Vetted REST API Professionals

“Data Science honors graduate (Maryville University) who has built Python/SQL backends and a capstone website handling sensitive user data. Emphasizes secure data handling (password encryption, secure database updates) and uses Git/GitHub Pages with CI/CD-style practices for managing and deploying changes.”

“Unity/VR developer who has shipped multiple Meta Quest titles, including a Meta Quest 3 VR heritage app backed by the Malaysian Tourism Commission. Built a complex MMO metaverse game end-to-end solo (Photon Fusion 2 multiplayer, 21x13km world, procedural biomes, combat/inventory) with blockchain/NFT integration (Solana/BSC) and AWS hosting, and actively uses AI tools to accelerate prototyping and internal tooling.”

“Unity developer who built a multiplayer system for a game called Drift using Photon PUN, including backend API integration for authentication, score tracking, and live leaderboards. Has experience optimizing real-time sync for WebGL and automating data-to-ScriptableObject pipelines via a custom C# CSV importer generated with ChatGPT.”

“Built and shipped an AI-powered journaling app feature that analyzes user text for emotions in real time, owning everything from React/TypeScript UX (dynamic theming + Framer Motion) to a FastAPI backend integrating Hugging Face. Has hands-on production experience deploying Dockerized services on AWS (EC2/RDS/S3/CloudWatch) with GitHub Actions CI/CD, and resolved a real latency/scaling incident by converting blocking external API calls to async with retries/timeouts.”

“Hands-on technical/product-facing engineer with experience operationalizing LLM/agentic workflows and debugging them in real time using logs, traces, and metrics. Also supports go-to-market by running developer-focused live coding demos and partnering with sales on discovery and integration/maintainability concerns through clear technical documentation.”

“Frontend engineer who led the Cariveco frontend end-to-end, establishing a scalable React/TypeScript architecture with a design system, CI-driven quality gates, and strong performance practices (Lighthouse, code-splitting, caching). Experienced building complex dashboards with role-based views and real-time data using Redux + RTK Query, and shipping major features quickly with automated testing, feature flags, and Sentry monitoring.”

“Unity/C# gameplay programmer with professional experience at Fabwelt Studios on the play-to-earn title "Arsenal," implementing player mechanics, interaction systems, and event-driven gameplay features. Also built a research-focused Tetris prototype as a master’s thesis, adding seedable RNG controls, data logging, and a playtest harness to study how randomness affects player perception.”

“Robotics lead engineer (PhD/agriculture research context) who built and iterated a three-unit, wirelessly coordinated greenhouse data-collection robot—solving real-world alignment and comms reliability issues by redesigning the rail/gear system and moving from RF to ESP Wi-Fi with MAC-addressed control. Strong embedded C/C++ background with full-stack robot control implemented from scratch; beginning exposure to ROS 2 via an upcoming field deployment.”

“Backend engineer focused on Python/FastAPI who has designed and evolved an API-driven platform with an emphasis on clean contracts, data integrity, and scalable service boundaries. Demonstrated production-minded reliability work by addressing partial writes/retry failure modes with idempotency and validation, eliminating duplicate/corrupted records, and has implemented layered security including Supabase-managed auth, RBAC, and row-level security.”

“Built and organized SQL databases for a grocery pricing update backend and has hands-on experience designing FastAPI/Python APIs with security controls like authentication, RBAC, and strict validation. Also brings research experience identifying real-world failure modes (weather-driven sensor/model inaccuracies in MSE wall corrosion work) and adapting models to improve robustness, plus UI design support on an email-restricted campus hackathon enrollment flow.”

“Unity developer with hands-on Meta Quest XR experience building a radiography/X-ray training proof-of-concept and deep expertise in performance and large-world optimization. Built a bus simulator largely solo, implementing modular vehicle systems, localized traffic AI, multiplayer, and low-end device optimizations. Also develops internal AI tooling (auto-documentation and an AI UI generator) to speed up prototyping and reduce boilerplate.”

“Frontend-focused engineer and former frontend team lead who built a React product from zero-to-MVP (including complex UI like tables and chat) and implemented scalable architecture, shared typing, and UI quality workflows (Storybook/Chromatic). Also built a React+TypeScript internal dashboard for sales/marketing with filtering/search, and has experience collaborating with designers in Figma while iterating quickly in a startup environment.”

“Full-stack engineer and Scrum Master who led a major monolith-to-microservices migration, including a micro-frontend Angular architecture using Native Federation and staged integration into the legacy app. Also built a React + TypeScript “Business Risk” product featuring a metadata-driven dynamic dashboard/forms layer backed by Spring Boot + GraphQL, with strong QA practices (unit/integration/E2E via Cypress), CI/CD, and feature toggles.”

“Frontend-focused builder who has delivered a MERN food-ordering web app and is currently developing a TypeScript-based React Native medical appointment booking app with role-based dashboards, queue management, and REST/Supabase integration. Emphasizes reusable component architecture, centralized state management, and secure RBAC/protected-route patterns, with experience shipping new auth features via branch-based rollout and monitoring.”

“Customer-facing LLM/agent workflow specialist who repeatedly takes unstable prototypes to production by enforcing strict I/O contracts, validation/guardrails, and reliability patterns (logging, retries, timeouts, monitoring). Strong in real-time troubleshooting using logs and payload inspection, and known for live demos/workshops that teach teams to self-debug. Partners closely with sales by building POCs in customer environments to unblock trials and drive faster deal closure and adoption.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an end-to-end healthcare logistics application on a Microsoft services stack, delivering Spring Boot microservices and a responsive React frontend. Strong focus on production concerns—API performance tuning (indexing/caching/pagination) and microservice reliability (timeouts/retries/circuit breakers)—with Dockerized deployments and standardized Jenkins CI/CD.”

“AI/backend engineer who has built and scaled production LLM-powered SaaS features (document assistant + compliance review agent) on a Node.js/TypeScript + Postgres/Redis stack deployed to GCP Kubernetes. Demonstrates strong production reliability chops—async queueing, autoscaling, observability, and database tuning—with quantified wins (p95 latency -60%, query 4s to <200ms) and robust AI guardrails (strict RAG, schema validation, citations, HITL).”

“Unity game developer with hands-on experience building high-impact gameplay feel features (cinematic slow-motion bullet-follow sniper mechanic) and shipping a cross-platform multiplayer word/voting game (ACROMANIA) using Photon PUN. Has also worked on Unity WebGL pipelines involving VRM model uploads and heap memory crash diagnosis, and uses AI tools (ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude) to accelerate debugging and understanding of complex code.”