Vetted Ruby Professionals

“QA professional from fintech/SAP security and complex identity systems who has owned end-to-end testing across the SDLC, including being the sole QA on a high-risk payment platform carrier migration. Demonstrated strength in integration testing, data integrity validation, and diagnosing calculation/automation defects using controlled test data and scripted date emulation; experienced with JIRA/TestRail and Selenium-based regression coverage.”

Timothy Flechtner

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in games, platforms, and real-time systems

23y exp

“Engineering leader with gaming and fintech/trading-firm experience who built a sponsor-funded gaming rewards platform (AmEx-style) requiring integrations across Steam/Epic/Xbox/PlayStation and Discord. Emphasizes production-grade, 12-factor delivery with Terraform/Docker/CI/CD and automated testing, plus pragmatic org scaling and remote-team culture built on aligned autonomy and trust.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built AI-powered analytics products from 0→1, including a predictive analytics dashboard and an AI orchestrator for natural-language-to-database querying. Particularly strong in making LLM systems production-safe through schema validation, self-healing retries, monitoring, and retrieval optimization, with quantified impact on cost, latency, and quality.”

Kris Wen

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AdTech and AI-enabled web engineering

San Francisco Bay Area, CA4y exp

“Software engineer at American Express who built a zero-to-one first-party cookie tracking architecture as the industry moved away from third-party cookies, combining frontend, backend, CI/CD, and AI-assisted QA automation. Particularly strong in developer tooling and workflow automation, with measurable impact including 70% less manual QA, 8+ critical errors caught pre-production, and PR cycles reduced from 48 hours to under 8.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience shipping production AI agents and end-to-end ecommerce workflows. They built a customer support automation agent with strong guardrails and evaluation practices, then improved it post-launch using real user data to cut latency ~30% and token cost ~25%. Also drove a zero-to-one self-serve order modification product across React UI, backend services, and cross-functional alignment.”

Jonathan Dearborn

Screened

Senior Gameplay Engineer specializing in VR and cross-platform gameplay systems

14y exp

“Unreal Engine (C++/Blueprint) gameplay systems engineer who shipped major VR social-sports features in Orion Drift, including a wieldable items system that became the game’s primary IAP revenue driver and supported 75-player lobbies via careful replication/performance tradeoffs. Also built the station/server browsing system to steer players into lively lobbies and implemented backend-to-frontend tech tree infrastructure using Unreal DataTables, plus tuned standout mechanics like rideable rockets and Driftball projectile/ball behavior through frequent playtests.”

“GCP-focused database/infrastructure engineer with hands-on production support for Cloud SQL and Firestore, spanning provisioning, IAM, scaling, backups, and performance tuning. They also described supporting a hybrid GCP architecture for a monolithic on-prem PostgreSQL workload and resolving a major latency incident by tracing cascading failures and fixing indexing issues.”

Scott Knight

Screened

Director-level software engineering leader specializing in SaaS and Healthcare IT

Portland, OR23y exp

“Candidate is exploring startup ideas focused on SaaS tools for small and medium-sized businesses, especially IT and HR automation. They have prior experience in VC-backed companies and with accelerators, and stand out for emphasizing real customer feedback and prototyping over echo-chamber startup advice.”

Godwin Idowu

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack systems

Gambier, OH4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of both real-time marketplace features and production AI systems. Built AI-powered matching at an early-stage startup and shipped LLM-driven CRM and competitive intelligence workflows using OpenAI, LangChain, and RAG, with measurable gains in engagement, workflow reduction, and decision speed.”

“Robotics/embedded candidate who built an IoT smart shoe for visually impaired users, implementing real-time obstacle detection with ultrasonic sensors and haptic feedback on Arduino. Has practical ROS experience (RViz/Gazebo) and improved reliability in distributed systems by hardening an Arduino-to-ROS serial protocol with framing, strict parsing, and sensor-noise filtering; also containerized ROS environments with Docker for reproducible simulation and onboarding.”

Uday Dorawala

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, data, and cloud modernization

Raleigh, NC25y exp

“Former founder with an acquired venture who later led R&D at McClatchy and joined multiple startups. Identified a major client need and built a mobile app platform using ML and AR for home builders, driving adoption by dozens of customers and $1M+ ARR. Strong hands-on builder who can architect MVPs, iterate quickly with A/B testing and user feedback, and scale early engineering teams and culture.”

Kirill Aristarkhov

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack, AI/ML systems, and game development

Santa Barbara, CA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer (React/TypeScript + Bun/Node-like backend) who recently rebuilt a terminal-based chat UI, implementing custom Markdown lex/parse/render and a typewriter-style streaming renderer while optimizing React DOM growth for ~50% faster performance. Has startup experience making high-ownership decisions under ambiguity and rapidly integrating multiple external AI/tooling services (5–6 in a week) with fallback strategies for flaky dependencies.”

EMMANUEL ETIENNE

Screened

Engineering Manager specializing in FinTech money movement and AI-driven infrastructure

Brooklyn, NY12y exp

“Player-coach fintech engineer/engineering lead who built a deterministic payer-ID wire reconciliation system with Citi, including idempotent ingestion and webhook processing across Ruby and Go, materially reducing accounting manual work. Experienced in incident response (Plaid-related customer-impacting issue), stakeholder-driven MVP scoping for ACH status visibility, and delivery acceleration via infrastructure templating (EC2) and standardized Magento project setups.”