Vetted Software Engineers

Niranjaan Munuswamy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud and data engineering

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Cigna evolving REST API services backed by PostgreSQL, emphasizing reliability/correctness, scalability, and observability. Has hands-on production experience with FastAPI (contract-first design, Pydantic schemas), performance tuning (indexes, caching), and secure auth patterns (OAuth/JWT, RBAC, row-level security via Supabase), plus low-risk incremental rollouts using feature flags and dual writes.”

“Built production AI systems for Macy's and Bloomingdale's, including an embeddings-based pipeline to clean trending search queries and an end-to-end 'Ask Macy's' multi-agent chat experience. Brings hands-on experience with real-world agent orchestration, tool integration, quality evaluation, and business-facing safeguards in a large-scale e-commerce environment.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across Cigna, Cognizant, and a university environment, focused on reliability, distributed systems, and regulated-domain workflows. Stands out for combining Kubernetes/Kafka/AWS infrastructure expertise with a production RAG-based healthcare compliance assistant that cut manual reporting work from 30-45 minutes to under 2 minutes while maintaining strong uptime and data-quality controls.”

Aniket Dhanawade

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native and AI-powered applications

USA3y exp

“Candidate has a thoughtful, hands-on approach to AI-assisted software development, treating AI as a pair programmer while retaining ownership of architecture, tradeoffs, and final code quality. They have practical experience using multi-agent workflows to ship small features end-to-end, including planning, execution, and gap detection under human oversight.”

“Software engineer who recently shipped an authentication and role-based access feature for a web app, using AI selectively for boilerplate, debugging, and test suggestions while retaining ownership of architecture, security, testing, and final review. Stands out for a disciplined, security-first approach to AI-assisted development and a pragmatic preference for lightweight API-driven solutions over unnecessary framework complexity.”

“Backend engineer who shipped a Spring Boot transactions/points feature while using AI selectively for boilerplate and test ideas, keeping core system design decisions in human hands. Stands out for rigorous validation of AI output against database behavior, concurrency, idempotency, and failure scenarios, and has also built a lightweight planner -> code gen -> validator agent-style pipeline with step-level logging and retries.”

“Paystand engineer/intern who built a multi-agent LLM orchestration system (with logging/feedback loops) that became part of the team workflow and reportedly cut development time ~70%. Partnered with sales/product on enterprise demos and implemented a dynamic RBAC system that helped drive adoption of an intern-built product to multiple enterprise clients, contributing to seven-figure ARR. Also founded and pitched a student-entrepreneur business management/payments project (HustleHub) and won a university startup competition.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer at a B2B startup who ships high-stakes customer-facing features fast: delivered a Spanish AI support agent in 2 weeks by benchmarking LLMs and using native Spanish system prompts, reaching 90% resolution. Built the company’s first monetization system (hybrid subscription + usage) with Stripe/Firebase, emphasizing secure JWT-based flows and idempotent webhooks, and led a microservices decoupling effort that cut developer onboarding time by 50%.”

“Backend engineer from Optum who built and optimized a real-time, Kafka-driven healthcare claims processing platform handling 1M+ claims/month. Strong in reliability, state management, and observability for distributed systems, plus production deployment automation with Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD; no direct ROS/robotics simulator experience yet but frames work in robotics-adjacent real-time principles.”

“Software engineer/product owner experience at UnitedHealth Group owning a high-volume claims eligibility console end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Spring Boot microservices) processing 1M+ transactions/day. Strong in event-driven architecture (Kafka/RabbitMQ), HIPAA-aligned security (OAuth/JWT/RBAC), and building internal observability tools that improve incident triage and production reliability.”

“Full-stack engineer with financial services experience (Lincoln Financial) who owned a customer-facing financial portal end-to-end using TypeScript/React and Node/Express. Has hands-on microservices and RabbitMQ event-driven workflows, addressing scale issues like retries/duplicates with idempotency and traceable logging, and built an internal real-time ops/support dashboard to improve monitoring and incident response.”

“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.”

“Backend/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of high-stakes data migrations in regulated domains (core banking and insurance), including a Python ETL framework that migrated 100,000+ customer records within a cutover window. Strong DevOps/GitOps background deploying Python and Spring Boot microservices to Kubernetes with Helm and ArgoCD, plus real-time Kafka transaction streaming for fraud/analytics with reliability patterns (DLQs, retries, partition tuning).”

