Vetted Performance Optimization Professionals

Joseph Fusco

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered developer tooling and backend platforms

Marin, CA10y exp

“Backend/product engineer from Postman Flows who has owned complex platform features end-to-end, including production versioning and an LLM-powered flow-building orchestration layer. Stands out for combining product-minded backend design, agentic AI workflow implementation, and strong production reliability work, including re-architecting a failing event pipeline from in-memory to managed queues.”

“Engineering leader with experience at Vertex and Salesforce, combining org leadership with hands-on architecture work. He led a 40-person team through execution and quality improvements, drove legacy modernization and SaaS transition, and launched a 0-to-1 voice capability in CRM while also applying AI to code migration and developer productivity.”

Brayden Tremper

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in game UI systems and gameplay features

Olympia, WA4y exp

“Unity/C# game engineer with hands-on ownership of live-service systems, including a real-time multi-channel chat feature for Squid Game: Unleashed that launched alongside Squid Game Season 2 on Netflix and increased player retention and engagement. Brings a strong blend of mobile performance optimization, server-authoritative architecture, multiplayer systems, and practical experimentation with LLM-assisted narrative tooling.”

“International development and consulting professional with experience spanning Deloitte, McKinsey, the World Bank, IFC, IDB, and the International Rescue Committee. She has led multi-million-dollar global programs, authored proposals and published research, operated in emergency relief settings across East Africa, and even launched her own startup—bringing a rare mix of strategy, finance oversight, field execution, and high-level stakeholder management.”

Amrita Pritam

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Senior Backend Engineer specializing in distributed microservices and event-driven systems

Fremont, CA10y exp

“Backend engineer with production experience building a high-scale notification pipeline (~20M/day) using Java/Dropwizard with Kafka and Azure Queue, including DLQ/poison-message handling and the outbox pattern for reliability. Also led a batch-based migration of Yammer Messaging user data from PostgreSQL to Azure Cosmos DB for global multi-region scale, addressing throttling and network failures via retries, escalation policies, and dynamic throughput tuning.”

Pranav Hariharane

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Mid-Level Backend Engineer specializing in REST APIs and AWS

SF Bay Area, CA3y exp

“Backend engineer who built a new REST eligibility service at Barclays that unified siloed account logic (card/loan/deposit) and integrated with web/mobile, ultimately serving millions of users daily. Also built an end-to-end LLM-based pharmaceutical care-plan generation tool in a rapid Columbia startup competition, emphasizing configurable design, strict validation, persistence, and robust error handling.”

Michael Kaufman

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in mobile and web platforms

Seattle, WA5y exp

“iOS-focused engineer who led feature development for Amazon Books/Kindle (e.g., Series & Story So Far recaps, Kindle Memories) and introduced pure Swift packages while building sync and content download systems. Also has full-stack experience (React/TypeScript + Node with REST/GraphQL) and strong AWS operations (CDK/CI-CD, CloudWatch, canaries, autoscaling), plus founder experience at GLXY.ai shipping an early hardware MVP (weight sensors) under tight constraints.”

kartik kanotra

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Mid-level Software Developer specializing in cloud data engineering and MLOps

NYC, New York3y exp

“Software engineer with strong AWS production experience, including an end-to-end historical backfill system exporting ~10PB of CloudWatch logs into a data lake using Step Functions/Kinesis/Lambda/Firehose/Glue. Emphasizes reliability and operability (DynamoDB checkpointing, monitoring dashboards, CI/CD with canary tests) and has also built customer-facing UI work for the Visa Developer Portal using Angular + Spring Boot, plus React/Redux frontend work.”

Danny Niedzwiedzki

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Mid-level Frontend Software Engineer specializing in accessible React and Next.js applications

Woodbridge, NJ4y exp

“Frontend engineer with 8+ years of React experience who owned a sophisticated enterprise chatbot embedded in third-party client sites at massive scale. Stands out for combining deep browser/iframe architecture knowledge, accessibility leadership, performance optimization, and security-driven Next.js migration work in a multi-tenant product used by large enterprises.”

Jim Glassman

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Executive Technology Leader specializing in Enterprise AI, Cloud Architecture, and Data Platforms

Houston, TX16y exp

“Senior data/technology executive who stays hands-on: currently building a Go micro-kernel orchestration layer for medical AI agents to boost concurrency and enforce HIPAA/PHI controls, achieving 26x throughput on migrated workloads. Has led large-scale transformations across healthcare and financial services, including a 45-day data warehouse rebuild at Elara Caring and a data/ML roadmap at Acelity credited with $230M in annual revenue impact prior to 3M acquisition.”

“CTO-level leader with deep insurtech and cloud security/SaaS experience who has repeatedly scaled global engineering orgs and delivered high-velocity roadmaps. Most recently led Delos Insurance Solutions to launch new homeowners programs for wildfire-prone regions every 3–4 weeks while meeting DOI/SLA requirements, driving $135M GWP and $250M capacity and reaching cash-flow positive. Also led major scalability re-architecture at CloudPassage (Postgres to Cassandra + Kafka) and built a large Estonia-based engineering hub at Cybercube.”

Ollie Jones

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Executive Unity/XR Engineer specializing in real-time mocap and volumetric streaming

8y exp

“Technical Director/Unity Lead who has shipped multiple Meta Quest immersive experiences and built custom Unity editor tooling to solve content-heavy pipeline constraints, enabling artists to push content directly into a Unity sandbox. Also prototyped a Unity restaurant simulation where an LLM drives NPC reasoning and state machines, using RAG and memory augmentation to reduce hallucinations and stuck behaviors.”