Vetted Problem Solving Professionals

“Web product lifecycle professional with hands-on experience taking licensed sports merchandise from start-to-finish and publishing it live on a website. Tracks operational throughput and content/catalog health via daily/weekly metrics (products processed, image sourcing/uploading, catalog updates) and applies structured planning for event timelines.”

“Backend engineer focused on cloud-native microservices on AWS, owning Python/Flask ingestion services integrated with S3/Lambda and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD. Has led phased migrations from manually managed EC2 setups to automated CloudFormation + pipeline-driven releases, and designed event-driven near-real-time pipelines with idempotency, retry/backoff, and strong observability.”

“AI/ML engineer (Merkle) with hands-on experience deploying RAG-based LLM applications and real-time recommendation engines into production. Strong in cloud/on-prem architectures, GPU autoscaling, caching, and network optimization—delivered measurable latency reductions (40–70%) and improved retrieval relevance by systematically benchmarking chunking/embedding configurations and validating pipelines via CI/CD.”

“Greater Boston-based videographer with foundation and brand experience (Milken Family Foundation, Kia) spanning social-first YouTube content, live-event b-roll, green-screen interviews, and conference audio capture. Comfortable as a lean two-person crew, known for fast on-the-fly shot planning and strong technical command across major cinema camera ecosystems, DJI stabilization, pro audio recorders, and extensive lighting/grip setups.”

“Mission/narrative designer with shipped VR experience on Lone Echo II, including designing and tuning a generator mission and its transition into a branching choice/free-exploration structure. Also builds UE5 Blueprint prototypes for narrative adventure concepts ("Runt"), implementing interaction-driven cinematics and iterating on camera pacing and character writing.”

“Unity VR developer who has shipped on Meta Quest, including Metro Awakening (Steam Awards 2024 VR Game of the Year) as an AI Programmer, focusing on performance-critical multi-agent AI optimization (EQS/HTN) for Quest 2. Also shipped Final Fury, taking ownership across gameplay, UI, networking (sync mechanics), and AI on a small team, and built a data-driven gesture/move system for VR fighting prototypes.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-based financial document analysis system using a RAG pipeline, including robust ingestion/chunking/embedding workflows, vector DB retrieval, and an AWS-deployed FastAPI service containerized with Docker. Demonstrates strong applied expertise in improving retrieval quality and latency at scale, plus hands-on experience debugging agentic/LLM workflows with monitoring and trace-based analysis while supporting demos and customer-facing adoption.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on AWS data platform work (S3 + Glue + Lambda/Step Functions) and Kubernetes GitOps delivery (Argo CD + GitHub Actions). Has led ingestion and transformation of semi-structured event data, built internal APIs for ETL operations/monitoring, and implemented Kafka-based near-real-time streaming with enrichment and Elasticsearch for search/analytics, plus experience supporting an on-prem ERP migration to AWS.”

“Executive/engineering leader with 18+ years at an established company who helped turn a top-3 telco data opportunity into meaningful revenue and a continuing partnership to launch new data-driven products. Brings a security/privacy-first approach (compliance assessments and documentation) and a structured North Star + technical planning method for building with limited resources; interested in joining an early-stage founding journey with the right vision and team.”