Vetted Software Engineering Professionals

Martin Wells

Screened

Executive AI & Technology leader specializing in AI, streaming, and gaming platforms

Seattle / Tacoma, WA18y exp

“Worked at an accelerator and served as an Entrepreneur in Residence, providing CTO and general founder support to startups. Although not pursuing entrepreneurship personally, they bring direct exposure to early-stage company building and accelerator ecosystems.”

“Built an itinerary-planning startup MVP (LessGO) using React/TypeScript and a Node/Express backend integrating Google Maps and Gemini AI. Notably optimized Gemini latency from ~40 seconds to ~3 seconds through frontend caching, debugging, and model selection, and has TA experience supporting others with deployments and database connectivity.”

“Software engineer with BitSight experience owning and revitalizing a critical internal Entity Management Portal (Django/React), clearing 30+ backlog items and boosting internal workflow efficiency ~40% through performance re-architecture (Redis caching) and disciplined testing. Also built a collaborative chore management platform (React/FastAPI) emphasizing responsiveness (optimistic UI) and scalability (connection pooling, Docker), and improved microservices security by centralizing secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager across multi-cloud environments.”

Yukta Chikate

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in safety-critical and uncertainty-aware ML systems

Brooklyn, NY5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered assistant for company documents and support questions, focused on reducing time spent searching PDFs/policies/tickets while preventing hallucinations by grounding answers in approved sources. Demonstrates strong production engineering (Kubernetes/orchestration, caching, monitoring, fallbacks) plus security-minded permissioning and close collaboration with operations/support stakeholders.”

“Entrepreneur building an AI-driven outbound growth and automation startup, currently self-funding development through consulting while validating market demand. Stands out for combining technical workflow automation with practical go-to-market experimentation, including deliverability-focused outbound systems and webinar partnerships with local experts to drive trust and conversion.”

“Early-stage product engineer who has shipped an AI-assisted workflow web app end-to-end, spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontend, Python-backed LLM APIs, Postgres analytics, and async backend workflows. Strong ownership after launch as well, including usage tracking, prompt and UX iteration, latency reduction, and measurable database performance improvements.”

Ben Coats

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in startups, SaaS, and cloud-native platforms

Newport, VT24y exp

“Early-stage technical advisor working fractionally with an AI health tech startup focused on autism therapy, helping turn a functional prototype into a deployable enterprise application. Brings a mix of hands-on coding, infrastructure/Terraform experience, and founder-oriented thinking around market opportunity, studio fit, and right-to-win.”

João Barbosa

Screened

Junior Computer Science Engineer specializing in AI-driven game dialogue systems

Oeiras, Portugal4y exp

“Unity generalist who has shipped a solo VR tangram game for Meta Quest, handling everything from asset art to mechanics and multi-level logic. Built an original 2D top-down pixel-art game (“Mental Twist”) combining campus exploration with puzzle-based courses and a time/HP/XP-driven progression and grading system; prefers structured production environments and is currently seeking a 9-to-5 schedule.”

“Candidate claims responsibility for end-to-end technical delivery and describes a structured four-phase delivery process (discovery, design/wireframes, build/testing with quality and velocity focus, and smooth launch). They declined to provide any specific project case studies, technologies, incidents, management examples, or compensation details during the screen.”