Vetted Software Developers in the NYC Metro

Dylan Zhu

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and generative AI

Hoboken, NJ7y exp

“Built and deployed an LLM/RAG system that uses differential privacy and distributional similarity checks to transform private data into a non-sensitive knowledge base while preserving utility. Also has experience demonstrating adversarial ML concepts (FGSM) to non-technical audiences by focusing on observable model behavior rather than implementation details.”

Saumay Killa

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI SaaS and FinTech

New York, NY3y exp

“Built a career platform feature end-to-end that generates tailored resumes and cover letters using a React/TypeScript frontend, Postgres, and AWS Lambda/SQS backend. Strong in event-driven, serverless architecture and pragmatic product iteration, with a quantified 60% improvement in onboarding completion after redesigning the UX with resume parsing and a multi-step flow.”

Sharath Kasula

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React, TypeScript, and real-time web applications

New York, NY7y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer at T-Mobile who owned a real-time operational dashboard end-to-end, from Figma collaboration through React/TypeScript implementation to backend/API and SQL performance coordination. Stands out for diagnosing cross-layer production issues, improving onboarding with measurable drop-off reduction, and turning repeated product needs into reusable primitives adopted across multiple teams.”

“Backend engineer who designed and evolved an AWS-based event-processing system in Python/PostgreSQL, achieving a 60% p95 latency reduction while improving reliability during traffic spikes. Led a zero-downtime migration from a monolithic Django app to FastAPI microservices using feature flags, strong testing, and cross-team coordination, with production-grade observability (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch) and security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

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.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup experience who owned an end-to-end rebuild of a production analytics page at VideoNest (Next.js/TypeScript frontend, FastAPI/Python backend, Postgres), including third-party data ingestion/sync and query/index optimization; the feature reached 2,500+ users and received positive feedback from large clients. Also built a habit/community mobile app (Celeri) with near-real-time step updates using polling and UI optimizations like pagination and selective re-rendering.”

“Entry-level software engineer who independently built an AI-powered feedback aggregation and analytics dashboard end-to-end using Cloudflare Workers, D1, and React. Stands out for combining serverless backend design, LLM-based categorization, and thoughtful UI/UX polish, with a practical approach to production debugging and data reliability.”

Krishna Madani

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in cloud-native web applications

New York City, NY4y exp

“Capgemini engineer with hands-on ownership of production TypeScript backend integrations and loyalty-platform modernization. Built AWS event-driven microservices (SNS/SQS/Lambda) with GraphQL vendor calls and DynamoDB persistence, emphasizing reliability patterns like retries and idempotency; reports ~25% response-time improvement after migrating/optimizing services and workflows.”

Michael Forster

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Data Engineer specializing in ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration platforms

New York, NY15y exp

“Data engineer/software engineer who led an end-to-end ETL/ELT pipeline at Pearson processing millions of rows of student data nightly, including client-side data prep/validation, SFTP/API ingestion, staging-based SQL validation/transforms, and production loading. Built reliability features like configurable per-client validation thresholds, detailed reporting, concurrency throttling via a custom queue, and multi-source merge/backfill logic to keep nightly loads running even when sources fail.”

“Built and shipped an AI-powered driver ranking/assignment system at AffirmoAI using LLM intent classification + RAG over pgvector/Postgres, served via FastAPI with a React UI that explains scores. Drove measurable improvements through optimization and iteration (latency down to <800ms, adoption 60%→90%+) and implemented rigorous eval loops with dispatcher ground truth plus cold-start handling for new drivers.”

“Backend engineer who has shipped both high-throughput real-time systems and production LLM/RAG features. Built a database-free, local-first messaging service (Node/Express/Socket.IO) achieving ~1,500 msgs/sec at <25ms p95, and implemented a Go-based RAG recommendation pipeline with strict JSON/schema validation, catalog grounding, fallbacks, and eval loops that cut hallucinations to ~1–2% while reducing LLM costs ~60%.”

“Backend/platform engineer with production experience building a Python SDK over a microservices ecosystem, emphasizing reliability (JWT auth, retries/timeouts, custom exceptions) and integration testing. Has delivered AWS EKS microservices with Jenkins+Helm CI/CD, strong secrets/config separation using AWS Secrets Manager, and set up Datadog APM/deployment/change monitoring. Also modernized legacy VB applications to C#/.NET WPF via incremental migration with parity testing and stakeholder sign-off.”