Vetted Go Professionals

david horachek

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Executive Game Systems & Animation Engineering Leader specializing in console and Unreal/Unity

California, USA26y exp

“Unity/C# engineer with AAA and social MMO experience who owned and shipped a marquee VR gameplay system for Meta Quest, using advanced 3D math and closed-form optimization to maintain a solid 60 FPS on constrained hardware. Also builds LLM systems from first principles and integrates native inference into C# pipelines, and has deep multiplayer architecture experience (Photon/Netcode/frame sync) including fault-tolerant WebSocket messaging for mobile connectivity dropouts. Prefers contract work; time zone flexible (EST).”

Ali Taquie

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech payments

Santa Cruz, CA2y exp

“Forward-deployed software engineer at PayStand who uses LLM prototyping tools (e.g., Cursor, Lovable) to rapidly build customer-specific demo environments and drive sales outcomes—citing ~$100K in technical buy-in before production development. Experienced supporting an enterprise expense management product (Teampay) with agentic AI workflows, emphasizing observability (Grafana/Loki/Tempo) and cross-functional communication with sales, product, developers, and customers.”

Madhu Sriram Sengottu Velan

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Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and distributed services

Chennai, IN2y exp

“Backend/AI engineer from an early-stage Japan-based startup (WorkAI) who built a multi-tenant RAG system integrating Notion/Slack/Google Drive with Pinecone and OpenAI, including a chatbot retrieval workflow. Experienced in production reliability (rate limits, retries, verification layers), strong Python/FastAPI engineering practices, and PostgreSQL performance optimization; currently based in India and needs sponsorship.”

“Data-focused engineer who has built near real-time trending news sentiment pipelines end-to-end (API/web ingestion, validation, transformations, and dashboard serving) and implemented reliability patterns like retries with exponential backoff and backfills. Also shipped Java/Spring Boot REST APIs backed by SQL with indexing/pagination, and stood up an early-stage QR-based attendance MVP using Firebase with iterative hardening via logging and validation.”

Teage Johnson

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Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and machine learning

California, USA3y exp

“Software engineer at early-stage startup Cari with hands-on experience shipping AI-enabled production workflows, including an LLM chatbot for a micro-transit platform and an automated image-processing pipeline integrated with Claude. Stands out for combining practical agent reliability patterns—schema validation, fallbacks, caching, and idempotency—with strong ML evaluation instincts and experience cleaning messy operational invoice data.”

“Healthcare AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production ML and LLM systems at McKesson, spanning clinical risk prediction and RAG-based documentation tools. Stands out for combining deep clinical-data experience, HIPAA-aware deployment practices, and measurable impact through reduced readmissions, clinician workflow gains, and 20% to 30% faster ML delivery for engineering teams.”

Devang Borkar

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Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLM agents and evaluation systems

California, USA4y exp

“Built an end-to-end Python integration for an emotion-aware presentation feedback system that processed uploaded or live video and analyzed facial emotion, tone, and gestures. Also has Playwright automation experience in a loan management workflow, with emphasis on reliability, observability, security, and iterative delivery under ambiguous requirements.”

Aswin Jojo

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development and machine learning

Houston, TX3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience owning products end-to-end in both insurtech/financial workflows and AI-enabled IT operations. Built scalable React/Node and FastAPI systems, improved reliability under peak transaction load with SQS/Redis, and shipped an AI ticket-classification platform that cut response times from 3 days to 1 day.”

Pallavi Hogalagere Anandareddy

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Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and FinTech

Tampa, FL4y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer with experience spanning banking implementations at FIS and hands-on product building in React, TypeScript, Node.js, SQL, and Python. Stands out for owning six bank go-lives end-to-end, building an AI resume evaluator, and proactively automating manual operations workflows to reduce errors and improve consistency.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong banking/financial-platform experience, spanning React/Angular frontends, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, and secure API design. They’ve built high-volume transaction systems handling 40,000+ daily requests and also owned an AI-driven search/recommendation feature that improved search relevance by 20% and adoption by 12%.”

Joshua Newell

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in embedded systems and secure communications

Remote, USA14y exp

“Engineer with experience in defense and aerospace-adjacent software, including serving as lead engineer on an SBIR contract for a Space Force warfighter communication system. Has hands-on full-stack experience improving a flight test sensor management application with React, Perl, and Oracle SQL, plus recent systems work in Rust observability and Go-based secure communications integration.”

Alex Guzman

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Principal Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and identity systems

Denver, CO17y exp

“Senior backend-leaning engineer with experience spanning an 8-person early-stage startup and production microservices environments. They helped deliver an MVP for a fintech/charitable donations product by building a resilient abstraction API across multiple rewards vendors, and more recently maintained Go services at scale with Kubernetes autoscaling for workloads reaching roughly 1 million requests per day.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned end-to-end production services for a fleet analytics/GenAI platform, spanning FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS + Lambda) event-driven workloads. Strong in reliability/observability (OpenTelemetry, circuit breakers, idempotency), data pipelines (Glue/Airflow/Snowflake), and measurable performance/cost wins (SQL 10s to <800ms P95; ~30% compute cost reduction).”

“Built a live free-to-play web-based financial market simulation game (YouTube-channel stock market) as a hobby project, now serving 3000+ users. Implemented core F2P systems including gacha, timed progression gates, and analytics-driven monitoring of engagement and economy health using a TypeScript/Python stack with Redis and Postgres.”

“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.”

“Engineering/technology leader (CTO-style) with experience scaling orgs and running distributed teams across four continents for over a decade. Led a high-stakes modernization of a securities trading platform at Wedbush—migrating from monolith to microservices on AWS with zero-downtime constraints—driving 45% execution performance improvement and enabling 25% market share growth. Emphasizes business-aligned roadmaps, build-vs-buy rigor, and scalable engineering practices/culture.”

“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.”

“Engineer with Deloitte experience building real-time analytics products and scalable Kafka/Go/Postgres pipelines, plus production LLM features using RAG and embeddings. Demonstrates strong focus on performance, reliability, and guardrails/evaluation loops to reduce hallucinations and improve real-world AI system quality.”

“Built an end-to-end automated trading system for Polymarket, including Go/Python execution services, Terraform-scheduled ETL/feature pipelines, and monitoring on modest hardware. Also shipped a production LLM+RAG signal verifier/explainer that grounds trade decisions in external context (news/social) with vector DB retrieval and guardrails, plus a lightweight RAGAS-style eval loop on ~50 resolved markets that improved signal faithfulness by ~15%.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an AI-driven document analysis and processing workflow end-to-end, including large-document ingestion, queued async processing, and low-latency retrieval for user-facing flows. Demonstrated practical performance tuning (moving heavy work off request path, polling, caching) and Postgres optimization validated with EXPLAIN ANALYZE, plus durable workflow resilience via retries and dead-letter queues.”

“Built end-to-end internal and user-facing automation/data features, including a Selenium-based BU course scraper with around 1,800 users and a CSV export system that became the company standard at Triple. Shows initiative in ambiguous environments, working directly with business stakeholders and resolving production infrastructure issues involving AWS and Terraform.”

“Backend-focused engineer with strong Go and database optimization experience who improved a high-traffic API by about 30% and helped stabilize peak-load performance for an event reservation platform. Brings hands-on production experience across PostgreSQL, Redis, Rails/Go services, and B2B SaaS integrations with Slack, Hubstaff, and RingCentral, with a clear pattern of owning performance bottlenecks end to end.”