Vetted Figma Professionals

“AI engineer with robotics perception experience at Forterra, building and deploying moving-object/obstacle detection models into real-time robot pipelines. Addressed training crashes/latency via sub-batch training and optimizer tuning, and improved debugging using ROS/ROS2 tooling with 3D voxel visualization and color-coded validation.”

“QA/automation engineer with experience at Riot Games’ player platform, owning E2E automation for mission-critical authentication/account flows using Playwright/JavaScript plus API automation. Built CI merge gates and nightly verification with Slack reporting, and repeatedly caught backend-driven session/authorization regressions before production. Known for stabilizing flaky UI tests via selector strategy and network intercepts, and for influencing design early with testability hooks and telemetry.”

Hannah Avey-Overfelt

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Multimedia Designer specializing in animation, video production, and campaign creative

Cary, NC

“Marketing designer with John Deere and Gear.com experience spanning high-polish campaign creative, web product-page image overhauls at scale, and multi-platform video editing in Premiere Pro. Drove international dealer adoption of campaign assets (notably Canada and France) and measures impact through clicks/downloads, while maintaining fast remote feedback loops across time zones.”

Elbot Carman

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Senior Creative & Brand Designer specializing in brand systems, digital marketing, and UI/UX

Atlanta, GA13y exp

“Brand/marketing designer with experience modernizing a SaaS company’s identity (Hudson MX) and improving external perception through cohesive brand systems and asset libraries. Also supported American Express by building a scalable Figma component library to rapidly recreate UI screenshots with high fidelity using in-product access and Chrome DevTools for exact specs, and produced stakeholder interview videos for LinkedIn/Vimeo in Adobe Premiere.”

Elvin Hunt

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Senior Graphic Designer specializing in branding, advertising, and digital/print design

6y exp

“Marketing-focused visual designer/art director with portfolio work spanning a large-scale nonprofit fundraising campaign (Operation Smile), an automotive proposal campaign (Nissan) with static + motion concepts, and a corporate internal campaign (Millicom/Tigo). Builds scalable Figma design systems and modular video templates (Premiere/After Effects) to support high-volume output while maintaining strict brand consistency in fully remote, async collaboration.”

Ishaan Nanal

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Intern-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI/ML

Ithaca, NY1y exp

“Built and shipped an LLM-powered RAG research copilot used by 20+ users across biology, physics, and ML, cutting literature review from days to minutes. Strong focus on production reliability—iterated on chunking/retrieval/prompting, added validation and modular pipelines for debuggability, and is now containerizing and scaling the system with Docker and GCP.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience shipping production features in both networking (Cisco: ACL object groups, 3G/4G) and fintech/online banking (PLAID, Auto Pay, OLB, membership qualification). Works primarily with React/Java/Hibernate and REST/JSON, emphasizing caching/memoization for UI performance and strong testing/XP practices to maintain quality under faster release cycles.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent JPMorgan experience building GPT-4-powered customer sentiment/feedback analytics products (Next.js 14 App Router + FastAPI + Postgres) and owning them post-launch with CloudWatch/Datadog observability. Also implemented Temporal-based transaction reconciliation workflows with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQ, versioning) and has prior high-scale healthcare dashboard experience at Optum.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong enterprise delivery experience across manufacturing and semiconductor use cases, owning deployments from discovery through post-launch support. Stands out for combining traditional product engineering with applied GenAI workflows and data pipeline reliability work, including a manufacturing app that reportedly saved a Fortune 500 customer about $6M and an AI chat panel adopted by 70% of pricing analysts.”

“Software engineer with experience building internal tools and admin consoles, including a stealth startup database management console and a Fidelity internship project that transformed QA test coverage tracking from unwieldy Excel sheets into a clearer, more actionable UI. Strongest signals are end-to-end ownership, modular app design, and practical iteration based on user feedback.”

“LLM/agent engineer who shipped a two-stage AI recruitment screening platform at Foursquare that automated resume ingestion through behavioral assessment, delivering an 85% reduction in screening time across 5,000+ applications with auditability and confidence-gated decisions. Also built a multi-agent benchmarking framework using MCP tool interfaces and a RAGAS + LangSmith evaluation/observability stack, including async re-architecture that cut production latency by 50%.”

Daivya Trehaan

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Intern-level strategy and market research analyst specializing in FinTech and consumer insights

Dubai, UAE2y exp

“UCLA cognitive science student with hands-on startup strategy and market research experience, including work at AstroTech Builtin on user segmentation, fintech verticals, and expansion opportunities in remittance-heavy markets like the Philippines. She also builds her own consumer MVP concepts, combining campus-based user research, community-led growth ideas, and AI-assisted prototyping with a strong instinct for messaging and value communication.”

