Vetted Problem Solving Professionals

Uma Battula

Screened

Mid-level Electrical Engineer specializing in power systems and building electrical design

Wichita, KS4y exp

“Electrical/MEP design professional at EEC Systems Group with hands-on experience leading building electrical scope from concept, load analysis, and power distribution strategy through construction documentation and validation. Stands out for structured cross-functional design reviews that reportedly cut rework by 30% to 45% and contributed to a 20% reduction in electrical issues during construction.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Data engineer who has owned production pipelines end-to-end—from Kafka/Airflow ingestion through SQL/Python validation and dbt transformations into Redshift/BI. Also built and operated a large-scale distributed web scraping platform (50–100 sites daily, ~5–10M records/day) with Kubernetes, Kafka queues, robust retries/DLQ, anti-bot measures, and backfill-safe raw HTML storage.”

“Recruiter focused on senior-level placements in the construction/development ecosystem, managing 6 active GC/developer client relationships with access to hundreds of openings while concentrating on 15–20 high-level roles. Typically delivers placements in ~3–5 weeks and has experience scaling recruiting capacity by building teams and partnering with third-party/remote recruiters.”

Hammad Ur Rahman

Screened

Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD

Boston, Massachusetts11y exp

“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.”

Stuart Brooks

Screened

Senior VR and Gameplay Programmer specializing in Unity and immersive interaction systems

Stockholm, Sweden10y exp

“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.”

Rizwan Manzoor

Screened

Senior Media Buyer specializing in content & search arbitrage

Sargodha, Pakistan9y exp

“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.”

Satish Kumar Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and MLOps

Remote, NJ5y exp

“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%.”

Corbin Melnick

Screened

Senior Customer Success Manager specializing in B2B retention and lead generation

Los Angeles, USA10y exp

“Outbound growth and lead-gen operator who has run multi-channel campaigns (email + LinkedIn) and built scalable outbound infrastructure. Helped scale MintLeads from 10 to 200+ clients (Inc. 5000 honors) by developing the outbound engine, standardized messaging, AI-assisted copy iteration, and domain rotation/deliverability systems; currently supports outbound execution for 50+ clients.”

“Recruiting/staffing professional with experience owning full-desk searches in high-volume environments, from sourcing through offer close and onboarding. They stand out for bringing structure to ambiguous or stalled searches by resetting hiring-manager alignment, using pipeline and market data, and enforcing feedback cadence to keep roles moving.”

“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.”

“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).”

“At Provenbase, built and shipped a production LLM-powered semantic search and candidate matching platform (RAG with GPT-4/Gemini, multi-agent orchestration, Elasticsearch vector search) to scale sourcing across 10M+ candidate records and 1000+ data sources. Drove sub-second performance, cut LLM spend 30% with routing/caching, and improved recruiting outcomes (+45% sourcing accuracy; +38% visibility of underrepresented talent) through bias-aware ranking and tight collaboration with recruiting stakeholders.”

“Built and owned a production RAG search/Q&A platform at Data Integrity First for a client with a large, hard-to-search document library, deployed on AWS. Drove major adoption gains by adding source attribution (users trusted answers more) and improved system performance with guardrails, logging, and iterative chunking/OCR normalization—cutting fallback rate from ~22% to under 10%.”

“Unity lead/gameplay engineer who built and shipped Explottens (Apple Arcade) from scratch, including a custom 2D physics system and performance-focused pooling; reports the title generated seven-figure USD revenue. Also integrated an LLM/RAG-driven conversational avatar experience (English/Arabic TTS with lip sync) via a reliability-focused backend layer, and has hands-on Unity Netcode multiplayer experience solving desync and precision issues with deterministic predicted trajectories.”

Mohammed Syed

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer & Researcher specializing in healthcare AI and multimodal LLM systems

Remote2y exp

“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.”

Stamatis Sougles

Screened

Mid-level Aerospace & Robotics Engineer specializing in UAVs and autonomous systems

Azores, Portugal4y exp

“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.”