Vetted System Design Professionals

Balaji Vellaluru

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and computer vision systems

Chicago, IL3y exp

“Built D.O.C.T.O.R, a 0-to-1 anatomy learning platform with 450+ 3D models that reached 6,500+ users, saved $850K versus a costly alternative, and was featured in a University of Illinois Chicago news article. The candidate combines product initiative with hands-on full-stack execution, spanning React/Three.js, databases, auth, analytics, and AI workflow automation side projects.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved Python/FastAPI services (including AWS-deployed ML prediction APIs) for real-time profitability and risk insights at TenXengage. Emphasizes pragmatic architecture, strong validation/observability, and secure access controls (RBAC + row-level filtering), and has led safe migrations via parallel runs and incremental rollouts; reports ~20% forecasting accuracy improvement.”

Kruti Mehta

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and FinTech analytics

Maryland, USA5y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, high-leverage approach to AI-assisted development: uses AI and multi-agent workflows aggressively for implementation and internal tooling, while maintaining strict human oversight for user-facing features. Stands out for treating agents like junior engineers, breaking work into actionable tasks, and combining robust testing, local E2E validation, and feature-flag rollouts to safely ship production code.”

“Game developer with hands-on experience shipping Unity/C# systems across live ops, multiplayer, AI-driven gameplay, and cross-platform VR/mobile optimization. Particularly notable for building a data-driven live events pipeline for Tomb Raider Reloaded that empowered non-developers and cut release turnaround from days to roughly 50 minutes across four store variants.”

“Backend engineer focused on reliability and production operations, with hands-on experience implementing an outbox pattern to keep database updates and downstream events consistent. They also described diagnosing transaction-related latency under heavy client traffic and using monitoring data to validate performance improvements, showing a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to scaling integrations.”

Ridwan Oladipupo

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in React, Node.js, and AWS

Halifax, Canada11y exp

“Frontend engineer who led the Dash Merchant App and Backoffice platform (React/TypeScript/Redux) supporting $50M+ in monthly transactions. Focused on scalable architecture and reliability—introduced typed API layers, centralized error handling, and performance optimizations (including ~40% load-time reduction) while driving team adoption through incremental refactors, templates, and pairing.”

“Serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of professional software engineering experience who co-founded Food Truck Stars, initially a food-truck search engine and later pivoted into a catering marketplace to overcome adoption barriers. Validated the model by prototyping at car enthusiast events across the U.S. and turning a profit, using hands-on customer discovery with low-tech, time-constrained operators.”

“Unity/VR engineer with nearly 15 years of experience, specializing in multiplayer architecture, cross-platform systems, and developer tooling. He built and shipped a reusable Unity Netcode-based multiplayer stack with authentication, matchmaking, Vivox voice chat, and custom host migration that reportedly improved development speed by 70% to 80%, and has also supported releases across Meta Quest, consoles, and mobile-related ecosystems.”

“Engineer focused on real-time collaborative canvas products and AI-assisted design workflows, with hands-on ownership of both multiplayer infrastructure and LLM-powered generation systems. They combine strong TypeScript/full-stack architecture with production-grade AI evals and observability, and cite meaningful outcomes including zero sync-conflict bugs, rollout to 50,000+ DAUs, and major gains in onboarding speed and engagement.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-based appointment management agent, implementing RAG with Redis and LangGraph plus multi-agent intent handling and rule-based conflict guardrails to prevent double-booking under high load. Experienced in real-time diagnosis of agentic workflow failures using logs/traces and state inspection, and in driving adoption via interactive developer demos and sales-aligned custom customer scenarios.”

Monish Reddy Bonthu

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in real-time systems and FinTech

FL, USA5y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience modernizing a real-time logistics/tracking platform from a tightly coupled polling architecture to a service-oriented/microservices design using Node.js and WebSockets. Emphasizes contract-first FastAPI development, defense-in-depth security (JWT/OAuth, RLS/Supabase), and safe incremental migrations with feature flags and strong observability, delivering sub-second updates and improved performance under peak load.”