Vetted Kanban Professionals

“Technical Product Manager with hands-on experience shipping and running live free-to-play games (including Cartoon Network BMX Champions) across web and mobile, with exposure to Roblox and some console. Focuses on data-driven live ops—daily rewards, streaks, push notifications, and limited-time events—paired with A/B testing and funnel/retention analytics to improve engagement and IAP performance.”

John Juszczak

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in C++ tooling, CI/CD, and Unreal Engine pipelines

Los Angeles, CA10y exp

“Gameplay programmer with hands-on Unreal Engine multiplayer shooter experience, notably overhauling aiming/ADS using Enhanced Input and curve-table-driven response curves plus subtle aim assist. Demonstrates strong networking judgment (client-side prediction vs server authority for anti-cheat) and a systems mindset, adding automation/analytics to speed iteration and improve decision-making.”

“Backend engineer who replaced an Excel-heavy forecasting workflow with a secure, auditable FastAPI system (React UI + relational model + async workers), emphasizing deterministic processing, idempotency, and versioned ledger-style ingestion. Led a monolith-to-FastAPI migration at Bounteous using a strangler approach, feature-flagged incremental rollout, and data reconciliation/shadow-compare to protect integrity while scaling onboarding workflows.”

Reza Mawardana

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software QA Engineer specializing in Insurance and HRIS, transitioning to SDET

7y exp

“QA-minded candidate with unusually deep, self-driven experimentation in game mechanics (RNG and EXP optimization) using emulators and save-state methodology, translating that same rigor into production release verification and bug triage practices. Has experience in embedded QA and proactively proposed a centralized QA model with sharing sessions to improve coverage during absences; uses AI tools to speed up Jira documentation and test case creation.”

Alexander Meyer

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior/Lead Game Developer specializing in Unity and cross-platform multiplayer games

Paphos, Cyprus28y exp

“Veteran Unity game developer with extensive multiplayer networking experience (Photon PUN2/Quantum/Fusion, Unity Netcode), including work on Payday: Crime War and an in-development arena battler using Invector + PUN2. Also builds cloud backends for Unity titles (Azure/PlayFab/Firebase, SQL, CI/CD) and actively uses multiple AI assistants to speed up architecture and implementation.”

“Backend engineer on Morgan Stanley’s trade risk and compliance platform, building Java/Spring Boot microservices that validate equity and fixed-income trades at multi-million-events/day scale. Shipped an LLM-assisted trade exception analysis feature using RAG over internal policy documents and trade history, with production-grade guardrails (confidence thresholds, audit logs, human-in-the-loop) and measurable performance wins (~30–35% faster reporting) through PostgreSQL tuning and Redis caching.”

“AI/ML engineer at Cigna Healthcare building a production, HIPAA-compliant LLM-powered clinical insights platform that summarizes unstructured medical notes using a fine-tuned transformer + RAG on AWS. Demonstrates strong end-to-end MLOps and cloud optimization (distillation, Spot/Lambda/Auto Scaling) with quantified outcomes (~28% accuracy lift, ~40% less manual review, ~25% lower ops cost) and strong clinician-facing explainability via SHAP and dashboards.”

“Founder of an LLC operating as a consulting firm providing fractional CTO services to startups, giving them parallel exposure to multiple early-stage companies. Has direct experience with MVP development, building org structures from scratch, and supporting early fundraising, and is exploring a pivot from consulting into a scalable product business while staying engaged with the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

“Software engineer with payments-domain experience (Visa) building real-time transaction monitoring and analytics systems. Strong end-to-end ownership across Spring Boot/Kafka microservices, PostgreSQL modeling, and AWS/Kubernetes operations, plus React+TypeScript dashboards—focused on low-latency processing, secure APIs, and zero-downtime production releases.”

Sravanti Dandu

Screened

Mid-level Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS & Azure infrastructure automation

Arizona, USA6y exp

“Backend/platform engineer (American Express) who built a Flask-based orchestration layer to automate infrastructure provisioning and integrated Azure AD/JWT RBAC security. Strong in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance optimization (70%+ query-time reduction) and scalable async/event-driven architectures, including ML inference pipelines (SageMaker/Azure ML/Hugging Face) and high-throughput job queues (Celery/Redis) with reliability patterns like DLQs and idempotency.”

Akarsh Kangondi Lokanath

Screened

Junior Supply Chain Planner specializing in inventory, replenishment, and procurement analytics

Chicago, IL3y exp

“Sourcing/procurement professional from Pavana Impex who has owned end-to-end sourcing for production-critical materials, combining spend/demand analytics with hands-on supplier onboarding, negotiation, and production-to-delivery execution. Demonstrates strong trade and landed-cost acumen (HS classification/COO, broker coordination, packaging changes) and a structured approach to supplier performance improvement using scorecards, CAPA, and OTIF/OTD tracking.”

“Cloud-focused platform/infrastructure engineer centered on AWS and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience building EKS environments via Terraform/Terragrunt, bootstrapping clusters with Cilium and ArgoCD, and integrating persistent storage and backup tooling like EFS/EBS CSI and Velero. While no longer focused on on-prem or hybrid operations, they also bring prior VMware/Hyper-V and migration-to-AWS experience, making them strongest in modern cloud platform engineering roles.”