Vetted Visual Studio Code Professionals

Uvesh Chauhan

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI and cybersecurity platforms

New Delhi, India6y exp

“Builder of multiple AI products including Nova-Core, a multi-model assistant using Grok and Gemini, and Lumina Shield, a prototype for vulnerability detection and performance analysis that routes findings into Nova-Core for explanation and fixes. Also created a desktop voice agent ('Soul') and brings 6 years of experience in a non-profit audio consultancy, with a personal story of being a cancer survivor motivated by purpose-driven work.”

“Project lead who restored a 1999 vintage museum robotics exhibit by inventorying and integrating legacy systems, reverse engineering original behavior, and reimplementing it in a modern codebase. Notably optimized Tesseract OCR and machine-vision pipelines to run on a 400MHz Pentium III with 256MB RAM while bringing up and tuning degraded FireWire IIDC cameras using scarce legacy documentation.”

“Unity developer who built a multiplayer system for a game called Drift using Photon PUN, including backend API integration for authentication, score tracking, and live leaderboards. Has experience optimizing real-time sync for WebGL and automating data-to-ScriptableObject pipelines via a custom C# CSV importer generated with ChatGPT.”

Xavier Thomas Arpa Lopez

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Mid-level Unity Game Developer & Game Designer specializing in mobile and educational games

Málaga, Spain5y exp

“Unity game developer who built the economic system for an idle game (Hospital Empire), using spreadsheet-driven planning and iterative stat tuning to shape player feel. Has experimented with multiplayer networking via Mirror on an FPS prototype and uses GitHub Copilot to support modular/OOP-oriented planning and implementation; prefers remote/flexible work.”

Maham Saleem

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Senior Game Developer specializing in Unity, multiplayer, and AR/VR

Bahawalpur, Pakistan8y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with strong ownership of real-time multiplayer systems, highlighted by building the server-authoritative Photon Fusion architecture for Kawamon.io end-to-end. Brings a useful mix of multiplayer networking, mobile/VR optimization, and AR pipeline experience, plus technical leadership through code reviews, standards, and mentoring.”

“Software engineer with hands-on hardware/software crossover work: led an EMG circuit project using PSpice simulation and MATLAB-based data processing. Also contributed to an agriculture research computer-vision effort (hens/eggs tracking), building a PyTorch inference program and boosting model accuracy by ~10–20%, plus limited ROS 2 Humble exposure on an autonomous EV model with LiDAR/camera detection.”

“Frontend-focused contractor who contributed to Manitoba Hydro’s digital transformation by helping build and document an accessible design system with WCAG standards baked in, improving team efficiency through reusable components. Also delivered a Webflow CMS-driven Capoeira site (dynamic events/profiles) and shipped updates iteratively under tight timelines with strong QA and accessibility practices.”

“Diploma-trained in Cinematography and Sound Design (European Film College, Denmark) with hands-on, end-to-end videography experience. Recently shot and post-produced a 30-minute promotional documentary about building a professional race track in Tennessee for Rogers Group Inc., operating as the primary camera/drone operator and editor/sound mixer on a small crew. Comfortable with travel, non-traditional hours, and immediate start near Greater Boston.”

Rastko Nozinic

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in enterprise web applications

Novi Sad, Serbia18y exp

“Full-stack product engineer who built an AI-powered translation service end-to-end for an enterprise e-learning platform, including Angular/TypeScript frontend, Java/Spring Boot backend, Claude API integration, and a custom cost/usage dashboard. Unusually, they also bring a Master's in Architecture and 10+ years as an architect/interior designer, which they leveraged to lead a full UI/UX overhaul that became the platform's visual identity.”

“Full-stack developer who has led end-to-end delivery of web applications using React/TypeScript with Node/Express and SQL databases. Notably modernized a legacy Java applet ERP system by redesigning it in React, iterating based on user feedback to balance new UX improvements with existing user workflows.”

