Vetted Engineering Professionals

“Backend engineer from Optum who built and optimized a real-time, Kafka-driven healthcare claims processing platform handling 1M+ claims/month. Strong in reliability, state management, and observability for distributed systems, plus production deployment automation with Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD; no direct ROS/robotics simulator experience yet but frames work in robotics-adjacent real-time principles.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across FastAPI microservices and AWS data platforms. Has delivered serverless and Glue/EMR-based ETL pipelines with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Sentry, CloudWatch/SNS), schema-evolution resilience, and measurable SQL performance wins (5 min to <30 sec). Open to onsite meetings in the Bethesda, MD area and flexible on remote arrangements.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on production-grade Python microservices and AWS platforms, including a hybrid Lambda + ECS Fargate architecture managed with Terraform and CI/CD. Has hands-on reliability experience (JWT/OAuth, timeouts, retries, centralized error classification) and built AWS Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines consolidating PostgreSQL/RDS, MongoDB, and S3 sources into curated partitioned Parquet datasets. Demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (8 minutes to 25 seconds) and disciplined legacy-to-modern migrations with parity validation and UAT sign-off.”

“Unity gameplay engineer with hands-on experience spanning AI behavior-tree architecture (Behavior Designer), authoritative multiplayer networking (Photon/Mirror), and aggressive VR (Meta Quest) optimization. Built designer-friendly tooling (Excel-driven balancing, prefab automation bridging Marvelous Designer/Blender/Unity) and has experience mentoring juniors within an entity/HMVC-based architecture at Playtica.”

“Full-stack engineer who builds TypeScript/React SPAs on Python (Flask/FastAPI) backends and has hands-on experience integrating AI components (Azure OpenAI, LangChain, vector databases) into user workflows. Has built internal AI-enabled dashboards/search tools for analysts and business users, emphasizing typed API contracts, CI/CD-driven quality, and microservices reliability patterns (monitoring, retries, idempotency) at scale.”

“Software/IoT-focused candidate with startup internship experience building a planner AI service integrating Google Calendar (OAuth/token handling) and connecting AI, backend, frontend, and database. Also has embedded systems + AWS networking troubleshooting experience and has implemented TCP networking projects optimized for throughput and low jitter/latency; collaborates with clients via weekly meetings using Trello/Slack.”

“Software engineer/product owner experience at UnitedHealth Group owning a high-volume claims eligibility console end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Spring Boot microservices) processing 1M+ transactions/day. Strong in event-driven architecture (Kafka/RabbitMQ), HIPAA-aligned security (OAuth/JWT/RBAC), and building internal observability tools that improve incident triage and production reliability.”

“Frontend engineer in an insurance SaaS white-label environment who transformed a fragmented ecosystem of 100+ duplicated React repos into a scalable platform using versioned NPM libraries (CommonWeb/WorkflowWeb). Built a JSON-driven, multi-step quote and payment workflow in React+TypeScript with Redux-Saga for complex async orchestration and reliability (idempotency, retries, takeLatest). Delivered measurable impact: 35% bundle reduction, onboarding cut from weeks to days, and bug fixes propagated across clients in hours.”

“Full-stack engineer with financial services experience (Lincoln Financial) who owned a customer-facing financial portal end-to-end using TypeScript/React and Node/Express. Has hands-on microservices and RabbitMQ event-driven workflows, addressing scale issues like retries/duplicates with idempotency and traceable logging, and built an internal real-time ops/support dashboard to improve monitoring and incident response.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing and internal web portals end-to-end (API, database, React UI, and deployment). Experienced designing multi-service architectures with Node/Express and Java/Spring Boot plus RabbitMQ/Kafka messaging, emphasizing contract/versioning discipline, observability, and operational tooling that measurably reduces support load and manual work.”

“Backend-focused engineer with Mastercard experience building and operating high-volume transaction-processing microservices. Has owned customer-facing banking services end-to-end and built an internal on-call analytics tool that centralized logs/metrics with real-time filtering to speed root-cause analysis and reduce incident investigation time.”

“Integration engineer at Epic focused on healthcare interoperability, including complex radiology integrations (orders/results) spanning more than a dozen downstream systems and PACS vendors. Experienced coordinating clinical Radiant teams, interface analysts, and networking teams to scope workflows, route/transform messages via an interface engine, and troubleshoot intermittent production issues using structured isolation and live testing.”

