Vetted PHP Professionals

“Engineering/technology leader with experience at Evocative and through a merger with Hivelocity, aligning tech roadmaps to managed services growth. Led multi-region self-hosted cloud and automation initiatives that cut delivery time from days to hours/minutes and informed cost-saving infrastructure decisions (reported $500K OPEX savings). Known for scaling teams with pod ownership, agile/intake governance, and disciplined rollout practices that protect uptime and security.”

“Backend engineer with cloud-native Python/Flask experience building high-throughput financial platforms (loan origination intelligent document processing and real-time fraud detection). Has scaled microservices on AKS with event-driven Azure messaging, delivered measurable performance gains (e.g., 700ms→180ms query latency; ~40% API improvements), and implemented strong security controls (OAuth2/JWT, Azure AD RBAC, audit logging, AES-256/TLS) for sensitive regulated data.”

“Long-time Call of Duty mod/game-mode creator (Call of Duty Frontlines/Rio) who designed 40+ gametypes, including “Swarm” later released officially as MW3’s Team Defender. Known for deep tuning/balance iteration and for overcoming engine constraints (e.g., expanding limited model slots via load-time model merging to ship large amounts of new weapons/vehicles/enemies). Currently building an UE5 game (Comando Rio) on Lyra, implementing custom audio systems and camera/movement features, collaborating with Gooseman (Counter-Strike creator).”

“Engineering leader with experience in small, bootstrapped startups and exposure to VC environments, currently pursuing CTO-level opportunities. Thrives in fast-iterating, high-uncertainty settings and emphasizes data-driven clarity plus strong problem/market validation when evaluating new ventures.”

“XR/AR Unity developer who has overseen ~4 XR projects including shipping on Meta Quest, a HoloLens mixed-reality archaeology experience, and a collaborative 3D model exploration POC. Strong track record of aggressive performance optimization (custom shaders, profiling, draw-call reduction) and user-testing with domain experts; also experimented with ONNX-based procedural content generation and built a solo AR Tower of Hanoi game using AR Foundation (with a WebXR extension).”

“Unity/C# developer focused on Meta Quest VR simulations and indie game development; built a factory onboarding VR experience largely solo, including modular scenario orchestration, interaction systems, and branching NPC dialogue. Also created multiple Unity games in the last year and built reusable internal packages (game management + UI/screens), while using an AI-driven pipeline for rapid prototyping and 3D asset generation.”

“CoreAI intern at The Home Depot who improved the Magic Apron Assistant by building a production video ingestion + RAG retrieval system for long videos (uploads and YouTube), including a graph-based retrieval module to speed up and improve relevance. Experienced with Kubernetes orchestration (HPA) and production reliability practices like caching, monitoring, regression testing, and stakeholder-driven requirements.”

“Self-taught Unity developer who implemented multiplayer using Photon PUN, replacing a custom PHP request-based approach and improving stability (especially around accidental disconnects). Learns new networking frameworks quickly (reported ~2 weeks to pick up and implement PUN) and uses AI selectively to identify better library-driven solutions.”

“Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services with hands-on ownership of enterprise logistics microservices (Spring Boot) using Kafka integrated with Azure Event Hubs, including partitioning strategies and operational handling of consumer lag/duplicate events. Also built a full-stack road-accident blackspot detection application using Python-based spatial clustering and model evaluation with a JavaScript/Mapbox frontend.”

“Software engineer with robotics and ML background (BS Software Engineering w/ Robotics minor; MS CS w/ ML minor) who built autonomy-focused student robotics projects combining RFID + camera sensing, path planning (Dijkstra), and fuzzy logic, and experimented with neural-network approaches. Also brings production-grade software practices from a Dell software analyst role, emphasizing maintainability, documentation, and testing for real-time systems.”

“Software/ML engineer who built a production automated job-finding and cold-email personalization system for Fortune 500 outreach, using JobSpy for dynamic scraping, LangChain orchestration, and LLM+vector DB semantic search with grounding/relevance metrics and guardrails. Also delivered a predictive investment analytics platform for financial advisors, communicating results via Tableau dashboards and portfolio KPIs like Sharpe ratio and drawdowns.”

“Startup and early-internet product leader with repeated experience building in new companies and executing pivots. Helped transform a web-based calendar business into a CMS + RBAC platform that became best-in-breed for US K-12 organizations within about three years, emphasizing ROI-driven prototyping and market validation to conserve resources.”

“Has worked at a startup within an incubator program and is a certified mentor with a startup mentorship non-profit focused on early-stage/pre-funded companies. Not currently seeking to found a company or take equity-only roles, but open to working at very early-stage companies (pre-launch/pre-revenue/pre-funded).”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building real-time sensor telemetry platforms: FastAPI + PostgreSQL services with strong observability, plus AWS serverless and Glue-based ETL into Redshift. Has modernized legacy SAS pipelines into Python microservices and delivered measurable performance wins (Postgres query latency cut to <1 minute and ~60% DB CPU reduction) while owning incident response and reliability improvements.”

“Software engineer working on a benefits/deductions product, owning a fast-turnaround feature spanning multiple client/internal UI flows. Built a centralized service layer and a PHP validation pipeline supporting a React/TypeScript frontend, coordinated two other developers to deliver in parallel, and emphasized quality via test cases, documentation, and QC collaboration.”

“Full-stack engineer with Deloitte and CrowdDoing experience shipping production web platforms on AWS (EC2/RDS/S3/Fargate) using React/TypeScript and Node/Express/PostgreSQL. Built customer-facing authentication/SSO flows (OAuth2 + JWT) and state-specific US privacy consent workflows, and also delivered a Python/Flask LLM-based finance document parser chatbot with vector DB integration and latency optimizations.”

“Technical/product lead at Albanero (acquired by Infor in 2024; now at Infor) who built a Data Mesh-focused “Governance as a Product” module from early persona-based policies through a highly configurable multi-ERP governance platform (MDM, multi-source mastering, match/merge, automated review workflows). Also troubleshoots agentic/LLM workflows in production using auditability, guardrails, monitoring, and real-time validation—fixing a P0 false-positive security flagging issue and contributing to significant deal/adoption growth (~50%) after V2 launch.”

“Executive/engineering leader with 18+ years at an established company who helped turn a top-3 telco data opportunity into meaningful revenue and a continuing partnership to launch new data-driven products. Brings a security/privacy-first approach (compliance assessments and documentation) and a structured North Star + technical planning method for building with limited resources; interested in joining an early-stage founding journey with the right vision and team.”