Vetted PHP Professionals

Yuhao Lin

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web platforms and cloud-based systems

Boulder, CO1y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on document extraction experience: built an end-to-end handwritten OCR pipeline using OpenCV + EasyOCR with spellcheck post-processing and a Tkinter-based manual correction workflow. Also brings practical distributed-systems and e-commerce reliability experience (REST orchestration, retries, logging, Stripe idempotency), and is candid about not yet shipping LLM agents to production.”

“Backend engineer who built a production retrieval-augmented narrative analysis platform for 100-page screenplays using a Node/Express orchestrator and a Python/FastAPI AI engine, including a key redesign from disk-based uploads to in-memory streaming to eliminate Windows file-lock failures. Also led a refactor of a municipal vehicle tracking system into a C-based distributed engine handling 4M+ daily packets with 99.99% data integrity and automation that reduced manual ops by 50%.”

“Senior frontend developer with end-to-end ownership of modernizing a legacy Laravel/PHP product into a Next.js 14 + React + TypeScript stack, using TurboRepo for incremental integration. Emphasizes quality and scale through unit testing, Datadog monitoring, and performance-focused UI work (dashboards with charts/usage analytics, minimizing re-renders).”

“Junior Software Developer with a master’s in Interactive Media who studied XR and built a personal VR space. Already uses AI tooling (Windsurf Cascade) in day-to-day development for feature support and debugging, and is seeking a more structured, mentored environment while ramping into Unity/Meta Quest work.”

“Fintech-focused mobile engineer who built and shipped a mobile wallet to both iOS and Android app stores, implementing biometric login and AI-driven KYC (face + ID verification). Demonstrates strong customer feedback loops and production problem-solving, including resolving iOS version-specific third-party AI integration issues and improving payment UX by moving from synchronous to asynchronous processing.”

“Data scientist who has built production LLM agents (GPT-4o + LangChain + RAG) to automate analyst-style ad hoc CSV analysis with guardrails and GPT-as-a-judge evaluation. Also delivered an explainable healthcare NLP system for ICD code classification by collaborating closely with clinicians, using a hybrid rule-based decision tree + BERT model to reach 97% accuracy and cut manual review time.”

“QA professional with 5 years of experience testing web and business systems including an online shop, digital marketing integrations, and a warehouse management system. Comfortable running structured QA processes (test scenarios, device/scope planning, schedules) and aligning plans with product owners/managers; prioritizes defects by user impact and is open to learning new certification frameworks.”

“Full-stack engineer operating in early-stage, high-velocity environments (OpGov.AI/UST Calibrate) who ships production Next.js App Router features end-to-end (RSC, Server Actions, SEO, RBAC, caching) and owns performance post-launch. Demonstrates strong data/infra depth—designed Postgres JSONB-based event models for DevOps/DORA analytics and tuned queries from ~2s to <50ms, plus built durable ingestion workflows with retries and idempotency on Azure.”

“Built and shipped production AI search and RAG features for a university portal, including an embeddings-based semantic search layer and a documentation-grounded assistant with citations and anti-hallucination prompting. Also developed scalable, reliable data pipelines integrating Google Ads/GA4/Meta APIs for automated reporting, with strong focus on evaluation loops and retrieval quality improvements (hybrid search, chunking, query-log driven iteration).”

Manas Agarwal

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python APIs, React, and cloud AI integrations

Superior, CO2y exp

“Customer-facing software engineer who builds and deploys practical AI/RAG solutions (e.g., an AI assistant for searching billing PDFs) by deeply understanding support workflows and iterating with users. Demonstrates strong production instincts—quickly stabilizing peak-traffic API timeouts with caching/background jobs, then implementing durable fixes with proper monitoring and maintainable code practices.”

lakhtar singh

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in JavaScript, cloud microservices, and scalable web apps

St. Thomas, Canada11y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end warehouse and support tooling products, including a Raspberry Pi/Arduino-driven sorting UI that guides staff via bin LEDs. Built a React+TypeScript internal support dashboard with real-time order/shipping updates and AI-assisted ticket response suggestions (integrating models like OpenAI, Grok, Veo, and Google Gemini for image understanding), plus a voice-command workflow to create/search tickets hands-free.”

“Built and deployed real-world systems end-to-end across security and healthcare contexts: led a 3-person team delivering a university vehicle tracking system with 30% cost savings and 1-year post-launch monitoring. Also implemented a healthcare RAG chatbot with adaptive query routing that cut LLM costs by 40% while maintaining answer accuracy, and has experience debugging non-deterministic LLM behavior in DevOps pipeline automation.”

