Vetted JavaScript Professionals

“Meta engineer who owned end-to-end production systems for AI-enabled smart glasses, spanning React/TypeScript apps through Node/Java microservices on AWS EKS with Kafka/Postgres. Built and productionized a real-time RAG pipeline (LangChain + OpenAI + Elasticsearch) with rigorous guardrails (shadow/canary, fallbacks, monitoring), delivering major improvements in latency (~35–40%), error reduction (~30%), and engagement (reported +40% DAU).”

Jesse Olson

Screened

Executive AI technology leader specializing in agentic AI and enterprise transformation

22y exp

“Candidate is exploring a startup in the autonomous agentic AI space and is approaching it with a disciplined founder mindset. They are evaluating market opportunity, competition, customer pain, ROI, technical feasibility, and MVP options while already speaking with potential customers across verticals to validate needs and buying processes.”

Daozheng Chen

Screened

Staff Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in FinTech and Enterprise SaaS

San Jose, CA12y exp

“Full-stack engineer with Yahoo Finance experience building AI-powered investment and analytics features. They combine modern TypeScript/React/NestJS development with strong backend systems skills in PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Kubernetes, and have driven architectural improvements from synchronous workflows to event-driven microservices in a high-traffic financial environment.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned real-time reporting and streaming analytics systems end-to-end, combining FastAPI/Postgres APIs with Kafka consumers, Celery background jobs, and Redis caching. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying Python/Node microservices to AWS EKS with Helm, ArgoCD/FluxCD, and CI pipelines, and has supported phased on-prem to AWS migrations using Terraform and traffic cutovers.”

“Software development manager who led development of the open-source AI agents framework Strands (for Amazon Bedrock), which launched mid-year and is used as a primary agent-development framework at Amazon and externally. Owned the Strands SDK end-to-end, drove adoption through stakeholder management and agile execution, and led a JavaScript-to-TypeScript migration to improve type safety and maintainability.”

“Engineering leader who drove Lightroom Mobile’s roadmap at Adobe by enforcing reuse of Photoshop imaging tech to deliver RAW, non-destructive mobile editing with full Creative Cloud compatibility. In startup environments, has repeatedly scaled and professionalized engineering orgs (career ladders, evaluation systems, delivery process) and led high-stakes cloud/platform transformations—migrating off Heroku and consolidating fragmented AWS/GCP usage into a single GCP platform—improving reliability, deploy speed, and cutting cloud costs by 20%+.”

Danny Anop

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in SaaS, e-commerce, and frontend platforms

Bellevue, WA10y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built a multi-tenant AI-powered widget and admin dashboard platform used across 40+ merchant websites. Strong in TypeScript/Next.js/GraphQL systems design, reusable platform primitives, and cross-layer debugging, with a clear track record of shipping scalable product experiences under ambiguity.”

Kevin Wang

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems

Adams, MA8y exp

“Amazon engineer focused on productionizing LLM-powered developer workflows, including code assistance, debugging automation, and internal AI tooling. Stands out for combining hands-on ML systems work with strong platform engineering, including an orchestration engine that reportedly saved about $10K/day and reduced a manual workflow from 12 hours to under a second.”

“Senior engineering leader with deep hands-on architecture experience across fintech and enterprise software. At DriveWealth, he led a major backend replatform for a brokerage platform handling 10M+ trades per day, combining event-driven design, Kinesis/Kafka, and regulatory-grade accuracy; at TIBCO, he built a Kubernetes-based API management product from near scratch into a successful revenue-generating offering.”

“Software engineering manager with 8+ years spanning large-scale consumer product delivery and ML-driven forecasting platforms. He has led teams of up to 15 engineers, hired 20+ people, and worked on systems serving millions of customers, including Amazon grocery/order-modification features and a forecasting platform with explainability and AI chatbot layers.”

Sean Brennan

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend platforms and cloud systems

Oakland, CA28y exp

“Engineer with a track record of taking on messy, high-ambiguity systems that others avoid, including a Python rewrite of Google Search Appliance's settings migrator that achieved 95% test coverage and zero bugs. Has also built internal full-stack planning tools at Capital One using React, Kotlin, and Airflow/DBT data pipelines, and brings specialized insurance analytics experience from catastrophe risk modeling for insurers.”

SHIVA SANDY

Screened

Executive CTO/CIO specializing in FinTech, cloud transformation, and cybersecurity

Walnut Creek, CA27y exp

“Banking/credit-union technology executive (CTO/CTIO) who has led modernization and product delivery through major change, including a post-merger roadmap that helped grow a credit union from $600M to $1.5B in 3 years. Hands-on leader who drove cloud microservices/API architecture, introduced CI/CD, and accelerated releases from quarterly to weekly while scaling teams and operating effectively with distributed/remote orgs.”

Somya Upadhyay

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and large-scale data pipelines

Bellevue, USA9y exp

“Backend engineer on Amazon’s Geospatial Data team (Amazon Maps) who built a real-time road-layer service ingesting third-party and internal signals to deliver road closures/traffic overlays to delivery drivers on a ~3-minute cadence while minimizing mobile data egress. Demonstrates strong production reliability skills (rate limiting, idempotency, cache stampede prevention) and security depth (IAM, RBAC, tenant row-level security), plus careful handling of edge cases like manual override protection against automated feed overwrites.”

Franklin Dickinson

Screened

Senior Data Scientist specializing in product analytics and applied AI

New York, NY9y exp

“Product data scientist at Meta who also built Fogo, a personal finance app, as a solo developer with a React/FastAPI/Postgres stack and sophisticated LLM evaluation infrastructure. Particularly strong in AI backend quality systems, experimentation, and production decision-making around model cost, latency, and reliability.”