Vetted Prototyping Professionals

Ose Okpamen

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Mid-level Product Manager specializing in UX, growth, and data-driven product strategy

London, UK12y exp

“Product manager from edTech focused on AI-driven, B2B HR training simulations (live work-scenario platforms). Demonstrated measurable funnel improvement by diagnosing a registration drop-off issue, coordinating a cross-functional fix (including Android), and delivering ahead of schedule, resulting in a 20% increase in sign-ons. Has shipped/managed products on web and mobile.”

Juan Lagisquet

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Senior Game Designer/Unity Developer specializing in gameplay and level design

11y exp

“Senior game designer with shipped experience on Outlanders, focused on systems/economy balance, player motivation loops, and clear cross-discipline implementation. Built rapid UE5 prototypes (48-hour cycle) and iterated based on feedback—especially leveraging audio to guide players in an atmospheric horror concept. Has led design decisions under mobile performance constraints, aligning engineering/art/direction to ship a sandbox mode with acceptable entity/map limits.”

Žarko Petrović

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Director-level Unity Engineer specializing in multiplayer, WebGL/WebGPU, and XR

Stockholm, Sweden15y exp

“Lead Unity engineer who shipped a Meta Quest VR free-to-play poker title, tackling hand-tracking controls, physics-driven chip interactions, and large-room multiplayer with anti-cheat needs. Also independently built a mobile real-time multiplayer racing game through beta, including backend, progression, on-demand track delivery, and a custom car physics engine.”

Jordan Dunaway

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Junior Game Developer specializing in gameplay systems and cross-engine development

Lenexa, KS3y exp

“Game-focused QA tester with a developer background who routinely validates builds in player-like environments (including VMs), documents test coverage rigorously, and provides high-signal bug reports with reproducible steps and video evidence. Has partnered closely with designers and engineers on issues like level-loading resource management and prioritizes defects based on player progression and immersion impact; has not shipped a AAA title.”

“Built and marketed a live free-to-play web word game (Techies WordFinder) from scratch using the Lovable AI platform, reaching 100+ users in under a month. Iterated quickly based on player feedback, reporting a 28% UX improvement and +32 seconds average time per user, and demonstrates practical live-ops and F2P analytics/A-B testing knowledge.”

“UX/Product Designer with end-to-end case-study experience on Verizon personalization, combining deep user research with iterative prototyping to address privacy/data-tracking trust issues and drive measurable conversion impact (estimated 0.5% lift; ~$750K annual revenue). Also designed a Work Safety Management System at Inova Solutions, simplifying complex real-time alerting, compliance, and role-based permission workflows using motion prototypes and progressive disclosure, and collaborates closely with engineers with working HTML/CSS/JavaScript knowledge.”

“Game designer/technical designer with hands-on Unreal Engine 5 Blueprint implementation, specializing in horde/wave modes, spawn systems, and live-service progression/economy. Shipped a limited-time Horde Event Mode under a ~6-week constraint by reusing existing content and focusing on systemic tuning (pacing, spawn budgeting, difficulty curves), reporting improved engagement/retention and reduced early drop-off.”

“Senior product designer focused on high-polish growth/marketing creative across social and web, citing work on "Red Bean" (social app promotion) and "House to Home" (website + AI feature/shipping launch). Emphasizes scalable systems—Figma foundations/tokens + auto-layout components and modular CapCut templates—to produce high-volume, multi-format assets quickly while maintaining brand consistency and clarity.”

Kalia Joseph

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Junior UX/UI Designer specializing in product MVPs and usability testing

Tampa, Florida2y exp

“Product/UX designer with experience designing creator-facing web platforms, including Anthem Nation OS—an AI-assisted music content syndication system—where they turned complex automation into guided onboarding, channel connection, and campaign setup flows. Also redesigning a governance/training website (INoSC/GovernanceAlive) to make dense multi-stakeholder curriculum content navigable and scannable, using iterative prototyping in Figma/Framer with motion via Lottie.”

Ernest Dejda

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Senior Unity Developer specializing in XR (VR/AR) and tools/pipeline engineering

Warsaw, Poland6y exp

“Unity game developer with AR RPG experience who owned a flexible mission/scenario system and created tooling to dramatically speed up mission testing by skipping steps while maintaining dependent dialogs/NPC/item state. Currently in an R&D team building AI-enabled developer productivity tools, including an in-house CI code review bot, and regularly uses LLM workflows (ChatGPT/Gemini) integrated into Rider.”

RAFAEL CARVALHO DE SOUZA

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Mid-level Game Producer specializing in AA game development and cross-discipline coordination

4y exp

“Game Designer at Flux Games on AA titles including The Walking Dead: Destinies and Cobra Kai 2: Dojos Rising, with end-to-end ownership of combat/encounter modes. Led implementation of the team’s first shooting system and rapidly prototyped wave-based combat loops in Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints, iterating heavily from playtest feedback across responsiveness, balance, pacing, and clarity.”

Marek Bakalarczuk

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Senior Unity/XR Developer specializing in VR/AR apps, games, and SDK integrations

Remote, Poland20y exp

“Unity developer with hands-on Meta Quest VR experience across two distinct domains: an ASD-focused therapeutic experience (shopping scenario and calming room) and an escape-room game designed to train students’ soft skills. Also customized a Scrabble-style word game plugin with multilingual support and English dictionary selection, and leverages Claude Code/Copilot to implement and debug unfamiliar networking features.”

Benoit Poyser

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Mid-Level Technical Game Designer & Unity/Unreal Gameplay Programmer

Remote, USA5y exp

“Technical game designer/Unity developer who has shipped across PC, consoles, web, and mobile, with a strong focus on performance optimization (culling/occlusion, event-driven patterns, sprite atlasing) including for Nintendo Switch constraints. Served as feature owner on Risk of Rain 2 DLC "Alloyed Collective" (characters, bosses, items, interactables, enemies) and acted as project lead during a critical transition, stepping in to rescue a playable character design to meet client requirements.”

CalvinMatthew Nava

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Senior Unity Developer specializing in games, AR/VR/XR, and interactive mobile experiences

Germany11y exp

“Unity generalist with VR-focused optimization experience who replaced a bloated third-party IK/rigging plugin by building a custom DOTS/Burst multithreaded system, reporting ~200% performance gains and a noticeably smoother VR experience. Has multiplayer experience with Unity Netcode (and some Photon Fusion exposure) and uses AI tooling (Rider AI) to speed up refactoring and documentation.”

Nadine Rendell-Green

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Mid-Level Game Designer specializing in Level Design and Unreal Engine

4y exp

“Unity/VR game designer with shipped Meta Quest experience across two titles, including a lite-sim/arcade multiplayer project and a Sniper Elite VR standalone DLC where they built the "Last Stand" mode and balanced wave/drop systems. Currently building a solo prototype featuring Pikmin/Overlord-style rat horde control mechanics, using AI and community resources to upskill in programming and debug Unity physics.”

“Unity/VR developer who has shipped games for Meta Quest and built a game (Remix Heroes) largely solo, handling everything from game design and UX/UI to level backgrounds, gameplay, and backend networking features like social events and leaderboards. Experienced with Quest 2/Quest 3 testing and uses AI tools to review system designs and evaluate solution options.”