Vetted Release Management Professionals

Katelyn Flores

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level XR Developer specializing in healthcare training simulations

6y exp

“XR Developer II at Orbis Education building multiplayer healthcare training simulations in Unity/C#. Shipped cross-platform experiences on Meta Quest 3 and iPad, including a new oxygen mask/tube simulation system that increased student engagement and learning feedback. Also built a capstone generative-AI patient interaction system replacing IBM Watson with an Ollama-based approach, evaluating cloud vs. self-hosting for latency/cost/reliability.”

“Frontend engineer who leads high-impact refactors and rebuilds end-to-end, including migrating a legacy Next.js frontend to React + Vite and consolidating fragmented styling into a single MUI Joy design system. Has deep experience improving performance and maintainability in complex, data-heavy UIs (orders/financial pages, multi-step editing flows) through modularization, query optimization, and shared context patterns, with strong QA discipline for sensitive financial actions.”

Muhammad Mohsin Khan

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Unity XR Developer specializing in networked VR/MR collaboration

Remote, Germany10y exp

“Unity/VR developer who has shipped a Meta Quest enterprise multiplayer immersive meeting platform (Arthur Spaces) and also delivered a puzzle/quest-style Unity game release in just one month. Leverages AI-assisted Blender workflows to rapidly prototype 3D assets and accelerate MVP development, and is comfortable in both structured studio pipelines and startup-style cross-functional teams.”

“Serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of professional software engineering experience who co-founded Food Truck Stars, initially a food-truck search engine and later pivoted into a catering marketplace to overcome adoption barriers. Validated the model by prototyping at car enthusiast events across the U.S. and turning a profit, using hands-on customer discovery with low-tech, time-constrained operators.”

“Unity developer with hands-on Meta Quest SDK experience (tested on Quest 2) who built a first-person game framework from scratch and later converted it into a hybrid VR + keyboard/mouse project with interaction systems (pickups, weapons, customization). Uses AI tools selectively to unblock tough engineering issues, including resolving Unity WebGL cached-data reset problems for a current employer.”

“Unity technical designer/game developer who improves engagement and retention through KPI-driven analysis and live-ops tuning (e.g., early-game energy/progression adjustments and time-based targeted礼包 pushes). Built a Python-based visual map/level editor that exports CSV to replace error-prone manual coordinate entry, saving significant team time and remaining reusable across later projects.”

“Product-focused F2P operator with hands-on experience shipping and optimizing a live social casino game on iOS/Android. Led a board-style progression meta and solved fairness-vs-economy constraints by designing a volatility model for dice RNG, validated through offline modeling and live cohort tests, delivering strong engagement and monetization lifts.”

“QA Automation Engineer with hands-on ownership of an end-to-end Selenium-Java/TestNG suite for an e-commerce platform, integrated into Jenkins with PR smoke and nightly regression gating. Notably caught and validated (via SQL/API checks) a critical defect where checkout reported success but orders were not persisted, preventing customer-impacting production issues; also has Cypress experience stabilizing flaky UI tests using robust selector and wait strategies.”

Prince Gupta

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Senior QA Lead / Release Manager specializing in web, mobile, and OTT platforms

Mumbai, India8y exp

“Game QA professional working in an agile studio environment with end-to-end ownership of feature testing, including an AAA release enhancement focused on user authentication and session management. Experienced partnering with PM/design/dev from PRD walkthroughs through triage, regression, and release readiness, and has implemented repeatable coverage via TestRail/Jira traceability plus Playwright (TypeScript) automation.”

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.”

“Production-focused ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership across classical ML and GenAI systems, from CV/NLP services to enterprise RAG. Stands out for combining research-to-production execution with measurable business impact: 40% processing-efficiency gains, 35% fewer support tickets, 5x latency improvement, and 3x throughput gains while maintaining safety and quality.”

“Engineering leader in the railroad industry who has grown from hands-on software engineering into leading four development teams across mission-critical products, while staying deeply involved in architecture and modernization. Particularly strong in transforming legacy, multi-customer enterprise systems using Java/Spring Boot, React, PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD without sacrificing delivery stability.”

“Salesforce admin/developer with 3-4 years of experience spanning admin fundamentals through Apex, LWC, integrations, and Experience Cloud. Particularly strong in Service Cloud and case management optimization, including a redesign that cut manual effort by 50-60% while improving reporting accuracy and response times.”

