Vetted Engineering Professionals in the DMV

Kruti Mehta

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and FinTech analytics

Maryland, USA5y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, high-leverage approach to AI-assisted development: uses AI and multi-agent workflows aggressively for implementation and internal tooling, while maintaining strict human oversight for user-facing features. Stands out for treating agents like junior engineers, breaking work into actionable tasks, and combining robust testing, local E2E validation, and feature-flag rollouts to safely ship production code.”

Oladayo Ogundipe

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cybersecurity and AI-enabled web apps

Columbia, MD3y exp

“Frontend engineer with experience building user-facing React/TypeScript features in startup and security contexts, including live-stream clipping for collegiate sports video and organization-relationship graph visualizations. Has hands-on experience with Redux state management, CSS/UI debugging, and adapting visualization libraries like Sigma to product needs.”

“Fullstack product engineer with strong AI application experience, including a provider-agnostic LLM routing layer spanning Bedrock, OpenAI, and Hugging Face. They pair hands-on technical depth with product instincts, having shipped customer-facing chat and workflow features that reduced support tickets by 38% and cut approval processing time in half.”

Ned Ned Zaidi

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Python, Go, and cloud-native systems

Dumfries, VA9y exp

“Full-stack/backend-leaning engineer with hands-on experience spanning Python, Go, React, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, and Kubernetes. They stand out for building real-time analytics and decisioning systems, plus a healthcare-focused B2B SaaS compliance/data integration platform that combined high-throughput event processing, dashboarding, and third-party integrations in a startup-style, high-ambiguity environment.”

Vishnu Priyan Sellam Shanmugavel

Screened

Mid-Level Applied AI Engineer specializing in LLM services, RAG, and OCR/NLP extraction

Arlington, VA4y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built and evolved a large-scale healthcare document processing system (OCR + LLM orchestration) in Python/FastAPI on Google Cloud (Cloud Run, GCS, Firestore), processing ~1.5M files per batch and tens of millions overall. Emphasizes reliability and operational safety via deterministic IDs, idempotent state machines, strong observability, and self-healing reconciliation, plus disciplined migrations using dual-run validation and incremental rollouts.”