Vetted Software Engineers in the DMV

“Cloud-focused engineer experienced deploying and stabilizing complex production systems that span APIs, infrastructure, and automated workflows, with a strong observability and safe-release mindset (feature flags/canaries/rollbacks). Has hands-on, customer-facing incident leadership, including executing DR regional failover during an AWS us-east-1 outage to maintain service and reportedly save a client ~$10M.”

Javon Lee

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms and cloud-native systems

Baltimore, MD8y exp

“Engineer with startup CTO experience and recent hands-on full-stack work at Microsoft and Clarity, focused on compliance and AML workflow platforms for financial services. Stands out for building scalable data and audit systems that reduced manual processing and improved performance, while operating effectively in ambiguous early-stage environments.”

John Hoffman

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in Databricks, Spark, and AWS for government healthcare data systems

Windsor Mill, MD12y exp

“Python/AWS engineer focused on batch-processing and data workflows, including building reusable S3/boto3 utilities with reliability features and IAM-based auth. Has led low-risk legacy modernizations using parity testing plus a month of parallel production runs, and has owned production issues end-to-end (including fixing a client-side Excel macro) while contributing to significant AWS cost reductions (~$10k/month).”

“Customer-facing technical professional who designs solution architecture and builds PoCs for regulated customers, iterating via biweekly demos and direct feedback to reach production-ready implementations. Regularly delivers technical demos (~2/month for nearly a year) and partners with sales/customer-facing teams by refining technical implementations until they match customer requirements.”

“Backend/product-minded engineer from Ramp with strong travel-tech experience, having built an end-to-end booking platform integrating multiple external providers, policy enforcement, and reporting infrastructure. They also shipped an LLM-powered personalization workflow using embeddings and Google Gemini that cut trip planning time by 22%, and demonstrated strong production reliability instincts through circuit breakers, health checks, and schema-driven normalization.”

“Software engineer with Capital One experience contributing to shared internal “open-source style” JavaScript/React/TypeScript libraries (component library and hooks/utilities). Drove measurable performance gains (~25% improvement) by refactoring hooks to prevent unnecessary re-renders, and improved adoption via stronger documentation, testing (Jest), semver discipline, and code review/PR workflows; also stabilized a backend service by adding monitoring and automated tests in an unstructured project.”

“Backend engineer with strong payments and high-stakes transaction experience, including owning an Apple Pay/Google Pay integration via Stripe end-to-end in production for 100,000+ users. Particularly compelling for teams that need someone who can balance speed, security, and reliability in checkout or other sensitive backend workflows, and who has hands-on incident ownership in production.”