Vetted Firebase Professionals

“Backend/AI engineer who has built production LLM orchestration and agentic workflow systems in Python/FastAPI on Kubernetes across AWS/Azure. Demonstrated strong reliability engineering by debugging a real-world memory retention issue that caused latency spikes/timeouts, and strong data/performance chops with a PostgreSQL optimization that cut query latency from ~1.2s to ~15ms. Targets roles building scalable, guardrailed AI-driven workflow automation with robust observability and human-in-the-loop controls.”

“Backend engineer from FoodSupply.ai who built and evolved a scalable restaurant/supplier product and order management platform using Node.js and REST APIs. Implemented a hybrid MySQL+MongoDB data architecture, optimized performance with Redis/Prisma, and led a phased migration with feature flags and a temporary sync layer to maintain data consistency. Strong focus on production security (OAuth2, RBAC, row-level security, AWS IAM) and reliability practices (testing with Pytest, Docker/AWS pipelines).”

“Unity/VR developer who has shipped on Meta Quest (SideQuest) and built standalone PCVR medical applications used with real patients. Built a fully solo roguelike twin-stick shooter with a highly modular ScriptableObject/state-machine architecture, including custom build-time tooling to overcome Unity runtime constraints. Uses AI selectively (e.g., Claude) to generate editor tooling like a match-3 level designer to speed up level production.”

“Unity game developer who built a Twitch chat integration enabling a streamer's audience to actively participate in gameplay, boosting engagement and virality. Has hands-on multiplayer experience with Photon, including RPCs/synced variables and designing for disconnects, late-joins, and low-bandwidth data transfer, and uses Cursor/AI agent workflows to accelerate feature development while maintaining code quality.”

“Frontend-focused engineer (Shahroz) who has rebuilt and modernized products end-to-end, including a FitTech dashboard redesign from scratch with standardized tooling (ESLint/Prettier, Husky + conventional commits, unit tests, PR validation). Has delivered complex React + TypeScript dashboards involving real-time live streaming and analytics, and shipped an e-commerce PDP with integrations like Contentful and social feeds using an MVP-first, sprint-based process.”

“Frontend engineer with experience leading an end-to-end website rebranding at Caseware, coordinating across product, design, DevOps, and backend teams while integrating CMS, third-party services, and backend APIs. Built SaaS dashboard interfaces in React + TypeScript and emphasizes quality and scale through unit/integration testing pipelines plus performance work like responsive image optimization, lazy loading, SSR, and React memoization.”

“Frontend lead for a consumer-facing social platform, owning architecture through release. Built scalable React/TypeScript systems (Redux Toolkit, Remix) with a shared Storybook component library and strong quality gates (CI, Jest/Cypress). Experienced modernizing legacy codebases incrementally with feature flags and shipping major dashboard features with staged rollouts and close QA collaboration.”

“Frontend engineer who created an in-house React-like framework (“React-Wilcox”) enabling modern, event-driven UI components on extremely legacy browsers (as far back as 2002), including race-condition avoidance via batched state updates. Also does freelance work untangling AI/vibe-coded frontends for nontechnical founders, componentizing UIs and fixing routing/readability, and recently built a React+TS social app for martial artists with privacy-preserving location distance features.”

“F2P product/game designer with live-ops experience on an NBC Group-owned mobile app in the MENA region (~200k users), driving personalization (segmented ads/trivia) and monetization (regional pricing, LTOs, season pass). Owns the full delivery lifecycle—PRDs/backlog through QA/UAT and release—and uses retention/conversion metrics and A/B testing to tune rewards and the game economy.”

“Backend engineer who owned the API layer for an AI trust/analytics dashboard (trust scores, stability checks, public verification endpoints) using Python/FastAPI and Postgres. Has hands-on DevOps experience deploying FastAPI and Node.js services to AWS Kubernetes with GitHub Actions + ArgoCD GitOps, plus Kafka-based real-time event streaming and careful staged migration practices (shadow traffic/dual writes, rollback planning).”

“Engineering/CTO-style leader with hands-on architecture experience who has driven end-to-end modernization of a manual antiques auction operation—building centralized web-accessible data systems, digitizing historical records via OCR/freelancers, and defining profitability-focused KPIs with an eye toward predictive modeling. Emphasizes provider-agnostic, containerized SaaS architecture to avoid vendor lock-in and has experience scaling a small engineering team with ownership-based culture and lightweight processes.”

“Software engineer with experience across edtech, live gaming, and an AI document intelligence platform, delivering end-to-end customer-facing features and production backends. Built secure, automated live-session scheduling integrating Zoom and TalentLMS (JWT/RBAC, idempotency, transactions) cutting setup time from ~3 minutes to under 1 minute, and optimized real-time gaming dashboards/APIs with query tuning, caching, and CDN improvements (~60% latency reduction under peak load) on AWS.”

