Vetted Software Engineers

“Backend-focused engineer who owned an AI mentoring workflow platform built in Django with LangGraph multi-agent orchestration, optimizing it to stay under 200ms latency while scaling past 1,200 active users using profiling, caching, load testing, and OpenTelemetry-style tracing. Also has hands-on experience containerizing and deploying Python/ML services to AWS ECS via GitHub Actions/GitOps, and building reliable real-time pipelines with webhooks and Redis queues (idempotency, backpressure, DLQ).”

“Full-stack AI engineer who built Skillmatch AI, an LLM/RAG-based job matching platform using FastAPI microservices, Airflow-orchestrated async pipelines, and Pinecone vector search (sub-second retrieval across 50k+ vectors) deployed on GCP with autoscaling. Also partnered directly with a cancer researcher to automate SEER + PubMed-driven report generation via an AI pipeline, emphasizing rapid prototyping and outcome-focused communication.”

“Built a production AI pipeline at EyCrowd to automatically grade shaky outdoor user-submitted brand videos using CV + CLIP/BLIP and a LangChain RAG layer per brand, with GPT-4 generating structured JSON explanations and grades. Optimized for latency and cost (batch PyTorch inference, caching), cutting review time from ~8 minutes to <2 minutes while reaching ~90% alignment with human graders and supporting thousands of videos/day.”

“LLM/RAG-focused engineer who repeatedly takes agentic workflows from impressive demos to dependable production using rigorous evals, SLOs, and deep observability. Has led high-impact incident mitigation (22-minute MTTR during a major sale) and developer enablement workshops, and partnered with sales to close a $410k ARR enterprise deal with a tailored RAG pilot (FastAPI/pgvector/Okta/InfoSec-ready).”

“ML/NLP engineer with banking domain experience who built a GenAI-powered fraud detection and risk intelligence system at Origin Bank, combining RAG (LangChain + FAISS), fine-tuned BERT NER, and GPT-4/Sentence-BERT embeddings. Delivered measurable impact (25% higher fraud detection accuracy, 40% less manual review) and emphasizes production-grade pipelines on AWS SageMaker/Airflow with strong data validation and scalable PySpark processing.”

“Backend-focused engineer with Python experience building network design/exploration tooling integrated into an existing infrastructure framework via APIs, including use of graph algorithms for routing/target discovery. Has also supported .NET to .NET Core and database migrations by strengthening test infrastructure, and improved messaging-system stability (RabbitMQ) through performance monitoring and memory leak troubleshooting.”

“Backend engineer who built an Emergency Alert System with Virginia Tech for the City of Alexandria, focusing on real-time ingestion, secure dashboards, and AI-assisted prioritization. Emphasizes high-stakes reliability with guardrails (hybrid rules+LLM, confidence-based fallbacks), scalable async processing, and defense-in-depth security (JWT/RBAC plus database row-level security).”

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped a real-time social engagement feature (live messaging + personalized feeds) for a career networking platform, owning everything from WebSockets/SSE and JWT+Redis auth through Docker/Kubernetes production deployment. Also built a production Flask backend for an AI-driven movie recommendation system on AWS, with strong API design (versioning/error standards) and hands-on performance tuning (Typesense +47% query improvement, Postgres indexing, Redis caching, CloudWatch-driven incident response).”

“Cloud/platform engineer with hands-on delivery across Azure and AWS, including standing up a CIS-compliant Azure environment and integrating Azure OpenAI Foundry to automate finance invoicing. Has scaled platform capabilities across large org footprints (dynamic CI/CD pipelines for ~94 teams across 200+ repos) and replaced a $1M/year vulnerability patching vendor by building an internal AWS-based patching and monitoring solution for ~1000 servers.”

“Hands-on builder and workshop facilitator focused on getting LLM/agentic and dev-tools products from prototype to production. Has delivered iterative production deployments for a construction client (estimating/invoicing on EC2), debugs LLM regressions with monitoring plus prompt optimization, and has facilitated multiple developer workshops while helping founders improve onboarding and time-to-first-success using tools like PostHog.”

