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.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent hands-on work across scientific data infrastructure and enterprise analytics. Notably drove a Crossref-to-DataCite DOI migration at CUAHSI, owning metadata mapping, Django integration, ROR funder handling, and safe production rollout, and has contributed broadly to HydroShare, a research data platform used by thousands of researchers.”

“Backend-leaning engineer who has significantly owned the architecture behind complex browser-based internal analytics dashboards for enterprise operations teams. Stands out for connecting Python/FastAPI/Django backend design, async processing, PostgreSQL optimization, and browser performance improvements to make real-time monitoring UIs faster and more usable.”

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.”

“Full-stack/ML-leaning engineer who has shipped production-grade real-time analytics and an internal AI support assistant using RAG over enterprise documentation. Demonstrates strong systems thinking across scalability, reliability, observability, and LLM safety/evaluation (thresholded retrieval, RBAC, response validation, regression-gated evals), with concrete iteration based on performance metrics and user feedback.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong DevOps/AWS experience who ships end-to-end React/TypeScript + Node/Python systems and operates them in production. Built an LLM-assisted recommendations workflow for a SaaS product with robust reliability controls (schema-validated JSON outputs, fallbacks, caching, monitoring) and measured impact via adoption, time saved, and override rates; also experienced delivering MVPs fast in early-stage startup ambiguity.”

“Built and owned invoice automation and alerting products at Neuralix, automating multi-site electricity invoice ingestion from PDFs into validated JSON with strict schema enforcement and LLM-based validation (reported ~98% compliance). Delivered zero-manual processing at 200+ invoices/month and ~5x faster throughput, and designed a domain-driven alert lifecycle to reduce noisy notifications and improve operational response.”

“Application security and customer-facing delivery professional with deep experience in eCourt/public portal modernization, protecting sealed records and PII under statutory constraints. Has led threat modeling, phased remediation/risk acceptance to hit legislatively mandated launch dates, and implemented SAST/DAST/SCA programs in CI/CD on AWS/EKS with strong observability-driven troubleshooting and stakeholder alignment.”

“Backend engineer with fintech/transaction-processing experience who built and optimized a Spring Boot + PostgreSQL + AWS service handling money transactions, resolving peak-traffic latency via query/index and connection pool tuning. Shipped an LLM-driven risk-flagging workflow integrated via a FastAPI Python service, owning prompt design, validation guardrails, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop escalation to reduce false positives and improve precision over time.”

“Backend/infra-focused engineer who owned production systems for distributed ML experimentation (hyperparameter tuning across a cluster with GPU scaling, custom scheduling, and checkpoint-based fault tolerance). Also built and operated a low-latency log validation service using queued async workflows with idempotency, retries/backoff, and strong observability, plus experience building resilient Selenium-based browser automations for complex multi-step web flows.”

Pavan Kalyan Reddy Gunamareddy

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Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in FinTech and Healthcare

TX, USA4y exp

“Backend/platform engineer in fintech/payments (NexaBank/NextBank/Nexon Bank) who has built Kafka-orchestrated Java/Spring Boot microservices around a PostgreSQL double-entry ledger. Led production-critical reliability work preventing duplicate payment postings via idempotency and offset sequencing fixes, and shipped real-time ML fraud scoring (Python model API + Redis caching) with rigorous evaluation/monitoring (Prometheus) and workflow automation for dispute resolution.”

Arunim Samudra

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in LLM applications, RAG, and OCR automation

Austin, TX3y exp

“At Trellis, built and shipped a production multi-agent, authenticated GenAI chatbot for sensitive financial account inquiries (loan/payment lookups), using dynamic model routing to control latency and cost while improving accuracy. Implemented prompt-injection defenses (Meta Prompt Guard), RAG with LangChain, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation; the system cut manual support call volume by 40%+ and was refined through close collaboration with QA-driven user testing.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who modernized a legacy jQuery-based product information management platform into a more modular React application and owned analytics dashboard integration across UI, APIs, and data flows. Brings strong experience with enterprise releases, TypeScript modeling for complex API data, and performance optimization for large, data-heavy product and analytics interfaces.”