Vetted Engineering Professionals

Ronald Forte

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in AI APIs and RAG systems

0y exp

“Junior/entry-level AI/LLM engineer who built a production-oriented RAG onboarding and knowledge assistant that ingests GitHub repos and internal sources (e.g., Confluence/Jira) using ChromaDB, with reliability features like retrieval fallbacks, retries, caching, and monitoring. Currently implementing a LangGraph-based multi-agent workflow with intent routing and Pydantic/Magentic-validated structured outputs, plus CI/CD offline evals and online metrics (Grafana/Prometheus) to improve predictability and reliability.”

“Unity VR developer with hands-on experience shipping and optimizing standalone builds for Meta Quest (and PICO). Led gameplay + networking on a Quest 3 multiplayer social VR experience (real-time sync, avatars/gestures, proximity voice), and also built a mostly solo game that blends fast-paced restaurant simulation with a night-time horror/stealth loop featuring custom AI.”

Jordan Dunaway

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Junior Game Developer specializing in gameplay systems and cross-engine development

Lenexa, KS3y exp

“Game-focused QA tester with a developer background who routinely validates builds in player-like environments (including VMs), documents test coverage rigorously, and provides high-signal bug reports with reproducible steps and video evidence. Has partnered closely with designers and engineers on issues like level-loading resource management and prioritizes defects based on player progression and immersion impact; has not shipped a AAA title.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end Python/Postgres job-tracker backend that scrapes job postings (including LinkedIn) using Selenium-driven real-browser automation, with deduplication and data-quality filtering. Has practical experience migrating deployments from DigitalOcean to Vercel and emphasizes documentation, roadmapping, and testing as part of an iterative delivery cycle.”

“AWS-focused backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building serverless APIs (Lambda/API Gateway) secured with Cognito/JWT, deploying via Terraform + CI/CD, and managing secrets with Secrets Manager/Parameter Store. Also built AWS Glue ETL from S3 to RDS with schema evolution and data-quality controls, modernized a monolith into microservices using parallel testing, and delivered major SQL performance gains (minutes to seconds) while owning incident response for batch pipelines.”

“Backend engineer focused on real-time, event-driven distributed systems (Node.js/TypeScript) with strict latency and reliability requirements. Deep hands-on experience debugging concurrency issues and designing resilient workflows (idempotency, circuit breakers, compensating actions) with strong observability; familiar with ROS/ROS2 concepts and confident ramping into robotics integrations.”

“Backend engineer who built a production retrieval-augmented narrative analysis platform for 100-page screenplays using a Node/Express orchestrator and a Python/FastAPI AI engine, including a key redesign from disk-based uploads to in-memory streaming to eliminate Windows file-lock failures. Also led a refactor of a municipal vehicle tracking system into a C-based distributed engine handling 4M+ daily packets with 99.99% data integrity and automation that reduced manual ops by 50%.”

“Backend/data engineer experienced building enterprise community-platform services for high-traffic global clients, using Python (FastAPI/Django) on Docker/Kubernetes with PostgreSQL/Redis. Has delivered AWS EKS + Terraform/CI-CD deployments with strong security practices (Secrets Manager/SSM, IAM/IRSA) and has hands-on ETL (AWS Glue), legacy modernization, and incident ownership with measurable performance gains (~30% faster queries).”

“Unity developer with hands-on Meta Quest SDK experience (tested on Quest 2) who built a first-person game framework from scratch and later converted it into a hybrid VR + keyboard/mouse project with interaction systems (pickups, weapons, customization). Uses AI tools selectively to unblock tough engineering issues, including resolving Unity WebGL cached-data reset problems for a current employer.”

“Built a production-grade LLM evaluation and regression system that stress-tests models across hundreds of iterations, combining LLM-as-judge, semantic similarity, statistical metrics, and rule-based checks, with results delivered via stakeholder-friendly HTML reports and dashboards. Experienced orchestrating multi-agent RAG workflows using LangChain/LangGraph and event-driven GenAI pipelines in n8n integrating OCR, speech-to-text, and external APIs, with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and explainable failures.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-enhanced version of the WeDAA platform to auto-generate microservice architecture diagrams and support code generation from user prompts, including a practical solution for non-overlapping canvas object placement via coordinate templates. Experienced in diagnosing agentic workflow failures using AWS Strands agents with feature-flagged debug logging, and frequently supports sales through tailored demos and POCs to drive adoption.”

