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Vetted Software Engineers
Pre-screened and vetted.
Manaswini Gogineni
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and full-stack web development
“Backend engineer at Electric Hydrogen who built a serverless device-log ingestion and processing platform in Python/Flask, scaling throughput (4x peak ingestion) while keeping sub-300ms API latency. Strong in Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance (partitioning, materialized views) and production ML integration (ONNX model served via FastAPI microservice with async batch inference, Redis feature caching, and drift monitoring via S3/Lambda). Experienced designing secure multi-tenant systems with schema-per-tenant isolation and KMS-backed encryption.”
Qianfan Luo
Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI/ML pipelines
“Robotics-focused engineer with ROS 2 experience who has built and debugged real-time, distributed control/orchestration systems under production-like latency and safety constraints. Led platform changes at Persona for a real-time verification orchestration system using deterministic state machines and async workers, and has hands-on experience stabilizing multi-robot navigation/SLAM behavior using rosbag, RViz, and stress testing in simulation (Gazebo).”
Jolie Qiu
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in AWS data infrastructure and pipeline automation
“AWS-focused software engineer who built a self-serve ETL pipeline scheduling service for non-engineers, including automated CloudFormation-based onboarding that cut setup time from 2–3 weeks to ~5 minutes. Strong in production reliability and customer-facing data platforms (EMR/DynamoDB/Lambda), with examples spanning pagination at scale, cross-table consistency, and phased rollouts to improve Parquet log SLAs.”
Bhavani Shekhawat
Engineering Manager specializing in AI/ML platforms and 0→1 product delivery
“Player-coach engineer/lead on a high-scale research integrity platform ("Lighthouse") that flags fraud/manipulation signals across ~3M academic manuscripts per year. Owns architecture decisions (ADRs), implements across Go/Java/React services, and introduced NLP (SciBERT embeddings + human-in-the-loop) to assess out-of-context citations while also handling production incidents with a data-consistency-first approach.”
Yanis Liaskos
Executive Technology Leader (CTO/CPO) specializing in AI, robotics, and warehouse automation
“VP/CTO-level leader who builds globally distributed engineering organizations and operating systems (SAFe, governance, real-time metrics) to align product, engineering, and executives. Drove a security modernization initiative in a robotics context using Achilles and Polaris, remediating vulnerabilities and upgrading libraries to achieve a cyber certification that was ahead of industry norms.”
Nishitha Thummala
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and scalable inference
“Backend/retrieval-focused engineer with production experience at Perplexity building a large-scale real-time Q&A system using retrieval-augmented generation, emphasizing low-latency, high-quality answers through ranking, context optimization, and caching. Also has orchestration experience from both product-facing LLM pipelines and large-scale infrastructure workflows at Meta, and has partnered with non-technical stakeholders to align AI trade-offs with business goals.”
Kowshika M
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM fine-tuning, inference optimization, and AI safety
“AI/LLM engineer with production experience at NVIDIA, where they fine-tuned and deployed a financial-services chatbot and cut latency ~50% using TensorRT + NVIDIA Triton, scaling via Docker/Kubernetes. Also has consulting experience at Accenture delivering a predictive maintenance solution for a logistics network, bridging non-technical stakeholders with actionable dashboards.”
Mitul Sheth
Senior Engineering Manager specializing in cloud security and graph-based data platforms
“Engineering leader at Sysdig Secure who pitched and prototyped a model data platform that initially got rejected, then proved value by migrating the CIEM offering and expanding adoption across multiple verticals. Now owns the CIEM suite plus the broader Sysdig Secure data and reporting platforms, manages 14 direct reports, and also leads a pilot AI team while remaining hands-on weekly.”
Sahil Sinha
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development, cloud, and data infrastructure
“Software engineer at Fannie Mae (~3 years) working on high-volume loan data pipelines using AWS (SQS/S3), Java listeners, Postgres, and Python/SQL-based data quality validation. Also built a chess data collection system (leveraging experience as an International Master) with robust retry/monitoring, schema-change handling, and idempotent backfills to prevent bad data from reaching downstream systems.”
Geetika Jain
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Azure AI and full-stack development
“Hands-on AI/LLM engineer who built a RAG-based product feature end-to-end, including prompt engineering, safety guardrails, and an automated adversarial + load-testing harness. Diagnosed real production issues (null responses) via Azure logs/metrics and drove an architectural fix by separating model deployments to address token/quota limits. Also runs internal developer enablement through short theory-to-hands-on AI workshops after completing a Microsoft AI certification.”
Joseph Fusco
Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered developer tooling and backend platforms
“Backend/product engineer from Postman Flows who has owned complex platform features end-to-end, including production versioning and an LLM-powered flow-building orchestration layer. Stands out for combining product-minded backend design, agentic AI workflow implementation, and strong production reliability work, including re-architecting a failing event pipeline from in-memory to managed queues.”
