Vetted Software Development Professionals

“Founder of an LLC operating as a consulting firm providing fractional CTO services to startups, giving them parallel exposure to multiple early-stage companies. Has direct experience with MVP development, building org structures from scratch, and supporting early fundraising, and is exploring a pivot from consulting into a scalable product business while staying engaged with the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

Lachlan Hunt

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Junior Game Programmer specializing in Unity and Unreal Engine

2y exp

“Solo developer who shipped an Android game (Master Caster) built around touch gesture recognition (P$ algorithm) and data-driven potion/ingredient systems using JSON/dictionaries. Has hands-on experience optimizing Unity projects for mobile constraints (framerate, heat/battery) using techniques directly applicable to VR, and is actively porting the game to VR in Unreal with a focus on accessibility and room/standing/seated play modes.”

“Founded the Advanced Technology Team at XPO Logistics, a Fortune 500 transportation and logistics company, and worked closely with the investment team on technology demos and presentations. Especially motivated by zero-to-one company building, with a clear framework for assessing new ideas through differentiation and fast validation.”

“Startup-oriented product/technology leader targeting CTO roles, with experience evaluating and scoping high-impact product expansions. At Crelate, helped assess and shape a contract timekeeping/invoicing initiative that expanded TAM by hundreds of millions and increased ACV 2-3x, contributing to successful market traction and the company’s path to Series C.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who built internal product capabilities at Mercedes-Benz R&D, including a vehicle exploration platform, test drive booking flow, and a 0→1 vehicle comparison feature. Stands out for combining strong React architecture and performance optimization with practical backend/API ownership in Node/Express and MongoDB.”

“Entry-level software engineer with hands-on experience building a GPA predictor web app in a school project, focused on React/TypeScript frontend, authentication, and UX for AI-driven syllabus parsing. Stands out for translating ambiguous product ideas into a usable MVP, improving onboarding flow, and adding resilient loading/error states for unreliable parsing and API behavior.”

“Veteran software engineering leader who started as an early internet engineer in the mid-1990s and has since grown into Director/VP-level leadership across legacy web platforms, logistics systems, and modern data engineering. Particularly compelling for companies needing a hands-on leader who can modernize complex Perl/UNIX monoliths, manage large cross-functional teams, and deliver operational systems in warehouse, marketplace, and reverse-logistics environments.”

Aman Kushwaha

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Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in React, Next.js, and FinTech UI architecture

Bangalore, India4y exp

“Frontend/product engineer with strong ownership across architecture, deployment, and cross-functional product decisions, especially in finance workflow systems. Built a metadata-driven React/TypeScript framework at Hyperbots that cut feature development effort by ~70% and manual effort by 50%+, and has also driven backend API cleanup, real-time experiences, and a full GA4 tracking architecture redesign.”

“Senior software developer with hands-on experience building real-time React + TypeScript dashboards and map-based visualization tools for large datasets. Stands out for practical frontend performance work in production, including memoization, virtualization, debouncing, lazy loading, and Google Maps optimization for thousands of records or points.”

“Built internal product features at Sysco's Collab Cafe across React/TypeScript frontend and Spring Boot/PostgreSQL backend, including a full project invite flow and an early AI-style project matching capability. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, improving React dashboard performance with profiling and component refactoring, and making pragmatic 0→1 tradeoffs to ship quickly.”

“Former President/CEO who led MyGov through a successful acquisition, now on sabbatical building ncognait LLC—an AI-enabled app studio with one product launched (Taistful) and another in private beta (AIDONIS). Focused on startup CTO/founding roles and highly opinionated about using agentic coding to dramatically compress product development cycles and compete with larger incumbents.”

Shaun Ames

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Senior Unreal Engine Game Developer specializing in multiplayer systems and VR

California, United States9y exp

“Gameplay/network systems developer with shipped experience at Narsun Studios and Volition, including end-to-end ownership of a custom multiplayer session system for a VR title built on Unreal Online Subsystem with dedicated servers on AWS GameLift and PlayFab backend. Strong in profiling-driven optimization, scalability/load testing, and data-driven progression/balance (GAS), with telemetry-led changes that improved retention by ~20%.”

