Vetted Software Development Professionals

“CTO-level leader who drove a major post-buyout transformation at NPact—modernizing engineering (CI/CD, QA, observability), moving products toward SaaS/cloud, and scaling the org from ~20 to ~70 while maintaining 97% retention. Uses instrumentation and workflow analytics (including Atlassian-derived data) to improve delivery, citing an ~80% reduction in feature/bug churn through better scoping and requirements. Comfortable with board-level ROI decisions and customer/fundraising conversations, translating technical tradeoffs into clear business outcomes.”

“Lead developer on a Warner Brothers Discovery media management platform, building Python/Flask APIs and AWS-based workflows. Delivered a serverless search overhaul (Lambda + API Gateway + OpenSearch Serverless) while maintaining parity with legacy Rekognition tag-based search, and implemented event-driven ETL (SNS/SQS) to ingest/validate CSV metadata into PostgreSQL with strong logging and incident response practices.”

“Cloud consulting veteran building DragnCloud, an agentic cloud infrastructure builder aimed at teams outgrowing Heroku/Supabase who need complex setups (data pipelines, custom LLM hosting, multi-tier apps) without hiring consultants. Has SaaS background and has served as a Fractional CTO for funded companies; currently focused on landing the first 20 customers and expanding automation into higher-value workflows.”

“Three-time founder operating at the intersection of startups, venture, and private equity, with hands-on experience building outbound engines, fundraising, and sourcing proprietary deals. Most recently built an M&A deal execution platform and now works as an independent sponsor supporting PE firms and family offices with deal flow, diligence, and modeling. Brings a rare blend of healthcare, fintech, sales, and buy-side transaction experience.”

“Front-end engineer with significant ownership of a large-scale TypeScript application for a federal healthcare program, serving analysts and administrators under strict CMS and WCAG/508 requirements. Stands out for combining deep browser-performance work, accessibility remediation of 100+ issues, and modernization of legacy code into a reusable, well-tested Angular architecture with over 90% automated test coverage.”

“Data science/AI intern at University at Buffalo Business Services who built and deployed production systems spanning classic ML and LLM assistants. Delivered real-time competitor intelligence for a Cornell-partnered, $1B beverage launch by scraping/cleaning 5,000+ SKUs and deploying models via API, then built a domain-aware LLM assistant to modernize Excel-based workflows with strong grounding, privacy controls, and sub-5s latency.”

Petrus Breedt

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and telecom platforms

Lake Forest, IL17y exp

“Engineer with deep telecom and platform experience who helped build a startup product from a 10-person company through growth to acquisition, contributing architecture, coding, and Docker-based scaling. Strong in Go, Java, TypeScript/React, and event-driven systems, with hands-on experience building high-throughput mobile operator platforms and healthcare claims integrations under real production load.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a startup data-processing backend (Express.js/MySQL) handling millions of user data points, with a microservices pipeline integrating multiple social media APIs. Emphasizes reliability and security through comprehensive testing, robust error/retry handling for sequential pagination constraints, and tight IAM/JWT/OAuth-based access controls.”

“Frontend engineer who led end-to-end delivery of a Vite/React/GraphQL/MUI SPA with feature-based, layered architecture and strong quality gates (TypeScript strict, CI, testing, a11y). Built a large analytics dashboard using microfrontends and multiple state management approaches, including integrating with a legacy PHP host via window-object communication, and managed safe rollouts with LaunchDarkly plus Datadog usage/session-replay monitoring.”

“Built and continuously ships AI features for a recipe website, including a production workflow that ingests Instagram reels via webhooks, extracts/transcribes content, and converts it into structured recipe data. Also brings enterprise async/backend experience from Dot Foods, where they work with Azure Service Bus, Cosmos DB, and a pre-production Teams bot for logistics stakeholder questions.”

“Veteran software development PM with 20+ years spanning custom development, COTS implementations, governance, and modernization in complex public-sector environments. Recently led a 12-month consolidation of three NRC legacy systems into a single Microsoft Power Platform workflow and helped the IRS stand up portfolio governance and executive reporting for IRA-funded initiatives using JIRA Align.”

“Frontend engineer (Capgemini experience) who has led products end-to-end and improved existing codebases for scalability and performance. Built complex React + TypeScript dashboards with real-time, multi-API data and stabilized them via centralized data handling, strict typing/validation, and performance techniques like debouncing/memoization. Emphasizes practical standards, incremental refactoring, and tight collaboration with design/product and QA to ship reliably under deadlines.”

Diya Wadhwani

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in MERN, AWS, and secure authentication

4y exp

“Application-layer full-stack engineer who has shipped enterprise-facing integrations and developer tooling, including an end-to-end Slack integration for automated ticket creation and a real-time feature-flag dashboard (React/TS + GraphQL/Apollo + NestJS) with audit trails. Has hands-on AWS container operations experience (ECS Fargate/ALB/RDS) and has improved product performance (35% faster dashboards) while building auth and RBAC for 500+ users.”

“Frontend engineer with 5+ years building enterprise browser-based applications, especially Salesforce Experience Cloud portals in financial services. Stands out for combining reusable component architecture, browser-level performance debugging, and UX improvements for demanding advisor users, including reported 50% page-load gains and reduced support issues.”

Hunter Brady

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in enterprise SaaS and mobile apps

Bradley Beach, NJ5y exp

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience building highly configurable multi-tenant dashboard/form platforms at Voxvita and workflow automation tools at Triad Unlimited. Stands out for turning brittle one-off implementations into reusable services and primitives, including dynamic data-fetching layers, configurable UI systems, and a PHP-based invoicing engine that became the company standard.”

“Venture/accelerator operator with experience at Newchip Accelerator (Austin) and Boomerang Venture Studios, focused on high-volume sourcing and qualifying founders and building an investor network through automated LinkedIn/email outbound and events. Known for translating outreach into founder–investor meetings, running structured discovery, and using rubric/risk grading to drive go/no-go decisions while maintaining strong post-meeting feedback loops.”