Vetted Version Control Professionals

Yashodhar Pansuria

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in capital markets and trading systems

East Windsor, NJ12y exp

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in payment initiation/processing services built in Python/FastAPI, emphasizing reliability patterns (JWT/RBAC, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers). Has delivered AWS deployments on ECS (ALB, autoscaling, CI/CD to ECR) plus Lambda-based reporting, and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines with schema evolution and CloudWatch monitoring. Also modernized a legacy SAS reporting platform to Python/PostgreSQL with regression parity testing and parallel-run migration, and achieved a 70% SQL performance improvement.”

Vamshi Korra

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

Remote, USA5y exp

“Open-source React dashboard/visualization library maintainer focused on runtime performance and API clarity. Led a significant effort to eliminate severe render lag on large live-updating datasets through profiling-driven refactors (normalized state, memoized selectors) and locked improvements in with CI, linting, and documentation that reduced regressions and improved external contributor onboarding.”

“Early-stage product engineer who has shipped an AI-assisted workflow web app end-to-end, spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontend, Python-backed LLM APIs, Postgres analytics, and async backend workflows. Strong ownership after launch as well, including usage tracking, prompt and UX iteration, latency reduction, and measurable database performance improvements.”

“Project/program leader focused on large-scale enterprise technology rollouts in highly distributed restaurant environments, including POS, infrastructure hardware, mobile, and SaaS platforms across thousands of locations. Stands out for managing multiple concurrent implementations end to end while coordinating complex cross-functional teams, vendors, governance, and executive stakeholders.”

“Backend-leaning engineer at Coforge with strong experience in subscription lifecycle and billing platforms, combining PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Azure, Kubernetes, and messaging systems. Stands out for owning production systems end to end and driving an event-driven architecture shift that reduced failures by 30%+ and improved response times by 40%.”

“ML practitioner with a QA background who has built end-to-end ML pipelines for a health risk prediction use case (lifestyle + demographics), emphasizing robustness through strict data validation, leakage prevention, and cross-validation. Collaborated with a dietician to sanity-check predictions and refine feature interpretation for real-world practicality; has not yet deployed LLM/AI systems to production and has no hands-on orchestration framework experience but is willing to learn.”

“Frontend/platform-leaning engineer who owned a shared React component library (design-system style) adopted across multiple SPAs, with strong discipline around SemVer, deprecation strategy, and developer documentation. Also has backend/distributed-systems experience diagnosing and fixing a Kafka microservice race condition and has led prioritization/migration planning in an unstructured monolith-to-microservices environment (Centene).”

“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.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered financial/regulatory document analysis platform at State Street, combining fine-tuned transformer models with a RAG pipeline over internal knowledge bases. Owned the productionization stack (FastAPI, Docker, SageMaker, Terraform, CI/CD) plus monitoring for drift/latency/hallucinations, delivering ~40% faster analyst review and improved reliability through chunking/embeddings and grounding.”

HASHIM YAQUB

Screened

Staff Unity XR Software Engineer specializing in VR surgical training and haptics

Bath, UK12y exp

“Unity/VR developer with hands-on experience integrating Pupil Labs eye tracking on HTC Vive to make VR interactions and diegetic UI feel more natural, including building calibration directly into the app for different users. Developed multi-user applications at Fundamental VR using Photon PUN 2 for cross-platform networking, and leverages AI tools for debugging/optimization and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline troubleshooting.”

“Senior Unity/C# VR engineer building USAF training simulations in highly constrained, security-regulated environments. They’ve owned major systems end-to-end, including an offline-capable lesson/content pipeline that unlocked deployment at internet-restricted bases and a large-scale Photon multiplayer architecture syncing 500-1000 interactables per sim across Quest, Vive, and Varjo platforms.”

Bibek Poudel

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and E-commerce

Artesia, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning enterprise AI and e-commerce, including building an agentic orchestration platform and owning a RAG system pipeline at JP Morgan Chase. Stands out for combining React/Node backend delivery with LLM security work, RBAC-heavy system design, and practical SQL/query optimization in production.”

“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.”

“Significant contributor/maintainer to an open-source JavaScript event-tracking client SDK, owning API consistency/backward compatibility, high-load batching and retry/backoff improvements, and test/CI + documentation upgrades. Diagnosed production-like issues (missing events under load) via reproduction and logging, then reduced GC pressure and improved predictability with a ring-buffer-based batching redesign while actively triaging issues and reviewing PRs.”

“ML/AI engineer with defense and commercial analytics experience: deployed a real-time aerial object detection system at Dynetics (YOLOv5 + TorchServe in Docker on AWS EC2) with drift-triggered retraining and 99.5% uptime, tackling ambiguous targets and weather degradation. Previously at Fractal Analytics, built and explained a churn prediction model for marketing stakeholders using SHAP and delivered it via a Flask API into dashboards, driving a reported 22% attrition reduction.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with banking experience (M&T Bank) who has built a GPT-4 RAG system using LangChain and Pinecone to connect unstructured customer data with internal knowledge bases, improving accuracy and reducing manual lookup time by 50%+. Strong in entity resolution and productionizing scalable Python data workflows, including major performance wins by migrating bottleneck joins from Pandas to Dask.”

“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.”

“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.”

Ganesh Pittala

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native platforms

New York, USA5y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience at Walmart, Qualtrics, and American Express, shipping secure partner-facing API platforms and internal monitoring dashboards. Strong in AWS production operations (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Postgres, CloudWatch) plus rigorous testing/security practices, with measurable delivery and performance improvements (35% faster releases; ~30–40% latency reductions).”

“Analytics professional with hands-on experience building SQL/Python pipelines, customer ID mapping logic, and self-serve BI dashboards across marketing/CRM and regulated aviation reporting environments. Particularly strong in turning messy multi-source data into trusted reporting assets, with repeated claims of major efficiency gains, faster decision-making, and high-confidence stakeholder adoption.”

Will Long

Screened

Principal Gameplay Programmer specializing in game systems and cross-platform architecture

Remote, US16y exp

“Principal-level game engineer with deep Unity/C# systems experience who rebuilt a core procedural reels framework for long-term extensibility and partner-team adoption. Also stands out for early, hands-on AI/LLM gameplay work in a multiplayer text game, including NPC memory/personality systems, custom model deployment, and cost-scaled inference infrastructure, plus shipped VR RTS experience across Quest/Rift-era and mobile VR platforms.”

“Full-stack JavaScript engineer (React/Node/Vue) who has operated like a maintainer by owning an internal component library with Storybook-style examples, documentation, and non-breaking versioning. Demonstrated strong performance engineering on a source code review service—profiling bottlenecks, fixing N+1 queries, adding caching, and trimming payloads to cut latency (e.g., ~100ms to <50ms) while rolling out incremental, test-backed improvements.”

Faisal Vora

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in medical imaging and healthcare AI

Centreville, VA3y exp

“Early engineer at a 13-person pre-seed medical imaging startup who helped professionalize engineering practices and personally drove the software side of an FDA approval after stepping into a leadership gap. Also built a 3D MRI viewer and integrated AI-based tumor detection for clinician users, combining regulatory, backend, and frontend execution in a highly constrained startup environment.”

“Music editor/mixer and composer focused on longform video, with examples of tightly syncing bespoke jazz scoring to action beats and using subtle dissonance to dial up anxiety per producer direction. Comfortable with professional post-production workflows (OMF/AAF, mix templates, deliverable submix routing) and multi-format mixing including stereo, 5.1, and 7.1.4 Atmos.”