“Early major technical hire who helped build fintech startup Ugami from MVP to near Series A, while supporting bridge round and Series A fundraising with technical materials for leadership. Also grew from intern to lead engineer at a venture-backed product shop, giving him firsthand exposure to investor expectations, startup incubation, and practical AI opportunities with tight scope and strong unit economics.”

“Candidate is actively using AI-assisted development tools, including MCP server integrations with Copilot, to generate boilerplate test scripts, validate code standards, and handle package updates. They also have hands-on experience choosing different agents based on task requirements and serving as an admin for AI tool access.”

“Frontend engineer with deep Shopify and React/TypeScript experience who has shipped real-time, high-concurrency products—most notably a live auction system on Shopify using pure JavaScript/Liquid with Pusher for instant bid updates. Also built a POS dashboard app with Redux Toolkit for real-time order/cart updates and delivered measurable storefront performance gains (~30–40% faster initial load) through modularization and asset optimization.”

“Remote game QA tester with PlayStation and Xbox testing experience, using Jira to track bugs and create test case reports while collaborating directly with development teams. Has tested titles/projects including Valorant, Roblox, and Unity 3D games, and has self-studied Microsoft XR certification requirements.”

Rethvick Sriram Yugendra Babu

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI and scalable data pipelines

Tucson, AZ2y exp

“Built and operated large-scale biodiversity/ecological research platforms, integrating 50+ heterogeneous global datasets into a unified BIEN 3 schema on PostgreSQL/PostGIS and improving data consistency by 35%. Strong production engineering background (Linux monitoring, CI/CD performance gates, Docker on AWS/Azure) plus applied AI work building a Python RAG system (0.90 precision) and halving latency with Elasticsearch.”

Binaya Sharma

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems, big data, and applied AI

Baton Rouge, LA6y exp

“Built and deployed ForensicLLM, a local domain-specific LLaMA-3.1-8B model for digital forensic investigators using RAFT + RAG over 1000+ curated research papers, with citation-aware responses and rigorous evaluation (BERTScore/G-Eval). Deployed via vLLM and Docker and validated through a chatbot survey with 80+ participants; published at DFRWS EU 2025.”

Atharva Chavan

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in mobile, cloud, and GenAI integration

Syracuse, NY2y exp

“Software engineering intern with hands-on ownership of a Java/Spring Boot order management microservice, including production performance tuning via Redis caching and database indexing driven by API logs/metrics. Also contributed to a production mobile-backend LLM feature using RAG with embeddings over structured data and documents (DB + object storage), with guardrails to keep responses grounded.”

Victoria Magaziner

Screened

Senior QA Automation Engineer specializing in end-to-end test automation for FinTech and automotive platforms

Los Angeles, CA9y exp

“QA Engineer with 8 years owning end-to-end quality on high-traffic, live fintech and automotive platforms (Fuse Autotech), specializing in critical financial and e-signing workflows. Combines API testing (Postman), log observability (Kibana/Logz.io), and disciplined Jira/Xray processes to accelerate triage and shorten release cycles (1 week to 3 days) while reducing production issues and integration/regression defects with measurable impact.”

Peter Ciccone

Screened

Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in .NET web applications on Azure

5y exp

“Full-stack developer who built an end-to-end billing/allocation/payment and reporting system used daily by a major film-industry union, including queuing-based check assignment, admin auditing, data cleanup tools, and an external reports portal. Also delivered a factory production scheduling/analytics app for a lock manufacturer, and typically implements APIs in C#/.NET with DTO shaping and pub/sub messaging for microservices consistency.”

Zeljko Chavar

Screened

Director-level Digital Marketing Manager specializing in SEO, Google Ads, and CRO

Dubrovnik, Croatia31y exp

“Performance marketer with hands-on ownership of a $100K+/month Google Ads account, reporting up to 20x ROAS for a US-based Guardian Services client over a three-year engagement. Also shows broader growth expertise beyond paid media, including diagnosing technical SEO/site architecture issues at Admiral Casino, leading a programmer team, and expanding the site with 2,500 pages to restore traffic growth.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience across platform modernization, production AI agents, and workflow automation. They led a monolith-to-microservices migration that increased deployment speed from weekly to daily, built a self-healing GPT-powered browser agent with an 85% autonomous recovery rate, and founded/ran ZapDash, where they hardened Kafka-based integrations against silent data loss.”

“Unity developer with shipped Meta Quest 2 room-scale VR experience, owning VR architecture (XR Interaction Toolkit/Oculus Integration), core interaction systems (grabbing/UI/locomotion), and Quest performance optimization. Also built a solo mobile puzzle game with star-based difficulty tuning, UI/performance profiling, and progression/replay systems, and uses AI assistants to speed prototyping, debugging, and documentation.”