Vetted Cursor (AI Code Editor) Professionals

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on AWS serverless and data platform experience: built a Lambda-based reCAPTCHA/token validation + SES subscription workflow and designed Glue ETL pipelines producing Parquet datasets for Athena. Also led a high-traffic multilingual media CMS modernization at Radio Free Asia by migrating to Arc XP using parallel runs, phased rollouts, feature flags, and rollback plans.”

“Unity developer with experience building an optimized comic-reader/content delivery system for Marvel HQ using Addressables—avoiding bulk downloads and dynamically loading/unloading pages to reduce mobile memory/disk usage and improve runtime performance. Also has multiplayer experience using server-authoritative Netcode with prediction and deterministic battle behavior, including real-time kinematic body tracking, and leverages AI tools (Cursor/Manus) to speed prototyping and refactoring.”

“Built and deployed a scalable, production-ready LLM knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (LangChain + vector store/FAISS) to replace keyword search for internal documents. Demonstrates hands-on expertise in hallucination reduction and retrieval quality improvements through semantic chunking, similarity tuning, prompt design, and human-in-the-loop validation, plus strong stakeholder communication via demos and visual explanations.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on data-heavy platforms, building Spring Boot microservices and Angular/React dashboards end-to-end. Has hands-on experience improving large-scale API and UI performance (including cutting 8–10s response times) and ensuring cross-service consistency using Kafka, idempotent consumers, and strong validation/transaction patterns on AWS with CI/CD and observability (Prometheus/ELK).”

“Senior Data Scientist in consulting who has built production RAG systems for insurance/annuity document search at large scale (100K+ PDF pages), emphasizing grounded answers, guardrails, and low-latency retrieval. Experienced in end-to-end MLOps for LLM apps—monitoring, evaluation sets, drift handling, and safe rollouts—and in orchestrating complex pipelines with Prefect/Airflow and deploying services on Kubernetes.”

“Backend developer (recent co-op at Ticker) building and architecting financial backend services with near real-time data needs, including third-party API integrations. Improved performance and reliability via Redis caching (tiered refresh + TTL) and PostgreSQL query tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE + composite indexes), and has exposure to AI-agent/RAG concepts for validating stock-market information against trusted sources.”

“Generalist game artist/VFX creator working in a small indie studio, with hands-on experience shipping mobile/VR-friendly real-time effects in Unity (e.g., a bonfire built with Shader Graph plus Shuriken particles). Strong focus on performance tradeoffs for mobile—draw calls, memory, texture atlasing/material reuse—and uses profiling/testing to choose the right approach (shader vs flipbook vs particles).”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped a production RAG platform at Ticker Inc. on GCP (Qdrant + Postgres) delivering sub-second retrieval over 550k+ items, with measurable gains in latency and answer quality (HNSW optimization, MMR re-ranking). Also built an asynchronous LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent research system (10x faster cycles) and partnered with Indiana University doctors on synthetic patient records and ML error analysis using clinician-friendly F1/loss dashboards.”

“Built and deployed serverless AWS applications (Lambda/S3/RDS Proxy) including a NASA L’Space React + Python data analysis tool, focusing on performance for large datasets. Demonstrates strong cloud troubleshooting across compute and networking (CloudWatch-driven diagnosis, EC2 scaling, security group fixes) and a user-driven iteration loop that improved product usability with dynamic filtering and interactive UI.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building Python/Django APIs on PostgreSQL and delivering AWS serverless + containerized architectures (API Gateway/Lambda, IaC, CI/CD, secrets/config). Has operated AWS Glue pipelines ingesting S3 log/3rd-party data with schema evolution monitoring, modernized legacy batch logic into API-based services via parallel-run parity testing, and improved Postgres query performance by several seconds; prefers fully remote work and targets $120–130k base.”

“Builder/creator who ships practical AI automations and content workflows: created a no-backend website that uses ChatGPT to generate AI agents/manual workflows, and built an inbound/outbound receptionist using n8n and Retell AI (later migrated to Retell workflows). Also produces an AI-written/produced podcast with 55+ hosts and uses tools like Descript and Sora with make.com for batch content creation and scheduling.”

“Built and shipped a production AI booking/quoting system for a Spanish-speaking cleaning business serving English-speaking customers, covering the full booking and payment flow and generating bilingual SEO/AEO content. Uses Gemini/Genkit with multi-agent orchestration (ADK/MCP, LangChain) and a production stack on Vertex AI + Cloud Run + Terraform, with analytics wired from Google Analytics to BigQuery for measurable agent performance.”

“Freelance Unity/XR developer with multiple Meta Quest projects (including non-game XR apps) and a 1st-place win at Meta’s Sense AI hackathon in Barcelona for an AI camera-access VR assistant for vehicle repairs. Built a VR Spanish-learning experience solo and has hands-on experience optimizing VR performance (culling, view restriction) and integrating voice recognition for language interactions.”

“Unity gameplay engineer with AAA experience who built a highly configurable weather/day-night system (clouds/rain/sun-moon/stars) that influenced core gameplay decisions (vehicles, time-of-day, farming/animal needs). Also has hands-on multiplayer experience with Photon Fusion (including client-backend communication and physics sync troubleshooting) and has set up CI/CD and build pipelines.”

“Built and deployed “ApartmentFinder AI,” a multi-agent system using Google ADK, Gemini, and Google Maps MCP to automate apartment shortlisting and commute-time analysis, cutting a 45–70 minute user workflow down to ~30 seconds. Also has strong delivery/process chops from serving as an SDLC Release Coordinator, managing 52+ releases and reducing SDLC issues by 84%.”

“Full-stack TypeScript/React/Next.js builder who created an end-to-end customer-facing product (AI Job Master) that generates personalized outreach from resumes and job descriptions. Demonstrates strong product + engineering ownership with rapid MVP iteration, instrumentation-driven prioritization, and pragmatic reliability patterns (microservices, queues, correlation IDs, retries) while tackling a key AI challenge: user trust and output consistency.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with internship experience at eXp Realty and Pulse InfoFrame, building survey platforms and a drag-and-drop survey management UI in React + TypeScript. Notably helped execute a post-deployment migration from DynamoDB to Amazon RDS to enable scalable SQL aggregation (tested with ~70k survey instances), and monitored rollout via CloudWatch/Cloudflare logs while driving QA and load testing.”

“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).”

“Full-stack engineer currently building an employee management system end-to-end with React, Node/Express, and PostgreSQL, including JWT auth and RBAC. Previously worked at TCS on large-scale State Bank of India web applications, applying Redis caching, server-side pagination/filtering, and async job offloading to improve performance and reliability.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a checklist configuration/task execution system using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, with a React Native app consuming the execution UI via WebView. Was the only full-stack developer at a very small startup (CTO/CFO/CEO team), owning feature delivery plus client-facing on-call debugging, and has hands-on Postgres modeling and query optimization experience.”