Vetted Engineering Professionals in the DMV

“Robotics-focused engineer from a senior capstone who built the backend motion-control software for a semi-autonomous line-following vehicle split across two ESP32s. Experienced in ROS 2 (DDS, lifecycle nodes, QoS) and in bridging microcontroller telemetry to a laptop ROS 2 stack over UART with custom structured protocols, using Gazebo simulation to tune PID and validate behavior before deploying to hardware.”

“Backend engineer on Morgan Stanley’s trade risk and compliance platform, building Java/Spring Boot microservices that validate equity and fixed-income trades at multi-million-events/day scale. Shipped an LLM-assisted trade exception analysis feature using RAG over internal policy documents and trade history, with production-grade guardrails (confidence thresholds, audit logs, human-in-the-loop) and measurable performance wins (~30–35% faster reporting) through PostgreSQL tuning and Redis caching.”

“Salesforce developer with hands-on ownership of a complex Live Chat to Enhanced Chat migration, including LWC pre-chat forms, Apex/API integrations, Omni-Channel, Flow-based routing, and production rollout. Stands out for solving a difficult transcript-delivery requirement by designing an alternate conversation retrieval approach using Messaging Session, Apex callouts, and scheduled jobs.”

“Veteran software engineering leader who started as an early internet engineer in the mid-1990s and has since grown into Director/VP-level leadership across legacy web platforms, logistics systems, and modern data engineering. Particularly compelling for companies needing a hands-on leader who can modernize complex Perl/UNIX monoliths, manage large cross-functional teams, and deliver operational systems in warehouse, marketplace, and reverse-logistics environments.”

“Series A startup engineer with broad full-stack ownership across backend, data, and frontend, including a real-time ingestion platform that scaled to 10x higher daily volume without downtime while cutting latency from minutes to seconds. Brings strong fintech and B2B SaaS experience building auditable, high-throughput systems for analysts, operations, and compliance teams in regulated environments.”

Bryan West

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack development

Chantilly, VA17y exp

“ML/NLP engineer who built a production system that converts large-scale unstructured text into a connected, searchable knowledge base using spaCy + Sentence Transformers/FAISS and a Neo4j knowledge graph, with BERTopic and XGBoost for organization/labeling. Strong focus on production-grade Python workflows (FastAPI/Celery, Pydantic validation, Docker, AWS ECS/Lambda) and robust entity resolution with measurable precision/recall and human review for low-confidence matches.”

Kaushik Balakesavalu

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in enterprise SaaS and FinTech

Fairfax, VA5y exp

“Software engineer with fintech/retirement-fund domain experience who led an internal dashboard consolidating fund transactions, approvals, and reporting into a single workflow tool. Strong in full-stack delivery (React + REST APIs + DB optimization) and in scaling/cleaning messy operational data via modular ETL pipelines (Python/Node), iterating post-launch with performance improvements like caching, pagination, and enhanced filtering.”

“Built an internal RAG assistant for financial documents using FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and vector search, improving document search speed and reducing manual effort for the business team. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI engineering: uses AI heavily for productivity, but keeps human judgment central and has designed retrieval, validation, and summarization workflows end-to-end.”

“Developer with a pragmatic, disciplined approach to AI-assisted coding: uses tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini to speed up debugging, optimization, unit testing, and documentation while maintaining ownership of design and code quality. Interested in expanding from single-agent workflows into multi-agent setups for larger coding tasks and stays current through hands-on use and AI ecosystem updates.”