Vetted Responsive Design Professionals

Anu Baluguri

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and event-driven systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with production experience at Atlassian and Zoho, spanning GraphQL federation, React/TypeScript frontends, and cloud-native AWS/Kubernetes operations. Built and operated a federated GraphQL gateway with Terraform + CI/CD + observability, delivering major latency and integration-time improvements, and also designed high-volume Kafka data pipelines (10M+ events/day) with strong reliability guarantees.”

Cheryl Qian

Screened

Junior Product Designer specializing in AI-powered SaaS products

New York, NY3y exp

“Product-minded designer/builder who operates at the intersection of UX, support, and engineering. At Miter, they helped launch three products and built the customer-facing readiness layer that contributed to a 15% adoption increase; at Yacht Labs, they designed and implemented high-polish React/Next.js experiences and proposed a spec-driven app generation system to make AI output more controllable and trustworthy.”

“Design-technologist with both UX and front-end development depth, spanning high-impact brand launches and regulated pharma sales tools. Led the experience direction and technical implementation support for DuPont's Kevlar product site—featuring Three.js, AEM, and advanced motion design—which generated strong lead capture and won an Effie, and also improved Eli Lilly IVA delivery by building a grunt.js workflow that reduced update cycles from a week to just a few days.”

“Worked on payments and wallet transactions, with an emphasis on observability and root-cause analysis. Delivered end-to-end A/B testing optimization and implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD automation that reduced manual implementation to 35% and cut deployments to ~2 minutes, with attention to operational considerations like on-call/call rotations.”

Seung Jun Kim

Screened

Mid-level UX/Human Interface Designer specializing in design systems and UX research

4y exp

“Product/UX designer with industrial domain experience designing an end-to-end "factory mode" vehicle software experience for assembly-line workers, optimized for speed, flat navigation, and multi-device responsiveness across different plants. Combines rigorous field research and SME collaboration with strong front-end skills (HTML/CSS/TypeScript/React), including coding components to demonstrate feasibility and keep features in scope; also has accessibility-focused telehealth capstone work for d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing users.”

Prakash Bhanu

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in cloud, platform, and FinTech systems

Sunnyvale, CA22y exp

“Senior software engineering leader with broad 0-to-1 product experience spanning web apps, microservices, monoliths, messaging platforms, ML/AI products, and large-scale distributed systems. Notable examples include building a payroll/finance product for cast and crew, a distributed messaging platform, and a Walmart application deployed across multiple CDNs and clouds handling hundreds of TPS, with personal ownership across architecture, design, coding, and support.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with 5 years at Shopify building and maintaining internal tooling. Led modernization from ERB/jQuery to React/TypeScript/GraphQL and improved performance on large datasets with server-side pagination. Also delivered an end-to-end search feature with filters, URL-driven state, pagination, and error correction, using strong review/testing and zero-downtime rollout practices.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with e-commerce and analytics experience who modernized synchronous order workflows into a Kafka-based event-driven architecture (Java/Spring Boot) to reduce checkout latency and peak-traffic failures. Has built production FastAPI services with JWT/RBAC and strong testing/observability, delivered React+TypeScript reporting dashboards, and handled AWS scaling incidents end-to-end (RDS read latency mitigated with read replicas and query tuning).”

Akhil Jaggari

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable web platforms and cloud microservices

CA, CA6y exp

“Backend engineer with fintech/real-estate lending domain experience (Berkadia) building Python/Flask services for indicative loan pricing across Fannie/Freddie workflows. Strong in scalable AWS architectures (S3, Lambda, SageMaker), database performance (PostgreSQL read replicas, indexing, pooling), and high-throughput optimizations (streaming exports, Redis caching) with measurable production impact.”

Jacqueline Excoffier

Screened

Senior Graphic & Web Designer specializing in audience development and brand design

13y exp

“Marketing designer with Crunchyroll experience spanning OOH billboard/signage campaigns (including India launch creative for dubbed anime), scalable Figma template systems for high-volume social output, and short-form social video editing. Comfortable operating in fast-feedback environments (Wrike/Slack), collaborating with art directors, UA/growth, and external partners (e.g., Spotify) while maintaining brand and licensor constraints.”

“Serial entrepreneur with 15+ years in the VC, studio, and accelerator ecosystem who has founded multiple startups, raised capital previously, and built a consulting business running since 2008. Currently building a pre-seed SaaS marketplace for long-term housing in Texas with plans to expand across the U.S. and into Portugal, bringing a notably strategic focus on long-term market trends and exit planning.”

Shriya Bannikop

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and distributed systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-assisted job-matching dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, keeping LLM logic server-side and improving performance via deduplication, caching/revalidation, and streaming (35% fewer duplicate LLM calls; 40% faster first render). Also has strong data/backend chops: designed Postgres models and optimized queries at million-record scale (1.8s to 120ms) and built durable AWS multi-region telemetry workflows with idempotency, retries, and monitoring.”

“Backend/platform engineer building HIPAA-compliant, real-time healthcare systems: owned a Python/Flask API layer for an AI-enabled patient engagement and risk scoring service, implemented PHI-safe logging and cross-service auditability, and delivered Kubernetes microservices via ArgoCD GitOps. Also has experience with Kafka streaming pipelines and hybrid cloud-to-on-prem migrations in regulated healthcare/fintech environments.”

“Shopify full-stack engineer focused on AI/LLM-powered merchant automation products. They have hands-on experience building React/TypeScript and Python/FastAPI systems for long-running agentic workflows, including orchestration, guardrails, observability, and customer-facing trust features, with measurable gains in task completion and latency.”

“Frontend engineer focused on React and TypeScript dashboards with dense data, fast search/filter workflows, and reusable UI architecture. They stand out for improving production performance by identifying unnecessary re-renders, optimizing state and data loading, and making complex reporting interfaces easier to navigate.”