Vetted C++ Professionals

“Full-stack engineer from seed-stage Violet Labs who owned an end-to-end production "compare push results" feature for external integrations, including solving tricky false-positive success cases by validating against internal entity hashes and confirmed integration events. Experienced building React/TypeScript SPAs with a Node + Postgres backend, deploying via AWS/Kubernetes, and setting up CloudWatch logging/metrics/alarms with SNS paging.”

“Game developer/designer building an open-world MMO/RPG largely solo in Unreal Engine 5, combining Blueprints and C++ and integrating Steam plus AWS/Amazon GameLift. Demonstrates strong playtest-driven iteration, including major redesigns to PvP balance and inventory/progression systems, and uses disciplined design documentation (rules, states, tuning tables) with Agile/Scrum practices.”

“Software engineer with connected-car/automotive production experience who owned an end-to-end remote door lock/unlock feature and introduced unit testing (GTest) plus rig/simulator validation. Also built and productionized an AI-native AWS cloud cost assistant (Lex + GPT-based LLM + Lambda + RAG/vector DB) with guardrails and achieved 94% evaluation accuracy. Helped replace a third-party solution with an in-house build, saving the company ~€9M.”

“Built a real-time telemedicine clinician dashboard and iterated post-launch by diagnosing lag via logs/metrics and optimizing DB queries/sync logic. Also shipped a production internal RAG knowledge assistant for support teams, including embeddings/vector DB, citation-only answers with abstention thresholds, and an eval loop driven by real ticket data that improved accuracy through chunking/overlap and batching optimizations.”

“Gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership of real-time C++/UE5 systems, including an end-to-end ability system and a networked dash feature using client prediction and server reconciliation. Strong in performance profiling/optimization (object pooling, collision-check gating) and applied math for projectile motion validated via debug visualization and QA/playtesting; particularly interested in soccer/football gameplay mechanics and feel.”

“Full-stack developer who built a workout tracker feature end-to-end on the PERN stack (Postgres/Express/React), including relational schema design, REST APIs, and optimistic UI updates. Also has Next.js App Router experience (dynamic routes, SSG/React Server Components) and a strong quality mindset from Boston Scientific, where they used TDD to support clinically sound ECG analysis software and drove backend test coverage to 97%.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on application-layer product work (70–75%), with production experience building real-time operational dashboards (React/TypeScript + Node/Express + WebSockets + Postgres) and measurable impact (50% reduction in data entry time). Also owned a Flask backend for a SaaS product with token auth/RBAC, versioning, observability, and performance tuning, and has operated containerized apps on AWS (EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, API Gateway) including handling a real latency/scaling incident end-to-end.”

“Built and shipped an AI-powered driver ranking/assignment system at AffirmoAI using LLM intent classification + RAG over pgvector/Postgres, served via FastAPI with a React UI that explains scores. Drove measurable improvements through optimization and iteration (latency down to <800ms, adoption 60%→90%+) and implemented rigorous eval loops with dispatcher ground truth plus cold-start handling for new drivers.”

“AI startup co-founder and CTO who helped raise $2.6M in seed funding at RedRex and drove product strategy from ideation through execution. Experienced with rapid experimentation and AI-driven prototyping to validate ideas quickly, and has direct exposure to the VC/accelerator ecosystem (Gener8tor) with a market-first approach to building and pitching startups.”

“Unreal Engine (C++/Blueprint) gameplay systems engineer who shipped major VR social-sports features in Orion Drift, including a wieldable items system that became the game’s primary IAP revenue driver and supported 75-player lobbies via careful replication/performance tradeoffs. Also built the station/server browsing system to steer players into lively lobbies and implemented backend-to-frontend tech tree infrastructure using Unreal DataTables, plus tuned standout mechanics like rideable rockets and Driftball projectile/ball behavior through frequent playtests.”

“UE5 UI engineer who has shipped production-ready HUD/menu frameworks using C++/Slate/UMG and CommonUI, emphasizing MVVM-style architecture for maintainability and designer-friendly iteration. Strong in UI profiling/optimization (Unreal Insights + Slate Profiler), including Slate list virtualization and event-driven updates that improved UI frame time by ~30% in heavy menu scenarios.”

“Backend/data engineer who helped evolve Bitnimbus LLC’s Kafka-as-a-service MVP from a monolith into an event-driven distributed system, using careful design, parallel rollouts, and idempotent event handling to maintain correctness. Also built production-grade API and database security (JWT scopes, rate limiting, explicit Postgres policies/RLS-style controls) and improved Prometheus monitoring by eliminating false outages via heartbeat metrics and windowed aggregation.”

