Vetted Performance Optimization Professionals

“Full-stack web developer with hands-on ownership of products from requirements through launch and maintenance, building across React and Node.js. Stands out for balancing product usability with technical performance, including API/database optimizations that improved performance by about 30% and shipping real-time dashboard features with scalable frontend/backend tradeoffs.”

“Engineer with a notably mature AI-native development process: uses Claude/Claude Code in a test-first, iterative workflow and has led multi-agent builds across frontend, backend, and testing. Most notably, they led development of an AI voice agent platform, creating custom agent skills and enforcing clear architectural boundaries to deliver a stable, scalable system.”

“Backend/platform engineer with significant ownership at GoDaddy, where they built a real-time personalization and decisioning system that drove about $7M in annualized revenue and serves roughly 4M requests per day. Also operates as a solo engineer for a global human-rights legal-tech nonprofit, building the full platform and graph-based matching engine for 700+ partner organizations. Brings a strong blend of production backend rigor, platform thinking, and practical AI orchestration.”

Peter Greer

Screened

Senior Gameplay/AI Engineer specializing in Unreal Engine game AI systems

San Ramon, CA6y exp

“Senior Software Engineer with deep Game AI expertise (often the primary AI specialist on the team) who shipped a player-bot system in an Unreal-based battle royale to fill matchmaking gaps, reducing off-hours queue times and improving retention. Also owned complex multiplayer match-start/drop-sequence synchronization and has experience optimizing core gameplay systems (e.g., line-of-sight calculations) on Call of Duty at Infinity Ward.”

Kaochoy Saetern

Screened

Senior Unity VR/AR Developer specializing in XR platforms and immersive applications

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership of a full VR combat system at Bad Honey Bun Games, spanning movement, combat, health, audio, lighting, and branching level flow. Shipped a Meta Quest demo that reached 10k downloads in its first month while sustaining 72+ FPS, and also brings Photon PUN2 multiplayer experience from simulation work in the oil and gas sector.”

“Engineering leader focused on large-scale enterprise SaaS and MDM platforms, with experience modernizing monoliths into microservices, improving reliability, and scaling systems to support 15M devices across AWS and Azure. Stands out for combining deep platform architecture work with strong org-building: managed teams up to 45 globally and built a 0-to-1 platform services team to 22 people in under a year.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/FastAPI services and AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, ECS) delivered via Terraform and GitHub Actions. Built Glue-to-Redshift ETL pipelines with Step Functions retry/catch patterns, schema evolution safeguards, and data quality checks; also modernized a legacy SAS monthly reporting system into Python microservices with rigorous side-by-side parity validation. Demonstrated strong SQL tuning skills with a reported improvement from 5 minutes to 15 seconds.”

Rina Thakker

Screened

Executive Product & Technology Leader specializing in consumer digital platforms and media

Darien, CT21y exp

“CTO at Grand Slam Track (track & field league) for ~2 years, owning a broad technology portfolio across digital marketing tech, IT, broadcast technology, and athlete/data management systems. Entrepreneurial operator with repeated experience assessing product-market fit using user sentiment, demand data, demographic targeting, and A/B testing; familiar with VC mechanics and looking to deepen hands-on fundraising experience via a large network and board connections.”

“Data engineer at Plaid who built greenfield, end-to-end real-time transaction pipelines and FastAPI data services for fraud detection and analytics, handling millions of events per day. Strong focus on reliability and data integrity via Great Expectations validation, Airflow-based monitoring/SLAs, quarantine/staging patterns, and robust external data ingestion with schema versioning and backfills (reported 50% fewer anomalies and ~40% fewer failures).”

Manjory saran

Screened

Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

5y exp

“LLM infrastructure engineer who built a production-critical real-time personalization and memory retrieval system for a user-facing product, adding <100ms P99 latency while improving relevance ~20–25% and holding SLA through 3x traffic. Experienced designing tiered retrieval backends (Redis + vector store), deploying on Kubernetes with autoscaling/circuit breakers, and running rigorous observability, incident response, and agent evaluation (shadow traffic, A/B tests, regression/replay).”

“Backend-focused engineer who uses AI pragmatically as a force multiplier rather than a substitute for engineering judgment. They stand out for applying structured, agent-style workflows to code generation, debugging, and production log analysis while maintaining strong emphasis on correctness, performance, and reliability in backend and microservices environments.”

Jyothi Kumar

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack enterprise SaaS and digital marketing

Mountain View, CA10y exp

“Atlassian engineer who grew from frontend into full-stack ownership, spanning React/TypeScript UI architecture, backend data pipelines, observability, and Kotlin/Spring Boot integrations. They describe owning Confluence profile-service integration tied to signup growth, plus building a marketing analytics platform with caching, reusable components, and data-quality tooling that increased stakeholder adoption by 30%.”

“Senior full-stack engineer with seed-stage fintech experience who has led payment API development, implemented compliance-related standards, and built production systems across React, Go, Python, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. Notable impact includes enabling a first major client launch, reducing logistics response times by 30%, improving page load times by 40%+, and cutting analytics report generation from minutes to seconds.”

Neha Baadadmath

Screened

Executive Software Engineering Leader specializing in Trading, Payments, and FinTech platforms

Phoenix, AZ18y exp

“Entrepreneurially minded operator with experience in trading-platform environments who prototyped a vector-database layer to generate contextual incident narratives and reduce MTTR/escalations. Also building a non-tech venture: luxury wine distribution into India and broader Asian markets, sourcing directly from wineries with a Master of Wine and planning tier-1 launch via restaurant-owner connections while navigating complex import duties and licensing.”

“Full-stack product engineer with deep JavaScript/TypeScript expertise who has led backend architecture for FanDuel's sportsbook platform and shipped high-scale systems serving roughly 400 million requests per day. Combines React/React Native product delivery with strong performance and resiliency engineering, including major latency gains, CDN/cache improvements, and features used by millions at both FanDuel and Max.”