Vetted Web Development Professionals

Kieran Clare

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Senior Game Developer specializing in web-based slot games and JavaScript engines

Burton Upon Trent, UK8y exp

“Unity/VR developer who built a game-jam puzzle platformer (“Splitting Image”) largely solo, centered on a mirror-based clone mechanic. Comfortable adapting to different VR headsets and team structures, and prefers hands-on problem solving over relying on AI tools.”

Alexander Mammele

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Senior Technical Designer/Engineer specializing in Unreal Engine and AR/VR interactivity

Manchester, NH9y exp

“UE5 Blueprint-focused gameplay developer who shipped a VR rhythm title (Starwave), owning the player-facing star-hit interaction/feel and iterating heavily through playtests without dedicated QA. Also designed a modular tutorial/quest system by decomposing quests into reusable components so writers could assemble content independently, and has experience debugging Unreal Nav Mesh pathing issues that impacted gameplay and load times.”

Sai Srujan Vemula

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Java/Spring Boot and React on AWS

CT, USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Meta System and DXC, owning end-to-end delivery of a shipment visibility portal (React UI in Liferay DXP + Java/Spring Boot REST APIs) with Dockerized deployments and automated test coverage. Has hands-on AWS work across EC2/Lambda/S3 and multiple databases (DynamoDB, RDS, Neptune, DocumentDB), plus built a Python/Flask data migration platform with validation for correctness and repeatability.”

“Senior motion designer/creative producer with 15 years of high-end motion, video, and photography experience, including 9 years at Inovalon building enterprise brand systems. Known for translating complex healthcare journeys into polished explainer content and for scalable, modular frameworks that empower large teams (300+ employees). Also integrates generative AI (Weavy + Figma) trained on brand guidelines and original photography to maintain brand consistency at high output volume.”

Sloan Caplan

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Executive Manufacturing & Operations Leader specializing in strategy, MRP, and growth

Lancaster, PA29y exp

“Operations-focused leader/advisor who has spun up and redirected an internal startup into a standalone division with full P&L ownership, introducing tech-enabled order tracking and a weekly management operating cadence. Experienced driving change in legacy environments through transparency and KPI-driven execution, with additional advisory work supporting founders/executives through M&A and working-capital/inventory discipline.”

kieran mcgovern

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Senior Software Developer specializing in Unity VR and mobile apps

London, United Kingdom17y exp

“Unity/VR developer who shipped a Meta Quest wireless conversion of a previously wired VR product, owning research, network troubleshooting (2.4 vs 5 GHz), performance tuning, and reworking hand tracking. Also built a British Airways cabin crew training application largely solo and deployed it across iOS, Android, PC, WebGL, and Web Player with platform-specific optimization strategies.”

Anupam Sistla

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development, cloud, and automation

2y exp

“Robotics software engineer who built an autonomous debris-clearing rover software stack end-to-end using ROS 2, Python/OpenCV, and YOLOv3, with strong emphasis on real-time reliability (latency instrumentation, stale-data handling, watchdog fail-safes). Also implemented a Docker CI/CD deployment system for remote Raspberry Pi timelapse devices, distributing updates via AWS S3 to handle intermittent connectivity.”

“Two-time founder and former CTO/CPO who has shipped and operated full-stack products solo, including a real-time community platform (Twitter/Slack-like) with Next.js/TypeScript, WebSockets, Redis, and strong post-launch analytics (PostHog/Sentry). Also built durable multi-step AI-agent workflows using Inngest with state machines, checkpointing, and validation gates, and has hands-on Postgres performance tuning experience validated via EXPLAIN ANALYZE.”

Pranav Zagade

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI systems

Arizona, USA3y exp

“Built and shipped an LLM-powered support agent for Community Dreams Foundation that automated intake and Jira ticket creation using RAG, structured outputs, and strong production guardrails. Demonstrated practical production AI experience with 92% routing accuracy, 98% uptime, and a 31% improvement in first-response accuracy, plus hands-on work in observability, evals, idempotency, and failure handling.”

“Full-stack product engineer in a high-growth startup environment who led a revenue- and retention-driving Loyalty Pass feature end-to-end using Next.js App Router, TypeScript, and Postgres. They pair strong frontend performance instincts with backend reliability work, including Stripe-based onboarding/billing refactors, idempotent workflows, and production observability.”

