Vetted Software Engineers in the NYC Metro

Kwadwo Poku

Screened

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

Yonkers, NY3y exp

“Software engineer who built and launched an end-to-end Ad Scheduler that automated campaign creation across Google Ads and Meta using Azure Functions/Service Bus, PostgreSQL, and a React frontend—reducing manual marketing ops work. Also shipped a production internal RAG chatbot leveraging a data warehouse + Cube semantic layer, Gemini embeddings, vector search, and Claude, with Langfuse tracing and brand-based access controls; work was cut short due to layoffs.”

Apoorv Bankey

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech

New York City, NY6y exp

“Engineer who uses AI and multi-agent workflows as a force multiplier while keeping architecture, security, scalability, and production quality under human control. Shared a concrete example of accelerating a backend-heavy SaaS email ingestion platform with authentication, role-based APIs, database models, and deployment setup using agent-style development and review.”

“Engineer with Deloitte experience building real-time analytics products and scalable Kafka/Go/Postgres pipelines, plus production LLM features using RAG and embeddings. Demonstrates strong focus on performance, reliability, and guardrails/evaluation loops to reduce hallucinations and improve real-world AI system quality.”

Yukta Chikate

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in safety-critical and uncertainty-aware ML systems

Brooklyn, NY5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered assistant for company documents and support questions, focused on reducing time spent searching PDFs/policies/tickets while preventing hallucinations by grounding answers in approved sources. Demonstrates strong production engineering (Kubernetes/orchestration, caching, monitoring, fallbacks) plus security-minded permissioning and close collaboration with operations/support stakeholders.”

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.”

“Data engineer with Webster Bank experience owning end-to-end pipelines (APIs + databases) processing millions of records/day, improving data quality (25–30% fewer issues) and reliability (~99.9% successful runs). Built resilient external data ingestion/scraping systems (schema-change validation, idempotent backfills, monitoring/alerts) and shipped a FastAPI service exposing curated datasets with versioning and consistently low latency.”

“Worked on a long-running, high-dependency production rollout in financial post-trade systems, delivering trade-booking functionality on post-trade feeds used by multiple downstream teams. Emphasizes cross-team/external-team coordination and extensive testing to avoid disruptions, with additional experience improving application reliability via VPN-based resiliency measures.”

“Built a production multimodal LLM-based vendor risk assessment platform that ingests SOC reports and other documents, uses a strict RAG pipeline with grounded evidence (page/paragraph citations), and dramatically reduces analyst review time. Experienced with LangGraph/LangChain/AutoGen for stateful, fault-tolerant agent workflows, and emphasizes reliability (schema validation, guardrails) plus low-latency delivery (~1–2s) through hybrid retrieval, reranking, caching, and model tiering.”

“Accenture consultant who shipped an LLM-based production solution during a client cloud migration to parse application code and identify only the database objects actually used, cutting migration time by 30% and accelerating realization of cloud cost benefits. Emphasizes production robustness with timeouts/retries/fallback routing, validation, observability, and a disciplined eval/monitoring loop that turns failures into regression tests.”

“Backend/DevOps-leaning engineer with trading/financial systems experience (AIG), focused on reliability: built Python automated test suites to ~95% coverage and integrated them into CI/CD. Has hands-on Kubernetes microservices deployment with GitOps (ArgoCD), plus experience supporting cloud-to-on-prem migrations and building real-time streaming pipelines resilient to spikes and data loss.”

“Founding engineer at Novum AI building a real-time call analytics/suggestion backend (transcription + sentiment/tone + context retrieval) using a serverless architecture. Drove major latency improvements (about 4s down to sub-1.5s) and has practical experience hardening production APIs (FastAPI/Pydantic, auth with Cognito/Redis) and payment systems (Stripe) by surfacing overlooked subscription and multi-tenant billing edge cases.”

Ganesh Pittala

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native platforms

New York, USA5y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience at Walmart, Qualtrics, and American Express, shipping secure partner-facing API platforms and internal monitoring dashboards. Strong in AWS production operations (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Postgres, CloudWatch) plus rigorous testing/security practices, with measurable delivery and performance improvements (35% faster releases; ~30–40% latency reductions).”