Vetted Networking Professionals

Muhammad Talal

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Senior Game Developer specializing in Unreal Engine multiplayer and VR systems

Philippines5y exp

“Unity VR developer with deep hands-on experience optimizing and debugging standalone-headset VR projects (including Android/IL2CPP and XR interaction systems), though not yet credited with a Meta Quest store ship. Built and shipped a mostly solo Unity top-down shooter (Sand Bullet) on Steam, owning core gameplay, AI, UI/input, saves, performance, and an AWS-connected companion app integration.”

“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 developer with shipped Meta Quest 2 room-scale VR experience, owning VR architecture (XR Interaction Toolkit/Oculus Integration), core interaction systems (grabbing/UI/locomotion), and Quest performance optimization. Also built a solo mobile puzzle game with star-based difficulty tuning, UI/performance profiling, and progression/replay systems, and uses AI assistants to speed prototyping, debugging, and documentation.”

“Unity game developer with hands-on experience building a Hearthstone-like networked card game system: a centralized command queue driving deliberate, readable combat/interaction sequences with DOTween-based polish. Implemented authoritative multiplayer synchronization using Photon (self-hosted/PUN2) with client-side prediction, server reconciliation, and soft rollback to keep gameplay responsive while preserving state integrity; recently also working with Unity Netcode for GameObjects.”

“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.”

“Sales/business development intern experience at Degy Entertainment with high-volume outbound calling (50 cold calls/day) and a research-first approach focused on identifying the buyer and target demographics. Comfortable building target lists, defining an ideal partner profile, and creating structure from limited data using spreadsheets and Salesforce reporting; interested in applying AI/automation to follow-ups, data entry, and prospect research.”

Mike Costa-Merle

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Executive Fractional GM & Advisor specializing in venture studios, SaaS, and live events

New York, NY21y exp

“Fractional executive (CEO/COO/CRO) who specializes in taking startups from concept to market across entertainment, tech/SaaS, hospitality, and healthcare. Reports scaling an entertainment marketing venture to $15M ARR within two years, using data-driven market analysis, customer discovery, and rapid team buildout, and leverages AI tools to accelerate GTM and investor readiness.”

Carlos Cortés

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Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in ROS 2, SLAM, and simulation

Bogota, Colombia3y exp

“Robotics software engineer with ~3.5 years in ROS/ROS2 mobile robotics, SLAM, and control who owned end-to-end integration for a sim-to-real mobile platform (Zephyr), including ros2_control, EKF sensor fusion (IMU + Vicon), and Gazebo validation with quantified accuracy. Also built a multi-drone CSLAM stack integrating ORB-SLAM3 and PX4 offboard control, scaling via namespaces, synchronization/QoS discipline, and performance debugging with ros2_tracing.”

Fernando de Cea Cotta

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Senior Game Developer specializing in Unity and XR (AR/VR)

Spain9y exp

“Unity/C# developer with hands-on experience delivering performance-critical systems: built a multithreaded Addressables-based asset loading pipeline to handle thousands of animations and drastically cut loading screens. Also created a personal Unity Editor tool using the OpenAI API to detect code smells and generate prioritized remediation, and has shipped authoritative-server multiplayer for an arcade car game with prediction/interpolation, reconciliation, and robust live-network debugging.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building end-to-end applications using Java/Spring Boot and React, including Dockerized deployment and RabbitMQ-based messaging. Worked on a high-volume payment processing system at Alacriti, focusing on performance (query optimization, caching) and reliability with monitoring via AWS CloudWatch.”

“Operations-focused startup scaler (since 2021) with cross-industry exposure in hospitals/healthcare, NBFC, and IT. Describes building businesses from scratch to profitability by combining long-range planning (5-year projections), structured hiring (KRAs/manpower matrices), departmental policy/checklist setup, and continuous-improvement practices (Kaizen, SGAs).”

Zeel Kheni

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Senior Unity Multiplayer Developer specializing in real-time networking and metaverse experiences

Indore, India6y exp

“Unity multiplayer developer with hands-on experience building and syncing gameplay ability systems and solving network instability issues via an owner-synced state system. Has migrated live projects from Photon PUN2 to Photon Fusion and worked on XANA Metaverse and Run For Money, including network optimization and client-server system design.”

Zaid Kamil

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Mid-level XR Software Engineer specializing in real-time AR/VR digital twins

Los Angeles, CA8y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end real-time IoT telemetry backend that powers a digital twin experience on a Meta Quest headset, integrating Cisco LoRaWAN sensors and external REST data sources. Migrated from Azure Functions to a FastAPI service to overcome firewall constraints, add caching/fallback reliability, and significantly reduce operating cost while improving performance and evolvability.”

Vitor Souza

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Senior Game Developer specializing in multiplayer, XR/VR, and real-time networking

Lynchburg, VA8y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer who has owned end-to-end systems for live-service AR and shipped VR (Meta Quest) and mobile titles. Built a hybrid LLM-driven real-time NPC interaction pipeline (STT/LLM/TTS) with streaming SSE, strict JSON contracts, and state-machine execution for stability, plus a custom UDP/TCP authoritative multiplayer stack deployed on AWS EC2 with live monitoring and rapid hotfix capability.”

DIANA ROMERO

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Director-level business development and sales leader in hospitality, marketing, and events

Albany, CA14y exp

“Sales professional with experience selling streaming, white-label software, and broader SaaS solutions into media, communications, and marketing/revenue-facing teams. Stands out for building pipeline in early-stage environments, leveraging industry relationships and budget-cycle timing to win deals, including a $120K contract and a $30K deal later expanded by $15K.”