“Robotics/embedded candidate who built an IoT smart shoe for visually impaired users, implementing real-time obstacle detection with ultrasonic sensors and haptic feedback on Arduino. Has practical ROS experience (RViz/Gazebo) and improved reliability in distributed systems by hardening an Arduino-to-ROS serial protocol with framing, strict parsing, and sensor-noise filtering; also containerized ROS environments with Docker for reproducible simulation and onboarding.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered financial research product end-to-end, using a typed NestJS/GraphQL backend with LangGraph-style agent routing to produce sourced, structured financial analysis. Emphasizes finance-grade correctness (Zod validation, metric registries, unit/empty-result guardrails) while keeping latency low via batching, caching, and fast token streaming, and has led incremental migrations using strangler/feature-flag/shadow traffic patterns.”

“Brazil-based tech leader who helped build Bankly’s end-to-end Banking-as-a-Service platform—delivering a plug-and-play solution in 6 months and architecting for ~5k requests/second; Bankly later became the largest BaaS in Brazil. Also runs a closed, personal-capital private trading group focused on automating investment decisions with AI trading bots, but is currently prioritizing international career growth over entrepreneurship.”

“Hands-on builder with projects spanning IoT/backend data systems and robotics: created a flow meter pipeline that sends readings over WiFi to a database and web server with real-time averaging and easy data download. Also diagnosed a hard-to-catch AGV/AMR reliability issue during long autonomous runs (battery voltage drop causing sensor failures) and mitigated it with voltage monitoring and a buffer circuit; familiar with Python/FastAPI API best practices (Pydantic, async, OAuth2/JWT).”

“LLM/agentic-systems practitioner who has repeatedly taken LLM-driven pricing/decision services from prototype to production using pilots, guardrails, observability, and staged rollouts. Demonstrates strong real-time incident troubleshooting (dependency timeouts, cached fallbacks) and post-incident hardening (isolation/async/alerts), and also supports go-to-market via developer workshops, technical demos, and sales-aligned POCs.”

“Co-op engineer at EnFi who built and maintained a multi-tenant prompt library and LLM workflow tooling used by internal teams and external enterprise clients. Led TypeScript/React package design and standardized a typed workflow abstraction across disparate implementations (React, Go, JSON), improving reliability and developer adoption. Delivered measurable performance gains (~25% latency reduction) and owned end-to-end execution including docs, demos, debugging, and deployment.”

“Robotics/embodied-AI practitioner who built a TurtleBot3 LiDAR-fingerprint localization pipeline end-to-end (autonomous data collection + multi-head NN) achieving ~30 cm error in a 10x10 m space. Also has industry experience at Infineon building large-scale production data/AI pipelines and rapidly fixing a deployed recommendation system by correcting upstream data normalization, improving accuracy by 20%+.”

“Robotics Software Engineer with 2.5 years at the Army Research Lab building production tools and cloud infrastructure for large-scale ROS/Unity simulation on AWS. Created a Python GUI to streamline analysis of massive (100GB) ROS bag/MCAP datasets and has deep ROS2/Nav2 performance debugging experience (executor/QoS/TF tracing). Also built an in-house ROS perception pipeline for an assembly-line use case, reaching 92% accuracy.”

“UK-based Unity/VR generalist who shipped a Meta Quest VR installation to art galleries worldwide while at Julian Opie Studio, acting as sole programmer and producing the art pipeline. Built a custom Spatial Anchors-based spatial mapping system with little documentation and developed real-world operational procedures to keep installations stable for exhibitions with hundreds of daily visitors. Also contracted as a 3D generalist at Blue Zoo, producing all assets/animations and environment setup for a Tate Gallery kids game, finishing ahead of schedule.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer from Valcom who maintained Django/PostgreSQL services for mass-notification/paging servers used by education/commercial/government customers. Notable for hardening authentication and reliability (JWT refresh + rotation tokens, WebSockets/EventStream) and for modernizing a legacy Ext.js/PHP stack into a React + Django architecture with strong CI/testing and production incident ownership.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on depth across simulation (Isaac Sim, Gazebo, Webots), ROS/ROS2 integration, and real-time embedded control. Led an end-to-end quadruped (12-motor) Isaac Sim build from Fusion 360 CAD-to-URDF through physics tuning to achieve a stable walking gait, and optimized a 5-servo arm by cutting IK compute time by 60%+ using lookup tables to eliminate jitter.”