Vetted DevOps Professionals

“Built and productionized an LLM-enhanced version of the WeDAA platform to auto-generate microservice architecture diagrams and support code generation from user prompts, including a practical solution for non-overlapping canvas object placement via coordinate templates. Experienced in diagnosing agentic workflow failures using AWS Strands agents with feature-flagged debug logging, and frequently supports sales through tailored demos and POCs to drive adoption.”

Jacopo Essenziale

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Executive Game Developer specializing in multiplayer VR and cross-platform titles

Milano, Italy12y exp

“Lead Unity VR developer who shipped the commercial Meta Quest motorcycle racing game VRider SBK, with deep focus on multiplayer and porting across headsets (including Pico XR and PlayStation VR2). Built custom Unity tooling (tile-based level editor plugin) and applies ML-Agents/LLM workflows to automate AI tuning and repetitive engineering tasks; also taught a VR Lab course at the University of Milan.”

Leon Hsi

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Mid-level Solutions Consultant / Full-Stack Developer specializing in APIs, SQL, and cloud systems

Houston, TX4y exp

“Builder with hands-on security hygiene experience from developing a helpdesk portal handling sensitive payment/invoice data, focusing on RBAC, least-privilege integrations (QuickBooks/Atera), and tightening API authorization to prevent cross-account access. Also built personal projects integrating Twilio/Callkeep/Supabase/OpenAI with strong key management and defensive handling of real-world API/network failure modes; holds an ISC2 certification and is actively deepening cloud security skills.”

Bence Monostori

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Mid-level Game Developer specializing in Unity (C#) gameplay and systems programming

4y exp

“Solo game developer for 3+ years seeking to join a team environment. Built a futuristic "soundwave" gun feature by enhancing weapon detail/rigging in Blender and implementing responsive moving parts and VFX in Unity; observed higher engagement in Poki playtest videos (~15% more time spent). Has implemented multiplayer in small games using Unity Multiplayer Netcode and Mirror, and uses ChatGPT to speed up coding and webgame debugging.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built production-grade intelligence systems in high-stakes domains including tax/legal document analysis and brain tumor MRI workflows. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG product delivery with strong engineering rigor around retrieval evaluation, grounding, validation, observability, and safe fallbacks—turning impressive demos into systems users could actually trust.”

“Backend engineer specializing in event-driven/serverless systems and Python/FastAPI APIs. Built a scalable PDF-to-structured-data pipeline on AWS (S3, Lambda, Step Functions, Textract, DynamoDB, SNS) with strong observability (p50/p90/p99) and reliability patterns (idempotency, retries/DLQs), and has led zero-downtime migrations using feature flags, dual writes, and incremental rollouts.”

“Frontend engineer who has led customer-facing React + TypeScript products end-to-end, building complex dashboards with robust async state patterns (caching, deduping, cancellation, optimistic updates) and strong quality practices (TypeScript standards, layered testing, production monitoring). Experienced modernizing inherited codebases through modularization and performance work (code splitting/memoization) while aligning stakeholders and shipping safely via feature flags and staged rollouts.”

“Entrepreneurial operator/investor with prior capital-raising experience and a track record of scaling an early room-by-room rental (boarding income) real estate model for higher cash-on-cash returns. Currently exploring a new venture at the intersection of employee empathy and organizational excellence, aiming to build predictive corporate performance tools driven by ambitious teammate engagement.”

Benjamin Agyekum

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered web and mobile applications

California, USA8y exp

“Backend/full-stack TypeScript engineer who has owned end-to-end, production-oriented systems including an AI property management platform (NestJS/Postgres/WebSockets on Google Cloud using Gemini Vision) and an AI logistics platform (Node/Redis queues/Postgres) focused on low-latency, correctness, and observability. Also designed a public GraphQL API and TypeScript SDK for education partners at StudyFetch, citing 40+ partner integrations in the first quarter.”

“Early major technical hire who helped build fintech startup Ugami from MVP to near Series A, while supporting bridge round and Series A fundraising with technical materials for leadership. Also grew from intern to lead engineer at a venture-backed product shop, giving him firsthand exposure to investor expectations, startup incubation, and practical AI opportunities with tight scope and strong unit economics.”

“Candidate is actively using AI-assisted development tools, including MCP server integrations with Copilot, to generate boilerplate test scripts, validate code standards, and handle package updates. They also have hands-on experience choosing different agents based on task requirements and serving as an admin for AI tool access.”

“Frontend-focused engineer (Shahroz) who has rebuilt and modernized products end-to-end, including a FitTech dashboard redesign from scratch with standardized tooling (ESLint/Prettier, Husky + conventional commits, unit tests, PR validation). Has delivered complex React + TypeScript dashboards involving real-time live streaming and analytics, and shipped an e-commerce PDP with integrations like Contentful and social feeds using an MVP-first, sprint-based process.”

