Vetted Backend Development Professionals

“Engineering leader/player-coach who redesigned A/B testing and observability infrastructure for real-time audio/video features at 90M+ DAU scale, using Kafka-based ingestion and horizontally scalable aggregation for near real-time metrics. Managed 10–15 engineers, drove >20% infrastructure cost reduction without user-experience regressions, and led major peak-traffic incident response with lasting reliability improvements (load testing, capacity planning, alerting, pre-mortems).”

adam melhem

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Executive Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in .NET and Angular

Israel12y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with Python experience building network design/exploration tooling integrated into an existing infrastructure framework via APIs, including use of graph algorithms for routing/target discovery. Has also supported .NET to .NET Core and database migrations by strengthening test infrastructure, and improved messaging-system stability (RabbitMQ) through performance monitoring and memory leak troubleshooting.”

Anupam Sistla

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development, cloud, and automation

2y exp

“Robotics software engineer who built an autonomous debris-clearing rover software stack end-to-end using ROS 2, Python/OpenCV, and YOLOv3, with strong emphasis on real-time reliability (latency instrumentation, stale-data handling, watchdog fail-safes). Also implemented a Docker CI/CD deployment system for remote Raspberry Pi timelapse devices, distributing updates via AWS S3 to handle intermittent connectivity.”

“Independent product builder with several live startups spanning transit, gaming, and SaaS/API tools. Notably built a Cyprus bus routes app before transit data was broadly available on Google Maps, and is currently maintaining products like CountriesDB and HolidayDB while pursuing SEO-led growth and validating ideas solo before expanding.”

“Full-stack product engineer in a high-growth startup environment who led a revenue- and retention-driving Loyalty Pass feature end-to-end using Next.js App Router, TypeScript, and Postgres. They pair strong frontend performance instincts with backend reliability work, including Stripe-based onboarding/billing refactors, idempotent workflows, and production observability.”

Raunak Bandyopadhyay

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Intern-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and web systems

Amherst, MA0y exp

“Backend-focused intern in telehealth who combined engineering, QA leadership, and emergency infrastructure ownership. Built a text chat feature and an OpenAI-powered therapy chatbot, then stepped up to rebuild AWS infrastructure after it was accidentally deleted, while also improving chat responsiveness and reporting a 30% engagement lift.”

“Python/backend engineer with a data-systems focus who actively integrates AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and multiple coding assistants into development workflows. Stands out for using AI pragmatically across coding, debugging, SQL, testing, and documentation while maintaining hands-on ownership of validation, implementation, and code quality.”

“Backend engineer with research and industry experience building data-intensive systems for healthcare and IoT. Built Python/Flask/FastAPI services with real-time ingestion and ETL into relational databases, emphasizing data quality, performance tuning, and secure access controls (JWT, RBAC, row-level filtering). Notably caught hardware-driven sensor anomalies others missed and implemented quarantine/alerting to prevent bad data from corrupting analytics.”

“Backend/cloud engineer with hands-on ownership of a climate data extraction pipeline (BeautifulSoup + Pandas ETL + CRON) that automated 50k+ monthly data points and removed ~20 hours/week of manual work. Also built a multi-AZ Kubernetes deployment for a Node.js system using Terraform and GitHub Actions (blue-green, rollbacks) and has Kafka/FastAPI experience from a healthcare plan management project.”

“Internship experience at Paycom owning an end-to-end personalized course recommendation feature for an LMS, spanning SQL-based data pipelines, ML integration, and FastAPI REST services for real-time recommendations. Focused on production tradeoffs (latency vs. accuracy), scaling/SQL optimization, and post-launch iteration driven by engagement metrics.”

Lincoln Oh

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Mid-level Full-Stack/MES Software Engineer specializing in manufacturing systems

Glendale, KY5y exp

“Software engineer with hands-on experience delivering production-floor applications in manufacturing environments: built a PDA-friendly web app integrated with Oracle PL/SQL and deployed it on-site in a live warehouse, then iterated via tight feedback loops. Also rebuilt a broken assembly QR label printing workflow as a WPF Windows desktop tool and rolled it out across factory processes with operator training; additionally built a TypeScript/Node/Express/MongoDB app deployed on AWS (EC2/S3).”

Sangat Shah

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and React/Node.js

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a serverless AWS platform for large-scale live screening events with real-time chat/feedback and streaming (API Gateway/Lambda/DynamoDB/WebSockets/IVS, IaC via Pulumi). Led production refactors and phased migrations using feature flags and dual-write strategies, and has hands-on experience implementing JWT auth, RBAC, and database-enforced row-level security for multi-tenant systems.”

