Vetted C++ Professionals

“Software engineer actively using AI-first development workflows, including Cursor, prompt engineering, and multi-agent setups, to dramatically compress development time. Most notably, they say they built a Regression Optimizer product end-to-end from scratch and used multi-agent approaches to improve troubleshooting and response quality.”

“Undergraduate Research Assistant at Virginia Commonwealth University with exposure to autonomous vehicle and UAV platforms in the Open Cyber City lab, assembling and setting up Duckiebots/Duckiedrones. Built introductory ROS 2 Python projects (ping-pong pub/sub and services) and has some experience setting up Docker for Duckietown-based robotics environments.”

“IT helpdesk/support professional in an education environment with strong experience deploying software via MDM to faculty/staff and students, validating installs, and recommending practical workflow solutions (e.g., iPad PDF annotation to Google Drive). Comfortable troubleshooting live operational issues like A/V failures and copier outages, and motivated by improving real-world usability over flashy but poorly designed tools.”

“Application security engineer/advisor with hands-on experience securing AWS-based, containerized services and embedding SAST/DAST/SCA and container scanning into GitHub/GitLab CI/CD. Drove measurable outcomes (50% faster vuln triage, 40% fewer misconfigs) and has deep operational troubleshooting experience in Kubernetes (agent failures due to CPU throttling/network policies), plus pragmatic strategies to reduce developer friction and handle API rate limits.”

“Console game QA tester with hands-on PlayStation/Xbox/Nintendo experience, including investigating a difficult cross-platform multiplayer desync by isolating network/game conditions and delivering evidence-rich bug reports (logs/timestamps/video) followed by regression. Also brings QA experience from capital markets systems (market surveillance/index calculation), prioritizing issues based on severity and regulatory/latency risk, and uses AI tools to improve reporting and RCA summaries.”

Hamza Ali

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Mid-level Game Developer specializing in Unity/Unreal, multiplayer, and AR/VR

6y exp

“Unity game developer with hands-on experience building high-impact gameplay feel features (cinematic slow-motion bullet-follow sniper mechanic) and shipping a cross-platform multiplayer word/voting game (ACROMANIA) using Photon PUN. Has also worked on Unity WebGL pipelines involving VRM model uploads and heap memory crash diagnosis, and uses AI tools (ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude) to accelerate debugging and understanding of complex code.”

Rasheed Samady

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Entry-level AI Engineer specializing in automation and ML platforms

San Francisco, CA0y exp

“Built a production Python lead intelligence pipeline that combined external APIs, website crawling, and automated opportunity brief generation, with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and recovery. Also has hands-on Playwright experience hardening flaky, dynamic web automations and reducing intermittent failures to under 5% through logging, screenshots, session management, and retry strategies.”

“Embedded/IoT-focused builder who has shipped solo projects on ESP32 + FreeRTOS, including a security camera system with a machine-vision pipeline, light-sensor-driven IR control, and Telegram-based animated GIF alerts. Demonstrated real-time debugging skills by resolving race conditions and timing issues via buffer redesign and mutex-based synchronization; no ROS/ROS2 experience yet but open to learning.”

“Controls and Navigation Engineer at Krishiboot Technologies building an AgriTech robot, owning crop-lane path planning, outdoor GNSS navigation, ML model integration for weeds/crops, and multi-sensor localization (encoders + dual IMUs + GNSS via EKF) validated through Gazebo simulation and field trials. Also delivered a ROS2-based food-serving robot with LiDAR SLAM, visual SLAM obstacle avoidance, and Nav2 SMAC/A* motion planning tuned for dynamic restaurant deployments.”

“Unity developer with hands-on experience evolving enemy AI from event-driven logic to FSMs and ultimately behavior trees, improving both performance and debuggability while making enemy reactions feel faster and more consistent to players. Has built multiple multiplayer games using Photon PUN 2 and Unity NetCode, focusing on server-authoritative synchronization and minimizing network traffic; also applies AI tools to accelerate prototyping and diagnose complex issues like OPC UA tag mismatches.”

“Unity developer who has published multiple games (e.g., "Hole people", "beads out") and reports building nearly everything inside the games himself, including gameplay, remote config, and A/B testing. Also built "Age of battles PvP" with backend server, economy, multiplayer, analytics, and blockchain/Web3/NFT functionality, including custom verification logic to mitigate third-party transaction delays. Currently earning about $3,000/month due to covering both backend and Unity/multiplayer responsibilities.”

“Robotics-focused engineer with hands-on experience building a lab robotic arm, combining software engineering with circuit design and hardware integration (DC motors, Raspberry Pi, gamepad control). Has worked on mapping (GMapping) debugging and implemented MQTT-based communication between Raspberry Pi and ESP32, plus used MATLAB/Simulink to simulate STM32 behavior for system-level testing.”

“Technical Game Designer on TimeSplitters Rewind who owned multiple Challenge Mode maps and shipped modes like stealth-focused “Infiltration” and “target practice,” handling AI placement/pathing, validation logic for multi-mode compatibility, and playtest-driven tuning. Currently prototyping a UE5 Blueprint-driven brawler with class systems, spawners, and Behavior Tree iteration (fear/roaming) over a fast two-week development loop.”

Mohammed Elwaei

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in systems, compilers, and AI research

Tampa, FL2y exp

“Engineering student with hands-on robotics and simulation experience: led an Arduino line-following “Batmobile” robot project used as a K–12 teaching tool and won best design in a 100+ student section. Also implemented SARSA reinforcement learning for a 16-DOF robotic hand in MuJoCo, optimizing the state representation to train efficiently on a CPU, and brings strong cloud/container skills (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS certs).”

Erik Grajo

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Mid-level Game QA Tester specializing in gameplay and animation testing

6y exp

“Internal game QA tester at Torn Banner Studios (Chivalry 2), focused on stress testing developer builds and uncovering issues like bad spawns/out-of-bounds and unintended audio triggers. Reports bugs primarily through Jira (and sometimes Google Sheets), often attaching edited video evidence and coordinating with developers via Discord; expects compensation comparable to $30/hour.”

Austin Gil Mendoza

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Junior Game Designer specializing in systems and gameplay

Dasmariñas City, Philippines2y exp

“Game/system designer with hands-on Unreal Engine 5 Blueprint prototyping who has owned end-to-end survival and endless-runner mode systems. Strong in progression/economy and hero/stat system design, iterating quickly from playtests (including performance fixes via platform reuse/object pooling) and producing clear, implementation-ready GDDs with formulas and tuning tables.”

“Unity-focused game developer with hands-on experience shipping performance-critical mobile, multiplayer, AI-driven, and cross-platform VR/mobile systems. Particularly strong in profiling-led optimization, resilient LLM integration, Photon networking, and adapting shared Unity architectures across Meta Quest and mobile.”

“Built a Smart Resume Screening tool with a React frontend and a Python backend, owning most backend architecture and delivery. Implemented FastAPI endpoints for file upload and NLP/ML inference, created the end-to-end resume classification pipeline, logged predictions to a database for accuracy tracking, and deployed a Dockerized service optimized for low-latency, concurrent processing.”