Vetted XML Professionals

“Engineering/technology leader who stays hands-on while driving executive-level roadmap execution, with deep experience modernizing cloud-based LIMS/LIS platforms and building AI-driven lab analytics. Led a monolith-to-microservices cloud migration with containerization and CI/CD, and delivered a reported 30% reduction in lab turnaround time while strengthening compliance.”

Murali Marupudi

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in Python microservices and scalable cloud systems

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on high-throughput Python/Flask systems on AWS, with strong scaling and performance tuning experience (e.g., PostgreSQL join reduced from ~3s to <200ms; background aggregation cut from 10 minutes to <90 seconds with 8x throughput). Has also integrated ML model serving into production APIs (churn prediction) using Celery/Redis batching and AWS Lambda/S3, and designed secure multi-tenant architectures with PostgreSQL schema isolation and row-level security.”

“Built and owned Citigroup's ASTRA AI-powered test case generation platform end to end, from full-stack product experience to multi-agent LLM orchestration and RAG infrastructure. Drove test coverage from 40% to 95%, cut generation time from hours to minutes, and scaled the feature to 300+ daily users across 32 enterprise projects with sponsorship from Citi's CIO and Head of Engineering Excellence.”

“Backend engineer who has built high-throughput analytics and fraud-detection systems, combining Python/Flask + Celery/RabbitMQ with strong PostgreSQL performance tuning (indexing, partitioning, EXPLAIN ANALYZE). Has production experience integrating ML inference (scikit-learn/TensorFlow → TensorFlow Lite) into Spring Boot microservices with caching and model versioning, plus designing secure multi-tenant architectures using JWT-based tenant routing and PostgreSQL RBAC/RLS.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a real-time customer analytics microservice stack in Python/FastAPI with Kafka streaming into PostgreSQL, including schema enforcement (Avro) and high-throughput optimizations. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (EKS/GKE, Helm, Argo CD) who has handled CI/CD reliability issues with automated pre-deploy checks and rollbacks, and supported major migrations (on-prem to AWS; VM to EKS) with blue-green cutover planning.”

“Full-stack developer who built an end-to-end Hotel Management System using React and Spring Boot with MongoDB and AWS. Has hands-on experience debugging API/data-fetching issues with Postman and validating results against the database, plus exposure to handling large data workloads with chunking and monitoring via Grafana/Tabula.”

“At Dreamline AI, built and productionized an AWS-based incentive intelligence platform that uses Llama-2/GPT-4 to extract eligibility rules from unstructured state policy documents into structured JSON, then processes them with Glue/PySpark and serves results via Lambda/SageMaker/API Gateway. Designed state-specific ingestion connectors plus schema validation and automated checks/alerts to handle frequent policy/format changes without breaking the pipeline, and partnered with business/analytics stakeholders to deliver interpretable eligibility decisions via explanations and dashboards.”

“ML practitioner with hands-on experience in healthcare time-series modeling (CGM-based blood glucose prediction) including a novel ICA-based blind source separation approach and robust data-cleaning for noisy, missing sensor data. Also built an embeddings + LLM-powered podcast recommendation workflow using YouTube transcript scraping and Vellum AI document indexing, with a strong emphasis on production-grade engineering practices (TDD, monitoring) and realistic rolling validation for forecasting.”

“Candidate states they have worked on many robotics software system projects and has overcome many technical challenges, but declined to provide any project details during the screening and ended the interview early.”

“AI/ML engineer who built a production RAG-based internal document intelligence assistant (LangChain + Pinecone) to let employees query enterprise reports in natural language. Demonstrated hands-on pipeline orchestration with Apache Airflow and tackled real production issues like retrieval grounding and latency using tuning, caching, and token optimization, while partnering closely with non-technical business stakeholders through iterative demos.”

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped and owned production analytics dashboards using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining server components for data-heavy pages with client components for interactive charts/filters. Also built a Temporal-orchestrated payment reconciliation workflow with versioning, idempotency, and exponential-backoff retries, and has hands-on Postgres query/index optimization using EXPLAIN ANALYZE.”

Sri Chandana Topuri

Screened

Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring microservices and Angular

5y exp

“Backend-focused engineer working primarily with Python/Django who also handles full-stack responsibilities. Has hands-on experience deploying containerized Python/Java microservices to Kubernetes using Helm and GitOps (ArgoCD), plus building Kafka-based event streaming with reliability controls (acks, consumer groups, DLQ). Also supported major on-prem to cloud/hybrid migrations using Terraform/Ansible with blue-green cutovers and data replication to minimize downtime.”

