Vetted Software Engineering Professionals

“Startup operator with 8 years of experience who helped grow the business from limited initial capital into a much larger ARR. Somewhat familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape and strongly motivated to pursue entrepreneurship, with a clear framework for evaluating new venture ideas.”

Ketan Verma

Screened

Junior Applied AI Engineer specializing in data pipelines and ML systems

College Station, TX2y exp

“Built an end-to-end wafer-data anomaly detection and reporting system at Samsung using PySpark, Random Forest models, SQL, and Grafana to help engineers track faults and take corrective action. Also has strong UX prototyping and validation practices in Figma plus hands-on front-end/full-stack experience (HTML/CSS/TypeScript), including a student project recognized as best design out of 25 teams, and early-stage startup experience pivoting a product based on user interviews into a real-time in-context feedback overlay.”

Kyle Vo

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in web, mobile, and embedded systems

Davis, CA1y exp

“Software/IoT-focused candidate with startup internship experience building a planner AI service integrating Google Calendar (OAuth/token handling) and connecting AI, backend, frontend, and database. Also has embedded systems + AWS networking troubleshooting experience and has implemented TCP networking projects optimized for throughput and low jitter/latency; collaborates with clients via weekly meetings using Trello/Slack.”

“Aspiring founder focused broadly on the AI space, with no startup yet and novice familiarity with venture capital and accelerators. They are actively acclimating to the startup ecosystem through hackathons and meetup groups and express a strong all-in commitment to entrepreneurship.”

Arya Thorat

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

Texas, USA5y exp

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep experience building real-time fraud and credit-risk systems. Shipped an event-driven fraud monitoring platform (Kafka→MongoDB/Redis→WebSockets) delivering sub-200ms updates to 3000+ concurrent internal users, and built a Java/Spring Boot credit risk decisioning API that improved turnaround time by 30–40%. Strong AWS production operations (ECS Fargate/RDS/Redis) with proven incident response and performance tuning.”