Vetted UI/UX Design Professionals

“Candidate brings an operator-to-founder profile with leadership experience in IT and Business Systems and a strong grasp of how ideas become venture-backable products. They speak fluently about startup evaluation criteria such as TAM, technical defensibility, speed to scale, and AI differentiation, and appear especially motivated by building solutions end-to-end in startup or venture studio environments.”

“Frontend engineer with experience at Target, Fortinet, and Groupon, focused on complex browser UI modernization and performance. Notable work includes rebuilding Target's internal uploader to support nearly 1GB uploads with granular progress/retry UX, and helping Fortinet incrementally migrate a large Jinja-based application to Vue to improve responsiveness and reduce backend load.”

Caroline Cahill

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Senior Graphic Designer specializing in brand campaigns, marketing design, and art direction

New York City, NY4y exp

“Marketing creative/art director and designer with portfolio work for Glossier, Vox Media, and Bobbi Brown, focused on premium, modern brand storytelling. Builds scalable Figma systems and modular templates for high-volume cross-platform campaigns (social/paid/e-comm) and pairs them with a fast, template-driven video workflow, iterating based on performance signals while maintaining brand guardrails in fully remote async collaboration.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end AV operations automation and dashboarding platform for USC event operations, used daily to coordinate hundreds of live events. Delivered a React/TypeScript full-stack system integrating Smartsheet APIs with strong reliability practices (typed contracts, validation/fallbacks, safe rollouts) and experience with queue-based microservice patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQs, monitoring).”

John Krikorian

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AR, UI/UX, and interactive applications

12y exp

“AR/Unity-focused engineer who built a multi-user whiteboarding app for smart glasses, including vector-based collaborative drawing, spatial object persistence, and a voice-driven AI assistant that could manipulate the scene through custom tools. Their work spans real-time networking, spatial UX, and LLM integration, with systems robust enough that some features were reused by other developers internally.”

Ming Wang

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech

Hong Kong, Hong Kong1y exp

“Recent college graduate and software engineer who relies heavily on AI-assisted development, reporting that roughly 85% of code in a recent initiative was AI-generated and then manually reviewed. Has built customer-facing AI features including personalized recommendations and an internship chatbot tied to product advertising, with exposure to API communication, database checks, and conversation monitoring.”

Suman Madipeddi

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Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in agentic AI, RAG, and voice systems

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Full-stack AI product engineer who has owned production-grade document intelligence and agent systems at meaningful scale, including a copilot used by 10,000+ users and 1M+ queries. Particularly strong in combining React/TypeScript product work with Python/FastAPI, RAG, knowledge graphs, observability, and performance tuning—cutting latency from ~7 seconds to 0.5 milliseconds while improving trust through citations and human review.”

“Software engineer with Intuit experience shipping an end-to-end real-time financial insights product on AWS, using event-driven architecture with Kafka and Spark Streaming to process millions of records with low latency. Also delivers customer-facing React + TypeScript dashboards and has hands-on production operations experience, including resolving a database scaling incident via read replicas, query tuning, and connection pooling.”

“Worked on Sophia the humanoid robot, building production animation pipelines and enhancing human-robot interaction via perception and behavior orchestration. Experienced in stabilizing noisy perception-driven state transitions and designing smooth, user-centered behavioral flows, collaborating closely with artists, animators, and experience designers to translate creative intent into measurable system behavior.”

“AI Product Manager who also operates as a product marketer/CRM lifecycle lead, focused on behavior-driven onboarding and retention. Has delivered measurable growth through segmentation, multi-channel lifecycle programs, and experimentation (e.g., activation +23%, TTFV -30%, retention +14%), and led a cross-functional chatbot integration that improved course completion (+23%) while reducing refunds (-15%).”

Thomas To

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI/ML data platforms for biotech and FinTech

Emeryville, CA6y exp

“AI/ML full-stack practitioner in a small-scale manufacturing/lab operations environment who deployed a production ML system to improve blood cell order fulfillment by predicting yield/success from donor characteristics. Experienced building custom multi-agent orchestration (Python, LangChain/LangGraph, MCP) and balancing reliability, data quality constraints, and token/ROI economics while communicating tradeoffs to VP-level business stakeholders.”

