Vetted Backend Development Professionals

Dhananjay Sharma

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech platforms

Stony Brook, NY6y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built RegArt’s product from 0→1 for enterprise compliance users at clients like HSBC and EY, including the production React frontend, backend APIs, and an LLM-powered search experience. Particularly compelling for startups needing someone who can move across UI, API, and data layers, make pragmatic architecture tradeoffs, and ship fast without over-engineering.”

Vaughn Eugenio

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in distributed microservices and real-time systems

2y exp

“Software engineer with production experience at DraftKings and SRC, owning high-impact platform changes like early-start lineup validation fixes and a multi-service refactor to support dual-role players (e.g., Ohtani) using backward-compatible, feature-flagged rollouts. Has embedded onsite with military users to rapidly ship improvements to a COP/TAK mapping integration (TrackSync), and leverages AI tools (Claude) to accelerate learning and delivery in new domains (e.g., ESP32 smart deadbolt project).”

“Founding engineer at a civic-tech startup (Barrow) who built and operated a Next.js/TypeScript product with map-based public reporting, including clustering and dynamic geospatial loading to improve UX and performance. Also implemented a location-aware RAG chatbot using Pinecone, web scraping/transcription, caching, and fallback web search, and owned post-launch observability plus scaling decisions (load balancing/horizontal scaling) based on API usage patterns.”

Yuan-Hao Chen

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud infrastructure

Urbana, IL1y exp

“Backend-focused intern who owned real-time livestream features: live comment moderation using AWS Comprehend (sentiment/toxicity/PII) with safe fallbacks, plus AI-generated positive commentary via AWS Bedrock (Claude 3 Haiku). Emphasizes reliability/low-latency design, IAM troubleshooting, and disciplined GitOps-style CI workflows for reproducible deployments.”

“Frontend/full-stack engineer with Chegg experience shipping signed-in and top-of-funnel Next.js experiences, including leading an account-sharing/device-management MVP integrated with a Java Spring Boot service. Stands out for strong rollout ownership, analytics-based validation, and pragmatic security/performance decisions in production.”

“VR/social platform engineer with experience at AltspaceVR, Mozilla Hubs, and Dopple, spanning Unity/C#, custom engine networking, and early voice-agent systems. Particularly compelling for roles at the intersection of multiplayer, XR, and AI: they’ve built data-driven avatar systems, ownership-based netcode, VR replay capture, and a custom real-time voice->LLM->voice stack integrated with hardware and computer vision.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning an SEL internship and Walmart, combining backend/data pipeline work (Python, Kafka, relational DBs) with DevOps practices (Docker, Grafana, GitHub/Jenkins CI/CD, GitOps). Notably contributed to a REST-to-GraphQL migration aimed at reducing cloud utilization and implemented testing strategies to validate the transition.”

“Built and deployed an AI-powered insurance claims fraud platform end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, OpenAI, pgvector, and AWS EKS. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG architecture with production-grade scalability and observability, delivering measurable impact including 62% less manual review, 40% better fraud precision, 37% higher throughput, and 99.95% uptime.”

“Built end-to-end financial workflow platforms at Citi spanning React frontends, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, and Oracle. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can modernize legacy systems into real-time architectures—the candidate cites a 48x throughput improvement from a batch-to-Kafka modernization effort.”

“Full-stack developer (Energywell) who led an internal admin dashboard end-to-end using React/Redux and a Go microservice, emphasizing performance (reduced calls, preload data) and maintainable architecture (modularity, refactoring, PR reviews). Also shipped a Redis-based caching whitelist feature in a fast-paced environment and helped implement a responsive, brand-configurable onboarding/signup frontend.”

“Enterprise platform engineer/product owner who led end-to-end delivery of customer-facing ServiceNow Service Catalog/workflow solutions, emphasizing reliability, security, and fast iteration. Built React/TypeScript portals with Node.js and Spring Boot backends, and improved microservices reliability at scale using Kafka, monitoring, and robust retry/timeout patterns.”

Hardik Goyal

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Senior Integration Developer specializing in enterprise automation and data integration

United States4y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer with experience building and optimizing React-based dashboards and reusable component libraries in a multi-team, internal open-source-style environment at Merck (ClearSight Forecasting Dashboard). Also handled production user issues on a live streaming platform (GameSee.tv) and built a financial application from scratch at Manipal Business Solutions, owning backend services, middle-tier APIs, and third-party integrations.”

Vineeth Reddy Vallapureddy

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and enterprise AI tools

Redwood City, California5y exp

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across C3.ai (supply chain demand planning) and Amdocs (telecom), working on large-scale data systems and microservices. Has driven first-time adoption experiments of Snowflake + Spark to handle billion-record workloads, built Jenkins-to-Kubernetes delivery pipelines with Nexus artifact management, and implemented Kafka streaming between microservices with HA and retry/error-handling patterns.”