Vetted Debugging Professionals

“Full-stack intern at Rebel who owned backend work on a cross-platform music platform using Python/Django with MongoDB, implementing user-focused REST APIs end-to-end. Also built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) to containerize and deploy to AWS, and has experience integrating Kafka-based real-time event processing with reliability and observability practices.”

“Security-focused engineer/customer-facing technical lead with SaaS platform experience at Ipsilon Lab, advising customers on API security and secure SDLC improvements. Has implemented production AppSec tooling (SAST/SCA), designed AWS least-privilege agent/scanning deployments, and led Kubernetes CI/CD security-agent integrations with Secrets Manager and PR gating. Strong track record troubleshooting complex customer integrations end-to-end (logs/metrics/traces through DB execution plans) and driving measurable stability/security posture improvements.”

“UE5 gameplay scripter (Blueprint-focused) from small startup teams who specializes in setting up core project architecture (game loop/data flow, controller, game instance, UI/menu) and building modular systems reused across multiple games. Rebuilt a save-system architecture from scratch to replace a problematic asset and improve scalability/maintainability, and has hands-on performance optimization experience (profiling, level streaming, Nanite-to-LOD tradeoffs). Also implemented a realistic cricket match simulation using Markov chains and transition matrices.”

“Cloud-focused application security practitioner with hands-on AWS and Kubernetes experience, including securing a manufacturing monitoring platform (API auth, least-privilege IAM, CI/CD security checks) and troubleshooting a production data-ingestion outage caused by an overly restrictive IAM change. Experienced in implementing cloud-native security tooling (IAM Access Analyzer, Inspector, CloudWatch) and deploying monitoring/security agents via Kubernetes sidecars with Helm, Prometheus/Grafana, and Jenkins-driven CI/CD.”

Stuart Brooks

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Senior VR and Gameplay Programmer specializing in Unity and immersive interaction systems

Stockholm, Sweden10y exp

“Unity gameplay engineer with hands-on experience building infinite procedural large-world terrain systems and solving floating-point precision problems in multiplayer scenarios where players can be widely dispersed. Has shipped/operated Photon-based multiplayer and also built custom server-authoritative networking with client-side prediction and reconciliation, including late-stage stabilization work fixing sync bugs that caused soft locks.”

Vikram Sandigaru

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Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in AI agents, RAG pipelines, and LLM evaluation

Boston, US3y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM systems at Founderbay, including a low-latency voice agent and a graph-based multi-agent research assistant. Strong focus on reliability in real workflows—hybrid SERP + full-site scraping RAG, grounding guardrails, validation checkpoints, and transcript-driven evaluation—plus performance tuning with async FastAPI, Redis caching, and containerization. Also partnered with a non-technical ops lead to automate post-call follow-ups via call summarization, field extraction, and tool-triggered actions.”

“Unity mobile game developer (10+ years) who has shipped 15+ iOS/Android titles (including Word Collect, Trivia Start, Word Nut, Hot Las Vegas Slots). Built a large-scale adventure/quest progression feature with 1000+ quests using procedural map generation, UI virtualization for mobile memory constraints, and a server-driven, spreadsheet-importable configuration system that became a reusable standard across games. Based in San Diego (PST) and targeting $155k USD; open to contract or full-time.”

Abhishek Ghaisas

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Intern-level Data Scientist specializing in AI and full-stack applications

Pune, India1y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience building production ML and Python backend systems, including a real-time social media monitoring pipeline handling 1000+ events per second and a prototype AI operations assistant for Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Stands out for combining reliability engineering, automation, and LLM/NLP-to-SQL work, with measurable impact such as improving uptime from 92% to 99.4%.”

“Healthcare software sales candidate with hands-on experience building outbound campaigns, refining ICP and messaging in a small, iterative environment, and selling AI-enabled EMR capabilities. Demonstrates strong consultative discovery in nuanced care settings like home health and home care, with measurable outbound results including a 12% reply rate, 5-10 demos, and 25% demo conversion.”

