Vetted Kotlin Professionals

“Built a 0-to-1 iOS mobile gardening application that helps users plan, track, and harvest crops with pest control guidance, weather, and climate-zone-based planting date recommendations. Demonstrated strong customer discovery and MVP-first product execution, including a major data challenge: compiling US climate zone data for every ZIP code from widely dispersed public sources into an app-ready database.”

“Backend engineer/technical lead with experience building and operating real-time blockchain analytics systems at Merkle Science. Owned high-traffic Django/DRF services and Kafka streaming pipelines processing millions of events daily, with deep focus on performance (N+1 fixes, indexing, caching) and reliability (DLQs, retries, monitoring). Also led containerization and Kubernetes/GitOps-style CI/CD on Google Cloud, including a migration off Google App Engine to reduce cost and improve scalability.”

“Built and owned a hackathon project (Gritto) with a Python/FastAPI backend that routes user text through a sequence of Gemini agents to produce structured JSON outputs. Has hands-on production deployment experience using Docker/Docker Compose, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS App Runner, MongoDB, and secrets management (Doppler + migration to AWS Secrets Manager), plus implemented a chat-like experience via multiple HTTP requests when SSE wasn’t viable.”

“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.”

“Built a Python-based geospatial machine learning backend for PFAS contamination risk mapping, including reproducible feature pipelines, ensemble modeling, and a FastAPI layer for visualization/analysis. Emphasizes data integrity and robustness (CRS/coverage checks, fail-fast validation) and has led safe backend refactors using feature flags, idempotent backfills, and Postgres RLS for secure, queryable results delivery.”

“JavaScript/Node.js engineer who contributes to open-source utilities focused on API integrations and JSON validation, including a 30–35% throughput improvement by profiling and optimizing deep-clone-heavy code paths. Strong in performance tooling (Node performance hooks, Chrome DevTools flame graphs), incremental/test-driven changes, and community-facing issue triage plus developer-friendly documentation.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on productionizing LLM applications, including an Android privacy-policy risk summarization app (Kotlin/React Native + FastAPI + Ollama) that cut response times from ~10s to ~5–6s via batching, caching, async, and event-driven architecture. Currently at PRGX building an LLM-based legal contract clause extraction system, partnering closely with legal/procurement SMEs to create schemas, labeled datasets, and evaluation pipelines that improved accuracy from 70% to 85%. Also has experience architecting real-time voice/LLM systems with streaming microservices (Kafka, Kubernetes, gRPC/WebSockets) and an avatar chatbot pipeline (TalkingHead, Google TTS, AnythingLLM).”

“QA engineer with 11+ years (nearly 12) in IT across financial, healthcare, and telecommunications domains, experienced partnering closely with developers throughout Agile delivery. Strong in building/maintaining living test plans, running smoke/regression on new builds, and driving triage with impact-based prioritization using Jira/TestRail/Confluence; targets $100k+ base with standard benefits.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience revamping IPTV native TV apps (Android TV, Xfinity, LG, Samsung), building scalable, lazy-loaded home page and content experiences that remain stable as backend playlists change. Emphasizes component/modular architecture (including MVP on Android TV), strong quality practices (CI, unit tests, code reviews, manual device testing), and modern React+TypeScript state management using Zustand with clean separation of business logic from UI.”

“Full Stack Developer (recently at Cisco Systems) building end-to-end web applications with Angular frontends and Spring Boot microservices backed by MySQL/JPA, including JWT + role-based access. Has hands-on experience with high-volume, real-time data processing/visualization and has solved complex UI state consistency issues using RxJS BehaviorSubjects; also applies layered state patterns in React with Redux Toolkit and uses AI dev tools (Cursor/Claude) strategically.”

“At BondiTech, built and deployed customer-facing backend improvements for enterprise dashboards handling 1M+ records, redesigning a .NET/Entity Framework API with server-side pagination/filtering and feature-flagged rollout to cut latency from ~15s to ~2s. Experienced integrating customer systems into existing APIs, including stabilizing a legacy CRM sync by normalizing inconsistent IDs, handling strict rate limits with batching, and adding DLQs plus reconciliation reporting.”

“Gameplay engineer who also contributes to game design, currently building a motion-based horror game with educational riddle mechanics (animal/sea-creature learning via in-room info tablets). Has shipped/implemented stealth gameplay systems including power-ups (notably an invisibility mechanic) and iterated features through internal cross-discipline playtests, documentation, and Figma-driven inventory system alignment.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Capital One and Prime Softech owning production systems end-to-end: secure authentication (Java/Spring Security + React/Redux) through AWS ECS deployments with Terraform and CI/CD. Strong reliability/observability focus (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK/CloudWatch) with quantified improvements (15% reliability gain, 30% fewer post-release defects). Also led legacy monolith-to-microservices refactors and built real-time Kafka/Spark ingestion pipelines for analytics/fraud detection.”

“Software engineer/product owner experience at UnitedHealth Group owning a high-volume claims eligibility console end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Spring Boot microservices) processing 1M+ transactions/day. Strong in event-driven architecture (Kafka/RabbitMQ), HIPAA-aligned security (OAuth/JWT/RBAC), and building internal observability tools that improve incident triage and production reliability.”

“Full-stack engineer with financial services experience (Lincoln Financial) who owned a customer-facing financial portal end-to-end using TypeScript/React and Node/Express. Has hands-on microservices and RabbitMQ event-driven workflows, addressing scale issues like retries/duplicates with idempotency and traceable logging, and built an internal real-time ops/support dashboard to improve monitoring and incident response.”

“Significant contributor/maintainer to an open-source JavaScript event-tracking client SDK, owning API consistency/backward compatibility, high-load batching and retry/backoff improvements, and test/CI + documentation upgrades. Diagnosed production-like issues (missing events under load) via reproduction and logging, then reduced GC pressure and improved predictability with a ring-buffer-based batching redesign while actively triaging issues and reviewing PRs.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built an end-to-end greenwashing detection system for corporate ESG reports: Python preprocessing pipeline, logistic regression + fine-tuned DistilBERT models, and a Dockerized FastAPI inference service optimized for latency. Internship experience maintaining GitLab CI/CD for TypeScript services (Jest/Playwright), improving pipeline stability and test determinism; familiar with Kubernetes/GitOps concepts and AWS CLI/SSO.”

“AppSec-focused engineer from Kaiser Permanente who advises on authentication/API security, performs lightweight threat modeling, and integrates SAST + dependency scanning into CI/CD while actively reducing false positives to improve release speed. Demonstrated strong troubleshooting using logs/traces/metrics (e.g., diagnosing auth failures caused by clock skew) and communicates security tradeoffs differently for engineering vs product stakeholders.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on production IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC) and PowerHA/HACMP clustering experience, including DLPAR changes, failover testing, and incident recovery. Also delivers modern cloud DevOps work—GitHub Actions CI/CD for Docker-to-Kubernetes on AWS and Terraform-based provisioning of core AWS infrastructure (VPC/EKS/RDS/IAM) with controlled rollouts and drift checks.”

“Founding/solo engineer who rebuilt an early-stage product from the ground up: Ask NETA, an AI assistant for electricians to answer complex electrical code questions. Delivered a full-stack TypeScript system (React web + React Native iOS/Android, Express API, Postgres on AWS) with CI/CD, observability, and a Vertex AI RAG pipeline, reaching 3,000 MAUs in the first month; also built a real-time distributed scoring system handling unreliable hardware data with sequencing and retries.”