Vetted Android Professionals

Patrick McNealy

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Senior Game Developer specializing in multi-platform gameplay and interactive systems

Boulder, CO11y exp

“Gameplay/engine programmer with hands-on experience spanning Unity simulation systems, LLM-driven character presentation, C# multiplayer networking, and platform adaptation for both mobile and VR. Particularly interesting for teams needing someone who can architect modular systems, optimize for scale/performance, and bridge AI-driven interaction with polished runtime animation behavior.”

“Game QA professional with AAA open-world shipping experience, owning high-impact quality risks like save-data corruption, progression blockers, performance drops, and multiplayer desync. Demonstrates strong systems thinking and exploit prevention (e.g., reproduced and helped fix a reward-duplication race condition using network interruption + rapid input), with disciplined JIRA/TestRail workflows and evidence-driven bug reporting.”

“Business/partnerships-focused project/program leader with government contracting (SLED) experience who supported a cybersecurity solicitation response for Amtrak after a breach, using NIST-aligned posture assessment and recommending MFA, Zero Trust, and incident/vulnerability registers. Also led an urgent COVID-era recovery from a server crash by coordinating a move to AWS EC2 and managing vendor negotiation and project timelines for a CRM platform serving the winery/beverage industry.”

Zachary Ringwood

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Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in React Native and Java/Spring

3y exp

“Frontend engineer who created an in-house React-like framework (“React-Wilcox”) enabling modern, event-driven UI components on extremely legacy browsers (as far back as 2002), including race-condition avoidance via batched state updates. Also does freelance work untangling AI/vibe-coded frontends for nontechnical founders, componentizing UIs and fixing routing/readability, and recently built a React+TS social app for martial artists with privacy-preserving location distance features.”

Haider Zahoor

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Mid-level Game/Software Engineer specializing in Unity & Unreal cross-platform development

San Jose, California6y exp

“Unity/VR developer who has shipped on Meta Quest (SideQuest) and built standalone PCVR medical applications used with real patients. Built a fully solo roguelike twin-stick shooter with a highly modular ScriptableObject/state-machine architecture, including custom build-time tooling to overcome Unity runtime constraints. Uses AI selectively (e.g., Claude) to generate editor tooling like a match-3 level designer to speed up level production.”

ricardo filho

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Senior Game & XR Developer specializing in immersive VR/AR/MR experiences

Porto, Portugal12y exp

“Unity game developer who built a Twitch chat integration enabling a streamer's audience to actively participate in gameplay, boosting engagement and virality. Has hands-on multiplayer experience with Photon, including RPCs/synced variables and designing for disconnects, late-joins, and low-bandwidth data transfer, and uses Cursor/AI agent workflows to accelerate feature development while maintaining code quality.”

“Unity developer with shipped Meta Quest 2 room-scale VR experience, owning VR architecture (XR Interaction Toolkit/Oculus Integration), core interaction systems (grabbing/UI/locomotion), and Quest performance optimization. Also built a solo mobile puzzle game with star-based difficulty tuning, UI/performance profiling, and progression/replay systems, and uses AI assistants to speed prototyping, debugging, and documentation.”

“Unity developer with broad cross-platform experience (HTC Vive VR, iOS/Android, Nintendo Switch, WebGL) who built a near-solo multiplayer AR iOS party game using Photon/PUN and AR Foundation. Demonstrates strong practical networking and performance optimization skills, including lag compensation and client-side shader-based rendering strategies.”

“Unity lead developer who built a turn-based soccer game (Soccer Glory/Score Hero-like) with complex in-air ball simulation, AI reactions, and animation handling, then scaled production by creating an in-editor level/animation authoring tool that saves to JSON and shifted level setup from devs to designers. Strong multiplayer background across Photon PUN, Mirror, UNet, and Socket.IO, including a 100-user metaverse room and practical approaches to authoritative simulation and VR/mobile performance optimization (Meta Quest 90 FPS).”

Sviatoslav Boichuk

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Executive CTO / Engineering Leader specializing in Full-Stack Architecture and Cloud Delivery

Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine11y exp

“Founder building a hiring-focused startup who has engaged with venture investors but is prioritizing direct end-user traction through email marketing and other outreach before returning to raise a seed round. Has experience working with startups that have already raised seed funding and demonstrates a structured approach to market validation (customer conversations, landing pages) prior to heavy development.”

Vishnu Priyan Sellam Shanmugavel

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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.”

Fernando de Cea Cotta

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Senior Game Developer specializing in Unity and XR (AR/VR)

Spain9y exp

“Unity/C# developer with hands-on experience delivering performance-critical systems: built a multithreaded Addressables-based asset loading pipeline to handle thousands of animations and drastically cut loading screens. Also created a personal Unity Editor tool using the OpenAI API to detect code smells and generate prioritized remediation, and has shipped authoritative-server multiplayer for an arcade car game with prediction/interpolation, reconciliation, and robust live-network debugging.”