“Frontend engineer with experience leading an end-to-end website rebranding at Caseware, coordinating across product, design, DevOps, and backend teams while integrating CMS, third-party services, and backend APIs. Built SaaS dashboard interfaces in React + TypeScript and emphasizes quality and scale through unit/integration testing pipelines plus performance work like responsive image optimization, lazy loading, SSR, and React memoization.”

“Engineering/CTO-style leader with hands-on architecture experience who has driven end-to-end modernization of a manual antiques auction operation—building centralized web-accessible data systems, digitizing historical records via OCR/freelancers, and defining profitability-focused KPIs with an eye toward predictive modeling. Emphasizes provider-agnostic, containerized SaaS architecture to avoid vendor lock-in and has experience scaling a small engineering team with ownership-based culture and lightweight processes.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with hands-on experience building Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications deployed to AKS, including security scanning, approvals, versioned artifacts, and rollback. Also implemented Terraform-based IaC for Azure (VNets/subnets/NSGs/AKS) with modular design, remote state/locking, and drift detection; resolved a real deployment outage caused by an Azure RBAC permission change.”

“Software engineer who built an AI marketing/outreach agent end-to-end: Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) frontend integrated with a Python/Django REST backend using LLMs (Gemini, ChatGPT-4o) and SQL databases. Demonstrated measurable performance wins—improved a 100k-record UI by 15% (Lighthouse) and cut a Postgres-backed search API from ~3s to ~1ms via indexing—while also owning post-launch monitoring (webhooks/cron, New Relic/CloudWatch) and customer support.”

“Backend/data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines and data services, processing ~500K–1M records/day from APIs/logs into MySQL and serving via REST APIs. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (ELK + structured logging/monitoring), with measurable improvements (~30% reduction in bad data, ~20% query performance gains) and experience operating external data collection/scraping systems with anti-bot and schema-change resilience.”

Pranav Mishra

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Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and MLOps

Charlotte, NC2y exp

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped production systems across computer vision and conversational agents: built a YOLOv8-based wheel fitment pipeline at a Techstars-backed automotive startup, focusing on sub-second latency, monitoring, and robust fallback mechanisms that drove 2–3x page view growth and +5–6k users. Also built a voice-based interview platform orchestrating Deepgram + GPT-4 Mini + OpenAI TTS with FSM-driven reliability, and has hands-on RAG experience (LangChain, hybrid retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, custom pseudo-query generation).”

Srikar Tharala

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

Remote, USA4y exp

“Currently at ProShare and reports building an AI/LLM-powered system deployed to production, aimed at helping with status-related difficulties and reducing misunderstandings across transactions. Also cites prior collaboration at Porsche with marketing teams, focusing on translating marketing goals into technical requirements and communicating solutions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.”

“Built and deployed a "personal second brain" product (CloneMind) with an end-to-end RAG pipeline for retrieving information across PDFs, URLs, images, and audio using Next.js/Node.js/Postgres/Supabase/Redis. Demonstrates strong practical depth in retrieval quality tuning, latency reduction via caching, and stateful orchestration with LangChain/LangGraph, plus experience persuading a non-technical professor stakeholder by shipping a working prototype.”

“Unity lead developer who built a turn-based soccer game (Soccer Glory/Score Hero-like) with complex in-air ball simulation, AI reactions, and animation handling, then scaled production by creating an in-editor level/animation authoring tool that saves to JSON and shifted level setup from devs to designers. Strong multiplayer background across Photon PUN, Mirror, UNet, and Socket.IO, including a 100-user metaverse room and practical approaches to authoritative simulation and VR/mobile performance optimization (Meta Quest 90 FPS).”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production experience improving performance and reliability of data-heavy analytics products. Has shipped end-to-end features spanning Node/Express + PostgreSQL + Redis and React/TypeScript, deployed via Docker/GitHub Actions to AWS EKS with Helm, and monitored with Datadog/CloudWatch; also built a Python compliance automation backend for AWS security monitoring with RBAC, versioned REST APIs, and resilient throttling-aware processing.”

Akram Ali

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Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in Node.js/TypeScript, cloud, and data engineering

Chicago, United States10y exp

“Frontend/fullstack lead who inherited a messy psychological app with production issues, drove a rapid stabilization (2–3 weeks) and major performance/architecture overhaul (Redux Toolkit, memoization, caching, lazy loading, CDN offload to S3/CloudFront). Also owns delivery and infrastructure practices (multi-env, Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS ECS + load balancing) and led a 1-week POC for an AI-powered trucking management system (app.neblo.ai).”

Revanth P

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Mid-level DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and GenAI infrastructure

Walnut Creek, CA4y exp

“Database/platform engineer with stronger hands-on experience in AWS and Azure than GCP, but able to speak credibly about cloud database architecture, automation, and reliability engineering. They led an on-prem MySQL to RDS/DynamoDB migration, built Terraform/Python-based zero-touch database operations, and described a performance incident where latency dropped from 2s to under 300ms while supporting 2x traffic.”