Vetted Java Professionals

“Full-stack developer who uses AI deliberately rather than blindly, keeping generated code to a minority of core feature work so they retain full understanding of data flow. Built a React/TypeScript + Supabase task management app and shows strong judgment around debugging hallucinated schema/query output, refactoring for maintainability, and prioritizing security and logic over boilerplate speed.”

Phat Dang

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack, DevOps, and GenAI

Toledo, OH2y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on hardware integration who built an AI-enabled smart dog door using a Raspberry Pi, camera-based recognition (DeepFace adapted for dogs), and stepper motor control (TB6600/NEMA 17). Experienced in ROS/ROS 2 across perception-to-controls, rigorous bag-driven debugging of SLAM/navigation issues, and deploying robot software with simulation-in-the-loop testing plus Docker/Kubernetes CI/CD.”

“Unity gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership across core game systems, multiplayer, AI/LLM integration, and cross-platform XR/mobile shipping. Particularly compelling is their combination of deep runtime optimization and systems architecture: they cut match-3 cascade frame spikes by 40-50%, eliminated a class of production race-condition bugs, and also built a local-model FastAPI-backed AI prototype with structured evaluation and cost control.”

Katelyn Flores

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level XR Developer specializing in healthcare training simulations

6y exp

“XR Developer II at Orbis Education building multiplayer healthcare training simulations in Unity/C#. Shipped cross-platform experiences on Meta Quest 3 and iPad, including a new oxygen mask/tube simulation system that increased student engagement and learning feedback. Also built a capstone generative-AI patient interaction system replacing IBM Watson with an Ollama-based approach, evaluating cloud vs. self-hosting for latency/cost/reliability.”

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.”

“Built and shipped a production Python-based agentic RAG document retrieval system over 80K records using FastAPI, OCR, vector search, and AWS infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on reliability, testing, and observability. Stands out for treating AI failures like production incidents—turning hallucinations, retrieval misses, and OCR issues into regression tests—and for quantifiably reducing document lookup time from about 12 minutes to under 90 seconds.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered text-to-SQL/document intelligence chatbot on AWS that lets non-technical business users query complex enterprise databases in plain English. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in schema-aware prompting, embeddings-based schema retrieval, SQL safety/validation guardrails, and rigorous offline/online evaluation with human-in-the-loop approvals for risky queries.”

Ronald Forte

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in AI APIs and RAG systems

0y exp

“Junior/entry-level AI/LLM engineer who built a production-oriented RAG onboarding and knowledge assistant that ingests GitHub repos and internal sources (e.g., Confluence/Jira) using ChromaDB, with reliability features like retrieval fallbacks, retries, caching, and monitoring. Currently implementing a LangGraph-based multi-agent workflow with intent routing and Pydantic/Magentic-validated structured outputs, plus CI/CD offline evals and online metrics (Grafana/Prometheus) to improve predictability and reliability.”

Priyank Jhaveri

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Junior AI/ML & Mobile Engineer specializing in LLMs, synthetic data, and React Native

New York, United States1y exp

“Currently at Uplift AI shipping production LLM features that generate personalized growth insights from user reflections using BERT + embeddings + RAG, with strong safety/guardrail practices for sensitive contexts. Also built an end-to-end React Native UGC challenge submission/moderation system that improved repeat submissions and 7-day retention, and has applied rigorous clinical-style evaluation methods on a dental X-ray disease detection project to reduce false negatives.”

Žarko Petrović

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Director-level Unity Engineer specializing in multiplayer, WebGL/WebGPU, and XR

Stockholm, Sweden15y exp

“Lead Unity engineer who shipped a Meta Quest VR free-to-play poker title, tackling hand-tracking controls, physics-driven chip interactions, and large-room multiplayer with anti-cheat needs. Also independently built a mobile real-time multiplayer racing game through beta, including backend, progression, on-demand track delivery, and a custom car physics engine.”

Jordan Dunaway

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Junior Game Developer specializing in gameplay systems and cross-engine development

Lenexa, KS3y exp

“Game-focused QA tester with a developer background who routinely validates builds in player-like environments (including VMs), documents test coverage rigorously, and provides high-signal bug reports with reproducible steps and video evidence. Has partnered closely with designers and engineers on issues like level-loading resource management and prioritizes defects based on player progression and immersion impact; has not shipped a AAA title.”

