Vetted C Professionals

“Software engineer who built and launched an end-to-end Ad Scheduler that automated campaign creation across Google Ads and Meta using Azure Functions/Service Bus, PostgreSQL, and a React frontend—reducing manual marketing ops work. Also shipped a production internal RAG chatbot leveraging a data warehouse + Cube semantic layer, Gemini embeddings, vector search, and Claude, with Langfuse tracing and brand-based access controls; work was cut short due to layoffs.”

“Serial entrepreneur since leaving corporate in 2009, working largely for equity on multiple startups. Building (1) academically rigorous, anti-overfitting quant/backtesting tools for retail investors (with potential applicability to smaller hedge funds lacking quant staff) and (2) a partner-led “social-as-a-service” platform for verticals like real estate/PropTech (including FSBO use cases) focused on first-party data capture vs. big tech.”

“Robotics software builder who developed a solo fault-adaptive robotic arm: current-based joint health monitoring feeding an ESP32, ROS 2/MoveIt 2 motion planning that adapts to joint failures, and a custom brute-force IK solver to overcome URDF/MoveIt singularity issues. Also worked on real-time 12-microphone sensor-fusion audio processing for drone navigation, resolving buffer/noise problems with multithreading and chunked sampling; experienced with Webots/CoppeliaSim and learning Isaac Sim.”

“Technology leader focused on business-aligned roadmaps and integration-heavy ecommerce platforms. Recently delivered an on-time launch for lutusooking.com (a premium Hamilton Beach brand) by coordinating UX/UI, component-based middleware, BigCommerce, Algolia search, personalization/recommendations, payments, and supply chain integrations, and later improved scalability via a Jitterbit iPaaS approach proven during Black Friday/Cyber Monday traffic.”

“Backend engineer with healthcare domain experience building AI-driven radiology workflow systems. Evolved tightly coupled APIs into secure, reliable FastAPI-based services by moving heavy imaging/data processing into idempotent asynchronous pipelines with retries, feature-flagged incremental rollout, and strong data-integrity controls (constraints, backfills, validation). Strong focus on defense-in-depth security for sensitive patient data (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, and database-level protections).”

“Backend engineer who built and launched a warehouse locations/inventory microservice for Walmart, supporting a new product rollout with on-call war-room ownership and now running across all US distribution centers. Emphasizes reliability and correctness (background syncs, 2PC concepts, alerting) plus design-first API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth/JWT and RBAC, and has led staged legacy-to-microservice migrations with continuous data integrity verification.”

“Backend engineer focused on Node.js (Express/Fastify) and MongoDB who designed a multi-stage bill-approval workflow system for a manufacturing company, emphasizing RBAC, auditability, and scalability across multiple factory units. Also improved system robustness by catching a MongoDB connection leak in an Excise department project and has experience executing low-risk, incremental backend refactors with monitoring and rollback.”

“Software engineer who built and owned a centralized Asset Management platform at Hyundai Mobis used daily by multiple internal teams, delivering everything from UI/TypeScript React frontend to Spring Boot services, databases, deployment, and post-release support. Experienced in scaling microservices with Kafka-based async workflows, improving data consistency/real-time updates, and implementing reliability patterns like standardized API contracts, retries, DLQs, and targeted caching.”

“LLM/agent builder who has shipped production AI systems in the wellness space, including an LLM-powered food tracking product used by 5000+ users and a voice/call-routing onboarding workflow using LangGraph/LangChain with LiveKit and Twilio. Strong focus on practical reliability work: latency reduction, retrieval/embedding tuning, and CI-driven evaluation with simulations and metrics.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who owned and deployed EcoHero, a recycling guidance app using FastAPI + Firebase with barcode lookup, ZIP-code-based state rules, and user history tracking backed by 50 state datasets. Has hands-on Kubernetes + Docker experience and uses GitHub Actions and GitOps-style PR workflows for consistent deployments, plus event-driven async processing patterns with idempotency and retries.”

“Software engineer with BitSight experience owning and revitalizing a critical internal Entity Management Portal (Django/React), clearing 30+ backlog items and boosting internal workflow efficiency ~40% through performance re-architecture (Redis caching) and disciplined testing. Also built a collaborative chore management platform (React/FastAPI) emphasizing responsiveness (optimistic UI) and scalability (connection pooling, Docker), and improved microservices security by centralizing secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager across multi-cloud environments.”

“Built and deployed a production real-time voice AI support agent that answers inbound calls, identifies callers, troubleshoots via a knowledge base, and automatically creates/updates tickets with escalation to humans when needed. Demonstrates strong reliability/latency engineering (streaming, schema validation, idempotency, DB constraints) and uses LangGraph state machines plus OpenAI Agents SDK for multi-agent routing, with KPI-driven testing and monitoring.”

