Vetted REST API Professionals

Jaiden Kettleson

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Entry-Level Full-Stack & AI Engineer specializing in chatbots and web apps

1y exp

“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.”

Samad Qamar

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Senior Unity Game Developer specializing in multiplayer, AR/VR, and Web3 games

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia9y exp

“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.”

Mahad Asif

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Mid-level Game Developer specializing in Unity, AR/VR, and cross-platform products

Rawalpindi, Pakistan4y exp

“Exceptionally young game developer who says he began at age 10 and was employed as a Unity developer at 13. He has hands-on experience building gameplay systems, VR/Web/mobile projects, Photon multiplayer features, and AI/ML experiments—including an open-source protein-model research pipeline reportedly under peer review at PLOS ONE.”

“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.”

“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.”

Naseem Khan

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Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in React/Next.js and Node.js

Islamabad, Pakistan2y exp

“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# developer who led an end-to-end refactor of a Duolingo-style gamified app’s core progression and UI system, redesigning architecture with MVVM/SOLID and event-driven UI updates. Delivered measurable performance improvements (rankings view from sub-35 FPS to ~55–60 FPS) plus draw-call reductions using UI Toolkit and sprite atlases. Also supported Photon-based VR multiplayer (Meta Quest) in an educational accident-simulator, focusing on real-time debugging and sync strategy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Keegan Bond

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React, Node.js, and real-time collaboration

Remote1y exp

“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.”

Jason Burleigh

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Senior Solutions & Systems Integration Engineer specializing in API automation and operational platforms

Los Angeles, CA11y exp

“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.”

Mohammad Khaja Faizan

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Junior Backend Software Engineer specializing in API-driven systems

Corpus Christi, TX2y exp

“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.”

Jithin Mathew

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Mid-level Robotics & Embedded Systems Research Engineer specializing in edge AI for precision agriculture

Fargo, ND5y exp

“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.”

Hitha Sunkara

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Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in web apps and machine learning

Long Beach, CA3y exp

“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.”

“Hands-on automation and QA-focused developer using AI agents, MCP tools, and LLMs to streamline business workflows. Built agents for automated Jira bug logging, executive summary dashboards, and a rule-explainer that translates technical business rules into plain language for end users, while also supporting Selenium-to-Playwright migration and guiding peers on AI implementation.”