Vetted Backend Development Professionals

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building Python FastAPI services and AWS-native data pipelines. Has delivered containerized and serverless workloads (ECS/EKS/Lambda) with Terraform-based IaC, strong reliability patterns (JWT/RBAC, retries/circuit breakers, observability), and AWS Glue ETL into S3/Redshift. Demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (40–50s to <4s) and owned real pipeline incidents through detection, mitigation, and prevention.”

“Backend/platform engineer with production experience building a Python SDK over a microservices ecosystem, emphasizing reliability (JWT auth, retries/timeouts, custom exceptions) and integration testing. Has delivered AWS EKS microservices with Jenkins+Helm CI/CD, strong secrets/config separation using AWS Secrets Manager, and set up Datadog APM/deployment/change monitoring. Also modernized legacy VB applications to C#/.NET WPF via incremental migration with parity testing and stakeholder sign-off.”

“Built and owned end-to-end ordering and inventory/order management systems for a wholesale distributor, delivering an MVP quickly and iterating based on direct observation of daily users. Experienced with TypeScript/React + Node.js layered architectures and microservices using RabbitMQ, including real-world scaling issues (duplicates, backpressure) and observability practices (correlation IDs, structured logging).”

“JavaScript full-stack engineer with experience at EY building secure, cloud-ready React/Node.js applications on AWS and currently at startup Juego Juegos owning the AWS backend and CI/CD via AWS Amplify. Demonstrated impact through performance tuning of a React analytics dashboard (reduced initial load time ~20%) and resolving real payment failures by debugging Stripe 3DS flows and updating AWS Lambda plus frontend error handling.”

“Engineering/technology leader with experience at Evocative and through a merger with Hivelocity, aligning tech roadmaps to managed services growth. Led multi-region self-hosted cloud and automation initiatives that cut delivery time from days to hours/minutes and informed cost-saving infrastructure decisions (reported $500K OPEX savings). Known for scaling teams with pod ownership, agile/intake governance, and disciplined rollout practices that protect uptime and security.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on high-scale, event-driven AWS ingestion systems (SQS/Lambda/EKS) processing millions of events per day, with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, bounded retries) and deep observability using Datadog distributed tracing. Has delivered Terraform/GitHub Actions CI/CD and improved secret rotation via Secrets Manager + IRSA, plus Glue-based ETL with schema-evolution handling and Postgres SQL optimization (including JSONB/GIN indexing). Candidate is currently living outside the US and states they do not have US work authorization.”

“Software engineer who has shipped both core web platform features (secure user authentication/profile management) and production LLM systems. Built an internal documentation knowledge assistant using a full RAG pipeline (OpenAI embeddings, vector DB, semantic search, reranking) with evaluation loops and a scalable document-ingestion pipeline for PDFs/FAQs, iterating based on metrics and user feedback.”

“Backend engineer with health-tech AI platform experience who designed a modular FastAPI/PostgreSQL architecture supporting real-time user data and swap-in AI workflows. Has hands-on production experience with observability (CloudWatch, structured logging, LangSmith/LangGraph/LangChain tracing), secure auth (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, RLS), and careful data-pipeline migrations using parallel runs and rollback planning.”

“Built and deployed a GPT-4 + Pinecone RAG system that lets users query large internal document collections with grounded, cited answers. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering (chunking experiments, hallucination controls, metadata recency boosting) plus production-minded evaluation/monitoring and performance tuning (rate-limit mitigation via pooling/batching). Also effective at translating complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders through prototypes and live demos, helping secure client sponsorship.”

“Unity game developer with eye-tracking SDK experience (Tobii) who shipped a gaze-driven Dynamic Light Adaptation feature by modifying Unity shaders and post-processing, demonstrated via an FPS demo scene. Currently building a multiplayer card game client using an in-house, event-driven networking architecture and actively improving resilience to reconnect/lag edge cases.”

“GenAI/NLP engineer with experience building classification and summarization pipelines in PyTorch and deploying multimodal GPT-4-style workflows. Has integrated LLM applications across OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Amazon Bedrock, and uses LangChain/LlamaIndex/Semantic Kernel to orchestrate RAG and agent workflows with production-focused evaluation metrics like task success rate and groundedness.”

