Vetted UNIX Professionals

“Senior project/program leader with 20+ years delivering enterprise cloud, data, infrastructure, and operational software implementations in highly regulated environments. Has progressed from project execution into multi-stream modernization leadership, managing concurrent portfolios, executive steering committees, and governance-heavy transformations at organizations including Harvard and UniFirst.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building enterprise workflow management platforms across React/TypeScript, Node.js/Express, Angular, and .NET Core microservices. They stand out for owning features through production, solving real-world data consistency and legacy-data issues, and driving architectural and SQL performance improvements that made dashboards faster and more reliable.”

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Metasystems Inc. (and Qualcomm) building high-traffic, security-sensitive systems—owned a secure transaction processing module end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django, and React. Strong AWS production operations (EKS/ECS/Lambda/RDS/DynamoDB) with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), observability, and reliability patterns; also delivered resilient ETL/integration pipelines with idempotency/retries/backfills and achieved a 50% deployment-time reduction through CI/CD and modular refactoring.”

“Backend engineer with experience building Spring Boot microservices for financial workflows at Fizzle (thousands of requests/minute) and shipping healthcare data validation automation at CVS Health. Demonstrates strong production reliability/performance skills—deep in database tuning (query plans, indexing, caching, denormalization), observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and resilient multi-step workflow design with retries and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with production experience in Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures. Has built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for containerized Kubernetes deployments and implemented Terraform-based AWS infrastructure with modular design and remote state/locking (S3 + DynamoDB) plus PR/CI-driven change control.”

“Data engineer focused on sales/marketing analytics pipelines, owning ingestion from CRMs/ad platforms through warehouse serving and dashboards at ~hundreds of thousands of records/day. Built reliability-focused systems including dbt/SQL/Python data quality gates with alerting, a resilient web-scraping pipeline (retries/backoff, anti-bot tactics, schema-change detection, backfills), and a versioned internal REST API with caching and strong developer usability.”

Sharanya Teegala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring and AWS microservices

Minneapolis, MN5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Wells Fargo and Salesforce building regulated, customer-facing financial systems and internal DevOps tooling. Deep in microservices and event-driven architectures (Spring Boot, Kafka/RabbitMQ) with strong CI/CD automation, contract testing, and observability; delivered measurable impact including 60% faster deployments and 40% fewer support tickets.”

“Healthcare analytics professional with TCS/Humana experience turning messy claims and eligibility data into reliable reporting assets using SQL and Python. They combine strong data engineering and analytics execution with stakeholder management, including automating monthly claims reporting from half a day to under 5 minutes and driving a provider outreach effort that reduced claim rejection rates by about 20%.”

William Goff

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in MongoDB and Java platforms

San Mateo, CA10y exp

“Government and defense software architect with a track record of building mission-critical systems from prototype to long-lived production. Most notably designed Banyan at Fort Meade, a federated SOA platform that achieved 99.9999 uptime and handled 3.2 million daily queries, and later built SBOM automation at Lockheed Martin that was contributed back to the CycloneDX open source ecosystem.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer with strong AWS/Snowflake experience who built an internal feature flag platform and helped migrate a cybersecurity insights product into a multi-agent AI chat interface. They report production scale of 1M+ embeddings and 50k+ monthly queries, with outcomes including an 80% reduction in analyst work and dashboard generation in 7 minutes; the work was also featured by Claude and AWS.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer at a B2B startup who ships high-stakes customer-facing features fast: delivered a Spanish AI support agent in 2 weeks by benchmarking LLMs and using native Spanish system prompts, reaching 90% resolution. Built the company’s first monetization system (hybrid subscription + usage) with Stripe/Firebase, emphasizing secure JWT-based flows and idempotent webhooks, and led a microservices decoupling effort that cut developer onboarding time by 50%.”

“Backend/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of high-stakes data migrations in regulated domains (core banking and insurance), including a Python ETL framework that migrated 100,000+ customer records within a cutover window. Strong DevOps/GitOps background deploying Python and Spring Boot microservices to Kubernetes with Helm and ArgoCD, plus real-time Kafka transaction streaming for fraud/analytics with reliability patterns (DLQs, retries, partition tuning).”