Shashank Nawathe

Screened

Senior Front-End Engineer specializing in React, micro frontends, and GraphQL

Sunnyvale, CA8y exp

“Frontend engineer with Walmart Labs experience who contributed to the React Query (TanStack) open-source ecosystem by reproducing and helping fix a tricky cache invalidation edge case via a detailed GitHub issue and merged PR. Led measurable runtime performance improvements on a large B2B dashboard (D3.js), using memoization, component refactors, web workers, and virtualization to cut render time ~60% and eliminate UI freezes, and standardized data-fetching patterns to reduce data-related bugs ~30%.”

Keerthi Kalluri

Screened

Senior Full-Stack & GenAI Engineer specializing in healthcare and financial services

6y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support assistant using a RAG backend in Python, focused on deflecting repetitive Tier-1 tickets and reducing resolution time. Demonstrates strong production engineering instincts around reliability (confidence scoring + human fallback), scalability/cost optimization (multi-stage pipelines), and workflow orchestration/observability (LangChain, custom DAGs, structured logging, step metrics).”

“Backend engineer with healthcare and financial services experience (Humana, PNC) who owned production-grade, high-volume ingestion-to-API pipelines end-to-end in C#/.NET and SQL. Strong focus on data quality, handling out-of-order/partial upstream records, and improving reliability/observability via structured logging and telemetry, plus significant SQL performance tuning to reduce peak-load issues.”

Keith Filzen

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in government/defense cybersecurity and cross-domain solutions

Caldwell, WV36y exp

“Former Cubic CTO with direct M&A experience on the company's sale to Veritas Capital, and prior investment analysis experience at In-Q-Tel. Brings a rare blend of executive technology leadership, compliance/security depth, and investment diligence expertise focused on government and military markets.”

“Healthcare-focused data analyst with hands-on experience at Molina Healthcare building SQL and Python workflows for retention and churn analytics. They combined enrollment, CRM, and claims data into Power BI reporting, automated predictive churn analysis, and tied their work to measurable outcomes including faster processing, better reporting accuracy, and reduced churn.”

“Enterprise NetSuite Financials professional with hands-on ownership of GL configuration, month-end close, reporting, and production support in a multi-subsidiary environment at Bank of America. Particularly strong in stabilizing finance operations under deadline pressure, improving close efficiency, and building audit-ready reporting and controls across NetSuite and integrated systems.”

“Software engineer with 4 years of experience spanning scalable backend systems, full-stack product development, and production LLM integrations in finance, insurance, and e-commerce contexts. They describe shipping an AI-powered internal financial analysis tool, improving document-review workflows by 40%, and driving a zero-to-one B2B SaaS subscription launch with cross-functional GTM alignment.”

“Backend engineer in healthcare data systems who has owned production pipelines end-to-end, from ingesting patient and claims data to serving it through secure APIs. Brings a strong mix of Python, SQL, microservices, cloud deployment, and data reliability practices, with measurable performance gains and experience building resilient integrations with external data sources.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered customer support assistant (“Notable Assistant”) focused on automating common post-customer queries while maintaining multi-turn context and meeting scalability/latency needs. Experienced with production orchestration and operations using Kubernetes and Apache Airflow (DAG-based ETL, scheduling, monitoring/alerts), and has partnered closely with customer service stakeholders to align chatbot behavior with brand voice through iterative testing.”

“Applied NLP/ML engineer with experience at KeyBank and Novartis building production document intelligence and entity-resolution systems in finance and healthcare. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines (Airflow + AWS) using transformers (DistilBERT/Sentence-BERT), vector search (FAISS/Milvus/Pinecone), and human-in-the-loop labeling to achieve measurable gains (40%+ faster queries; up to 88% F1 and 93% precision/90% recall in entity linking).”

Brett Futral

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in healthcare enterprise platforms

Portland, OR20y exp

“Engineer with experience building foundational systems in healthcare and other production environments, including an early-stage Electronic Auths initiative inside Cambia where they helped define requirements and delivered the Intake API on time and under budget. Their background spans serverless Python on AWS, full-stack Drupal/PHP work for confidential genetic testing delivery, and Cassandra-backed API design for Choice Hotels.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building reliable Python FastAPI services on Kubernetes and delivering AWS EKS + Terraform CI/CD with strong secrets isolation and rollback practices. Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution handling and data-quality controls, modernized legacy analytics into modular Python services with parallel-run parity validation, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (minutes to seconds) plus ownership of batch pipeline incidents end-to-end.”