Vetted PHP Professionals

“Data science/AI intern at University at Buffalo Business Services who built and deployed production systems spanning classic ML and LLM assistants. Delivered real-time competitor intelligence for a Cornell-partnered, $1B beverage launch by scraping/cleaning 5,000+ SKUs and deploying models via API, then built a domain-aware LLM assistant to modernize Excel-based workflows with strong grounding, privacy controls, and sub-5s latency.”

“CTO/Chief Architect who rebuilt an IoT platform from a fragile legacy stack into an AWS-based, multi-tenant cloud-native system supporting 50k+ connected devices and 10M+ monthly events, then layered in real-time data pipelines and ML anomaly detection. Known for tightly aligning roadmaps and OKRs to business KPIs (onboarding speed, uptime, velocity) and for scaling teams into domain-focused pods; previously led a shift from LAMP to event-driven Node.js microservices using MQTT and message queues.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building data-intensive and 3D-processing web applications (React/Next.js/TypeScript + Node.js). Has worked in microservices using RabbitMQ for event-driven workflows and built an internal ops/engineering dashboard to monitor pipeline jobs, surface logs, and manage retries—improving visibility and reducing on-call/debug time.”

“Marketing-focused web and creative designer who ships conversion-oriented Shopify and WordPress redesigns, pairing premium UX/UI craft with practical SEO and measurement (metadata, analytics/KPI tracking, Search Console). Comfortable operating under strict brand guidelines (e.g., Microsoft/Disney) while iterating quickly with growth/product partners, and also produces lightweight, multi-format marketing videos in Adobe Premiere Pro.”

“Unity/VR developer who built a game-jam puzzle platformer (“Splitting Image”) largely solo, centered on a mirror-based clone mechanic. Comfortable adapting to different VR headsets and team structures, and prefers hands-on problem solving over relying on AI tools.”

“Full-stack web developer who reports owning both backend and frontend design, including database-first design and jQuery-based web UI work (shared a GitHub project link). Claims to have delivered a project planned for 4 months in just 2 weeks and emphasizes strong personal code quality standards.”

“Built and deployed a production AI document Q&A (RAG) platform that lets non-technical users query hundreds of PDFs/Word files, cutting search time from hours to seconds. Experienced with scaling retrieval pipelines (chunking, embeddings, vector search, batching/caching) and orchestrating reliable workflows using AWS Step Functions/Airflow with robust retries, monitoring, and fallbacks.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an email/SMS marketing platform from the ground up using PHP (Yii2/Laravel) and JS (jQuery/Vue components), including campaign reporting, A/B testing, and extensive ESP/SMS integrations (Mailgun/Mailjet/Twilio plus AWS SES/SNS). Notably scaled the system for very large contact ingestion by migrating from MySQL to ClickHouse and implemented reliability measures like retries, logging, and rate limiting.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an early-stage social platform for scriptwriters (Scriptscape) from scratch, owning everything from React Native/React UX to Node/Postgres APIs and AWS deployment. Demonstrates strong production-minded engineering with CI/CD, observability, and scalability patterns (cursor pagination, indexing, background jobs), plus experience hardening flaky third-party integrations with idempotency and backfills.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience modernizing a provider credentialing/compliance platform with multiple upstream/downstream integrations. Focused on building predictable, scalable REST APIs (primarily ASP.NET Core; framework-agnostic approach applicable to FastAPI), improving performance via DB/query optimization, and hardening workflows with idempotency, transactions, feature flags, and strong auth/RBAC patterns.”

“Robotics software engineer who built an autonomous debris-clearing rover software stack end-to-end using ROS 2, Python/OpenCV, and YOLOv3, with strong emphasis on real-time reliability (latency instrumentation, stale-data handling, watchdog fail-safes). Also implemented a Docker CI/CD deployment system for remote Raspberry Pi timelapse devices, distributing updates via AWS S3 to handle intermittent connectivity.”

“Backend engineer with experience stabilizing data processing/analytics pipelines and refactoring brittle backend APIs. Has hands-on FastAPI work emphasizing strong validation (Pydantic), clear layering, and secure JWT-based auth with role/row-level controls, plus pragmatic migration tactics like parallel runs to protect data integrity.”