Vetted Web Development Professionals

Robert Wheeler

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Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in cloud, AI/ML, and scalable product platforms

Manhattan, USA25y exp

“Technical leader and hands-on engineer with 20+ years of experience who has previously raised funding and exited a venture. Currently bootstrapping a new AI-direction startup with personal and family capital, leveraging structured financial planning and a relationship-driven approach to investor outreach.”

“Built an itinerary-planning startup MVP (LessGO) using React/TypeScript and a Node/Express backend integrating Google Maps and Gemini AI. Notably optimized Gemini latency from ~40 seconds to ~3 seconds through frontend caching, debugging, and model selection, and has TA experience supporting others with deployments and database connectivity.”

“Paid media/inbound marketer with experience managing high monthly ad spend in EMEA and Spain, including a regulated online betting environment. Built a content-led acquisition approach (YouTube/blog audience building) paired with remarketing and conversion campaigns, optimizing to CPL and lead quality while collaborating with CRM and external teams.”

“LLM/agent builder who has shipped production AI systems in the wellness space, including an LLM-powered food tracking product used by 5000+ users and a voice/call-routing onboarding workflow using LangGraph/LangChain with LiveKit and Twilio. Strong focus on practical reliability work: latency reduction, retrieval/embedding tuning, and CI-driven evaluation with simulations and metrics.”

“Frontend engineer with experience delivering complex, data-heavy React + TypeScript dashboards in financial services (Morgan Stanley), including React 18 migration and rigorous quality practices (~80% test coverage). Also improved an existing collaboration product (Heycollab) by reducing duplication and boosting performance ~30% using component modularization, API optimizations, code splitting, and virtualization; experienced with phased rollouts and feature flags for risk-sensitive releases.”

“Software engineer with BitSight experience owning and revitalizing a critical internal Entity Management Portal (Django/React), clearing 30+ backlog items and boosting internal workflow efficiency ~40% through performance re-architecture (Redis caching) and disciplined testing. Also built a collaborative chore management platform (React/FastAPI) emphasizing responsiveness (optimistic UI) and scalability (connection pooling, Docker), and improved microservices security by centralizing secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager across multi-cloud environments.”

“Built a live free-to-play web-based financial market simulation game (YouTube-channel stock market) as a hobby project, now serving 3000+ users. Implemented core F2P systems including gacha, timed progression gates, and analytics-driven monitoring of engagement and economy health using a TypeScript/Python stack with Redis and Postgres.”

“Software engineer with experience at PTC (Onshape cloud CAD) and Firebolt building customer-facing features end-to-end—from user research and prototyping (tooltips, CSV imports) through deployment and usage monitoring. Also handled urgent production crashes in a Flutter mobile app across iOS/Android by diagnosing state-management conflicts and shipping a stabilizing patch; enjoys hands-on, customer-facing work and travel.”

“Unity developer with experience shipping on Meta Quest, tackling VR constraints through disciplined shader/particle usage and a custom rendering approach that only draws visible quads. Builds systems with cross-platform portability in mind via abstraction layers (input/networking/UI) and is currently developing a 2D visual novel/strategy prototype emphasizing decoupled architecture and ScriptableObject-driven events.”

“QA engineer with Citibank experience owning mobile automation and cross-platform validation (Android/iOS), including push notifications, RBAC, and backend API/data sync checks. Demonstrates strong Cypress/JavaScript E2E expertise—stabilizing CI-flaky React tests via cy.intercept—and builds pragmatic GitLab CI pipelines with smoke/regression gating plus rich reporting (Cypress Dashboard, Slack).”

“Full-stack React/Next.js engineer focused on routing and data-fetching reliability, including handling slow/unreliable networks with loading states, retries, and request cancellation to prevent stale data. Has delivered measurable frontend performance gains (reported ~40% improvement in time-to-interactive) using lazy loading, memoization, and profiling with React Profiler.”

Subhash Krishnamoorthy

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Executive Technology Leader specializing in digital transformation, headless e-commerce, and cloud architecture

Chesterfield, VA25y exp

“Technology leader focused on business-aligned roadmaps and integration-heavy ecommerce platforms. Recently delivered an on-time launch for lutusooking.com (a premium Hamilton Beach brand) by coordinating UX/UI, component-based middleware, BigCommerce, Algolia search, personalization/recommendations, payments, and supply chain integrations, and later improved scalability via a Jitterbit iPaaS approach proven during Black Friday/Cyber Monday traffic.”

