Vetted Software Engineers in the NYC Metro

Sandipkumar Prajapati

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems and authentication

New York City, NY4y exp

“Full-stack engineer who led production modernization of a legacy, latency-sensitive application into a React + microservices platform, with heavy TypeScript backend work to improve reliability and maintainability. Has operated and scaled authentication/identity services in production, addressing peak-traffic latency spikes via database tuning and improved observability, and emphasizes idempotent, retry-safe workflow design.”

“Full-stack AI engineer who has owned production deployments for both a voice journaling/emotional insights app and a RAG-based research assistant. Stands out for turning messy, failure-prone LLM and document pipelines into reliable user-facing systems through strong debugging, staged workflow design, and post-launch stabilization.”

“Backend engineer who has shipped both high-throughput real-time systems and production LLM/RAG features. Built a database-free, local-first messaging service (Node/Express/Socket.IO) achieving ~1,500 msgs/sec at <25ms p95, and implemented a Go-based RAG recommendation pipeline with strict JSON/schema validation, catalog grounding, fallbacks, and eval loops that cut hallucinations to ~1–2% while reducing LLM costs ~60%.”

Dinesh Guguloth

Screened

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

New York, NY4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with cloud and GenAI experience who has owned production features end-to-end, including a reporting dashboard optimized from 14s to 5s using query/API refactoring and monitored via AWS CloudWatch. Also productionized an OpenAI-powered chatbot using LangChain with prompt design, guardrails, and evaluation via production logs and user feedback, and has led incremental legacy-to-microservices modernization with parallel run to avoid regressions.”

makarand pundlik

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and Node.js microservices

New York, NY2y exp

“Software intern at BestWork who owned an AI-powered sales performance chatbot end-to-end: React/Material UI frontend, TypeScript AWS Lambda backend, and AWS Bedrock (Llama 3) + OpenSearch knowledge base over Salesforce/HubSpot data with Slack-based weekly summaries. Worked directly with the CTO in a high-ambiguity environment, including building an audio bot from scratch just in time for a client demo, and implemented metadata-based retrieval to handle multi-team knowledge base constraints.”

George Stathopoulos

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web development and applied systems work

New York City, NY0y exp

“Full-stack developer with hands-on experience building an end-to-end automated trading platform that combines web scraping, relational data storage, Flask/React architecture, and LLM-based decisioning via Google Vertex AI. Also brings production experience at CALEC, where they contributed frontend improvements including welcome-page redesigns, multilingual support, and accessibility-related fixes.”

“Backend/platform engineer with production experience building a Python SDK over a microservices ecosystem, emphasizing reliability (JWT auth, retries/timeouts, custom exceptions) and integration testing. Has delivered AWS EKS microservices with Jenkins+Helm CI/CD, strong secrets/config separation using AWS Secrets Manager, and set up Datadog APM/deployment/change monitoring. Also modernized legacy VB applications to C#/.NET WPF via incremental migration with parity testing and stakeholder sign-off.”

Filmon Tesfay

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and AI platforms

New York, NY8y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership: built and operated a real-time transaction monitoring/fraud-alerting system using Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, and AWS with CI/CD. Demonstrates metrics-driven operations (latency, stability, consumer lag, true/false positives) and reliability patterns for integrations (idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQs, reconciliation/backfills), plus modern React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres architecture experience.”

Sanjana Akula

Screened

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

New York, NY5y exp

“Front-end engineer with experience at Optum and Wells Fargo maintaining internal React/Angular component libraries and design-system-aligned UI modules used across multiple apps. Known for stabilizing shared libraries via semantic versioning, Jest test automation, and high-quality documentation, plus measurable performance wins (≈40% faster dashboard loads) through profiling-driven React and API optimizations.”

“Early-career full-stack builder who created an AI interview-prep platform used by 200+ students, tested it with a 25-student study group, and earned recognition through the CUNY Startup accelerator, including prize money and local college adoption. Has also shipped compliance-sensitive AI products in healthcare marketing and operational tools like invoice approval systems, showing unusual breadth across AI, UX, and backend systems.”

“Backend-focused engineer who owned an end-to-end Python/Flask service at Viasat powering a 1000+ user internal React app, including API design, Postgres performance tuning (~50% faster), Dockerization, and CI/CD. Demonstrated strong problem-solving by building custom EDN parsing logic and has built near real-time AWS SQS/Lambda pipelines with DLQs and autoscaling patterns; currently ramping on Kubernetes/GitOps (ArgoCD).”

“Full-stack developer with strong cloud/on-prem focus (AWS, VPC networking) who has improved production reliability by bringing manually created IAM/security group resources under Terraform and standardizing environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting across app + infrastructure + networking (traffic capture revealed proxy response truncation) and delivered Python-based monitoring/reporting enhancements that improved ops visibility and turnaround.”

“Backend/infrastructure-focused engineer building AI-agent products for small businesses, including a customer-service agent platform with intent routing, RAG over Pinecone, and external booking API integration. Has shipped Python/FastAPI services with JWT auth, versioned APIs, Docker deployments to AWS EC2 via GitHub Actions, and production monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana.”