Vetted Software Engineers

Srinandh Reddy

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and event-driven systems

Aurora, Illinois5y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on backend and distributed systems for real-time robot operations, including sensor ingestion, robot state management, and robot-to-cloud communication. Hands-on with ROS/ROS2 integration and real-time navigation debugging, plus production-grade monitoring, CI/CD, and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes) to improve stability and performance.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on fintech payments and fraud systems, owning real-time Kafka-based reconciliation pipelines end-to-end (~13k tx/day). Built audit-friendly validation/reconciliation (SQL + Python), kept lag to seconds, and cut errors ~20%, while also shipping Spring Boot APIs with Redis caching and strong idempotency/versioning. Has early-stage startup experience standing up payment services on AWS with Docker + GitHub Actions and production monitoring/incident handling.”

Kush Shah

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps and automation

Remote, USA3y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building an AI-powered document processing pipeline for insurance workflows from design through deployment and production support. They combine LLM-based extraction with rule-based validation, retries, and observability, showing a pragmatic approach to making AI systems reliable in high-stakes environments.”

“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.”

“Built production AI agents that convert natural-language requests into structured workflows using LangChain, tool calling, and a Kafka/Kubernetes backend, with strong emphasis on tracing, validation, and self-correcting failure handling. Also drove a zero-to-one Research Day judging platform spanning React, Flask, RAG, and ILP-based assignment optimization for ~100 live posters, achieving 99% uptime and winning Best Web App.”

“Engineer at Syniti who uses AI tools pragmatically to speed development while maintaining quality through rigorous validation, code reviews, and CI/CD. Most notably, they leveraged AI-assisted testing to increase test coverage from 10% to 70%, and they are actively exploring more advanced agent-based development workflows.”

Sakshi Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in e-commerce and supply chain platforms

Remote, USA3y exp

“AI-focused developer who has built several practical AI products, including EchoMate, a voice-agent system designed to act as a proxy for doctors and support patients when physicians are unavailable. Also has experience with multi-agent/API-based workflows in a solar suitability project, showing interest in applying AI across both healthcare and climate-related use cases.”

“Data engineering/software development candidate who built a stock market pipeline and uses that project to demonstrate strong architectural thinking across Kafka, Spark, and Airflow. They stand out for a pragmatic approach to AI: using tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, LangChain, and AutoGen to accelerate development while maintaining human oversight, testing, and system-level decision making.”

“Candidate has hands-on experience using AI-assisted development in a pragmatic, controlled way, including shipping a more user-friendly student feedback form by redesigning text-heavy inputs into checkboxes and dropdowns. They stand out for disciplined review habits: line-by-line validation of AI-generated code, strong edge-case testing, and thoughtful use of structured prompts and staged workflows instead of over-relying on autonomous agent frameworks.”

“Entrepreneur/fintech product builder who raised a $100K pre-seed from ex-Google/Microsoft execs and built a real-time, direct-to-vendor bill pay micropayments platform. Previously helped scale Norton LifeLock to 1M users (2003) and also created Karma LA, a fraud-resistant, verified donation system (including VA veteran verification) aimed at improving trust and conversion in giving.”

“LLM/agentic-systems practitioner who has repeatedly taken LLM-driven pricing/decision services from prototype to production using pilots, guardrails, observability, and staged rollouts. Demonstrates strong real-time incident troubleshooting (dependency timeouts, cached fallbacks) and post-incident hardening (isolation/async/alerts), and also supports go-to-market via developer workshops, technical demos, and sales-aligned POCs.”

“Co-op engineer at EnFi who built and maintained a multi-tenant prompt library and LLM workflow tooling used by internal teams and external enterprise clients. Led TypeScript/React package design and standardized a typed workflow abstraction across disparate implementations (React, Go, JSON), improving reliability and developer adoption. Delivered measurable performance gains (~25% latency reduction) and owned end-to-end execution including docs, demos, debugging, and deployment.”

