Vetted C++ Professionals

“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).”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems end-to-end, including a note-taking product (Notey) combining audio/image capture, ASR, summarization, and a semantic chat agent over past notes. Also has applied ML experience in healthcare, collaborating directly with doctors to validate an EEG seizure-detection pipeline, and uses Kubernetes to optimize GPU usage for LLM training.”

“Robotics engineer who built and scaled a distributed perception stack on a Unitree Go1 quadruped, coordinating 5 Jetson Nanos and a Raspberry Pi to capture, aggregate, and stream multi-camera video in real time via UDP/GStreamer and custom ROS nodes. Also implemented a YOLOv9-based detection pipeline enhanced with Grad-CAM-driven selective image enhancement (e.g., MIRNet/UFormer) to improve real-time detections and robot reactions to visual stimuli.”

“Application-layer full-stack engineer who has shipped enterprise-facing integrations and developer tooling, including an end-to-end Slack integration for automated ticket creation and a real-time feature-flag dashboard (React/TS + GraphQL/Apollo + NestJS) with audit trails. Has hands-on AWS container operations experience (ECS Fargate/ALB/RDS) and has improved product performance (35% faster dashboards) while building auth and RBAC for 500+ users.”

“Unity game developer focused on gameplay AI and combat feel; reverse-engineered and recreated Devil May Cry-style enemy behavior using an attacker/bystander system constrained by the camera frustum, including custom math to solve circle–frustum intersections. Has shipped/worked on multiplayer projects using Photon Fusion and Unity Netcode for GameObjects, with practical experience making state/RPC synchronization decisions.”

“Robotics/AI engineer focused on multi-agent reinforcement learning for Crazyflie drones, enabling coordination via implicit motion-based communication and a stabilizing FSM layer; reported 98.5% sim and 92% real-world behavior-recognition accuracy. Also built a modular ROS 2 wall-following system (custom nodes/services/actions) and a Raspberry Pi + OpenCV stereo-vision walking robot, emphasizing rigorous logging, stress testing, and sim-to-real deployment.”

“Full-stack engineer who builds and scales customer-facing and internal AI products end-to-end (React/TypeScript/FastAPI/MongoDB) with strong product instrumentation and rapid MVP iteration. Built an AI-powered code review assistant adopted across teams and integrated into CI/CD, reducing manual review time by 30%+, and has hands-on experience with LLM retrieval/reasoning systems (LangChain + FAISS) and microservices scaling using RabbitMQ, Docker, and AWS.”

“Robotics software contributor on an SJSU Robotics Mars rover hub, where they built a C++ camera gimbal driver using the Libhal open-source library and implemented/tuned PI/PID control to achieve stable servo behavior.”

“Backend engineer who built and scaled a zero-to-one social product backend using Supabase (Postgres, Edge Functions, Auth, Realtime) plus Neo4j for graph-based friend recommendations. Demonstrates strong production rigor: staged rollouts with metrics, incident rollback/postmortems, and complex schema refactors using expand-contract/dual-write with reconciliation and feature flags. Notably proactive about edge cases like geo-boundary realtime delivery and idempotent retry safety.”

“Robotics software engineer with ~3 years of ROS experience spanning drone autonomy and perception. Recently improved drone barcode scanning by shifting to segmentation and deploying an optimized instance-seg model to edge hardware (FP16 quantization, convex-hull masks), while also building ROS drivers/parameters for field-tunable behavior. Has hands-on experience integrating LegoLOAM and calibration/TF systems, including creating RViz visualization tools to validate transforms and debugging real-world drift issues caused by lighting/glare.”

“Robotics software engineer who helped build a startup "robo-chef" system end-to-end, including pick-and-place simulation using ArUco-marked stations and smooth motion planning. Hands-on ROS 2 integrator across LiDAR/IMU/camera perception-to-navigation stacks (Nav2, SLAM Toolbox, ros2_control), with demonstrated ability to debug real-time timing drift and improve repeatable placement through calibration and motion blending. Uses Gazebo simulation plus Docker/CI pipelines to validate and deploy robotics software reliably.”

