Vetted Performance Optimization Professionals

“Senior engineering leader in the Bay Area with experience spanning VMware, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Barracuda, and Palo Alto Networks, including leading open-source work (Apache Knox) and architecting large-scale security platforms. Has driven disaster recovery and cloud security products, designed Python microservices for Microsoft 365 security, and scaled teams (3x) while formalizing enterprise readiness practices with automated documentation using Notebook LLM.”

Chris Du

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Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps and AI systems

Mountain View, CA0y exp

“Product/UX designer who builds end-to-end systems across both consumer wellness and industrial/technical domains. Designed BloomPath (mental-wellness platform for therapists and young professionals) using research-driven, emotionally safe interaction patterns, and also simplified a Bosch autonomous parking vision-language mapping pipeline into a developer-facing real-time UI with layered debug tooling. Comfortable collaborating deeply with engineers and contributing in React/JS.”

Tejaswini Manjunatha

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Mid-level Reliability Engineer specializing in incident response and LLM-driven support automation

Palo Alto, USA4y exp

“Customer Success Services / Support professional working on Palantir Foundry who productionizes customer integrations (secure OAuth2, scheduled pipelines) and builds LLM-driven support automation (runbook matching) with monitoring and evaluation suites. Also leads developer workshops/demos on Foundry packaging/installation workflows, using live debugging techniques to make concepts concrete.”

“AI/LLM-focused engineer with hands-on experience building RAG pipelines, prompt engineering workflows, and multi-agent systems using tools like LangChain. Stands out for combining AI-assisted development with production-grade validation and for leading the architecture/orchestration of agent-based recommendation systems that improved response time, accuracy, and scalability.”

“Built and productionized a dual-agent LLM invoice-processing system for GFI Partners, adding guardrails and audit trails to earn stakeholder trust and drive adoption while cutting operational burden by 75%. Uses LangSmith observability to diagnose real-time workflow regressions and has experience teaching agentic AI concepts (e.g., at Carnegie Mellon) through hands-on, scaffolded demos.”

“Robotics software candidate with hands-on ROS2 experience building an autonomous UR7e cake-decorating robot, owning trajectory planning from perception-driven design selection through IK-based waypoint execution. Also optimized a depth-camera object-detection system for assistive glasses (doubling FPS from ~5 to ~10) and is currently exploring distributed Raspberry Pi robot networking to emulate satellite-style handoffs.”

“Backend engineer who built gnocal, a ~150-line stateless Go service that turns on-chain event data into standards-compliant .ics calendar feeds consumable by Apple/Google Calendar, deployed on Fly.io. Also refactored MCTS into Monte Carlo Graph Search (Python-to-Rust) using deterministic tests and state canonicalization to handle transpositions, and implemented decentralized role-based ACLs in Gno for a smart-contract web hosting network (gno.land / All in Bits).”

“Backend-leaning engineer with experience at Dropbox, Wayfair, and Etsy who has led cross-product integrations and internal platform tooling. Re-architected a legacy promo code system from a PHP monolith to a Java/Spring Boot microservice achieving a 99% execution-time reduction, and built a React/TypeScript + Supabase product (press.social) with LLM-powered bulk parallel generation and a path to multi-tenancy.”

“Full-stack engineer (Snowflake) who shipped an AI/LLM-powered data exploration product end-to-end, spanning Spring Boot/Python services and a polished React UI with streaming responses and robust fallbacks. Experienced operating high-scale AWS deployments (Docker/Kubernetes, SNS/SQS, RDS Postgres, CloudWatch, Jenkins CI/CD) supporting thousands to tens of thousands of concurrent users, including handling real traffic-spike scaling incidents.”

Joseph Leybovich

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Senior Unity Engineer specializing in XR and game development

Culver City, CA13y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with hands-on experience shipping end-to-end game systems, including a story mode pipeline on Marvel Mighty Heroes that supported designers directly and improved player retention. Also brings experimental AI/LLM and VR experience from Meta hackathons plus Photon multiplayer and cross-platform VR/mobile prototyping expertise.”

Robert Davis

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Staff Software Engineer specializing in backend and distributed systems

Remote, US19y exp

“Backend engineer who co-launched SkyKick’s Office 365 SharePoint/Exchange backup product, built the MVP, and then architected and led its design for 9 years. Stands out for high-scale systems expertise, including an algorithmic redesign that cut cloud costs by an order of magnitude, plus earlier experience integrating speech recognition systems in noisy real-world customer environments.”

Kevin Hoffman

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Director-level product and engineering leader specializing in distributed systems and cloud platforms

Windsor, CT16y exp

“Former CTO and co-founder of Cosmonic who led technology vision, roadmap, and team building while also serving as the technical lead in investor and VC meetings. Has hands-on experience supporting seed and Series A rounds, plus strategic exposure to later-stage fundraising at Synadia, combining startup-building depth with a pragmatic view of risk and business viability.”

“Player Experience developer on Madden who shipped player-facing Weekly Recap and Halftime Show flows built in visual scripting, including a custom solution to keep full-screen UI persistent across level loads with strong logging and failsafes. Also builds networked UE co-op ARPG systems (talent trees, combat/animation, leveling/stats, AI, dynamic spawning) and has a track record of refactoring shared UI/banner logic into scalable prefabs to reduce bugs and improve team workflow.”