Vetted PHP Professionals

“Frontend engineer experienced delivering React + TypeScript dashboards end-to-end, including real-time updates via WebSockets and scalable component architecture. Has improved inherited codebases by building shared component libraries and performance optimizations (lazy loading/memoization), reporting ~20% faster feature delivery, and ships major features with QA rigor and feature-flagged rollouts driven by analytics and user feedback.”

Lane Flores

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in payments and integrations

Atlanta, GA10y exp

“Engineer with a strong mix of telephony, backend API, database reporting, and full-stack web experience across B2B SaaS and healthcare payments. Particularly notable for reverse-engineering loosely documented FreeSWITCH/Event Socket Layer behavior to build an emergency response conferencing system, and for handling messy production data and evolving customer requirements with care.”

“Senior Unity developer who built a v2 narrative fiction engine end-to-end, including a portable TypeScript/JavaScript inkjs processing core and a Unity UI package that creators found significantly easier to use than the prior version. Has shipped cross-platform VR (Meta Quest) and mobile titles, implemented Unity Netcode multiplayer with host-authoritative flow, and integrated LLM-driven gameplay with automated agent-based testing and regression coverage.”

“Frontend-focused engineer who led a full-scale CMS/dashboard build using React (with TypeScript), plus Node.js microservice APIs on AWS Lambda and MySQL. Emphasizes scalable component architecture, feature-based code organization, performance profiling via Chrome DevTools, and disciplined release practices (CI/CD, UAT gating, production monitoring) in fast-paced delivery cycles.”

“Frontend engineer with co-op experience at Nokia and prior work at Nimble, delivering React/TypeScript single-page onboarding flows and internal web apps. Builds from Figma to production React, emphasizes modular architecture and consistent UI via Material UI, and applies Jest-based unit/integration testing plus lazy loading to improve reliability and performance in both new and existing codebases.”

Kent Park

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud, identity, and security platforms

Toronto, Canada12y exp

“Frontend engineer (Cyderes) specializing in security analytics/SOC dashboards, building complex multi-tenant React + TypeScript interfaces for near real-time authentication and MFA monitoring. Known for scaling quality via strict TS, shared contracts, CI-enforced multi-level testing, and performance optimization, plus pragmatic incremental refactors and gated rollouts that protect active customer workflows.”

Paul Tran

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Executive Technology Leader specializing in SaaS, federal consulting, and digital transformation

Tysons Corner, VA31y exp

“Former CEO of GravyWork with hands-on experience building an org-wide strategic plan and modernization roadmap for a growing company. Uses Michael Gerber’s innovation/orchestration/quantification framework and structured as-is/gap/to-be analysis to drive cost reduction, automation/outsourcing decisions, and leadership alignment through change.”

Aniruddha Chakravarty

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure, observability, and full-stack systems

Remote2y exp

“Built and productionized a predictive maintenance system (predictEngineLife) estimating Remaining Useful Life for PW4000 turbofan engines from large-scale, noisy telemetry—emphasizing modular pipeline design, deterministic preprocessing, and strong observability/guardrails. Also has hands-on experience diagnosing multi-agent LLM customer-support workflows (schema/state issues, fallback paths, regression tests) and has led developer workshops (GDG Pune) while partnering with sales teams on technical discovery and POCs.”

Scott Knight

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Director-level software engineering leader specializing in SaaS and Healthcare IT

Portland, OR23y exp

“Candidate is exploring startup ideas focused on SaaS tools for small and medium-sized businesses, especially IT and HR automation. They have prior experience in VC-backed companies and with accelerators, and stand out for emphasizing real customer feedback and prototyping over echo-chamber startup advice.”

“Full-stack developer who has built and shipped both traditional web products and AI-powered applications, including a Spotify playlist-combining app, a recruiter-facing RAG chatbot embedded in a portfolio, and a fine-tuned GPT-2 art review generator. Stands out for combining privacy-conscious engineering, practical LLM guardrails, and scrappy production problem-solving—from queue-based inference systems to newsroom digital transformation with multi-tenant WordPress.”

