Vetted macOS Professionals

Christina Flores

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Executive Operations & Administrative Leader in government, nonprofit, and private office settings

New York, NY14y exp

“Executive operations/project leader who managed cross-entity priority initiatives for Eric Schmidt’s family office, driving alignment through structured reporting and dashboards. Led a board-level digital transformation at ACC, moving a 14-member Board of Trustees from paper processes to board software, and brings high-discretion experience supporting Senator Warner.”

Sandhya Yadavalli

Screened

Mid-level Cybersecurity Analyst specializing in SIEM, incident response, and Zero Trust

Remote, USA3y exp

“Cybersecurity/SOC-focused engineer with hands-on production experience integrating and tuning Splunk Enterprise Security for a zero-trust program, including CIM normalization, correlation/risk-based detection tuning, and performance optimization via forwarder-level filtering and index strategy. Has cross-disciplinary incident troubleshooting experience spanning SIEM, networking, and hardware, and has automated customer/team-specific security workflows using Python in Splunk playbooks; collaborated on-site with HSBC IT/SOC teams to deliver dashboards and security policies.”

“Full-stack product engineer who owned a live-events digital ticketing platform end-to-end, including blockchain-based ticket validation and high-traffic booking flows. Stands out for combining Angular/React frontend work with Java/Spring Boot backend architecture, plus strong production reliability practices around concurrency control, queues, observability, and UX optimization.”

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.”

Greg Kissner

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Multimedia Producer specializing in marketing, promotions, and training content

Columbus, OH18y exp

“Experienced editor/motion graphics professional with deep Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects expertise spanning broadcast TV spots, music videos, social/web content, and feature-length films. Notably worked on the YouTube channel Black20—nominated for Best Web Series and awarded G4TV's "Kings of DotComedy"—with videos reaching millions of viewers.”

“Master’s student and Deep Learning teaching assistant who teaches LLM/VLM fine-tuning (including LoRA) and built a Hugging Face LLM fine-tuned for unit conversion, improving reliability by analyzing synthetic data and filling missing number-system conversion examples. Also implemented the Raft consensus protocol using gRPC in a distributed systems course with correctness validated by unit tests.”

“Backend engineer at Cerebrone.ai building cloud-native Flask microservices for an AI-driven automation platform on GCP (Cloud Run/App Engine), including dedicated inference services integrating OpenAI and internal ML pipelines. Demonstrated strong performance and scalability wins across Postgres/SQLAlchemy optimization, multi-tenant (healthcare/HIPAA-grade) data isolation, and high-throughput background processing with Celery/Redis/RabbitMQ, with multiple quantified latency/CPU/throughput improvements.”

“QA automation engineer who built and maintained a Selenium WebDriver + Java hybrid framework (data/keyword-driven) using POM, TestNG, and Maven, and integrated it into CI with PR gating and nightly regression. Strong focus on stabilizing flaky tests (wait strategies, locator robustness, test data control) and caught a critical UI/backend mismatch that could have caused duplicate money transfers before release.”

“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.”

“Application Engineer supporting customers in a financial trading context, experienced in coordinating urgent patch upgrades and stakeholder communications to minimize downtime. Has hands-on production incident response experience troubleshooting a critical dashboard outage caused by a bad SQL execution plan, escalating with DBAs and deploying a fast fix, then documenting full RCA via problem tickets.”

“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.”

“Entry-level software engineer with hands-on experience building a GPA predictor web app in a school project, focused on React/TypeScript frontend, authentication, and UX for AI-driven syllabus parsing. Stands out for translating ambiguous product ideas into a usable MVP, improving onboarding flow, and adding resilient loading/error states for unreliable parsing and API behavior.”

“Enterprise IT operations and identity governance professional (Atlassian) who partners closely with security teams to reduce risk through RBAC/Conditional Access automation, endpoint compliance, and vulnerability remediation workflows. Demonstrated ability to balance strict security controls with engineering productivity via phased rollouts, pilots, and KPI-driven stakeholder alignment, plus hands-on troubleshooting of complex Azure AD authentication failures and secure AWS integration design.”

“QA professional from enterprise SaaS/cloud environments (Exeter; previously Boeing programs) with strong UI and end-to-end workflow testing experience. Known for rigorous defect investigation and validation across UI/API/DB layers (including SQL checks) and disciplined tooling/workflow in Jira/Azure DevOps/ALM Octane; has QA lead experience supporting release readiness and go/no-go decisions. No professional game studio/AAA shipping experience yet, but experience maps to complex, high-pressure release cycles.”

“Built and shipped a production browser automation LLM agent with a structured 4-stage workflow (plan/browse/extract/verify), emphasizing reliability via schema validation (Pydantic), constrained tool use, and contextual retry loops. Reports ~60% accuracy on the WebArena benchmark and monitors runs via console output and the Agno framework GUI, prioritizing accuracy over speed.”

Joseph Selby

Screened

Senior Product Leader specializing in EdTech and digital assessment

Remote, USA17y exp

“Edtech product leader with deep experience across Pearson, SMART, and Promethean, spanning legacy platform modernization, classroom engagement tools, and early AI in education. Particularly compelling for roles at the intersection of product, pedagogy, and human-centered AI: they rebuilt SMART's 29-year-old Notebook platform and have repeatedly designed products around real teacher and student needs.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer with hands-on ownership across compute and SAN, including resolving a high-severity ERP latency incident by tracing it to SAN slow-drain on Cisco switches and orchestrating a port redistribution fix. Experienced running production HA/DR with HACMP and LPAR mobility (quarterly failover tests plus annual SunGard DR simulations) and building Bash-based monitoring/alerting automation to prevent outages.”

“Backend-focused engineer with financial domain experience who built Java REST APIs for data entry/validation and implemented strong testing, alerting, and rollback practices for production reliability. Has hands-on experience automating legacy manual processes with Ansible and troubleshooting AWS EKS/OpenShift deployments via CloudFormation in a permission-constrained enterprise environment; comfortable with occasional onsite meetings in Bethesda, MD.”

“Built and deployed a production long-form article summarization system using BART/T5/PEGASUS, tackling real-world constraints like token limits, latency/quality tradeoffs, and factual drift via chunking/merge logic and constrained decoding. Uses pragmatic Python-based pipeline orchestration (scheduled jobs, modular scripts, logging/retries) and iterates with stakeholder feedback to make outputs genuinely useful for content workflows.”

Saikrishna Vallala

Screened

Mid-level QA Automation Engineer / SDET specializing in Financial Services and Healthcare

USA5y exp

“Fintech-focused engineer who built an end-to-end KYC verification pipeline for advisor onboarding using Flask microservices, Celery/Redis, and AWS (Lambda/ECS/EC2) with CloudWatch-driven scaling and latency optimizations. Also shipped a production internal knowledge assistant using RAG + embeddings/vector search with guardrails (similarity-based fallback, prompt-injection protections) and an evaluation loop with compliance specialist review that drove measurable retrieval improvements.”

“Full-stack enterprise engineer with strong experience building user-facing financial and healthcare applications end to end, including transaction monitoring and healthcare workflow dashboards. Particularly credible in balancing fast delivery with maintainable architecture, performance, and production stability, while being transparent that their background is not in native iOS/SwiftUI.”