Vetted Documentation Professionals

“Research-oriented ML engineer/scientist with deep experience applying generative models, adaptive optimization, and HPC infrastructure to complex physics analyses. Built reusable Python-based tools that replaced expensive Monte Carlo workflows, integrated across HTCondor/SLURM environments, and reduced analysis timelines by 2x while supporting broader team adoption and training.”

“Game animator with shipped AAA experience across sports and shooter titles, including FOX NHL/NBA Live 2005, a mocap cutscene workflow on Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and first-person weapon work on Black Ops 7. Strong focus on gameplay-readability constraints (frame counts, key poses) and cross-team collaboration to implement animations and seamless gameplay-to-cinematic transitions, primarily using Maya/MotionBuilder and proprietary pipelines.”

“NVIDIA engineer who built and shipped a production LLM-powered enterprise knowledge system (summarization, transcription, and Q&A) that cut document retrieval time ~30%. Deep hands-on experience with RAG (FAISS/Pinecone), GPU-accelerated microservices on AWS, and reliability/safety practices (Guardrails AI, prompt A/B testing, canary releases) plus strong MLOps orchestration across Airflow, Step Functions, and Kubernetes GitOps.”

Thazim Banu Shaffee

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Engineering Manager specializing in payments, risk, and high-scale distributed systems

San Jose, CA14y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach on a risk core transaction platform (payments/branded checkout) who led major migrations from a monolithic stack to microservices, including API contract redesign and performance improvements (reported ~500ms latency reduction). Experienced running high-stakes production incidents (upgrade-related outage/degradation) end-to-end with RCA and rollout-process changes, and has accelerated delivery via documentation/tooling (audit sign-off cycle reduced from ~3 sprints to ~1).”

Jack Bridges

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Software Engineer specializing in game platforms and player-facing systems

Brier, WA27y exp

“Senior engineer with a rare mix of game-platform and mobile content-delivery experience: helped ship the Xbox 360 Party system and later architected the custom multi-catalog asset pipeline behind Netflix Stories. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can design scalable, low-memory, high-stability systems for live content across many titles and external partners.”

“Backend/data engineer with experience at AWS and Intuit building and operating production serverless systems and data pipelines. Delivered an internal AWS TV video-processing platform using Step Functions/Lambda/S3/DynamoDB with strong reliability and cost controls, and built Glue-based ETL for compliance/risk events (Kafka to partitioned Parquet). Also modernized legacy compliance systems into Java/Node event-driven services and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (200s to 20s).”