Vetted Collaboration Professionals

Jhoneider Vanegas Vásquez

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

Medellín, Colombia14y exp

“Unity developer who built a physics-driven city traffic AI system for a car driving simulator, including modular managers/handlers to enforce traffic lights and speed-limit zones around the player. Also has prior Photon PUN multiplayer experience implementing matchmaking/rooms, movement sync, and RPC-based actions for simple competitive games.”

Pradeep Bal

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Senior Gameplay Animator specializing in character animation, rigging, and Unreal Engine pipelines

Calgary, Canada21y exp

“Gameplay animator with shipped title experience (Guilty Gear Xrd) and hands-on AAA-style action/simulation work, spanning hand-keyed cinematic gameplay moments, UE5 animation blueprint/state-machine implementation, and full mocap cleanup/polish in MotionBuilder/Maya. Notable for building scalable animation solutions across varying character sizes (takedowns) and for significantly accelerating production workflows (cutting pose time from hours to ~30 minutes).”

“Frontend engineer (Capgemini experience) who has led products end-to-end and improved existing codebases for scalability and performance. Built complex React + TypeScript dashboards with real-time, multi-API data and stabilized them via centralized data handling, strict typing/validation, and performance techniques like debouncing/memoization. Emphasizes practical standards, incremental refactoring, and tight collaboration with design/product and QA to ship reliably under deadlines.”

“AI automation builder who shipped an OpenAI-powered weekly "trending AI tools" WoW reporting system (65 categories) that reduced a 6–7 hour manual process to ~10 minutes at negligible API cost. Also building a RAG-based content creation prompt engine that turns PDFs into storyboards with fact-checking/traceback to source lines, plus experience with AWS deployment components (Lambda, ECR, App Runner, Bedrock, API Gateway) and GitHub Actions.”

“Full-stack web developer who reports owning both backend and frontend design, including database-first design and jQuery-based web UI work (shared a GitHub project link). Claims to have delivered a project planned for 4 months in just 2 weeks and emphasizes strong personal code quality standards.”

Blessing Alfred

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Senior Frontend & Mobile Engineer specializing in React, Vue, and TypeScript

Lagos, Nigeria5y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end builds of both e-learning and e-commerce platforms in Next.js/React + TypeScript, with a strong focus on scalable component architecture, pragmatic state management (Redux/Zustand), and quality enforcement (linting, conventions, Cypress). Notably pivoted from NextAuth to a custom server-auth flow to support backend-introduced 2FA, and has experience executing fast hotfix rollouts including urgent third-party provider switches.”

fahliyanto prasetyo

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Mid-level QA Engineer specializing in digital banking mobile and web testing

East Jakarta, Indonesia8y exp

“QA professional with experience spanning mobile/web applications plus API and backend behavior testing, using Jira and TestRail along with exploratory/regression and compliance-focused verification. Describes a structured approach to meeting tight deadlines by breaking work into modules, estimating test execution timelines, and using AI tools to accelerate documentation and analysis when test case volume is high. No direct console testing or TRC/XR/LOT certification experience yet, but has a compliance-testing foundation.”

“CEO & co-founder of Spotlight Creators, a digital platform for visual artists, which they took from idea validation (100 artist interviews) to a live product with 50+ artists and 50+ customers. Drove GTM through hands-on social content across Instagram/YouTube/TikTok, ran local artist spotlight events, and pursued fundraising via cold outreach and acceptance into Launch NY while building skills in pitch decks, financial projections, and ARR modeling.”

Alessandro Nieves Jose

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Mid-level Sound Designer & Composer specializing in film, games, and audio postproduction

CDMX, México4y exp

“Composer/music editor and audio post producer who re-scored the 1927 film "Metropolis" under tight deadlines by creating multiple main themes and editing them to match scene mood, pace, and intensity. Experienced in narrative podcast audio post with immersive sound design, and relies on a Pro Tools-centric workflow (templates, bussing, automation, loudness/true-peak limiting) to deliver cohesive, dialogue-forward mixes.”

Christopher Perkins Jr

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Senior Enterprise Account Executive & GTM Lead specializing in early-stage B2B SaaS

New York, NY7y exp

“Full-cycle enterprise seller with deep retail-adjacent fluency in payments, stored value/wallets, martech, and loyalty. Highlights include a $1.9M ARR ($9.5M TCV) deal and 220% quota attainment ($2.2M closed) while also building a GTM playbook and sales process; has proven ability to navigate acquisitions, shifting priorities, and executive turnover mid-deal.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“ML/computer-vision practitioner who shipped a CycleGAN-based bilingual handwriting translation demo (English↔Telugu) for low-resource scripts using unpaired datasets, focusing on preserving handwriting style and real-time deployment via Gradio. Also delivered a medical imaging pipeline by fine-tuning ResNet-50 and ViT-B/16 for pneumonia detection, emphasizing reproducibility, measurable evaluation, and stakeholder-friendly iteration.”

