Vetted Software Engineering Professionals

“Built a 24/7 Python/LangChain email agent in production with validation, circuit breakers, human-review escalation, and structured observability. Also applied data and automation skills at Community Dreams Foundation, including turning a vague donor-insights request into a usable donor-risk prediction workflow and raising ETL reliability from roughly 85% to 99% by diagnosing SQLite concurrency issues.”

Luciano Barrios

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Principal Hardware & Systems Architect specializing in edge AI and biometrics

Buenos Aires, Argentina25y exp

“Career startup operator now building a self-funded venture in home, professional, and industrial automation plus physical access control. Brings hands-on early-stage hardware/platform development experience along with investor-facing fundraising support, including technical presentations and introducing new ventures to existing funding relationships.”

“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.”

“Unity generalist and lead engineer with shipped Meta Quest VR experience, including leading the refactor of BoxVR into FitXR (subscription multi-studio fitness app) and running the core tech team. Also built and shipped a mobile wingsuit game (Wingsuit Pro) with one artist that reached #1 in Sports in 8 regions, demonstrating strong gameplay iteration and performance optimization expertise.”

“Exited Founder-CEO with deep-tech experience who raised capital and built a venture around making end-to-end encryption with cloud-level performance and data sovereignty feasible. Demonstrated first-principles technical rigor (network/TCP analysis) to prove scientific feasibility, then progressed from proof of concept to prototype and eventual exit, with a strong bias toward ultra-lean, customer-paid MVPs.”

“Software engineer with connected-car/automotive production experience who owned an end-to-end remote door lock/unlock feature and introduced unit testing (GTest) plus rig/simulator validation. Also built and productionized an AI-native AWS cloud cost assistant (Lex + GPT-based LLM + Lambda + RAG/vector DB) with guardrails and achieved 94% evaluation accuracy. Helped replace a third-party solution with an in-house build, saving the company ~€9M.”

“Built and shipped an AI-powered driver ranking/assignment system at AffirmoAI using LLM intent classification + RAG over pgvector/Postgres, served via FastAPI with a React UI that explains scores. Drove measurable improvements through optimization and iteration (latency down to <800ms, adoption 60%→90%+) and implemented rigorous eval loops with dispatcher ground truth plus cold-start handling for new drivers.”

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.”

“Built and shipped AI-powered workflow automation at Oracle, including an MCP-based agentic workflow with tool-calling and guardrails, plus Grafana monitoring and Confluence documentation. Also led a Django monolith-to-microservices migration at Chamsmobile using blue-green deployment and load balancer traffic splitting to avoid regressions while modernizing production systems.”