Vetted Performance Optimization Professionals

“Product/technology executive who has repeatedly built and scaled engineering organizations from early-stage startups to large enterprises (including Temenos with ~2,000 developers). Led major platform modernizations (monolith-to-microservices) to enable SaaS, resilience, and faster delivery, and launched an innovation hub to build proprietary neural-network biometric algorithms for a payments product enabling "wave of the hand" transactions.”

“Customer-facing technical professional who designs solution architecture and builds PoCs for regulated customers, iterating via biweekly demos and direct feedback to reach production-ready implementations. Regularly delivers technical demos (~2/month for nearly a year) and partners with sales/customer-facing teams by refining technical implementations until they match customer requirements.”

“Senior engineer/tech lead with 18+ years building large-scale distributed applications, specializing in performance and reliability improvements. Recently owned multiple apps on an email personalization team, shipping major optimizations (including a push-update feature and audience-count architecture redesign) that reportedly lifted system performance from ~50% to ~99% while also leading code standards, reviews, and mentoring.”

“Backend/Full-stack engineer who built a Go-based API for a real-time eye-tracking system (calibration/recording/streaming) and debugged intermittent long-session timeouts through improved observability and concurrency refactors. Also shipped an LLM-driven "Doctor Simulator" product end-to-end (React/Node/Go/MongoDB/OpenAI), including structured prompts, deterministic verification/termination logic, and production guardrails like validation, retries, and prompt versioning.”

“Infrastructure-leaning engineer who has built real-time ML systems end-to-end: a Jetson-deployed adaptive Whisper ASR service (Flask + WebSockets, React/TS UI) and a high-throughput Postgres schema for live transcription. Also delivered customer-facing AI billing/OCR improvements for a dental startup (Dentite), boosting OCR performance by 38%, and has experience instrumenting open-source ML deployment stacks to add infrastructure visibility.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who has shipped production systems in high-stakes domains (fraud analytics at Mastercard and security compliance as a CI/CD gate). Strong focus on reliability: hybrid retrieval for latency, citation-backed outputs for trust, and code-driven eval/regression pipelines using golden datasets. Also built scalable OCR-based ingestion for messy classroom artifacts (handwriting, PDFs, whiteboard photos) using Go/Python and cloud services.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent JPMorgan experience building GPT-4-powered customer sentiment/feedback analytics products (Next.js 14 App Router + FastAPI + Postgres) and owning them post-launch with CloudWatch/Datadog observability. Also implemented Temporal-based transaction reconciliation workflows with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQ, versioning) and has prior high-scale healthcare dashboard experience at Optum.”

“Full-stack/AI-focused builder who shipped a production Career Advisor app using LLMs + RAG + vector DB (React/Node/MongoDB/Claude API) and grew it to 2000+ users, handling real deployment issues and CI/CD on Vercel/Render. Also developing an AI-powered iOS “3D World Explorer” (text-to-3D) and has cloud experience across Azure and AWS (S3/SageMaker/EC2).”

“Unity/C# XR developer with hands-on experience building Meta Quest VR training modules and walkthroughs for non-technical users, emphasizing intuitive interaction design and performance on standalone hardware. Also built a room-scale treasure hunt game largely solo, owning the full lifecycle from design through optimization and polish, and uses AI assistants to accelerate debugging and refactoring while validating results via profiling and testing.”

“Unity gameplay/AI engineer with driving-simulator experience who re-architected state-based AI using multithreading (including a threaded 2D collision/location checker) to nearly double AI traffic while improving frame rate. Has shipped on a Photon-networked title (Frankie's Revenge / RoboRevengeSquad) and is comfortable debugging tricky multiplayer spawning/movement issues with practical client-server test setups.”

“Software engineer with finance-domain experience who built an internal transaction management system end-to-end at Prospect Equities (TypeScript/React Native + Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS), delivering 40% lower query latency and 73% operational efficiency gains. Has also designed Terraform-provisioned, SQS-based distributed systems and scaled workloads to 10,000+ concurrent users, including monolith-to-SOA modernization that cut internal review time by 47%.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using embeddings, a vector database, and a RAG pipeline to reduce time spent searching PDFs/manuals. Experienced in orchestrating end-to-end LLM workflows with Airflow/LangChain, improving reliability via monitoring/error handling, and driving measurable quality through retrieval and hallucination-focused evaluation metrics.”

