Vetted Software Development Engineers

“Software engineer with experience spanning an SEL internship and Walmart, combining backend/data pipeline work (Python, Kafka, relational DBs) with DevOps practices (Docker, Grafana, GitHub/Jenkins CI/CD, GitOps). Notably contributed to a REST-to-GraphQL migration aimed at reducing cloud utilization and implemented testing strategies to validate the transition.”

“Customer-support/engineering background spanning Informatica PowerCenter ETL and IBM demos/workshops, with hands-on experience hardening data workflows for production (error tables/reject links, validation, restart strategies, alerting, performance tuning). Also demonstrates a clear, systems-level approach to diagnosing LLM/agentic workflow issues (prompt/RAG/tooling/memory) using instrumentation and iterative fixes, and has partnered with sales on POCs by defining success metrics and mapping solutions to customer architectures.”

“Backend engineer who led major modernization efforts at GoDaddy, migrating legacy Perl services to Python/FastAPI with an incremental rollout strategy, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions). Strong focus on secure, reliable API design (JWT, RBAC, PostgreSQL row-level security), rigorous testing, and data integrity—plus experience hardening an automated web-scraping pipeline against changing site structures and downtime.”

“Backend engineer on Morgan Stanley’s trade risk and compliance platform, building Java/Spring Boot microservices that validate equity and fixed-income trades at multi-million-events/day scale. Shipped an LLM-assisted trade exception analysis feature using RAG over internal policy documents and trade history, with production-grade guardrails (confidence thresholds, audit logs, human-in-the-loop) and measurable performance wins (~30–35% faster reporting) through PostgreSQL tuning and Redis caching.”

“Built Nexthire-AI, shipping an end-to-end LLM-powered resume–job description matching product (React + Node.js) using embeddings and retrieval to generate match scores and skill-gap recommendations. Improved post-launch engagement by making feedback cleaner and more actionable, and added production guardrails (validation, timeouts, fallbacks) to handle messy resume formats and AI API instability.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech trading-platform experience who shipped and operated a real-time portfolio P&L/performance feature end-to-end (React + Node/WebSockets + MongoDB) on AWS, including significant performance tuning under peak trading load. Also built a Spark-based trading analytics pipeline with idempotency and reconciliation for auditability, and has a personal React/TS + Node/Express project (Artsy) with JWT auth and schema-evolution practices.”

“JavaScript/TypeScript engineer with proven open-source impact: delivered a major reliability upgrade to a retry/error-handling library (standardized typed errors, added exponential backoff, expanded Jest tests, and implemented GitHub Actions CI) that was merged and released. Demonstrates strong performance engineering and debugging skills (profiling-driven optimization; diagnosed a race condition causing inconsistent retries) plus a documentation-first approach to developer experience.”

“Worked at AMD on Vivado tool releases, focusing on adding and integrating new IP/SoC functionality into the Vivado flow and validating expected behavior through testing. Comfortable engaging with customers and open to travel for hands-on customer-facing work.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer (Amazon; also Bank of America) pivoting into robotics software. Built and owned an end-to-end cross-region event processing service for Aurora Global Databases, emphasizing correctness under latency/clock skew, fault tolerance, and strong observability; brings deep Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD experience to robotics infrastructure and reliability work while ramping up on ROS 2.”

“Full-stack Java engineer (4+ years) who led end-to-end modernization of high-latency order management systems into cloud-native reactive microservices (Spring WebFlux) and built real-time React/Redux dashboards, reporting 99.98% uptime and 22% infra cost savings. Also headed a production RAG-based Order Support Bot at Dell Technologies with embeddings + MongoDB semantic search, automated validation and human fallback, plus CI/CD-driven LLM eval loops to reduce hallucinations.”

“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”

“Built and owned a production-scale AI-driven software release/version intelligence platform orchestrated via GitHub Actions that tracks 1000+ upstream repositories and automatically generates SLA-bound JIRA upgrade tickets for hardened container images. Replaced brittle regex/PEP440 parsing with an LLM-based semantic filtering layer plus deterministic validation to handle noisy/inconsistent GitHub tags at scale, with monitoring for coverage, latency, and correctness validated against upstream ground truth.”

“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.”