Vetted Software Engineers in the NYC Metro

Dhananjay Dubey

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Senior Full-Stack Game Engineer specializing in multiplayer Unity and mobile systems

Newark, NJ6y exp

“Unity/C# game developer with hands-on experience shipping large-scale multiplayer mobile games, including titles cited at 1M+ and 10M+ downloads. Combines real-time networking and physics optimization expertise with AI/MR research experience, including an IEEE-published sports coaching system using pose estimation, SMPL-X, and LSTM models. Particularly strong in latency-sensitive, cross-platform interactive systems spanning mobile, multiplayer, and mixed reality.”

Rangel Koli

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Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in backend and cloud systems

New York City, NY1y exp

“Backend engineer who built and scaled a zero-to-one social product backend using Supabase (Postgres, Edge Functions, Auth, Realtime) plus Neo4j for graph-based friend recommendations. Demonstrates strong production rigor: staged rollouts with metrics, incident rollback/postmortems, and complex schema refactors using expand-contract/dual-write with reconciliation and feature flags. Notably proactive about edge cases like geo-boundary realtime delivery and idempotent retry safety.”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer who built a designer-driven, remotely configurable ability system using JSON configs hosted on PlayFab, including runtime tracking and pooled VFX to handle frequent casts. Has shipped contract VR/AR work (HTC Vive, HoloLens) with strong performance focus (90 FPS) and also understands mobile live-service constraints like KPI integrations, memory/build size, and battery/CPU optimization.”

Sachin Kulkarni

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, NLP, and AWS MLOps

New York, US3y exp

“Recent master’s graduate in robotics with applied experience across reinforcement learning and ROS 2 autonomy stacks. Built an RL-based drone vertiport traffic controller (PPO) focused on reward design and simulation integration, and has hands-on navigation work in ROS 2 including LiDAR preprocessing, SLAM/path planning, and stabilizing TurtleBot3 wall-following. Also brings deployment experience containerizing robotics nodes and scaling them with Kubernetes on AWS.”

Tarun Gowda

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Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI and multimodal RAG

Morristown, NJ3y exp

“Full-stack engineer who helped build and launch an internal genAI platform called GAIL, supporting multiple LLMs, confidential document upload for RAG pipelines, and collaborative chat. Worked across FastAPI, React/TypeScript, AWS/DynamoDB, and Azure, with notable ownership of backend RAG logic, MCP integration architecture, and frontend fixes that improved chat usability.”

Isha Harne

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in ML applications and LLM platform engineering

New York, NY1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who builds and scales customer-facing and internal AI products end-to-end (React/TypeScript/FastAPI/MongoDB) with strong product instrumentation and rapid MVP iteration. Built an AI-powered code review assistant adopted across teams and integrated into CI/CD, reducing manual review time by 30%+, and has hands-on experience with LLM retrieval/reasoning systems (LangChain + FAISS) and microservices scaling using RabbitMQ, Docker, and AWS.”

Frank Albanese

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Executive CTO & Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and distributed systems

New York, NY10y exp

“Founder of Essence, a wisdom and memory preservation platform with early testing indicating mental health benefits and positive impact for hospice patients. Has raised $25K to date and reports prior capital-raising experience through Y Combinator and the Berkeley Angel Network, with a GTM plan starting in hospice and expanding to the general public.”

Sai Prudhivi

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Mid Software Engineer specializing in full-stack microservices and cloud platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with experience building high-volume policy management and enterprise pricing systems, including Django/FastAPI/Flask services, Kafka-based async workflows, and Prometheus/Grafana observability. While they have not yet shipped a customer-facing AI agent or production LLM integration, they bring strong cloud, API, reliability, and scalable system design fundamentals that translate well to responsible AI infrastructure work.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a production expense management platform built on Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Stands out for solving real production scale issues—optimizing 2M+ record query performance, redesigning cross-database sync with an outbox/event-driven approach, and cutting API latency from 2-3 seconds to under 300 ms.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including an AI request-routing service (FastAPI + BART MNLI + OpenAI/Gemini) that improved accuracy ~25% after launch via eval-driven prompt/category iteration. Also built an enterprise document intelligence/RAG platform on Azure (Blob/SharePoint/Teams ingestion, OCR/NLP chunking, embeddings in Azure Cognitive Search) with PII guardrails (Presidio), confidence gating, and scalable event-driven pipelines handling millions of documents.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production TypeScript systems in both fintech-style transaction/rewards flows and HIPAA-regulated healthcare platforms. Deep focus on correctness and reliability (idempotency, retries/DLQs, reconciliation, observability) plus strong infra automation (Docker/Terraform/CI-CD) and measurable performance wins (40% query improvement, 90% test coverage).”

“Built and deployed a full-stack web product for international football fans visiting the U.S. for FIFA, owning everything from crawling and aggregating event data to frontend, backend, deployment, and maintenance. Particularly strong in data-heavy product work, using LLMs, Google Maps API, and SQL/RPC patterns to improve data quality, speed implementation, and support a polished user experience.”