Vetted Backend Development Professionals

“Internship at Discovery Education building a production LLM/RAG chatbot that let marketing and sales teams query and interpret Looker/BI dashboards in natural language, with responses grounded in compliance and state education standards. Emphasizes rigorous evaluation (faithfulness/precision/recall/latency) plus user-feedback analytics, and used LangChain for orchestration, chunking/context-window control, and integration with enterprise sources like SharePoint.”

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent LLM system at Solena that automated internal project intake, validation, reporting, and stakeholder communications using Python, SQL, and LangChain, with strong emphasis on reliability (structured validation, safe defaults, logging, and state tracking). Also used LangGraph to orchestrate a multi-step video summarization pipeline, and has experience partnering with non-technical stakeholders to define “completion” criteria and reporting needs.”

“Software/product engineer who owns customer-facing internal platforms end-to-end, with deep experience building data pipeline health and data quality tooling (near-real-time alerting and ops dashboards). Strong in React/TypeScript + Python REST architectures and microservices with RabbitMQ, emphasizing reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, correlation IDs) and fast, safe iteration via feature flags, testing, and observability.”

“Unity VR developer with deep hands-on experience optimizing and debugging standalone-headset VR projects (including Android/IL2CPP and XR interaction systems), though not yet credited with a Meta Quest store ship. Built and shipped a mostly solo Unity top-down shooter (Sand Bullet) on Steam, owning core gameplay, AI, UI/input, saves, performance, and an AWS-connected companion app integration.”

“Software engineer who builds workflow-centric products end-to-end, including a customer-facing module on the Trident AI content platform and an internal content workflow tool adopted as the default process. Strong in TypeScript/React + FastAPI architectures and in scaling event-driven microservices with RabbitMQ, emphasizing reliability (idempotency, DLQs) and observability (correlation IDs) to reduce outages and debugging time.”

“Engineering/CTO-style leader with hands-on architecture experience who has driven end-to-end modernization of a manual antiques auction operation—building centralized web-accessible data systems, digitizing historical records via OCR/freelancers, and defining profitability-focused KPIs with an eye toward predictive modeling. Emphasizes provider-agnostic, containerized SaaS architecture to avoid vendor lock-in and has experience scaling a small engineering team with ownership-based culture and lightweight processes.”

“Unity game developer with hands-on experience building a Hearthstone-like networked card game system: a centralized command queue driving deliberate, readable combat/interaction sequences with DOTween-based polish. Implemented authoritative multiplayer synchronization using Photon (self-hosted/PUN2) with client-side prediction, server reconciliation, and soft rollback to keep gameplay responsive while preserving state integrity; recently also working with Unity Netcode for GameObjects.”

“Unity game developer with hands-on gameplay AI experience (FSM-driven monsters with customized NavMeshAgent movement) focused on creating readable, high-tension survival encounters through iterative tuning. Has shipped/created 4 Unity games solo end-to-end (UI, animations, architecture, state machines) and has also built a full Python game server; some exposure to Photon Fusion and strong client/server REST API implementation experience.”

“Graduate-school lab engineer who built and owned the final architecture of a Microservices Hub that integrates REST APIs, issues API keys, monitors 10+ Linux servers, and visualizes service dependencies via a topology graph. Strong in bridging legacy and modern stacks (Dockerized and non-Dockerized services like Apache/screen) using deep Linux/networking knowledge, plus practical real-time audio streaming for STT/TTS and experience mentoring others.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with startup experience (SmartPath, OPC AI) who owned and evolved an internal React/TypeScript component library treated like OSS—refactoring core form and API wrapper modules for stability, type safety, and smaller bundles. Comfortable diagnosing production issues via logs/API traces and shipping end-to-end fixes with tests and documentation, including internal workshops to drive adoption.”

“Software engineer (internship experience) who built and owned an AWS serverless multi-user “challenge” feature end-to-end (UI + REST APIs + DynamoDB + deployment), delivering measurable gains in latency (-30%), debugging time (-50%), and join drop-offs (~-30%). Also productionized a multilingual RAG-based QA system with vector retrieval and guardrails, improving accuracy to ~85% and driving ~20% DAU growth.”

“AI/software engineer with hands-on experience deploying an LLM-powered quiz generation platform for students, integrating Python services with Gemini APIs plus frontend and database components. Emphasizes production-grade reliability through observability, schema validation, async processing, and performance tuning under high concurrency, and has collaborated with product/operators (e.g., at Colombo AI) to translate real-world constraints into scalable technical solutions.”

“Frontend engineer in fintech who led a client onboarding platform end-to-end, building a scalable React/TypeScript architecture with Redux-driven multi-step verification workflows. Strong focus on quality at scale through UI automation/E2E testing and CI/CD (GitHub Actions + Docker), enabling faster releases (bi-weekly to daily) while staying stable despite evolving backend APIs.”

“Frontend engineer/lead who has shipped multiple production applications including VentureRamp (multi-platform crowdfunding app, deployed early 2024), DataPotter (large-scale stakeholder tracking dashboard), and Nasdmobile (OTC stock trading app). Emphasizes scalable microfrontend/modular architecture, strong state management (React + TypeScript + Redux Toolkit), and disciplined release practices (feature flags, phased rollouts, monitoring) while leading teams through sprints and knowledge-sharing.”

“Unity developer with 12+ years spanning the early Oculus Rift era through modern VR/MR, including HoloLens and Magic Leap. Has delivered client-facing immersive experiences for brands like Pfizer and H&M/Moschino, and built reusable XR UI/tooling to speed up cross-platform VR/MR production. Also capable of full-stack solo game creation, winning awards for a self-built survival puzzle game made in a 48-hour game jam.”