Mudit Devenkumar Choksi

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps, automation, and cloud systems

Louisville, KY2y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience owning end-to-end industrial automation deployments and real-time data systems. Most notably led a multi-million dollar warehouse automation implementation that reduced manual intervention by 25%, while also building streaming text analytics pipelines and strengthening production reliability through robust observability and pipeline controls.”

“Backend engineer with deep Kafka/FastAPI microservices experience who redesigned a notification pipeline to cut end-to-end latency from ~5s to ~3s (including custom partition assignment and consumer tuning). Led a high-stakes ClickUp-to-Oracle migration of 1M+ records using idempotent ETL, reconciliation, and shadow deployment to achieve >99% integrity with zero downtime, and has hands-on production security implementation with Django/DRF (JWT + RBAC).”

“Backend engineer who rebuilt and refactored high-traffic systems at Phenom using Java/Spring Boot/Play and also designs Python/FastAPI services. Focused on measurable reliability and performance gains through DB/query optimization, async processing, and strong observability, with disciplined rollout practices (feature flags, parallel runs, rollback) and security patterns including token auth and row-level security.”

“Built a production-grade LLM evaluation and regression system that stress-tests models across hundreds of iterations, combining LLM-as-judge, semantic similarity, statistical metrics, and rule-based checks, with results delivered via stakeholder-friendly HTML reports and dashboards. Experienced orchestrating multi-agent RAG workflows using LangChain/LangGraph and event-driven GenAI pipelines in n8n integrating OCR, speech-to-text, and external APIs, with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and explainable failures.”

“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.”

“Unity gameplay programmer with practical performance optimization experience (object pooling for shooting mechanics) and extensive Photon-based multiplayer work across diverse genres including shooters, sports, and board games (e.g., ludo, chess, air hockey, snakes and ladders). Uses AI tools to accelerate development, including generating and implementing multiple effects programmatically in a single day under deadline pressure.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-assisted recommendation and insights platform that unifies structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data via a modular ingestion pipeline, canonical schemas, embeddings, and late-fusion modeling. Experienced in operationalizing ML/LLM systems with Airflow and Kubernetes (Dockerized services, autoscaling, rolling updates) and emphasizes reliability through layered testing, guardrails, monitoring, and A/B experimentation while partnering closely with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Built and deployed an LLM product called "Content Craft" combining BART-based summarization with a RAG Q&A chatbot using LangChain, embeddings, and a vector database. Has hands-on MLOps experience containerizing and serving models with FastAPI and running them on Kubernetes with monitoring, self-healing, and autoscaling, and has practical experience reducing hallucinations through structured prompting.”

“Software engineer who deployed and stabilized a real-time analytics platform at Senecio Software, focusing on production reliability, observability, and performance under load. Experienced debugging issues spanning distributed services and networking (e.g., tracing timeouts to packet loss from misconfiguration) and extending Python (FastAPI/Django) APIs for customer-specific analytics features in a configurable, maintainable way.”

“Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader with 22 years of experience managing large onsite/offshore teams (100+ at peak) and running VMS-driven delivery for multi-industry accounts (telecom, health insurance, retail). Has implemented ATS-based resume databases and reporting dashboards to improve turnaround time, productivity tracking, and coverage planning across multiple client/vendor relationships.”

“Robotics/embedded developer with hands-on ROS 2 and micro-ROS experience on ESP32, building a remote-controlled high-power LED system. Worked across power distribution (buck-boost constant 30V), sensor calibration with real-time data checks, and long-range WiFi connectivity using an omnidirectional antenna achieving 100m+ coverage.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-based appointment management agent, implementing RAG with Redis and LangGraph plus multi-agent intent handling and rule-based conflict guardrails to prevent double-booking under high load. Experienced in real-time diagnosis of agentic workflow failures using logs/traces and state inspection, and in driving adoption via interactive developer demos and sales-aligned custom customer scenarios.”