David Acosta

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Senior XR/Unity Developer specializing in AR/VR mobile and immersive experiences

Bogota, Colombia7y exp

“Unity/C# XR developer who shipped a HoloLens 1 medical congress experience from scratch (including modeling, animation, and full system architecture), later credited with driving retention/revenue and helping the client win an international best-practice award. Has VR (Meta Quest 2) experience integrating OpenAI-powered dialogue and has delivered cross-platform AR/VR interaction patterns across HoloLens and iOS/Android via AR Foundation and the Unity Input System.”

Nicolas Cols

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Mid-level Unity Game Developer specializing in multiplayer and performance optimization

Córdoba, Argentina6y exp

“Senior gameplay/multiplayer engineer based in Argentina with hands-on experience building Unity/C# networked systems end to end, including Mirror-based gameplay architecture and server-authoritative MMO-style networking. Particularly strong in multiplayer stability, sync/prediction design, and performance profiling across VR and mobile, with thoughtful early-stage architecture ideas for AI/LLM-enabled game features and internal pipelines.”

Nicholas Griffin

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Senior Technical Artist specializing in game development pipelines and tools

Butler, KY8y exp

“Game design lead with broad mobile shipping experience across live-service titles, including Wild Sky and several other mobile games. Particularly interesting for having owned monthly gameplay/content updates, improved retention through a redesigned FTUE, and experimented with AI-powered asset discovery using Claude Vision to streamline designer workflows.”

“Unity gameplay engineer with experience shipping features for a multiplayer cricket title (RVG Cricket), including a high-impact replay system that records and replays full play sequences across all on-field entities. Also implemented Photon-based multiplayer and debugged host/client execution issues, and uses AI tools to speed up data enrichment workflows (e.g., generating/matching country ISO codes from JSON into ScriptableObjects).”

“Frontend developer who led the COC.ca (Canadian Opera Company) site end-to-end as the sole FE engineer on an AgilityCMS/.NET stack, owning master/page templates, modules, and quality. Emphasizes accessibility and responsive design, performing cross-browser/device testing with tools like JAWS, NVDA, Axe, Lighthouse, and Siteimprove; more recently built a Next.js/React/TypeScript video viewer with modal/video state management.”

Zeel Kheni

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Senior Unity Multiplayer Developer specializing in real-time networking and metaverse experiences

Indore, India6y exp

“Unity multiplayer developer with hands-on experience building and syncing gameplay ability systems and solving network instability issues via an owner-synced state system. Has migrated live projects from Photon PUN2 to Photon Fusion and worked on XANA Metaverse and Run For Money, including network optimization and client-server system design.”

sakrane mohamed karim

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Senior Unity Developer specializing in mobile, AR/VR, and hyper-casual games

Paris, France9y exp

“Unity VR developer who shipped a Meta Quest title ("Dig to escape") and owned key gameplay systems including VR interactions, NPC/quest logic, and save/load. Has also built a rhythm/endless-runner hybrid with procedural level generation by converting MP3 to MIDI, and uses AI tools to generate UI/background art assets.”

“Gameplay/network engineer based in Argentina who has shipped across Unity and UE5, with standout work in deterministic simulation, authoritative multiplayer, and fully local AI-driven NPC systems. Particularly compelling for teams building systemic gameplay or real-time interactive experiences: they replaced Unity physics with a custom deterministic race pipeline, improved WebGL load performance, and later built an engine-agnostic local LLM/TTS/lip-sync stack for conversational NPCs.”

“VR multiplayer Unity developer who implemented high-impact interaction systems (notably a math-driven, physics-aware door system with audio occlusion and culling) and designed/built a fully custom cross-platform multiplayer stack from scratch using KCP, WebSockets, WebRTC, and MemoryPack—plus recording, NPC support, and backward-compatible client modes for an educational/learning platform.”

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end delivery of internal and analytics dashboards in React + TypeScript, with a strong emphasis on scalable architecture, disciplined state separation, and performance under real-time data loads. Uses practical profiling (React Profiler/DevTools), virtualization, and feature-flagged rollouts with solid QA and rapid post-launch iteration to keep quality high as products scale.”

Tony Monckton

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Senior Unity VR/AR Programmer specializing in Meta Quest and real-time 3D graphics

London, UK12y exp

“Unity/VR developer who shipped a Meta Quest 2 immersive 360 training experience for Staffordshire Police as a solo programmer, including biometric gaze/reaction tracking and real-time data capture to an HTTP endpoint. Also building a Tomb Raider-like sci-fi adventure demo (Nexus 7) featuring FSM-driven character logic, motion-capture animation, custom controller optimization, and spline-following AI movement.”

“Seasoned engineering leader and Fractional CTO with 20+ years of experience helping startups navigate the transition from early product traction to scalable operations. Particularly strong in stepping into VC-backed, high-growth environments, stabilizing fragile MVP-era systems, and aligning technology strategy with business, operational, and fundraising goals.”