Vetted Requirements Gathering Professionals

“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 VR developer with hands-on experience shipping and optimizing standalone builds for Meta Quest (and PICO). Led gameplay + networking on a Quest 3 multiplayer social VR experience (real-time sync, avatars/gestures, proximity voice), and also built a mostly solo game that blends fast-paced restaurant simulation with a night-time horror/stealth loop featuring custom AI.”

“Analytics professional with operations-grounded experience at WWEX Group who built a Snowflake/dbt fleet-efficiency data model combining telematics, ERP, and driver logs into near real-time executive reporting. They pair strong SQL/Python workflow automation with practical stakeholder enablement, and cite measurable impact including cutting reporting time from 72 hours to 15 minutes and helping drive $450K in quarterly fuel savings.”

Dennis Onyukwu

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Performance Marketing Manager specializing in SEO, paid media, and lifecycle growth

Caudalie, Asana, Build-a-Bear, Slack, AutoDesk8y exp

“Creator-first growth and partnerships operator spanning gaming and consumer (skincare) launches, combining creator-led activations with paid amplification across Meta/TikTok/Discord. Strong in performance-based deal structures and rigorous measurement (CAC, ROAS, cohort/LTV) to scale what works and stop what doesn’t; has delivered 3.4x ROAS partnerships and a 31% new-customer lift in a GTM.”

“Industrial IoT engineer with nearly 3 years of experience building and redesigning deployed factory devices across hardware and firmware. He turned a student-built prototype into a robust industrial motor monitoring product, optimized real-time packet throughput to 0.3 seconds, and later created a lower-cost cold-storage monitoring device that expanded into new customer segments like movie theaters.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with full-stack capability (Node/Express + MongoDB/MySQL) who emphasizes scalable quality practices: PR-driven reviews, CI quality gates, and a full testing pyramid (Jest/Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress/Playwright). Built complex React + TypeScript role-based dashboards/workflows using reusable component architecture and layered state management (React Query/SWR, Context for auth/roles), with strong performance and UX polish (Lighthouse, lazy loading, accessibility, responsive design).”

“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.”

“LLM/agentic AI builder who deployed a production ITSM automation agent on Google ADK integrating ServiceNow and FreshService, with strong safety guardrails (human-approval gating and runbook-only command execution) and rigorous evaluation (500 synthetic tickets; 80%+ false-positive reduction). Also partnered with finance to deliver an AI agent that automated invoice/SOW retrieval and monthly reporting to account managers, reducing manual back-and-forth.”

“Built and deployed a production-grade, multi-agent Text-to-SQL assistant that lets non-technical stakeholders query large enterprise databases in natural language. Uses Pinecone-based schema retrieval + LLM reasoning (Gemini/Claude/GPT) with a dedicated validation agent (schema/syntax checks and safe dry runs) to reduce hallucinations and improve reliability, while optimizing latency and cost via async execution and embedding caching.”

“Data/ML practitioner who has built a production RAG-based knowledge assistant integrated into Microsoft 365/internal dashboards to help employees query internal documents in plain English. Experienced orchestrating and hardening ETL pipelines with Airflow and Azure Data Factory (validation, retries, monitoring) and running end-to-end model evaluation and production performance tracking via Power BI.”

“Enterprise Customer Success/implementation leader in fintech (Optimus) specializing in payment reconciliation platforms, complex integrations (API/SFTP), and data normalization across processors/banks/ERPs. Demonstrated measurable impact (60–70% reduction in manual reconciliation) and strong cross-functional/product influence, including roadmap improvements for exception management and successful land-and-expand into fee management.”

Hafiz Muhammad Zeshan

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in MERN, AWS, and scalable SaaS platforms

Victoria, Australia5y exp

“Frontend lead for B2B SaaS products, owning React + TypeScript architecture end-to-end and scaling complex dashboards/workflows with a feature-based structure, shared design system (Tailwind), and strong quality automation. Experienced shipping high-impact features quickly using incremental delivery, feature-flagged rollouts, and performance profiling/optimization to keep production stable as usage grows.”

Kyra Zwahlen

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Mid-level Digital Production Specialist in graphic design, motion graphics, and video editing

7y exp

“Video editor with 10 years in Adobe Premiere Pro and 6 years in After Effects, producing marketing videos and polished demo recordings for shareholders and clients, including motion/website animation mockups used to help secure partner funding. Also grew a personal YouTube channel (dotdot3polkadots) editing AMVs and mock trailers to 50,000+ subscribers.”

