Vetted Java Professionals

“NVIDIA engineer who built and shipped a production LLM-powered enterprise knowledge system (summarization, transcription, and Q&A) that cut document retrieval time ~30%. Deep hands-on experience with RAG (FAISS/Pinecone), GPU-accelerated microservices on AWS, and reliability/safety practices (Guardrails AI, prompt A/B testing, canary releases) plus strong MLOps orchestration across Airflow, Step Functions, and Kubernetes GitOps.”

Maria Li

Screened

Entry-Level Firmware Engineer specializing in embedded–cloud systems

New York, NY2y exp

“Backend engineer at Samsara with prior Amazon internship experience; built an internal Python chatbot for documentation discovery with a full security model (authn/authz and credential-based response filtering) in a sensitive environment. Currently works on dashcam/device-backend systems, including feature-flagged migrations for audio alert behavior and resilient real-time gRPC streaming under unreliable cellular connectivity, while actively monitoring Buildkite/Toolshed CI/CD rollouts.”

Sahitya Thota

Screened

Staff/Tech Lead Software Engineer specializing in identity, data platforms, and cloud systems

Fremont, CA20y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who built and owned end-to-end sales-facing data products, including a 360° advertiser insights platform and a sales AI agent for natural-language access to insights. Demonstrated strong architecture and reliability chops (event-driven redesign to eliminate Hive-query throttling; batching/caching to reduce fan-out) plus incident ownership around ads attribution consistency. Also has 0→1 experience building graph-based recommendation/matching systems with explainability and tight user feedback loops.”

“Founder building an enterprise agentic AI startup who has already raised about $100K (friends & family plus self-funding). Has prior and current experience engaging VCs (including outreach to both large and small firms) and emphasizes demo-driven pitching, enterprise customer validation, and targeting billion-dollar market opportunities.”

Diego Leyton

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AR/VR, metaverse, and game development

Menlo Park, CA14y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer from Horizon Worlds with deep experience shipping multiplayer VR and mobile features, especially scalable real-time animation and object interaction systems. Stands out for redesigning a high-overhead RPC-based animation pipeline into a deterministic client-side playback architecture that reduced network load, improved stability in complex worlds, and enabled previously unpublishable worlds to ship.”

Martin Bom

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in cloud services and large-scale delivery

Amsterdam, Netherlands31y exp

“Engineering leader with a hands-on developer background who has launched and scaled cloud services at AWS (CloudShell) while also leading AWS Cloud9. Built multi-year roadmaps and cross-org stakeholder alignment (product/marketing/mobile), and has a track record of scaling teams (3x growth) by implementing operational excellence, automated quality gates, and security champion programs; advocates serverless architectures to minimize maintenance and accelerate global expansion.”

David Lapsley

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Executive Engineering Leader specializing in AI infrastructure and cloud platforms

Tampa, FL14y exp

“Founder building Shipkode.ai, an enterprise SaaS product using generative AI to automate the front half of the software development lifecycle—from idea and customer feedback to engineering-ready specifications—with a beta planned for the first week of April. Has spoken with 24+ VCs over two years and mentors cybersecurity startups through the Tampa Bay Wave accelerator, emphasizing rigorous customer discovery to avoid misaligned product development.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer with experience building large-scale systems on Salesforce and eBay, including a sharded Oracle-backed personalization store used by millions of sellers and a Spring Boot microservice that executes scheduled payouts at high volume. Emphasizes production readiness via state-machine-based idempotency, strong observability (Splunk/Elasticsearch/PagerDuty), and extensive Selenium/Sauce Labs automation.”

Chavez Yi Wei Cheong

Screened

Mid-level analyst and software engineer specializing in AI, distributed systems, and product delivery

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Engineer with end-to-end shipping experience spanning large-scale infrastructure at Meta and scrappy startup automation work. Built a C++ streaming platform for Facebook Marketplace with canary and chaos testing, and also created Selenium-based scraping and GTM automation workflows under ambiguous, real-world conditions.”