Vetted Engineering Professionals

“Software engineer with hands-on ownership of both fintech checkout improvements (saved payment methods/one-click checkout with tokenization and feature-flag rollouts) and production LLM/RAG systems for customer support. Demonstrates strong operational rigor via guardrails, evaluation loops integrated into CI/CD, and scalable data pipelines handling messy PDFs/CSVs/logs with reliability and observability.”

“Distributed-systems engineer applying robotics-style patterns to software: built "Vibecheck," a high-throughput real-time video + OS-telemetry fusion and analysis system (500+ MB/session) with strict latency constraints. Strong in containerization and CI/CD (Docker, GitHub Actions) and in designing fault-tolerant, event-driven architectures (Kafka/RabbitMQ), plus hands-on debugging of multi-agent coordination using blackboard + watchdog/circuit-breaker control patterns.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer with hands-on ownership across compute and SAN, including resolving a high-severity ERP latency incident by tracing it to SAN slow-drain on Cisco switches and orchestrating a port redistribution fix. Experienced running production HA/DR with HACMP and LPAR mobility (quarterly failover tests plus annual SunGard DR simulations) and building Bash-based monitoring/alerting automation to prevent outages.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer who built a Golang distributed key-value store on AWS using Multi-Paxos, WAL, and non-blocking gRPC replication (cutting write latency ~40%) and proactively addressed tricky failure modes like leader-election livelock. Also developed a Python/Kubernetes cost-optimization scaling engine deployed with Helm/Terraform, delivering ~$40K annual savings while sustaining 99.99% uptime, and drives contract-first API development (OpenAPI/Swagger) to speed frontend integration.”

“Data/analytics-focused engineer who builds end-to-end KPI reporting and validation products used daily by plant leads and leadership to track yield, downtime, and defects. Combines Python/SQL + Power BI data pipelines with strong data-quality practices (automated validation, monitoring/alerts) and has experience designing scalable frontend architecture in TypeScript/React and working in distributed/microservices-style data systems.”

“Backend engineer with TaskRabbit experience building and operating payment/booking services in Python/Django on AWS (ECS + Lambda) with Kafka/SQS eventing. Demonstrates strong production reliability and incident ownership in high-stakes payment flows (idempotency, strict timeouts, retries, monitoring/alerting) plus data/ETL work in AWS Glue and measurable SQL performance wins.”

“Backend/ML-focused software engineer who built and evolved a Python/FastAPI backend for a large-scale conversational AI platform, decoupling API and inference services to improve stability and deployment velocity. Experienced in production hardening (timeouts/fallbacks/monitoring), secure multi-tenant systems (JWT/RBAC/RLS), and low-risk migrations using shadow deployments and incremental traffic ramp-ups.”

“LLM workflow/agentic systems practitioner who has helped customers harden an LLM-based incident triage prototype into a trusted daily-use production system by adding observability, audits, confidence gating, and deterministic fallbacks. Brings an SRE-style approach to real-time debugging (trace replay, rollback/canary, safe toggles) and is experienced running developer-centric demos/workshops and partnering with sales on technical qualification and security/architecture artifacts.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an internal user-activity tracking and reporting system end-to-end using React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres, deployed on AWS (EC2/ALB, S3/CloudFront) with CloudWatch observability. Emphasizes reliability and data correctness via idempotent ingestion, retries with exponential backoff, backfills/reconciliation, and performance tuning as data scales, and has experience shipping quickly in ambiguous early-stage startup conditions.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across GCP and AWS: built FastAPI microservices on Cloud Run and delivered AWS Lambda + ECS Fargate systems with Terraform/GitHub Actions. Strong in data engineering (Glue/Spark, S3/Redshift) and modernization (SAS to Python/SQL), with proven reliability and incident ownership—including cutting a 20+ minute reporting query to under 2 minutes.”

“Unity VR game programmer with professional experience shipping a VR experience targeting Meta Quest and SteamVR, including prior VR tech QA experience at Rockstar. Served as the only core tech programmer on a team, owning physics/player controller/gameflow while building designer-friendly workflows so non-coders could create content. Also built a largely solo FPS project (Project Alpha) and later evolved it into a multiplayer game with a data-driven weapon system.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building secure Django/DRF APIs (JWT RS256 + rotating refresh tokens), background processing with Celery, and strong reliability practices (timeouts, retries/backoff, structured logging, audit trails). Has delivered AWS solutions spanning Lambda + ECS with IaC/CI-CD and built Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines with schema evolution and data-quality quarantine patterns; also modernized a legacy SAS pipeline to Python/PySpark with parallel-run parity validation and phased rollout.”