“Senior frontend engineer with 8+ years of experience spanning Verizon and 7-Eleven, focused on developer platforms, design systems, and real-time operational products. Built framework-agnostic component libraries and large-scale React/TypeScript architectures that reduced feature development time by 30%, improved UI satisfaction by 40%, and cut onboarding time by 25-30%. Particularly strong in WebSocket-driven GenAI experiences, observability dashboards, and cross-functional API/platform leadership.”

Jason VanLue

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Executive product and design leader specializing in AI-native SaaS and EdTech

St. Augustine, FL18y exp

“Design-led product executive who helped build Code School from concept into a category-defining learn-by-doing education platform acquired by Pluralsight, and later scaled EPD to 40+ while driving $60M ARR. Now leading AI-native product development in nonprofit fundraising, with a clear philosophy that AI should amplify human relationships rather than replace them.”

“UX/product designer in a medical laboratory B2B portal context who prototypes beyond Figma—built a GPT-based settings chatbot to address findability and low settings adoption, iterating through 11 tested versions with regression safeguards and structured prompts to mitigate instruction truncation/hallucinations. Also redesigned clinic order management by separating doctor vs assistant experiences and introducing step-based status views for a long, multi-stage lab order lifecycle; former full-stack engineer who improves design-to-dev handoffs via templates and readiness rituals.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built a Python/Flask task-management API with JWT/RBAC, modular service/repository architecture, and PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance optimizations (indexes, lazy loading, bulk ops, pooling). Also implemented multi-tenant data isolation strategies and built an OpenAI-powered document summarization workflow using chunking, async processing, Redis background workers, and caching to improve throughput.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered SMS survey platform for a nonprofit serving at-risk communities (internet-limited users), using Cloudflare Workers + Twilio and a state-machine survey engine. Scaled it to ~10k active users with near-zero downtime, added English/Spanish support, and iteratively improved LLM behavior (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to handle nuanced, real-world SMS responses reliably.”

Belal Beydoun

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Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI and data analytics

Detroit, MI2y exp

“Software engineer focused on real-time, low-latency AI pipelines: built an end-to-end mobile-to-backend image classification system using React Native/Expo, Node.js, gRPC, MySQL, and Google Vision AI, optimizing throughput and latency. Also integrated an AI model into a real-time field workflow at DTE via Node.js + Azure Databricks, adding data cleaning/validation and safe fallback logic for reliability in operations.”

NIDHEESH VELUTHERI

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in modern web applications

Toronto, Canada13y exp

“Frontend engineer with insurance-domain experience (AAA Insurance and insurance quoting flows) who has delivered Angular/React/Next.js products end-to-end. Notable for building a complex drag-and-drop email template/code-generation UI and for modernizing React codebases (Redux->Context, lazy loading, memoization) to improve performance and reduce security vulnerabilities, while using feature flags and strong QA automation for fast, controlled releases.”

Yun-Ting Chiou

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in TypeScript, React, and Java microservices

Chicago, IL2y exp

“Software engineer with finance-domain experience who built an internal transaction management system end-to-end at Prospect Equities (TypeScript/React Native + Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS), delivering 40% lower query latency and 73% operational efficiency gains. Has also designed Terraform-provisioned, SQS-based distributed systems and scaled workloads to 10,000+ concurrent users, including monolith-to-SOA modernization that cut internal review time by 47%.”

Shangyi Chen

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java and Angular web applications

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of an internal, customer-facing data visualization product and helped build a data modification pipeline used across the organization for data integrity/governance. Demonstrates pragmatic MVP-driven delivery within sprints and makes performance-oriented architectural decisions (e.g., batching API calls to reduce frontend request volume) in TypeScript/React systems.”

Kevin Scharf

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Senior Project Management & Compliance Professional in Aerospace & Defense

Englewood, CO8y exp

“Internal audit/GRC professional who partners closely with engineering on access controls, change management, and remediation—often translating "technically compliant" states into realistic threat scenarios and business impact. Has driven measurable reductions in privileged-access exposure through least-privilege resets and recurring reviews, and has hands-on experience troubleshooting real-world deployment/integration issues (including in a manufacturing environment) using logs/metrics and strong escalation documentation.”

Naga Manasa Bandaru

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Mid-level Frontend Software Engineer specializing in React, Next.js, and TypeScript

Dallas – Fort Worth, TX4y exp

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with FedEx experience building an internal logistics dashboard for near real-time shipment status and performance metrics using Next.js App Router + TypeScript. Strong in production ownership and performance work—uses React Profiler/Chrome DevTools to eliminate expensive re-renders and applies Postgres indexing/query tuning validated via EXPLAIN ANALYZE to improve dashboard responsiveness.”