Vetted Problem Solving Professionals

“Data engineer with 3.5-4 years of ETL/ELT experience across Informatica, client-facing consulting work, and U.S. internship experience, with a standout example of boosting pipeline throughput by 90% through parallelized API ingestion design. Unusually, he also combines practical data platform work with active AI research at UVA on LLM knowledge distillation and feedback-driven RAG for GPU simulator configuration tuning.”

Mandy Anger

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive product leader specializing in EdTech and AI-powered learning products

Idaho Falls, ID16y exp

“Education-focused product leader with a career spanning Waterford, WGU, ETS, Stukent, and Accelo, combining zero-to-one AI product building with portfolio-scale operating rigor. Particularly compelling for mission-driven edtech roles: they launched an AI-powered K-12 product line with five state agency partnerships in under a year and consistently frame AI as a tool to amplify, not replace, educator and tutor judgment.”

“HR analytics and systems leader with experience managing distributed teams and building executive-level workforce metrics. Delivered a rapid SAP SuccessFactors Performance and Compensation implementation (12–14 weeks) to hit time-sensitive review and bonus cycles, and has driven high-impact change initiatives including a 12+ year employee financial wellness program and data-led restructuring that significantly reduced layoffs.”

Alexander Meyer

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior/Lead Game Developer specializing in Unity and cross-platform multiplayer games

Paphos, Cyprus28y exp

“Veteran Unity game developer with extensive multiplayer networking experience (Photon PUN2/Quantum/Fusion, Unity Netcode), including work on Payday: Crime War and an in-development arena battler using Invector + PUN2. Also builds cloud backends for Unity titles (Azure/PlayFab/Firebase, SQL, CI/CD) and actively uses multiple AI assistants to speed up architecture and implementation.”

Emilie DeMun

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Senior Brand Designer specializing in multi-channel campaigns and visual identity systems

Seattle, WA12y exp

“Marketing creative/designer who helped lead the PopSockets brand refresh and owned the digital campaign rollout by translating new brand guidelines into scalable templates and a campaign guideline book. Built a collaborative Figma template system (design libraries + stakeholder feedback boards) to support high-volume output without quality drift, and uses Claude for structured ideation on partnership campaigns like Electric Picks x PopSockets.”

“New PMHNP with behavioral health experience across inpatient and outpatient settings, primarily serving adolescent to adult populations. Demonstrates a cautious, patient-centered approach to diagnosis and psychotropic prescribing, with solid knowledge of DSM-5-based differential diagnosis, safety assessment, and medication/lab monitoring.”

Victor Perez

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Customer Success leader specializing in PropTech and FinTech

San Francisco, CA10y exp

“Customer Success / product-facing account owner in a property management/rent payments platform, managing enterprise onboarding, adoption, and subscription conversion. Strong track record using CSAT/NPS and direct customer feedback to influence roadmap (e.g., shipping UX fixes within a sprint and reducing closed accounts ~10%), plus experience implementing AI chatbot/agentic workflows to improve support and drive upsell into partner services like mortgages and insurance.”

Charles Parsons

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive product leader specializing in SaaS growth and product strategy

Southbury, CT20y exp

“Product and UX leader who has both rebuilt a dated messaging platform through iterative releases and launched a new Salesforce version from scratch. They combine hands-on product management, UX design, and human-centered AI thinking—especially around blended automation/manual workflows—and have also built and mentored early-stage product and design teams in a startup environment.”

“LLM/agentic systems practitioner focused on taking customer prototypes to production by hardening reliability (APIs, monitoring, security) and adding guardrails, evals, and incremental rollouts. Experienced diagnosing RAG/agent failures via structured tracing and fixing retrieval-quality issues (freshness checks, filters, schema enforcement). Also supports pre-sales by leading developer demos/workshops and building targeted POCs to address scalability/reliability objections and drive adoption.”

“Game developer/team lead on the FPS zombie project "Dreadful" who wore many hats (project management, systems/level/UI design, AI assist, QA) and iterated heavily via playtests and heatmap data. Built and tuned UE5 Blueprint-based crowd-control/gravity abilities with cooldowns and actor filtering, and made scope-smart feature swaps by reusing existing systems to hit deadlines.”

“Cloud/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of AWS EKS Kubernetes platforms built and upgraded via Terraform, including AWS networking/security, EBS/EFS/S3 storage integration, and reliability validation through CloudWatch plus Prometheus/Grafana. Also has on-prem VMware/vSphere administration experience and day-to-day hybrid on-prem-to-AWS operations (VPN/Direct Connect), with examples of resolving pod instability from an application memory leak and fixing a production connectivity drop via routing/firewall troubleshooting.”

