Vetted System Design Professionals

“Entrepreneur and technical architect who built and ran an MSP with over 200 clients, and previously architected systems for a company as it scaled from 50 to 500 employees. Also consulted for another fast-growing company on architecture and cloud migration, bringing a practical operator's perspective on scaling businesses and evaluating ideas based on real problem-solving.”

Dhruv Kamalesh Kumar

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in LLM agents and RAG applications

Boston, MA4y exp

“GenAI builder and technical lead with ~2 years of hands-on production experience, including GENIE (a GenAI sandbox for ~44,000 Massachusetts public-sector employees) and A-IEP, a multilingual platform helping parents understand complex IEP documents (cut processing from ~15 minutes to ~2 and used by 1,000+ parents). Strong in RAG/agentic architectures, AWS serverless + Step Functions orchestration, and rigorous evaluation/guardrails for reliable real-world deployments.”

Priyanka Ramesh

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot and React

Boston, MA2y exp

“Backend engineer (IpserLab) who owned Python services for a production quiz/analytics platform, focusing on reliability and low-latency behavior under peak load. Hands-on with Kubernetes + Docker deployments and GitHub Actions CI/CD in a GitOps-style workflow, including solving configuration drift and enabling fast rollbacks. Also implemented Kafka-based event streaming with idempotent consumers and strong observability (lag tracking, structured logging, alerting).”

“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.”

Danny Beck

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology Leader (CTO/Head of Engineering) specializing in platform rebuilds, AI, and Web3

California, USA11y exp

“Startup leader with 15+ years of experience, including lead engineer and founding CTO roles across 5 companies from pre-seed to Series A. Actively develops personal venture ideas by creating product specs/SLAs/business plans and engaging in investor pitch sessions and incubators, with a strong focus on early product-market fit via validated learning and data-driven pivots.”

varsha viswanathan

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and FinTech

Fremont, CA1y exp

“Software engineering intern experience at Zoho Corp and Zeus Desk building and deploying customer-facing systems. Delivered a real-time booking platform backend that stayed stable for 1,000+ users by optimizing MySQL queries/indexing and shipping hotfixes during production latency incidents. Also integrated financial operations APIs across 50+ small-bank partners by creating a normalization/validation layer to handle inconsistent partner data and prevent integration breakages.”

YESHA BHAVSAR

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI applications

Alpharetta, GA0y exp

“Built and deployed an "AI Closet" application as a personal product, owning full-stack and applied AI features end to end. Particularly interesting for recruiters because they combined Next.js/TypeScript product engineering with practical AI systems work, including OpenAI vision-based smart form fill, personalized recommendation learning, and a grounded RAG application with evaluation and regression testing.”

Vladimir Novick

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CTO and Software Architect specializing in AI systems and cloud platforms

Israel, Israel22y exp

“Startup-minded technical founder currently running Novicklabs and building Itervox.dev, an AI agent orchestration platform for developer teams. Previously served as CTO at EventLoop and shows strong insight into multi-agent tooling, observability, security, and the open-source-to-cloud path for developer infrastructure products.”

Nidhi Sharma

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI, and cloud infrastructure

Noida, India2y exp

“Built multiple AI-heavy systems with a strong engineering lens on observability, reliability, and real-world usability, including an LLM gateway for auditability/failure isolation and Allyvision, an accessibility tool for visually impaired users. Also owned an end-to-end warehouse shipment tracking dashboard at Addverb Technologies that drove measurable operational gains, combining backend/data depth with frontend product execution.”

“Unity developer from the Naer project who built a natural-feeling VR wrist-flick gesture mechanic for teleport/push/pull interactions, validated through telemetry, low-FPS simulation, and diverse user testing with modular ScriptableObject tuning. Also handled Photon PUN 2 networking bug fixes (mid-air item state issues) and RPC optimizations while integrating AI tools (Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT) into planning and implementation.”

Ajinkya Nazare

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Game Platform Engineer specializing in Unity mobile games

Chicago, IL10y exp

“Unity engineer with 8+ years of experience who owned Pitch5T end-to-end, spanning core gameplay systems, data-driven bot AI, mobile optimization, and custom real-time PvP networking. Particularly strong in building designer-friendly LiveOps workflows using telemetry and remote config so balancing could happen without repeated engineering intervention.”

“Unity game developer focused on gameplay AI and combat feel; reverse-engineered and recreated Devil May Cry-style enemy behavior using an attacker/bystander system constrained by the camera frustum, including custom math to solve circle–frustum intersections. Has shipped/worked on multiplayer projects using Photon Fusion and Unity Netcode for GameObjects, with practical experience making state/RPC synchronization decisions.”

“Backend/platform engineer with payments and insurance domain experience (Cognizant), owning high-volume production systems end-to-end. Shipped a Spring Boot payment tokenization service with strong observability and phased migration that cut transaction latency ~30% and improved payment efficiency ~25%. Also productionized an ML-driven financial health/risk analytics pipeline with near real-time dashboards across 70+ schools, emphasizing interpretability, data quality, and drift monitoring.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS (ROS 1) experience building sensor-processing and state-based control pipelines in Python/C++. Demonstrated measurable reliability and performance gains in autonomous navigation—cut runtime failures by 30%, reduced replanning by 35%, and improved debugging efficiency by 40%—using timing-aware state machines, message/interface discipline, and simulation/testing with Gazebo, rosbag, Docker, and CI/CD.”

Isha Harne

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in ML applications and LLM platform engineering

New York, NY1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who builds and scales customer-facing and internal AI products end-to-end (React/TypeScript/FastAPI/MongoDB) with strong product instrumentation and rapid MVP iteration. Built an AI-powered code review assistant adopted across teams and integrated into CI/CD, reducing manual review time by 30%+, and has hands-on experience with LLM retrieval/reasoning systems (LangChain + FAISS) and microservices scaling using RabbitMQ, Docker, and AWS.”

Tanisha Pradeep Bhola

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Mid-level Software Development Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and microservices

Dayton, Ohio4y exp

“Accenture engineer with hands-on experience taking an NLP sentiment analysis system from prototype to production, emphasizing robustness to noisy data, scalability, and observability (dashboards for latency/error/throughput). Also supports customer-facing teams with demos and PoCs, translating client requirements into secure, scalable architectures and troubleshooting LLM/agent workflows via logs and step-level traces.”