“AI/automation-focused implementation engineer who has owned customer-facing LLM deployments end-to-end, spanning support automation, lead outreach, and messy document-processing workflows. Stands out for combining hands-on technical depth in Python/OpenAI/RAG systems with measurable business impact, including cutting support resolution time from 24 hours to 6 hours and reducing manual outreach work by 60%.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience modernizing healthcare platform authorization and EVV compliance workflows, including replacing hardcoded permissions with a Cerbos-based RBAC/ABAC system. Stands out for pragmatic AI-assisted development in regulated environments, with a strong emphasis on testing, auditability, and catching subtle business-rule failures before production.”

“Full-stack and AI systems engineer who has shipped both enterprise fintech and real-time voice AI products. At NCR, they repaired a broken transaction-fee workflow end to end using React/TypeScript, Lambda, and DynamoDB; at Lillup, they turned a research voice prototype into production infrastructure, cutting latency from 350ms to under 200ms and raising user ratings from 2.8 to 4.1. They also built an LLM side project that uses Claude and GPT to cross-review each other through structured JSON consensus rounds.”

“Built and owned invoice automation and alerting products at Neuralix, automating multi-site electricity invoice ingestion from PDFs into validated JSON with strict schema enforcement and LLM-based validation (reported ~98% compliance). Delivered zero-manual processing at 200+ invoices/month and ~5x faster throughput, and designed a domain-driven alert lifecycle to reduce noisy notifications and improve operational response.”

“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.”

“Frontend web developer who owned end-to-end delivery for multiple client websites at Vox Interactif and RGI Solutions, including solo launches and rigorous cross-device/browser QA. Experienced with Joomla/WordPress ecosystems (selecting and customizing reliable add-ons) and structured rollout practices (staging/sub-branch + client sign-off). Currently upskilling in React by building a custom wiki-style dashboard for fantasy novel worldbuilding.”

“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.”

“Backend engineer with fintech/transaction-processing experience who built and optimized a Spring Boot + PostgreSQL + AWS service handling money transactions, resolving peak-traffic latency via query/index and connection pool tuning. Shipped an LLM-driven risk-flagging workflow integrated via a FastAPI Python service, owning prompt design, validation guardrails, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop escalation to reduce false positives and improve precision over time.”

Sai Harsha Kurapati

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Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems and industrial IoT

Indianapolis, IN4y exp

“Backend/Python engineer focused on real-time sensor/IoT analytics: built dashboards and a high-throughput ingestion pipeline (MQTT -> Python worker -> TimescaleDB) with buffering, batch inserts, and validation. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (Dockerized microservices, HPA, probes, ArgoCD) who has handled production incidents like CrashLoopBackOff under peak load and supported an on-prem analytics migration to AWS using shadow traffic and rollback plans.”

“Built a production 13-step LLM agent pipeline at Sentari AI that converts diary entries into personalized AI responses and a persistent structured user profile. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to production AI: strict schemas, function calling, state-machine orchestration, confidence thresholds, logging, and validation layers to control non-determinism and prevent bad profile updates.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience building adaptive assessment and LMS-style platforms across React/TypeScript, edge/serverless backends, and Postgres, with strong evidence of cross-layer debugging and performance optimization. Also brings ML product experience from a small-team internship, where they shipped a CatBoost-powered investor demo under ambiguity and created reusable inference infrastructure.”

Jarrid Kamphenkel

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Senior Gameplay Engineer specializing in game engines and narrative systems

8y exp

“Gameplay/tools engineer with experience in Unity/C# and narrative systems who built an internal scripting formatter at Pocket Gems that nearly doubled scene scripting throughput. Also worked on The Wayward Realms, integrating a local lore-trained NLP system for procedural NPC dialogue and building a host-authoritative co-op prototype with custom replication debugging.”

“Built and owned enterprise data/integration deployments and production AI workflows, including a Python-based migration pipeline that moved 2M records with major improvements in onboarding speed, error rate, latency, and uptime. Also shipped a financial RAG assistant over 50K documents with sub-second p95 latency, showing a strong blend of customer-facing deployment ownership, data engineering, and LLM systems expertise.”

Oleksandr Andriyanov

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Director-level Technical Architect specializing in AI, spatial computing, and industrial platforms

Pleasant Hill, CA20y exp

“Senior engineering/product leader with startup-oriented experience spanning mobile apps, SaaS, ML systems, and full-stack architecture. They combine executive-level product/architecture thinking with hands-on debugging and a strong point of view on scaling engineering teams, while also actively using AI copilots and agentic workflows to accelerate software delivery.”