week.”

“Full-stack engineer and KICKOFFUSA cofounder who built production payment/registration and live tournament experiences under real matchday load (200+ concurrent users), including Stripe webhooks with idempotency and UX improvements that cut checkout abandonment ~15%. Also owned an end-to-end research hub at a GTSCL internship—designed a normalized Postgres schema and full-text search (tsvector/GIN) delivering sub-100ms queries for 300+ researchers.”

Shanmukha Koganti

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in recommender systems and edge computer vision

Bay Area, CA6y exp

“ML/AI engineer with production experience at Shopify and Intel, building a deep learning product ranking system that lifted add-to-cart ~14% and serving real-time similarity search via FAISS+Redis under <20ms latency at massive scale. Also deployed computer vision models to 100+ retail edge locations using Docker/Ansible/k3s with zero-downtime rollouts, and applies strong MLOps practices (A/B testing, canary/shadow, observability) plus performance optimization (OpenVINO, INT8).”

Manoj Manjunatha

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native web platforms and AI tooling

Boise, ID2y exp

“Built the backend for “codeGuard,” an AI-powered static code analysis platform, using FastAPI and Docker. Structured the system into API/service/execution layers and addressed heavy-workload container resource/cleanup issues via strict CPU/memory limits and a queued execution model.”

Pratima Singh

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech, cloud microservices, and blockchain

Tempe, AZ10y exp

“Python/ML engineer with strong DevOps depth: built an end-to-end regime-aware stock prediction system (custom fine-tuned FinBERT sentiment + technical/macro features) delivering a 12% accuracy lift. Also implemented Kubernetes/Helm + Jenkins/GitHub Actions pipelines (including GitOps-style workflows for multi-cloud Hyperledger Besu) and improved deployment speed/stability by ~50% while addressing race conditions and image drift.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved an internal multi-agent AI research platform (Electron + FastAPI) integrating OpenAI, focused on fast, reproducible experimentation with strong observability and run metadata for debugging. Has led incremental backend refactors with feature flags and parallel validation, and brings production-grade access control expertise from ServiceNow (table/field ACLs and row-level-style enforcement).”

“Game QA lead with 20+ years of tooling and workflow experience, most recently leading QA on a Unity-based MLB mobile title with annual releases and major feature updates. Led QA for the PS Vita port of Borderlands 2 focused on technical requirements, performance, and usability, including making a key ship-risk call to limit multiplayer players. Known for disciplined Jira/TestRail administration, strong cross-functional communication, and uncovering critical submission-blocking issues with clear evidence and repro steps.”

“Built a production LLM-powered RAG agent for healthcare/insurance operations that retrieves and summarizes patient medical documents with grounded citations, scaling to ~4.5M records. Addressed medical shorthand and terminology by fine-tuning ~120 lightweight DistilBERT models by specialty and validating entities against SNOMED/RxNorm, while using SHAP/LIME and human-in-the-loop review to make decisions explainable to stakeholders.”

“AI engineer with production experience building a high-accuracy (98%) fraud detection system operating at real-time latency (1–2s) over millions of transactions, using a multi-model pipeline approach to meet performance constraints. Also implemented Airflow-orchestrated workflows (DAGs, retries, alerts) to replace brittle cron scripts and is currently pursuing a master’s project on real-time ASL-to-text conversion.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with e-commerce and analytics experience who modernized synchronous order workflows into a Kafka-based event-driven architecture (Java/Spring Boot) to reduce checkout latency and peak-traffic failures. Has built production FastAPI services with JWT/RBAC and strong testing/observability, delivered React+TypeScript reporting dashboards, and handled AWS scaling incidents end-to-end (RDS read latency mitigated with read replicas and query tuning).”

“AppSec-focused customer advisor with hands-on experience integrating SAST/DAST/SCA into production CI/CD (Azure DevOps) and designing secure agent/scanning deployments in AWS (least-privilege IAM, private subnets, VPC endpoints). Demonstrates strong incident troubleshooting using logs/metrics/traces to diagnose load-related failures (timeouts/retry storms) and drive durable fixes, while tailoring risk/tradeoff communication across engineering, security, and leadership stakeholders.”

Kunal Singh Pundir

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud microservices and GenAI systems

USA, USA5y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end AI-driven decisioning platform at Uber, combining LLM orchestration with typed tool contracts and a Snowflake-based RAG pipeline to make decisions fully auditable. Delivered large-scale measurable impact (120k requests/day, 18k cases auto-resolved/month) while improving ops SLA from 3 days to 6 hours and cutting incident response time nearly in half. Previously led a high-risk strangler-fig modernization of a legacy insurance platform across 120+ microsites at Accenture, coordinating across multiple squads with feature-flagged parallel cutovers.”

Vedant Kharwal

Screened

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and applied machine learning

Mumbai, India1y exp

“New graduate with hands-on LLM work building a RAG pipeline (HNSW, lexical reranking/boosting, ReAct) and optimizing it through ablation to dramatically reduce latency. Also building a modular personal assistant with a custom wake word model, router-driven agent selection, and integrations like Spotify with secrets managed via .env.”

Chancellor Day

Screened

Intern Robotics/Software Engineer specializing in autonomy, computer vision, and controls

San Diego, CA0y exp

“Robotics software engineer with a master’s focused in the field who has integrated a multi-sensor robotics fusion laser system (fault detection, PLC comms, PyTorch-based CV diagnostics, and an engineer-facing status front end) under NDA. Has ROS experience from the University of Michigan Autonomous Robotic Vehicle team using Nav2/SLAM Toolbox/Gmapping with RViz and ROS bag-driven debugging, plus Gazebo simulation work and upcoming drone path-planning optimization research.”

“End-to-end deployment owner for Oracle document delivery/print services in a hospital-like production environment, focused on reliability/performance at scale (thousands of systems). Also describes implementing event-driven RAG/agentic LLM workflows with attention to embeddings/index consistency, latency, and measurable improvements in response relevance and operational efficiency.”

“Data/ML backend engineer with hands-on production experience spanning RAG services (LlamaIndex/OpenAI) and AWS data platforms. Has delivered Terraform-managed AWS architectures (Lambda + ECS Fargate) with secure secrets handling, built Glue-to-Redshift ETL with schema evolution controls, modernized SAS reporting into Python microservices, and achieved major Redshift query speedups (2+ hours to under 15 minutes).”