Vetted Engineering Professionals

“Frontend-focused engineer operating at a staff level with experience at Amazon and startups, known for rescuing high-impact, frontend-heavy systems through architecture, performance, and quality improvements. Delivered outsized results including cutting load times from ~90s to ~3s, raising test coverage from <1% to >80%, and enabling multi-team adoption of modern state management via training sessions for 50+ engineers.”

“Software engineer at Cimpress owning end-to-end transactional pages for Pens.com (e-commerce). Built and integrated new discount experiences in a React/TypeScript + Node.js stack, focusing on modular component architecture to reduce tight coupling and avoid breaking existing functionality; prioritizes roadmap work using performance and conversion metrics.”

“Interned at Rivian where they built and deployed a production Whisper-based ASR + LLM real-time event labeling pipeline to help autonomous-vehicle engineers diagnose failures and route issues to triage teams. Also built a stateful multi-agent "Code Partner" developer assistant using LangGraph/LangChain (planner/router/coder/critique/tester) with evaluation, adversarial testing, and stakeholder-friendly communication practices.”

“Software engineer whose recent work includes co-designing and building a "Shared Profile" feature for a social event-planning app (Again, Sometime). Previously at Pure Storage, set up Docker-standardized Ubuntu/Python environments to simulate hardware testbeds and support workload/performance regression testing for other engineering teams; no robotics/ROS experience.”

“Hands-on architect/technology leader who builds prototypes (including Agentic AI wellness/biomarkers) and then scales teams to execute. Led a ~$400M global e-commerce transformation spanning 95 countries with active-active US/EU multi-region resilience, microservices/MFE (MACH), and strong security patterns (service mesh + API gateway + Ping Identity), plus modern data foundations (customer hub/MDM/Snowflake, data fabric/medallion).”

“Software engineer with Capital One experience contributing to shared internal “open-source style” JavaScript/React/TypeScript libraries (component library and hooks/utilities). Drove measurable performance gains (~25% improvement) by refactoring hooks to prevent unnecessary re-renders, and improved adoption via stronger documentation, testing (Jest), semver discipline, and code review/PR workflows; also stabilized a backend service by adding monitoring and automated tests in an unstructured project.”

“Early-career engineer who owned an end-to-end objective assessment/coding contest platform at an edtech startup, using Postgres + S3 and Redis (queues + ZSET) to decouple and scale code submission processing with worker sandboxes. Also implemented idempotency controls and set up monitoring and CI/CD while the rest of the team focused on curriculum.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS2 autonomy experience across F1TENTH and Turtlebot platforms, building planning/control behaviors (Pure Pursuit, Follow-the-Gap, emergency braking, PID wall following) and validating in Gazebo/RViz. Also integrated a custom curvature-based speed planning node into Autoware (with AWSIM), demonstrating practical autonomy stack integration and strong debugging of LiDAR pipelines.”

“Built a production internal RAG-based Q&A assistant at Huawei for ~4,000 engineers over a 12M-document Elasticsearch corpus, replacing link-only search with synthesized answers and achieving 87% user acceptance while keeping hallucinations under 0.4%. Pairs rigorous offline benchmarking (RAGAS, PR-gated F1 improvements) with human A/B testing and OpenTelemetry-based production monitoring, and also has strong Kubernetes/SRE experience orchestrating 50+ gRPC services with major MTTR and pager-fatigue reductions.”

“DevOps/data-automation professional with HPE experience who has deployed containerized microservices to AWS EKS and built an end-to-end observability stack (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch via Terraform), reporting zero-downtime deployments and ~40% faster incident response. Also extends Python ETL automation for procurement/operations teams (rules engine, validation, performance tuning) and bridges SAP ERP data into Power BI/Qlik dashboards through close on-site user collaboration.”

“Development manager focused on developer productivity and platform enablement in a polyglot microservices environment. Drove ~50% productivity gains by evaluating and rolling out AI coding copilots with team training and cross-team demos, and designed a Disaster Recovery framework adopted by 50+ microservice teams. Also led edge-focused Python runtime optimization and relies on heavy test automation to safely execute large refactors during major platform upgrades.”

“Backend engineer focused on building production-ready Python services (Flask/FastAPI) with strong performance and scalability instincts—Celery/Redis background processing, robust multi-tenant isolation (Postgres RLS), and pragmatic CI/Docker operations. Demonstrated measurable DB optimization impact (cut a critical analytics query from ~1–2s to ~100–150ms) and has hands-on experience integrating LLM/ML workflows (OpenAI, LangChain, embeddings, Redis/FAISS vector stores) without degrading API responsiveness.”

