Vetted Testing Professionals

“Product leader with experience driving a major international digital platform overhaul at ESPN, unifying fragmented sports properties and delivering a 30% retention lift. More recently, they have been building a human-centered AI mental health product focused on provider-guided follow-up, and they bring a personal, long-standing commitment to educational equity through tutoring and community math programs.”

Kris Wen

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AdTech and AI-enabled web engineering

San Francisco Bay Area, CA4y exp

“Software engineer at American Express who built a zero-to-one first-party cookie tracking architecture as the industry moved away from third-party cookies, combining frontend, backend, CI/CD, and AI-assisted QA automation. Particularly strong in developer tooling and workflow automation, with measurable impact including 70% less manual QA, 8+ critical errors caught pre-production, and PR cycles reduced from 48 hours to under 8.”

“Backend engineer with insurance/claims domain experience who modernized legacy claims processing systems to support AI-assisted claim review. Emphasizes production-ready API design in Python/FastAPI (schemas, async, caching, graceful degradation), strong observability with Prometheus, and layered security including JWT auth plus database row-level security (Supabase/Postgres).”

“Full-stack + ML engineer who built “Finsight,” a real-time financial risk platform (React/FastAPI/MongoDB/AWS Lambda) processing 2M+ records monthly, using sharding and Redis caching (60% DB load reduction) plus async and batch optimizations. Also has healthcare product experience at Apollo Healthcare, partnering directly with clinicians/admins to design and iterate EHR dashboards via Figma prototyping and user testing, and demonstrates clear system design thinking for real-time voice-to-LLM architectures.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production RAG-based Text2SQL engine using Qdrant, including creating the underlying business/DB documentation, generating a test dataset, and designing detailed SQL-quality metrics for validation. Also partnered with non-technical stakeholders on a speech recognition project to prioritize medical terminology, improving accuracy through targeted corpora, lookup-table correction, and fine-tuning with a modified loss function.”

“Game developer who implemented the battle simulation/progression system for "Gladiator Imperium," focusing on turn logic, stat-driven combat, and player-facing feel through UI and camera polish. Also has experience modernizing a 10+ year legacy project by refactoring into new frameworks and even migrating to a different programming language, leveraging AI to interpret undocumented code.”

Allen Saunders

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Senior DevOps/Solutions Engineer specializing in CI/CD, cloud platforms, and API integrations

San Francisco, California11y exp

“Solutions Architect with 5+ years leading pre- and post-sales engagements, focused on taking complex tooling from test/prototype to secure production through a structured discovery-to-deployment approach. Experienced in LLM workflow troubleshooting using tools like Langfuse/Gopher and in developer enablement via concise, hands-on workshops (e.g., Jenkins on Kubernetes at scale). Has navigated internal and external blockers to drive adoption and keep enterprise deals moving (including a Jenkins sale to Love's).”

Srinandh Reddy

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and event-driven systems

Aurora, Illinois5y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on backend and distributed systems for real-time robot operations, including sensor ingestion, robot state management, and robot-to-cloud communication. Hands-on with ROS/ROS2 integration and real-time navigation debugging, plus production-grade monitoring, CI/CD, and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes) to improve stability and performance.”

“Software engineer focused on backend/full-stack, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI-related work. Stands out for using AI and multi-agent workflows as an engineering accelerator while maintaining rigorous testing, logging, and system-level validation, including work on telemetry and monitoring platforms where reliability and correctness are critical.”

“Candidate has hands-on experience using AI-assisted development in a pragmatic, controlled way, including shipping a more user-friendly student feedback form by redesigning text-heavy inputs into checkboxes and dropdowns. They stand out for disciplined review habits: line-by-line validation of AI-generated code, strong edge-case testing, and thoughtful use of structured prompts and staged workflows instead of over-relying on autonomous agent frameworks.”

“AI/full-stack engineer who has built zero-to-one internal products around LLMs, RAG, and NLP pipelines, including a conversational data interface and a production AI agent system. Stands out for combining frontend UX for non-technical users with backend/cloud architecture and measurable impact, including a reported 60% reduction in data retrieval time.”

Dolly Shyam

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI-driven platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend-focused developer with primary experience in Python, Node.js, databases, and API development. Served as the sole backend engineer on a customer dashboard project, owning database review, API endpoint creation, and coordination with frontend developers for integration.”

“Intern/full-stack developer who built a sports player statistics dashboard with Next.js, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Zustand, and PostgreSQL. Demonstrated solid ownership across the stack, including API design, state consistency, production debugging, query/index optimization, and phased zero-downtime schema migrations.”

“Co-op engineer at EnFi who built and maintained a multi-tenant prompt library and LLM workflow tooling used by internal teams and external enterprise clients. Led TypeScript/React package design and standardized a typed workflow abstraction across disparate implementations (React, Go, JSON), improving reliability and developer adoption. Delivered measurable performance gains (~25% latency reduction) and owned end-to-end execution including docs, demos, debugging, and deployment.”

“Cross-functional operator at Andium who led founder-level initiatives spanning next-gen product launch + legacy sunset, built decision-driven operating cadences (dashboards, memos, blocker tracking), and drove international expansion after a Series B led by Saudi Aramco. Also supported a $6M strategic opportunity in Australia by coordinating pricing, product feedback loops, and internal alignment across an AI-enabled SaaS + hardware business.”

Manasa Pippera

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Senior .NET Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud, IoT messaging, and real-time web apps

Franklin, TN6y exp

“Full-stack engineer who owns customer-facing web products end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node.js), shipping frequent releases with strong testing, staged deploys, and production monitoring. Improved a key user flow by batching backend calls and simplifying frontend rendering, driving ~30% faster load times and ~30% higher completion rates. Also built an ops monitoring dashboard using ELK + Prometheus/Grafana that cut incident response time by 40% and has hands-on microservices messaging experience (RabbitMQ/Kafka, idempotency, DLQs).”

Ivaylo Ivanov

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Senior Unity Engineer specializing in XR and real-time 3D applications

5y exp

“Unity lead developer/project manager who builds VR storytelling and training simulator experiences, including hand-tracking-driven interactions and custom rendering (Shader Graph, forward rendering, occlusion culling). Created an educational Unity game (Bed Time Hunter) spanning gameplay, VFX/shaders, terrain/lighting, and Photon multiplayer, and built a VR office simulator that targets both Quest standalone and SteamVR while streaming cloud IoT sensor data.”

Nikunj Sethi

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Mid-level Unity XR Developer specializing in VR/AR training, games, and immersive UX

3y exp

“Unity developer with hands-on VR and multiplayer WebGL experience: reduced motion sickness in a VR bike riding game by implementing a helmet-style FOV reduction using a camera canvas. Built a small metaverse-style multiplayer house experience with Photon PUN 2, tackling host migration/ownership transfer and real-time object synchronization, plus voice chat.”