Vetted Web Development Professionals

MichaelJose Oakes

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Unity/XR Engineering Manager specializing in real-time interactive and multiplayer experiences

9y exp

“Unity Technologies engineer with direct Meta subcontract experience shipping Quest titles (Horizon Worlds projects like Super Rumble) and supporting third-party studios. Strong in VR performance optimization and modernization work—porting legacy OVR/older-Unity projects to OpenXR, URP, and hand-tracking inputs. Built a master’s dissertation cross-platform multiplayer FPS spanning Quest VR, PC, and mobile AR using Photon.”

“Backend engineer who evolved the X-Ray gaming analytics platform, leading a zero-downtime MongoDB→AWS DocumentDB migration with dual-write, checksum-based validation, and Kubernetes canary rollouts while maintaining real-time monitoring for millions of concurrent sessions. Strong in FastAPI/Python API scaling and performance tuning (cut latency from ~2s to <150ms and reduced DB load 90%) plus production-grade auth/RLS security patterns (JWT, Supabase Auth, PostgreSQL RLS).”

Jenya Rusinova

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Mid-level Frontend Engineer specializing in cloud enterprise applications

East Palo Alto, CA3y exp

“Frontend-focused product engineer with experience owning production launches in observability/monitoring, including extending an existing web-only service to support mobile users without disrupting current customers. Stands out for balancing speed and safety through feature flags, regional beta rollouts, bug bashes, and close collaboration with PM, design, and backend teams in ambiguous environments.”

“Backend/data engineering candidate with Netflix experience designing and migrating analytics platforms from batch to real-time streaming (Kafka/Flink) across AWS and GCP. Delivered measurable improvements (40% lower data delay, 99.9% accuracy) using phased rollouts, automated data validation (Great Expectations), and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and proactively hardened pipelines with idempotency to prevent duplicate Kafka processing.”

Andrew Liang

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI/ML systems

2y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Amazon and Agora building end-to-end systems: a knowledge-base AI chatbot (React/TypeScript UI + retrieval/response backend + Docker deployment) and an internal approval governance platform using AWS Step Functions and DynamoDB. Emphasizes fast iteration without sacrificing trust via feature-flag rollouts, citation-required answers, abstention on low-confidence retrieval, regression query sets, and strong observability (request IDs, structured logs, latency/error monitoring).”

Likhitha Bethi

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, distributed systems, and applied AI

Stony Brook, NY4y exp

“Goldman Sachs engineer who owned end-to-end features for an internal onboarding and case management platform, spanning React/TypeScript UI, a GraphQL gateway, and Node + Spring WebFlux microservices. Built and operated a Kafka-based ingestion and search pipeline with DLQs, retries, idempotency, and strong observability, and improved developer experience via backward-compatible GraphQL API design and schema-driven documentation.”

Andrew Hoyt

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Executive technology leader specializing in SaaS, cloud platforms, and enterprise engineering

Atlanta, GA14y exp

“Enterprise software CTO with rare breadth across deep architecture, large-scale org leadership, and AI transformation. He has led 250+ teams at Aderant and previously a 2000-person global engineering org at NCR, while still personally driving re-architecture, prototyping, debugging, and AI-native product innovation across legal, retail, and restaurant platforms.”

“Operations and growth-oriented leader who helped build McMaster-Carr's first international sales/export function, then evolved the role into UK market growth and digital marketing. Combines cross-border operational expertise with hands-on customer experience analysis, team management, and UI/UX-driven process improvement.”

“Engineer with a rare mix of Android, backend, and AI workflow automation experience, spanning Amazon Flex mobile features and legal-tech document automation. Built a globally used in-app recording pipeline at Amazon and previously helped cut immigration legal drafting time by ~50% through AI-assisted document parsing, form filling, and human-in-the-loop review.”

“UI/UX and product-minded designer with experience shaping digital products from concept to launch across telecom and higher education. Notably pitched a new Globe Telecom app that became the basis for the product after joining, helped launch it within five months, and contributed to a 4x subscription lift through A/B-tested in-flow upsell design.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on architecture depth who has managed offshore teams up to ~30 engineers across mobile, web, backend, and Roku. Particularly strong in applying AI pragmatically—driving code-generation and review workflows, tailoring model usage by tech stack, and building internal LLM/RAG tools—while also improving operational KPIs through automation, cost optimization, and workflow redesign in content/media environments.”

Edward Herdemian

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Executive product leader specializing in FinTech, commerce, and marketplace platforms

Phoenix, AZ17y exp

“Product leader from JPMorgan Chase who built a shopping organization from essentially a PM-and-designer starting point into a 50+ person cross-functional team supporting experiences for 30M+ cardholders. While not yet owning a customer-facing AI product, they bring thoughtful experience using internal LLM tools to shape product strategy and a strong human-centered perspective on AI, trust, and UX simplification in complex enterprise environments.”

“Senior product leader at Squarespace overseeing the core website creation experience, with a standout track record in AI-powered product innovation and editor UX. They led major initiatives like Blueprint AI and Fluid Engine, combining user research, experimentation, and cross-functional leadership across a ~100-person org while developing PM talent and championing a human-centered AI philosophy.”

“Machine learning software engineer intern experience at Amazon, where they built a production testing framework to inject frames/videos onto devices to measure embedded CV model inference and ensure broad model compatibility via automatic NNA metadata handling. Also built side projects spanning LLM/RAG orchestration (LangChain/LangGraph with reranking and citations) and applied CV/healthcare work (nail disease detection, medical retrieval chatbot).”