Vetted macOS Professionals

“Marketing designer/art director with hands-on motion design (After Effects) who built high-polish social and podcast creative, including defining a podcast brand end-to-end. Experienced creating scalable, high-volume report and event branding systems, evolving agency templates into in-house frameworks while serving as the quality gatekeeper across stakeholders from SMEs to C-suite.”

Timothy Flechtner

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Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in games, platforms, and real-time systems

23y exp

“Engineering leader with gaming and fintech/trading-firm experience who built a sponsor-funded gaming rewards platform (AmEx-style) requiring integrations across Steam/Epic/Xbox/PlayStation and Discord. Emphasizes production-grade, 12-factor delivery with Terraform/Docker/CI/CD and automated testing, plus pragmatic org scaling and remote-team culture built on aligned autonomy and trust.”

“Serverless-focused engineer (5+ years) who has built and deployed AWS Lambda/API Gateway backends with CloudFormation-based IaC and Jenkins-driven CI/CD across dev/staging/prod. Has experience with AWS Glue/OpenSearch data pipelines and emphasizes data correctness via Golden Data automated tests; also modernized a regulated .NET account-confirmation workflow by eliminating an unreliable SMTP email dependency. Based in San Jose, seeking primarily remote work with quarterly travel to Bethesda, MD and targeting $200k base.”

“Backend engineer with experience in both healthcare (Siemens) and payments (Bitwise), focused on scaling Python APIs and modernizing architectures. Has led monolith-to-microservices migrations and introduced Kafka async processing, Redis caching, and ELK observability, citing ~40% faster issue resolution and improved reliability via idempotency and strong security controls (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, RLS).”

“AI startup co-founder and CTO who helped raise $2.6M in seed funding at RedRex and drove product strategy from ideation through execution. Experienced with rapid experimentation and AI-driven prototyping to validate ideas quickly, and has direct exposure to the VC/accelerator ecosystem (Gener8tor) with a market-first approach to building and pitching startups.”

Marc Fisher

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Staff Colorist & Finishing Artist specializing in trailer, episodic, and feature finishing

Hollywood, CA35y exp

“Experienced editor with many years using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects alongside high-end finishing tools (Flame, Avid DS, Resolve). Has worked on feature film conform/online for Beerfest and on trailer/promotional work for The Terminal List, and cites Disney as a notable YouTube channel/client. Emphasizes strong organizational workflows, act-based storytelling for retention, and consistent standards through presets and review-driven collaboration.”

“GCP-focused database/infrastructure engineer with hands-on production support for Cloud SQL and Firestore, spanning provisioning, IAM, scaling, backups, and performance tuning. They also described supporting a hybrid GCP architecture for a monolithic on-prem PostgreSQL workload and resolving a major latency incident by tracing cascading failures and fixing indexing issues.”

“Engineer at Syniti who uses AI tools pragmatically to speed development while maintaining quality through rigorous validation, code reviews, and CI/CD. Most notably, they leveraged AI-assisted testing to increase test coverage from 10% to 70%, and they are actively exploring more advanced agent-based development workflows.”

“Unity game developer who built a context-sensitive movement and camera system for a grid-based dungeon crawler and used DOTween for key gameplay animations. Worked at Chimera Entertainment on Songs of Silence, contributing via bug fixes, working within an existing Photon Fusion protocol, and implementing a UI-heavy in-game lexicon; also leverages AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to accelerate editor/tooling and gameplay scripting.”

“Customer-facing technical specialist with experience spanning regulated Class II/III medical devices (FDA compliance, firmware vulnerability escalation) and large-scale industrial/energy deployments. Known for rigorous troubleshooting using logs/network traces and tight documentation/escalation in Salesforce, plus repeatable onboarding and integration practices (API into CI/CD, secrets via env vars, container standardization).”

“TSE with hands-on experience troubleshooting customer-reported data issues across APIs and SQL, coordinating with engineering on hotfixes, and translating risk to non-technical stakeholders. Has supported application security workflows using Veracode by generating reports, driving remediation via Jira, and tracking exposure metrics; also assisted customers with SSO setup (client ID/secret).”

