Vetted Problem Solving Professionals

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Logic Pro-based music editor/mixer for short films and YouTube content who specializes in stem-driven edits to hit narrative beats (e.g., blending tension drums into a melancholy cue for a cemetery/chase sequence). Known for client-first flexibility, consistent mixes via templates/low-volume monitoring, and reliable turnaround with strong version control—work that has led to repeat collaborations with directors.”

“At Unar Labs, built and operationalized LLM capabilities inside a cloud-native SaaS product, emphasizing production reliability (fallbacks, observability, cost/latency/quality monitoring) and iterative improvement from user feedback. Also acts as a customer-facing technical lead—running developer demos/workshops and supporting sales through discovery, pilots/POCs, and technical walkthroughs to drive production adoption.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience delivering production-floor applications in manufacturing environments: built a PDA-friendly web app integrated with Oracle PL/SQL and deployed it on-site in a live warehouse, then iterated via tight feedback loops. Also rebuilt a broken assembly QR label printing workflow as a WPF Windows desktop tool and rolled it out across factory processes with operator training; additionally built a TypeScript/Node/Express/MongoDB app deployed on AWS (EC2/S3).”

“Built and shipped an agentic RAG chatbot module for NexaCLM to answer questions across large volumes of contracts while minimizing hallucinations and incorrect legal interpretations. Implemented routing between vector retrieval and ReAct-style agent retrieval plus an automated grading/validation layer (cosine-similarity thresholds, retries) and deployed via GitHub Actions to Azure Container Apps, partnering closely with legal stakeholders to define risk/clause-focused objectives.”

“Fractional CIO/founder-type operator at AHDX Inc, a hybrid-cloud/primary storage solutions startup with a compliance focus targeting healthcare; MVP has completed beta and the company has seed funding while pursuing additional investment. Has supported multiple startups (OmniHR, Combat Connect, 3BX) and cites tangible results tied to DoD/security, Medicare/Medicaid, and Air Force LMS contracts, positioning them as a hands-on "fixer" for early-stage technical strategy and architecture.”

“Software engineer experienced delivering customer-facing, real-time industrial monitoring dashboards (motors/shafts/turbines) by partnering directly with end users to refine charts, alerts, and performance. Strong in API/platform integrations and production troubleshooting—uses feature flags, logging, validation/mapping, containerization, and performance testing to keep systems stable while iterating quickly.”

“Internal Sales & Marketing Coordinator with hands-on experience turning trade show leads into revenue through CRM/Excel-driven segmentation, personalized outreach, and targeted email campaigns. Emphasizes relationship-first communication and uses engagement metrics (responses, sample requests, orders) to iterate messaging and build longer-term customer pipelines.”

“Performance media buyer focused on content/search arbitrage and native advertising, managing $100K+/month budgets across Taboola, Outbrain, MGID, Zemanta, Newsbreak, and MediaGo. Emphasizes systematic creative/placement/bid testing and rapid optimization, citing ~20–30% RPM improvement while scaling spend and recovering ROI quickly after performance drops.”

“Unity gameplay engineer with hands-on experience building infinite procedural large-world terrain systems and solving floating-point precision problems in multiplayer scenarios where players can be widely dispersed. Has shipped/operated Photon-based multiplayer and also built custom server-authoritative networking with client-side prediction and reconciliation, including late-stage stabilization work fixing sync bugs that caused soft locks.”

“Agency-side executive search leader with experience running a 360-degree desk for 6+ years and managing both permanent and project-based recruiting teams (including 2 direct reports and teams supporting 7–10 concurrent searches). Regularly partners with executive stakeholders and HRBPs, and has driven process improvements such as expanding a VP Product search from local to national/remote to improve candidate quality.”

“Senior Unity game programmer who shipped a Meta Quest VR game (Unearthed VR) and owned key systems spanning gameplay, UI, shaders/VFX, and VR interaction. Notably built a reusable, general VR interaction framework to make interactions intuitive and user-friendly, and emphasizes scalable, data-oriented architecture for maintainable Unity projects.”

