Vetted Engineering Professionals in Texas

Naveen Chokkakula

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Senior Golang Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native microservices

Texas, USA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at UWorld and Infosys, focused on full-stack product delivery and backend reliability. Stands out for owning analytics/onboarding experiences end-to-end while also building resilient distributed systems, reusable service primitives, and safe multi-tenant configuration guardrails.”

“Cloud/Linux infrastructure engineer focused on high-availability AWS platforms (EKS/EC2) with strong observability and incident response ownership. Has hands-on experience building secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and Terraform-based IaC at scale, including resolving real production issues like peak-traffic latency and Terraform remote state locking; transparent about not having direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA production ownership.”

“QA automation engineer focused on backend/API quality who owned an end-to-end API regression suite and integrated Cypress/JS automation into GitLab CI with smoke-vs-nightly regression gating. Caught a critical auth security regression (expired tokens returning 200 instead of 401) before production and is strong in stabilizing flaky tests using network interception and actionable CI reporting.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who owned high-traffic internal services end-to-end (FastAPI/Django) including REST/GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL optimization, async task processing via SQS, and full CI/CD. Strong Kubernetes-on-EKS and GitOps (ArgoCD + Helm) experience, plus Kafka real-time streaming work and phased cloud-to-on-prem migration support.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong production experience across Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, API Gateway, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrates reliability and incident ownership (rate limits, retries/circuit breakers, monitoring) and has delivered measurable SQL performance gains (12–15s to <800ms, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking fully remote work and not open to relocation/onsite meetings.”

“Backend engineer who built an Emergency Alert System with Virginia Tech for the City of Alexandria, focusing on real-time ingestion, secure dashboards, and AI-assisted prioritization. Emphasizes high-stakes reliability with guardrails (hybrid rules+LLM, confidence-based fallbacks), scalable async processing, and defense-in-depth security (JWT/RBAC plus database row-level security).”

“AI research engineer who has built and tested LLM agents end-to-end, including a Telegram real-time voice-to-typing assistant integrated with calendar scheduling. Emphasizes production concerns (security via mic-triggered activation, multi-model fallbacks, monitoring) and agent predictability using a GPT-3.5-based critic plus structured outputs (Pydantic) and ReAct-style orchestration.”

“Full-stack product engineer who builds and owns production features across Next.js/React/TypeScript and Java Spring Boot, with strong Postgres data modeling and performance tuning. Has delivered measurable improvements (60%+ faster renders, 2s→100ms queries, 50% lower workflow latency) and built reliable Kafka-based workflows with robust observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Alertmanager) and high test coverage.”

Milan Sharma

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Mid-level Software/Systems Engineer specializing in Python, Linux, and network testing

Richardson, TX9y exp

“Entrepreneurial product builder who has shipped two live App Store apps (Pixo content-based product marketing platform and Clutch AI dating reply helper). Also helped build a real-estate seller platform end-to-end, using AI matching to find buyers and contributing to onboarding nearly paying users and generating active MRR.”

“Unity/C# developer with shipped VR multiplayer experience (Photon, server-authoritative networking) including a safety-critical VR title (Swashbuckler at GrooveJones). Built a runtime content pipeline that loads Photoshop files from StreamingAssets and auto-preps basic animations, letting artists iterate in-engine without touching the Unity project—dramatically accelerating asset creation and increasing the volume of illustrated content.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, low-latency event processing for market data and social-signal sentiment systems. Has led a monolith-to-event-driven migration with feature-flagged incremental rollout, and emphasizes production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, secrets management, Supabase RLS) and data integrity (deduplication/idempotency) under high-volume spike conditions.”

“Full-stack .NET/Azure engineer with end-to-end ownership of policy management microservices (React/TypeScript + C#/ASP.NET Core + Kubernetes) delivering significant performance and quality improvements (e.g., response time -35%, defects -30%, CSAT +18%). Also productionized an AI-assisted analyst workflow using Azure OpenAI with a RAG pipeline on Azure Cognitive Search, including rigorous prompt versioning, guardrails, and measurable impact (review time -40%, errors -55%). Led incremental legacy modernization via Strangler Fig and dual-write migrations with zero production regressions.”