Vetted PHP Professionals

Wafi Hassan

Screened

Intern Software Tester specializing in SQA automation and backend API validation

Remote1y exp

“Software engineer with medical-domain experience at Philips focused on end-to-end systems integration and reliability, including integrating C# xUnit automated test suites with backend services and CI-driven staging deployments. Also built a Python/scikit-learn typing speed analyzer integrating data collection, model training, and a real-time user interface; interested in transferring this systems/debugging rigor into robotics despite no ROS/robotics project experience yet.”

Mo Arab

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in Cloud, Managed Services & AI/LLM integration

Los Angeles, CA25y exp

“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.”

Tyler Stroud

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in AdTech and scalable cloud platforms

Miami, FL15y exp

“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.”

Freddy Hajas

Screened

Principal Gameplay Designer/Programmer specializing in FPS/TPS systems and AI

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil28y exp

“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).”

Oyku Yamakoglu

Screened

Senior Game Developer specializing in interactive systems and real-time graphics

New York, NY6y exp

“Lead Programmer and Technical Artist on the 3D isometric boss-battler RPG Highrollers, where they owned core gameplay and technical architecture for an 11-person team. They stand out for building modular Unity/C# systems that improved iteration speed, plus adjacent experience in real-time vision/inference pipelines and small-scale multiplayer using Photon and Unity Netcode.”

“Senior full-stack engineer with startup experience building multi-tenant B2B SaaS platforms for manufacturing and financial operations. Strongest in Python back-end development and React/TypeScript front ends, with hands-on AWS microservices, enterprise integrations like Siemens, and measurable performance gains including a 30% reduction in application load times.”

“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.”

“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).”

Juan Mendez

Screened

Senior Game/Graphics Software Developer specializing in Unity and C++

12y exp

“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.”

“Early-stage founder with a privacy-focused concept to simplify at-home self-hosting for services like email, photos, files, and local AI. They are approaching the idea in staged phases to test traction and minimize upfront capital, and have some familiarity with the startup accelerator ecosystem through a Techstars-affiliated company.”

Surya Padmini Konjula

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and AI for FinTech

San Jose, CA6y exp

“Senior full-stack engineer focused on AI-powered workflow automation and customer support products, with hands-on ownership from React/TypeScript UI through FastAPI microservices, retrieval pipelines, and Kubernetes deployment on GCP. Particularly strong in turning ambiguous zero-to-one AI initiatives into production systems that reduce manual operations, improve turnaround time, and remain reliable through strong orchestration and monitoring practices.”

“Built a technically demanding OS simulator dashboard in React/TypeScript that visualized memory, CPU registers, and processes with 100ms live updates. Demonstrated strong frontend performance instincts by pre-caching hundreds of DOM elements, using CSS Grid for precise layout, and debugging tricky address-translation and context-switch synchronization issues.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-driven data harmonization/record-matching pipeline for pharmaceutical datasets, combining normalization, embeddings/vector search, and an LLM validation step. Emphasizes production reliability via guardrails, confidence thresholds, idempotent/retryable stages, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, with monitoring focused on manual review and error rates to reduce false positives.”

“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.”

“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.”

xavier mendez

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in React, PHP, and AWS

Dallas, TX2y exp

“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.”

Arunima Mishra

Screened

Senior Technical Product Lead specializing in Data Governance and MDM SaaS platforms

Bengaluru, India7y exp

“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.”

Aaron Rodrigues

Screened

Junior Business & Data Analyst specializing in FinTech and banking analytics

Jacksonville, FL5y exp

“Analytics professional with Travelex experience spanning SQL ETL, Python-based machine learning workflows, and Power BI dashboarding in risk, fraud, and AML contexts. Stands out for replacing a $150K+ third-party compliance tool with internal dashboards and for materially improving operational efficiency through alert tuning, cutting alert volume by 50% and false positives by 60%.”

“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.”