Vetted Engineering Professionals in Texas

Jack Oakley

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Director-level VR Game Programmer specializing in Unity and QA leadership

Austin, TX15y exp

“Unity/VR gameplay engineer who has shipped full games and built a robust coin economy + massive gear customization system (over a million combinations) backed by a cloud service. Notably discovered and fixed a severe backend security flaw by adding proper authentication (security key + OAuth2), and has hands-on VR performance optimization experience (OVR Metrics, LOD/mipmaps, imposters) plus multiplayer sports sync design using Photon PUN2.”

“AI/back-end engineer at Canon who helped build and operate an internal production LLM platform that acts as a secure middle layer between users and models, defending against jailbreaks/prompt injection while enabling RAG, memory, and grounded responses over company data. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph orchestration, vector DB retrieval, and reliability practices (testing, monitoring, adversarial prompts) to run high-throughput, low-latency AI workflows in production.”

“Full-stack engineer from Clairvoyant who led end-to-end delivery of a cloud-native, event-driven platform: Spring Boot microservices + Kafka real-time streams with an Angular UI, migrated and containerized on AWS, and automated CI/CD with Jenkins/Maven/Git. Demonstrates depth in distributed consistency challenges (partitioning, consumer lag/duplicates) and database performance tuning across SQL/NoSQL under heavy workloads.”

Ofek Shaltiel

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-enabled web platforms

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Backend/AI engineer in construction tech (HyperWater AI) who delivered major production performance wins (analytics API from ~1 hour to 0.5s) and shipped LLM features for parsing subcontractor manifests into CSI divisions with human-in-the-loop review. Also built a freelance agentic document-verification system using OCR + RAG over pgvector with robust retry/escalation logic and user feedback loops.”

Samee Rauf

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Junior AI/Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in ad automation and LLM systems

Dallas, Texas3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with deep ad-tech/marketing automation experience, building production tools that reduce programmatic ad waste and improve search ads performance. Shipped and operated AWS-deployed, Dockerized systems with Postgres/Redis and strong observability (Datadog/OpenTelemetry), and delivered measurable impact (25k campaigns processed, 50k sites negated, 3–4 hours/week saved). Built scalable abstractions for multi-platform ad integrations, enabling rapid onboarding of additional clients.”

Abhinav Malkoochi

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Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and automation

Dallas, TX1y exp

“Startup-focused builder who created and iterated an MVP for Enky, a two-sided marketplace connecting music artists and creators, informed by hundreds of customer interviews. Implemented CI/CD, monitoring (PostHog/Sentry), and a complex payout pipeline involving scraping social platforms and routing escrow payments via Stripe, and has a track record of quickly debugging production issues (e.g., iOS-specific OAuth cookie failures).”

Joshua Rechkemmer

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Mid-level Unity XR Engineer specializing in multiplayer VR training

San Antonio, TX4y exp

“Game developer with hands-on experience shipping multiplayer products in Photon Fusion and building cross-platform XR/VR training simulations for Meta Quest, HTC Vive, PICO, and Windows PC. They combine gameplay systems architecture in Unity/C# with practical multiplayer debugging and a platform-conscious performance approach shaped by VR constraints.”

Tarun Bassula

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Entry-level Product Designer specializing in mobile-first UX and accessibility

Arlington, TX1y exp

“UX/product designer with a strong systems and technical-automation bent, combining accessibility-focused design with generative AI workflows. At Holistic Kids Foundation, they led an end-to-end registration redesign that cut drop-off 18%, raised accessibility 30%, and improved developer handoff speed 35% while supporting a 5,000+ user community.”

“Built and owned a production-grade RAG/LLM support automation system on AWS using GPT-4, Pinecone, FastAPI, and Redis, taking it from initial experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Their work reduced support workload and ticket volume by about 40%, improved CSAT and self-service resolution, and they also created shared Python/LLM infrastructure that accelerated other teams' delivery from weeks to days.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with hands-on experience building Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications deployed to AKS, including security scanning, approvals, versioned artifacts, and rollback. Also implemented Terraform-based IaC for Azure (VNets/subnets/NSGs/AKS) with modular design, remote state/locking, and drift detection; resolved a real deployment outage caused by an Azure RBAC permission change.”

“Data engineer with experience at Morgan Stanley and Star Health owning production-grade lakehouse pipelines for credit risk and healthcare datasets. Built Azure/Databricks/Delta/Snowflake-based platforms processing millions of records per day with strong data quality, observability (Monte Carlo/Azure Monitor), and reliability practices, plus experience delivering curated data services with performance tuning and backward-compatible versioning.”

“Backend/data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines and data services, processing ~500K–1M records/day from APIs/logs into MySQL and serving via REST APIs. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (ELK + structured logging/monitoring), with measurable improvements (~30% reduction in bad data, ~20% query performance gains) and experience operating external data collection/scraping systems with anti-bot and schema-change resilience.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience across platform modernization, production AI agents, and workflow automation. They led a monolith-to-microservices migration that increased deployment speed from weekly to daily, built a self-healing GPT-powered browser agent with an 85% autonomous recovery rate, and founded/ran ZapDash, where they hardened Kafka-based integrations against silent data loss.”

“Software/product engineer who has owned a consumer iOS dating app from customer discovery through roadmap execution, while also shipping an in-app LLM-powered support/feedback bot. Brings a mix of product sense and backend systems experience, including rebuilding a race-condition-prone event orchestration system and designing microservices to handle arbitrary black-box production data.”

“Built and deployed a production AI accessibility platform that turns chart and image-based graphs into real-time audio narratives for visually impaired users. Implemented a ResNet-based CV + OCR + NLP + TTS pipeline and improved performance through preprocessing, Redis caching, and Kubernetes autoscaling/rolling updates on AWS to handle traffic spikes with no downtime.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production experience improving performance and reliability of data-heavy analytics products. Has shipped end-to-end features spanning Node/Express + PostgreSQL + Redis and React/TypeScript, deployed via Docker/GitHub Actions to AWS EKS with Helm, and monitored with Datadog/CloudWatch; also built a Python compliance automation backend for AWS security monitoring with RBAC, versioned REST APIs, and resilient throttling-aware processing.”