Christopher Peacock

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Executive CIO and Enterprise Architect specializing in cloud, security, and IT governance

Remote5y exp

“Fractional CIO/founder-type operator at AHDX Inc, a hybrid-cloud/primary storage solutions startup with a compliance focus targeting healthcare; MVP has completed beta and the company has seed funding while pursuing additional investment. Has supported multiple startups (OmniHR, Combat Connect, 3BX) and cites tangible results tied to DoD/security, Medicare/Medicaid, and Air Force LMS contracts, positioning them as a hands-on "fixer" for early-stage technical strategy and architecture.”

Michael Jenkins

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Director-level Video Editor & Producer specializing in longform YouTube storytelling

Los Angeles, CA16y exp

“Video editor/producer with a storytelling-first approach to longform YouTube, spanning both documentary-style musician content (travel/writing songs) and punchy corporate marketing for startups. Has led and mentored remote overseas freelance editors as a marketing content manager at BCG Attorney Search using rubrics/style guides, and has on-set experience as camera operator/DP for The Shade Room and Viacom YouTube content.”

“Agency-side executive search leader with experience running a 360-degree desk for 6+ years and managing both permanent and project-based recruiting teams (including 2 direct reports and teams supporting 7–10 concurrent searches). Regularly partners with executive stakeholders and HRBPs, and has driven process improvements such as expanding a VP Product search from local to national/remote to improve candidate quality.”

“Growth-creative/performance marketer who owned end-to-end paid social creative testing for Shoebacca’s seasonal footwear launch, driving ~22% CPA reduction and ~30% ROAS improvement by shifting from product-focused ads to UGC with stronger early hooks and clearer value messaging. Experienced translating platform-specific performance signals into modular creative iterations across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube, and aligning performance + creative teams via structured briefs and weekly review cadences.”

“Developed and productionized VL-Mate, a vision-language, LLM-powered assistant aimed at helping visually impaired users understand their surroundings and query internal knowledge. Emphasizes reliability and safety via confidence thresholds, uncertainty-aware fallbacks, hallucination grounding checks, and rigorous offline + user-in-the-loop evaluation, with experience orchestrating multi-step LLM pipelines (LangChain-style and custom Python async) and deploying on containerized infrastructure.”

“Video editor and post producer with ~10 years of extensive Adobe Premiere and After Effects experience, including documentary work for an Abu Dhabi media company (UAE National Day) blending archival footage, live footage, and graphics. Experienced in end-to-end longform YouTube post-production workflows and retention-focused storytelling techniques.”

Hammad Ur Rahman

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Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD

Boston, Massachusetts11y exp

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a 150+ LPAR AIX 7.x estate with VIOS/HMC/vHMC and PowerHA in production, including real outage and failover recoveries. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built Jenkins pipelines deploying to AKS and implemented Terraform on AWS with remote state, locking, and drift management.”

Rachael McKenna

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Junior Film & Video Production Specialist specializing in cinematography, editing, and photography

Massachusetts, USA5y exp

“Greater Boston-based videographer/cinematographer with ~3 years producing YouTube Live Reality Games (Survivor/Big Brother-style) and leading shoots from pre-pro through on-set interviews and episodic storytelling. Also served as Director of Photography on an industry-style senior capstone short film at Quinnipiac University, stepping in as lighting designer/gaffer to create a noir night aesthetic on a constrained budget; work currently on Vimeo and being submitted to festivals.”

“Early-career engineer who built a self-directed production-grade security scanning/analysis pipeline that normalizes multi-scanner results, correlates CVEs, and uses an LLM to generate exploit hypotheses—then hardened it for real-world reliability (timeouts, confidence scoring, feature flags, graceful degradation). Also integrated a real-time audio ML model into Discord/Zoom and debugged intermittent latency/dropouts across Python inference, virtual audio drivers, and network jitter; experienced with IAM integrations (Entra ID/Salesforce) and cloud tooling (AWS/Docker/Kubernetes).”

“Built and owned a production RAG search/Q&A platform at Data Integrity First for a client with a large, hard-to-search document library, deployed on AWS. Drove major adoption gains by adding source attribution (users trusted answers more) and improved system performance with guardrails, logging, and iterative chunking/OCR normalization—cutting fallback rate from ~22% to under 10%.”

Vasilis Chatzigiannis

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Director-level Strategy & Operations leader specializing in FinTech and consulting

Princeton, NJ29y exp

“Cross-functional operations/coordination professional with experience aligning finance (including FP&A), vendor management, and operations through structured communication cadences and tools like Asana. Has supported executive productivity by coordinating executive assistants, prioritizing meeting agendas, and triaging inbound email and meeting requests, and has stepped in to resolve finance-team misalignment by clarifying objectives and delivery expectations.”