Vetted Kotlin Professionals

Mark Thomas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level software architect specializing in cloud, distributed systems, and healthcare IT

McCalla, AL20y exp

“Startup veteran with experience at seven companies since 2004 and direct exposure to Birmingham's Innovation Depot accelerator through three different startups. Has worked closely with investment teams on MVPs and pitch decks and brings a pragmatic lens to evaluating ventures through need, margins, burn rate, cash position, and sales growth strategy.”

“Unity/C# engineer with hands-on experience building cross-platform VR/mobile prototypes at Verizon Labs, including a networked VR cinema and virtual office application. Particularly strong in performance engineering: they describe custom update architecture, shader work, and low-level iOS optimization that enabled 60 FPS while rendering HD video textures and running voice chat simultaneously. They also bring adjacent computer vision integration experience from Nomad-Go, with a practical focus on latency, inference/render separation, and data consistency.”

Ashwith Poojary

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software & AI Engineer specializing in Robotics, LLMs, and Reinforcement Learning

4y exp

“Robotics/AI Master's thesis researcher building an LLM-driven workflow to generate and evaluate robot policies before running them in an environment. Also built a local LLM-based real-time target-tracking robot using a pan-tilt camera with LangChain + Ollama, and has hands-on ROS 2/Gazebo experience including URDF-based simulation and a TurtleBot multi-agent chase project.”

“Software engineer with strong full-stack and platform experience (TypeScript/React/Node.js) who has built real-time analytics dashboards and microservices using RabbitMQ. Demonstrates production-minded decision-making under launch pressure (manual fallback for payment-impacting third-party API issues) and has delivered internal DevOps tooling that automates compliance checks via GitHub/Jira integrations.”

“Master’s student and Deep Learning teaching assistant who teaches LLM/VLM fine-tuning (including LoRA) and built a Hugging Face LLM fine-tuned for unit conversion, improving reliability by analyzing synthetic data and filling missing number-system conversion examples. Also implemented the Raft consensus protocol using gRPC in a distributed systems course with correctness validated by unit tests.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built a Spring Boot timesheet API on AWS (Postgres, Docker, Nginx) used by hundreds of daily users and resolved severe deadline-driven latency/5XX incidents via query optimization, connection pool tuning, and Redis caching. Also shipped application-layer LLM features (Mistral + LangChain chatbot) and designed a Planner/Executor/Verifier troubleshooting agent with verification-based guardrails to prevent hallucinated root-cause analyses.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across SDK tooling, APIs, and operations. At Statsig, built real-time SDK diagnostics spanning 16 SDKs and improved incident response (40% faster mitigation) with Datadog SLOs/alerting; also shipped an enterprise Console API + interactive OpenAPI-based docs with robust versioning/migration practices. Has early-stage startup experience at Layup Parts, translating AS-9100 compliance needs into production workflows under rapidly changing requirements.”

Aditya Rao

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, AI, and distributed systems

San Jose, CA5y exp

“Software engineer with 4.5 years of startup experience across programmatic advertising, health tech e-commerce, and automobile diagnostics, plus both bachelor's and master's degrees in CSE. Built an agentic global supply chain platform in a hackathon using a highly structured AI-first workflow, and has hands-on experience designing multi-agent debate systems, rollout safeguards, and observability-driven production fixes.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer focused on data instrumentation and tracking-plan automation. They built an end-to-end publish architecture plus an MCP/agent workflow that turns PRDs, Figma files, and meeting transcripts into tracking plans and implementation-ready code, reportedly shrinking work from 4-5 days to minutes. They also show strong judgment around productionizing LLM systems, with tool-centric prompt design, backend guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls for high-risk actions.”