Vetted Web Development 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.”

“SDE who worked on an MGICS Lab robotics project building a multi-agent model to help agents understand tasks and generate robot instructions, emphasizing task-splitting, checking, and a reflection agent to improve accuracy. Also has experience using GitHub with automated CI/CD pipelines.”

“Backend engineer with experience building queue-driven Python/Flask systems using Celery, Redis/RabbitMQ, and SQLAlchemy/Postgres, including async/non-blocking architectures for concurrency. Also built a patient-facing full-stack app integrating LLMs (OpenAI/Claude) with streaming responses for real-time UX, and previously delivered high-throughput, reliability-critical background workflows at Dropbox (document expiration with batching, retries, and cache/side-effect handling).”

“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.”

“Data engineer/backend engineer who owns large-scale, real-time event pipelines on AWS end-to-end, including a petabyte-scale CDC ingestion flow from multiple Postgres DBs into Redshift. Re-architected a legacy DynamoDB+S3 approach into a Delta Lake + DuckDB/PyArrow-compatible design, improving performance dramatically (e.g., ~600s to ~10s for 1k records) and increasing reliability at high file volumes.”

Dylan Tang

Screened

Intern Software Developer and ML Researcher specializing in medical imaging and computer vision

Chicago, IL0y exp

“AI/ML practitioner with experience spanning audio/LLM applications (built "Iota" using Whisper, tiktoken, and a local Ollama-served LLM) and healthcare ML (Facemed.ai; UChicago Radiology). Demonstrates a production-oriented mindset—focus on data/model fit, deterministic field testing, and operational safeguards—and has improved research evaluation workflows via a hash-table-based concurrent model tracking approach.”

Chia-En Lu

Screened

Junior AI/ML Systems Engineer specializing in LLM infrastructure and distributed training

1y exp

“Built and shipped a production NMT system translating medical documentation for a rare/low-resource language, tackling data scarcity with retrieval-driven pattern matching plus dictionary/grammar- and LLM-based augmentation and validating quality with a linguistic expert. Also develops agentic LLM workflows with LangChain/LangGraph (including a deep-research style system) and has experience aligning medical AI deployments with clinician-defined risk metrics and human-in-the-loop decision making.”

Advitha Bawgi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

India1y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on IoT and AI product work: built a decoupled Raspberry Pi + AWS IoT Core weather monitoring backend and a Dockerized FastAPI LLM service on AWS ECS using OpenAI/HuggingFace with an emerging RAG layer. Also delivered measurable performance gains at DAZN by redesigning event-driven/serverless ingestion (SNS, S3->Lambda->DynamoDB), cutting latency ~30% and boosting throughput ~25% while automating ~90% of manual sync work.”

Shrey Kumar

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in web platforms and AI workflows

Dallas, TX1y exp

“Software engineer who built and shipped “Counsellor AI,” a production LLM-powered academic advising agent for college students using AWS Bedrock and grounded RAG over official university catalogs/policies. Emphasizes reliability through structured JSON outputs, multi-step orchestration with shared state, and strict intake/validation gates to prevent hallucinations and invalid academic plans; also has experience hardening messy telecom operational data pipelines with normalization, permissions, fallbacks, and idempotent patterns.”

John Ward

Screened

Executive Applications Development & Analytics Leader specializing in enterprise transformation

Chicago, IL30y exp

“Candidate has prior startup experience building systems and has firsthand experience with a venture that lost angel funding. They show thoughtful reflection on why the startup failed—emphasizing unclear success criteria, weak funding planning, and lack of team consensus—and would seek experienced advisors earlier in future ventures.”

“Candidate is not currently pursuing a startup and has no familiarity with the VC/accelerator ecosystem, but shows a thoughtful founder mindset centered on building from scratch, evaluating user impact and implementation feasibility, and avoiding financially reckless entrepreneurship.”

“Frontend/full-stack engineer with Chegg experience shipping signed-in and top-of-funnel Next.js experiences, including leading an account-sharing/device-management MVP integrated with a Java Spring Boot service. Stands out for strong rollout ownership, analytics-based validation, and pragmatic security/performance decisions in production.”

“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).”

Shreya Bhatt

Screened

Mid-level Digital Marketing Specialist specializing in growth and campaign operations

Texas, USA5y exp

“Candidate blends outbound sales fundamentals with digital marketing and performance optimization experience. They describe running regional multi-channel campaigns, using segmentation and behavior signals to drive a 7% conversion lift, and applying account research and stakeholder mapping to generate easier-to-convert leads.”

“Automotive software and OTA/infotainment platform leader who has repeatedly built new lines of business as an intrapreneur—most recently taking an infotainment app marketplace from concept to production in <7 months with $3M seed funding and delivering ~$200M ROI while scaling the team from 0 to 90. Deep hands-on experience solving OTA fragmentation across ECUs/telematics and multiple OS/backends, with 18 patent processes submitted; exploring an AI-driven platform to automate OTA software qualification and cut release cycles from 9–18 months to ~2 weeks.”

“Built and owned Prism, a real-time collaborative coding platform, making key architectural choices around deterministic event ordering and a backend source-of-truth to improve trust under concurrent edits. Also created a Python-based bug analysis and test automation suite that became part of standard engineering workflow, cutting debugging time by ~95% while improving fault detection coverage.”

“Backend engineer who built a Logistics-as-a-Service platform in Go, proactively refactoring a monolithic REST service into gRPC microservices to improve performance and maintainability. Led a 3-person team with disciplined code reviews, Dockerized DB migrations, and a canary-style rollout (5% traffic) monitored for latency and failures; also implemented JWT/OAuth2 RBAC and production-minded edge-case handling in an ordering system.”