Vetted Software Engineers in the DMV

Joe Zayd

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and cloud-native platforms

Woodbridge, VA8y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has operated in a very lean startup setting, helping a non-technical founder turn an AI-focused education product idea into a shipped MVP in roughly six weeks. Also brings B2B SaaS experience from a real estate rental platform with payment flows and Experian-based background and credit check integrations.”

“Python backend engineer (BetterWorld Technology) who owns microservice systems end-to-end on Azure, including Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, and production monitoring/alerting. Has hands-on experience integrating SQL/NoSQL (including Cosmos DB with vector search/graph workflow) and has built a Kafka + Spark Streaming pipeline to Snowflake with a reported 40% latency reduction.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup SaaS experience building workflow automation and case management platforms for business operations teams. Strongest in Python, TypeScript/React, and PostgreSQL, with hands-on ownership from backend architecture and APIs to production deployment on AWS; notably helped reduce manual processing and improve customer turnaround times in a high-ambiguity scaling environment.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning enterprise financial services and biomedical AI systems. They’ve shipped React/TypeScript and Spring Boot products with measurable production impact, contributed to an AWS-deployed LLM/MCP service for governed research data on Synapse, and also built a zero-to-one AI-powered Terms of Service and privacy policy crawler from scratch.”

Michael Boodoo

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in secure web applications

Washington DC-Baltimore Area, USA10y exp

“Frontend engineer with experience spanning React/TypeScript architecture, third-party integrations, performance benchmarking, and UI animation/visualization. They described work on Angular-to-React migrations, enterprise API and PayPal integrations, a Gatsby-based 360 film project for Venezuelan filmmakers, and fixing a longstanding Washington Post bookmarks issue. Also noted holding an active US Secret Security Clearance.”

Kruti Mehta

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and FinTech analytics

Maryland, USA5y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, high-leverage approach to AI-assisted development: uses AI and multi-agent workflows aggressively for implementation and internal tooling, while maintaining strict human oversight for user-facing features. Stands out for treating agents like junior engineers, breaking work into actionable tasks, and combining robust testing, local E2E validation, and feature-flag rollouts to safely ship production code.”

Oladayo Ogundipe

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cybersecurity and AI-enabled web apps

Columbia, MD3y exp

“Frontend engineer with experience building user-facing React/TypeScript features in startup and security contexts, including live-stream clipping for collegiate sports video and organization-relationship graph visualizations. Has hands-on experience with Redux state management, CSS/UI debugging, and adapting visualization libraries like Sigma to product needs.”

“Fullstack product engineer with strong AI application experience, including a provider-agnostic LLM routing layer spanning Bedrock, OpenAI, and Hugging Face. They pair hands-on technical depth with product instincts, having shipped customer-facing chat and workflow features that reduced support tickets by 38% and cut approval processing time in half.”

Vishnu Priyan Sellam Shanmugavel

Screened

Mid-Level Applied AI Engineer specializing in LLM services, RAG, and OCR/NLP extraction

Arlington, VA4y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built and evolved a large-scale healthcare document processing system (OCR + LLM orchestration) in Python/FastAPI on Google Cloud (Cloud Run, GCS, Firestore), processing ~1.5M files per batch and tens of millions overall. Emphasizes reliability and operational safety via deterministic IDs, idempotent state machines, strong observability, and self-healing reconciliation, plus disciplined migrations using dual-run validation and incremental rollouts.”

chaitra putumbaka

Screened

Junior Data Scientist and Software Engineer specializing in ML and cloud applications

Leesburg, VA2y exp

“Backend engineer currently at Intuit Mailchimp working on transactional messaging infrastructure, with hands-on experience improving backlog-count latency through database redesign and sharding. Also has practical experience integrating Mailchimp capabilities into MCP-based AI workflows and previously worked on a financial-domain LLM chatbot using prompt design and RAG.”