Vetted PHP Professionals

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI Python APIs and AWS-native platforms (Lambda/API Gateway, SQS, ECS Fargate) with Terraform + GitHub Actions CI/CD and strong reliability practices (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts, structured errors/logging). Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines (S3/RDS to curated S3/Athena) with schema evolution and data quality controls, modernized legacy processing via parallel-run validation and phased cutovers, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (seconds to <200ms) plus incident ownership for batch pipeline SLAs.”

“Frontend-focused engineer (~8 years) with strong React/TypeScript and Angular experience who leads end-to-end UI architecture, performance budgets, and quality practices at scale. Known for restructuring large, tightly coupled codebases into feature-based domains to eliminate UI freezes and improve team throughput, and for tight Product/Design/QA alignment via a “3 Amigos” process that catches workflow gaps early. Currently seeking a new frontend role due to GE Vernova outsourcing; has been acquired twice by large companies.”

“Engineering leader (Director/VP level) who has repeatedly aligned product and engineering through ROI-driven quarterly roadmaps and strong stakeholder communication, including board presentations. Built a parallel cloud team to migrate an on-prem product to the cloud, credited with delivering $9M ARR, and led a Python monolith-to-serverless event-driven microservices transformation. Currently manages distributed teams across Mexico, India, and the US using pod-based structures, clear KPIs, and a supportive accountability culture.”

“Veteran Unity game developer with extensive multiplayer networking experience (Photon PUN2/Quantum/Fusion, Unity Netcode), including work on Payday: Crime War and an in-development arena battler using Invector + PUN2. Also builds cloud backends for Unity titles (Azure/PlayFab/Firebase, SQL, CI/CD) and actively uses multiple AI assistants to speed up architecture and implementation.”

“Built and productionized an AI agent-based in-app assistant at ISAFE to guide users through document workflows, piloting with a partner school district and then rolling out across districts. Combines hands-on LLM/agent debugging (logs, fallback rates, state/context tracking) with strong technical demos and sales enablement through live workflows and pilot programs (e.g., Osceola School District).”

“Frontend engineer at Mailchimp who leads end-to-end React/TypeScript features on the in-app homepage, including onboarding and campaign discovery components. Demonstrated measurable performance impact by cutting homepage LCP by ~2.5s and successfully shipped a major feature on an accelerated deadline using structured QA and staged rollout.”

“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.”

“Built a production real-time fraud detection and customer-support automation platform at Citibank, tackling extreme class imbalance (reported ~1:5000) and strict latency constraints. Combines hands-on MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow; Snowflake/Spark/S3 integrations; CI/CD model promotion) with cross-functional delivery to Risk & Compliance focused on interpretability and reducing false positives.”

“Founder of an LLC operating as a consulting firm providing fractional CTO services to startups, giving them parallel exposure to multiple early-stage companies. Has direct experience with MVP development, building org structures from scratch, and supporting early fundraising, and is exploring a pivot from consulting into a scalable product business while staying engaged with the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

“Cross-functional product/engineering leader with startup and enterprise experience (Whimstay, Wells Fargo, Leap AI Technologies). Has owned end-to-end delivery including UI and payment architecture—built a multi-customer reservation payment flow using pre-auth plus event/timer-driven reminders and handled tricky edge cases like date changeover. Also introduced lightweight process (Jira, sprints, team/module structuring) to increase delivery speed in an early-stage AI document-matching startup.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-critical analytics and course intelligence platforms end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node/Express + SQL), including an internal self-serve Reporting & Analytics Center adopted by 1,000+ users. Demonstrates strong systems thinking across performance (2× faster heavy reports), reliability (feature flags, testing), and distributed architecture (RabbitMQ microservices with idempotency, DLQs, and correlation-ID observability).”

“Software engineer who built and scaled an internal automation/auditing tool for analyzing Google and Adobe tagging containers, adopted by 13 internal clients and saving ~15 hours per audit. Has experience shipping containerized, Kubernetes-orchestrated systems and integrating OpenAI APIs into an agentic chatbot feature (plus prior NLP chatbot work during a Cyber Peace Foundation internship).”