Vetted Slack Professionals

Liam Dunphy

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Entry-Level Level Designer specializing in Unreal Engine 5 multiplayer experiences

Manchester, NH1y exp

“Game designer with hands-on UE5 Blueprint prototyping and multiple shipped student projects, including a physics-based co-op heist party game released on Itch.io. Designed and tuned core systems (loot economy, capture/punishment fairness, level flow) through playtesting, and built an original arithmetic-driven grid combat system that players praised for smooth flow and educational integration.”

“Built and deployed real-world systems end-to-end across security and healthcare contexts: led a 3-person team delivering a university vehicle tracking system with 30% cost savings and 1-year post-launch monitoring. Also implemented a healthcare RAG chatbot with adaptive query routing that cut LLM costs by 40% while maintaining answer accuracy, and has experience debugging non-deterministic LLM behavior in DevOps pipeline automation.”

“Marketing-focused designer producing high-polish brand and performance creative across web and video, including a Lucyd x Nautica landing page aimed at improving conversion by 10%. Builds scalable Figma design systems and modular creative frameworks for high-volume output, and collaborates remotely with cross-functional teams using Workfront, Slack, and Loom.”

“Performance marketer in the creator ecosystem with hands-on experience sourcing and closing creator partnerships using a KPI-driven framework (engagement, conversion, revenue) and post-campaign insights to expand/renew deals. Led a full-funnel product launch leveraging paid social, email, and bundling/upsells that drove ~750% revenue growth and tripled AOV ($10 to $30), and has run iterative Etsy SEO experiments using keyword and competitor research.”

“NYC-based Head of Operations with 12 years at Banyan, LLC supporting a CEO across a complex umbrella (hedge fund/broker-dealer, fundraising initiatives, recruiting, and even personal assets like four apple orchards). Known for high-discretion executive support, rigorous inbox/action-item systems, and building lightweight tools (trackers/visuals and a temporary web splash page) to accelerate alignment and fundraising outcomes.”

“Backend/data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines and data services, processing ~500K–1M records/day from APIs/logs into MySQL and serving via REST APIs. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (ELK + structured logging/monitoring), with measurable improvements (~30% reduction in bad data, ~20% query performance gains) and experience operating external data collection/scraping systems with anti-bot and schema-change resilience.”

Umair Azam

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Ruby on Rails and React

Lahore, Pakistan10y exp

“Frontend engineer with React/TypeScript experience who has led end-to-end UI work on a fintech product (React frontend with NestJS APIs), emphasizing performance (virtualized rendering, memoization, lazy loading, profiling) and quality at scale (unit tests and TDD). Also built and iterated on a snooker sports app, simplifying UX through audience-focused design decisions and streamlined onboarding.”

Varun Mahankali

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React, Node.js, AWS, and Generative AI

3y exp

“Built and production-deployed a Streamlit-based PDF RAG chatbot using LangChain (FAISS, embeddings, prompt templates) and OpenAI, optimizing Streamlit’s stateless behavior by caching vector DB + chat history to cut latency and API cost. Demonstrates a rigorous evaluation mindset (gold datasets, unit tests, LLM-as-judge, groundedness KPIs) and has experience communicating privacy/accuracy safeguards (RBAC, data masking, citations) to a non-technical client at Kalven Technologies.”

Haider Zahoor

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Mid-level Game/Software Engineer specializing in Unity & Unreal cross-platform development

San Jose, California6y exp

“Unity/VR developer who has shipped on Meta Quest (SideQuest) and built standalone PCVR medical applications used with real patients. Built a fully solo roguelike twin-stick shooter with a highly modular ScriptableObject/state-machine architecture, including custom build-time tooling to overcome Unity runtime constraints. Uses AI selectively (e.g., Claude) to generate editor tooling like a match-3 level designer to speed up level production.”

William Alexander

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Senior Graphic Designer & Motion Graphics Artist specializing in video, e-learning, and marketing

12y exp

“Marketing creative designer/motion editor who owns projects end-to-end, spanning bold iconography (AHIMA) and modern social video ads (Pinnacle Gallery). Combines scalable systems thinking (centralized Figma libraries with global styles/auto-layout) with high-volume production workflows in After Effects/Premiere, including AI-generated imagery/video and modular template frameworks for rapid variation.”

TaylorSimone Caldwell

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Mid-level Sales & Marketing professional specializing in CRM-driven growth and social media

New York, New York4y exp

“Outbound-focused sales/business development professional who owns the full motion from list building and decision-maker research through multi-channel sequencing (email/cold call/LinkedIn) and qualification (including financial/legal documentation). Has experience stepping into new/early-stage locations with no process, auditing lead data, and implementing a readiness-based framework plus CRM automation (HubSpot/Salesforce/Yardi/Nestio) to improve follow-up and pipeline generation.”