Sharath Amula

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech

Dallas, TX2y exp

“Frontend engineer with experience in both healthcare and financial services, building high-stakes production interfaces such as AI-powered clinician care planning workflows and real-time fraud investigation dashboards. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript performance optimization with strong UX thinking in regulated, data-dense environments.”

“Healthcare product leader with substantial experience in clinical software, medical devices, analytics, and AI/ML-enabled workflows. They have led a cloud analytics platform for hospital systems, managed a machine-learning insulin dosing product in a safety-critical environment, and driven UX modernization of clinician-facing applications while coordinating deeply across engineering, QA, data science, DevOps, and customer success.”

Nicholas Leytem

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Staff Software Engineer specializing in high-throughput retail data systems

Minneapolis, MN12y exp

“Software engineer at a global public growth company since 2015, with experience owning a legacy Java ETL analytics application and helping design and launch a Kotlin/Java data sourcing platform for customer order data. Brings hands-on experience across React, Spring Boot, AWS/Kubernetes deployment, and multi-database architectures, including an inventive pseudo-graph implementation in DynamoDB to support flexible document matching.”

“Unity gameplay developer who led implementation of an airport scene for Duplo Town (children’s physics/exploration game), adding multiple unspecced interactions that significantly increased polish and playfulness and delighted testers/clients. Principal/lead-level engineer with strong sprint planning and impact-vs-effort prioritization, plus experience designing asynchronous client-server interactions and state management (aware of Photon-style real-time multiplayer sync).”

David Erickson

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Executive Software Technology Leader specializing in enterprise supply chain and workforce optimization

Cary, NC36y exp

“Minority owner in a supply chain/logistics SaaS company (10 years operating) deployed in dozens of warehouses across enterprise and SMB customers. Known for turning technical pain points into business opportunities—previously created a paid performance testing services department leveraging OLTP/performance optimization expertise, generating new revenue while improving customer implementations. Demonstrates strong early-stage execution across product, coding, sales, and strategic pivots.”

Waldorff Villacres

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Healthcare technology executive and architect with 20+ years leading enterprise platforms and digital transformation.

Seattle, Washington, USA21y exp

“Healthcare-focused founder in the R&D stage building an EHR and clinical staffing startup centered on value-based care. They have already tested the concept with the market, are engaging Medicaid/Medicare leaders and industry conferences like ViVE and HIMSS, and are focused on early-signal detection to improve patient outcomes while lowering utilization costs.”

Ronald Brockmann

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Executive technology leader specializing in cloud, AI, video, and embedded systems

San Francisco Bay Area, CA32y exp

“Serial startup founder with multiple prior ventures that raised capital, now building an AI supervision product focused on child safety in online gaming. Has repeatedly operated in new technology categories such as WiFi, video over IP, cloud gaming, and AI supervision, and approaches validation through customer interviews, industry research, and bootstrapped market proof.”

“Sports business professional with experience advising professional tennis coaches on commercial deals, appearances, and contract structure, with adjacent exposure to college athletics through Duke Men's Basketball. Stands out for balancing athlete/coach schedule uncertainty with partner assurance, using contingency-based agreements and transparent expectation-setting to win trust and drive successful activations.”

“Candidate explicitly stated they do not have production agentic/LLM or generative AI experience, aside from spending a few hours becoming familiar with the process. Compensation expectation stated as 225,000.”

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on experience building a React/serverless/SQL e-commerce platform for Haagen-Dazs and improving consumer UX in a location-based animal discovery app. Stands out for pairing strong technical fundamentals—component architecture, SQL performance tuning, reusable primitives—with measurable product outcomes like 40% more completed orders, 25% customer growth, 95% navigation accuracy, and 20% fewer device malfunctions.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building data-heavy financial and climate visualization dashboards in React/TypeScript. Stands out for combining performance tuning, maintainable component architecture, and geospatial UI work, including a reported 40% reduction in initial load time on a production dashboard.”

Jessell Bassett

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Executive technology leader specializing in cloud, engineering operations, and SaaS platforms

Charlotte, NC12y exp

“Senior technology executive and CISO with hands-on engineering leadership in healthcare, spanning WordPress platform operations, CI/CD transformation, compliance, and AI adoption. Notably led a migration for 1,200 client sites that cut launch times from weeks to days and built an AI-created production application that eliminated $250K in annual spend, while emphasizing human oversight and secure delivery.”