Vetted Mentoring Professionals

“DevSecOps/AWS infrastructure engineer at Madison Logic who owns a 15-account AWS footprint and treats nearly all AWS resources as code (Terraform/CloudFormation). Led a CI/CD platform migration (Bitbucket → GitLab + GitHub Actions) supporting WordPress and containerized microservices, improving release frequency to weekly/daily, and has hands-on production incident response experience on ECS Fargate using Datadog with fast rollback via immutable ECR tags and task definition revisions.”

“Frontend engineer (Capgemini experience) who has led products end-to-end and improved existing codebases for scalability and performance. Built complex React + TypeScript dashboards with real-time, multi-API data and stabilized them via centralized data handling, strict typing/validation, and performance techniques like debouncing/memoization. Emphasizes practical standards, incremental refactoring, and tight collaboration with design/product and QA to ship reliably under deadlines.”

“Unity developer from the Naer project who built a natural-feeling VR wrist-flick gesture mechanic for teleport/push/pull interactions, validated through telemetry, low-FPS simulation, and diverse user testing with modular ScriptableObject tuning. Also handled Photon PUN 2 networking bug fixes (mid-air item state issues) and RPC optimizations while integrating AI tools (Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT) into planning and implementation.”

“Marketing creative/design systems specialist who led the Renew Communities rebrand end-to-end (logo, typography, color, layout rules) with an emphasis on clarity and scalability across digital, environmental, and print. Builds lightweight, opinionated Figma systems and modular content frameworks for high-volume output, and produces multi-platform marketing video edits using CapCut/Final Cut Pro with reusable templates in an async remote collaboration cadence.”

“Game developer/technical lead with shipped VR experience on Meta Quest (via Roblox) and Unity leadership on "Planet of Champions Soccer," where they built core networking, a soccer engine, and behavior-tree-based AI enhanced with linear algebra. Comfortable leading and mentoring while maintaining a disciplined, methodical approach to debugging/testing and cautious use of LLMs to minimize technical debt.”

“Frontend-focused engineer who has delivered an end-to-end React SPA with a .NET 9 backend on Azure, deploying via Azure Container Apps and leveraging zero-downtime deployment slots. Built complex TypeScript UI flows (10-page form with global/partial save and custom validation) using Redux + MUI integrated from Figma, and emphasizes quality with RTL/Vitest plus Selenium automation (~95% coverage) and analytics-driven iteration (Heap, Alida, GTM).”

“Frontend lead on an SME CRM for a bank, building a scalable multi-country/multi-product React/Next.js platform with a config-driven onboarding workflow and multi-role permissions. Emphasizes quality and maintainability through CI gates, a full testing pyramid, and disciplined server-state caching with RTK Query, plus feature-flagged rollouts and data-driven iteration from pilot user feedback.”

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end builds of both e-learning and e-commerce platforms in Next.js/React + TypeScript, with a strong focus on scalable component architecture, pragmatic state management (Redux/Zustand), and quality enforcement (linting, conventions, Cypress). Notably pivoted from NextAuth to a custom server-auth flow to support backend-introduced 2FA, and has experience executing fast hotfix rollouts including urgent third-party provider switches.”

“Frontend engineer/lead with deep React + TypeScript experience who has built complex workflow-style interfaces (node/connection editor with debugging panel) and used RxJS to manage intricate event/state flows. Strong focus on scalable architecture (SOLID, separation of concerns), performance at scale (caching, pagination, virtualization), and reliability (memory leak investigation and cleanup), backed by disciplined code review and documentation practices.”

“Operations Manager leading a 10-person BA team and owning operations execution across three lines of business, with additional ownership of OKRs tied to talent development (IDPs), value metrics, and recognition programs. Designed an onboarding framework aligned to company strategy and OKRs that improved retention, ramp-up, and engagement, and built healthcare college partnerships to strengthen hiring and internship pipelines while supporting cross-functional enterprise system implementations (policy admin, finance/HR, billing, call centers).”

“Engineering leader who built the MVP and scaled iService Auto into a fixed-ops platform for dealership groups, aligning a dealer-driven roadmap to churn/revenue outcomes and preparing the company for strategic acquisition. Led a major modernization from a legacy Symfony monolith to a React frontend with a Symfony JSON API using feature-flagged incremental migration, while growing and retaining a ~20-person engineering team through the acquisition.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an email/SMS marketing platform from the ground up using PHP (Yii2/Laravel) and JS (jQuery/Vue components), including campaign reporting, A/B testing, and extensive ESP/SMS integrations (Mailgun/Mailjet/Twilio plus AWS SES/SNS). Notably scaled the system for very large contact ingestion by migrating from MySQL to ClickHouse and implemented reliability measures like retries, logging, and rate limiting.”