“QA automation-focused candidate with hands-on ownership of unit and integration test suites, including CI/CD integration in GitLab. Caught a database-query regression that would have shipped incomplete API data by relying on automated integration tests, and has practical Cypress experience stabilizing flaky tests using cy.intercept()/cy.wait() and stable selectors.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including an AI request-routing service (FastAPI + BART MNLI + OpenAI/Gemini) that improved accuracy ~25% after launch via eval-driven prompt/category iteration. Also built an enterprise document intelligence/RAG platform on Azure (Blob/SharePoint/Teams ingestion, OCR/NLP chunking, embeddings in Azure Cognitive Search) with PII guardrails (Presidio), confidence gating, and scalable event-driven pipelines handling millions of documents.”

“Backend-focused TypeScript/Node.js engineer who owned a production microservice for transactional workflows in a React + microservices platform, integrating REST and Kafka event processing. Emphasizes operability and correctness (idempotency keys, exponential backoff retries, DLQs, centralized logging/metrics/alerts) plus strong API DX via versioning and Swagger/OpenAPI with improved error contracts based on developer feedback.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/AI platform experience (Humana), owning an end-to-end high-risk patient prediction feature from React dashboards through FastAPI/TensorFlow real-time inference to AWS EKS operations. Emphasizes production reliability and contract-driven APIs (OpenAPI + generated TS types), plus strong data integration patterns (Kafka, idempotency, DLQs, backfills) in regulated, high-traffic environments.”

“Entrepreneurial product builder who has shipped two live App Store apps (Pixo content-based product marketing platform and Clutch AI dating reply helper). Also helped build a real-estate seller platform end-to-end, using AI matching to find buyers and contributing to onboarding nearly paying users and generating active MRR.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup (AirKitchenz) who owned the hourly booking/availability and first paid booking flow end-to-end—React/TypeScript frontend, Node backend, Postgres modeling, and Stripe payments/webhooks. Experienced operating production on AWS (EC2/Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, RDS, CloudWatch) and building reliable, idempotent integrations while iterating quickly in a pre-PMF environment through direct host/renter feedback.”

“Robotics simulation/localization engineer who built a lunar crater navigation stack in ROS/ROS2 and Gazebo, including custom localization/perception/planning packages. Demonstrated strong debugging skills by using tf2 frame analysis to fix camera-to-base_link alignment, cutting heading error from 75° to 0.48°, and handled large NASA lunar imagery (~4GB) by converting/downsampling data for Gazebo.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in financial payroll, tax, and compensation platforms, building Python microservices and AWS-based data pipelines for high-volume, peak-driven workloads. Strong reliability focus (OAuth2 auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, incident response) and proven performance wins, including cutting complex report queries from ~8 minutes to under 30 seconds.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a serverless AWS platform for large-scale live screening events with real-time chat/feedback and streaming (API Gateway/Lambda/DynamoDB/WebSockets/IVS, IaC via Pulumi). Led production refactors and phased migrations using feature flags and dual-write strategies, and has hands-on experience implementing JWT auth, RBAC, and database-enforced row-level security for multi-tenant systems.”

“Early-career backend engineer and solo builder of FrameFindr, an AI/OCR-based marathon photo tagging product used at live events. Demonstrated pragmatic scaling under tight infrastructure constraints (2GB VPS) and hands-on ownership of architecture, API design, auth (Google OAuth/JWT), and a MongoDB-to-MySQL migration with data-integrity safeguards.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

“New-grad backend engineer who built a real-time genome analysis pipeline, replacing a slow batch system with an event-driven distributed architecture in Python/Redis and a React progress dashboard. Reports ~6x improvement and cutting analysis time from days to hours with zero data loss under peak load, emphasizing reliability patterns like retries and idempotency plus API security (JWT/RBAC/HTTPS).”