Vetted Software Engineers

“Worked on industrial pump analytics at SitePro, where they built an anomaly detector using messy sensor and pump data and used historical failure and maintenance cost analysis to make the business case to stakeholders. They combine SQL/Python data preparation with practical stakeholder communication around metrics like churn and operational impact.”

“Frontend-focused software developer with experience building analytics software and web-based process control systems. Has worked with TypeScript, MVC architecture, Redux, and Redux Toolkit, including handling state management challenges in a real-time analytics application.”

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.”

“Built end-to-end internal and user-facing automation/data features, including a Selenium-based BU course scraper with around 1,800 users and a CSV export system that became the company standard at Triple. Shows initiative in ambiguous environments, working directly with business stakeholders and resolving production infrastructure issues involving AWS and Terraform.”

“Entrepreneur building an AI-driven outbound growth and automation startup, currently self-funding development through consulting while validating market demand. Stands out for combining technical workflow automation with practical go-to-market experimentation, including deliverability-focused outbound systems and webinar partnerships with local experts to drive trust and conversion.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience designing and leading multi-agent AI development workflows, including a LangGraph-based system that automated parts of a RAG pipeline and significantly reduced development time. Stands out for treating AI agents like an engineering team, with clear architecture, handoff schemas, validation, and supervisor-driven conflict resolution.”

“Software engineer with 2 years of professional full-stack experience plus a CS master's journey in the US, who has since focused heavily on building hackathon-winning AI systems. Stands out for combining production-minded backend architecture, TypeScript-heavy reliability work, and multi-agent LLM applications spanning physical security and insurance claims automation.”

“Backend/real-time systems engineer transitioning into robotics software: building ROS 2 fundamentals (pub/sub, custom messages, launch files) and experimenting with Nav2 + SLAM in Gazebo/RViz. Demonstrated practical debugging by tuning costmaps/planners and analyzing topic latency to stabilize simulated navigation, and has experience integrating telemetry pipelines and REST-based external interfaces.”

“Backend/microservices engineer (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, Angular microfrontends) with Teradata experience building distributed analytics/query routing platforms and delivering 20–30% latency reductions through event-driven redesign and reliability hardening. Also built and shipped an end-to-end multimodal medical imaging AI feature (LLaVA/Mistral 7B + LoRA) with production guardrails like confidence-based human review, drift monitoring, and audit logs.”

“Built a healthcare app backend and supporting product pieces from scratch for Maverick Health—covering database schema, API structure, Node.js implementation, and UI design in Figma—while targeting 10,000 patients and keeping AWS run costs to ~$20–$30/month. Shipped an Android closed beta on Google Play and handled real-world launch hurdles like privacy policy compliance and push notification infrastructure.”

“Backend/integration-focused engineer in the Maryland area with production experience building FastAPI REST services secured with OAuth2.1/JWT and reliability patterns (timeouts, selective retries, idempotency, centralized error handling). Has delivered AWS-integrated MuleSoft/CloudHub solutions and supported AWS Glue ETL workflows, plus demonstrated strong SQL tuning with a 30–40s to 3–5s performance improvement.”

“Software engineer/product owner who has led end-to-end delivery of AI and content-management platforms, including building RAG-based reliability improvements and migrating fragile systems to containerized AWS ECS/Kubernetes with Terraform-managed CI/CD. Experienced designing event-driven microservices (SQS/SNS/RabbitMQ), scaling queue consumers with autoscaling, and creating internal Python tooling to standardize data connectors (e.g., BigQuery/Airtable/internal APIs) to speed iteration.”

“Full-stack engineer and ML assistant in UC Irvine’s CS department who deployed a lab project showcase platform and integrated on-demand execution of computational projects using Docker for isolation. Also built and optimized Linux cloud/cluster test automation for research, diagnosing RAM and network sync bottlenecks, and later led development of a Python-based predictive analytics tool for musicians using probabilistic graphical models and flexible data pipelines.”

“Software engineer experienced in e-commerce systems, building customer-facing features and internal operations tools with TypeScript/React frontends and Spring Boot microservices. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (order-tracking API improved from ~2s to <700ms) and strong event-driven reliability practices with RabbitMQ (idempotency, DLQs, retry/backoff), including resolving a production queue backlog incident. Built an ops dashboard with real-time cross-service order tracing that became a daily tool for support/ops and reduced escalations to engineering.”

“Built and productionized an internal LLM-powered search tool that helps engineers find the right SolidWorks macros using plain-English queries, using OpenAI embeddings and ChromaDB with strong logging/fallback safeguards. Experienced in diagnosing RAG/agentic workflow issues in real time and in hands-on API support, including fixing customer macros after SolidWorks version updates and driving adoption through reusable solutions and best practices.”

“Backend engineer currently building an AWS Lambda/FastAPI inventory recommendation system using a LangChain + GPT-4 RAG pipeline and MongoDB vector search; drove major cost optimization via Redis caching (60% reduction) while sustaining 10k+ daily requests under 2s latency. Previously deployed Node.js microservices on AWS OpenShift with Jenkins/Helm at UnitedHealth Group and led a zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices migration at Verizon, including RabbitMQ-based real-time messaging with DLQs and idempotency.”

“Built and maintained a Node.js backend for a restaurant recommendation project that became widely reused by other students, effectively acting like an internal open-source library. Refactored a messy filtering system into modular query/validation/pagination utilities, added tests, and upgraded docs (JSDoc, README, demo app) to reduce repeat issues and make contributions easier. Comfortable owning end-to-end improvements (design, performance, documentation, and support) in unstructured environments.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent Mutual of Omaha experience building a cloud-native microservices application in Java/Spring Boot with a React/Angular frontend, integrating multiple AWS services (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS). Has hands-on experience operationalizing AI features via OpenAI/AWS Bedrock and improving reliability/performance through caching, async processing, and CI/CD pipeline optimization.”

“Software engineer who has built both internal developer productivity tooling (a backend API supporting repeatable UI test data/mocking for Dapper) and a personal Go-based LLM workout coach using Gemini and structured logs/config. Emphasizes maintainability and reliability via scalable UI component tagging (Telerik), audit logs, and reproducible Dockerized environments; targeting $160k base.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with logistics domain experience (DHL) who shipped a real-time shipment status update system using Spring Boot + Kafka and a performance-tuned PostgreSQL tracking schema. Also has AWS production operations experience (ECS/Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible) and has handled peak-load incidents end-to-end by tracing Kafka lag to database bottlenecks and resolving via query/index optimization plus scaling.”

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep insurance claims domain experience who built and operated a microservices + ETL platform (Java/Spring Boot + Python + Kafka/Databricks) processing 1M+ daily transactions. Combines production-grade reliability (99.7% uptime, zero-downtime blue/green releases, strong observability) with customer-facing UI delivery (AngularJS/React+TS dashboards and a hackathon-winning research chatbot).”

“Software engineer with Prudential Financial experience building enterprise Spring Boot microservices for policy/risk assessment, including integrating Python ML models via Flask and hardening services with resiliency patterns. Also led an AWS lift-and-shift modernization during an internship (EC2/ELB/Route53/Auto Scaling) and built a personal diffusion-model text-to-music project using BERT tokens mapped to Mel spectrograms.”

“Full-stack engineer from HPE GreenLake who built and owned a cloud/hypervisor resource management experience end-to-end, including Postgres modeling, typed REST/GraphQL integrations, and resilient provisioning workflows. Drove a centralized Redux-based UI architecture that boosted dev velocity by 50% across 30+ teams, and continued post-launch ownership with DR integrations (AWS/GCP/Azure) plus expanded Cypress testing and observability.”