Vetted UNIX Professionals

“Candidate brings an operator-to-founder profile with leadership experience in IT and Business Systems and a strong grasp of how ideas become venture-backable products. They speak fluently about startup evaluation criteria such as TAM, technical defensibility, speed to scale, and AI differentiation, and appear especially motivated by building solutions end-to-end in startup or venture studio environments.”

“Candidate comes from SaaS and healthcare analytics rather than game development, but has strong end-to-end ownership experience building real-time, high-availability systems in Python/AWS. They highlight measurable impact across performance, throughput, uptime, and cost reduction, including queue optimization and predictive ICU utilization pipelines, and are looking to transfer that systems engineering foundation into Unity/gameplay work.”

“AIX/Solaris and IBM Power specialist who has led real-time performance recoveries for core banking/ERP workloads—diagnosing CPU/IO contention down to FC queue depth and LPAR sizing, restoring latency from 5s to 200ms. Experienced with POWER7/8/9 operations across HMC/VIOS/NPIV and live DLPAR resizing, plus legacy Solaris SPARC to RHEL x86 hybrid re-platform migrations with post-cutover Oracle performance considerations.”

“Software engineer with strong compliance-domain experience who built a customer-facing compliance and reporting dashboard using React/TypeScript with Spring Boot microservices. Demonstrates mature production engineering practices—contract-first APIs, event-driven architecture (Kafka/RabbitMQ), caching (Redis), and robust CI/CD + observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK)—and also created a Python-based audit automation tool adopted into the standard release process.”

“JP Morgan engineer and Texas A&M student web developer who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a real-time ML training workflow that improved internal search relevance by 30%. Experienced with AWS cloud migrations and operating containerized services on ECS with CloudWatch+ELK observability, Terraform infra, and Spinnaker CI/CD; also built event-driven pipelines with RabbitMQ and Elasticsearch at 1M+ record scale.”

“LLM/agent engineer who shipped a production RAG-based recommendation + explanation system that replaced a traditional recommender stack, delivering ~20% CTR lift (and +8% after a reliability iteration) with strong cold-start performance. Demonstrates strong production rigor: schema-constrained generation, typed tool calling, explicit state/orchestration, deep monitoring/feedback loops, and safe integration with messy ERP inventory/order data using normalization, idempotency, and conflict-resolution guardrails.”

Swathi Sankaran

Screened

Senior Python Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud, data engineering, and ML/GenAI

New York, NY10y exp

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI services on AWS and implementing strong reliability/observability (CloudWatch, ELK, correlation IDs, alarms). Has delivered serverless + container solutions with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform) and Jenkins CI/CD, and built AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution and data-quality safeguards; demonstrated large-scale SQL tuning (45 min to 3 min on a 500M-row workload).”

Shravya Shashidhar

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in LLM agents and full-stack development

Seattle, USA1y exp

“Embedded C++ engineer with Bosch automotive infotainment experience, owning real-time audio middleware modules with strict latency/memory constraints. Strong in profiling/optimizing deterministic behavior, debugging hardware-specific intermittent issues, and building automated test + CI pipelines; currently ramping up on ROS2 concepts (DDS, nodes/topics/services) to transition toward robotics.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end AV operations automation and dashboarding platform for USC event operations, used daily to coordinate hundreds of live events. Delivered a React/TypeScript full-stack system integrating Smartsheet APIs with strong reliability practices (typed contracts, validation/fallbacks, safe rollouts) and experience with queue-based microservice patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQs, monitoring).”

“Engineering leader who proposed and delivered a new API-based document management platform to replace a vendor-dependent system, improving latency by ~1s and availability to 99.9% while migrating legacy data. Also drove Python-based automation of ~12 workflows via third-party API integrations and led an SSO/auth integration focused on backward compatibility and high login success rates.”

“Backend engineer who has led major platform evolution to cloud-native microservices (Spring Boot on AWS with Terraform) and built scalable, secure FastAPI APIs. Demonstrates strong production rigor with metric-driven validation, canary/phased rollouts, and incremental migrations using shadow traffic/feature flags/parallel writes—achieving faster deployments, fewer incidents, and zero-downtime traffic spikes and migrations.”

Samatha Amsala

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data warehousing and analytics

Omaha, NE6y exp

“Data engineer at American Express who owned end-to-end pipelines for transaction and customer data used in finance reporting and risk analytics, processing ~5–8M records/day. Built Airflow-orchestrated ingestion (including external APIs/web sources) with strong data quality controls, monitoring/alerts, and resilient backfill/retry patterns, and also shipped a versioned REST API serving aggregated metrics to analytics teams.”