“Significant contributor/maintainer to an open-source JavaScript event-tracking client SDK, owning API consistency/backward compatibility, high-load batching and retry/backoff improvements, and test/CI + documentation upgrades. Diagnosed production-like issues (missing events under load) via reproduction and logging, then reduced GC pressure and improved predictability with a ring-buffer-based batching redesign while actively triaging issues and reviewing PRs.”

“Backend/platform-focused Python engineer who has owned FastAPI services with Postgres/SQLAlchemy and production-grade auth (JWT + RBAC). Experienced deploying and operating microservices on Kubernetes with GitOps (ArgoCD), HPA tuning, and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, plus hands-on cloud-to-on-prem migrations and Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines.”

“Backend/DevOps-leaning engineer with trading/financial systems experience (AIG), focused on reliability: built Python automated test suites to ~95% coverage and integrated them into CI/CD. Has hands-on Kubernetes microservices deployment with GitOps (ArgoCD), plus experience supporting cloud-to-on-prem migrations and building real-time streaming pipelines resilient to spikes and data loss.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience building Java 17 Spring Boot microservices for high-traffic systems at Verizon and on a JPMC payments platform (funds transfer/validation using ISO 20022), plus modern React/TypeScript dashboards for ops and analytics. Demonstrates strong scalability and reliability chops (Kafka event-driven pipelines, Redis caching, clustering, BullMQ background jobs) and has built real-time apps end-to-end with secure JWT refresh-token auth and Socket.io performance tuning.”

“Backend/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of high-stakes data migrations in regulated domains (core banking and insurance), including a Python ETL framework that migrated 100,000+ customer records within a cutover window. Strong DevOps/GitOps background deploying Python and Spring Boot microservices to Kubernetes with Helm and ArgoCD, plus real-time Kafka transaction streaming for fraud/analytics with reliability patterns (DLQs, retries, partition tuning).”

“Backend/ML engineer who built an end-to-end greenwashing detection system for corporate ESG reports: Python preprocessing pipeline, logistic regression + fine-tuned DistilBERT models, and a Dockerized FastAPI inference service optimized for latency. Internship experience maintaining GitLab CI/CD for TypeScript services (Jest/Playwright), improving pipeline stability and test determinism; familiar with Kubernetes/GitOps concepts and AWS CLI/SSO.”

“Full-stack Java/Spring Boot + React engineer (3–4 years) who built an end-to-end smart employee management system and a data analytics dashboard handling millions of daily transactional records. Emphasizes scalable layered REST API design, secure microservices practices (Spring Security, JWT/OAuth2), and performant React state/data patterns (Redux Toolkit + RTK Query) for large datasets and role-based views.”

“Customer-facing software engineer who builds configurable, extensible solutions under vague requirements (e.g., a bin-packing-style resource allocation feature) and iterates via frequent sandbox deployments and customer testing. Has hands-on experience integrating multiple shipping APIs, navigating outdated/unclear documentation, and resolving production issues quickly through log-driven debugging and safe rollback procedures.”

“Full-stack JavaScript engineer (React/Node/Vue) who has operated like a maintainer by owning an internal component library with Storybook-style examples, documentation, and non-breaking versioning. Demonstrated strong performance engineering on a source code review service—profiling bottlenecks, fixing N+1 queries, adding caching, and trimming payloads to cut latency (e.g., ~100ms to <50ms) while rolling out incremental, test-backed improvements.”

“Backend-focused engineer who has built and refactored FastAPI services backed by MongoDB, emphasizing async concurrency, stateless design for horizontal scaling, and performance tuning via indexing and request-level timing. Has implemented production authentication patterns (JWT, SSO, OAuth2 + PKCE) and user/org-scoped access controls, and improved reliability of LLM document-extraction APIs with fallback mechanisms.”

“AppSec-focused engineer from Kaiser Permanente who advises on authentication/API security, performs lightweight threat modeling, and integrates SAST + dependency scanning into CI/CD while actively reducing false positives to improve release speed. Demonstrated strong troubleshooting using logs/traces/metrics (e.g., diagnosing auth failures caused by clock skew) and communicates security tradeoffs differently for engineering vs product stakeholders.”

“Full-stack TypeScript engineer with early-stage startup experience (HomePulse; sole US engineer) who ships and owns production features end-to-end—routing/state design, API contracts, caching/pagination, and post-launch monitoring/optimization. Has delivered performance-sensitive React UIs (virtualized large datasets, React Query caching, Suspense loading patterns) and built durable job-queue workflows with idempotency/retries, plus SQL Server relational modeling for internal ticketing and knowledge-retrieval workflows.”