Vetted Troubleshooting Professionals

“UNIX infrastructure engineer with hands-on AIX 7.x and Solaris 11.4 operations, including high-severity Oracle/NFS I/O incidents resolved via MTU/Jumbo Frame tuning and performance tooling (iostat/vmstat/top/fio). Experienced in IBM Power (P5–P9) environments with VIOS/LPAR and PowerHA/HACMP (up to 8-node clusters), plus legacy Sun/Oracle SPARC and AIX migrations using custom Bash/Python discovery scripts and rsync-based cutovers.”

“Data science/AI intern at University at Buffalo Business Services who built and deployed production systems spanning classic ML and LLM assistants. Delivered real-time competitor intelligence for a Cornell-partnered, $1B beverage launch by scraping/cleaning 5,000+ SKUs and deploying models via API, then built a domain-aware LLM assistant to modernize Excel-based workflows with strong grounding, privacy controls, and sub-5s latency.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a startup data-processing backend (Express.js/MySQL) handling millions of user data points, with a microservices pipeline integrating multiple social media APIs. Emphasizes reliability and security through comprehensive testing, robust error/retry handling for sequential pagination constraints, and tight IAM/JWT/OAuth-based access controls.”

“Unity/C# developer with 10+ years experience who built a VR disc-golf-style throwing system by translating academic aerodynamics research into a differential-equation-based simulation, then improved “feel” via telemetry-driven input analysis and playtesting. Also created a custom cross-platform multiplayer networking layer (Steam + Oculus/Meta) that cleanly separates gameplay from networking, and recently extended an ASP.NET backend (new endpoints + data refactors) using AI-assisted pair programming to support Bluetooth-based beacon triangulation.”

“DevSecOps/AWS infrastructure engineer at Madison Logic who owns a 15-account AWS footprint and treats nearly all AWS resources as code (Terraform/CloudFormation). Led a CI/CD platform migration (Bitbucket → GitLab + GitHub Actions) supporting WordPress and containerized microservices, improving release frequency to weekly/daily, and has hands-on production incident response experience on ECS Fargate using Datadog with fast rollback via immutable ECR tags and task definition revisions.”

“Works on clinical trial applications and data pipelines, including AWS Lambda-based file transfer workflows for clinical study metadata. Has hands-on experience hardening production systems by adding observability, SSH/auth exception handling (Paramiko), retries/timeouts, and validating changes across SIT/UAT/prod. Also supports adoption through tailored technical demos for new teams and vendor partners integrating into their workflows.”

“Audio designer/editor with a producer background who edits music and SFX as a compositional tool—shaping narrative tension in projects like a stop-motion horror short film and optimizing pacing for YouTube retention. Runs an end-to-end, template-driven post workflow (dialogue cleanup, bussing, automation, loudness targets, and stem deliverables) designed for fast, high-volume iteration.”

“Unity/VR developer who built a game-jam puzzle platformer (“Splitting Image”) largely solo, centered on a mirror-based clone mechanic. Comfortable adapting to different VR headsets and team structures, and prefers hands-on problem solving over relying on AI tools.”

“Full-stack web developer who reports owning both backend and frontend design, including database-first design and jQuery-based web UI work (shared a GitHub project link). Claims to have delivered a project planned for 4 months in just 2 weeks and emphasizes strong personal code quality standards.”

“Frontend lead on an SME CRM for a bank, building a scalable multi-country/multi-product React/Next.js platform with a config-driven onboarding workflow and multi-role permissions. Emphasizes quality and maintainability through CI gates, a full testing pyramid, and disciplined server-state caching with RTK Query, plus feature-flagged rollouts and data-driven iteration from pilot user feedback.”

“Early-career candidate with customer service experience and a cybersecurity bootcamp background (vulnerability management). Undergraduate project focused on securing online exams during COVID using identity verification (facial recognition + email/phone code) and 360-degree monitoring to reduce cheating, and they navigated student pushback to enforce integrity.”