“Computer-vision engineer with hands-on experience designing UAV-based production imaging systems for object detection/tracking, including camera selection and resolution/zoom tradeoffs. Improved segmentation/measurement accuracy by implementing orthorectification using ground points plus intrinsic/extrinsic calibration to correct perspective distortion, and has built Python/OpenCV pipelines (including barcode-focused grayscale processing and multithreaded execution).”

“Robotics software engineer who built an autonomous debris-clearing rover software stack end-to-end using ROS 2, Python/OpenCV, and YOLOv3, with strong emphasis on real-time reliability (latency instrumentation, stale-data handling, watchdog fail-safes). Also implemented a Docker CI/CD deployment system for remote Raspberry Pi timelapse devices, distributing updates via AWS S3 to handle intermittent connectivity.”

“High-volume full-cycle recruiter promoted to lead, managing a team of 4 and serving as primary client POC while filling 30–40 roles per week. Built pipeline dashboards/trackers, introduced a structured screening questionnaire focused on people skills, and optimized job board spend to reduce costs while maintaining candidate flow. Also owned JazzHR ATS operations and data-quality process documentation, troubleshooting workflow gaps (e.g., RTR generation) to keep hiring moving within a 2–3 day submission SLA.”

“Senior Data Scientist in consulting who has built production RAG systems for insurance/annuity document search at large scale (100K+ PDF pages), emphasizing grounded answers, guardrails, and low-latency retrieval. Experienced in end-to-end MLOps for LLM apps—monitoring, evaluation sets, drift handling, and safe rollouts—and in orchestrating complex pipelines with Prefect/Airflow and deploying services on Kubernetes.”

“Paid media performance marketer with experience running $50K+/month Meta/Instagram campaigns in healthcare (revision bariatric surgery), optimizing for patient CAC and booked surgeries rather than just CPL. Uses creative-first testing (testimonial/video-led) and conversion signal feedback via Meta Pixel + Conversion API, and applies a structured full-funnel budget allocation approach across Meta/Google/TikTok.”

“Robotics simulation/localization engineer who built a lunar crater navigation stack in ROS/ROS2 and Gazebo, including custom localization/perception/planning packages. Demonstrated strong debugging skills by using tf2 frame analysis to fix camera-to-base_link alignment, cutting heading error from 75° to 0.48°, and handled large NASA lunar imagery (~4GB) by converting/downsampling data for Gazebo.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a serverless AWS platform for large-scale live screening events with real-time chat/feedback and streaming (API Gateway/Lambda/DynamoDB/WebSockets/IVS, IaC via Pulumi). Led production refactors and phased migrations using feature flags and dual-write strategies, and has hands-on experience implementing JWT auth, RBAC, and database-enforced row-level security for multi-tenant systems.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Fashion/retail sales and partnerships professional who previously ran an independent multi-line showroom (sales rep for 5 Jr/Young Contemporary lines) and successfully landed a high-profile, celebrity-backed graphic tee line at Nordstrom—driving 80% sell-through from a test order into an all-door program. Leverages SKU-level selling data, OTB/SKU productivity, and hands-on quality control (including chargebacks for off-spec product) to optimize assortments across retail and e-commerce.”

“Fractional CIO/founder-type operator at AHDX Inc, a hybrid-cloud/primary storage solutions startup with a compliance focus targeting healthcare; MVP has completed beta and the company has seed funding while pursuing additional investment. Has supported multiple startups (OmniHR, Combat Connect, 3BX) and cites tangible results tied to DoD/security, Medicare/Medicaid, and Air Force LMS contracts, positioning them as a hands-on "fixer" for early-stage technical strategy and architecture.”

“LLM/AI engineer who built a production automated document-understanding pipeline on Azure using a grounded RAG layer, designed to reduce manual review time for unstructured financial documents. Demonstrates strong real-world scaling and reliability practices (Service Bus queueing, Kubernetes autoscaling, observability, retries/circuit breakers) plus rigorous evaluation (shadow testing, replaying traffic, multilingual edge-case suites) and stakeholder-friendly, evidence-based explainability.”