“Built a production AI-driven QA automation platform using a multi-agent architecture (MCPs + LangGraph) to run parallel website tests across multiple device environments via automated image building and containerization. Currently collaborating with restaurant operators and managers to deliver an agentic restaurant analytics system, emphasizing deep domain discovery with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Backend/DevOps-focused engineer with healthcare and financial systems experience, including an ICU readmission risk platform delivering real-time ML scores via a secure FastAPI service (PyTorch model serving, PostgreSQL, Celery/Redis) deployed on AWS with strong observability. Has hands-on Kubernetes GitOps delivery (Helm, ArgoCD, HPA) and has supported a JPMC on-prem-to-AWS microservices migration using phased validation and blue-green cutovers, plus Kafka/Avro streaming for real-time transaction processing.”

“Senior engineering leader from Goodyear’s AndGo startup-like division who scaled the org from 12 to 30+ across pod-based teams and introduced an Architect Guild/ARD governance model. Led a 4-month Europe launch requiring AWS regional infrastructure, GDPR compliance, i18n/l10n, and new EMEA reporting pipelines, and has hands-on depth in API performance, incident response, and GraphQL/Hasura adoption to boost product velocity.”

“Open-source maintainer of KafkaJSUI, a Vue.js-based Kafka browser UI, focused on making large-topic exploration fast and responsive. Delivered major performance wins (incremental fetching, virtualized lists, WebSocket streaming, backpressure, Web Worker offloading) cutting load times to sub-200ms, and also strengthened CI and developer documentation while handling community-reported issues end-to-end.”

“Backend/automation engineer who led the design of an OOP Python test automation framework for AWS infrastructure (Behave + Jenkins), cutting regression effort from weeks to a 3–4 hour run. Has hands-on cloud and DevOps experience across AWS (boto3, ECS, AMI automation via GitHub Actions) plus data/migration work including on-prem-to-cloud Oracle Retail DB migration with rollback planning and a Kafka + ML fraud-detection streaming pipeline.”

“Hands-on technical professional experienced in taking LLM/AI-adjacent integrations from prototype to production, using customer observation to refine UX and uncover edge cases. Diagnoses workflow issues in real time using logs and Sankey-style workflow analysis, and communicates fixes with clear short/long-term plans plus proactive alerting. Also partners cross-functionally to drive adoption and cost savings, including a POC around IBM Sterling Integrator that reduced licensing costs by $30K/year.”

“QA tester with hands-on experience across web, mobile, and API testing, including requirements gathering, test planning/case creation, and executing system/regression/UAT. While new to console game testing and platform certification checklists (TRC/XR/LOT), they emphasize strong testing fundamentals, API automation experience, and using AI tools to ramp up quickly.”

“University of Michigan MDP / Atombots lab robotics engineer leading perception and sensor integration for multi-agent quadruped wheel-legged robots. Implemented and optimized RTAB-Map SLAM on Jetson Nano using Unitree L2 LiDAR + Intel RealSense D435i, including custom ROS 2 synchronization and TF2 calibration work; now building Apriltag-based tracking for multiple micro-robots to support decentralized swarm behavior research.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong DevOps/AWS production experience who builds and operates multi-agent AI systems end-to-end (Streamlit/Python through Docker/Kubernetes and ECS/Fargate). Has delivered measurable outcomes: sub-2s latency and ~92% routing accuracy for an AI wellness assistant, shipped an AI-for-BI prototype in under 6 weeks cutting analysis time ~40%, and improved pipeline iteration speed ~35% via modularization and CI/regression checks.”

“Head of Robotics at Orbital Composites who built the full ROS-based software stack ("OrbOS") for multi-robot KUKA-arm 3D printing of carbon-fiber composite geometries. Deep in motion planning and real-time control—created a pipeline to turn underconstrained toolpaths into optimal joint trajectories at massive command scale, plus redundant safety gatekeeping and a 250Hz synchronized robot+extruder controller. Has operated in a technical-founder capacity for ~6 years and values an engineering culture of openness, honesty, accountability, and high ownership.”

“Engineering manager leading a 15-person team at FBN on the Gridbull platform, shipping a self-serve pricing/quoting tool for structured commodity products using real-time futures market data. Owns architecture and reliability for third-party data integrations (WebSocket + REST fallback), including resolving a day-one production incident caused by undocumented vendor connection resets. Introduced lightweight Technical Implementation Plans to improve cross-functional alignment and delivery speed in a high-growth environment.”

“Game QA professional with live production experience owning QA strategy for a cross-platform seasonal loadout system in a live server shooter. Works in Agile/Scrum with CI/CD, using Jira + TestRail (including two-way sync) to drive traceable test coverage and fast triage via evidence-rich bug reports. Emphasizes risk-based coverage, regression discipline across builds, and converting gameplay feel into actionable design/engineering feedback.”