Vetted Incident Response Professionals

Parvesh Garg

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Unity Team Lead specializing in multiplayer games and AR/VR

Greater Noida, UP, India14y exp

“Unity gameplay programmer with Photon-based multiplayer experience who built a real-time player feedback system (instant animation/VFX/audio + score updates) using events/ScriptableObjects to keep gameplay and UI decoupled. Has tackled movement desynchronization under variable latency with client-side prediction/interpolation and uses AI tools to speed up prototyping and balancing for a procedurally generated, math-based casual game.”

“Unity VR/AR developer with 10 years of experience who built a complex multiplayer online Jenga game from scratch, including VOIP and a custom physics synchronization approach to make heavy physics work smoothly online. Has also delivered VR simulation experiences for an educational institution using drone-recorded 360 video placed into a virtual cockpit flight experience (deployed directly to Quest headsets, though not launched on the Quest store).”

Eric Lane

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology Architect specializing in IT/OT convergence and industrial cybersecurity

Ventura, CA29y exp

“Entrepreneurial technical leader with ~3 decades in R&D/startup environments and proprietary consulting across government and private industry. As Sr Electrical Controls Engineer/IT Director at V-Grid Energy Systems, redesigned gasification automation instrumentation by creating custom PCB multiplexing and ladder-logic drivers, avoiding an estimated ~$2M in CAPEX and reducing per-machine cost to under $200—positioning him well for CTO roles supporting scalable new ventures.”

Nobin Johnson

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack, cloud, and mobile development

Buffalo, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer with open-source web3.js contributions focused on preventing costly smart-contract execution failures, plus hands-on blockchain startup experience scaling an NFT mint from a test EC2 setup to AWS Lambda/API Gateway under extreme concurrency. Built a multiplayer backend improving tick rate from 40 Hz to 105 Hz using UDP, containerization, and Kubernetes, and has healthcare production support experience across 10+ apps. Also publishes IEEE research papers and produces developer-friendly documentation that accelerates team adoption.”

“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.”

Ibrahim Tantawy

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Senior Back-End PHP Developer specializing in scalable web APIs

Dubai, UAE7y exp

“Full-stack PHP/Laravel and Vue.js developer with experience spanning startup e-learning, e-commerce, and a B2B SaaS logistics platform. Particularly notable for integrating Stripe early in their career, improving MySQL performance with indexing, and handling client-specific GPS integrations for enterprise transportation customers such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Emirates Logistics.”

“Full-stack developer who built a desktop business application combining invoicing, bookkeeping, user management, and an AI assistant layer. They work across React, Node.js, Supabase, Redis, and deployment automation, and emphasize reusable component architecture that they say cut project delivery time from 2-3 months down to as little as 2 weeks.”

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped and operated generative-AI chat/QA features end-to-end, including a RAG-based pipeline with guardrails and cost/latency monitoring in production. Experienced with React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres architectures, Dockerized deployments to AWS (EC2) via GitHub Actions CI/CD, and building reliable ingestion/ETL systems with idempotency, backfills, and reconciliation.”

“Software/product engineer who owns customer-facing internal platforms end-to-end, with deep experience building data pipeline health and data quality tooling (near-real-time alerting and ops dashboards). Strong in React/TypeScript + Python REST architectures and microservices with RabbitMQ, emphasizing reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, correlation IDs) and fast, safe iteration via feature flags, testing, and observability.”

“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.”

“AI/backend engineer who independently built and operated an agentic telecom analytics system end-to-end, using LangGraph and Claude to turn natural language into safe SQL in a regulated environment. He combines startup-speed execution with compliance-minded rigor, citing 95%+ NL-to-SQL accuracy, a 30-minute-to-2-minute workflow improvement, and zero-findings support across three regulatory audit cycles.”

“Full-stack/backend-heavy engineer with strong healthcare domain expertise, focused on modernizing regulated platforms for payroll, billing, and caregiver operations. Notably led a legacy Express.js billing platform migration to modular NestJS services that enabled same-day deployments and unblocked enterprise customer onboarding, while bringing deep experience in compliance, auditability, and production reliability.”

Sakshi .

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Senior Backend Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and AI backend systems

Remote, India4y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has repeatedly built web products end-to-end, including an artist booking and event management platform with complex location-based pricing, search, and booking flows. Strongest signal is ownership of backend architecture, API design, database modeling, performance optimization, and production stabilization while also partnering on frontend integration and UX improvements.”

“Founder of the EdTech platform Studentsify and a pragmatic hardware/product builder with strong experience evaluating low-cost connected devices for real-world deployment. Stands out for hands-on firmware and power testing, thoughtful build-vs-buy decisions, and translating white-glove technical setups into repeatable field processes.”

“Frontend engineer with experience building sophisticated internal tools for developer users in e-commerce, including a migration interface at Olist that cut migration time by about 50%. Brings a mix of UI architecture, React component design, TypeScript, and browser performance optimization focused on making complex workflows faster, clearer, and more reliable.”

“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.”

“Full-stack developer with seven years of experience who has built production systems across AWS serverless infrastructure, Django applications, and user-facing web products in domains like emergency response, fintech/investing, recruiting, and conference management. Particularly notable for combining technical architecture with product thinking—e.g., modernizing a crash-tracking platform for emergency responders and materially improving trust-driven conversion in a trading-card fractionalization product.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built an enterprise RAG chatbot over 40,000+ technical documents, owning the system from ingestion and retrieval design through launch, optimization, and incident prevention. Stands out for treating LLM reliability as a data, retrieval, and observability problem—delivering 90%+ benchmark accuracy, ~50% fewer hallucinations, and major gains in lookup speed and latency.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built Codesdev V1.0 end-to-end, a cloud-native IDE with secure Docker-based code execution across 8 languages and a custom PostgreSQL JSONB virtual file system achieving 34ms retrieval. Stands out for pragmatic early-stage decision-making, hands-on ownership from architecture through incident resolution, and a strong focus on security and low-latency backend design.”

“Built and owned an internal AI-powered knowledge assistant that centralized fragmented company knowledge across docs, tickets, and internal systems. They designed the backend, ingestion pipelines, vector search, RAG workflow, and APIs, then drove adoption through pilot testing and quality improvements—ultimately automating roughly 30% of support inquiries and cutting resolution time by about two hours per ticket.”

“Frontend engineer (Zippia) who leads complex, form-heavy React + TypeScript workflows end-to-end, setting architecture conventions and improving performance at scale. Demonstrated strong production ownership by fixing a PDF migration issue and coordinating a recovery that regenerated PDFs for ~1700 impacted users while working closely with PM, design, QA, and a small founding team.”

“Built and productionized an AI-assisted merchant onboarding automation workflow for Kort Payments, replacing slow manual underwriting document review with structured extraction, cross-document validation, and human-in-the-loop guardrails. Emphasizes reliability via scenario-based testing, repeatability checks, and deep observability (timestamped logs), plus incremental rollout with legacy fallback to prevent regressions.”

“Experienced technology executive and consultant who has founded multiple companies and currently runs an IT consulting business providing fractional CIO/CTO services. Brings hands-on experience with VC-backed firms, startups, and rebuilding IT functions for acquired businesses, with a strong emphasis on ethical leadership and helping non-technical companies understand and leverage technology.”

Stan Caramalac

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Executive CEO specializing in transportation, operations, and growth strategy

San Diego, CA19y exp

“Founder building a multimodal AI startup to clone top-performing sales personas from text, audio, and video into adaptive AI sales agents. They appear to be in the product development stage, with a disciplined focus on algorithm performance, proof of concept, repeatable output quality, ICP definition, and clear market differentiation before raising capital.”