Vetted Vercel Professionals

“Backend engineer/technical lead with experience building and operating real-time blockchain analytics systems at Merkle Science. Owned high-traffic Django/DRF services and Kafka streaming pipelines processing millions of events daily, with deep focus on performance (N+1 fixes, indexing, caching) and reliability (DLQs, retries, monitoring). Also led containerization and Kubernetes/GitOps-style CI/CD on Google Cloud, including a migration off Google App Engine to reduce cost and improve scalability.”

“Serial entrepreneur since leaving corporate in 2009, working largely for equity on multiple startups. Building (1) academically rigorous, anti-overfitting quant/backtesting tools for retail investors (with potential applicability to smaller hedge funds lacking quant staff) and (2) a partner-led “social-as-a-service” platform for verticals like real estate/PropTech (including FSBO use cases) focused on first-party data capture vs. big tech.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned end-to-end production services for a fleet analytics/GenAI platform, spanning FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS + Lambda) event-driven workloads. Strong in reliability/observability (OpenTelemetry, circuit breakers, idempotency), data pipelines (Glue/Airflow/Snowflake), and measurable performance/cost wins (SQL 10s to <800ms P95; ~30% compute cost reduction).”

“AI/LLM practitioner at iFrog Marketing Solutions who drove a RAG chatbot from prototype to production in a legacy, AI-resistant environment by validating customer needs and building a business case. Implemented production-grade LLM practices (CI/CD eval gating, rollbacks, prompt/context engineering) and led internal workshops to bring non-AI-native developers up to speed while partnering with sales on tailored demos to drive adoption.”

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end builds for Toronto Insights properties, including a City Council voting records site and a business directory dashboard. Uses React/Next.js with TypeScript and Tailwind, sets up CI quality gates with GitHub Actions, and optimizes performance via Next.js caching and server components while collaborating closely with designers to translate Figma into polished, responsive UI.”

“Backend engineer who built and optimized a high-traffic e-commerce platform in Python/Flask, focusing on scalability and reliability through service decomposition, Redis caching, and Celery-based background processing. Also integrated an AI intent-classification chatbot as a separately deployable inference service on AWS and has hands-on experience designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies in PostgreSQL.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who ships AI-enabled products end-to-end: built CodeChat, a production internal codebase Q&A tool using RAG with Pinecone and a model-agnostic wrapper across OpenAI/Anthropic/AWS Bedrock, cutting AWS costs ~50% and latency ~45%. Also built and operated RealityStream, a Flask-based real-time forecasting API with JWT/RBAC, MLflow model versioning, and Prometheus/Grafana observability, including handling a real production latency incident via rollback, preloading, and caching.”

“QA engineer with Citibank experience owning mobile automation and cross-platform validation (Android/iOS), including push notifications, RBAC, and backend API/data sync checks. Demonstrates strong Cypress/JavaScript E2E expertise—stabilizing CI-flaky React tests via cy.intercept—and builds pragmatic GitLab CI pipelines with smoke/regression gating plus rich reporting (Cypress Dashboard, Slack).”

“Early engineer at a fast-growing startup who owned an AI-powered portfolio/site generation workflow end-to-end (frontend in Next.js App Router/TypeScript through backend orchestration). Emphasizes server-first security/performance (Server Components/Actions, revalidation), and production hardening with validation, caching, observability, retries/idempotency, and CI/E2E testing.”

“Former co-founder at PreConception (acquired) who partnered closely with Operations, Legal, and Medical teams to deliver a HIPAA-compliant product meeting technical and regulatory requirements. Motivated by mission and team fit, and interested in a Venture Studio CTO path with a focus on 0-to-1 building and early validation via beta testing/PMF.”

“Software engineer with Prudential Financial experience building enterprise Spring Boot microservices for policy/risk assessment, including integrating Python ML models via Flask and hardening services with resiliency patterns. Also led an AWS lift-and-shift modernization during an internship (EC2/ELB/Route53/Auto Scaling) and built a personal diffusion-model text-to-music project using BERT tokens mapped to Mel spectrograms.”

“Design engineer/product designer who built an end-to-end creator + review/moderation system for a UGC platform, spanning automated checks, human QA, final review, and creator feedback. Comfortable working directly with HTML/CSS/TypeScript and component systems, using prototyping and field observation to reduce reviewer hesitation, improve consistency, and prevent creator errors upstream.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on production-grade Python microservices and AWS platforms, including a hybrid Lambda + ECS Fargate architecture managed with Terraform and CI/CD. Has hands-on reliability experience (JWT/OAuth, timeouts, retries, centralized error classification) and built AWS Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines consolidating PostgreSQL/RDS, MongoDB, and S3 sources into curated partitioned Parquet datasets. Demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (8 minutes to 25 seconds) and disciplined legacy-to-modern migrations with parity validation and UAT sign-off.”

“Founding/solo engineer who rebuilt an early-stage product from the ground up: Ask NETA, an AI assistant for electricians to answer complex electrical code questions. Delivered a full-stack TypeScript system (React web + React Native iOS/Android, Express API, Postgres on AWS) with CI/CD, observability, and a Vertex AI RAG pipeline, reaching 3,000 MAUs in the first month; also built a real-time distributed scoring system handling unreliable hardware data with sequencing and retries.”