Ivan Pavkovic

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Senior Paid Ads Specialist specializing in multi-platform performance marketing

Remote9y exp

“Performance marketer focused on e-commerce growth, managing $120K/month in spend across Google and Meta with reported 5x+ ROAS. Emphasizes full-funnel structure and creative iteration (copy, hooks, UGC) in collaboration with in-house creative teams, and prioritizes client reporting around sales/profit outcomes.”

Lachlan Hunt

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Junior Game Programmer specializing in Unity and Unreal Engine

2y exp

“Solo developer who shipped an Android game (Master Caster) built around touch gesture recognition (P$ algorithm) and data-driven potion/ingredient systems using JSON/dictionaries. Has hands-on experience optimizing Unity projects for mobile constraints (framerate, heat/battery) using techniques directly applicable to VR, and is actively porting the game to VR in Unreal with a focus on accessibility and room/standing/seated play modes.”

Carla DiNapoli

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Senior Sales Development & Business Development professional specializing in Enterprise B2B SaaS

Nashville, TN10y exp

“Sales development professional with strong outbound and enterprise support experience, generating $2.5M pipeline and 15–20 meetings/month with a 45% meeting-to-opportunity conversion rate. Broke into the financial sector using ZoomInfo/LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Outreach sequencing, and helped win a $250K Nevada Department of Corrections deal by nurturing a CISO relationship over 8 months; known for exemplary Salesforce hygiene (Trailblazer certified).”

shivapriya pillalamarri

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial analytics and production ML systems

Boston, MA4y exp

“Analytics candidate with experience in financial transaction and fraud detection projects, combining SQL data preparation, Python-based automation, and dashboarding. They have owned projects from stakeholder alignment and metric definition through rollout, with emphasis on reducing false positives, improving operational efficiency, and making analytics outputs easy for business teams to adopt.”

“Analytics professional at Santander Bank with hands-on experience building SQL and Python workflows for transaction reporting, reconciliation, and monitoring across messy multi-source financial data. They combine strong data validation and exception-handling practices with stakeholder-friendly dashboards, and also bring digital analytics experience from a Google Analytics UI optimization project focused on funnel drop-off and engagement.”

Gnaneswar Markat

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

Charlotte, NC4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with Bank of America experience building and owning a customer portfolio dashboard end-to-end, from requirements through launch and ongoing iteration. They combine React/Spring Boot/PostgreSQL implementation with strong performance tuning, real-time data handling, and UX improvements, and cite adoption by roughly 12,000 active internal users.”

“Software developer with a one-year Philips co-op who has already applied AI-assisted coding in production, not just side projects. Stands out for using multi-agent development setups with task-specific sub-agents and a clear human-led orchestration philosophy focused on context, quality control, and security.”

“Built internal product features at Sysco's Collab Cafe across React/TypeScript frontend and Spring Boot/PostgreSQL backend, including a full project invite flow and an early AI-style project matching capability. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, improving React dashboard performance with profiling and component refactoring, and making pragmatic 0→1 tradeoffs to ship quickly.”

“Longform YouTube editor currently serving as Food52’s sole editor for YouTube episodes, with prior experience at Maul Media, PES Group/Skypunch Creative, Tubi, and Food52. Has led consistency and quality across series by managing and giving notes to an overseas postproduction agency, and brings a retention-driven approach (cold opens, pacing, music, b-roll, and motion/typography) through final color, mix, and QA.”

“Backend engineer who has delivered large, measurable performance wins (10x throughput, 67% latency reduction) by combining Flask microservices, Redis caching, and AWS autoscaling/observability. Has hands-on depth in SQLAlchemy/Postgres optimization and production scaling pitfalls (cache consistency, connection exhaustion), plus experience deploying real-time ML inference (XGBoost) on AWS Lambda and building secure multi-tenant Kubernetes isolation.”

“Distributed-systems engineer applying robotics-style patterns to software: built "Vibecheck," a high-throughput real-time video + OS-telemetry fusion and analysis system (500+ MB/session) with strict latency constraints. Strong in containerization and CI/CD (Docker, GitHub Actions) and in designing fault-tolerant, event-driven architectures (Kafka/RabbitMQ), plus hands-on debugging of multi-agent coordination using blackboard + watchdog/circuit-breaker control patterns.”

Yashwanth Naidu

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native Java/React microservices

USA4y exp

“Backend/DevOps-focused engineer with hands-on ownership of Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS, including Kubernetes deployments, Jenkins-based CI/CD, and GitOps-driven infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Helm). Delivered measurable performance gains (25% faster APIs) and built a Kafka real-time streaming pipeline with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch) and rapid rollback practices that cut production downtime from hours to minutes.”

“Software developer who uses AI pragmatically across the full stack to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, and documentation while maintaining strong human oversight. Stands out for treating AI output like any other code source—reviewing for architecture fit, security risks, performance, and standards before integration—and for coordinating multiple AI tools across backend, frontend, and test workflows.”