“Embedded/software candidate who built an arcade-style game on a PSoC6 ARM microcontroller using FreeRTOS and custom peripheral/protocol drivers, ultimately completing the project as the sole developer. Also brings strong systems tooling exposure (Docker-heavy coursework, Kubernetes familiarity) plus internship experience at Accenture working with CI/CD-based validation and debugging in a client environment.”

“JavaScript/Node.js engineer with open-source contribution experience (Mongoose) focused on connection pooling, test reliability, and memory/resource management. Has diagnosed and fixed real-world performance issues in an insurance claims application and improved resilience via failover DB design. Also experienced producing compliance/governance documentation for an EU-based biopharma, enabling stakeholders to make decisions quickly amid changing regulations.”

“Software engineer with experience at PTC (Onshape cloud CAD) and Firebolt building customer-facing features end-to-end—from user research and prototyping (tooltips, CSV imports) through deployment and usage monitoring. Also handled urgent production crashes in a Flutter mobile app across iOS/Android by diagnosing state-management conflicts and shipping a stabilizing patch; enjoys hands-on, customer-facing work and travel.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who ships AI-enabled products end-to-end: built CodeChat, a production internal codebase Q&A tool using RAG with Pinecone and a model-agnostic wrapper across OpenAI/Anthropic/AWS Bedrock, cutting AWS costs ~50% and latency ~45%. Also built and operated RealityStream, a Flask-based real-time forecasting API with JWT/RBAC, MLflow model versioning, and Prometheus/Grafana observability, including handling a real production latency incident via rollback, preloading, and caching.”

“UE5 gameplay/system designer with an engineering background who has shipped player-facing systems including an enemy weak-point feature (with replication and performance fixes) and a modular spectator minigame framework for Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game. Also implemented lobby mode and disconnect team-balancing (AI backfill) for Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, leveraging profiling/debug tooling and cross-discipline collaboration to get features to shipping quality.”

“Full-stack engineer with early-stage startup experience who shipped and owned production Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) features end-to-end, including auth-aware APIs, caching, and post-launch monitoring/iteration. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability chops across React UX optimization, Postgres analytics modeling/query tuning (validated via query plans), and durable ingestion workflows with retries/idempotency.”

“Backend/real-time systems engineer transitioning into robotics software: building ROS 2 fundamentals (pub/sub, custom messages, launch files) and experimenting with Nav2 + SLAM in Gazebo/RViz. Demonstrated practical debugging by tuning costmaps/planners and analyzing topic latency to stabilize simulated navigation, and has experience integrating telemetry pipelines and REST-based external interfaces.”

“Backend/microservices engineer (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, Angular microfrontends) with Teradata experience building distributed analytics/query routing platforms and delivering 20–30% latency reductions through event-driven redesign and reliability hardening. Also built and shipped an end-to-end multimodal medical imaging AI feature (LLaVA/Mistral 7B + LoRA) with production guardrails like confidence-based human review, drift monitoring, and audit logs.”

“Built a Python-based geospatial machine learning backend for PFAS contamination risk mapping, including reproducible feature pipelines, ensemble modeling, and a FastAPI layer for visualization/analysis. Emphasizes data integrity and robustness (CRS/coverage checks, fail-fast validation) and has led safe backend refactors using feature flags, idempotent backfills, and Postgres RLS for secure, queryable results delivery.”

“DXArts PhD researcher and recent UW capstone contributor building autonomous robotics systems with ROS2 (SLAM Toolbox, Nav2) and Gazebo simulation. Currently focused on integrating a 9-DOF SparkFun IMU with motor controls on Raspberry Pi, and developing OpenCV ArUco-marker tracking for an automated BlueROV that can locate and retrieve underwater targets in collaboration with mechanical engineering.”

“Built a healthcare app backend and supporting product pieces from scratch for Maverick Health—covering database schema, API structure, Node.js implementation, and UI design in Figma—while targeting 10,000 patients and keeping AWS run costs to ~$20–$30/month. Shipped an Android closed beta on Google Play and handled real-world launch hurdles like privacy policy compliance and push notification infrastructure.”

“Lead Robotics Software Engineer (forREAL, inc.) who built a production-ready indoor 3D reconstruction + autonomy stack: factor-graph multi-sensor SLAM (GTSAM), Gaussian-splatting virtual tours, RRT* planning over voxelized reconstructions, and 3D object anchoring using Grounding DINO + SAM2. Has deployed ROS2 systems across drones, AMRs, and ADAS simulation (CARLA), and supported multi-robot surgical platforms at Noah Medical using DDS namespaces/topic remapping.”