Vetted System Design Professionals

“Game developer with 13 years in the games industry who built a Unity VR feature using machine learning to recognize player-drawn spell symbols, training an accurate neural network from an existing dataset and solving tricky screen-space/world-space input constraints. Actively uses AI assistants for targeted code snippets and code review while emphasizing understanding over "vibe coding," and is interested in expanding into multiplayer/networking.”

“Backend-focused engineer at Wells Fargo owning production payments features end-to-end, including Spring Boot REST services, CI/CD + containerized AWS deployments, and CloudWatch-based observability. Has hands-on experience stabilizing high-traffic transaction workflows and building reliable ingestion/integration flows using idempotency, retries/backoff, and reconciliation.”

“Insurtech R&D leader turned CTO with 25+ years across telecom, DoD, automotive, and commercial insurance. Built patented AI-driven insurance document ingestion (>95% accuracy with 1–3 samples) and led Azure-based backend/service development while managing up to 15 engineers at a commercial P&C MGA that reached a ~$60M book of business (~30 loss ratio) before run-off due to paper issues. Known for hands-on discovery (including field inspections) and rapid MVP delivery, including a risk-inspection iPad app that auto-generated draft reports.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Razorpay and Groww, focused on hardening high-throughput financial systems for reliability and low tail latency through incremental improvements (SQL/index tuning, Redis caching, timeouts, idempotency). Also built/refactored a commodity risk tracker using Supabase Auth + Postgres RLS for strict per-user isolation, with a strong emphasis on API contracts, observability, and safe migrations.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on ROS 2 localization/SLAM: built a particle-filter (Monte Carlo) localization system in Python with likelihood-field modeling to handle noisy LiDAR and dynamic environments. Strong in debugging ROS 2 integration issues (tf2 frame sync, DDS/QoS message reliability) and in profiling/optimizing pipelines to reach real-time performance (~10 Hz) using precomputation and KD-trees.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-critical analytics and course intelligence platforms end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node/Express + SQL), including an internal self-serve Reporting & Analytics Center adopted by 1,000+ users. Demonstrates strong systems thinking across performance (2× faster heavy reports), reliability (feature flags, testing), and distributed architecture (RabbitMQ microservices with idempotency, DLQs, and correlation-ID observability).”

“Full-stack engineer with customer-facing delivery experience who built and deployed a multi-platform social media automation product (Next.js/Node/MongoDB) and optimized it using BullMQ/Redis background jobs, retries, and rate limiting for reliable posting at scale. Also delivered an AI-powered false-positive analysis service in a cybersecurity context, resolving production pipeline stalls via log-driven debugging, parallelization, caching, and LLM guardrails.”

“Software engineer with hands-on ownership of both fintech checkout improvements (saved payment methods/one-click checkout with tokenization and feature-flag rollouts) and production LLM/RAG systems for customer support. Demonstrates strong operational rigor via guardrails, evaluation loops integrated into CI/CD, and scalable data pipelines handling messy PDFs/CSVs/logs with reliability and observability.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer who built a Golang distributed key-value store on AWS using Multi-Paxos, WAL, and non-blocking gRPC replication (cutting write latency ~40%) and proactively addressed tricky failure modes like leader-election livelock. Also developed a Python/Kubernetes cost-optimization scaling engine deployed with Helm/Terraform, delivering ~$40K annual savings while sustaining 99.99% uptime, and drives contract-first API development (OpenAPI/Swagger) to speed frontend integration.”

“Data/analytics-focused engineer who builds end-to-end KPI reporting and validation products used daily by plant leads and leadership to track yield, downtime, and defects. Combines Python/SQL + Power BI data pipelines with strong data-quality practices (automated validation, monitoring/alerts) and has experience designing scalable frontend architecture in TypeScript/React and working in distributed/microservices-style data systems.”

“Frontend-focused engineer who built a full movie recommendation system from concept to production, comparing classic collaborative filtering with LLM-based recommendation approaches on AWS. Emphasizes scalable architecture, strict TypeScript data contracts, and high-quality Next.js/React UI patterns (defensive states, scoped state management, performance optimization) with disciplined QA and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“Backend engineer who owned a Python task management API with JWT auth, async notifications, and performance work (DB optimization/caching) to handle high volumes. Led an on-prem to Azure private cloud migration at Morgan Stanley using GitOps and IaC (Terraform/ARM) with phased rollout and rollback planning. Also built a Kafka real-time streaming pipeline with exactly-once/idempotent consumers and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a real-time business analytics dashboard backend (Python/Flask/MongoDB) and built Kafka event-streaming pipelines with idempotent processing and DLQs. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying containerized microservices to AWS EKS with CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/CodePipeline) and ArgoCD auto-sync/drift detection, plus hands-on support for phased hybrid cloud/on-prem migrations using feature flags and replication.”

“Technically oriented operator with experience driving a strategic migration to Microsoft Azure to modernize a company toward microservices and CI/CD, improving scalability and positioning for long-term optimization. Evaluates product ideas through an operational lens (efficiency, decision support, process optimization) and emphasizes building viable products with paying customers while maintaining revenue resilience.”

“Game QA tester/designer hybrid with hands-on Unreal Engine 5 technical debugging experience, focused on NPC AI navigation and performance. At Lantern Tower Games (Telmahre), owned end-to-end quality for an NPC system (dynamic navmesh, moving platforms, EQS, actor pooling), using Unreal Insights and asset reference refactors (hard->soft + async loading) to resolve critical memory/performance issues while collaborating closely with engineering and level design in Scrum.”

“Built and shipped production systems spanning real-time operational dashboards and an LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using RAG (embeddings + vector DB). Demonstrates strong focus on reliability and iteration: implemented guardrails and evaluation loops (human review, hallucination tracking, regression prevention) and improved performance/scalability through query optimization, caching, and retrieval tuning.”

“Backend/DevOps engineer pivoting into robotics/space, building hands-on ROS2 (Humble) skills via Gazebo simulations and experimenting with Nav2 and slam_toolbox. Brings strong distributed-systems and real-time debugging practices (profiling, instrumentation, QoS/retry patterns) and is actively learning perception and control fundamentals to transition into autonomous robotics.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with experience at T-Mobile and U.S. Bank who maintained a TypeScript utility library (types, tests, build pipeline, and docs) adopted by multiple teams, and improved React workflow performance by refactoring components and optimizing data fetching. Known for pragmatic cross-team support—reproducing issues quickly, shipping well-tested fixes, and managing changes carefully to avoid breaking downstream apps.”

“At Inertia Systems, built a production LLM-powered ingestion pipeline that converts heterogeneous sources (PDF/JSON/IFC/SQL and financial tables) into standardized text and uses GraphRAG to construct a knowledge graph with verified dependency relationships. Also has hands-on HPC orchestration experience with SLURM, including creating a custom wrapper process manager to improve resource utilization under restrictive scheduling policies.”

“Engineering/technology leader who stays hands-on while driving executive-level roadmap execution, with deep experience modernizing cloud-based LIMS/LIS platforms and building AI-driven lab analytics. Led a monolith-to-microservices cloud migration with containerization and CI/CD, and delivered a reported 30% reduction in lab turnaround time while strengthening compliance.”

“Game economy designer with experience on live F2P mobile titles including Jurassic World: The Game and Ubisoft’s NFL Primetime Fantasy. Built and tuned virtual currency/market systems end-to-end, using Excel simulations and analytics dashboards to forecast progression, prevent inflation, and iteratively improve engagement, retention, and player satisfaction in live ops contexts. Based in Montreal (East Coast) and seeking ~80k CAD; not able to relocate to the Pacific.”