Leon Hsi

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Mid-level Solutions Consultant / Full-Stack Developer specializing in APIs, SQL, and cloud systems

Houston, TX4y exp

“Builder with hands-on security hygiene experience from developing a helpdesk portal handling sensitive payment/invoice data, focusing on RBAC, least-privilege integrations (QuickBooks/Atera), and tightening API authorization to prevent cross-account access. Also built personal projects integrating Twilio/Callkeep/Supabase/OpenAI with strong key management and defensive handling of real-world API/network failure modes; holds an ISC2 certification and is actively deepening cloud security skills.”

“Analytics professional with experience across Dreamline AI, Ultron Technologies, and Infolabz, building SQL/Python data pipelines and BI dashboards for incentive, FMCG, and retail use cases. Stands out for turning messy multi-source data into trusted reporting, automating recurring analytics, and tying dashboard adoption to measurable business outcomes like 50% faster reporting and 30% ROI improvement.”

“Built Python-based data workflow integrations for a Huntsman Cancer Institute research project, focusing on reliable upload, validation, processing, and retrieval of messy research data. Demonstrates strong practical instincts around automation hardening, observability, and translating ambiguous manual processes into structured workflows, including Selenium automation when APIs were unavailable.”

“Fullstack engineer who independently built and shipped an internal sales proposal platform end-to-end, translating undocumented leadership knowledge into a scalable workflow with centralized pricing, PDF generation, testing, and AWS deployment. Also has TypeScript experience across React, React Native, Node, and PostgreSQL on a deals platform, with strong evidence of hands-on product building in ambiguous environments.”

“Built a real-time AI meeting assistant using a Chrome extension that streams audio to a backend LLM workflow with transcription and RAG, then hardened it for production with queue-based streaming, async pipelines, security controls, and full observability. Also has hands-on startup sales experience, partnering with customers to define measurable technical win conditions (latency/accuracy) to close deals and drive adoption.”

“Unity developer (3+ years) focused on mobile multiplayer/casual games, combining technical leadership with game design ownership. Has shipped modular gameplay systems, integrated monetization/analytics, and built a custom Unity Editor plugin for configurable combat/animation montage workflows (masking + blending). Not experienced with VR/Meta Quest yet.”

“Frontend engineer who led an end-to-end dashboard web app build, starting from UI sketches and user stories through design documentation and a proof-of-concept to align stakeholders. Uses a modern React/TypeScript stack (TanStack Query/Table/Form, shadcn/ui, Tailwind) with Zod validation, ESLint + CodeRabbit PR checks, and Vercel Analytics for performance monitoring.”

“Frontend engineer who has led customer-facing React + TypeScript products end-to-end, building complex dashboards with robust async state patterns (caching, deduping, cancellation, optimistic updates) and strong quality practices (TypeScript standards, layered testing, production monitoring). Experienced modernizing inherited codebases through modularization and performance work (code splitting/memoization) while aligning stakeholders and shipping safely via feature flags and staged rollouts.”

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent LLM system at Solena that automated internal project intake, validation, reporting, and stakeholder communications using Python, SQL, and LangChain, with strong emphasis on reliability (structured validation, safe defaults, logging, and state tracking). Also used LangGraph to orchestrate a multi-step video summarization pipeline, and has experience partnering with non-technical stakeholders to define “completion” criteria and reporting needs.”

“Data science professional who has built a production RAG-based LLM question-answering system ("Flash Query") to deliver fast, accurate answers over large document collections, focusing on retrieval quality and grounded responses. Also collaborates with non-technical retail/jewelry stakeholders to turn business questions into predictive models and dashboards for decision-making.”

Samee Rauf

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Junior AI/Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in ad automation and LLM systems

Dallas, Texas3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with deep ad-tech/marketing automation experience, building production tools that reduce programmatic ad waste and improve search ads performance. Shipped and operated AWS-deployed, Dockerized systems with Postgres/Redis and strong observability (Datadog/OpenTelemetry), and delivered measurable impact (25k campaigns processed, 50k sites negated, 3–4 hours/week saved). Built scalable abstractions for multi-platform ad integrations, enabling rapid onboarding of additional clients.”