Vetted WebSockets Professionals

Shruthi Nandakumar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

St. Louis, MO5y exp

“Backend/AI engineer who owned a high-scale Java/Spring Boot microservice for a financial application (millions of requests/day) and led major reliability/performance fixes (including ORM/query and PostgreSQL tuning) achieving ~60% latency reduction. Also shipped application-layer LLM features for ops teams (summarization + tool-calling) with strong guardrails (PII redaction, validation, audit/feedback) and designed a state-driven agent workflow with retries, circuit breakers, and human escalation.”

Sanjay Mandru

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and real-time analytics

Buffalo, NY3y exp

“Software engineer who built a reusable React component package (UI modules, auth helpers, API client wrappers) for an AI SaaS background-removal project, emphasizing performance (tree shaking/dynamic imports) and reliability (Jest + Storybook). Also delivered a unified REST API for Samsung Big Data Portal, resolving cross-team issues by standardizing schemas, improving validation/logging, and operating effectively amid shifting requirements.”

Niharika Bhasin

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and real-time web apps

New York City, NY0y exp

“New-grad/early-career engineer who led high-stakes modernization of a field-operations platform from Firebase to AWS using an incremental/dual-write strategy, achieving zero downtime and ~30–32% infra cost reduction while improving scalability. Also built and productionized an AI-native code assistant (LangChain + Pinecone RAG) with measurable online metrics and safety guardrails, and has experience working directly with CEO/CTO/CPO and embedded with customer teams to ship enterprise features quickly.”

Akhilesh Babu Tumati

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native and AI-integrated systems

3y exp

“Built and deployed a Virginia Tech CS department blog/archive application using a MERN/Next.js stack and a fully serverless AWS architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, Route 53), including CI/CD via the Serverless Framework. Implemented RBAC for student/faculty/admin users and added an article export feature backed by MongoDB.”

Karan Javali

Screened

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

Salt Lake City, Utah5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Goldman Sachs and Arizona State University’s Learning Engineering Institute, shipping production backend systems including a vendor equities invoice-generation service designed for extensibility across multiple vendors. Built Django REST + PostgreSQL backends with JWT auth and Pytest coverage, and delivered data-heavy, responsive Angular dashboards; also has exposure to AWS EC2 deployments and GitLab CI/CD automation.”

“Early-career full-stack engineer with startup experience at CLD-9 and Credible Data who built a real-time internal analytics dashboard in Next.js (App Router) with WebSocket-driven sub-second updates and owned monitoring/maintenance post-launch. Demonstrated strong performance and data skills with quantified wins (45% faster load times, 60% better Core Web Vitals) and Postgres query optimization (800ms to 12ms). Completing an MS in CS at CU Boulder (graduating May 2026) and targeting seed-to-Series C roles.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup with hands-on production experience spanning Angular frontend features, backend safety checks for an image-generation workflow (OpenAI Safety), and AWS operations. Built CI/CD to ECS with GitHub Actions, implemented CloudWatch observability, and improved release reliability via Blue/Green deployments with automatic rollback.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience building real-time, high-stakes operational software for airport gate management and billing/analytics systems. Stands out for combining strong React/TypeScript architecture with backend and data-layer ownership, including WebSockets, SQL optimization, and analytics feature delivery in production.”

Apoorva Swaminathan Iyer

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in full-stack engineering and application security

Raleigh, NC3y exp

“Developer who has evolved into an AI-native builder, using Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and multi-agent workflows as collaborators while retaining ownership of architecture and code quality. At OpenPRA, they ramped quickly into NestJS from a Spring Boot background and implemented OAuth/JWT security; on the Aha quiz app, they effectively acted as a tech lead for AI agents across feature delivery, debugging, CI/CD, and Dockerization.”

Janvitha Mandyam

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and NLP

Chicago, IL4y exp

“GenAI/LLMOps practitioner who deployed a production RAG-based customer service and knowledge retrieval system for a global bank using LangChain, FAISS/Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-4/Claude, and Guardrails—driving a reported 35% Q&A accuracy lift while reducing handle time and escalations. Also partnered with non-technical leaders at CVS Health to deliver ML-driven supply chain risk and inventory insights via anomaly detection, NLG summaries, and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI support platform at Mechanize (FastAPI/LangChain/Pinecone/React) with rigorous evals and guardrails, driving 45% fewer support tickets and ~$280K annual savings. Also led a high-risk legacy modernization at Argo AI, incrementally extracting a monolithic Django backend using Strangler Fig + feature flags while supporting 10K+ concurrent users.”