Vetted Web Development Professionals

Dan Gervais

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive technology leader specializing in big data, AI/ML, and SaaS platforms

Escondido, CA28y exp

“Hands-on IT/engineering executive who has led high-impact architecture changes and compliance-driven data systems. Notably built an internally developed columnar database at Troparé (with dual-support UI for legacy/new DBs) and shipped an MVP in 3–4 months with dramatic performance improvements, and previously delivered PCI/opt-out compliant deletion workflows while addressing DB performance and migrations.”

“Frontend engineer who built the full frontend for gameofstreaks.com using React/Next.js with an emphasis on responsive design, accessibility, SEO, and performance profiling. Has experience refactoring legacy HTML/CSS/JS sites into reusable React components and shipping quickly with unit tests, CI/CD, and branch-based deployments; also collaborates with designers in hackathon settings (e.g., an AI interview practice app).”

“Unity/C# engineer with hands-on experience building cross-platform VR/mobile prototypes at Verizon Labs, including a networked VR cinema and virtual office application. Particularly strong in performance engineering: they describe custom update architecture, shader work, and low-level iOS optimization that enabled 60 FPS while rendering HD video textures and running voice chat simultaneously. They also bring adjacent computer vision integration experience from Nomad-Go, with a practical focus on latency, inference/render separation, and data consistency.”

“Healthcare-focused software engineer/lead who has delivered customer-facing portals and internal call-center tools, including rebuilding a legacy Adobe Flash call center app into a modern TypeScript frontend with NgRx state management. Experienced leading onshore/offshore teams, integrating healthcare APIs, and driving adoption by visiting call centers to capture user workflows and bake them into regression testing—work that proved especially valuable during COVID-era shifts to video appointments.”

Greg Kissner

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Multimedia Producer specializing in marketing, promotions, and training content

Columbus, OH18y exp

“Experienced editor/motion graphics professional with deep Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects expertise spanning broadcast TV spots, music videos, social/web content, and feature-length films. Notably worked on the YouTube channel Black20—nominated for Best Web Series and awarded G4TV's "Kings of DotComedy"—with videos reaching millions of viewers.”

“Marketing motion/video creative with end-to-end ownership (storyboards, design, motion, edit) and a strong performance mindset (first-frame hooks, pacing, above-benchmark watch time). Built a scalable, compliance-safe Figma design system for a Merck vaccine website with locked components and medical/legal sign-offs, and produces high-volume multi-format social video via modular CapCut/After Effects templates in a fully remote, async workflow.”

“Brand and growth marketer with experience refining Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s brand across 62+ mall locations, using family-focused event programming to increase attendance and tracking results via ticket sales and website sign-ins. Brings 15 years in the entertainment/music/creator ecosystem, including artist representation and label deal experience, and applies that partnership mindset to multi-channel campaigns (owned web + third-party sites) and SEO-driven acquisition.”

“AI/ML infrastructure-focused engineer who has built production RAG systems from scratch (Supabase/pgvector + OpenAI embeddings) and iterated using formal eval metrics to improve retrieval quality. Also debugged real-time audio issues in a LiveKit-based pipeline by correlating packet loss with VAD behavior, and has deep experience building brittle, customer-specific financial platform integrations in Python/Playwright (2FA, redirects, token refresh, rate limits).”

“Backend engineer at Cerebrone.ai building cloud-native Flask microservices for an AI-driven automation platform on GCP (Cloud Run/App Engine), including dedicated inference services integrating OpenAI and internal ML pipelines. Demonstrated strong performance and scalability wins across Postgres/SQLAlchemy optimization, multi-tenant (healthcare/HIPAA-grade) data isolation, and high-throughput background processing with Celery/Redis/RabbitMQ, with multiple quantified latency/CPU/throughput improvements.”

“Software engineer with experience across TCS, Rakuten, and USC who has owned production integrations and data pipelines end-to-end. Notably improved a trading platform payment flow by replacing fragile polling with a webhook-driven status system with robust fallbacks, and has shipped LLM-assisted design-to-webpage automation plus evaluation-driven prompt iteration (NYT Connections).”

Lenny Lin

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud, distributed systems, and LLM apps

Champaign, IL3y exp

“Built and owned a hackathon project (Gritto) with a Python/FastAPI backend that routes user text through a sequence of Gemini agents to produce structured JSON outputs. Has hands-on production deployment experience using Docker/Docker Compose, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS App Runner, MongoDB, and secrets management (Doppler + migration to AWS Secrets Manager), plus implemented a chat-like experience via multiple HTTP requests when SSE wasn’t viable.”

Vikram Kini

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React, TypeScript, and microservices

3y exp

“Built and productionized an AI agent-based in-app assistant at ISAFE to guide users through document workflows, piloting with a partner school district and then rolling out across districts. Combines hands-on LLM/agent debugging (logs, fallback rates, state/context tracking) with strong technical demos and sales enablement through live workflows and pilot programs (e.g., Osceola School District).”

“Built and shipped LLM-powered agents including a production RAG research assistant that cut research lookup time from ~20 minutes to ~10–20 seconds using caching, retrieval thresholds, and citation-enforced grounded answers. Also designed multi-step, tool-calling workflows with stateful critique/revision loops and pragmatic monitoring (retry/schema-failure/low-confidence signals) plus normalization/validation layers for messy notes/spreadsheet-style data.”

“Cloud-focused platform/infrastructure engineer centered on AWS and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience building EKS environments via Terraform/Terragrunt, bootstrapping clusters with Cilium and ArgoCD, and integrating persistent storage and backup tooling like EFS/EBS CSI and Velero. While no longer focused on on-prem or hybrid operations, they also bring prior VMware/Hyper-V and migration-to-AWS experience, making them strongest in modern cloud platform engineering roles.”

Priyanshi Sharma

Screened

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

Parsippany, NJ4y exp

“Built and productionized a GenAI prompt-engineering solution to retrieve prevailing wages based on job/location selections, emphasizing accuracy through stricter prompt templates and validation. Hands-on in real-time production debugging using Splunk (callback tracing, verbose logging, header inspection) and experienced running developer-facing demos/workshops that helped drive marketplace API adoption.”

“LLM/agentic systems practitioner who specializes in moving demo-only assistants into reliable, observable, cost-controlled production services. Strong in real-time diagnosis of complex agent workflows (including tracing, loop detection, and guardrails) and in customer-facing enablement—running workshops, building tailored PoCs, and partnering with sales to close deals by proving reliability in high-risk pilots.”