Vetted Database Design Professionals

Robert Gardunia

Screened

Staff Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI systems architecture

Gig Harbor, WA20y exp

“Veteran developer with 30 years of experience building unusually ambitious AI and full-stack systems, including a civic project tracker for the city of Casa Grande and multiple patent-pending AI architectures. Particularly strong in multi-LLM orchestration, agentic error-correction, and lightweight 3D/avatar experiences, with a track record of turning ambiguous ideas into working production prototypes quickly.”

“Frontend/platform-leaning engineer who owned a shared React component library (design-system style) adopted across multiple SPAs, with strong discipline around SemVer, deprecation strategy, and developer documentation. Also has backend/distributed-systems experience diagnosing and fixing a Kafka microservice race condition and has led prioritization/migration planning in an unstructured monolith-to-microservices environment (Centene).”

“Full-stack engineer experienced shipping production SaaS dashboards with Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining Server Components for initial data loads with interactive client-side analytics. Strong performance/operability focus (reported ~40% UI latency reduction) and deep backend fundamentals across Postgres schema/query optimization and Kafka-based event-driven microservices with idempotency, retries, and DLQs.”

“Founder building Hubub, a digital concierge startup that automates business client entertainment workflows from reservations and ticketing to CRM updates and expense reporting. They have a business plan, 500 beta users, positive traction around event discovery, and are exploring a partnership with a major credit card company while prioritizing compliance and expense features next.”

Lawrence Prabhakar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in FinTech

USA5y exp

“Engineer with a thoughtful, hands-on approach to AI-assisted software development, treating AI as a force multiplier for debugging, prototyping, and large-codebase work rather than a substitute for judgment. Particularly strong in multi-agent coding workflows, contract-driven development, and maintaining consistency across backend, frontend, and testing through shared schemas and OpenAPI-based coordination.”

“Backend engineer who shipped a Spring Boot transactions/points feature while using AI selectively for boilerplate and test ideas, keeping core system design decisions in human hands. Stands out for rigorous validation of AI output against database behavior, concurrency, idempotency, and failure scenarios, and has also built a lightweight planner -> code gen -> validator agent-style pipeline with step-level logging and retries.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer at a B2B startup who ships high-stakes customer-facing features fast: delivered a Spanish AI support agent in 2 weeks by benchmarking LLMs and using native Spanish system prompts, reaching 90% resolution. Built the company’s first monetization system (hybrid subscription + usage) with Stripe/Firebase, emphasizing secure JWT-based flows and idempotent webhooks, and led a microservices decoupling effort that cut developer onboarding time by 50%.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on production-grade Python microservices and AWS platforms, including a hybrid Lambda + ECS Fargate architecture managed with Terraform and CI/CD. Has hands-on reliability experience (JWT/OAuth, timeouts, retries, centralized error classification) and built AWS Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines consolidating PostgreSQL/RDS, MongoDB, and S3 sources into curated partitioned Parquet datasets. Demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (8 minutes to 25 seconds) and disciplined legacy-to-modern migrations with parity validation and UAT sign-off.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of real-time, Kafka-driven systems in production, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Node backends, and AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2) operations. Notable for modernizing legacy batch workflows into event-driven architectures with measurable impact (35% faster risk calculations, 30% better accuracy) and scaling to 2x volume using reliability patterns like idempotency, retries, and staged rollouts.”

Nandini Reinthala

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Python Developer specializing in AI and data platforms

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who builds TypeScript/React SPAs on Python (Flask/FastAPI) backends and has hands-on experience integrating AI components (Azure OpenAI, LangChain, vector databases) into user workflows. Has built internal AI-enabled dashboards/search tools for analysts and business users, emphasizing typed API contracts, CI/CD-driven quality, and microservices reliability patterns (monitoring, retries, idempotency) at scale.”

Manikanta Kopparapu

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native web applications

TX, USA4y exp

“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.”

“Full-stack JavaScript engineer (React/Node/Vue) who has operated like a maintainer by owning an internal component library with Storybook-style examples, documentation, and non-breaking versioning. Demonstrated strong performance engineering on a source code review service—profiling bottlenecks, fixing N+1 queries, adding caching, and trimming payloads to cut latency (e.g., ~100ms to <50ms) while rolling out incremental, test-backed improvements.”

“Built a prediction market analytics website from scratch to analyze volume and correlations in decentralized markets, drawing on a sports and finance background. Shows strong early-stage product instincts, backend ownership, and a pragmatic approach to scalability, security, and AI-assisted data workflows.”

Ahmed Khalafalla

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and backend development

Boston, MA1y exp

“Frontend/full-stack web developer with hands-on experience building browser-based applications including a social-style platform and a banking web app. Stands out for practical performance optimization work—separating frontend/backend architecture, designing APIs, reducing unnecessary rendering, and improving UI clarity through iterative user testing.”

“Engineering leader focused on developer platforms and identity: led a 5-person team building a multi-tenant IAM framework extending Duende IdentityServer, including governance, API standards, and multi-language SDKs. Drove major API architecture improvements by introducing GraphQL alongside REST, cutting client calls from 4 to 1 and reducing payload size by 60% within 6 months, with strong emphasis on stability (semver, E2E tests, feature flags, blue-green deploys).”

Daniel Dickson

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in SaaS, AI/LLM systems, and startup growth

Portland, OR16y exp

“Experienced CTO with a track record of taking three companies to successful exits, including one merger with eBay. Has worked extensively across venture capital, startup studio, and accelerator environments, with core responsibility for leading software development and infrastructure in high-growth settings.”