Vetted Performance Optimization Professionals

Nicholas Kim

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Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and backend development

Houston, TX0y exp

“Full-stack developer who built a workout tracker feature end-to-end on the PERN stack (Postgres/Express/React), including relational schema design, REST APIs, and optimistic UI updates. Also has Next.js App Router experience (dynamic routes, SSG/React Server Components) and a strong quality mindset from Boston Scientific, where they used TDD to support clinically sound ECG analysis software and drove backend test coverage to 97%.”

Jonathan Dearborn

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Senior Gameplay Engineer specializing in VR and cross-platform gameplay systems

14y exp

“Unreal Engine (C++/Blueprint) gameplay systems engineer who shipped major VR social-sports features in Orion Drift, including a wieldable items system that became the game’s primary IAP revenue driver and supported 75-player lobbies via careful replication/performance tradeoffs. Also built the station/server browsing system to steer players into lively lobbies and implemented backend-to-frontend tech tree infrastructure using Unreal DataTables, plus tuned standout mechanics like rideable rockets and Driftball projectile/ball behavior through frequent playtests.”

Andres Patiño

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Mid-level Game & Interactive Software Developer specializing in Unreal Engine and Unity

Medellin, CO6y exp

“Game developer/designer building an open-world MMO/RPG largely solo in Unreal Engine 5, combining Blueprints and C++ and integrating Steam plus AWS/Amazon GameLift. Demonstrates strong playtest-driven iteration, including major redesigns to PvP balance and inventory/progression systems, and uses disciplined design documentation (rules, states, tuning tables) with Agile/Scrum practices.”

Uttam Kumar

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Intern AI Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and scalable cloud deployment

Atlanta, GA2y exp

“AI/LLM engineer at GPT integrators who built a production multi-agent enterprise workflow integration system, tackling hard problems in agent orchestration, layered memory, and custom RAG over enterprise/user data. Also built an education-focused agent solution integrating with Canvas, Zoom, and email to automate classroom admin tasks, and is currently applying agentic AI to insurance underwriting workflows in collaboration with underwriters.”

Srinandh Reddy

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and event-driven systems

Aurora, Illinois5y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on backend and distributed systems for real-time robot operations, including sensor ingestion, robot state management, and robot-to-cloud communication. Hands-on with ROS/ROS2 integration and real-time navigation debugging, plus production-grade monitoring, CI/CD, and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes) to improve stability and performance.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on fintech payments and fraud systems, owning real-time Kafka-based reconciliation pipelines end-to-end (~13k tx/day). Built audit-friendly validation/reconciliation (SQL + Python), kept lag to seconds, and cut errors ~20%, while also shipping Spring Boot APIs with Redis caching and strong idempotency/versioning. Has early-stage startup experience standing up payment services on AWS with Docker + GitHub Actions and production monitoring/incident handling.”

“Full-stack AI engineer who has owned production deployments for both a voice journaling/emotional insights app and a RAG-based research assistant. Stands out for turning messy, failure-prone LLM and document pipelines into reliable user-facing systems through strong debugging, staged workflow design, and post-launch stabilization.”

“Engineer at Syniti who uses AI tools pragmatically to speed development while maintaining quality through rigorous validation, code reviews, and CI/CD. Most notably, they leveraged AI-assisted testing to increase test coverage from 10% to 70%, and they are actively exploring more advanced agent-based development workflows.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience embedding AI into software delivery workflows, including Claude-powered PR review, testing, debugging, and multi-agent coding pipelines. They pair AI automation with strong systems thinking around microservices, fault tolerance, multi-AZ design, caching, and security controls like WAF and rate limiting, and also experiment independently with RAG and multi-agent search projects.”

Sakshi Patel

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in e-commerce and supply chain platforms

Remote, USA3y exp

“AI-focused developer who has built several practical AI products, including EchoMate, a voice-agent system designed to act as a proxy for doctors and support patients when physicians are unavailable. Also has experience with multi-agent/API-based workflows in a solar suitability project, showing interest in applying AI across both healthcare and climate-related use cases.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience owning customer deployments for ordering and billing systems at Amdocs, including performance tuning, CI/CD improvements, and post-launch stabilization that delivered about 50% faster execution time. Also built and debugged an LLM-powered task prioritization app using Gemini, Streamlit, Python, and MongoDB, with a strong focus on prompt reliability, validation, and handling inconsistent real-world inputs.”

“Data engineering/software development candidate who built a stock market pipeline and uses that project to demonstrate strong architectural thinking across Kafka, Spark, and Airflow. They stand out for a pragmatic approach to AI: using tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, LangChain, and AutoGen to accelerate development while maintaining human oversight, testing, and system-level decision making.”

