Vetted Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Professionals

Timothy Flechtner

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in games, platforms, and real-time systems

23y exp

“Engineering leader with gaming and fintech/trading-firm experience who built a sponsor-funded gaming rewards platform (AmEx-style) requiring integrations across Steam/Epic/Xbox/PlayStation and Discord. Emphasizes production-grade, 12-factor delivery with Terraform/Docker/CI/CD and automated testing, plus pragmatic org scaling and remote-team culture built on aligned autonomy and trust.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production recommendation and GenAI systems, spanning experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Stands out for delivering measurable outcomes—22% CTR lift, 15% conversion lift, and a 30% reduction in support tickets—while demonstrating strong judgment on latency, cost, and safety tradeoffs in real-world systems.”

Viacheslav Bulba

Screened

Senior QA Automation Engineer specializing in UI/API test automation and CI/CD

Las Vegas, Nevada15y exp

“QA professional with 15+ years testing a variety of applications (not games), experienced partnering with developers/designers/product owners across the feature lifecycle. Brings a disciplined, methodology-driven approach to test design, regression coverage, and high-quality defect reporting using tools like Jira, TestRail, qTest, and HPQC; targeting ~100K base (flexible based on total package).”

“Backend/data engineer focused on production-grade Python services and AWS platforms: builds FastAPI microservices on EKS with strong reliability patterns, CI/CD, and observability. Also delivers AWS Glue/Redshift analytics pipelines with schema-evolution and data-quality safeguards, and has modernized legacy batch processing into maintainable services with parallel-run parity validation and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“QA automation engineer with 7+ years across finance/healthcare/utility/services, specializing in Selenium + Cucumber and building automation frameworks. Has tested machine-learning-powered claims prediction features and uncovered complex timing/concurrency failures in subscription payments by simulating delayed webhooks and parallel execution, then driving production fixes end-to-end using disciplined Jira workflows.”

Sowmya Kasu

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Healthcare IT and cloud-native microservices

Northridge, CA6y exp

“Backend/ML engineer with healthcare experience at Kaiser Permanente building HIPAA-compliant Java/Spring Boot + GraphQL APIs integrated with Epic HealthConnect, including hands-on reliability/performance debugging using Prometheus/Grafana and resolver-level N+1 elimination. Also built an end-to-end malaria parasite detection ML feature (CNN/R-CNN) with evaluation, guardrails, and workflow integration, and has experience designing robust state-machine-based automation with retries, DLQs, and alerting.”

“QA automation engineer with strong Cypress/JavaScript experience in healthcare claims and eligibility systems, owning end-to-end regression suites that combine UI, API, and SQL/database validations. Known for catching subtle pricing/benefit calculation defects (copay/deductible/accumulator issues) before release, stabilizing flaky CI tests via API synchronization, and shaping requirements early to improve testability and reduce downstream rework.”

Nidhip Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack systems

United States3y exp

“Backend Java engineer with strong platform/DevOps experience: modernized an insurance claims legacy monolith into DDD-aligned microservices, deployed containerized services on Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and static analysis gates, and implemented GitOps using ArgoCD. Also led major AWS migration planning with dependency mapping and network monitoring to uncover hidden dependencies, and built Kafka-based real-time event streaming with schema-registry-driven evolution.”

“QA automation engineer focused on end-to-end quality for a CMS lien registration workflow, owning a Playwright-based regression suite covering high-risk paths (creation, amendments, cancellation, batch file validation). Demonstrated impact by catching a UI change that bypassed required-field validation pre-release, stabilizing flaky CI tests using network-response signals, and driving clearer acceptance criteria and observability improvements (request IDs in logs) through cross-functional collaboration.”

Sivapriya Rachakonda

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices on AWS and Kubernetes

Remote, USA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built a stateless Python/Flask service supporting a healthcare-document ETL pipeline, offloading heavy processing to Celery workers and adding strong observability (metrics, structured logs, audits). Demonstrates practical performance/reliability work: batch chunking, priority queues, autoscaling by queue depth/CPU, DLQ routing, and PostgreSQL tuning (indexes, pagination) to cut slow API responses. Also has experience deploying real-time ML classification via TensorFlow Serving behind a FastAPI wrapper and integrating models via REST/gRPC.”

“QA automation engineer with deep experience owning end-to-end Cypress/JavaScript test suites (smoke, regression, and API contract tests) integrated into GitHub CI with merge gating and rich reporting. Demonstrated healthcare enrollment domain expertise by catching a critical eligibility versioning/overwrite defect via API + DB assertions that UI tests missed, then hardening the pipeline with contract tests and idempotency checks.”

“Backend/platform engineer with State Farm experience modernizing and scaling an enterprise consolidated payment data platform and event-driven pipelines. Built cloud-native payment architecture (ECS->EKS) handling millions of financial transactions/day and high-volume telemetry (~100M events/day), with strong schema governance (Avro + schema registry) and production operations/incident mitigation driven by observability.”

Hrishi Kamal Earla

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech microservices

Remote, CA7y exp

“JavaScript/React engineer with hands-on open-source library contribution experience, including thoughtful PRs that improved error handling, API flexibility, and added features backed by tests and documentation. Demonstrates a profiling-first approach to UI/runtime performance (memoization, component splitting, render-path optimization) and strong community support skills—reproducing edge cases, delivering sustainable fixes, and communicating workarounds and releases.”

Manali Kishor Gawande

Screened

Junior SDET/QA Automation Engineer specializing in FinTech testing and CI/CD automation

Tempe, AZ2y exp

“QA automation engineer from Bajaj Finance who owned end-to-end automated test suites for large-scale web/mobile products (70M+ users), building Python and API automation integrated with Jenkins/Azure DevOps. Drove measurable quality outcomes (40% less regression effort, 35% fewer production defects, 98% successful UAT across 25+ releases) and has strong fintech lending domain experience (loan disbursement/repayment/eligibility).”