Vetted Software Engineers in Illinois

“Former CTO at Enodo who led development of programmatic parsers to extract unstructured data from real-estate financial documents (rent rolls and T12s), validating with users via prototypes before productionizing. Emphasizes accuracy-driven engineering and scalable test-suite growth based on real user samples, and has experience scoping complex product ideas (e.g., browser-based narrative editor) down to an MVP.”

Lenny Lin

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud, distributed systems, and LLM apps

Champaign, IL3y exp

“Built and owned a hackathon project (Gritto) with a Python/FastAPI backend that routes user text through a sequence of Gemini agents to produce structured JSON outputs. Has hands-on production deployment experience using Docker/Docker Compose, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS App Runner, MongoDB, and secrets management (Doppler + migration to AWS Secrets Manager), plus implemented a chat-like experience via multiple HTTP requests when SSE wasn’t viable.”

“Built and deployed an AI-driven expense categorization workflow integrating OpenAI API and PGVector to automate general ledger coding. Stands out for combining LLM/embedding architecture with finance operations context, stakeholder-facing deployment ownership, and measurable impact of roughly 30%+ reduction in manual coding effort.”

“Entry-level software engineer who has shipped end-to-end product features in a chat application, including a frontend table component plus backend support, then refactored the implementation after client feedback by switching UI libraries. Has production experience combining traditional NLP with an LLM fallback based on confidence thresholds for intent/entity extraction, and is building infrastructure around legacy enterprise APIs (MCP tools) including asynchronous job queues for long-running tasks.”