Vetted Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Professionals

“Engineer working on high-throughput financial systems who uses AI pragmatically to accelerate development without sacrificing design ownership, correctness, or compliance. Particularly interesting for teams building regulated, real-time platforms: they have hands-on experience integrating fraud detection models into microservices, handling transaction ingestion, scoring, decisioning, and throughput-sensitive asynchronous workflows.”

“Unity game developer who built a "constraint-driven match resolution" card-game system that encouraged players to think 1–2 moves ahead while keeping interactions as simple as UNO-style matching; reported longer player sessions and positive feedback. Has used Photon to implement most online features in games and leverages AI tools for code writing to boost productivity.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Vanguard, PNC, and Humana building customer-facing investment/banking flows and internal ops tools using Angular/React/TypeScript with Spring Boot microservices. Strong in shipping time-sensitive changes safely via automated testing/CI (JUnit/Mockito, Jenkins, SonarQube) and in operating event-driven microservices with Kafka (idempotency, retries, correlation IDs). Improved internal tool adoption by responding to ops/support feedback with query optimization and clearer search results.”

“Built production LLM systems including a real-time customer feedback analysis and workflow automation platform using RAG and multi-agent orchestration with confidence-based human escalation, addressing privacy and legacy integration challenges. Also automated ML operations with Airflow/Kubernetes (e.g., daily churn model retraining) cutting retraining time to under 30 minutes, and demonstrates a rigorous testing/monitoring approach plus strong non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”

Ivan Kadyka

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Staff Technical Lead specializing in Unity and .NET

Warsaw, Poland11y exp

“Unity/gameplay engineer (Playtika) who built a state-machine/ECS-driven slot/bonus engine in a client-server setup, focusing on consistent outcomes under latency and highly engaging reward sequences. Also implemented server-authoritative real-time challenges/contests via an event-driven messaging system (SignalR-like) across iOS/Android/WebGL/UWP, and validates impact through retention/session/engagement analytics.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-driven data harmonization/record-matching pipeline for pharmaceutical datasets, combining normalization, embeddings/vector search, and an LLM validation step. Emphasizes production reliability via guardrails, confidence thresholds, idempotent/retryable stages, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, with monitoring focused on manual review and error rates to reduce false positives.”

“Engineer focused on AI-assisted and multi-agent software development, with hands-on experience designing structured agent workflows for implementation, testing, validation, and architectural review. Stands out for treating AI as an accelerator rather than a replacement, combining practical experimentation with strong attention to engineering fundamentals and operational concerns like observability, latency, and cost.”

“Robotics software engineer with semiconductor wafer-handling automation experience at Mattson Technology, building C++ control software for ATM and vacuum robots coordinating through a load-lock (pressure/door/pump sequencing). Implemented multi-vendor communications with auto-detection across SECS serial and TCP/IP, and validated behavior using simulation + GUI animation, logging/sniffers, and hardware-in-the-loop testing; currently self-studying ROS 2.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience designing and refactoring scalable Node.js/MongoDB systems and building Python/FastAPI services. Emphasizes production-grade security (JWT, refresh tokens, RBAC, Supabase Auth, RLS) and reliability practices like strong testing, monitoring, and rollback planning, including resolving concurrency and token/validation edge cases.”

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade pipelines and external data collection systems on AWS (S3/Lambda/SQS/Glue/EMR) using PySpark/SQL, serving curated datasets to Snowflake/Redshift for finance and fraud teams. Has operated a large-scale crawler ingesting millions of records/day with anti-bot tactics, schema versioning/quarantine, and CloudWatch/Datadog monitoring, and also shipped a versioned REST API with caching and query optimization.”

“Built and productionized LLM-driven content intelligence/SEO agents for a high-traffic media platform, automating tagging/summarization/metadata with FastAPI + async orchestration and strict JSON-schema outputs. Demonstrated measurable impact (40% faster publishing, +20% organic traffic in 3 months) and strong reliability practices (offline evals, shadow mode, canaries, fallbacks, idempotency, and monitoring).”