Dilpreet Singh
Executive CTO and Founder specializing in AI platforms and hyper-scale SaaS
“CTO-minded builder seeking to join a startup; previously created an AI-driven platform that abstracted away DevOps and infrastructure for drug discovery researchers. Emphasizes high-leverage, zero-to-one execution with managed cloud/open-source tooling, and a strong reliability/reproducibility mindset validated against existing scientific pipelines.”
Nikhil Reddy
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GPU inference and LLM platforms
“Built and deployed an LLM-powered platform that turns models into scalable REST/gRPC APIs, focusing on keeping GPU-backed inference fast and stable during traffic spikes. Experienced with AWS orchestration (EKS/ECS/Step Functions), safe model rollouts, and production-grade monitoring/testing for reliable AI agents and workflows.”
Shaji Nair
Principal Cloud & Digital Transformation Architect specializing in Financial Services and Data Platforms
“Technology-first venture builder with strong familiarity in the VC/accelerator landscape, specializing in greenfield innovation, M&A, and large-scale transformation/modernization. Described building a venture-funded retail banking greenfield startup to integrate lending-as-a-service for SME lending while meeting federal and local financial services compliance requirements.”
Brayden Tremper
Senior Software Engineer specializing in game UI systems and gameplay features
“Unity/C# game engineer with hands-on ownership of live-service systems, including a real-time multi-channel chat feature for Squid Game: Unleashed that launched alongside Squid Game Season 2 on Netflix and increased player retention and engagement. Brings a strong blend of mobile performance optimization, server-authoritative architecture, multiplayer systems, and practical experimentation with LLM-assisted narrative tooling.”
Mustafa Shabib
Executive technology leader and software engineer specializing in healthcare technology
“Entrepreneurial operator with venture-backed startup experience since 2015, including serving as CTO-in-Residence at a healthcare venture studio in NYC and participating in a NYC incubator. Currently exploring new company ideas through active network-driven discovery and is strongly motivated by ambiguous, high-impact, team-building opportunities.”
UDAY JARAJAPU
Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-native products and large-scale platforms
“Experienced cross-functional operator with background in AI, edtech, consumer mobile, cloud, and real estate search, including roles at Apple, AWS, and Trulia. Currently building Typerighter, an AI-native writing workspace focused on compliance, authenticity, and human-verifiable content, with a nuanced understanding of institutional requirements and startup/accelerator dynamics.”
Christian Alcala
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in LLM-powered analytics
“Engineer with a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI development, emphasizing verification, observability, and system design over hype. Built LLM-driven features and automated regression/validation pipelines, including quality measurement work at Oracle, and uses hands-on projects to test how AI fits into real business workflows.”
Graham Lutz
Director of Engineering specializing in platform, AI, and cloud-native SaaS
Pranav Hariharane
Mid-Level Backend Engineer specializing in REST APIs and AWS
“Backend engineer who built a new REST eligibility service at Barclays that unified siloed account logic (card/loan/deposit) and integrated with web/mobile, ultimately serving millions of users daily. Also built an end-to-end LLM-based pharmaceutical care-plan generation tool in a rapid Columbia startup competition, emphasizing configurable design, strict validation, persistence, and robust error handling.”
Sai Gundeti
Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and billing platforms
“Full-stack engineer with Uber experience building finance/billing reconciliation systems: shipped and owned an internal operations dashboard (Next.js App Router/TypeScript) that cut investigation time from hours to minutes and improved load time from ~6–7s to <2s. Deep in Postgres modeling and performance (sub-200ms optimized queries) plus durable event-driven workflow orchestration with idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQs, and reconciliation jobs; also has seed-to-Series C startup experience emphasizing end-to-end ownership.”
Anna Huang
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend distributed systems and cloud platforms
“Software engineer at Intel who owns a production Go/Kubernetes backend for supply-chain transparency and end-to-end hardware integrity verification in a hybrid cloud setup (AWS control plane + Azure data plane). Also built and shipped an AI agent workflow for real-estate due diligence that turns raw Excel spreadsheets into structured investment outputs and auto-generated PowerPoint insights using LangGraph, with strong emphasis on verification, observability, and reliability guardrails.”
Aniket Singhal
Senior Software Engineer specializing in AWS-based distributed systems and FinTech platforms
“Backend engineer with Amazon experience building large-scale, automated financial/accounting and pricing systems on AWS. Designed a fault-tolerant Step Functions + DynamoDB workflow platform handling 100K+ messages/sec to compute fair values and generate journal entries in under 3 seconds, and led safe API refactors using shadow mismatch testing. Also uncovered a major legacy pricing bug (tax vs non-tax swap) that cut mismatch rates from 5–10% to ~0.5% and materially improved price acceptance/business outcomes.”
Michael Kaufman
Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in mobile and web platforms
“iOS-focused engineer who led feature development for Amazon Books/Kindle (e.g., Series & Story So Far recaps, Kindle Memories) and introduced pure Swift packages while building sync and content download systems. Also has full-stack experience (React/TypeScript + Node with REST/GraphQL) and strong AWS operations (CDK/CI-CD, CloudWatch, canaries, autoscaling), plus founder experience at GLXY.ai shipping an early hardware MVP (weight sensors) under tight constraints.”