Ian Li

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Senior Test Automation Engineer specializing in mobile UI/API automation and CI/CD

7y exp

“QA automation engineer (Tencent experience) who extended Android Monkey testing to dramatically increase activity coverage (~300%) and cut runtime from 8 hours to ~1 hour per app. Strong in Cypress/JS test architecture and CI/CD gating (GitLab + Kubernetes parallel runs), and has a track record of reproducing and documenting high-impact reliability issues (e.g., silent failures in a cloud-native mobile automation platform under network loss).”

Ashutosh Talwalkar

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in frontend and full-stack SaaS platforms

Santa Clara, CA7y exp

“Frontend-focused product engineer who owned the Quickwork automation platform’s architecture from 0 to 1, including a major migration from a monolithic frontend to microfrontends with Module Federation. Particularly strong in complex operational UX: real-time execution monitoring, analytics dashboards, API contract design, and performance-sensitive React/TypeScript systems for B2B SaaS workflows.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with hands-on experience building Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications deployed to AKS, including security scanning, approvals, versioned artifacts, and rollback. Also implemented Terraform-based IaC for Azure (VNets/subnets/NSGs/AKS) with modular design, remote state/locking, and drift detection; resolved a real deployment outage caused by an Azure RBAC permission change.”

“Business/partnerships-focused project/program leader with government contracting (SLED) experience who supported a cybersecurity solicitation response for Amtrak after a breach, using NIST-aligned posture assessment and recommending MFA, Zero Trust, and incident/vulnerability registers. Also led an urgent COVID-era recovery from a server crash by coordinating a move to AWS EC2 and managing vendor negotiation and project timelines for a CRM platform serving the winery/beverage industry.”

Mahgoub Gaafar

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Senior Product Manager specializing in AI-driven engagement and gamification

Dubai, UAE7y exp

“F2P product/game designer with live-ops experience on an NBC Group-owned mobile app in the MENA region (~200k users), driving personalization (segmented ads/trivia) and monetization (regional pricing, LTOs, season pass). Owns the full delivery lifecycle—PRDs/backlog through QA/UAT and release—and uses retention/conversion metrics and A/B testing to tune rewards and the game economy.”

Sampath achalla

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Mid-level Systems Software Engineer specializing in distributed cloud infrastructure

USA3y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer in fintech/payments who shipped an end-to-end Stripe payments + webhook system for a financial microservices platform, emphasizing ledger accuracy via idempotency, transactional writes, retries, and DLQs. Also delivered a real-time React/TypeScript payment status dashboard informed by user interviews, and improved production performance by 35% p95 latency through PostgreSQL tuning and Redis caching on AWS.”

“Frontend engineer at LodestonePM who led end-to-end delivery of an AI release-notes generator (OpenAI API) and a Kanban-style release board in Remix/React/TypeScript. Demonstrated scalable architecture (bridging tables, upserts), strong QA practices, and measurable performance wins (200+ item loads reduced from 10–20s to a few seconds via caching/pagination), plus UX improvements like simplifying a Jira integration flow.”

Gly Vu

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack tools and LLM inference infrastructure

3y exp

“Full-stack/edge-focused engineer who took a manual, terminal-based AI calibration workflow and turned it into a web-enabled remote calibration system designed for low-bandwidth 5G field deployments, now used across 85+ field sites. Experienced operating edge fleets with versioned rollouts, Kubernetes-based cloud monitoring, and Prometheus/Grafana observability, plus refactoring fast-moving AI codebases for modularity and strong typing.”

Revanth P

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Mid-level DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and GenAI infrastructure

Walnut Creek, CA4y exp

“Database/platform engineer with stronger hands-on experience in AWS and Azure than GCP, but able to speak credibly about cloud database architecture, automation, and reliability engineering. They led an on-prem MySQL to RDS/DynamoDB migration, built Terraform/Python-based zero-touch database operations, and described a performance incident where latency dropped from 2s to under 300ms while supporting 2x traffic.”

Antonio Walker

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Senior Technical Lead and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms

Irvine, CA13y exp

“Engineering leader and player-coach who says he joined Freeing Returns during a transition from sales-led services to SaaS, architected the platform from the ground up, and helped hire a 10+ person team across engineering, product, and delivery. He also describes leading an AI-based fraud detection system on Salesforce with data lake and pipeline architecture, combining startup build-from-scratch execution with hands-on technical leadership.”

“Frontend engineer who led an internal React + TypeScript admin dashboard end-to-end, including a collaboratively owned component system and complex RBAC/permissions workflows. Emphasizes scalable architecture and correctness using React Query (mutations + query invalidation), centralized permission logic, and TypeScript for safe evolution, plus performance tuning for data-heavy tables and pragmatic MVP-driven delivery with gradual rollouts.”