Vetted Collaboration Professionals

“Education product leader with a strong track record building learner-facing engagement and AI features at Sophia, including an AI chat-based assessment, motivational messaging system, and course planning experience. Stands out for combining measurable product impact with thoughtful human-centered AI practices, academic integrity safeguards, and strong cross-functional leadership across product, engineering, academics, ops, legal, and PR.”

“Unreal Engine 5 gameplay/systems developer who led major core features for the Early Access Steam city builder Geopogo Cities: Windsor Detroit, including an end-to-end building placement system tightly integrated with economy, AI pedestrians (Mass AI/Zone Graph/State Trees), and procedural city block generation. Also built a third-person exploration layer with character customization, stamina, and animation retargeting on top of the City Sample Crowd framework, plus shipped player-driven UX improvements based on live Early Access feedback.”

“Robotics software engineer who built a ROS Noetic-based perception-to-control stack for a pick-and-place robotic arm, integrating OpenCV/TensorFlow vision with motion planning and PID tuning. Demonstrated strong real-time debugging skills (rosbag, queue/latency fixes) and experience deploying reproducible robotics environments with Gazebo simulation, Docker, and GitLab CI.”

“Change management and HR/people strategy leader with repeated experience partnering with senior executives through high-impact transformations, including QuickChek’s post-acquisition integration into Fortune 500 Murphy USA. Uses structured frameworks (McKinsey 7S, ADKAR) and KPI-driven systems thinking to execute org design, system migrations, and workforce analytics initiatives, and has handled complex employee relations investigations with risk-based decision tools.”

“Built a production industrial anomaly detection system for a laminator using only limited runtime logs (time/pressure/temperature) and scarce abnormal examples. Addressed inconsistent manual labeling across customers by creating an operator feedback loop for remarking predictions and retraining customized models, and communicated results to a non-technical company liaison using clear tables, trend plots, and interactive demos.”

“ML/AI practitioner with hands-on experience deploying models to production and optimizing for low-latency inference using pruning/quantization, with deployments on AWS SageMaker and Azure ML. Has orchestrated end-to-end ML pipelines with Airflow and Kubeflow (ingestion through evaluation) and emphasizes reproducibility via containerization and version-controlled artifacts, while effectively partnering with non-technical stakeholders using dashboards and business-aligned metrics.”

Michael Reilly

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Senior Sound Mixer & Audio Producer specializing in post-production and podcasts

Austin, TX15y exp

“Audio post professional and music producer with ~15 years of experience sound designing and mixing longform documentary/film and short-form social content. Pro Tools-centric workflow with heavy use of EQ, loudness targets, templates, and automation to deliver fast iterations; has collaborated directly with composers/filmmakers to reshape score pacing and dynamics for emotional storytelling and improved engagement.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped both enterprise workflow software and AI-powered document intelligence products. Stands out for combining practical product judgment with strong production debugging skills across Spring Boot, GraphQL, FastAPI, vector search, and RAG systems, and for improving adoption by making AI search experiences intuitive for non-technical users.”

“Operations and strategy generalist who has built a career helping leaders bring structure to complex, fast-moving environments. Most notably led multi-year digital transformation work at McCarthy Mentoring while simultaneously owning client services, operations, finance, and stakeholder management, and has also advised on cybersecurity governance and supported senior decision-makers in government, research, and climate-tech contexts.”

“Robotics software/ML engineer who built perception and navigation-related ML systems for autonomous supermarket carts, including object detection, shelf recognition, and obstacle avoidance. Strong ROS/ROS2 practitioner who optimized real-time performance (reported 50% latency reduction) and deployed containerized ROS/ML pipelines at scale using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.”

“Robotics software engineer who built the software layer for an autonomous warehouse sorting system, spanning navigation/path planning, task scheduling, and backend services. Deep hands-on ROS 2 Foxy experience (Nav2/costmaps) and real-time multi-robot debugging, using simulation-driven analysis plus incremental/partial re-planning to handle dynamic obstacles in production-like warehouse environments.”

Yusuf Abdikadir

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in 3D simulation, digital twins, and robotics

London, United Kingdom6y exp

“UK-based Unity developer who built a 3D simulation/digital-twin platform for an autonomous-vehicle startup, integrating Unity environments with external robotics stacks, web APIs, virtual sensing, and dynamic traffic systems. Interested in moving into VR, though has not shipped VR/Meta Quest titles yet.”