“QA/project leader with ~19 years experience running high-profile, multi-million-dollar software initiatives and driving quality through disciplined milestone gates (Alpha/Beta/FC/GM), regression planning, and weekly bug scrubs. JIRA-centric practitioner (Zephyr/Confluence) who partners closely with engineering, automation, documentation, marketing, and sustaining teams—including offshore collaboration—to unblock testers and improve diagnostics for difficult issues like memory leaks.”

“Software engineer with experience at Freddie Mac shipping a production workflow tracking and daily summary dashboard that replaced spreadsheet/email-based operational processes. Worked across frontend (React/JavaScript), backend (Java), Oracle relational data, and CI/CD, with emphasis on stakeholder collaboration and post-deploy testing/monitoring/performance tuning.”

“Game/tools-focused QA professional with experience at Playable Worlds, Disney, and Metaplace, emphasizing CI-driven quality (Jenkins PR gating, unit tests, Slack/JIRA visibility) in live production environments. Has hands-on defect isolation experience using developer tools to diagnose hard-to-repro player issues and improve turnaround by providing reliable repro steps and clear QA workflows.”

“QA automation engineer who owned an end-to-end test suite for a financial payments application, building cross-layer E2E coverage (UI/API/DB) and integrating it into CI with smoke-on-commit and nightly regression. Caught high-impact issues including duplicate payments caused by missing idempotency in backend retry logic and an RBAC authorization gap, and has hands-on experience stabilizing flaky Cypress tests via network-call synchronization.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of real-time, Kafka-driven systems in production, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Node backends, and AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2) operations. Notable for modernizing legacy batch workflows into event-driven architectures with measurable impact (35% faster risk calculations, 30% better accuracy) and scaling to 2x volume using reliability patterns like idempotency, retries, and staged rollouts.”

Mahesh Kota

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and Healthcare platforms

New York, NY5y exp

“Backend engineer with production experience building and scaling a Java/Spring Boot payment processing API on AWS (PostgreSQL/Redis) handling a few thousand RPS, including deep performance debugging (connection exhaustion) and observability (CloudWatch, Actuator, Zipkin). Also shipped application-layer AI features (OpenAI email summarizer with feedback loop, ~40% faster agent response times) and designed reliable multi-step workflow orchestration with retries and manual escalation, plus strong SQL tuning and Python engineering practices.”

Arunkumar Chockaiyan

Screened

Principal Software Architect specializing in enterprise platforms across FinTech, healthcare, and biotech

Burlingame, CA28y exp

“Senior full-stack product engineer with a track record of turning complex enterprise requirements into scalable platforms, including inventing a configurable multi-variable bidding system that expanded a B2B auction product from inventory liquidation into strategic sourcing for Fortune 100 clients. Also brings recent hands-on AI agent work, plus experience translating scientific software into usable web products and more efficient backend services in the gene-editing domain.”

Subhash Nair

Screened

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist specializing in IT recruiting and AI-assisted sourcing

Dallas, TX15y exp

“Recruiting operations lead with 6 years supporting Capgemini/Capco-style client hiring, owning end-to-end workflows in Greenhouse. Implemented a technical pre-screen coding round and integrated HackerRank with the ATS to dramatically increase interview throughput and improve candidate quality, contributing to high-volume placements for Freddie Mac and closing a 20-role surge across BA/PM and engineering roles.”

“Game-studio QA tester with full lifecycle experience (feature kickoff through release/live updates), strong in structured test planning, edge-case discovery, and disciplined defect tracking. Partners closely with engineers via Jira/standups, providing detailed repro steps, logs, and evidence, and builds regression coverage to prevent recurring UI/data-loss issues.”

“Experienced tech operator who has spent years transforming and rebuilding software foundations inside companies, and has developed a sharp point of view on the shortcomings of legacy accounting software. Currently building an internal portal to unify CRM data while implementing DevOps and AI-assisted development practices, with a longer-term vision for a modern accounting CRM/platform with integrations, APIs, marketing, and telephony built in.”

“Engineering leader who grew from Lead Developer to CTO at Clips4Sale, scaling the org to around 30 people while restructuring engineering around revenue-driving initiatives like search, payments, reliability, and creator tools. Also built AI-powered event discovery and chatbot systems at FOSH using Claude, combining human feedback, prompt evaluation, and product simplification to improve output quality and user experience.”