“Implementation/CS professional with enterprise account ownership in fintech/payments and ERP-integrated workflows (NetSuite, QuickBooks), including complex hybrid AP/mass pay setups and bidirectional sync challenges. Partners closely with Product/Engineering on integration plans and sandbox validation, and has driven expansion by upselling REST API automation beyond initial iFrame/ERP scope.”

“Candidate participated in Launch Factory's venture studio selection process, which introduced them to a formalized startup methodology, and then went on to found and recently exit their own business. They are highly motivated to keep building companies, with a clear emphasis on creating products that serve a community and validating market need through product-market fit.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience across React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Java/Spring Boot, operating containerized systems on AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2/RDS/S3) with strong observability (CloudWatch/Grafana). Notable for fixing a real checkout/order-placement failure end-to-end by adding frontend submission guards and backend idempotency with Redis + Kafka deduplication, then validating impact via technical metrics and business KPIs. Has also built Kafka-based integrations/pipelines with robust retry/backfill/reconciliation patterns in retail and banking contexts.”

“Built production LLM tooling focused on reproducibility and verification by enforcing JSON schemas and using multi-step checks with tools like Firecrawl and Perplexity. Also implemented the containerized infrastructure layer for a 9-agent app on K3s, dealing with rolling updates and uptime, and has experience advising a non-technical builder on search grounding and LLM data-flow design.”

“Full-stack engineer from HPE GreenLake who built and owned a cloud/hypervisor resource management experience end-to-end, including Postgres modeling, typed REST/GraphQL integrations, and resilient provisioning workflows. Drove a centralized Redux-based UI architecture that boosted dev velocity by 50% across 30+ teams, and continued post-launch ownership with DR integrations (AWS/GCP/Azure) plus expanded Cypress testing and observability.”

Shantrisse Broughton

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Entry-Level QA Tester specializing in game and web/app testing

1y exp

“Game QA tester with experience on multiple commercial (non-AAA) titles including Amateur Surgeon 4 (separate iOS/Android test plans), Desync, and Rick and Morty VR. Focuses on gameplay/performance risks and is known for clear, visual bug reporting (screenshots and hand-drawn visuals) to help teams reproduce and understand issues; worked in a structured QA org where supervisors handled developer-facing verification tracking.”

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Metasystems Inc. (and Qualcomm) building high-traffic, security-sensitive systems—owned a secure transaction processing module end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django, and React. Strong AWS production operations (EKS/ECS/Lambda/RDS/DynamoDB) with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), observability, and reliability patterns; also delivered resilient ETL/integration pipelines with idempotency/retries/backfills and achieved a 50% deployment-time reduction through CI/CD and modular refactoring.”

Bhakti Patel

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in .NET, Python, and cloud-native systems

Worcester, MA11y exp

“Full-stack engineer who owned an end-to-end production feature for a Piraeus Bank stock exchange module, spanning React/TypeScript, backend services, and cloud operations with Docker + CI/CD, delivering reported 90% faster API responses and improved uptime. Also built a Smartwound research MVP on AWS, creating a Python image-processing/scoring pipeline to ship despite unclear image-analysis specs.”

Laasya Muktevi

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Intern Machine Learning Engineer specializing in forecasting, NLP, and RAG systems

San Jose, CA5y exp

“Intern who built and deployed a production LLM-powered contract analysis system for finance teams: Azure Document Intelligence for text/table extraction plus Gemini prompting to surface key terms and risks via an async API and simple UI. Emphasizes reliability in production with fallbacks, guardrails against hallucinations, and operational concerns like latency/cost/versioning, delivering summaries in under 30 seconds instead of hours.”

“Serial founder with experience across both bootstrapped and venture-backed startups, including scaling Aloa past $1M in first-year revenue and raising $1.3M for Bracketology, a fantasy gaming platform for reality TV now in sale process. Combines sales, marketing, product, automation, and AI implementation experience, with exposure to WeFunder, Newchip, and 1871 as both participant and mentor.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on production-grade Python microservices and AWS platforms, including a hybrid Lambda + ECS Fargate architecture managed with Terraform and CI/CD. Has hands-on reliability experience (JWT/OAuth, timeouts, retries, centralized error classification) and built AWS Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines consolidating PostgreSQL/RDS, MongoDB, and S3 sources into curated partitioned Parquet datasets. Demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (8 minutes to 25 seconds) and disciplined legacy-to-modern migrations with parity validation and UAT sign-off.”