Vetted Engineering Professionals in the DMV

Joe Zayd

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and cloud-native platforms

Woodbridge, VA8y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has operated in a very lean startup setting, helping a non-technical founder turn an AI-focused education product idea into a shipped MVP in roughly six weeks. Also brings B2B SaaS experience from a real estate rental platform with payment flows and Experian-based background and credit check integrations.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on AWS serverless and data platform experience: built a Lambda-based reCAPTCHA/token validation + SES subscription workflow and designed Glue ETL pipelines producing Parquet datasets for Athena. Also led a high-traffic multilingual media CMS modernization at Radio Free Asia by migrating to Arc XP using parallel runs, phased rollouts, feature flags, and rollback plans.”

Garv Goyal

Screened

Intern software engineer specializing in AI systems and full-stack development

Vienna, VA1y exp

“Full-stack/product-minded engineer with a strong infrastructure foundation who has built both cloud automation systems and an AI voice interview coach. Stands out for combining hands-on coding with pragmatic product thinking: they improved user trust through scorecard redesign, built resilient speech handling around flaky browser APIs, and delivered measurable backend performance gains during startup internships.”

“Python backend engineer (BetterWorld Technology) who owns microservice systems end-to-end on Azure, including Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, and production monitoring/alerting. Has hands-on experience integrating SQL/NoSQL (including Cosmos DB with vector search/graph workflow) and has built a Kafka + Spark Streaming pipeline to Snowflake with a reported 40% latency reduction.”

Isaiah Johnson

Screened

Senior DevSecOps/Cloud Engineer specializing in secure AWS delivery for federal environments

Alexandria, VA8y exp

“Cloud-focused DevSecOps/infra engineer with strong AWS production ownership (EC2/EKS/ECS) and hands-on CI/CD (Jenkins->ECR->Helm on Kubernetes). Demonstrated end-to-end outage recovery (ALB 503s caused by Helm env var misconfig) with rapid rollback plus pipeline guardrails, and deep Terraform experience (modular IaC, remote state with S3/DynamoDB, drift detection) supporting federal cloud modernization efforts.”

“Full-stack engineer who has built merchant marketing products end to end, including a unified campaign management system and an AI-assisted campaign generation pipeline using GPT-4-class models and LangGraph. Stands out for combining TypeScript-heavy product engineering with practical LLM architecture, evaluation, and guardrail design in production, plus experience operating in ambiguous early-stage environments.”

chandankumar ramamurthy

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM-powered products

Washington, D.C.3y exp

“Built multiple systems from scratch at DSSD and Aglint, including an NGO sustainability reporting dashboard and a production LLM-powered phone screening agent using Twilio/Retell AI with RAG grounded in PostgreSQL candidate/job data. Strong focus on real-world reliability: guardrails, monitoring, and lightweight eval/regression loops that reduced recruiter score overrides by ~30%. Currently on OPT through May 2026 (plans STEM OPT extension) and committed to relocating to NYC for in-person work; seeking $90k–$120k base with meaningful equity for founding engineer roles.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup SaaS experience building workflow automation and case management platforms for business operations teams. Strongest in Python, TypeScript/React, and PostgreSQL, with hands-on ownership from backend architecture and APIs to production deployment on AWS; notably helped reduce manual processing and improve customer turnaround times in a high-ambiguity scaling environment.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning enterprise financial services and biomedical AI systems. They’ve shipped React/TypeScript and Spring Boot products with measurable production impact, contributed to an AWS-deployed LLM/MCP service for governed research data on Synapse, and also built a zero-to-one AI-powered Terms of Service and privacy policy crawler from scratch.”

Michael Boodoo

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in secure web applications

Washington DC-Baltimore Area, USA10y exp

“Frontend engineer with experience spanning React/TypeScript architecture, third-party integrations, performance benchmarking, and UI animation/visualization. They described work on Angular-to-React migrations, enterprise API and PayPal integrations, a Gatsby-based 360 film project for Venezuelan filmmakers, and fixing a longstanding Washington Post bookmarks issue. Also noted holding an active US Secret Security Clearance.”

“Product/backend engineer from Revinate with experience in a startup-like SaaS environment, working on B2B tools for hotel managers. Stands out for hands-on performance optimization work that cut core service response times from roughly 800ms to about 300ms using Redis caching and database query improvements, alongside full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript and Python experience.”