Sreshta Reddy Basi Reddy

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Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in systems, data, and full-stack development

Hyderabad, India1y exp

“Built a production-style hackathon prototype for analyzing healthcare facility data and identifying medical deserts via natural-language queries. Stands out for a pragmatic applied-AI approach: separating retrieval from LLM reasoning, using structured JSON outputs, and designing fallbacks and data-quality checks to keep recommendations grounded and reliable.”

“Backend Python engineer who has built an LLM agentic tutoring/assignment helper with a custom pipeline for parsing visually complex textbooks (integrating AlibabaResearch VGT and implementing missing preprocessing from the paper), improving RAG grounding with ~90% cleaner extracted text. Also led major platform scaling work by refactoring monolithic image processing into Celery-based async microservices on AWS (GPU/CUDA + S3), and implemented Kafka streaming for payment webhooks with strict ordering, idempotency, and multi-zone fault tolerance.”

“Backend/data engineer with aerospace telemetry and reporting experience across RTX and other orgs, spanning Python/FastAPI microservices, AWS serverless/containers, and AWS Glue-to-Redshift analytics pipelines. Has led legacy modernization with parallel-run parity validation and incremental rollout, and demonstrates strong operational ownership (monitoring, incident response, and cost optimization).”

“QA automation engineer with hands-on ownership of both UI and API test automation, including building an API test module from scratch to validate all Swagger-exposed endpoints with positive/negative coverage and pairwise optimization. Experienced stabilizing flaky Cypress tests through improved selectors (data-cy) and API-call synchronization, and integrating tiered test suites into GitLab CI with merge/release gates plus JUnit/HTML reporting and Slack notifications.”

JUNG NO

Screened

Senior Solutions Engineer & Applied AI Builder specializing in agentic workflows

Remote, US9y exp

“Built and shipped a production AI booking/quoting system for a Spanish-speaking cleaning business serving English-speaking customers, covering the full booking and payment flow and generating bilingual SEO/AEO content. Uses Gemini/Genkit with multi-agent orchestration (ADK/MCP, LangChain) and a production stack on Vertex AI + Cloud Run + Terraform, with analytics wired from Google Analytics to BigQuery for measurable agent performance.”

Stuart Brooks

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Senior VR and Gameplay Programmer specializing in Unity and immersive interaction systems

Stockholm, Sweden10y exp

“Unity gameplay engineer with hands-on experience building infinite procedural large-world terrain systems and solving floating-point precision problems in multiplayer scenarios where players can be widely dispersed. Has shipped/operated Photon-based multiplayer and also built custom server-authoritative networking with client-side prediction and reconciliation, including late-stage stabilization work fixing sync bugs that caused soft locks.”

Francesco Brischetto

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Mid-level Game/VR Software Engineer specializing in Unity and Unreal multiplayer

Catania, Italy4y exp

“Unity/VR multiplayer developer with Photon Fusion experience who focuses on "game feel" and networking performance—profiling input/velocity to replace linear interpolation with Animation Curves, and refining camera smoothing to improve playtest feedback. Also has Unreal Engine C++ multiplayer experience with Epic Online Services and applies bandwidth-minimization strategies for smooth real-time VR under latency.”

“Unity mobile game developer (10+ years) who has shipped 15+ iOS/Android titles (including Word Collect, Trivia Start, Word Nut, Hot Las Vegas Slots). Built a large-scale adventure/quest progression feature with 1000+ quests using procedural map generation, UI virtualization for mobile memory constraints, and a server-driven, spreadsheet-importable configuration system that became a reusable standard across games. Based in San Diego (PST) and targeting $155k USD; open to contract or full-time.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at Ramp, Easebuzz, and George Mason University, spanning data pipelines, workflow automation, and production reliability. Stands out for quantifiable performance gains, strong debugging instincts in distributed job systems, and translating ambiguous finance operations processes into measurable automation outcomes.”

“Built and deployed a full-stack web product for international football fans visiting the U.S. for FIFA, owning everything from crawling and aggregating event data to frontend, backend, deployment, and maintenance. Particularly strong in data-heavy product work, using LLMs, Google Maps API, and SQL/RPC patterns to improve data quality, speed implementation, and support a polished user experience.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a multi-tenant SaaS analytics dashboard end-to-end with Next.js App Router/TypeScript, emphasizing server components + React Query for performance and real-time UX. Demonstrated strong production ownership post-launch (observability, DB/query tuning, caching strategy) and has concrete wins like 30–40% load-time reduction and Postgres query latency cut to under 200ms.”

“Solo developer who built and operated an AI debate product end-to-end, from architecture and deployment through observability and post-launch stabilization. They show strong practical LLM production experience—using Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI, Langfuse, Mem0, and custom RAG—while improving latency to sub-4 seconds, driving failures near zero, and cutting LLM usage by 20%.”