Vetted UI/UX Design Professionals

“Unity VR senior developer with ~8 years in VR and ~3 years focused on Meta Quest, building multiplayer training/digital-twin style experiences. Strong Photon (PUN/Fusion) background, including solving tricky networked object attachment/jitter issues via ownership and local-physics strategies. Demonstrated hands-on performance turnarounds in VR scenes using Mesh Baker, LODs, and impostors, plus experience shipping social multiplayer VR activities with Photon Voice.”

“Frontend-focused engineer (~8 years) with strong React/TypeScript and Angular experience who leads end-to-end UI architecture, performance budgets, and quality practices at scale. Known for restructuring large, tightly coupled codebases into feature-based domains to eliminate UI freezes and improve team throughput, and for tight Product/Design/QA alignment via a “3 Amigos” process that catches workflow gaps early. Currently seeking a new frontend role due to GE Vernova outsourcing; has been acquired twice by large companies.”

“AI-focused product engineer working on LLM routing, prompt engineering, and multimodal API integrations at production scale. They describe improving system accuracy, latency, and token usage, fine-tuning an internal model to reduce third-party API dependence, and adding safety guardrails through prompt-injection testing and red-team evaluation.”

“Creative director/designer spanning high-polish marketing brand work and enterprise innovation: built a full podcast brand ecosystem and a cinematic historical visualization using Google Veo 3. Also led an AR/VR-assisted remote troubleshooting initiative at TriMas (HoloLens-style workflows), delivering a 40% MTTR reduction and cutting expert travel by 50%+ while standardizing reusable interaction components for global teams.”

“Internship experience building an end-to-end medical AI pipeline that extracts and normalizes messy medical PDFs, fine-tunes BioBERT to classify tumor-related statements (including negation/ambiguity handling), and integrates image-model outputs (MedSAM/GroundingDINO) for tumor localization and classification. Also worked on an LLM/RAG system to draft IPO prospectuses using retrieved regulatory/financial sources (including SEC EDGAR) with structured prompts to reduce hallucinations.”

“Marketing motion/video creative with end-to-end ownership (storyboards, design, motion, edit) and a strong performance mindset (first-frame hooks, pacing, above-benchmark watch time). Built a scalable, compliance-safe Figma design system for a Merck vaccine website with locked components and medical/legal sign-offs, and produces high-volume multi-format social video via modular CapCut/After Effects templates in a fully remote, async workflow.”

Manasa Pantra

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, LLM systems, and full-stack development

Stony Brook, NY2y exp

“Product-focused full-stack engineer at startup (Zippy) who shipped a production multi-agent AI system for restaurant operations plus payments workflows. Built end-to-end: RAG grounded on a Notion knowledge base, structured function-calling task routing, FastAPI/JWT multi-tenant backend, and a polished React+TypeScript owner dashboard. Has real production incident experience (duplicate Stripe webhooks) and reports ~94% task-routing accuracy under load.”

“Full-stack engineer/product owner who built and scaled a customer-facing job application portal (Skillbridge) using TypeScript/React and Spring Boot/MongoDB, optimizing search performance with indexing, caching (Redis), and payload/lazy-loading improvements. Also built an internal AI-driven analytics dashboard for Salesforce operations using OpenAI sentiment analysis, achieving 70% reduction in manual analysis and driving adoption through demos and iterative feedback.”

“Cofounded a travel app and built a production place recommendation + review system end-to-end using Next.js App Router and TypeScript, including Postgres-backed APIs and post-launch monitoring. Uses structured logging with Sentry and Vercel Analytics to diagnose issues and validate performance improvements, and has some exposure to Temporal-based workflow orchestration with retries/idempotency.”

“Game developer/team lead on the FPS zombie project "Dreadful" who wore many hats (project management, systems/level/UI design, AI assist, QA) and iterated heavily via playtests and heatmap data. Built and tuned UE5 Blueprint-based crowd-control/gravity abilities with cooldowns and actor filtering, and made scope-smart feature swaps by reusing existing systems to hit deadlines.”

Danilo Plazas

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Frontend (React/JavaScript)

Vancouver, Canada10y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer with full-stack experience who modernized a legacy HR platform (CoffeeScript/Marionette) by migrating key UIs to React/Redux and adding TypeScript for robustness. Built an internal client monitoring tool end-to-end with a microservices-oriented approach and strong testing practices (Jest/Selenium), and also led a major GraphQL v1→v2 migration delivered incrementally over ~6 weeks while optimizing Django/MySQL/DynamoDB performance.”

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.”

“Built and iterated an end-to-end virtual waiting room for a real-time ticketing prototype, making concrete architecture tradeoffs (polling + Redis Pub/Sub) and improving performance post-launch with Redis caching (+30% throughput, -15% p99 latency). Also has hands-on experience building Spark/HDFS ETL pipelines with strong reliability/observability patterns and running disciplined NLP model evaluation loops on review-rating classification.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Roche and Jarsy focused on API and data-layer performance. Re-architected slow generalized endpoints into more efficient APIs (30% faster lookups) and led a schema refactor/migration with feature-flag rollout, dual writes, rollback scripts, and automated integrity checks; also addressed pipeline duplicate-entry issues via deduplication.”

Hetvi Shah

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in React/Angular and Node.js

Toronto, Ontario6y exp

“Frontend lead who owned architecture and quality for TELUS’s Next Generation Sales Platform, building a modular React+TypeScript experience that scaled across wireline/wireless products and channels. Experienced in hardening UIs against unreliable backend integrations (API abstraction, retries/fallbacks, caching, logging) and delivering real-time dashboards via WebSockets, with strong CI/CD testing and blue-green release practices for high-stakes launches like Black Friday.”

“Built production LLM agents at Hivenue and Amazon, spanning consumer booking automation and internal data-query/reporting workflows. Stands out for combining conversational UX with strong reliability engineering—strict tool use, state machines, schema validation, idempotency, and evaluation pipelines—and can point to measurable impact including a 21% reduction in time to book and a 12% conversion lift.”