Vetted Sprint Planning Professionals

MichaelJose Oakes

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Senior Unity/XR Engineering Manager specializing in real-time interactive and multiplayer experiences

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“Unity Technologies engineer with direct Meta subcontract experience shipping Quest titles (Horizon Worlds projects like Super Rumble) and supporting third-party studios. Strong in VR performance optimization and modernization work—porting legacy OVR/older-Unity projects to OpenXR, URP, and hand-tracking inputs. Built a master’s dissertation cross-platform multiplayer FPS spanning Quest VR, PC, and mobile AR using Photon.”

“Senior engineering/CTO-level leader with hands-on delivery of serverless, event-driven cloud governance platforms (deployed across multiple GE business units) and experience building adaptable usage-based billing at UserTesting. Has advised startups (including CaseText during YC) and supported fundraising and acquisition due diligence, including investor materials for a smart cooler custody management system presented to BARDA during Operation Warp Speed.”

“Product/UX designer with end-to-end ownership of Dell’s “Parts for Your Dell” multi-device shopping experience, using 30+ usability tests and A/B testing to drive a 28% conversion lift and 40% satisfaction increase. Experienced translating complex hardware compatibility logic into guided flows, building cross-viewport design systems, and collaborating closely with engineers on edge cases and component implementation; also prototyped gamified micro-interactions at upGrad and completed a GenZ-focused fintech capstone with PNC.”

“Engineering Manager/Tech Lead on Grindr’s monetization team who helped ship an AI-powered conversation summary feature (A-list), contributing across Android freemium implementation and backend LLM workflow service architecture/reviews. Demonstrated strong operational ownership by leading a Boost production incident from detection through rollback and prevention, and improved team throughput by introducing a lightweight end-to-end delivery process in a high-growth environment.”

“Backend-leaning engineer with experience at Dropbox, Wayfair, and Etsy who has led cross-product integrations and internal platform tooling. Re-architected a legacy promo code system from a PHP monolith to a Java/Spring Boot microservice achieving a 99% execution-time reduction, and built a React/TypeScript + Supabase product (press.social) with LLM-powered bulk parallel generation and a path to multi-tenancy.”

“Engineer using AI deeply in real production workflows, not just for code generation: they built agents for PR reviews and incident debugging that reportedly reduced review time by 50% and sped root-cause analysis by 30%. They also designed a three-agent personalization pipeline for real-time navigation curation, showing hands-on experience with multi-agent systems, orchestration, and rule-based refinement.”