“JavaScript engineer and open-source contributor focused on runtime performance, reliability, and developer experience—refactored a widely used client-side API/state library to improve concurrent request handling, error consistency, and UI performance while adding tests and documentation. Also owned improvements to a core microservice at Velsa integrating multiple hospital systems, bringing structure to ambiguous priorities and delivering stability and performance gains from design through deployment.”

“Backend engineer who has built end-to-end data and platform systems across domains: a Scala/Java media data warehouse with a custom query language and Elasticsearch search, plus production security patterns (RBAC, RLS, audit trails) including a telehealth platform. Also demonstrated strong operational rigor by using feature-flagged side-by-side migrations and by catching ecommerce checkout edge cases that were dropping revenue.”

“Unity game developer who built a context-sensitive movement and camera system for a grid-based dungeon crawler and used DOTween for key gameplay animations. Worked at Chimera Entertainment on Songs of Silence, contributing via bug fixes, working within an existing Photon Fusion protocol, and implementing a UI-heavy in-game lexicon; also leverages AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to accelerate editor/tooling and gameplay scripting.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience owning a production e-commerce platform end-to-end (TypeScript/Node/Express, React, MongoDB, Redis) including RBAC and contract-based API development. Also worked at Infosys on a large healthcare management system built with Spring Boot microservices, using Kafka for messaging/retries, circuit breakers for resilience, and OpenTelemetry/Swagger for observability and API documentation.”

“Full-stack engineer who built "Workstream AI," an AI-powered engineering visibility product that converts GitHub activity into real-time insights using an event-driven microservices stack (RabbitMQ/Postgres/Express) and GPT-4 with a React frontend. Previously a Founding SWE at a health & wellness startup, building data-driven user management tooling, and also delivered a real-time shuttle tracking/ride request system using Java Spring Boot/Hibernate + React; comfortable owning production deployment details (AWS EC2, DNS, SSL).”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned a FastAPI + Kafka microservice in Verizon’s billing pipeline, handling high-volume usage ingestion/validation/enrichment with strong observability and CI/CD on AWS EKS. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (latency down to ~120–150ms; Kafka throughput +30–40%; DB CPU -25%) and led an on-prem ETL-to-AWS migration using Terraform, parallel validation, and phased cutover with zero downtime.”

“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%.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an end-to-end low-code/no-code IDE for creating AI/ML workflows for industrial IoT sensors using Next.js/TypeScript and NestJS microservices. Focused on scaling high-volume sensor dashboards—improved UX and performance via WebSockets, debouncing, pagination, and API payload reduction—validated with profiling tools and user feedback in a startup environment.”

“Backend/platform engineer with Optum experience owning a production FHIR Member Access API aligned to CMS interoperability requirements. Built and scaled Spring Boot/HAPI FHIR microservices on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes) with zero-downtime CI/CD, and operated them with strong observability (Dynatrace, logs/metrics, alerting) and incident response. Also implemented a Kafka-based FHIR bulk data pipeline with schema versioning, idempotent processing, and reliable backfills/replays.”

“Built and shipped AI-powered workflow automation at Oracle, including an MCP-based agentic workflow with tool-calling and guardrails, plus Grafana monitoring and Confluence documentation. Also led a Django monolith-to-microservices migration at Chamsmobile using blue-green deployment and load balancer traffic splitting to avoid regressions while modernizing production systems.”

Aakanksha Desai

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React, Kubernetes, and AI-powered apps

Scottsdale, Arizona2y exp

“Backend/DevOps-leaning engineer managing multiple customer service platforms end-to-end (requirements through deployment). Built an in-house Python monitoring/alerting solution for Salesforce-to-Java contact sync jobs (Snowflake dependencies) that increased uptime ~60%, and helped modernize delivery by moving the team from manual releases to automated Jenkins-based deployments while coordinating an Oracle EBS→Fusion transition with business/data/IT stakeholders.”