Vetted Go Professionals

“Built an end-to-end mobile + web Q&A marketplace connecting users with professionals, including real-time chat and Stripe-based monetization (products/subscriptions). Hands-on with scaling Firebase/Firestore (subcollections, composite indexing, pagination) and mobile caching/sync challenges. Also created an internal AI-driven report generator that turned chatbot outputs into curated graphs and PDFs for marketing, iterating based on stakeholder feedback.”

“Engineering leader who delivered a Magento-to-Shopify rebuild ahead of schedule while maintaining 100% team retention over 4 years at Hydrobuilder Holdings. Also built and ran a concert-listing platform (TourVolume) in production for 12+ years (Webby Honorable Mention) and later open-sourced the full codebase. Deep experience in auth/API platforms on AWS, including moving critical auth services from Lambda to ECS to eliminate cold-start latency.”

“Gameplay-focused Unity developer who prioritizes tight, fair-feeling controls—implemented a custom raycast-based character movement system (avoiding Unity physics) to make platforming more deterministic and difficulty tuning more reliable. Has prototyped multiplayer in both Unity (Photon tic-tac-toe replication prototype) and Unreal Engine (shared workshop/crafting environment), and actively uses AI tools (Copilot + asset generation) to speed prototyping and documentation.”

“Senior software engineer (backend/infra) with hands-on Unity gameplay feature work, including an editor-time page-generation and multilingual pipeline that renders gamebook pages as textures for instant 3D page flips. Combines immersive UX techniques (mask textures + custom shader hover feedback) with strong multiplayer/networking and scalable infrastructure thinking (latency, prediction, security, autoscaling).”

“GenAI/LLM engineer with production experience at Allstate building an end-to-end document intelligence workflow for insurance operations—automating document intake, classification, and risk signal extraction. Emphasizes high-reliability design for regulated/high-stakes outputs using schema enforcement, confidence thresholds, validation rules, and human-in-the-loop routing, with metric-driven offline evaluation and production monitoring.”

“Backend engineer who built and shipped an end-to-end AI outreach product (LazyMails) combining a LinkedIn-scraping Chrome extension with a FastAPI/Postgres backend and Gemini-powered email generation, achieving major personal productivity gains. Also has enterprise experience at TCS on Humana’s 500k+ user wellness platform running Kubernetes microservices with Azure DevOps CI/CD, plus Kafka-based real-time eligibility event streaming and GitOps-driven operations.”

“Backend/Node.js-focused engineer who improved a widely used shared config/logging utility library by fixing a real-world async race condition (single disk read under concurrency) and adding stronger validation/testing, resulting in more deterministic services and faster startup/build/CI times. Also builds internal platform automation spanning Python/Go/TypeScript with strong documentation practices and security-conscious customer onboarding (e.g., sensitive Kubernetes clusters, HashiCorp Vault access issues).”

“Product/UX designer who built a cloud-based data management and visualization system for healthcare and manufacturing, translating script-driven and highly technical workflows into guided, step-based experiences. Strong in progressive disclosure, role-based defaults, and trust-building UI patterns, with hands-on prototyping in Figma and close design-engineering collaboration (HTML/CSS, component systems, working TypeScript familiarity) to ship scalable, accessible designs.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience spanning serverless APIs and containerized workers (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS) plus data pipelines (Glue, S3, Athena/Redshift). Has modernized legacy SAS/cron batch systems into Python/AWS with parallel-run parity validation and low-risk cutovers, and has owned ETL incidents end-to-end (CloudWatch detection, backfills, and preventative controls). Targeting $130k–$150k base and strongly prefers remote, with occasional Bethesda onsite acceptable.”

“Backend/LLM engineer who ships production internal tooling end-to-end: automated data-request processing with monitoring-driven improvements (better error diagnostics and lower latency via query/index tuning). Also built a RAG-based internal Q&A system over company docs and operational logs with guardrails (similarity thresholds, fallbacks, response limits) and an eval loop using real user queries and human review to drive prompt/retrieval changes.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a live-streaming edtech platform at KratosIQ, owning the entire frontend and the backend streaming layer. Notably migrated the system from a P2P mesh to an SFU architecture to handle scaling under heavy load, and delivered measurable React performance gains (450ms to 40ms render time) validated via Lighthouse and web vitals.”

“Player-coach engineering leader who stayed hands-on (coding/reviews) while leading delivery, including designing an event-driven AI workflow engine with explicit state modeling and robust retries. Built near real-time enterprise analytics for campaign measurement and drove reliability/process improvements (observability, incident runbooks, release management). Introduced lightweight CI/CD and automated testing to cut release time by ~40% while maintaining quality.”