Vetted Software Engineers in Illinois

Yuan-Hao Chen

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud infrastructure

Urbana, IL1y exp

“Backend-focused intern who owned real-time livestream features: live comment moderation using AWS Comprehend (sentiment/toxicity/PII) with safe fallbacks, plus AI-generated positive commentary via AWS Bedrock (Claude 3 Haiku). Emphasizes reliability/low-latency design, IAM troubleshooting, and disciplined GitOps-style CI workflows for reproducible deployments.”

Evan Z

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in video streaming and processing systems

Champaign, IL1y exp

“Software engineering intern at China Telecom who built and continuously evolved a real-time transaction platform ("Smart Tangerine") focused on strong consistency and peak-hour concurrency. Implemented microservices with Redis and RabbitMQ to decouple heavy processing and cut latency (~80ms to ~30ms), and led a zero-downtime migration from a monolith using strangler pattern, dual-write, and traffic shadowing.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher with hands-on real2sim experience for deformable manipulation: led real-world data collection and diffusion policy deployment on an Aloha robot, then built a MuJoCo + Gaussian-splat digital twin with point-cloud alignment. Also brings 3 years of production software engineering experience, including Docker/CI/CD and a zero-downtime Blue-Green upgrade of a core API router, plus ROS/ROS2 work spanning autonomous vehicles and UR20 pick-and-place with MoveIt2.”

“Researcher from the University of South Dakota who built a production medical RAG system to help interpret model predictions by retrieving relevant clinical notes and medical literature, overcoming retrieval accuracy and imaging-dataset challenges through semantic chunking and metadata-driven indexing. Also has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and Azure Data Factory, plus a pragmatic approach to LLM evaluation and stakeholder-driven iteration.”

Yun-Ting Chiou

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in TypeScript, React, and Java microservices

Chicago, IL2y exp

“Software engineer with finance-domain experience who built an internal transaction management system end-to-end at Prospect Equities (TypeScript/React Native + Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS), delivering 40% lower query latency and 73% operational efficiency gains. Has also designed Terraform-provisioned, SQS-based distributed systems and scaled workloads to 10,000+ concurrent users, including monolith-to-SOA modernization that cut internal review time by 47%.”

“Built and owned Alight's AI-powered Search Summary feature end-to-end, using a RAG pipeline with OpenSearch and Bedrock, and drove a 20% increase in user feedback scores. Stands out for bringing rigorous production evaluation to LLM systems via live LLM-as-a-judge monitoring, and for experience with advanced agentic architectures, hybrid search, and reranking at scale.”

“Founding Principal Engineer/Head of Engineering at Amberflo (Seed $5M Homebrew; Series A Norwest) who built and shipped an AI Gateway + real-time LLM cost metering/pricing MVP end-to-end (control plane/data plane, AWS infra, CI/CD). Known for extremely fast MVP cycles (often 1–2 weeks), scaling teams (50–60 hires), and driving major pivots (usage-based billing to FinOps) by repurposing an existing metering/pricing platform; based in Chicago and has led a Silicon Valley startup remotely with frequent Bay Area travel.”

Yash Rangucha

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and real-time streaming

Illinois, USA4y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end LLM-powered enterprise retrieval pipeline at ServiceNow, spanning ingestion of structured/semi-structured sources through vector retrieval and real-time API serving. Focused heavily on reliability and quality (multi-stage validation, monitoring, evaluation pipelines) while also driving performance improvements (~35% faster responses) via caching, async processing, and SQL/query optimization.”