“Full-stack engineer who built an end-to-end low-code/no-code IDE for creating AI/ML workflows for industrial IoT sensors using Next.js/TypeScript and NestJS microservices. Focused on scaling high-volume sensor dashboards—improved UX and performance via WebSockets, debouncing, pagination, and API payload reduction—validated with profiling tools and user feedback in a startup environment.”

Ludwik Bacmaga

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Senior Game & VR Lead Developer specializing in Unity and cross-platform multiplayer

Zurich, Switzerland7y exp

“Lead Unity VR developer who shipped multiple Meta Quest Store releases, including porting Titanic VR and building Rollercoaster Legends titles for Quest 3 (with Quest 2 support). Also independently built and released a multiplayer mobile trivia game using PlayFab, P2P networking with host migration, and encrypted/serverless backend updates to reduce hacking.”

“Commercially minded candidate with exposure to private equity firms as sales targets and experience building partnerships around venture-backed company ecosystems. They appear more inclined to join an existing company than found one, bringing a metrics-driven, process-oriented approach and creative execution style with a strong focus on clear growth paths and capital stability.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built real-time connected-vehicle telemetry analytics at Subaru, spanning Kafka streaming, Python/FastAPI ETL, and low-latency WebSocket delivery (minutes to <2s). Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner across AWS EKS and Azure AKS (Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins/GitLab) and has led major on-prem-to-cloud migrations for financial microservices using Terraform and AWS DMS with measurable cost and reliability gains.”

PAVEL A ASPIAZU

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Senior Paid Media (SEM/PPC) Manager specializing in Google Ads and Meta performance marketing

McLean, VA26y exp

“Paid media performance marketer with agency experience owning a high-spend account for ArcPoint Labs, running multi-channel Google Ads (search/display) and Meta campaigns to drive medical testing appointments and sales. Reported lifting ROAS from ~2x to ~6–7x within ~18 months while supporting expansion from 30 to 60 U.S. locations, using disciplined attribution, constant A/B testing, and structured campaign health audits.”

Tejasri Alla

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Mid-level Full-Stack Python Developer specializing in banking microservices

Northridge, CA5y exp

“Built and led production LLM-agent systems in enterprise environments (Simmons Bank, Mindtree), automating support ticket triage end-to-end with strong reliability engineering (99.9% uptime, Prometheus/Grafana, ECS autoscaling, CI/CD rollback). Demonstrated clear business impact (55% faster handling, SLA compliance 72%→96%, 800+ hours saved/month, +18% CSAT) and mature eval/feedback loops that improved extraction accuracy by 21%.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership across React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL who has built real-time collaboration and analytics workflows end-to-end. Particularly compelling for high-growth AI product teams: they’ve also shipped a 0→1 AI-assisted dataset retrieval and summarization capability, balancing MVP speed with scalable architecture and post-launch performance tuning.”

“Software engineer with robotics and data-platform experience from CVS Health, spanning Java/Spring Boot microservices, secure APIs, React dashboards, and Snowflake/SSIS ETL optimization. Hands-on ROS 2 developer who built real-time LiDAR obstacle-detection nodes, improved SLAM performance, and coordinated multi-robot communication using DDS, with simulation/testing via Gazebo and CI/CD deployments using Docker and Jenkins.”

“Bilingual video producer/editor with 6 years at The Weather Channel creating YouTube and social content reaching ~8M viewers, and 8+ years of daily Premiere Pro/After Effects use. Has delivered branded content for clients like Barcelona F.C. and IBM, combining retention-focused longform editing with polished motion graphics, templates, and analytics-driven quality control.”

“Merchandising/brand partnerships professional with Hot Topic experience sourcing and scaling licensed collaborations (e.g., Monster High with Mattel) by using social/customer demand signals and post-launch sell-through/ratings analysis. Strong in vendor/licensing negotiations to improve wholesale costs and margins, and in data-driven assortment planning with weekly performance reviews and seasonality-based inventory strategies.”