Vetted Backend Development Professionals

Balaji Vellaluru

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and computer vision systems

Chicago, IL3y exp

“Built D.O.C.T.O.R, a 0-to-1 anatomy learning platform with 450+ 3D models that reached 6,500+ users, saved $850K versus a costly alternative, and was featured in a University of Illinois Chicago news article. The candidate combines product initiative with hands-on full-stack execution, spanning React/Three.js, databases, auth, analytics, and AI workflow automation side projects.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved Python/FastAPI services (including AWS-deployed ML prediction APIs) for real-time profitability and risk insights at TenXengage. Emphasizes pragmatic architecture, strong validation/observability, and secure access controls (RBAC + row-level filtering), and has led safe migrations via parallel runs and incremental rollouts; reports ~20% forecasting accuracy improvement.”

Kruti Mehta

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and FinTech analytics

Maryland, USA5y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, high-leverage approach to AI-assisted development: uses AI and multi-agent workflows aggressively for implementation and internal tooling, while maintaining strict human oversight for user-facing features. Stands out for treating agents like junior engineers, breaking work into actionable tasks, and combining robust testing, local E2E validation, and feature-flag rollouts to safely ship production code.”

Snigdha Reddy Podduturi

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Data & AI Engineer specializing in cloud AI and analytics

Remote3y exp

“Built production AI backend systems in healthcare and e-commerce, including a healthcare agent that automated clinical workflows like medication refills, immunizations, and scheduling using FHIR APIs and cloud-native infrastructure. Strong in end-to-end backend ownership, LLM orchestration, and adding guardrails/validation for high-stakes and customer-facing AI workflows.”

“Full-stack developer who uses AI deliberately rather than blindly, keeping generated code to a minority of core feature work so they retain full understanding of data flow. Built a React/TypeScript + Supabase task management app and shows strong judgment around debugging hallucinated schema/query output, refactoring for maintainability, and prioritizing security and logic over boilerplate speed.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a custom LMS end to end with Next.js, TypeScript, Python, AWS, and S3, owning the learning module experience and structured progress tracking. Also shipped a bilingual English-Swahili caregiver support WhatsApp chatbot using OpenAI, with strong attention to safety boundaries, anonymous logging, prompt iteration, and real-world deployment in a sensitive support context.”

“Unity developer who has shipped VR games on Meta Quest/Oculus Go and demonstrates strong performance engineering for constrained hardware (multithreading, Unity Job System, Jump Point Search). Has built multiple games largely solo (e.g., Tap & Conquer), handling UI/flow, core gameplay, and save systems, and uses AI to speed up build/test/backup automation via shell scripting.”

Nobin Johnson

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack, cloud, and mobile development

Buffalo, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer with open-source web3.js contributions focused on preventing costly smart-contract execution failures, plus hands-on blockchain startup experience scaling an NFT mint from a test EC2 setup to AWS Lambda/API Gateway under extreme concurrency. Built a multiplayer backend improving tick rate from 40 Hz to 105 Hz using UDP, containerization, and Kubernetes, and has healthcare production support experience across 10+ apps. Also publishes IEEE research papers and produces developer-friendly documentation that accelerates team adoption.”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with strong systems-level experience shipping and optimizing a mobile 6v6 FPS, including custom pooling, input, networking, and anti-cheat architecture. Stands out for combining deep performance engineering with practical AI-assisted development workflows that helped deliver a prototype in one week, plus end-to-end ownership of a separate web app built for a doctor under a tight deadline.”

Ronald Forte

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in AI APIs and RAG systems

0y exp

“Junior/entry-level AI/LLM engineer who built a production-oriented RAG onboarding and knowledge assistant that ingests GitHub repos and internal sources (e.g., Confluence/Jira) using ChromaDB, with reliability features like retrieval fallbacks, retries, caching, and monitoring. Currently implementing a LangGraph-based multi-agent workflow with intent routing and Pydantic/Magentic-validated structured outputs, plus CI/CD offline evals and online metrics (Grafana/Prometheus) to improve predictability and reliability.”

“Unity/VR engineer with nearly 15 years of experience, specializing in multiplayer architecture, cross-platform systems, and developer tooling. He built and shipped a reusable Unity Netcode-based multiplayer stack with authentication, matchmaking, Vivox voice chat, and custom host migration that reportedly improved development speed by 70% to 80%, and has also supported releases across Meta Quest, consoles, and mobile-related ecosystems.”

Žarko Petrović

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Director-level Unity Engineer specializing in multiplayer, WebGL/WebGPU, and XR

Stockholm, Sweden15y exp

“Lead Unity engineer who shipped a Meta Quest VR free-to-play poker title, tackling hand-tracking controls, physics-driven chip interactions, and large-room multiplayer with anti-cheat needs. Also independently built a mobile real-time multiplayer racing game through beta, including backend, progression, on-demand track delivery, and a custom car physics engine.”

Mudit Devenkumar Choksi

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps, automation, and cloud systems

Louisville, KY2y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience owning end-to-end industrial automation deployments and real-time data systems. Most notably led a multi-million dollar warehouse automation implementation that reduced manual intervention by 25%, while also building streaming text analytics pipelines and strengthening production reliability through robust observability and pipeline controls.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end Python/Postgres job-tracker backend that scrapes job postings (including LinkedIn) using Selenium-driven real-browser automation, with deduplication and data-quality filtering. Has practical experience migrating deployments from DigitalOcean to Vercel and emphasizes documentation, roadmapping, and testing as part of an iterative delivery cycle.”

“AWS-focused backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building serverless APIs (Lambda/API Gateway) secured with Cognito/JWT, deploying via Terraform + CI/CD, and managing secrets with Secrets Manager/Parameter Store. Also built AWS Glue ETL from S3 to RDS with schema evolution and data-quality controls, modernized a monolith into microservices using parallel testing, and delivered major SQL performance gains (minutes to seconds) while owning incident response for batch pipelines.”