“Unity gameplay programmer with practical performance optimization experience (object pooling for shooting mechanics) and extensive Photon-based multiplayer work across diverse genres including shooters, sports, and board games (e.g., ludo, chess, air hockey, snakes and ladders). Uses AI tools to accelerate development, including generating and implementing multiple effects programmatically in a single day under deadline pressure.”

“Unity/C# developer with hands-on Meta Quest shipping experience from Wren Kitchens, building a VR kitchen scale visualiser and solving tricky URP/HDRP cross-pipeline rendering issues by creating internal shader/asset management utilities. Also has solo Unity game experience including an Android/Google Play release and game jam prototyping, plus side-project work using Python/PyTorch for predictive modeling.”

“Unity technical designer/game developer who improves engagement and retention through KPI-driven analysis and live-ops tuning (e.g., early-game energy/progression adjustments and time-based targeted礼包 pushes). Built a Python-based visual map/level editor that exports CSV to replace error-prone manual coordinate entry, saving significant team time and remaining reusable across later projects.”

“Frontend engineer with experience leading end-to-end builds for an education job-matching platform that used AI resume scanning to improve candidate-company matching. Has also built React + TypeScript interfaces for a medical platform with multi-user role modeling via dedicated TypeScript interfaces, and is comfortable refactoring large legacy files into modular, reusable, performance-optimized code.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with full-stack capability (Node/Express + MongoDB/MySQL) who emphasizes scalable quality practices: PR-driven reviews, CI quality gates, and a full testing pyramid (Jest/Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress/Playwright). Built complex React + TypeScript role-based dashboards/workflows using reusable component architecture and layered state management (React Query/SWR, Context for auth/roles), with strong performance and UX polish (Lighthouse, lazy loading, accessibility, responsive design).”

“Frontend engineer who led Curion’s end-to-end UI architecture for a real-time meetings/elections product, emphasizing scalability, testing, and CI/CD. Has built complex React+TypeScript dashboards (Redux) and improved a Flutter codebase with DDD and dependency injection, enabling smoother third-party swaps like Zoom to LiveKit and rapid delivery of Brazil-specific payment methods (PIX/Boleto).”

“Built and deployed an LLM product called "Content Craft" combining BART-based summarization with a RAG Q&A chatbot using LangChain, embeddings, and a vector database. Has hands-on MLOps experience containerizing and serving models with FastAPI and running them on Kubernetes with monitoring, self-healing, and autoscaling, and has practical experience reducing hallucinations through structured prompting.”

“Software engineer who deployed and stabilized a real-time analytics platform at Senecio Software, focusing on production reliability, observability, and performance under load. Experienced debugging issues spanning distributed services and networking (e.g., tracing timeouts to packet loss from misconfiguration) and extending Python (FastAPI/Django) APIs for customer-specific analytics features in a configurable, maintainable way.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-based appointment management agent, implementing RAG with Redis and LangGraph plus multi-agent intent handling and rule-based conflict guardrails to prevent double-booking under high load. Experienced in real-time diagnosis of agentic workflow failures using logs/traces and state inspection, and in driving adoption via interactive developer demos and sales-aligned custom customer scenarios.”

“Console game QA tester with part-time experience at GP Outsourcing Sdn Bhd testing multi-platform ports (PS4/Xbox One/Switch/PS5), including Resident Evil 6 and River City titles. Notable for extremely detailed, protocol-driven bug capture using a Phantom v1610 high-speed camera and for identifying timing/performance issues (e.g., a cross-platform soft-lock and a 125ms multiplayer delay) and escalating them as critical to get fixed before release.”

“Game tester trained at Gameloft with hands-on experience testing mobile and PC games (installation workflows, log-based debugging, and issue triage). New to console testing and console certification standards (TRC/XR/LOT), but demonstrates a structured, proactive approach to ramping up via self-directed learning and research.”

“Oracle Software Developer (2+ years) at C3 Business Solutions, a consulting firm building and maintaining ERP applications across Oracle APEX/FDI/Fusion/EBS/OCI. No formal game QA experience yet, but demonstrates practical QA-adjacent skills (test planning, debugging via logs, and detailed bug reporting) and is explicitly looking to transition into a QA Engineer role.”

“QA Automation Engineer with hands-on ownership of an end-to-end Selenium-Java/TestNG suite for an e-commerce platform, integrated into Jenkins with PR smoke and nightly regression gating. Notably caught and validated (via SQL/API checks) a critical defect where checkout reported success but orders were not persisted, preventing customer-impacting production issues; also has Cypress experience stabilizing flaky UI tests using robust selector and wait strategies.”