“Built a production internal LLM/RAG assistant at CVS Health to cut time spent searching long policy and clinical guideline PDFs, combining fine-tuned BERT/GPT models with FAISS retrieval and a FastAPI service on AWS. Demonstrates strong real-world reliability work (document cleanup, hallucination controls, monitoring/drift tracking with MLflow) and close collaboration with non-technical clinical operations teams via demos and feedback-driven iteration.”

“NLP/ML practitioner who built an explainable, clinician-aligned system to detect cognitive decline (Alzheimer’s/stroke-related) from audio responses, achieving 97% accuracy on only a few hundred data points. Also has experience with healthcare claims entity resolution and prototyped a word2vec-based patent search vector database in Elasticsearch, with strong emphasis on testing, interpretability, and scalable Python data workflows.”

“Backend-focused engineer who has built and refactored FastAPI services backed by MongoDB, emphasizing async concurrency, stateless design for horizontal scaling, and performance tuning via indexing and request-level timing. Has implemented production authentication patterns (JWT, SSO, OAuth2 + PKCE) and user/org-scoped access controls, and improved reliability of LLM document-extraction APIs with fallback mechanisms.”

“AppSec-focused engineer from Kaiser Permanente who advises on authentication/API security, performs lightweight threat modeling, and integrates SAST + dependency scanning into CI/CD while actively reducing false positives to improve release speed. Demonstrated strong troubleshooting using logs/traces/metrics (e.g., diagnosing auth failures caused by clock skew) and communicates security tradeoffs differently for engineering vs product stakeholders.”

“QA/automation engineer with hands-on experience spanning web UI automation (Cypress/JavaScript) and hardware/firmware validation (BIOS/BMC, FPGA). Has delivered high-impact reliability and throughput improvements in server/HPC environments, including automation that enabled booting across ~250 servers and requirement clarification that unblocked firmware work for ~550 servers.”

“QA/project leader with ~19 years experience running high-profile, multi-million-dollar software initiatives and driving quality through disciplined milestone gates (Alpha/Beta/FC/GM), regression planning, and weekly bug scrubs. JIRA-centric practitioner (Zephyr/Confluence) who partners closely with engineering, automation, documentation, marketing, and sustaining teams—including offshore collaboration—to unblock testers and improve diagnostics for difficult issues like memory leaks.”

“Software engineer with experience at Freddie Mac shipping a production workflow tracking and daily summary dashboard that replaced spreadsheet/email-based operational processes. Worked across frontend (React/JavaScript), backend (Java), Oracle relational data, and CI/CD, with emphasis on stakeholder collaboration and post-deploy testing/monitoring/performance tuning.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on production IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC) and PowerHA/HACMP clustering experience, including DLPAR changes, failover testing, and incident recovery. Also delivers modern cloud DevOps work—GitHub Actions CI/CD for Docker-to-Kubernetes on AWS and Terraform-based provisioning of core AWS infrastructure (VPC/EKS/RDS/IAM) with controlled rollouts and drift checks.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered support/knowledge pipeline using embeddings and retrieval (RAG) to deliver more grounded, higher-quality responses while reducing manual effort. Focused on real-world reliability and performance—adding structured validation/guardrails, optimizing vector search and context size for latency/scale, and monitoring failure patterns in production. Experienced with orchestration via LangChain for LLM workflows and Airflow for production data/ML pipelines, and iterates closely with operations stakeholders through demos and feedback.”

“Game/tools-focused QA professional with experience at Playable Worlds, Disney, and Metaplace, emphasizing CI-driven quality (Jenkins PR gating, unit tests, Slack/JIRA visibility) in live production environments. Has hands-on defect isolation experience using developer tools to diagnose hard-to-repro player issues and improve turnaround by providing reliable repro steps and clear QA workflows.”

“Full-stack engineer with ~3.5 years of Java Spring Boot and React experience who built an end-to-end banking transaction platform using microservices, Kafka streaming, AWS RDS, and Dockerized CI/CD. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability engineering (async processing, DLQ/retries, idempotency, caching) plus secure cloud deployment practices; has also worked across banking, healthcare, and insurance domains.”