“Built Bargain Bricks end-to-end as a solo creator, handling product ideation, design, backend, APIs, website, and native iOS/Android apps. They actively maintain and iterate on the product, which has over 1,000 downloads, and have improved conversion through UI changes that surfaced the best deal above the fold.”

“ML/AI engineer focused on production NLP and voice AI systems in the restaurant tech space, with hands-on work spanning ASR, intent classification, LLM fine-tuning, and deployment monitoring at Presto AI. They highlight a 15% improvement in full-AI ordering rate and also built a restaurant sentiment analysis product at Wisely that they say became a standout feature in a $10M acquisition context.”

Poojitha MaheshShyla

Screened

Mid-level Java Backend Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Sunnyvale, CA5y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with Walmart experience building and operating high-volume media upload and processing systems. Strong in Java/Spring Boot, Postgres performance tuning (EXPLAIN/ANALYZE), and durable workflows using Kafka/Spring Batch with retries and idempotency, plus production ownership via monitoring and optimization; familiar with Next.js/TypeScript and modern React performance patterns.”

Yash Priyadarshi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems

Bengaluru, India2y exp

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer who built a Golang distributed key-value store on AWS using Multi-Paxos, WAL, and non-blocking gRPC replication (cutting write latency ~40%) and proactively addressed tricky failure modes like leader-election livelock. Also developed a Python/Kubernetes cost-optimization scaling engine deployed with Helm/Terraform, delivering ~$40K annual savings while sustaining 99.99% uptime, and drives contract-first API development (OpenAPI/Swagger) to speed frontend integration.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience shipping production features in both networking (Cisco: ACL object groups, 3G/4G) and fintech/online banking (PLAID, Auto Pay, OLB, membership qualification). Works primarily with React/Java/Hibernate and REST/JSON, emphasizing caching/memoization for UI performance and strong testing/XP practices to maintain quality under faster release cycles.”

“Data platform engineer focused on large-scale, real-time fraud systems, with hands-on ownership of streaming architectures using Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks. Stands out for combining performance tuning and platform automation with LLM/RAG-based enrichment, delivering measurable gains in latency, fraud accuracy, false positives, and analyst decision speed.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong enterprise delivery experience across manufacturing and semiconductor use cases, owning deployments from discovery through post-launch support. Stands out for combining traditional product engineering with applied GenAI workflows and data pipeline reliability work, including a manufacturing app that reportedly saved a Fortune 500 customer about $6M and an AI chat panel adopted by 70% of pricing analysts.”

“Interned at Zonda where he built an AI-driven semantic search solution over ~280M housing/builder records. Iterated from local LLMs via llama.cpp quantization to a vector-embedding retrieval system, then boosted semantic accuracy with a custom spaCy NER layer and re-ranking, optimizing for latency through precomputation. Collaborated with economics-focused stakeholders to reduce manual document/paperwork time by enabling natural-language search over internal data.”

“Data/ML practitioner with experience applying NLP and classical ML to large-scale customer data (2B+ records) for segmentation, prediction, and survey-text classification, delivering measurable business impact (~18% engagement efficiency). Has hands-on entity resolution across multi-source datasets and has built embedding-based semantic search using SentenceBERT + a vector database with domain fine-tuning (~20% relevance improvement), plus production workflow experience with Spark/Airflow and cloud tooling (AWS/Azure).”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience building a security integrations portal in Next.js (App Router + TypeScript), using server components and typed route handlers as a secure proxy to multiple third-party security vendors. Demonstrated ability to scale performance significantly (server-side re-architecture for 1M+ datapoint dashboard filtering; Postgres query tuning from 1–2s to <200ms) and to own features post-launch (reliability, caching/background sync, and rapid onboarding of new integrations) in a pre-Series B through post-Series C environment.”

Srinivas Matta

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in cloud-native web platforms

Paducah, KY4y exp

“Software engineer at Capital One who owned and shipped AI-driven personalization and internal insights dashboards end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration with feature flags and tight user feedback loops. Built a TypeScript/React + Spring Boot/Python document automation platform with compute-heavy NLP microservices, async workflows, and production-scale reliability/performance practices (Kafka/RabbitMQ-style queues, Redis caching, tracing).”