Venkatesh Koli

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Mid-level Football Agent & Sports Business Development professional

India3y exp

“FIFA-licensed football agent, sports journalist, and scout who also covers youth basketball grassroots tournaments and exposure events. Uses a structured, data- and coach-validated scouting process and has demonstrated real-world impact by producing viral coverage that helped an underrated player earn trials with two professional academies.”

august hurtado

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Junior outside sales professional specializing in logistics and transportation

New York, NY2y exp

“Founder of Storage Scholars who generated and closed 75+ leads in just 6 weeks while entering a new market solo, combining cold outreach with grassroots campus and Facebook-group marketing. Also brings SMB and mid-market outbound experience, using Apollo, trigger-based personalization, and ROI-led messaging to engage decision-makers and improve close rates.”

“Marketing creative designer/editor with hands-on growth execution: led a Gen Z-focused social recruiting video campaign end-to-end (editing, posting strategy, custom landing page, spend + pixel tracking) that drove 7 interviews and 4 offers. Builds scalable Figma and Adobe Express template systems for high-volume, multi-platform creative while maintaining brand consistency in a fully remote, async workflow.”

“Unity developer focused on VR/AR multiplayer, with hands-on experience building Photon Fusion/PUN systems including networking, sync, and matchmaking. Has scaled a modular multiplayer architecture to handle more players/features while addressing latency and data consistency, and has optimized Meta Quest/mobile performance using pooling, LODs, batching, and profiling.”

“Unity developer with broad cross-platform experience (HTC Vive VR, iOS/Android, Nintendo Switch, WebGL) who built a near-solo multiplayer AR iOS party game using Photon/PUN and AR Foundation. Demonstrates strong practical networking and performance optimization skills, including lag compensation and client-side shader-based rendering strategies.”

“Software engineer with hands-on production experience deploying Spring Boot services to AWS using Docker and Jenkins CI/CD, focused on stable releases, easy rollback, and performance improvements through monitoring/logging and query optimization. Has proven cross-layer troubleshooting skills (identified packet loss causing intermittent timeouts via network traces) and experience collaborating on-site with operators in industrial/IoT-style environments, including working alongside robotics/PLC teams.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned the full backend build of an AI-driven platform for UK golf clubs, including FastAPI microservices, vector search, and a tuned LangChain+Pinecone RAG pipeline focused on cost and hallucination reduction. Experienced deploying Django/FastAPI/Flask stacks on AWS-backed Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD-style delivery, plus executing legacy-to-AWS migrations and building Kafka-based real-time analytics pipelines.”

Ali Zaman

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Senior UI/UX & Graphic Designer specializing in web, mobile, and WordPress front-end

Islamabad, Pakistan19y exp

“Marketing-focused designer with 17 years of experience spanning enterprise and retail web projects, emphasizing simplified UX, responsive execution, and scalable Figma design systems for high-volume output. Also produces lightweight social marketing videos in CapCut with platform-specific exports and uses modular templates plus async Slack/Figma collaboration to ship campaigns quickly while staying on-brand.”

“Growth and partnerships leader who scaled a co-marketing/referral engine to 300+ partners at Study2020, tripling qualified leads and supporting 20–30% YoY growth. Led a platform GTM pivot from direct sales to trust-led acquisition (invite-only expert events + lifecycle nurturing + content), generating 10k+ organic followers and 1,500+ bookings in six months, using CRM and analytics (HubSpot/Salesforce, GA4, Looker Studio) to measure conversion and retention.”

“Unity VR/XR developer with shipped Meta Quest experience spanning UI, monetization, and content creation. Built multiple themed racing worlds end-to-end (tracks, lighting, decals, pickups) and independently developed a VR exploration/storytelling experience that premiered in a museum exhibit. Also experiments with conversational AI, including a dynamic antagonistic dialogue system and audio-detection-driven gameplay elements.”

“Co-op engineer who owned and shipped a Python/Flask backend for automating architecture reviews and system metadata processing, including ingestion from multiple internal APIs, RBAC, testing, and deployment. Has hands-on Kubernetes + GitOps (ArgoCD) experience, built Kafka-based real-time ingestion, and supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration with phased cutover, smoke tests, and performance tuning.”

“Game QA professional with AAA experience on Counter Strike Online, owning high-risk areas like matchmaking and server stability end-to-end (test planning through release verification). Has led cross-platform mobile QA for complex multiplayer titles with third-party integrations and tight deadlines, and strengthens coverage via automation and disciplined JIRA-based triage and reporting.”