SaiTeasmitha Kaja

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot and cloud microservices

Houston, TX4y exp

“Backend-focused Python/Flask engineer who has built authentication/profile services with clean modular architecture (blueprints + service layer) and tuned SQLAlchemy/Postgres for scale using indexing, query rewrites, and pagination. Has production-style integration experience for AI/ML via TensorFlow Serving and OpenAI APIs (batching, rate limiting, caching), plus multi-tenant data isolation and high-throughput background processing with Celery/Redis and idempotent jobs.”

Sragvi Vadali

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and real-time systems

2y exp

“Backend/AI engineer who built a real-time vector database system for high-frequency financial data using Kafka/Flink on Kubernetes, achieving sub-100ms similarity search at 10k+ concurrent load and resolving tricky duplication issues with idempotency/versioning. Also shipped an end-to-end LLM-based travel itinerary feature (profiling + prompt workflows + APIs) with a focus on quality consistency and low latency.”

xiaowei guo

Screened

Junior Game Designer specializing in AI-driven systems and interactive narrative

Irvine, CA2y exp

“Game economy/progression designer who owned an end-to-end multi-currency economy for a top-down kitchen management sim, balancing cash/reputation/XP with sinks like spoilage, maintenance, and rent. Uses telemetry + structured playtests and spreadsheet simulations to tune pacing, reduce mid-game churn, and prevent late-game inflation by adjusting efficiency/skill curves and phase-based balancing.”

“Full-stack engineer who has built and shipped production Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) applications end-to-end, including an authenticated dashboard with protected routing and post-deploy troubleshooting. Designed Postgres schemas for collaboration/analytics (users/workspaces/sessions/events) and achieved ~60% query-time reduction through indexing and query-plan-driven optimization, with a strong emphasis on accessibility and server-first React architecture.”

“Built Bargain Bricks end-to-end as a solo creator, handling product ideation, design, backend, APIs, website, and native iOS/Android apps. They actively maintain and iterate on the product, which has over 1,000 downloads, and have improved conversion through UI changes that surfaced the best deal above the fold.”

“Backend/ML-focused engineer with experience spanning fintech, sales enablement, and medtech, including a Capital One capstone and a Singapore medtech startup internship. Stands out for owning end-to-end AI/backend systems, from a GenAI sales pitch platform that cut prep time by 50% to an ultrasound-guidance MVP for non-expert operators in a highly ambiguous domain.”

“Engineering director and former front-end engineering manager with a strong blend of people leadership, UX/design-system ownership, and hands-on technical depth. At Siemens, they led a 15-person US/Europe team through a SaaS-era design-system transformation, winning over resistant product teams and exceeding adoption goals; at Intellimize, they solved legacy-browser constraints with a custom TypeScript-based build pipeline that improved quality, morale, and user experience.”

Gaurav Sherwani

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Mid-level product and data engineer specializing in FinTech and AI

Washington, DC5y exp

“Data engineer and technical product manager with a strong pre-sales-style background in highly regulated financial environments, translating complex data infrastructure work into business cases, compliance signoffs, and leadership buy-in. At UBS, they drove a cloud migration with $2M savings and built regulatory automation that beat benchmarks, while at Omnic.ai they worked directly with users on a GPT-4 feature that doubled MAU and lifted subscriptions 20%.”

“Marketing designer focused on modern, high-polish creative across direct mail, responsive web, and lightweight social video. Builds scalable Figma design systems and modular template frameworks to support high-volume campaign output with bulk-edit efficiency and minimal quality drift, and collaborates closely with UA/growth and product partners in fully remote, async workflows (Slack/Figma/Loom).”

“Software engineer working on an e-commerce platform, currently building a RAG-based recommendation system with a team new to the technology. Has delivered an end-to-end React/TypeScript website for a local car dealer and built an internal "encryption as a service" tool to secure sensitive data across repositories and through release/UAT, with experience debugging microservices integration issues.”

“AI engineer with robotics perception experience at Forterra, building and deploying moving-object/obstacle detection models into real-time robot pipelines. Addressed training crashes/latency via sub-batch training and optimizer tuning, and improved debugging using ROS/ROS2 tooling with 3D voxel visualization and color-coded validation.”