Vetted API Gateway Professionals

Stephen Koo

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in LLM infrastructure and AI inference platforms

New York, NY8y exp

“Google Workspace AI engineer who owned major AI assistant infrastructure end-to-end: React/TypeScript UI, a Node.js context-aggregation gateway on Cloud Run, and a Go inference layer on GKE serving Gemini. Built and productionized Gmail RAG + agentic workflows with rigorous evals and guardrails, and has a strong track record of measurable impact (latency, engagement, acceptance-rate lifts) and zero-incident migrations using feature flags/strangler patterns across multiple ML teams.”

“Backend/data engineer with experience on large-scale consumer platforms (Google and Meta), building high-traffic Python microservices (REST/gRPC) on Kubernetes with strong reliability/observability practices. Delivered AWS container-based deployments with CI/CD and IaC, and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines on S3 with schema evolution and data quality controls; also has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (15% latency reduction) and incident ownership for batch pipelines.”

Kaiqi Zhang

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native SaaS and AI applications

Bellevue, WA13y exp

“ML/LLM engineer with hands-on experience shipping production RAG systems at Google Clinical Search and GenAI recommendation/summarization features in Meta Ads. Stands out for combining research-to-production execution with rigorous grounding, evaluation, safety checks, and reusable Python platform components that improved both reliability and team velocity.”

“Chief AI Strategy at startup Zenera with 30 years in technology strategy/design, experienced in building business plans across startups and large enterprises (projects, new products, and M&A). Deeply familiar with enterprise AI go-to-market challenges (slow procurement/pilot cycles) and preparing for VC expectations (e.g., targeting a16z) by emphasizing unique tech and paying customers.”

“Built a zero-to-one, LLM-powered compliance automation platform for AWS Marketplace that reduced reliance on manual review for large-scale product publishing workflows. Stands out for combining full-stack engineering, internal platform integrations, and production AI evaluation in a highly regulated, operationally complex environment.”

“Senior engineering leader with deep hands-on architecture experience across fintech and enterprise software. At DriveWealth, he led a major backend replatform for a brokerage platform handling 10M+ trades per day, combining event-driven design, Kinesis/Kafka, and regulatory-grade accuracy; at TIBCO, he built a Kubernetes-based API management product from near scratch into a successful revenue-generating offering.”

Somya Upadhyay

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and large-scale data pipelines

Bellevue, USA9y exp

“Backend engineer on Amazon’s Geospatial Data team (Amazon Maps) who built a real-time road-layer service ingesting third-party and internal signals to deliver road closures/traffic overlays to delivery drivers on a ~3-minute cadence while minimizing mobile data egress. Demonstrates strong production reliability skills (rate limiting, idempotency, cache stampede prevention) and security depth (IAM, RBAC, tenant row-level security), plus careful handling of edge cases like manual override protection against automated feed overwrites.”

Muneendra M

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in event-driven backend and AI-enabled systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at Stripe who owned a webhook monitoring and retry platform end-to-end, spanning backend services, React dashboards, and production operations. Stands out for combining strong distributed-systems judgment with product polish, including a reported 31% improvement in webhook delivery reliability and UI improvements that reduced support burden.”