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent conversational AI platform (Monitor agent + RAG + 4 additional agents) with enterprise REST APIs, using ChromaDB-grounded WCAG knowledge to keep responses accurate while varying tone via personality modes and conversation memory. Has experience at LinkedIn delivering technical demos and pre-sales guidance to both engineering teams and C-level stakeholders, acting as a translator between sales and technical teams to drive adoption.”

“Frontend lead who shipped an enterprise social feed, insights dashboard, and a net-new communications platform using React + TypeScript. Known for building scalable quality practices with QA (including automated test suite alignment), introducing RTK Query org-wide, and managing phased, feature-flagged rollouts while coordinating closely with product/design and senior engineering stakeholders.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production content-generation system for nursing education, combining multimodal RAG over proprietary PDFs (including images) with structured Cosmos DB data and external sources. Strong focus on production reliability—prompt-chaining with LangChain, validation/guardrails, and Azure-based monitoring/observability—plus experience designing Azure AI agents with tool integrations like Bing Search.”

“Unity developer with deep GPU compute experience who shipped a web-deployed CAD-style app requiring real-time mesh manipulation, solving performance and browser memory-limit issues via compute shaders and mesh chunking. Built an independent Unity gravity simulation using Schwarzschild approximation and geodesic integration, and has also worked on game-engine threading/job-queue architecture using AI-assisted workflows.”

“Frontend-focused engineer who built a full movie recommendation system from concept to production, comparing classic collaborative filtering with LLM-based recommendation approaches on AWS. Emphasizes scalable architecture, strict TypeScript data contracts, and high-quality Next.js/React UI patterns (defensive states, scoped state management, performance optimization) with disciplined QA and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“Unity gameplay developer who led implementation of an airport scene for Duplo Town (children’s physics/exploration game), adding multiple unspecced interactions that significantly increased polish and playfulness and delighted testers/clients. Principal/lead-level engineer with strong sprint planning and impact-vs-effort prioritization, plus experience designing asynchronous client-server interactions and state management (aware of Photon-style real-time multiplayer sync).”

“Former Field Application Engineer at TestTorrent supporting proprietary hardware deployments. Built and integrated customer-requested benchmarking (including MLPerf-style work) by adapting GPU benchmark implementations and validating performance against NVIDIA baselines, plus delivered a backend fix that enabled customer performance testing and helped close a deal. Also has experience running models on AWS/GCP with multi-instance cost optimization techniques like memory offloading.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a policy management and notifications platform end-to-end: Java/Spring Boot microservices with PostgreSQL plus a React/Redux UI, deployed on AWS with Docker and Jenkins CI/CD. Demonstrates strong real-world scaling and reliability practices (Redis caching, Kafka, query/index tuning, ACID transactions, locking, and idempotent processing) to handle high-volume concurrent workloads.”

“AI product builder at Padlet who shipped multiple production LLM features for education workflows, including an AI document generator (AI Recipes) and a RAG-enabled in-product chat assistant. Built an AI microservice layer (LangChain) to swap model providers easily and created automated + human-in-the-loop evaluation systems (including ~100-test runs) to iterate on prompts and quality.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (70/30 app vs infra) with Accenture experience and recent AI workflow work, shipping end-to-end systems from React/TypeScript UIs through FastAPI backends to Postgres. Built an AI-driven data extraction platform with async job APIs, strict schema validation, and strong observability, and has operated AWS ECS-based deployments with real incident mitigation (DB connection exhaustion/latency under traffic spikes).”

“Open-source contributor who improved React Query’s caching/subscription behavior to reduce unnecessary re-renders via debouncing and batched updates, validated with benchmarking and extensive tests. Also maintained a Flask extension and resolved production background-task hangs by tracing Redis connection handling issues, adding cleanup/retry logic and troubleshooting docs. In a fast-paced startup, owned the design of a Celery+Redis multi-queue background processing system with Prometheus-based observability.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer (Amazon; also Bank of America) pivoting into robotics software. Built and owned an end-to-end cross-region event processing service for Aurora Global Databases, emphasizing correctness under latency/clock skew, fault tolerance, and strong observability; brings deep Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD experience to robotics infrastructure and reliability work while ramping up on ROS 2.”