Abhinava Sai Tirunagari

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Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, healthcare, and FinTech systems

Gainesville, FL2y exp

“Frontend-leaning software engineer who built significant parts of an AI platform at Cognura Health, translating complex document-processing and extraction workflows into usable browser interfaces for business and operations teams. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript UI ownership with backend API collaboration, performance tuning, and thoughtful UX for asynchronous AI workflows.”

Nikita Papenkov

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in frontend, Web3, and data visualization

Russia7y exp

“Frontend engineer with hands-on ownership of a complex blockchain launchpad UI, including a solo refactor that unified Solana and Monad flows under one architecture. Their work emphasized feature-flag-driven multi-chain support, real-time data handling, and major bug reduction, with team feedback strong enough that they nearly received a promotion.”

“Software engineer using AI pragmatically to accelerate development while keeping human review central to quality. Has hands-on experience applying AI and lightweight multi-agent workflows in a microservices environment spanning Java Spring Boot APIs, React modules, and Kafka event flows, with strong emphasis on architecture validation and production safeguards.”

“LLM/agentic-systems practitioner who has repeatedly taken LLM-driven pricing/decision services from prototype to production using pilots, guardrails, observability, and staged rollouts. Demonstrates strong real-time incident troubleshooting (dependency timeouts, cached fallbacks) and post-incident hardening (isolation/async/alerts), and also supports go-to-market via developer workshops, technical demos, and sales-aligned POCs.”

“Co-op engineer at EnFi who built and maintained a multi-tenant prompt library and LLM workflow tooling used by internal teams and external enterprise clients. Led TypeScript/React package design and standardized a typed workflow abstraction across disparate implementations (React, Go, JSON), improving reliability and developer adoption. Delivered measurable performance gains (~25% latency reduction) and owned end-to-end execution including docs, demos, debugging, and deployment.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer from Valcom who maintained Django/PostgreSQL services for mass-notification/paging servers used by education/commercial/government customers. Notable for hardening authentication and reliability (JWT refresh + rotation tokens, WebSockets/EventStream) and for modernizing a legacy Ext.js/PHP stack into a React + Django architecture with strong CI/testing and production incident ownership.”

“JavaScript engineer and open-source contributor focused on runtime performance, reliability, and developer experience—refactored a widely used client-side API/state library to improve concurrent request handling, error consistency, and UI performance while adding tests and documentation. Also owned improvements to a core microservice at Velsa integrating multiple hospital systems, bringing structure to ambiguous priorities and delivering stability and performance gains from design through deployment.”

“Unity game developer who built a context-sensitive movement and camera system for a grid-based dungeon crawler and used DOTween for key gameplay animations. Worked at Chimera Entertainment on Songs of Silence, contributing via bug fixes, working within an existing Photon Fusion protocol, and implementing a UI-heavy in-game lexicon; also leverages AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to accelerate editor/tooling and gameplay scripting.”

“Accenture engineer who built real-time smart mobility products (Verra Mobility) used by both consumers and government agencies, spanning React/TypeScript frontends and Node.js/GraphQL microservices with Kafka. Demonstrated strong delivery and reliability practices (CI/CD, feature flags, automated testing, CloudWatch observability) and achieved a ~20% GraphQL performance improvement supporting 50,000+ daily transactions, plus built an internal ops/support dashboard adopted into daily workflows.”

“Built and operated an end-to-end customer-facing "Record Platform" web product as both engineer and primary user, focusing on reliability and correctness in core flows like search and checkout. Implemented a TypeScript/React frontend with a multi-service backend and Kafka-based event-driven architecture, and created internal tooling to automate risky ops like Kubernetes TLS certificate rotation with k6 load/chaos testing (including HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 validation).”

“Software engineer who shipped an end-to-end internal workforce dashboard at Northwestern Mutual, spanning Spring Boot APIs, PostgreSQL schema/query optimization, and a React + TypeScript UI with role-based access and filtering. Has hands-on production experience deploying via GitHub Actions CI/CD to AWS (Docker, EC2, RDS) and resolving performance incidents by tuning database queries and indexes.”

Aakanksha Desai

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React, Kubernetes, and AI-powered apps

Scottsdale, Arizona2y exp

“Backend/DevOps-leaning engineer managing multiple customer service platforms end-to-end (requirements through deployment). Built an in-house Python monitoring/alerting solution for Salesforce-to-Java contact sync jobs (Snowflake dependencies) that increased uptime ~60%, and helped modernize delivery by moving the team from manual releases to automated Jenkins-based deployments while coordinating an Oracle EBS→Fusion transition with business/data/IT stakeholders.”