Vetted REST API Professionals

“Unity developer (3+ years) focused on mobile multiplayer/casual games, combining technical leadership with game design ownership. Has shipped modular gameplay systems, integrated monetization/analytics, and built a custom Unity Editor plugin for configurable combat/animation montage workflows (masking + blending). Not experienced with VR/Meta Quest yet.”

“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.”

“LLM engineer/data analyst who built a production RAG QA assistant over the Jurafsky & Martin NLP textbook to reduce hallucinations and provide explainable, source-grounded answers. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph orchestration, retrieval optimization (embeddings, vector DBs, caching), and rigorous evaluation/monitoring (Retrieval@K, A/B tests, telemetry/drift). Previously communicated analytics insights to non-technical stakeholders at GS Analytics using Power BI and simplified reporting.”

“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.”

“Frontend engineer who has led customer-facing React + TypeScript products end-to-end, building complex dashboards with robust async state patterns (caching, deduping, cancellation, optimistic updates) and strong quality practices (TypeScript standards, layered testing, production monitoring). Experienced modernizing inherited codebases through modularization and performance work (code splitting/memoization) while aligning stakeholders and shipping safely via feature flags and staged rollouts.”

“Forward Deployed Engineer at EasyBee AI who productionized a self-storage customer’s multi-agent LLM system end-to-end—rebuilding it with LangGraph/CrewAI, integrating with real property management + CRM systems via an MCP server, and adding observability/guardrails for reliable daily use. Experienced in live troubleshooting of agentic workflows, developer demos/workshops (including an open-source project, MerryQuery), and partnering with sales to close deals through customer-specific technical demos and fast integration feedback loops.”

“Internship at Discovery Education building a production LLM/RAG chatbot that let marketing and sales teams query and interpret Looker/BI dashboards in natural language, with responses grounded in compliance and state education standards. Emphasizes rigorous evaluation (faithfulness/precision/recall/latency) plus user-feedback analytics, and used LangChain for orchestration, chunking/context-window control, and integration with enterprise sources like SharePoint.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built an academic AI voice assistant with a Python microservice-style backend (speech recognition, spaCy-based NLP, and Kafka-driven automation) optimized to sub-500ms latency. Also has Sodexo internship experience deploying containerized services across Kubernetes/AWS ECS/Azure using ArgoCD GitOps, including solving config drift and secret-management challenges and supporting cloud-to-on-prem migrations with blue-green rollouts.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience building a real-time order tracking system using React + Firebase/Firestore, emphasizing audit-friendly data modeling, state-machine-based status transitions, and strong post-launch ownership (performance, security rules, reliability). Demonstrated measurable frontend performance gains by isolating real-time updates to dynamic components and applying memoization, plus backend reliability patterns (idempotency, retries) and SQL query/index optimization validated with EXPLAIN ANALYZE.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech payments experience who shipped an end-to-end guest invoice payment flow emphasizing reliability under retries/failures (idempotency via DynamoDB, async processing with Lambda/EventBridge/SQS + DLQ). Also built a FastAPI backend with Cognito/JWT + scoped guest tokens and a polished React/TypeScript checkout UX, and has performance-focused Postgres/Redis design experience for flash-sale e-commerce workloads.”

“Startup-style full-stack/backend engineer with hands-on AWS architecture experience who shipped an LLM-driven assessment-question automation feature (Python microservice calling AWS Bedrock via SQS, deployed on Lambda) with strong validation/guardrails and retry strategies. Also improved production scalability by moving a CPU/IO-heavy file upload path out of a Go API into a queue/Lambda design monitored with CloudWatch, and has React+TypeScript experience optimizing analytics dashboards.”

“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.”

“Backend/AI engineer in construction tech (HyperWater AI) who delivered major production performance wins (analytics API from ~1 hour to 0.5s) and shipped LLM features for parsing subcontractor manifests into CSI divisions with human-in-the-loop review. Also built a freelance agentic document-verification system using OCR + RAG over pgvector with robust retry/escalation logic and user feedback loops.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has built production LLM orchestration and agentic workflow systems in Python/FastAPI on Kubernetes across AWS/Azure. Demonstrated strong reliability engineering by debugging a real-world memory retention issue that caused latency spikes/timeouts, and strong data/performance chops with a PostgreSQL optimization that cut query latency from ~1.2s to ~15ms. Targets roles building scalable, guardrailed AI-driven workflow automation with robust observability and human-in-the-loop controls.”

“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).”

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped and operated generative-AI chat/QA features end-to-end, including a RAG-based pipeline with guardrails and cost/latency monitoring in production. Experienced with React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres architectures, Dockerized deployments to AWS (EC2) via GitHub Actions CI/CD, and building reliable ingestion/ETL systems with idempotency, backfills, and reconciliation.”

“Backend engineer with experience building an end-to-end civic tech AI platform that ingests city council meeting videos, transcribes them with Whisper, and enables natural-language Q&A via a LangChain/FAISS RAG pipeline. Demonstrated strong systems thinking by tuning retrieval for accuracy/latency/memory (cutting response time ~3s→1s and memory ~500MB→25MB) and by safely migrating an ERP from monolith toward services using dual writes, reconciliation, and idempotency to protect financial workflows.”

“Backend engineer from FoodSupply.ai who built and evolved a scalable restaurant/supplier product and order management platform using Node.js and REST APIs. Implemented a hybrid MySQL+MongoDB data architecture, optimized performance with Redis/Prisma, and led a phased migration with feature flags and a temporary sync layer to maintain data consistency. Strong focus on production security (OAuth2, RBAC, row-level security, AWS IAM) and reliability practices (testing with Pytest, Docker/AWS pipelines).”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based multilingual analytics assistant for healthcare operations, enabling non-technical teams to query claims/EHR and risk metrics with grounded explanations. Demonstrates strong end-to-end LLM system engineering (retrieval tuning, re-ranking, hallucination controls, verification layers) plus workflow orchestration (Airflow/Composer/Step Functions) and stakeholder-driven iteration via prototypes and dashboards.”

“Software/product engineer who owns customer-facing internal platforms end-to-end, with deep experience building data pipeline health and data quality tooling (near-real-time alerting and ops dashboards). Strong in React/TypeScript + Python REST architectures and microservices with RabbitMQ, emphasizing reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, correlation IDs) and fast, safe iteration via feature flags, testing, and observability.”

“Backend engineer focused on scalable, secure, observable systems—built an async workflow backend with REST APIs and state persistence that improved reliability under concurrent load and cut end-to-end processing time ~40%. Strong in production security for multi-tenant systems (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, DB row-level security) and in low-risk migrations using feature flags and canary releases, including catching and preventing cross-tenant data access issues with CI-based RLS tests.”

“Unity/VR developer who has shipped on Meta Quest (SideQuest) and built standalone PCVR medical applications used with real patients. Built a fully solo roguelike twin-stick shooter with a highly modular ScriptableObject/state-machine architecture, including custom build-time tooling to overcome Unity runtime constraints. Uses AI selectively (e.g., Claude) to generate editor tooling like a match-3 level designer to speed up level production.”

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped production systems across computer vision and conversational agents: built a YOLOv8-based wheel fitment pipeline at a Techstars-backed automotive startup, focusing on sub-second latency, monitoring, and robust fallback mechanisms that drove 2–3x page view growth and +5–6k users. Also built a voice-based interview platform orchestrating Deepgram + GPT-4 Mini + OpenAI TTS with FSM-driven reliability, and has hands-on RAG experience (LangChain, hybrid retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, custom pseudo-query generation).”