Vetted Linux Professionals

“DevOps/Cloud engineer with experience supporting large-scale enterprise infrastructure (AT&T: 50+ Power8/Power9 frames and 2,000+ AIX 7.1/7.2 LPARs) and strong hands-on delivery in AWS/Kubernetes. Built secure Jenkins-to-EKS pipelines with SonarQube/Trivy gates and resolved a widespread CVE-driven build outage by patching the Debian base layer. Also created reusable Terraform modules with remote state/locking and automated drift detection to provision full mirror environments in under an hour.”

“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.”

“QA automation engineer who owned an end-to-end test suite for a financial payments application, building cross-layer E2E coverage (UI/API/DB) and integrating it into CI with smoke-on-commit and nightly regression. Caught high-impact issues including duplicate payments caused by missing idempotency in backend retry logic and an RBAC authorization gap, and has hands-on experience stabilizing flaky Cypress tests via network-call synchronization.”

“Game/tools-focused QA professional with experience at Playable Worlds, Disney, and Metaplace, emphasizing CI-driven quality (Jenkins PR gating, unit tests, Slack/JIRA visibility) in live production environments. Has hands-on defect isolation experience using developer tools to diagnose hard-to-repro player issues and improve turnaround by providing reliable repro steps and clear QA workflows.”

“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.”

“Full-stack engineer with ~3.5 years of Java Spring Boot and React experience who built an end-to-end banking transaction platform using microservices, Kafka streaming, AWS RDS, and Dockerized CI/CD. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability engineering (async processing, DLQ/retries, idempotency, caching) plus secure cloud deployment practices; has also worked across banking, healthcare, and insurance domains.”

“Data engineer with Charter Communications experience modernizing large-scale AWS data lake pipelines: ingesting S3 data, validating against legacy systems, transforming with PySpark/Spark SQL, and serving via Iceberg/Delta tables. Worked at 50M–300M record scale, delivered >99.5% data match, and built monitoring/alerting (CloudWatch/SNS) plus retry orchestration (Step Functions) and data quality gates (Great Expectations).”

Arunkumar Gangula

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud microservices

Tempe, Arizona11y exp

“Product-minded full-stack engineer from CouponDunia who owned end-to-end notification and recommendation services at million-user scale. Built internal admin/analytics and operations dashboards in React/TypeScript with typed contracts and scalable Node.js REST APIs, and has deep microservices experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ (idempotency, retries/DLQs, partitioning, consumer tuning, and observability).”

Manikanta Kopparapu

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native web applications

TX, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing and internal web portals end-to-end (API, database, React UI, and deployment). Experienced designing multi-service architectures with Node/Express and Java/Spring Boot plus RabbitMQ/Kafka messaging, emphasizing contract/versioning discipline, observability, and operational tooling that measurably reduces support load and manual work.”

Bhanu Gummadi

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Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

Bellevue, WA4y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with Mastercard experience building and operating high-volume transaction-processing microservices. Has owned customer-facing banking services end-to-end and built an internal on-call analytics tool that centralized logs/metrics with real-time filtering to speed root-cause analysis and reduce incident investigation time.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of real-time, Kafka-driven systems in production, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Node backends, and AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2) operations. Notable for modernizing legacy batch workflows into event-driven architectures with measurable impact (35% faster risk calculations, 30% better accuracy) and scaling to 2x volume using reliability patterns like idempotency, retries, and staged rollouts.”

“Unity/C# developer with defense/USAF VR experience who built a first-of-its-kind real-time metrics/telemetry API layer (serialized + encrypted JSON over REST) that enabled in-engine performance assessment and drove third-party LMS dashboard requirements. Currently prototyping an AI-driven "DM" agent experience using OpenClaw with model switching (Ollama) and Claude Code for in-engine benchmarking while weighing self-hosted vs cloud LLM tradeoffs (security/latency/cost). Based in Austin, TX; prefers remote but open to relocation with assistance.”

Pree Simphliphan

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in robotics, embedded systems, and AI

Thailand1y exp

“Senior design robotics engineer on a "Grocery Robot" project selected for the final round of the $10K SICK Challenge, owning ROS2 system design and behavior-tree-based task orchestration across multiple independently developed modules. Also implemented I2C/ESP32 collision avoidance, IK control for a robotic arm, and a Node.js ordering system, with additional research experience using RPLIDAR-based SLAM.”