“Software engineering intern with hands-on ownership of a Java/Spring Boot order management microservice, including production performance tuning via Redis caching and database indexing driven by API logs/metrics. Also contributed to a production mobile-backend LLM feature using RAG with embeddings over structured data and documents (DB + object storage), with guardrails to keep responses grounded.”

“Union College robotics graduate with hands-on ROS experience building an independent “waiter bot” that took spoken orders (Mozilla DeepSpeech), used OpenCV, and navigated via SLAM on a TurtleBot with LiDAR. Also led the Union College Robotics crew for four years and implemented PID control for micromouse maze robots; has additional software deployment experience with Dockerized FastAPI and CI/CD from coursework.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built a Python-based automation system leveraging Gemini AI and prompt-driven PDF field extraction to replace a previously manual third-party workflow. Drove stakeholder alignment around accuracy/acceptance thresholds and added production-minded safeguards like graceful failure handling and backup model contingencies.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built and evolved a large-scale healthcare document processing system (OCR + LLM orchestration) in Python/FastAPI on Google Cloud (Cloud Run, GCS, Firestore), processing ~1.5M files per batch and tens of millions overall. Emphasizes reliability and operational safety via deterministic IDs, idempotent state machines, strong observability, and self-healing reconciliation, plus disciplined migrations using dual-run validation and incremental rollouts.”

“New grad who shipped an LLM-powered writing app (“Write-it”) to production on Azure with CI/CD (GitHub Actions + JFrog) and implemented an unconventional RAG pipeline to prevent repetitive prompts using embeddings and cosine similarity. Also participated in a Luma AI image/video generation hackathon, iterating with artist feedback and improving usability by rewriting non-technical prompts via an LLM.”

“Unity developer focused on VR/AR multiplayer, with hands-on experience building Photon Fusion/PUN systems including networking, sync, and matchmaking. Has scaled a modular multiplayer architecture to handle more players/features while addressing latency and data consistency, and has optimized Meta Quest/mobile performance using pooling, LODs, batching, and profiling.”

“Unity gameplay programmer with hands-on multiplayer networking experience (Photon Fusion, Mirror, SmartFox, Unity networking), including client-side prediction and rollback to smooth networked movement under lag/packet loss. Recently improved a fast-paced 2D platformer’s feel by adding momentum/velocity “gears,” validated through internal cohorts and volunteer/friends-and-family playtests. Comfortable in both startup and large-company environments and currently seeking a high-impact, intensive project.”

“Built and deployed a "personal second brain" product (CloneMind) with an end-to-end RAG pipeline for retrieving information across PDFs, URLs, images, and audio using Next.js/Node.js/Postgres/Supabase/Redis. Demonstrates strong practical depth in retrieval quality tuning, latency reduction via caching, and stateful orchestration with LangChain/LangGraph, plus experience persuading a non-technical professor stakeholder by shipping a working prototype.”

“Unity game developer with hands-on gameplay AI experience (FSM-driven monsters with customized NavMeshAgent movement) focused on creating readable, high-tension survival encounters through iterative tuning. Has shipped/created 4 Unity games solo end-to-end (UI, animations, architecture, state machines) and has also built a full Python game server; some exposure to Photon Fusion and strong client/server REST API implementation experience.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning healthcare middleware (patient records + insurance integration) and an AI fantasy football product built with React/TypeScript, Firebase, API gateways, and pandas-based data pipelines. Has hands-on microservices scaling experience (latency mitigation, async migration, state-based redesign) and built an internal feature-toggle dashboard that improved demo efficiency and sales outcomes.”

“Unity lead developer who built a turn-based soccer game (Soccer Glory/Score Hero-like) with complex in-air ball simulation, AI reactions, and animation handling, then scaled production by creating an in-editor level/animation authoring tool that saves to JSON and shifted level setup from devs to designers. Strong multiplayer background across Photon PUN, Mirror, UNet, and Socket.IO, including a 100-user metaverse room and practical approaches to authoritative simulation and VR/mobile performance optimization (Meta Quest 90 FPS).”

“Frontend/fullstack lead who inherited a messy psychological app with production issues, drove a rapid stabilization (2–3 weeks) and major performance/architecture overhaul (Redux Toolkit, memoization, caching, lazy loading, CDN offload to S3/CloudFront). Also owns delivery and infrastructure practices (multi-env, Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS ECS + load balancing) and led a 1-week POC for an AI-powered trucking management system (app.neblo.ai).”