Pre-screened and vetted.
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in .NET, Python, and cloud-native systems
“Full-stack engineer who owned an end-to-end production feature for a Piraeus Bank stock exchange module, spanning React/TypeScript, backend services, and cloud operations with Docker + CI/CD, delivering reported 90% faster API responses and improved uptime. Also built a Smartwound research MVP on AWS, creating a Python image-processing/scoring pipeline to ship despite unclear image-analysis specs.”
Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices
“Full-stack engineer with experience at Capital One and Prime Softech owning production systems end-to-end: secure authentication (Java/Spring Security + React/Redux) through AWS ECS deployments with Terraform and CI/CD. Strong reliability/observability focus (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK/CloudWatch) with quantified improvements (15% reliability gain, 30% fewer post-release defects). Also led legacy monolith-to-microservices refactors and built real-time Kafka/Spark ingestion pipelines for analytics/fraud detection.”
Senior Game Designer specializing in gameplay systems, progression, and prototyping
“Game designer with shipped experience creating and tuning alternative modes for a beer-pong-inspired title (Bounce Shot), including convention playtests that turned modes into fan favorites and sparked community-run tournaments. Also contributed to late-game retention improvements on Deer Hunter 2014 by increasing mission variety through themed animal randomization, generating organic buzz across forums and social channels. Prototypes quickly in UE5 Blueprints and writes implementation-ready mode specs with UX/animation/economy considerations.”
Staff RPA & Automation Engineer specializing in Financial Services
“Blue Prism RPA developer in a small FinTech-aligned team who owned ~20 production bots and drove both delivery and reliability. Built a shared VDI/locking design that cut infrastructure cost ~20–30% and routinely handled ServiceNow-driven production incidents end-to-end, including hotfixes and longer-term SDLC fixes. Also acted as a player-coach, training junior hires and maintaining high bot success rates (up to 99% within SLA).”
“Full-stack engineer with payments-domain experience from ACI Worldwide who shipped an end-to-end MFA system for payment workflows (React/TypeScript + backend APIs + Postgres), then owned it in production with logging/monitoring and client adoption tracking. Also improved checkout responsiveness across Apple Pay/PayPal flows via React performance profiling, component refactors, and state/network optimizations.”
Intern Software Engineer specializing in robotics, embedded systems, and AI
“Senior design robotics engineer on a "Grocery Robot" project selected for the final round of the $10K SICK Challenge, owning ROS2 system design and behavior-tree-based task orchestration across multiple independently developed modules. Also implemented I2C/ESP32 collision avoidance, IK control for a robotic arm, and a Node.js ordering system, with additional research experience using RPLIDAR-based SLAM.”
Junior AI Software Engineer specializing in LLM applications and real-time retrieval
“Founding engineer at Novum AI building a real-time call analytics/suggestion backend (transcription + sentiment/tone + context retrieval) using a serverless architecture. Drove major latency improvements (about 4s down to sub-1.5s) and has practical experience hardening production APIs (FastAPI/Pydantic, auth with Cognito/Redis) and payment systems (Stripe) by surfacing overlooked subscription and multi-tenant billing edge cases.”
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring backend and event-driven systems
“Backend engineer from Optum who built and optimized a real-time, Kafka-driven healthcare claims processing platform handling 1M+ claims/month. Strong in reliability, state management, and observability for distributed systems, plus production deployment automation with Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD; no direct ROS/robotics simulator experience yet but frames work in robotics-adjacent real-time principles.”
Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI and LLM production systems
“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered workflow assistant that automated internal marketing/production business tasks (document summarization, repeated Q&A, status updates). Demonstrates end-to-end applied LLM engineering: modular RAG architecture, hallucination/latency mitigation, automated evals to prevent prompt regressions, and Azure-based orchestration (Functions/Logic Apps) with monitoring and controlled rollouts.”
Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in React and scalable web applications
“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across FastAPI microservices and AWS data platforms. Has delivered serverless and Glue/EMR-based ETL pipelines with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Sentry, CloudWatch/SNS), schema-evolution resilience, and measurable SQL performance wins (5 min to <30 sec). Open to onsite meetings in the Bethesda, MD area and flexible on remote arrangements.”
Senior Unity/C# Developer specializing in mobile and VR games
“Unity gameplay engineer with hands-on experience spanning AI behavior-tree architecture (Behavior Designer), authoritative multiplayer networking (Photon/Mirror), and aggressive VR (Meta Quest) optimization. Built designer-friendly tooling (Excel-driven balancing, prefab automation bridging Marvelous Designer/Blender/Unity) and has experience mentoring juniors within an entity/HMVC-based architecture at Playtica.”
Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in cloud-native LLM systems and RAG
“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG copilots and multi-agent workflows, including a real-time Llama3 (Ollama) copilot backend handling 12k+ concurrent queries at 99.9% uptime. Deep on orchestration (Langflow/Airflow/Kubernetes), reliability evaluation (hallucination detection, p95 latency, token cost), and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), with demonstrated stakeholder-facing analytics delivery via Tableau.”
Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in React and enterprise SaaS
“Frontend engineer in an insurance SaaS white-label environment who transformed a fragmented ecosystem of 100+ duplicated React repos into a scalable platform using versioned NPM libraries (CommonWeb/WorkflowWeb). Built a JSON-driven, multi-step quote and payment workflow in React+TypeScript with Redux-Saga for complex async orchestration and reliability (idempotency, retries, takeLatest). Delivered measurable impact: 35% bundle reduction, onboarding cut from weeks to days, and bug fixes propagated across clients in hours.”
Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native web applications
“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing and internal web portals end-to-end (API, database, React UI, and deployment). Experienced designing multi-service architectures with Node/Express and Java/Spring Boot plus RabbitMQ/Kafka messaging, emphasizing contract/versioning discipline, observability, and operational tooling that measurably reduces support load and manual work.”
Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech
“Backend-focused engineer with Mastercard experience building and operating high-volume transaction-processing microservices. Has owned customer-facing banking services end-to-end and built an internal on-call analytics tool that centralized logs/metrics with real-time filtering to speed root-cause analysis and reduce incident investigation time.”
Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, microservices, and AI-enhanced workflows
“Significant contributor/maintainer to an open-source JavaScript event-tracking client SDK, owning API consistency/backward compatibility, high-load batching and retry/backoff improvements, and test/CI + documentation upgrades. Diagnosed production-like issues (missing events under load) via reproduction and logging, then reduced GC pressure and improved predictability with a ring-buffer-based batching redesign while actively triaging issues and reviewing PRs.”
Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend and full-stack development
“Backend Python engineer who owned an AI-driven healthcare staffing matching service, rebuilding the model inference/data pipeline to eliminate blocking bottlenecks and cutting API latency by ~33%. Experienced running Python services on Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD, and has executed a cloud-to-on-prem rollout under tight resource and tooling constraints while also building event-driven streaming updates via a message broker.”
Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI and full-stack web platforms
“Full-stack TypeScript engineer with early-stage startup experience (HomePulse; sole US engineer) who ships and owns production features end-to-end—routing/state design, API contracts, caching/pagination, and post-launch monitoring/optimization. Has delivered performance-sensitive React UIs (virtualized large datasets, React Query caching, Suspense loading patterns) and built durable job-queue workflows with idempotency/retries, plus SQL Server relational modeling for internal ticketing and knowledge-retrieval workflows.”
Director-level Technology Leader specializing in web platforms, Azure SaaS, and AI-driven delivery
“Candidate claims responsibility for end-to-end technical delivery and describes a structured four-phase delivery process (discovery, design/wireframes, build/testing with quality and velocity focus, and smooth launch). They declined to provide any specific project case studies, technologies, incidents, management examples, or compensation details during the screen.”
Senior Software Engineering Manager specializing in cloud-native distributed systems (FinTech & Healthcare)
“Engineering leader/player-coach who has led 40+ developers across multiple teams on large financial services web applications (Wells Fargo) and previously delivered a banking mobile app MVP in 6 months with a junior team by setting patterns and CI/CD foundations. Strong in production reliability practices (Splunk monitoring, feature flags, throttled rollouts) and has driven measurable quality/velocity wins, including a 60% faster E2E test framework and a rapid 2-day hotfix during a React 16→18 migration.”
Senior Gameplay Systems Programmer specializing in AAA game systems and networking
“Gameplay engineer with shipped experience (Just Cause 4) and strong systems ownership in C++/Unreal Engine 5, including a loot spawning/loot table pipeline optimized through profiling-driven memory copy elimination and validated via custom simulation tools. Also built a server-authoritative fast travel system in a proprietary engine, handling multi-player/vehicle spawn coordination with client-side collision checks and latency testing across NYC and Stockholm.”
Engineering leader and architect specializing in scalable cloud and real-time data systems
“Led the creation of a software department at a hardware startup and designed/built a platform to manage fleets of hexacopter drones, including tackling the challenge of streaming high volumes of data from many IoT edge devices. Prefers greenfield work with high autonomy, combining hands-on architecture with structured planning, cost estimation, and risk-driven execution.”
Senior Software Engineer specializing in developer tools, automation, and game pipelines
“Game/tools-focused QA professional with experience at Playable Worlds, Disney, and Metaplace, emphasizing CI-driven quality (Jenkins PR gating, unit tests, Slack/JIRA visibility) in live production environments. Has hands-on defect isolation experience using developer tools to diagnose hard-to-repro player issues and improve turnaround by providing reliable repro steps and clear QA workflows.”