Vetted Web Application Development Professionals

Frank Albanese

Screened

Executive CTO & Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and distributed systems

New York, NY10y exp

“Founder of Essence, a wisdom and memory preservation platform with early testing indicating mental health benefits and positive impact for hospice patients. Has raised $25K to date and reports prior capital-raising experience through Y Combinator and the Berkeley Angel Network, with a GTM plan starting in hospice and expanding to the general public.”

“Full-stack web developer with experience building sophisticated browser applications in three very different domains: e-commerce for agents/farmers, AI-assisted medical imaging for Alzheimer's detection, and factory shopfloor management. Particularly notable for owning a complex manufacturing UI with real-time data, dashboards, alerts, and a microservices/event-driven architecture approach.”

“Frontend engineer/product lead with experience building a Tableau-like data visualization dashboard at StradigiAI, including a scalable SQL-like query/filter approach for high-volume data. At LogMeIn/GoTo, migrated a TypeScript React product from Redux to React Query with shared state abstractions across web, Electron, and React Native, and helped leverage a design system to support a rapid company rebrand.”

“Built and deployed a scalable, production-ready LLM knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (LangChain + vector store/FAISS) to replace keyword search for internal documents. Demonstrates hands-on expertise in hallucination reduction and retrieval quality improvements through semantic chunking, similarity tuning, prompt design, and human-in-the-loop validation, plus strong stakeholder communication via demos and visual explanations.”

“Marketing analytics candidate who combines strong SQL data engineering with Python automation to turn messy GA4, Instagram, and Postgres data into reliable reporting and decision tools. They’ve built cohort- and retention-based measurement frameworks that shifted teams away from vanity metrics, improved campaign allocation, and drove roughly 30% better two-week retention.”

Nicholas Shellabarger

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed FinTech systems

Denver, CO13y exp

“Founder of an early-stage startup who has already raised initial capital through a SAFE and built the platform with minimal funding. Demonstrates practical knowledge of VC and accelerator fundraising, a deliberate equity-preservation strategy, and is now seeking additional financing to create runway and scale the business.”

Romain Delamare

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in microservices and web applications

Montpellier, France10y exp

“Developer who treats AI as a junior collaborator, using it to accelerate mobile app feature development and UI/UX iteration while retaining architectural and implementation ownership. Has hands-on experience with specialized agents, multi-agent collaboration, and supervisor-agent patterns, suggesting practical fluency in AI-native development workflows.”

“Startup-focused tech leader with 20+ years of experience who has led engineering teams across multiple startups and pitched inside VC firms. Currently building infrastructure for managing physical wealth—creating a canonical data layer that integrates with wealth management systems to account for precious metals and other tangible assets—and is prepared to raise capital to align with the right partners.”

Sangat Shah

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and React/Node.js

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a serverless AWS platform for large-scale live screening events with real-time chat/feedback and streaming (API Gateway/Lambda/DynamoDB/WebSockets/IVS, IaC via Pulumi). Led production refactors and phased migrations using feature flags and dual-write strategies, and has hands-on experience implementing JWT auth, RBAC, and database-enforced row-level security for multi-tenant systems.”

Brad Marshall

Screened

Executive Technology Consultant specializing in Microsoft BI and Azure cloud migrations

29y exp

“Has experience working with venture capital firms evaluating target companies for potential acquisitions, focusing on technology maturity, technical stack, and team/human resources assessment.”

“Candidate is targeting a CTO Venture Studio role and positions themself as a technical partner to founders rather than a founder personally. They demonstrate strong fluency in early-stage startup evaluation, especially around validating whether a product truly tests the business hypothesis and whether the underlying technology can scale significantly.”

Sarah Johnson

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in web applications for aerospace and insurance

8y exp

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building complex React/TypeScript workflows in insurance and interactive Cesium-based geospatial applications. Stands out for combining UI implementation with business-rule enforcement, shared component library improvements, and pragmatic performance decisions across both frontend behavior and database design.”

“JavaScript engineer with open-source experience on a database visualization library, focused on real-time rendering performance for large datasets (virtualized DOM rendering, requestAnimationFrame/debouncing, memoization) and on raising project quality via tests and CI performance benchmarks. Also built Kafka-based messaging documentation and sample producer/consumer apps to speed onboarding, and has experience diagnosing production issues including concurrency-related duplicate data problems.”

“QA professional with end-to-end ownership who combines automated, rule-based data validation (expected vs actual) with structured CAPA practices (5 Whys, Pareto, SOP updates, in-line checks, and hands-on training). Experienced coordinating multi-workstream QA timelines via centralized dashboards, weekly cadence, and escalations with third-party/global stakeholders.”

“Serial founder and fractional CTO with 8 companies founded and 3 exits, now looking to commit full-time to a venture-backable startup. Currently advising two startups that recently raised $400K friends-and-family and $1M pre-seed, and brings thoughtful perspective on venture-scale economics, team quality, and AI disruption risk.”

“Full-stack developer building Lynx Cafe, a React Native/Expo iOS app for coffee shop customer feedback, while using AI and multi-agent workflows to accelerate scaffolding, architecture, and backend migration. Stands out for treating AI like a junior engineering team—assigning specialized tasks, manually integrating outputs, and enforcing code quality, security, and architectural consistency.”

Sanmith Kurian

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack AI and FinTech systems

Remote, US4y exp

“Candidate applies a design-first approach to AI-assisted software development, using multi-agent setups across frontend, backend, and testing. They described building a multi-agent resume tailoring system and leading development of an AI-powered assessment interface for generating descriptive and MCQ questions, with architectural decisions including Redux for complex state handling.”

“Senior-level software engineer who uses AI pragmatically rather than blindly—leveraging Microsoft Copilot and LLMs for boilerplate, utility functions, and reusable React components while rigorously reviewing output for readability, reuse, and fit with project structure. Brings a strong maintainability mindset and prior experience reviewing code for junior engineers.”

“Built and launched his own free-to-play mobile trivia games (Unity/Xcode/Android Studio), monetizing through IAPs and multiple ad networks (AppLovin/Chartboost/AdMob). Combines hands-on implementation with growth and analytics rigor—Facebook Ads + ASO, and daily tracking of retention, crashes, conversion, and LTV:CAC—plus a clear approach to A/B testing and live events tooling.”