Vetted PHP Professionals

“Founding/solo engineer who rebuilt an early-stage product from the ground up: Ask NETA, an AI assistant for electricians to answer complex electrical code questions. Delivered a full-stack TypeScript system (React web + React Native iOS/Android, Express API, Postgres on AWS) with CI/CD, observability, and a Vertex AI RAG pipeline, reaching 3,000 MAUs in the first month; also built a real-time distributed scoring system handling unreliable hardware data with sequencing and retries.”

Arunkumar Gangula

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud microservices

Tempe, Arizona11y exp

“Product-minded full-stack engineer from CouponDunia who owned end-to-end notification and recommendation services at million-user scale. Built internal admin/analytics and operations dashboards in React/TypeScript with typed contracts and scalable Node.js REST APIs, and has deep microservices experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ (idempotency, retries/DLQs, partitioning, consumer tuning, and observability).”

Nandini Reinthala

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Python Developer specializing in AI and data platforms

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who builds TypeScript/React SPAs on Python (Flask/FastAPI) backends and has hands-on experience integrating AI components (Azure OpenAI, LangChain, vector databases) into user workflows. Has built internal AI-enabled dashboards/search tools for analysts and business users, emphasizing typed API contracts, CI/CD-driven quality, and microservices reliability patterns (monitoring, retries, idempotency) at scale.”

Abhishek Soni

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in React and scalable web applications

Mumbai, India3y exp

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across FastAPI microservices and AWS data platforms. Has delivered serverless and Glue/EMR-based ETL pipelines with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Sentry, CloudWatch/SNS), schema-evolution resilience, and measurable SQL performance wins (5 min to <30 sec). Open to onsite meetings in the Bethesda, MD area and flexible on remote arrangements.”

Medi Val

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in AI, digital strategy, and business transformation

Toronto, Canada25y exp

“Candidate reports being highly familiar with the venture capital and accelerator landscape, citing past experience working with VC-related environments at WINR Games and BioSymetrics. The interview ended early when the candidate withdrew their application, so detail is limited.”

Shashwat Negi

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack systems

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Data Scientist (2–3 years) at ZS Associates who has built and productionized agentic LLM systems, including a LangGraph-based multi-LLM prompt-optimization pipeline for entity extraction deployed as a Spring Boot microservice via Jenkins. Also built an Insightmate.ai chatbot and improved its RAG accuracy by diagnosing vector retrieval issues and implementing HyDE query expansion, while partnering with sales and pharma stakeholders to drive adoption (e.g., Zimmer Biomet platform migration into a multi-year partnership).”

“Built and owned VividCraft end-to-end, a production AI platform spanning a TypeScript/Next.js frontend and a Python backend with FastAPI, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Stands out for reliability-focused systems thinking: designed idempotent job orchestration across 9 AI providers, shipped with extensive automated test coverage, and reports zero production regressions after launch plus zero credit loss through provider outages.”

“Gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership of a computer-vision body-tracking system that powered Dance Break, a full-body dance game shipped across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android and used at large live events like EDC Las Vegas and Alibaba CoCreate. Particularly strong in performance-sensitive Unity systems, cross-platform optimization, and multiplayer architecture decisions, with experience spanning mobile, VR, and deterministic networking.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience building production MLOps systems for predictive maintenance and demand forecasting, including deployment, monitoring, and iterative retraining. Also shipped a RAG-based employee onboarding chatbot integrated with ServiceNow APIs and reports business impact of roughly $300k/month in reduced stockout and overstock costs.”

Jeremy Greenawalt

Screened

Principal AI Engineering Leader specializing in LLM integration and developer workflows

20y exp

“Built and launched a production customer-service LLM agent/MCP system for a large website, enabling reps to search across millions of SKUs and manuals that were previously impractical to navigate manually. They emphasize maintainable AI architecture, staged rollouts, guard-agent evaluation, and multi-agent code review workflows spanning accessibility, performance, and security.”

Ahmed Khalafalla

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and backend development

Boston, MA1y exp

“Frontend/full-stack web developer with hands-on experience building browser-based applications including a social-style platform and a banking web app. Stands out for practical performance optimization work—separating frontend/backend architecture, designing APIs, reducing unnecessary rendering, and improving UI clarity through iterative user testing.”

Daniel Dickson

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in SaaS, AI/LLM systems, and startup growth

Portland, OR16y exp

“Experienced CTO with a track record of taking three companies to successful exits, including one merger with eBay. Has worked extensively across venture capital, startup studio, and accelerator environments, with core responsibility for leading software development and infrastructure in high-growth settings.”

“Frontend engineer with experience building backend-driven UI systems (JSON-schema-based rendering) to enable rapid business-driven screen changes, including collaboration across design/backend/product/QA at Ozon Seller Center. Also created an internal npm package that generates TypeScript API clients from OpenAPI docs—initially for one project, later rolled out company-wide with CI testing and version pinning support.”

“Experienced tech operator who has spent years transforming and rebuilding software foundations inside companies, and has developed a sharp point of view on the shortcomings of legacy accounting software. Currently building an internal portal to unify CRM data while implementing DevOps and AI-assisted development practices, with a longer-term vision for a modern accounting CRM/platform with integrations, APIs, marketing, and telephony built in.”

“Startup-focused technical leader with 20+ years in the ecosystem, including hands-on involvement in raising $3M at Jackpot Rising. Brings a rare mix of CTO-level technical execution, investor-facing fundraising support, patent filing experience, and deep familiarity with accelerators and venture capital.”

“Engineering leader who grew from Lead Developer to CTO at Clips4Sale, scaling the org to around 30 people while restructuring engineering around revenue-driving initiatives like search, payments, reliability, and creator tools. Also built AI-powered event discovery and chatbot systems at FOSH using Claude, combining human feedback, prompt evaluation, and product simplification to improve output quality and user experience.”