Vetted Software Development Engineers in the NYC Metro

“Built and productionized an LLM-driven document verification workflow for a construction firm’s submittals process, moving from a Vercel/Next.js prototype to a FastAPI + LangChain/LangGraph backend with background workers and multi-server deployment. Uses LLM tools (e.g., OpenAI Codex/Cloud Code) for rapid development and log-driven root cause analysis, and partners with customer teams on evaluation metrics and iterative improvements.”

“Enterprise-minded builder who has owned complex, high-impact systems from discovery through stabilization, including a customer master data platform at AB InBev serving 2,000 sales reps across 13 countries. Also demonstrates strong AI product instincts, having built a first-place ReAct-style NYC property intelligence agent at IBM's AI Demystified Hackathon, while showing deep rigor in data quality, integrations, and production reliability.”

“Backend/API engineer with ~4 years experience building production services in .NET Core/PostgreSQL/Redis/Docker and optimizing real-world latency issues (claims ~60% response-time improvement). Also built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI assistant using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and Pinecone, plus agentic workflows with reliability guardrails (retries, confidence thresholds, monitoring). Currently pursuing a master’s degree and targeting a $150k base salary.”

Vedang Jadhav

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices on AWS

New York City, NY5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience across healthcare and fintech platforms (Anthem, Citia) building high-throughput Python microservices with strong compliance/security focus (HIPAA, tenant isolation). Has integrated ML workflows into production systems (ResNet embedding-based image similarity) using async pipelines (Celery/Redis) and AWS (Lambda/S3/ECS), delivering measurable performance and fraud/content-integrity improvements at scale.”

Tara Worrell

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI/LLM integration, and cloud infrastructure

Brooklyn, NY6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience in highly regulated and high-stakes systems, including an airline crew messaging platform requiring near-zero-error real-time operations and a HIPAA-compliant mental health application built from an early-stage concept. They also show strong operational maturity, having owned a GoDaddy production incident through resolution and then led deployment pipeline improvements that reduced build failures by 40% and doubled deployment frequency.”

“JavaScript/Node.js engineer who contributes to open-source utilities focused on API integrations and JSON validation, including a 30–35% throughput improvement by profiling and optimizing deep-clone-heavy code paths. Strong in performance tooling (Node performance hooks, Chrome DevTools flame graphs), incremental/test-driven changes, and community-facing issue triage plus developer-friendly documentation.”

Sumanth Gottipati

Screened

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

New York, NY4y exp

“At Delta Airlines, built and shipped a production LLM-powered semantic search/troubleshooting assistant over maintenance logs and operational documentation using OpenAI embeddings and a vector database. Implemented hybrid ranking, query enrichment, and structured filters to improve relevance ~35% while optimizing latency via caching and vector tuning. Also designed a scalable Kafka + AWS (Lambda/SQS) ingestion pipeline with strong reliability/observability and an eval loop using real engineer queries and human review.”

“Full-stack engineer currently building an employee management system end-to-end with React, Node/Express, and PostgreSQL, including JWT auth and RBAC. Previously worked at TCS on large-scale State Bank of India web applications, applying Redis caching, server-side pagination/filtering, and async job offloading to improve performance and reliability.”

“Built DocMind, an end-to-end PDF chat assistant using React/TypeScript, FastAPI, and Postgres/pgvector, showing full-stack ownership plus practical performance tuning and AWS debugging skills. At Social Tech Labs, improved onboarding, shipped lean under ambiguity, and created a reusable low-latency feature serving layer that reduced duplicated infrastructure work across models.”