“Former SDR at Placer AI (later promoted into Customer Success) who generated high outbound volume—booking ~40–50 meetings/month and converting ~30 into opportunities. Experienced selling into municipalities with research-led personalization, and has navigated multi-stakeholder buying committees in healthcare staffing (recruiters/ops/CFO) including ATS and Salesforce-based solution discussions.”

“Game QA professional experienced in live production pipelines with daily builds and sprint cadence, emphasizing LKG-based verification/regression, smoke/BVT stability checks, and disciplined backlog closure. Known for isolating low-repro gameplay/system defects using video evidence and logs, and for streamlining team workflows through standardized JIRA/Azure DevOps templates and data-driven quality feedback to designers/engineers.”

“ROS2/Python robotics engineer who led a 4-person team building a simulated multi-robot warehouse system (SLAM + NAV2 + centralized task allocation) in Gazebo Ignition, including a distance/priority-based controller that reduced task completion time by ~30%. Also has hands-on real-time debugging/tuning experience for both mobile robots and a MyCobot 600 Pro manipulator, plus simulation work in CARLA using RL (TD3) and Social-LSTM for pedestrian behavior modeling.”

“Software engineer turned solutions/technical support engineer with 5+ years of experience supporting and migrating a custom CRM used by U.S. House of Representatives offices. Has hands-on ownership of database export/import scripting, API key-based integrations, and production troubleshooting, and also consults government customers on procurement/CLM workflows while partnering with sales/marketing on demos and adoption use cases.”

“QA tester with hands-on experience validating streaming/TV apps (Mola TV, Como TV, Destination Calcio TV) across Android TV, Apple TV, Fire TV, LG webOS, and Samsung Tizen—focused on stability, UI/UX consistency, and cross-device functionality. Looking to transition those structured, detail-oriented QA practices into console game testing and actively uses AI (ChatGPT) to speed up test case creation and improve bug/report documentation quality.”

“Backend-focused engineer with Python experience building network design/exploration tooling integrated into an existing infrastructure framework via APIs, including use of graph algorithms for routing/target discovery. Has also supported .NET to .NET Core and database migrations by strengthening test infrastructure, and improved messaging-system stability (RabbitMQ) through performance monitoring and memory leak troubleshooting.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience delivering production-floor applications in manufacturing environments: built a PDA-friendly web app integrated with Oracle PL/SQL and deployed it on-site in a live warehouse, then iterated via tight feedback loops. Also rebuilt a broken assembly QR label printing workflow as a WPF Windows desktop tool and rolled it out across factory processes with operator training; additionally built a TypeScript/Node/Express/MongoDB app deployed on AWS (EC2/S3).”

“Python backend engineer (BetterWorld Technology) who owns microservice systems end-to-end on Azure, including Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, and production monitoring/alerting. Has hands-on experience integrating SQL/NoSQL (including Cosmos DB with vector search/graph workflow) and has built a Kafka + Spark Streaming pipeline to Snowflake with a reported 40% latency reduction.”

“Builder/creator who ships practical AI automations and content workflows: created a no-backend website that uses ChatGPT to generate AI agents/manual workflows, and built an inbound/outbound receptionist using n8n and Retell AI (later migrated to Retell workflows). Also produces an AI-written/produced podcast with 55+ hosts and uses tools like Descript and Sora with make.com for batch content creation and scheduling.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a 150+ LPAR AIX 7.x estate with VIOS/HMC/vHMC and PowerHA in production, including real outage and failover recoveries. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built Jenkins pipelines deploying to AKS and implemented Terraform on AWS with remote state, locking, and drift management.”

“Full-stack intern at Rebel who owned backend work on a cross-platform music platform using Python/Django with MongoDB, implementing user-focused REST APIs end-to-end. Also built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) to containerize and deploy to AWS, and has experience integrating Kafka-based real-time event processing with reliability and observability practices.”

“AIX/IBM Power Systems engineer with hands-on production performance troubleshooting (NMON) and operational administration across VIOS/HMC/LPAR/DLPAR. Has implemented enterprise patching and security remediation using NIM (e.g., OpenSSH vulnerability) and built automation to generate and curate weekly AIX images for the NIM environment.”