Vetted Engineering Professionals in Virginia

“Full-stack engineer with startup experience at sub-100-person companies, owning major product and platform changes across Go, React/TypeScript, Python, Postgres, and SQL Server. Stands out for redesigning a core repository-like workflow component without breaking existing customer data and for shipping operational tooling at Tovala that saved teams 15 hours of manual work per week.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

Darion Jefferson

Screened

Mid-level IT & Cloud Security Specialist specializing in GRC, SOC workflows, and agentic AI automation

Petersburg, VA4y exp

“Builder/creator who ships practical AI automations and content workflows: created a no-backend website that uses ChatGPT to generate AI agents/manual workflows, and built an inbound/outbound receptionist using n8n and Retell AI (later migrated to Retell workflows). Also produces an AI-written/produced podcast with 55+ hosts and uses tools like Descript and Sora with make.com for batch content creation and scheduling.”

“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.”

“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.”

Simon Ray

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in scalable backend and microservices systems

Virginia, USA8y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong Go/React experience who built a property management MVP from scratch as the only engineer at a pre-seed startup, owning everything from architecture to deployment. Also brings fintech depth from a production AWS-based platform handling payments, transactions, and financial calculations that was later acquired by an IBM subsidiary.”