Vetted Performance Optimization Professionals

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Vinh Ly

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in scalable full-stack FinTech systems

Palo Alto, CA18y exp
YouTubeVirginia Tech

Full-stack/backend engineer with recent hands-on experience building an AI-powered AML/KYC platform for financial institutions, spanning Go/Python backend services, real-time risk pipelines, and React/TypeScript analyst dashboards. Stands out for measurable compliance-tech impact: 94% fewer false positives, review times reduced from days to hours, and microservices processing 10,000+ transactions per second.

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Russell Wong

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Software Engineer specializing in large-scale backend reliability and media platforms

San Bruno, California6y exp
GoogleSan Francisco State University

Backend/data engineer with experience on large-scale consumer platforms (Google and Meta), building high-traffic Python microservices (REST/gRPC) on Kubernetes with strong reliability/observability practices. Delivered AWS container-based deployments with CI/CD and IaC, and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines on S3 with schema evolution and data quality controls; also has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (15% latency reduction) and incident ownership for batch pipelines.

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Max Zhu

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in Cloud Healthcare Data Platforms

Redding, CA13y exp
GoogleUSC

Backend/data engineer with deep healthcare data experience (FHIR, de-identification) across both GCP and AWS. Has built and operated production microservices and ETL pipelines (FastAPI, Dataflow, Glue) with strong reliability practices, and led modernization of a legacy SAS compliance reporting system to cloud services with validated parity and stakeholder-facing Looker comparisons.

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GA

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in mobile, video, and consumer platforms

San Jose, CA23y exp
GoogleCarnegie Mellon University
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TT

Executive engineering leader specializing in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and platform scale

San Jose, CA12y exp
TikTokUC Davis
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MS

Staff-level AR/VR and mobile engineer specializing in immersive video platforms

San Bruno, CA11y exp
GoogleAlexandria University

Game engineer with hands-on experience shipping systems for Horizon Worlds, including a notification platform that unlocked friending, invites, and achievement/prize UX. Also brings applied LLM gameplay experimentation, multiplayer networking/debugging expertise, and cross-platform VR/mobile experience spanning Meta Quest and Android.

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Hassaan Khan

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML

San Francisco, CA21y exp
QuartechCarnegie Mellon University

Engineering leader/player-coach who built and validated a preference-based recommendation engine using clustering, including generating test data to evaluate how clusters evolve over time. Has SRE/DevOps experience and has owned production incidents end-to-end (logging-driven RCA and refactoring patterns that failed at large data scale). Emphasizes quality and platform stability via unit, integration, and load testing, and has managed performance via regular 1:1s and PIPs.

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EL

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend, distributed systems, and cloud platforms

Bellevue, WA10y exp
SnowflakeStanford University
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JD

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and high-scale backend platforms

Seattle, Washington8y exp
TikTokUniversity of Washington
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JF

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI platforms, real-time collaboration, and observability

Remote12y exp
QuoraCarnegie Mellon University
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NC

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI and distributed systems

New York, NY4y exp
GoogleCornell University
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AL

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms, payments, and consumer systems

South Daytona, FL11y exp
MetaColumbia University
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RW

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and production ML systems

San Francisco, CA11y exp
OpenAIUniversity of North Texas
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RT

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms and full-stack cloud systems

New York, NY13y exp
Hugging FaceMIT
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JL

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in frontend-heavy FinTech and marketplace platforms

Remote9y exp
StripeUniversity of Washington
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JW

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and real-time distributed platforms

San Diego, CA10y exp
AirbnbCornell University
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SZ

Staff Software Engineer specializing in ML infrastructure and data platforms

Los Angeles, CA11y exp
PinterestCarnegie Mellon University
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NG

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Java backend and OLAP systems for Ads platforms

Mountain View, CA9y exp
GoogleUSC
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EF

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native web platforms and FinTech

San Francisco, CA11y exp
MetaCarnegie Mellon University
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AC

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Mobile and AR/VR platforms

Santa Monica, CA13y exp
TikTokUC Berkeley
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IH

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and scalable platforms

Redmond, WA9y exp
MetaGeorgia Tech
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AJ

Senior VR Engineer specializing in Unity game systems and multiplayer experiences

UK13y exp
GoogleUniversity of Cambridge
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YT

Senior Software Engineer specializing in ML, distributed systems, and GenAI search

Remote, US13y exp
GoogleUniversity of Pennsylvania
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