Vetted Kotlin Professionals

Balaji Vellaluru

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and computer vision systems

Chicago, IL3y exp

“Built D.O.C.T.O.R, a 0-to-1 anatomy learning platform with 450+ 3D models that reached 6,500+ users, saved $850K versus a costly alternative, and was featured in a University of Illinois Chicago news article. The candidate combines product initiative with hands-on full-stack execution, spanning React/Three.js, databases, auth, analytics, and AI workflow automation side projects.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a custom LMS end to end with Next.js, TypeScript, Python, AWS, and S3, owning the learning module experience and structured progress tracking. Also shipped a bilingual English-Swahili caregiver support WhatsApp chatbot using OpenAI, with strong attention to safety boundaries, anonymous logging, prompt iteration, and real-world deployment in a sensitive support context.”

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.”

“Oracle Software Developer (2+ years) at C3 Business Solutions, a consulting firm building and maintaining ERP applications across Oracle APEX/FDI/Fusion/EBS/OCI. No formal game QA experience yet, but demonstrates practical QA-adjacent skills (test planning, debugging via logs, and detailed bug reporting) and is explicitly looking to transition into a QA Engineer role.”

Karan Savaliya

Screened

Junior Backend Engineer specializing in data platforms and cloud APIs

Remote, USA1y exp

“Backend lead at a stealth startup and builder of MailIQ/MailBox—an automated Gmail inbox digest + cleanup system. Designed secure multi-account email ingestion and cost-efficient LLM-based summarization, and implemented robust unsubscribe automation using Playwright + OpenAI webpage analysis (including captcha-handling) with strong safety guardrails, incremental rollouts, and rollback strategies.”

“Built Python-based data workflow integrations for a Huntsman Cancer Institute research project, focusing on reliable upload, validation, processing, and retrieval of messy research data. Demonstrates strong practical instincts around automation hardening, observability, and translating ambiguous manual processes into structured workflows, including Selenium automation when APIs were unavailable.”

Victor Iagnov

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in SaaS platforms and AI-enabled architecture

Windermere, FL9y exp

“Engineering executive and former CTO of 3DWORLD who helped scale the business through roughly 22x revenue growth and 15x customer growth over four years while building a 20+ remote cross-functional org. Unusually for a senior leader, they remain hands-on in architecture and production debugging, with recent depth in AI-powered support systems, retrieval-based knowledge workflows, and scalable full-stack platform design.”

Mohamed Risaldar Uppil Thodi

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in real-time systems and backend platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, CA10y exp

“Fullstack engineer with strong experience building real-time, customer-facing products across e-commerce personalization and enterprise monitoring dashboards. Stands out for combining hands-on React/Node/GraphQL development with cloud-edge/WebRTC/WebSocket architecture, while working directly with customers to shape MVPs that achieved strong adoption.”

“Unity game developer who implemented a blockchain/NFT feature in a mid-core football game, including wallet connection via an external web portal and backend coordination for trading player skins/outfits. Has cloud-focused networking experience (AWS/Firebase) primarily for turn-based multiplayer systems and uses Copilot/VS Code to accelerate boilerplate and architecture exploration.”

“Junior Software Developer with a master’s in Interactive Media who studied XR and built a personal VR space. Already uses AI tooling (Windsurf Cascade) in day-to-day development for feature support and debugging, and is seeking a more structured, mentored environment while ramping into Unity/Meta Quest work.”

“Software engineer with a strong builder mindset who has worked across ML, backend, and frontend systems. Notably built an AI-driven predictive autoscaler for Kubernetes from scratch using Prometheus, TensorFlow, Flask, and Spring Boot, and also delivered customer-facing automation features in financial document processing by working directly with auditors to translate domain rules into product logic.”

“Engineering/CTO-style leader with hands-on architecture experience who has driven end-to-end modernization of a manual antiques auction operation—building centralized web-accessible data systems, digitizing historical records via OCR/freelancers, and defining profitability-focused KPIs with an eye toward predictive modeling. Emphasizes provider-agnostic, containerized SaaS architecture to avoid vendor lock-in and has experience scaling a small engineering team with ownership-based culture and lightweight processes.”

Atharva Chavan

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in mobile, cloud, and GenAI integration

Syracuse, NY2y exp

“Software engineering intern with hands-on ownership of a Java/Spring Boot order management microservice, including production performance tuning via Redis caching and database indexing driven by API logs/metrics. Also contributed to a production mobile-backend LLM feature using RAG with embeddings over structured data and documents (DB + object storage), with guardrails to keep responses grounded.”

Vishnu Priyan Sellam Shanmugavel

Screened

Mid-Level Applied AI Engineer specializing in LLM services, RAG, and OCR/NLP extraction

Arlington, VA4y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built and evolved a large-scale healthcare document processing system (OCR + LLM orchestration) in Python/FastAPI on Google Cloud (Cloud Run, GCS, Firestore), processing ~1.5M files per batch and tens of millions overall. Emphasizes reliability and operational safety via deterministic IDs, idempotent state machines, strong observability, and self-healing reconciliation, plus disciplined migrations using dual-run validation and incremental rollouts.”