Vetted Performance Optimization Professionals

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with rare depth at the intersection of MR, multiplayer, and generative AI, including work on Meta Quest experiences such as First Encounters. They have architected real-time AI content pipelines, integrated LLM/VLM systems into Unity via Python/REST orchestration, and solved hard production problems around Quest performance, networking, and player experience.”

Karen Yan

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Staff Product Manager specializing in platform and AI-driven consumer products

Chicago, IL13y exp

“Product leader with experience at Apple and Earnin, focused on redesigning core user journeys with strong UX judgment, experimentation, and applied ML. Notable wins include leading Apple Support's search-first triage experience that increased search usage from 3% to 40% and improved solution reach from 54% to 62%, plus a web onboarding redesign that lifted activation by 12%. Thoughtful about human-centered AI, especially using automation to guide users and support people rather than replace human relationships.”

Kyle Warneck

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Director-level Frontend Engineer specializing in high-scale web platforms

Alameda, CA13y exp

“Former Epic Games engineering leader who built the web foundation of the Fortnite creator ecosystem, joining as the first web developer and scaling the team to 21 engineers as the platform grew to tens of thousands of creators and tens of millions of players. Combines deep frontend architecture expertise with backend/infrastructure ownership, observability, and product leadership across publishing, trust and safety, economy, analytics, and public APIs.”

Vernon Quan

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in TypeScript, React, and Node.js

Menlo Park, CA7y exp

“Meta engineer who owned a heavily used internal goals/performance management feature end-to-end, driving major responsiveness improvements by restructuring frontend data loading and adding backend caching (Memcached), cache warmups, and query/index tuning. Strong focus on production quality: observability, error monitoring, and improving test coverage to prevent regressions during peak review cycles.”

“Frontend engineer focused on sophisticated, high-performance browser UIs for internal operations teams. They have owned real-time monitoring and transaction-tracking interfaces, combining deep browser performance knowledge with user-centered workflow design to deliver sub-second responsiveness, 60 FPS rendering, and a 30% improvement in task completion speed.”

“Product leader with experience at Disney, Hallmark Media, and Storytelling Tech who has led both streaming and AI-powered content products. Notably shipped VERP, a generative AI "prompt-to-publish" video platform, and brings a clear human-centered AI philosophy focused on augmentation, trust, and fast user outcomes rather than full automation.”

Sahitya Thota

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Staff/Tech Lead Software Engineer specializing in identity, data platforms, and cloud systems

Fremont, CA20y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who built and owned end-to-end sales-facing data products, including a 360° advertiser insights platform and a sales AI agent for natural-language access to insights. Demonstrated strong architecture and reliability chops (event-driven redesign to eliminate Hive-query throttling; batching/caching to reduce fan-out) plus incident ownership around ads attribution consistency. Also has 0→1 experience building graph-based recommendation/matching systems with explainability and tight user feedback loops.”

“Founder building an enterprise agentic AI startup who has already raised about $100K (friends & family plus self-funding). Has prior and current experience engaging VCs (including outreach to both large and small firms) and emphasizes demo-driven pitching, enterprise customer validation, and targeting billion-dollar market opportunities.”

Diego Leyton

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in AR/VR, metaverse, and game development

Menlo Park, CA14y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer from Horizon Worlds with deep experience shipping multiplayer VR and mobile features, especially scalable real-time animation and object interaction systems. Stands out for redesigning a high-overhead RPC-based animation pipeline into a deterministic client-side playback architecture that reduced network load, improved stability in complex worlds, and enabled previously unpublishable worlds to ship.”

RAMAKRISHNA JULURI

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Executive Technology Leader (SVP/VP/CTO) specializing in cloud-native platforms and AI modernization

Seattle, WA28y exp

“Engineering leader with experience across MSCI (Index business), Microsoft Teams (callings/meetings), and MSN Weather. Has led business-aligned roadmaps, scaled orgs (including an ~80-person Teams org during COVID demand surge), and delivered Azure-based, multi-region architectures achieving ~2000 RPS and 99.9% availability with improved RTO/RPO.”