Vetted Software Development Professionals

“Hands-on Engineering Manager at Hyper-Reach modernizing a mission-critical emergency alerts platform used by county emergency directors and first responders during live disasters. He led a phased migration from a 25-year-old JSP monolith to React, shipped in 5 months instead of an estimated 1.5 years, with zero regression incidents and clear customer and sales impact.”

“Founding electronics engineer at Anoria who built the electronics, PCB, and firmware stack for a battery-powered BLE wearable during a YC batch, taking it from concept to EVT in under 90 days. He combines deep embedded/hardware judgment with fast iteration discipline, including MCU trade-off analysis, HDI board development, and sensor-data pipeline work across firmware and ML.”

“Front-end engineer with strong browser UI and accessibility instincts, including ownership of a complex responsive color/style picker for a major paint brand and foundational theming work for a SaaS CMS. Particularly notable for combining progressive enhancement, cross-browser rigor, and accessibility leadership to make polished interfaces work reliably across devices and user needs.”

Fadi Abbas

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Executive product leader specializing in AI-native products and EdTech platforms

Dearborn Heights, MI16y exp

“Product leader and founder with experience spanning EdTech, AI, LegalTech, and mobile imaging. He co-founded a tutoring platform that grew to 300K+ students and later built citation-grounded legal AI systems designed for high-trust, high-stakes workflows. Particularly compelling is his consistent philosophy of using AI to amplify human expertise rather than replace it, backed by global team leadership and strong product execution across EMEA, the US, and Asia.”

“Open-source JavaScript library contributor/maintainer focused on performance and usability—uses profiling and user feedback to optimize large-dataset processing and modernize abstractions. Refactored a nested-callback event handling system into an observer-pattern dispatcher with batched event queues, reducing CPU usage and improving maintainability; also handles community-reported crashes by reproducing issues, fixing memory leaks, and updating docs.”

“Serial entrepreneur since leaving corporate in 2009, working largely for equity on multiple startups. Building (1) academically rigorous, anti-overfitting quant/backtesting tools for retail investors (with potential applicability to smaller hedge funds lacking quant staff) and (2) a partner-led “social-as-a-service” platform for verticals like real estate/PropTech (including FSBO use cases) focused on first-party data capture vs. big tech.”

“Data engineer in a banking context who has owned end-to-end Azure lakehouse pipelines ingesting financial/vendor data from APIs, Azure SQL, and flat files into Databricks/Delta (bronze-silver-gold). Emphasizes production reliability via schema-drift validation, data quality controls, monitoring/alerting, retries/checkpointing, and Spark/Delta performance tuning, with outputs served to BI/reporting teams (e.g., Tableau).”

“Full-stack engineer with strong banking/financial-platform experience, spanning React/Angular frontends, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, and secure API design. They’ve built high-volume transaction systems handling 40,000+ daily requests and also owned an AI-driven search/recommendation feature that improved search relevance by 20% and adoption by 12%.”

Alex Guzman

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Principal Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and identity systems

Denver, CO17y exp

“Senior backend-leaning engineer with experience spanning an 8-person early-stage startup and production microservices environments. They helped deliver an MVP for a fintech/charitable donations product by building a resilient abstraction API across multiple rewards vendors, and more recently maintained Go services at scale with Kubernetes autoscaling for workloads reaching roughly 1 million requests per day.”