Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Los Angeles Metro

“Unity gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership across core game systems, multiplayer, AI/LLM integration, and cross-platform XR/mobile shipping. Particularly compelling is their combination of deep runtime optimization and systems architecture: they cut match-3 cascade frame spikes by 40-50%, eliminated a class of production race-condition bugs, and also built a local-model FastAPI-backed AI prototype with structured evaluation and cost control.”

“Startup-style full-stack/backend engineer with hands-on AWS architecture experience who shipped an LLM-driven assessment-question automation feature (Python microservice calling AWS Bedrock via SQS, deployed on Lambda) with strong validation/guardrails and retry strategies. Also improved production scalability by moving a CPU/IO-heavy file upload path out of a Go API into a queue/Lambda design monitored with CloudWatch, and has React+TypeScript experience optimizing analytics dashboards.”

“Software developer who actively integrates AI coding tools like ClaudeCode, Codex, and ChatGPT into day-to-day development for brainstorming, planning, and reducing boilerplate work. They show thoughtful awareness of agent limitations such as hallucinations and use markdown-based project context files to improve output quality.”

Victoria Magaziner

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Senior QA Automation Engineer specializing in end-to-end test automation for FinTech and automotive platforms

Los Angeles, CA9y exp

“QA Engineer with 8 years owning end-to-end quality on high-traffic, live fintech and automotive platforms (Fuse Autotech), specializing in critical financial and e-signing workflows. Combines API testing (Postman), log observability (Kibana/Logz.io), and disciplined Jira/Xray processes to accelerate triage and shorten release cycles (1 week to 3 days) while reducing production issues and integration/regression defects with measurable impact.”

Jookwang Jung

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Staff Software Engineer specializing in AI-native platforms and full-stack systems

Los Angeles, CA20y exp

“Founding engineering lead and player-coach who built a small cross-functional team around an AI-first development model, increasing execution speed by more than 3x through hands-on coaching and human-in-the-loop practices. Has led architecture for a multi-tenant platform and built an AI system for fashion businesses that generates content, imagery, and operational recommendations, combining technical depth with product and UX judgment.”

Kyle Kelly

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack platforms and distributed systems

Laguna Beach, CA9y exp

“Engineer with boutique startup-style experience on small teams, owning full vertical slices in ambiguous client environments. Particularly strong in NetSuite-based B2B SaaS-style automation for finance and operations, where they reverse-engineered undocumented workflows and rebuilt them into modular, audit-ready systems. Also actively coding across Go, Python, and React/TypeScript, making them a rare blend of integration architect and hands-on full-stack builder.”

Vinicius Leite

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Staff/Lead Game Engineer specializing in gameplay systems and VR

Los Angeles, USA22y exp

“Unity gameplay programmer with hands-on multiplayer networking experience (Photon Fusion, Mirror, SmartFox, Unity networking), including client-side prediction and rollback to smooth networked movement under lag/packet loss. Recently improved a fast-paced 2D platformer’s feel by adding momentum/velocity “gears,” validated through internal cohorts and volunteer/friends-and-family playtests. Comfortable in both startup and large-company environments and currently seeking a high-impact, intensive project.”

Antonio Walker

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Senior Technical Lead and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms

Irvine, CA13y exp

“Engineering leader and player-coach who says he joined Freeing Returns during a transition from sales-led services to SaaS, architected the platform from the ground up, and helped hire a 10+ person team across engineering, product, and delivery. He also describes leading an AI-based fraud detection system on Salesforce with data lake and pipeline architecture, combining startup build-from-scratch execution with hands-on technical leadership.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who owned end-to-end delivery for a high-traffic e-commerce web app (millions of monthly users), spanning UI enhancements, performance work, and third-party recommendation API integrations. Built a NestJS microservice integrated with Shopify to tag products (e.g., low stock/sale) and used queuing to handle high-volume order processing, plus created an internal CI/GitHub tool to surface test failures quickly.”

Zaid Kamil

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Mid-level XR Software Engineer specializing in real-time AR/VR digital twins

Los Angeles, CA8y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end real-time IoT telemetry backend that powers a digital twin experience on a Meta Quest headset, integrating Cisco LoRaWAN sensors and external REST data sources. Migrated from Azure Functions to a FastAPI service to overcome firewall constraints, add caching/fallback reliability, and significantly reduce operating cost while improving performance and evolvability.”

Bryant Conti

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React/Node.js and backend APIs

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production Incident Tracking System using Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript with Postgres (Neon) and Prisma, including RBAC (User/Support/Admin), tickets/comments, and audit logging. Uses Zod for schema/type validation and relies on Chrome/React DevTools to debug and refine UI/UX and performance.”