Vetted Performance Optimization Professionals

Daozheng Chen

Screened

Staff Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in FinTech and Enterprise SaaS

San Jose, CA12y exp

“Full-stack engineer with Yahoo Finance experience building AI-powered investment and analytics features. They combine modern TypeScript/React/NestJS development with strong backend systems skills in PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Kubernetes, and have driven architectural improvements from synchronous workflows to event-driven microservices in a high-traffic financial environment.”

Danny Anop

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in SaaS, e-commerce, and frontend platforms

Bellevue, WA10y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built a multi-tenant AI-powered widget and admin dashboard platform used across 40+ merchant websites. Strong in TypeScript/Next.js/GraphQL systems design, reusable platform primitives, and cross-layer debugging, with a clear track record of shipping scalable product experiences under ambiguity.”

Kevin Wang

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems

Adams, MA8y exp

“Amazon engineer focused on productionizing LLM-powered developer workflows, including code assistance, debugging automation, and internal AI tooling. Stands out for combining hands-on ML systems work with strong platform engineering, including an orchestration engine that reportedly saved about $10K/day and reduced a manual workflow from 12 hours to under a second.”

“Software engineering manager with 8+ years spanning large-scale consumer product delivery and ML-driven forecasting platforms. He has led teams of up to 15 engineers, hired 20+ people, and worked on systems serving millions of customers, including Amazon grocery/order-modification features and a forecasting platform with explainability and AI chatbot layers.”

Sean Brennan

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend platforms and cloud systems

Oakland, CA28y exp

“Engineer with a track record of taking on messy, high-ambiguity systems that others avoid, including a Python rewrite of Google Search Appliance's settings migrator that achieved 95% test coverage and zero bugs. Has also built internal full-stack planning tools at Capital One using React, Kotlin, and Airflow/DBT data pipelines, and brings specialized insurance analytics experience from catastrophe risk modeling for insurers.”

“Senior product leader with experience across Uber, Netflix, and Expedia, spanning HR tech and travel commerce. Has shipped and evaluated generative AI support experiences, navigated data/privacy trade-offs, and paired strong product judgment with measurable business impact, including a 30% lift in transactions and attach rate at Expedia.”

“Hands-on engineering leader with early-stage startup experience who balances coding with executive alignment and delegation. Has delivered offline-capable SaaS mobile demos under tight timelines, built monetization-ready mobile architectures (dynamic cloud assets + in-app purchases), and increased product velocity via component-based game architecture plus stakeholder self-serve tooling.”

“Senior Microsoft engineering leader who has led globally distributed orgs of up to 250 engineers while staying deeply technical in large-scale platform architecture, reliability, and AI systems. Notable work includes modernizing Teams infrastructure serving massive global scale and incubating an internal AI pair-programmer/knowledge-graph platform over 650M lines of code, plus helping launch foundational Copilot search and retrieval APIs.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent startup experience building AI automation products end to end, from React/Next.js interfaces to Python/FastAPI services and Dockerized deployment. Particularly strong in reliability, observability, and workflow tooling for non-technical business users, with additional experience optimizing database-backed monitoring systems at Meta.”

Muneendra M

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in event-driven backend and AI-enabled systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at Stripe who owned a webhook monitoring and retry platform end-to-end, spanning backend services, React dashboards, and production operations. Stands out for combining strong distributed-systems judgment with product polish, including a reported 31% improvement in webhook delivery reliability and UI improvements that reduced support burden.”

Ao Chen

Screened

Entry Software Engineer specializing in cloud APIs and distributed systems

United States, USA1y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of AWS-based production systems, including resource-based policy support for Aurora DSQL and a VPC endpoint service name API. Stands out for combining security-sensitive authorization design, strong reliability instincts, and end-to-end product ownership that helped unblock enterprise adoption and customer onboarding.”

“Candidate brings experience across both startups and big tech, along with direct exposure to pitching ideas to several VCs. They show a practical founder mindset centered on rapid prototyping, customer feedback, retention, and building AI/agent-driven products with strong product-market fit potential.”

“Engineering leader with deep distributed-systems expertise who led Oracle's replacement of a legacy Fusion Applications authorization service with a cloud-native Go/Kubernetes RBAC platform delivering sub-10ms latency. Combines hands-on architecture depth with org-building experience, having grown a geo-distributed team from 4 to 26 and led managers, architects, and cross-functional delivery across Oracle and Microsoft environments.”