Lenny Lin

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Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and distributed systems

Champaign, IL3y exp

“Built and owned a hackathon project (Gritto) with a Python/FastAPI backend that routes user text through a sequence of Gemini agents to produce structured JSON outputs. Has hands-on production deployment experience using Docker/Docker Compose, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS App Runner, MongoDB, and secrets management (Doppler + migration to AWS Secrets Manager), plus implemented a chat-like experience via multiple HTTP requests when SSE wasn’t viable.”

“Entrepreneur/fintech product builder who raised a $100K pre-seed from ex-Google/Microsoft execs and built a real-time, direct-to-vendor bill pay micropayments platform. Previously helped scale Norton LifeLock to 1M users (2003) and also created Karma LA, a fraud-resistant, verified donation system (including VA veteran verification) aimed at improving trust and conversion in giving.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer from Valcom who maintained Django/PostgreSQL services for mass-notification/paging servers used by education/commercial/government customers. Notable for hardening authentication and reliability (JWT refresh + rotation tokens, WebSockets/EventStream) and for modernizing a legacy Ext.js/PHP stack into a React + Django architecture with strong CI/testing and production incident ownership.”

Uday Dorawala

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, data, and cloud modernization

Raleigh, NC25y exp

“Former founder with an acquired venture who later led R&D at McClatchy and joined multiple startups. Identified a major client need and built a mobile app platform using ML and AR for home builders, driving adoption by dozens of customers and $1M+ ARR. Strong hands-on builder who can architect MVPs, iterate quickly with A/B testing and user feedback, and scale early engineering teams and culture.”

EMMANUEL ETIENNE

Screened

Engineering Manager specializing in FinTech money movement and AI-driven infrastructure

Brooklyn, NY12y exp

“Player-coach fintech engineer/engineering lead who built a deterministic payer-ID wire reconciliation system with Citi, including idempotent ingestion and webhook processing across Ruby and Go, materially reducing accounting manual work. Experienced in incident response (Plaid-related customer-impacting issue), stakeholder-driven MVP scoping for ACH status visibility, and delivery acceleration via infrastructure templating (EC2) and standardized Magento project setups.”

Soham Ravindra Lokhande

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in agentic automation and AI platforms

Washington, DC2y exp

“Backend-leaning founding/early engineer who built automation platforms end-to-end: FastAPI/Python services integrated with a Next.js/TypeScript frontend, including a production VNC streaming URL endpoint for cloud-instance desktop viewing. Also designed core Postgres user/workflow data models and built an agentic orchestration system with LangChain/LangGraph (sub-agents, validators, pause/resume), plus made scalability tradeoffs like S3 pre-signed uploads to keep microservices responsive.”

“Commercially minded candidate with exposure to private equity firms as sales targets and experience building partnerships around venture-backed company ecosystems. They appear more inclined to join an existing company than found one, bringing a metrics-driven, process-oriented approach and creative execution style with a strong focus on clear growth paths and capital stability.”

George Stathopoulos

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Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web development and applied systems work

New York City, NY0y exp

“Full-stack developer with hands-on experience building an end-to-end automated trading platform that combines web scraping, relational data storage, Flask/React architecture, and LLM-based decisioning via Google Vertex AI. Also brings production experience at CALEC, where they contributed frontend improvements including welcome-page redesigns, multilingual support, and accessibility-related fixes.”

“Backend/data engineer who built a production booking platform on FastAPI microservices (Postgres/Redis/gRPC) and delivered AWS infrastructure spanning Lambda, ECS, SQS, and Glue-to-Redshift analytics. Demonstrated measurable SQL optimization (10 minutes to <40 seconds) and strong operational ownership through monitoring, incident response, and schema-evolution hardening.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building and maintaining a React accessibility utility/component library (open-source-style) used across university portals, emphasizing WCAG 2.2 compliance, robust focus/keyboard behavior, and Jest/React Testing Library coverage. Also built and maintained .NET Core microservices at the Florida Department of Transportation, including integrating AI-driven features, with strong ownership around observability, incident response, and performance-focused refactoring.”

“Full-stack engineer with ~20 years of experience (including 5–6 years in consultancy) who has shipped and operated production systems across a wide range of stacks. Recently owned an end-to-end receipts feature integrating Stripe, generating PDFs, and sending HTML emails, deployed via GitHub Flow to AWS ECS; handled real-world performance issues (oversized merchant images) with compression and server tuning.”

“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.”