“Accenture engineer with hands-on experience taking an NLP sentiment analysis system from prototype to production, emphasizing robustness to noisy data, scalability, and observability (dashboards for latency/error/throughput). Also supports customer-facing teams with demos and PoCs, translating client requirements into secure, scalable architectures and troubleshooting LLM/agent workflows via logs and step-level traces.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience across event-driven Python ingestion services on AWS (EventBridge/SQS/MongoDB), serverless APIs (Lambda/API Gateway), and analytics ETL (Glue → Redshift). Has modernized legacy reporting into Node.js/React systems and demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (minutes to seconds) plus strong incident ownership with validation, DLQs, and alerting.”

“Backend/embedded-focused engineer with hands-on experience designing real-time, memory/power-constrained firmware architectures and also building Python/FastAPI services. Demonstrates strong production rigor across migrations (strangler pattern, shadow reads, feature flags), security (OIDC/JWT, RBAC/ABAC, Postgres RLS), and robustness for async workflows (idempotency, event ordering, state machines).”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS (ROS 1) experience building sensor-processing and state-based control pipelines in Python/C++. Demonstrated measurable reliability and performance gains in autonomous navigation—cut runtime failures by 30%, reduced replanning by 35%, and improved debugging efficiency by 40%—using timing-aware state machines, message/interface discipline, and simulation/testing with Gazebo, rosbag, Docker, and CI/CD.”

“Unity/C# VR developer with shipped Meta Quest experience across multiplayer VR simulations, haptics-driven maze navigation, and VR interior walkthroughs. Built a solo sound-based sandbox VR game ('Alchemix'd') and demonstrates strong hands-on debugging of XR rig collisions, multiplayer sync, and URP performance issues.”

“PhD researcher (University of Utah) who built a production RAG-powered Virtual Reality Research Assistant to answer lab research questions with concrete citations. Implemented an end-to-end LangChain pipeline using PyPDFLoader, chunking strategies, OpenAI embeddings, and ChromaDB, with emphasis on grounding to reduce hallucinations and ensure research-grade accuracy. Collaborated closely with a non-technical PhD advisor to scope requirements, manage cost constraints, and demo iterative progress.”

“Backend/data engineer who built an enterprise LLM assistant (AI Genie) at Broadband Insights using a LangChain + GPT-4 + Pinecone RAG pipeline to automate broadband analytics reporting. Developed Python/Dagster ETL processing 10M+ records/day and improved data freshness by 60%, with production-grade scalability patterns (async workers, containerized microservices, Kubernetes) and strong multi-tenant isolation practices.”

“Product-minded software engineer who owned a Shopify POS app end-to-end at Swym, shipping an MVP and then scaling iteration speed with E2E automation and CI/CD—resulting in a Shopify Badge, Top-5 App Store ranking, and +40% new user acquisition. Also built an ESG insights tool using React/TypeScript + FastAPI with Snowflake and a RAG pipeline, plus microservices patterns (async jobs, queues, DLQs, autoscaling) and internal Metabase/SQL analytics dashboards.”

“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.”

“Robotics software engineer who led an autonomous nursery management robot project at Auburn University, spanning RGB-D/IMU sensor fusion, SLAM navigation, and real-time ML for plant detection/quality assessment. Strong ROS1/ROS2 background (C++/Python) with deployment on NVIDIA Jetson, including profiling-driven optimization of YOLO segmentation for real-time behavior and multi-robot (UGV/UAV) communication using ROS2.”

“Cal Poly student with embedded + networking + robotics project experience, including an E4E summer research internship building an acoustic collar on an STM32 and collaborating weekly with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. Built a hobby ESP32-based Spotify “now playing” display and demonstrated strong cross-domain debugging by tracing failures to router behavior rather than code.”