“Customer-facing engineer from Popular Tech who built and deployed tailored AI/automation features for enterprise voice systems. Experienced in integrating customer workflows via APIs, handling live production latency incidents through log tracing and rapid stabilization, and validating solutions through phased rollouts, monitoring, and direct on-site collaboration with clients.”

“Early engineering hire at The Coaching Market (B2B2C e-learning startup) who owned re-engineering core REST APIs (FastAPI) and shipping an enhanced Next.js UI, plus automating most deployments via CircleCI/Vercel. Strong in data-driven iteration (surveys/Jira/Slack + Google Analytics, A/B tests) and reliability/performance improvements with measurable impact (30% less downtime, 40% faster releases, 25% faster loads).”

Hitha Sunkara

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Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in web apps and machine learning

Long Beach, CA3y exp

“Built and organized SQL databases for a grocery pricing update backend and has hands-on experience designing FastAPI/Python APIs with security controls like authentication, RBAC, and strict validation. Also brings research experience identifying real-world failure modes (weather-driven sensor/model inaccuracies in MSE wall corrosion work) and adapting models to improve robustness, plus UI design support on an email-restricted campus hackathon enrollment flow.”

“Software engineer actively using AI-first development workflows, including Cursor, prompt engineering, and multi-agent setups, to dramatically compress development time. Most notably, they say they built a Regression Optimizer product end-to-end from scratch and used multi-agent approaches to improve troubleshooting and response quality.”

“Undergraduate Research Assistant at Virginia Commonwealth University with exposure to autonomous vehicle and UAV platforms in the Open Cyber City lab, assembling and setting up Duckiebots/Duckiedrones. Built introductory ROS 2 Python projects (ping-pong pub/sub and services) and has some experience setting up Docker for Duckietown-based robotics environments.”

Mayank Chauhan

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Junior Frontend Developer specializing in React/Next.js dashboards and UI components

Windsor, Canada2y exp

“Recent University of Windsor student who led end-to-end frontend development of a web product called Helpify, treating it like a real-world build. Emphasizes scalable React + TypeScript architecture (JSON-driven rendering, reusable utilities, custom hooks), quality processes (GitHub reviews, cross-device testing), and performance/accessibility monitoring with Lighthouse.”

“Full-stack engineer working on a medical practice SaaS, who owned an end-to-end charge entry module handling patient charges/payment workflows and complex client-side data transformations. Also built a fintech rating platform with real-time WebSocket streaming and TradingView-based charting, and has 10 years of university experience mentoring student "startup" capstone projects under tight deadlines.”

“Web3 growth/content marketer focused on DeFi/RWA who uses guerrilla distribution across Discord/Telegram/Reddit and highly technical research content to drive credibility and conversions. Notably launched Tide from a brand-new X account to 18k+ impressions and built an 80+ person waitlist pre-product, and for Astralane produced technical research that was reposted by Solana founder Anatoly—helping attract high-value users and enabling partnerships with trading bots.”

Aldrin Azucena

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in web apps, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada4y exp

“Frontend engineer (~4 years) who led an admin dashboard for potato farmers end-to-end, integrating real-time and historical weather data to drive disease-severity predictions. Built scientifically validated calculation pipelines (FAO Penman-Monteith, late blight models), rigorous Cypress/unit testing, and print/PDF-ready reporting, while optimizing performance and API load with debouncing, caching, and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping production systems across semantic search, RAG/LLM applications, and computer vision. Built a personalized e-commerce search platform with measurable relevance and latency gains, and deployed grounded GenAI chat systems that significantly reduced hallucinations while lowering support burden. Also brings edge-deployment experience in monocular depth estimation and 3D reconstruction, suggesting strong breadth across modern applied AI.”

“Undergraduate candidate with hands-on academic experience in data analysis, epidemiology, and Python-based projects despite limited formal startup or sales exposure. Has worked with real research and survey datasets, built data visualizations and a personal finance summary tool, and shows strong coachability and willingness to learn applied tools like Pandas and SQL in a professional setting.”