Nisarg Shah

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Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in geospatial analytics and computer vision

Tempe, Arizona1y exp

“Built and evolved a geospatial ETL + API platform that processes pixel-wise satellite imagery in PostgreSQL/PostGIS into low-latency farm-level time-series metrics for an interactive dashboard, using precomputed hotspot analysis to reduce latency by 75–80%. Experienced in FastAPI-style API contract design (OpenAPI), caching, server-side filtering/compression, and production-minded security patterns (RBAC, session-derived authorization, password hashing) with disciplined rollback/versioning practices.”

Erick Folckemer

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Senior Gameplay Systems Programmer specializing in AAA game systems and networking

Raleigh, NC8y exp

“Gameplay engineer with shipped experience (Just Cause 4) and strong systems ownership in C++/Unreal Engine 5, including a loot spawning/loot table pipeline optimized through profiling-driven memory copy elimination and validated via custom simulation tools. Also built a server-authoritative fast travel system in a proprietary engine, handling multi-player/vehicle spawn coordination with client-side collision checks and latency testing across NYC and Stockholm.”

Mahesh Kota

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Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and Healthcare platforms

New York, NY5y exp

“Backend engineer with production experience building and scaling a Java/Spring Boot payment processing API on AWS (PostgreSQL/Redis) handling a few thousand RPS, including deep performance debugging (connection exhaustion) and observability (CloudWatch, Actuator, Zipkin). Also shipped application-layer AI features (OpenAI email summarizer with feedback loop, ~40% faster agent response times) and designed reliable multi-step workflow orchestration with retries and manual escalation, plus strong SQL tuning and Python engineering practices.”

“Platform/infra engineer with deep Kubernetes (EKS) and VMware vSphere experience who has led a monolith-to-microservices transition for a credit lending decision platform. Built GitOps-driven Terraform delivery with strong governance, and used LaunchDarkly-based progressive rollouts plus Datadog observability to safely ship multiple times per day (reported ~6x throughput and 1/3 the bugfix tickets vs legacy). Also operates hybrid on-prem/AWS networking (firewall + Transit Gateway, BGP) and has handled high-stakes datacenter migrations (100TB Storage vMotion) under Sev1 conditions.”

“Software developer with hands-on experience refactoring a legacy .NET CMS into a newer API-driven application (ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript/HTML), including dynamic asset migration and resolving team merge conflicts in Bitbucket. Built automated tests with PyTest and used Postman for API validation, and leveraged Splunk for production issue detection; also worked on an end-to-end ticketing/workflow management project with prioritization and verification steps.”

Ashrita Mishra

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Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in analytics, ETL, and cloud data platforms

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Data analyst with 4 years of experience spanning banking and retail/marketing analytics. Has hands-on experience building churn analytics pipelines in SQL and Python, optimizing large-query performance, and turning stakeholder-aligned metrics into recurring dashboards and business actions.”

“Built and owned VividCraft end-to-end, a production AI platform spanning a TypeScript/Next.js frontend and a Python backend with FastAPI, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Stands out for reliability-focused systems thinking: designed idempotent job orchestration across 9 AI providers, shipped with extensive automated test coverage, and reports zero production regressions after launch plus zero credit loss through provider outages.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience building production MLOps systems for predictive maintenance and demand forecasting, including deployment, monitoring, and iterative retraining. Also shipped a RAG-based employee onboarding chatbot integrated with ServiceNow APIs and reports business impact of roughly $300k/month in reduced stockout and overstock costs.”

Amit Verma

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Mid-level Java Full-Stack Engineer specializing in healthcare and enterprise microservices

Birmingham, AL6y exp

“Developer who actively integrates AI tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Cursor into day-to-day coding, testing, debugging, and framework learning to improve delivery speed. They also organize multi-agent workflows across code generation, review, testing, and documentation while retaining final ownership of quality and architecture decisions.”

“Built both a React/Supabase kanban product and CodeVoyage, a multi-agent platform for navigating large TypeScript/Node.js codebases. Stands out for being unusually rigorous about AI-assisted development: they quantify AI usage, manually verify generated code, and have firsthand experience debugging failures in persistence layers, retrieval quality, and long-context agent orchestration.”