Vetted Software Engineers

“Early-career builder with hands-on project experience spanning Python data processing, a Chrome extension for autofilling job applications, and a sign-language glove system integrating sensors, microcontrollers, and a web interface. Stands out for approaching student and project work with a production-minded focus on validation, modularity, edge cases, and reliability.”

“Built Laborate.app, a full-stack lab notebook and inventory product for scientists, largely solo using Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Postgres, Prisma, and AWS S3. Stands out for combining product ownership with practical concerns like encrypted data storage, autosave reliability, caching, tenant isolation, and scalability planning.”

“Built a production Python microservice around Grafana Loki focused on reliability, with checkpointing, idempotency, replay tooling, tracing, and alerting to prevent data loss and silent lag. Also has hands-on experience hardening brittle Playwright automations against dynamic UIs, auth expiry, rate limits, MFA, and bot-detection constraints, plus turning tribal-knowledge SOPs into explicit state-machine-driven workflows.”

“Built and owned Alight's AI-powered Search Summary feature end-to-end, using a RAG pipeline with OpenSearch and Bedrock, and drove a 20% increase in user feedback scores. Stands out for bringing rigorous production evaluation to LLM systems via live LLM-as-a-judge monitoring, and for experience with advanced agentic architectures, hybrid search, and reranking at scale.”

Murali Marupudi

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Entry-level Computer Science graduate specializing in software and engineering

Jersey City, NJ

“Backend engineer focused on high-throughput Python/Flask systems on AWS, with strong scaling and performance tuning experience (e.g., PostgreSQL join reduced from ~3s to <200ms; background aggregation cut from 10 minutes to <90 seconds with 8x throughput). Has also integrated ML model serving into production APIs (churn prediction) using Celery/Redis batching and AWS Lambda/S3, and designed secure multi-tenant architectures with PostgreSQL schema isolation and row-level security.”

“Backend/product-minded engineer from Ramp with strong travel-tech experience, having built an end-to-end booking platform integrating multiple external providers, policy enforcement, and reporting infrastructure. They also shipped an LLM-powered personalization workflow using embeddings and Google Gemini that cut trip planning time by 22%, and demonstrated strong production reliability instincts through circuit breakers, health checks, and schema-driven normalization.”

Benjamin Feldman

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Director-level application development leader specializing in FinTech and digital transformation

Boston, MA16y exp

“Hands-on engineering leader in a private-company/startup-like environment who builds full-stack financial systems and leads small teams. Notably replaced a failed third-party banking platform with an in-house Azure-based product integrating major bank APIs, driving $200K-$300K in annual savings and major workflow automation and performance gains.”

“Founding Principal Engineer/Head of Engineering at Amberflo (Seed $5M Homebrew; Series A Norwest) who built and shipped an AI Gateway + real-time LLM cost metering/pricing MVP end-to-end (control plane/data plane, AWS infra, CI/CD). Known for extremely fast MVP cycles (often 1–2 weeks), scaling teams (50–60 hires), and driving major pivots (usage-based billing to FinOps) by repurposing an existing metering/pricing platform; based in Chicago and has led a Silicon Valley startup remotely with frequent Bay Area travel.”

“Platform-focused engineer/technical program leader working in silicon/wafer validation environments, with hands-on experience securing access to sensitive test results and engineering tooling. Has implemented RBAC/least-privilege controls with Azure Entra ID, Key Vault, PAM and integrated Checkmarx into dev workflows, while also deploying ML services on AKS using Bicep/Helm/Docker and Azure DevOps CI/CD with strong monitoring and incident response practices.”

“Robotics software engineer with UC Irvine capstone experience building an autonomous rover end-to-end: ROS 2 navigation (slam_toolbox + Nav2) on Jetson Xavier, depth point-cloud integration for obstacle avoidance, and an on-device speech-to-action interface that converts natural language into Nav2 goals. Also has prior full-time experience integrating a safety assurance decision engine into distributed autonomous drones over secured mesh networks, emphasizing reliable communication under real-world network constraints.”

“Firmware architect/lead engineer for automotive LiDAR sensors, designing RTOS-based, layered firmware and solving high-throughput real-time constraints using DMA and lock-free buffering. Built ROS nodes to bridge embedded sensor output to higher-level perception (point clouds, diagnostics, configuration) while isolating real-time logic in firmware. Established an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline with GTest unit tests plus SIL/HIL automation and Dockerized build/test environments.”

“Senior frontend engineer with experience leading high-impact React/TypeScript products at HelloFresh and CAA, including an A/B-tested onboarding flow shipped across multiple international brands. Modernized a legacy .NET frontend to Next.js using SSR and performance techniques (caching/memoization/lazy loading) and implemented robust testing/monitoring (Cypress, Honeycomb, GA) in fast-paced, production-deploy environments.”