“Built a production LLM/RAG document extraction and game/quiz content workflow using LLaMA 2, LangChain/LangGraph, and FAISS, achieving ~94% accuracy and reducing turnaround from hours to minutes. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps/orchestration (CI/CD, MLflow, Databricks/PySpark), robust handling of noisy/variable document layouts (layout chunking + OCR fallbacks), and practical reliability practices (human-in-the-loop routing, drift monitoring, A/B testing).”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“New-grad backend engineer who built a real-time genome analysis pipeline, replacing a slow batch system with an event-driven distributed architecture in Python/Redis and a React progress dashboard. Reports ~6x improvement and cutting analysis time from days to hours with zero data loss under peak load, emphasizing reliability patterns like retries and idempotency plus API security (JWT/RBAC/HTTPS).”

“Paid media performance marketer managing $50K+/month spend across Meta and Google for eCommerce and lead-gen, with a strong creative-testing orientation (UGC/video vs static) that produced ~25–30% lower CPA and ~35% higher ROAS when scaled. Builds full-funnel systems across Meta/TikTok (demand gen) and Google Search/PMax (high-intent capture), using marginal ROAS/CPA, frequency-based fatigue signals, and statistically grounded testing to scale or cut campaigns.”

“Software engineer experienced delivering customer-facing, real-time industrial monitoring dashboards (motors/shafts/turbines) by partnering directly with end users to refine charts, alerts, and performance. Strong in API/platform integrations and production troubleshooting—uses feature flags, logging, validation/mapping, containerization, and performance testing to keep systems stable while iterating quickly.”

“Backend/cloud engineer with hands-on ownership of a climate data extraction pipeline (BeautifulSoup + Pandas ETL + CRON) that automated 50k+ monthly data points and removed ~20 hours/week of manual work. Also built a multi-AZ Kubernetes deployment for a Node.js system using Terraform and GitHub Actions (blue-green, rollbacks) and has Kafka/FastAPI experience from a healthcare plan management project.”

“Computer science-oriented builder developing an iOS receipt-splitting app for real users (roommates), focusing on login security, receipt history storage, and future web access for broader usability. Demonstrates a practical, customer-facing mindset with structured integration/debugging practices (Dockerized environments, incremental testing, rollback strategy) and prior experience in communication-heavy retail/bakery roles.”

“Marketing designer with experience across education (Perfection Learning), member benefits platforms (National Purchasing Partners), healthcare marketing (San Francisco Health Plan), and Autodesk—spanning high-polish print/digital creative, scalable Figma design systems, and rapid multi-channel video production. Known for building modular component/template libraries that enable high-volume output while maintaining brand consistency and clarity, and for collaborating effectively with growth/UA and product teams in remote async workflows.”

“Game design capstone project owner who built and tuned a full steal/sell/upgrade progression economy for a house-robbery game, including item weight/value balancing, upgrade pacing, and difficulty gates (police/NPC detection). Iterated via playtests and basic telemetry signals (purchase rates, item selection) and implemented a code-driven item attribute system to speed tuning, while also negotiating scope tradeoffs with the team around adding minigames.”

Lincoln Oh

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Mid-level Full-Stack/MES Software Engineer specializing in manufacturing systems

Glendale, KY5y exp

“Software engineer with hands-on experience delivering production-floor applications in manufacturing environments: built a PDA-friendly web app integrated with Oracle PL/SQL and deployed it on-site in a live warehouse, then iterated via tight feedback loops. Also rebuilt a broken assembly QR label printing workflow as a WPF Windows desktop tool and rolled it out across factory processes with operator training; additionally built a TypeScript/Node/Express/MongoDB app deployed on AWS (EC2/S3).”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, low-latency event processing for market data and social-signal sentiment systems. Has led a monolith-to-event-driven migration with feature-flagged incremental rollout, and emphasizes production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, secrets management, Supabase RLS) and data integrity (deduplication/idempotency) under high-volume spike conditions.”

“UK-based Unity developer who served as the sole developer building VR training scenarios for the oil & gas industry, deploying to Meta Quest and Pico 4 via OpenXR. Experienced translating complex real-world procedures (e.g., offshore rigging/lifting) into interactive VR flows using storyboards, C# scripting, and iterative client testing; also built a Unity web-based SCORM-compliant training course integrating with a SCORM backend via JavaScript.”

“Software engineer with end-to-end ownership of a Qt/C++/QML desktop app for monitoring/configuring equipment, including hands-on UI performance optimization. Also built a web-based AI agent interface (React/TypeScript + Python Flask) with strong API contract discipline and async state handling, and improved microservices reliability using idempotency, DLQs, and observability. Created an internal CI/CD automation tool adopted across engineering and operations teams, adding safer rollbacks and better error messaging based on feedback.”

“Co-founder at Skoolive who built a multi-agent LLM application to help users understand complex research papers (including PDF interaction and flowchart-style representations), moving from prototype to production using Gemini SDK and deployment to Runway. Also developed and demoed a web-agent benchmarking framework, running hands-on sessions with customer-facing teams to improve agent reliability and drive adoption.”