Vetted Performance Optimization Professionals

“Data/ML engineer in financial services (Northern Trust) who built a production RAG-based LLM system to connect structured transaction/portfolio data with unstructured market and internal documents for risk teams. Strong in end-to-end pipelines (AWS Glue/Airflow/PySpark), entity resolution, and taking models from prototype to reliable daily production with performance tuning (LoRA + TensorRT) and monitoring.”

“Built a 24/7 Python/LangChain email agent in production with validation, circuit breakers, human-review escalation, and structured observability. Also applied data and automation skills at Community Dreams Foundation, including turning a vague donor-insights request into a usable donor-risk prediction workflow and raising ETL reliability from roughly 85% to 99% by diagnosing SQLite concurrency issues.”

“Frontend/design-systems specialist who has owned large-scale browser UI platforms in Norway's finance and insurance sector at Gjensidige and Fremtind. They stand out for modernizing design systems across fragmented legacy React stacks while improving accessibility, developer experience, and long-term maintainability in regulated environments.”

“Founding AI engineer at an AI SaaS startup who built the full GTM knowledge and retrieval stack for non-technical teams, driving 60% less manual effort and 25% faster deployments. Also brings enterprise B2B SaaS integration experience from Wipro, including external API/documentation work for large-scale partner ecosystems.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and scaled an AI-powered web product (React/Next.js + TypeScript/NestJS) with MongoDB, Redis, and RabbitMQ. Strong in rapid iteration while maintaining production quality—uses versioned APIs, feature flags, CI/CD, and observability (correlation IDs/structured logs) to ship frequently and debug distributed workflows. Also created an internal operations dashboard for real-time visibility and control of background jobs/AI workflows that was adopted quickly by ops and product teams.”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership of a 100+ quest system and measurable 20% performance gains through profiling and engine-level optimization. Also has shipped Photon-based multiplayer VR work, including a 4-user application for an NSA-related project, and has practical analytics-driven UI improvement experience.”

“Frontend/full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Infosys and hands-on ownership of a full-stack educational platform, MicroExplore. Built React UI architecture plus FastAPI/MongoDB CRUD features end-to-end, and stands out for candid technical judgment around tradeoffs, maintainability, and security gaps he would address in a production-grade next iteration.”

“Full-stack product engineer who independently built and maintained a marketplace app end-to-end, including React/Node/PostgreSQL architecture, real-time chat, S3 uploads, and OpenAI-based listing validation. Also shipped backend-heavy workflow features for a nonprofit upward mobility platform using Supabase edge functions, with a clear focus on security, role checks, and operational reliability.”

“Global HR leader who has managed teams across EMEA/APAC/Canada/Australia and led large-scale people initiatives spanning comp/benefits, recruiting, talent management, and employee experience. Notably modernized a manufacturing organization by implementing an AI-driven performance management system tied to operational KPIs, delivering major gains in engagement, customer satisfaction, culture, and internal promotions, and later drove a continuous-feedback performance overhaul with significant retention and manager-effectiveness improvements.”

Igor Prizzi

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Game Programmer specializing in Unity gameplay systems and animation tech

London, United Kingdom19y exp

“Unity developer with cross-platform shipping experience (console and mobile) who optimized an open-world game to run on Nintendo Switch at 30 FPS by building a dynamic character pooling/occlusion-culling management system that created the illusion of hundreds of NPCs with only ~30 active. Has owned core character systems (player/NPCs, customization, interactions) and also applies AI tools to rapidly iterate on personal projects like a profitable trading bot strategy.”

Bhavesh Ittadwar

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in scalable web and cloud systems

USA3y exp

“JavaScript engineer who built a Michelin-specific headless CMS forms platform based on apostrophe-forms, powering forms across 400+ Michelin websites. Designed an extensible, SOLID-aligned modular field architecture with a shared design system, cutting hundreds of lines of per-project code across 10+ implementations while driving cross-device compatibility and performance (BrowserStack, Lighthouse, SSR).”

Nicholas Pinero

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Unity XR/VR training simulations

Remote, USA8y exp

“Unity/C# VR developer who owned a next-gen replay/review system end-to-end, improving determinism so recorded actions (e.g., shots) replayed consistently. Also built a Jenkins-triggered GameDriver-based VR QA automation suite that ran nightly builds and cut manual QA effort by ~75%, and contributed to Photon PUN multiuser mode with hands-on network debugging.”

Sudheer koki

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in predictive modeling, data pipelines, and RAG systems

Florida, USA5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered internal knowledge search system in a regulated environment, using embeddings/vector DB retrieval with strict grounding and confidence gating to reduce hallucinations. Reported ~45% accuracy improvement over keyword search and implemented end-to-end orchestration, monitoring, CI/CD, and incremental re-indexing to manage latency and data freshness while driving adoption with business stakeholders.”