Vetted Web Development Professionals

jiayu Zhao

Screened

Junior Quantitative Analyst and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and web platforms

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with AI infrastructure experience who built an AI-driven video generation platform, focusing on an asynchronous FastAPI-based orchestration layer between user APIs and heavy inference services. Strong in production instrumentation and latency/concurrency optimization; actively learning ROS 2 but has not yet worked on physical robotics or ROS-based deployments.”

Joe Brannon

Screened

Executive IT & PMO leader specializing in digital commerce and enterprise transformation

Baton Rouge, LA19y exp

“IT leader with hands-on M&A integration experience (including day-one readiness) across notable brands (e.g., Billabong, Marucci Sports) and product-focused organizations (Oakley). Brings broad IT domain expertise (AI, business systems, digital sales technologies) and has worked with multiple startups; interested in joining an existing startup to help it scale rather than founding a new company.”

Reyna Wan

Screened

Intern Operations & Business Analytics professional specializing in supply chain performance

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Operations/project management intern with hands-on procurement and supply chain analytics experience: owned end-to-end sourcing and vendor negotiations for a 20,000 sq ft luxury estate and helped recover a project that was 2 months behind schedule. At DHL Supply Chain (Campbell’s account), built Power BI dashboards from WMS (Blue Yonder) data and used time studies to uncover a six-figure labor cost issue, influencing multi-stakeholder operational changes.”

Lizhuoyuan Wan

Screened

Junior Game Designer/Unity Developer specializing in systems and combat design

Boston, MA3y exp

“MMORPG numerical/economy designer who built and tuned a dual-currency system (gold/agate), progression gates, and late-game sinks using quantitative models (including exponential curves) and telemetry segmentation by player level/assets. Implemented engagement drivers like roguelike repeatable dungeons and weekly leaderboard rewards, and partnered cross-functionally to resolve economy risks such as item tradability to keep outputs stable and controllable.”

Vincent Chou

Screened

Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in Android frameworks and performance

4y exp

“System-level Android/Java engineer (Motorola) who owned and shipped production reliability fixes in critical services, including resolving a race condition in Android UserManagerService that allowed concurrent duplicate clone-profile creation. Strong focus on correctness, invariants, concurrency safety, and observability; ramping toward product/full-stack work (Next.js/React/Postgres) with solid architectural grounding.”

Adam Safran

Screened

Engineering Director specializing in platform modernization, microservices, and cloud reliability

Pleasant Hill, CA26y exp

“Former founder (ran a custom web development shop in Los Angeles) with extensive startup experience and a solid working understanding of the VC ecosystem. Helped build and scale a team at Turo from founding member to ~10 people, and is motivated by ownership, impact, and originating ideas—interested in the venture studio model and disciplined about rapid validation and execution.”

“Full-stack web developer with experience owning products from client discovery through launch and post-launch iteration, including a complete freelance build for an interior design firm and a large-scale React/TypeScript migration during an internship at Gateway Ticketing Systems. Stands out for balancing strong visual design with performance and SEO, and for improving emergency-use UX in an MVP product through flow simplification and A/B testing.”

“Founder-owner of BoostChat who built a production AI ticket-routing platform for service businesses, bridging Telegram customer chats to contractor workflows in Revolt with measurable gains in speed and satisfaction. Also stepped from QA analyst into a lead software engineer role at Con Edison, helping modernize a legacy mapping platform.”

“Frontend/full-stack product engineer with deep experience owning payment and subscription experiences across web, mobile, and BFF layers at SoFi. They helped shape the SoFi Plus subscription experience, including API contracts, observability, and complex membership state handling, and the launch was associated with roughly 200,000 new members over six months.”

Mark Parolisi

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in digital publishing and media platforms

Greater New York City Area, NY18y exp

“Engineering leader in digital media/news with 8 years leading globally distributed teams supporting 24+ consumer and internal web applications. Distinguishes himself as a hands-on player-coach who standardized tooling across teams, built an in-house authentication and entitlements platform, and led AI systems for newsroom draft generation and taxonomy workflows that improved efficiency and engagement.”