“Software engineer with Capital One experience contributing to shared internal “open-source style” JavaScript/React/TypeScript libraries (component library and hooks/utilities). Drove measurable performance gains (~25% improvement) by refactoring hooks to prevent unnecessary re-renders, and improved adoption via stronger documentation, testing (Jest), semver discipline, and code review/PR workflows; also stabilized a backend service by adding monitoring and automated tests in an unstructured project.”

“Computer-vision-focused candidate with internship experience at ASML (Silicon Valley) building object detection models (YOLO, RT-DETR) for SEM defect inspection. Worked end-to-end on preparing multi-resolution datasets and tuning/training strategies, noting improved performance on low-quality images when training jointly on higher-resolution data.”

“Development manager focused on developer productivity and platform enablement in a polyglot microservices environment. Drove ~50% productivity gains by evaluating and rolling out AI coding copilots with team training and cross-team demos, and designed a Disaster Recovery framework adopted by 50+ microservice teams. Also led edge-focused Python runtime optimization and relies on heavy test automation to safely execute large refactors during major platform upgrades.”

“ML/NLP engineer with experience at Flatiron Health building a production NLP platform that processed millions of clinical notes, using BERT/BiLSTM-CRF and spaCy to extract and normalize entities from noisy EMR text with oncologist-in-the-loop validation. Also built scalable retail ML workflows (Spark + Kubernetes + feature store caching) and applied vector databases plus contrastive-learning fine-tuning to improve retrieval relevance and recommendations.”

“Backend/automation engineer who led the design of an OOP Python test automation framework for AWS infrastructure (Behave + Jenkins), cutting regression effort from weeks to a 3–4 hour run. Has hands-on cloud and DevOps experience across AWS (boto3, ECS, AMI automation via GitHub Actions) plus data/migration work including on-prem-to-cloud Oracle Retail DB migration with rollback planning and a Kafka + ML fraud-detection streaming pipeline.”

“Technology executive (VP/SVP Engineering, CTO/co-founder) with ~17 years of roadmap execution and the last 7 in senior exec roles. Notably led an AI-first strategic pivot when generative AI emerged—creating the AI product strategy, reskilling teams, and shipping initial AI features—while also scaling engineering orgs using SPACE metrics and driving major architecture decisions (custom reporting with React + Redshift) to close competitive gaps.”

“Engineering manager leading a 15-person team at FBN on the Gridbull platform, shipping a self-serve pricing/quoting tool for structured commodity products using real-time futures market data. Owns architecture and reliability for third-party data integrations (WebSocket + REST fallback), including resolving a day-one production incident caused by undocumented vendor connection resets. Introduced lightweight Technical Implementation Plans to improve cross-functional alignment and delivery speed in a high-growth environment.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup experience who owned end-to-end features on Impact’s Hiring Solutions platform, including a hiring inbox spanning React UI and Postgres data models; the product helped drive 500+ jobs filled shortly after launch. Comfortable designing modern React/TypeScript + Node architectures (GraphQL, testing, migrations) and operating on AWS (RDS, EC2/Fargate, S3, Datadog, CircleCI). Also founded their own startup (Bibbr) and made early-stage stack/infrastructure decisions under high ambiguity.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech/trading domain experience (Fidelity) and startup SaaS CRM/billing platform work (Zoho), building real-time portfolio analytics and trade-processing systems. Strong in microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka/WebSockets), and AWS/Kubernetes operations with measurable performance gains (~34–35% latency reduction) and maintainability improvements (~40% faster deployments). Targeting a founding full-stack engineer role in NYC with meaningful equity.”

“Built and operated a production TypeScript backend for a stateful conversational quoting chatbot at Tringapps, orchestrating multi-step workflows and session state while integrating with Salesforce and NetSuite. Implemented validation/retry logic, modular architecture, and strong logging/observability to handle real-world edge cases and external API failures.”

“Built GoEngineer’s first production AI systems, including an end-to-end RAG pipeline for SolidWorks technical support using Azure Blob Storage, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI, plus an AI summarization feature adopted by sales/customer success. Strong in productionizing LLM workflows with evaluation harnesses (golden sets, LLM-as-judge, red teaming, shadow deploys) and Azure infrastructure integrations (Redis, Service Bus, App Insights), and has also implemented a custom MCP server for agentic monitoring.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered customer support triage/resolution agent that automated ~60% of tickets, cutting response times from hours to seconds and improving first-response resolution by ~40%. Experienced designing multi-tenant, tenant-isolated agent architectures with RAG, schema-based tool calling/strict JSON validation, and strong reliability practices (guardrails, retries, fallbacks, monitoring), including safe integration with messy ERP-like data.”