“Built and deployed an LLM + RAG + memory system on a Furhat social robot, adding continuous face/voice recognition embeddings over WebSockets to enable persistent, natural conversations across sessions. Experienced working around real-world hardware/latency constraints and uses Datadog plus structured debugging/rollback practices for stabilizing customer-facing LLM workflows.”

“Engineering leader/player-coach who helped ship a web-based ERP SaaS release (Nov 2025) as part of a long-term migration from a legacy desktop ERP, designing a multi-API architecture (Oracle + EF Core, caching, integrations) and enforcing rigorous code review quality gates. Previously led development of a low-latency, multi-service high-frequency trading platform at a startup hedge fund (Capitalogix Trading), leveraging async/multithreading, event-driven messaging, NoSQL, and WebSockets.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with FedEx experience building an internal logistics dashboard for near real-time shipment status and performance metrics using Next.js App Router + TypeScript. Strong in production ownership and performance work—uses React Profiler/Chrome DevTools to eliminate expensive re-renders and applies Postgres indexing/query tuning validated via EXPLAIN ANALYZE to improve dashboard responsiveness.”

“AWS Solutions Architect intern who advised customers on securing a multi-tenant LLM-based SaaS, including isolation strategy tradeoffs and production guardrails against prompt injection. Has experience investigating a prompt-injection incident using logs/traces and TTP-style documentation, and designing scalable SDK/agent integrations via asynchronous worker architecture with prompt versioning.”

“Full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership experience, including building a real-time campaign/inventory dashboard at P&G using React/TypeScript, Spring Boot, GraphQL/REST, Redis, Docker, and AWS (EC2/RDS/S3) with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability focus (p95 tuning, caching, idempotent event-driven ingestion with DLQs/reconciliation) and has shipped MVPs in ambiguous early-stage environments.”

“Built and owned "Cortex," an AI agent that helps users understand large GitHub repositories by mapping architecture and relationships between files/folders in minutes. Implemented an agentic, multi-stage prompt decomposition approach and validated it across open-source repos, while also doing legacy service modernization work involving dependency upgrades and refactors.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech and AI feature experience who shipped an AI-powered project summary module in Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) with secure server-side fetching and route handlers to a FastAPI backend, then owned monitoring and performance fixes in production. Demonstrated measurable UX wins (30% faster dashboard loads) and strong backend fundamentals (Postgres indexing/EXPLAIN ANALYZE, SQS-orchestrated idempotent reconciliation workflows with DLQs and retries).”

“Unreal Engine (UE5) gameplay engineer who built large-scale open-world RPG systems end-to-end, including world streaming, AI ecosystems, and networked combat. Strong multiplayer focus: used Unreal Insights/custom profilers to identify replication/physics bottlenecks and delivered >40% frame stability improvement via relevancy checks and proxy-physics strategies, plus deterministic fixed-step simulation with rollback/state correction.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership of search and listing systems (React/TypeScript frontend with Node.js + Spring Boot backends), focused on shipping fast while managing risk via feature flags, testing, and metrics. Demonstrated measurable UX/performance wins (reduced latency and search abandonment) and built internal observability tooling (dashboard + alerts) that improved incident response. Experienced with microservices reliability patterns including idempotency and dead-letter queues.”

“Frontend-focused engineer operating at a staff level with experience at Amazon and startups, known for rescuing high-impact, frontend-heavy systems through architecture, performance, and quality improvements. Delivered outsized results including cutting load times from ~90s to ~3s, raising test coverage from <1% to >80%, and enabling multi-team adoption of modern state management via training sessions for 50+ engineers.”

“Software engineer at Cimpress owning end-to-end transactional pages for Pens.com (e-commerce). Built and integrated new discount experiences in a React/TypeScript + Node.js stack, focusing on modular component architecture to reduce tight coupling and avoid breaking existing functionality; prioritizes roadmap work using performance and conversion metrics.”