“Frontend-focused engineer (also capable on backend) who led an end-to-end e-commerce project and has built 3–4 admin dashboards across e-commerce, real estate, and invoicing/branch-management contexts. Demonstrates practical decision-making around React/TypeScript state management (Redux/Zustand/Context) and performance optimization in React/Next.js (memoization, lazy loading, image optimization), with an emphasis on usable UX and rapid delivery via mock-data-driven parallel FE/BE development.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (Spring Boot/Django + React/TypeScript) with deep experience building multi-tenant, enterprise workflow and supply-chain/order-tracking systems. Owned an end-to-end Workflow SLA Breach Prediction & Alerting feature integrating Azure ML for a cloud workflow platform used by ~10,000 enterprise users, and has hands-on AWS operations experience resolving real production latency/scaling incidents via query optimization and Redis caching.”

“Software engineer with robotics and ML background (BS Software Engineering w/ Robotics minor; MS CS w/ ML minor) who built autonomy-focused student robotics projects combining RFID + camera sensing, path planning (Dijkstra), and fuzzy logic, and experimented with neural-network approaches. Also brings production-grade software practices from a Dell software analyst role, emphasizing maintainability, documentation, and testing for real-time systems.”

“iOS full-stack/mobile engineer who built a SwiftUI (MVVM) barcode-scanner app using VisionKit for on-device, low-latency recognition, focusing on responsiveness via continuous scanning and debouncing. Also has Capgemini customer-facing support experience resolving restored-file access/permissions issues and receiving positive CSAT feedback.”

“Unity VR developer with multiple shipped Meta Quest titles, including early hand-tracking projects where they stabilized an unstable SDK by inspecting source code and adapting their codebase. Built a largely solo Harry Potter-inspired VR game (Spell Bind) featuring voice-command spellcasting via Oculus Voice SDK plus hand-tracked wand interaction, which won the People's Choice Award at Gamebridge 2023.”

“Unity VR/AR developer with industrial training simulation experience (heavy machinery, electrical panel, arc welding) who improved user completion and retention by shipping a context-aware AI instructor. Uses Unity Analytics and in-game feedback to pinpoint drop-offs and drive measurable gains (e.g., 30%→75% completion; 60% drop-off fixed to reach 85%). Has also built multiplayer collaborative training prototypes with Photon PUN2 and strong Git/Unity workflow practices to reduce scene conflicts and technical debt.”

“Backend engineer focused on cloud-native microservices on AWS, owning Python/Flask ingestion services integrated with S3/Lambda and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD. Has led phased migrations from manually managed EC2 setups to automated CloudFormation + pipeline-driven releases, and designed event-driven near-real-time pipelines with idempotency, retry/backoff, and strong observability.”

“Engineering leader with a strong automation-first philosophy ("special treatment doesn't scale"), experienced in building self-service tooling and communicating clearly with executives via BLUF-style updates. Has delivered end-to-end business-driven solutions—from sourcing alternative vendor data to installing infrastructure and writing drivers/analytics—and led pragmatic architecture changes in R/Rserve that significantly improved performance while driving cloud costs toward near-zero.”

“Defense-domain AI engineer who built a production ReAct-style RAG system for military training data/material generation, scaling to ~1000 users and cutting generation time by 50%. Also has experience designing GPU-cluster parallel computation with PyTorch and handling production incidents involving database performance and schema design.”

“Backend engineer with airline operations domain experience who modernized flight-ops systems from batch updates to real-time streaming on AWS (Kafka + Spring Boot microservices), improving latency and stability through metric-driven tuning and idempotency. Also shipped a production LLM decision-support component using RAG over operational logs and internal procedures, with strong guardrails and an evaluation/regression loop to reduce hallucinations and enforce grounding.”

“Executive/engineering leader with 18+ years at an established company who helped turn a top-3 telco data opportunity into meaningful revenue and a continuing partnership to launch new data-driven products. Brings a security/privacy-first approach (compliance assessments and documentation) and a structured North Star + technical planning method for building with limited resources; interested in joining an early-stage founding journey with the right vision and team.”