“Growth-creative/performance marketer who owned end-to-end paid social creative testing for Shoebacca’s seasonal footwear launch, driving ~22% CPA reduction and ~30% ROAS improvement by shifting from product-focused ads to UGC with stronger early hooks and clearer value messaging. Experienced translating platform-specific performance signals into modular creative iterations across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube, and aligning performance + creative teams via structured briefs and weekly review cadences.”

“Developed and productionized VL-Mate, a vision-language, LLM-powered assistant aimed at helping visually impaired users understand their surroundings and query internal knowledge. Emphasizes reliability and safety via confidence thresholds, uncertainty-aware fallbacks, hallucination grounding checks, and rigorous offline + user-in-the-loop evaluation, with experience orchestrating multi-step LLM pipelines (LangChain-style and custom Python async) and deploying on containerized infrastructure.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a 150+ LPAR AIX 7.x estate with VIOS/HMC/vHMC and PowerHA in production, including real outage and failover recoveries. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built Jenkins pipelines deploying to AKS and implemented Terraform on AWS with remote state, locking, and drift management.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG intelligent document understanding platform for healthcare clinical documents (notes, discharge summaries, diagnostic reports), integrating spaCy entity extraction, Pinecone vector search, and a Spring Boot API on AWS with monitoring and guardrails. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration (LangChain, Airflow, Kubeflow/Kubernetes) and a metrics-driven evaluation approach, and partnered with a healthcare operations manager to cut manual review time by 80%.”

“Strategic sourcing professional with strong vendor onboarding and negotiation approach grounded in open-costing transparency and commodity market analysis. Uses critical path trackers and cross-functional milestone governance to protect OTD, and has mitigated duty/commodity volatility by shifting sourcing and locking prices—avoiding a reported 10–12% cost increase while maintaining quality and delivery.”

“Backend engineer focused on real-time, event-driven systems (Java microservices) handling high-frequency data with low-latency and reliability requirements. Strong in Kafka-based asynchronous architectures, Redis caching, JVM/query tuning, and scalable deployments on Docker/Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD; no direct ROS/robotics experience but has closely related distributed communication patterns.”

“Performance marketer focused on high-intent lead generation, with experience managing $80K+/month spend for a home services lead-gen business (bathroom/windows/roofing). Runs an intent-based full-funnel system across Google Search/LSA, Meta prospecting + retargeting, and selective Performance Max, using bottleneck-driven, statistically disciplined testing to scale while protecting lead quality.”

“Backend/ML engineer focused on clinical AI transparency who built ShifaMind, an explainability-enforced clinical ML system using UMLS/MIMIC-IV/PubMed data with RAG, GraphSAGE, and cross-attention. Demonstrated strong production engineering via FastAPI API design and safe migrations (feature flags/shadow inference), plus HIPAA-aligned auth/RLS patterns; also delivered a real-time comet detection system reaching 97.7% accuracy.”

“Robotics/ROS engineer who led development of ROS 2 nodes for supervising and making safety/mission decisions for autonomous fixed-wing UAVs using PX4 and Gazebo, including handling sensor/battery failures, wind, and obstacle conditions. Has hands-on experience debugging ROS2 multi-node communication (QoS, publish rates) and navigating sim-to-real deployment from SITL to real flight hardware.”

“Hockey lifer with ~18 years in the sport (4-year varsity player and multi-year captain) who combines on-ice leadership with Marine Corps NCO mentoring experience. Emphasizes disciplined preparation and a holistic approach to player evaluation (IQ, compete level, off-puck play, and character), and is comfortable creating educational social content like roadmaps and Q&As for hockey families.”

“Early-career engineer who built a self-directed production-grade security scanning/analysis pipeline that normalizes multi-scanner results, correlates CVEs, and uses an LLM to generate exploit hypotheses—then hardened it for real-world reliability (timeouts, confidence scoring, feature flags, graceful degradation). Also integrated a real-time audio ML model into Discord/Zoom and debugged intermittent latency/dropouts across Python inference, virtual audio drivers, and network jitter; experienced with IAM integrations (Entra ID/Salesforce) and cloud tooling (AWS/Docker/Kubernetes).”