Yuvraj Singh Chauhan

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Entry-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and DevOps automation

Bangalore, India1y exp

“Built and owned a production-scale AI-driven software release/version intelligence platform orchestrated via GitHub Actions that tracks 1000+ upstream repositories and automatically generates SLA-bound JIRA upgrade tickets for hardened container images. Replaced brittle regex/PEP440 parsing with an LLM-based semantic filtering layer plus deterministic validation to handle noisy/inconsistent GitHub tags at scale, with monitoring for coverage, latency, and correctness validated against upstream ground truth.”

Matthew Penner

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in systems programming and web development

Hillsboro, OR3y exp

“Entry-level candidate who built an air-traffic-control (ATC) simulation game in Rust, using a tick-based loop to model real-time behavior. No hands-on robotics/ROS experience yet, but has foundational software development tooling experience with GitHub and Linux/Vim.”

Saicharitha Yanamandala

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Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in Java, Cloud, and Microservices

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend/Python engineer who owned an end-to-end FastAPI + AWS internal natural-language document Q&A system (Textract extraction, embeddings/vector DB, LLM integration) with strong focus on reliability and latency. Hands-on with Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD, Helm, rolling updates/auto-rollback) and built/optimized Kafka streaming pipelines using Prometheus/Grafana. Also supported a zero-downtime on-prem to cloud migration with parallel run and gradual traffic cutover.”

Alex Johnson

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in observability and developer tools

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Product-leaning full-stack engineer (65% product / 35% infra) who built core components of the LightFoot feature flag platform: end-to-end client/server SDKs with OpenTelemetry-based observability and a React+TypeScript UI for flag management and metrics dashboards. Strong focus on performance (memoization/lazy loading/caching), reliable API design, and Postgres modeling for read-heavy flag evaluation workloads, with AWS production experience (EC2/ECS/Lambda/API Gateway/VPC).”

Sanjay Mandru

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and real-time analytics

Buffalo, NY3y exp

“Software engineer who built a reusable React component package (UI modules, auth helpers, API client wrappers) for an AI SaaS background-removal project, emphasizing performance (tree shaking/dynamic imports) and reliability (Jest + Storybook). Also delivered a unified REST API for Samsung Big Data Portal, resolving cross-team issues by standardizing schemas, improving validation/logging, and operating effectively amid shifting requirements.”

Sriram Degala

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Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare and finance AI

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Built production-grade medical AI systems at MD Anderson, including an end-to-end RAG chatbot used by clinical researchers for real-time drug interaction and trial literature queries. Stands out for combining healthcare domain knowledge with strong MLOps, evaluation, and safety practices, and for delivering measurable gains in latency, retrieval precision, and team adoption.”

“Backend engineer in healthcare data systems who has owned production pipelines end-to-end, from ingesting patient and claims data to serving it through secure APIs. Brings a strong mix of Python, SQL, microservices, cloud deployment, and data reliability practices, with measurable performance gains and experience building resilient integrations with external data sources.”

“Computer science capstone project: built a UE5 VR campus virtual-tour simulator using Blueprint scripting, including trigger-box interactions that display building/department info. Spent significant time in QA/playtesting to reduce motion sickness and improve UX, and handled a challenging asset pipeline by converting/optimizing high-detail AutoCAD/scan-derived building models via Blender—ultimately creating a custom plugin to help with conversion.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI APIs secured with JWT and delivering AWS-based data processing solutions using Lambda and ECS Fargate. Has worked with Snowflake/third-party API sources and targets including DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Redshift, and Glue, and uses CloudWatch/X-Ray for monitoring and troubleshooting. Seeking ~$65/hr and is open to onsite work in Bethesda, MD.”

“Software engineer/QA automation leader with Lowe’s experience owning automation quality strategy for a customer-facing platform supporting large contractor orders. Built TypeScript/React dashboards backed by Spring Boot microservices (MongoDB) and RabbitMQ async messaging, with strong CI/CD test automation and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana). Also created an internal automated test reporting dashboard that improved QA workflow through training-led adoption and iterative refinement.”