Vetted Unit Testing Professionals

“Candidate comes from SaaS and healthcare analytics rather than game development, but has strong end-to-end ownership experience building real-time, high-availability systems in Python/AWS. They highlight measurable impact across performance, throughput, uptime, and cost reduction, including queue optimization and predictive ICU utilization pipelines, and are looking to transfer that systems engineering foundation into Unity/gameplay work.”

“Software engineering candidate who built a compiler-like Python tool to translate between Python code and UML-style diagrams (and back). Also has hands-on AWS experience building a distributed pub/sub system using services like Lambda, API Gateway, ELB, WAF, VPC, and DynamoDB, plus ML projects using Kaggle datasets (e.g., diabetes risk analysis).”

Vaughn Eugenio

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in distributed microservices and real-time systems

2y exp

“Software engineer with production experience at DraftKings and SRC, owning high-impact platform changes like early-start lineup validation fixes and a multi-service refactor to support dual-role players (e.g., Ohtani) using backward-compatible, feature-flagged rollouts. Has embedded onsite with military users to rapidly ship improvements to a COP/TAK mapping integration (TrackSync), and leverages AI tools (Claude) to accelerate learning and delivery in new domains (e.g., ESP32 smart deadbolt project).”

“Full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership across React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Node microservices, and production ops on Docker/Kubernetes and AWS (ECS/CloudWatch). Built real-time healthcare eligibility and analytics systems at Cigna and an early-stage seller onboarding platform at Flipkart, driving measurable performance gains (35–40% latency/throughput improvements) through event-driven Kafka pipelines, Redis caching, and strong reliability/observability practices.”

“SDE who worked on an MGICS Lab robotics project building a multi-agent model to help agents understand tasks and generate robot instructions, emphasizing task-splitting, checking, and a reflection agent to improve accuracy. Also has experience using GitHub with automated CI/CD pipelines.”

“Software engineer with experience delivering customer-facing solutions across consulting and engineering contexts (Deloitte, Coherent), including a finance reconciliation system and a firmware validation tool integrated into existing test infrastructure. Demonstrates strong on-site/customer collaboration, rapid iteration, and high-pressure debugging (CARLA demo fix), with measurable impact and a focus on adoption through familiar workflows and clear documentation.”

“Backend engineer who built a serverless AWS Lambda microservices backend for a parenting assistance mobile app, including a personalized recommendation system optimized to sub-500ms via precomputed scoring and DynamoDB caching. Demonstrates strong production pragmatism: CloudWatch-driven performance tuning (provisioned concurrency), zero-downtime phased schema migrations, and robustness patterns like optimistic locking and request deduplication. Also led a refactor of an LLM RAG pipeline to improve retrieval quality and cut latency from ~5s to ~3s.”

“Developed and productionized an AI-driven "indication finding" system for AbbVie to identify additional diseases a drug could target, working closely with clinical research teams on cohort inclusion/exclusion criteria and disease rollups. Leveraged an LLM to map clinical inputs to ICD codes and built configuration-driven ML pipelines (Cloudera ML, YAML, scheduled jobs) with structured testing and evaluation for reliability.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered multi-agent compliance copilot (life sciences/finance) using LangChain/LangGraph + RAG over vector databases, delivered via async FastAPI on Kubernetes. Emphasizes audit-ready, deterministic outputs with schema constraints and citations, plus rigorous evaluation/monitoring; reports 60%+ reduction in manual research time and successful production adoption.”

“Unity/VR gameplay engineer with shipped Ubisoft experience on Assassin's Creed Nexus VR, improving core interaction systems (doors) for comfort and predictability and iterating mechanics (pickpocketing) using player feedback and analytics. Also prototyped Photon Fusion multiplayer features for a Rainbow Six Siege-related project, focusing on synchronization and tactical-feel networking tradeoffs, and has experience setting up project architecture and collaborating closely with design/UI teams (including at Sumo on a football manager project).”

“Frontend engineer with senior-level scope who has shipped complex React/TypeScript products end-to-end, including a multi-page site built solo in four weeks (complex forms, PDF generation, email + localization) and a GraphQL-driven dashboard for a car dealership management platform. Known for modular, testable architecture, performance-minded data fetching (batched calls), and improving design-system consistency via reusable, Storybook-documented components and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built a resume processing and job application platform using Python/MongoDB/Streamlit, including OpenAI-powered skill/keyword extraction and recruiter-facing search/filtering. Has hands-on cloud deployment experience on AWS/Azure and executed an on-prem reservation portal migration to Azure using a phased trial-and-cutover approach; also automated CI/CD with Jenkins and GitHub Actions.”

“LLM/agent workflow engineer with healthcare experience (CVS/CBS Health) who built and deployed a production call-insights platform using Azure OpenAI + LangChain/LangGraph, including sentiment and compliance checks. Demonstrates deep HIPAA/PHI handling (tenant-contained processing, redaction, RBAC/encryption/audit logging) and production rigor (testing, eval sets, validation/retries, autoscaling) to scale to thousands of transcripts.”

“Built and productionized a telecom-focused RAG assistant by LoRA fine-tuning LLaMA-2 and integrating LangChain+FAISS behind a FastAPI service, with dashboards and a human feedback UI for engineers. Demonstrated measurable impact (≈40% faster document lookup, +8–10% retrieval precision) and strong MLOps rigor via Airflow orchestration, CI/CD, and monitoring for drift and failures.”

“Built a production GenAI-powered analytics assistant to reduce reliance on data analysts by enabling natural-language Q&A over Databricks/Power BI dashboards, backed by vector search (Pinecone/Milvus) and a Neo4j knowledge graph, including multimodal support via OpenAI Vision. Demonstrates strong real-world LLM reliability engineering with strict RAG, LangGraph multi-step verification, and Guardrails/custom validators, plus broad orchestration and production monitoring experience (Airflow, ADF, Step Functions, Kubernetes, Prometheus/CloudWatch).”

“ML/NLP engineer currently working in NYC on a system that connects complex unstructured data sources to deliver personalized insights, using embeddings + vector DB retrieval and a RAG architecture (LangChain, Pinecone/OpenSearch). Strong focus on production constraints—especially low-latency retrieval—using FAISS/ANN, PCA, index partitioning, and Redis caching, plus PEFT fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA) and KPI/SLA-driven promotion to production.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer building complex internal platforms and customer-facing demos at the intersection of infrastructure and product. Shipped a no-code Product Lifecycle Manager for manufacturing (3 manufacturers, 1000+ evolving tests) using AWS S3/SQS ingestion and extensible Postgres (EAV+JSONB) with end-to-end traceability. Also built a FastAPI-based company data intelligence platform with Okta-secured RBAC and an LLM/MCP layer for ChatGPT-like analytics over enterprise data sources.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with experience building an embedding-based ad matching and search system at Vericast (BERT embeddings + similarity search) to replace a third-party taxonomy approach, evaluated via a human-curated gold standard. Also built a custom NER pipeline at Allstate for auto accident claims calls using a bidirectional LSTM and achieved 90%+ F1, with a strong emphasis on production-grade ML workflows (testing, CI/CD, orchestration, versioning, validation).”

“Unity game developer who has shipped titles on Steam and mobile (Google Play/App Store), owning build quality, platform builds, and release preparation. Built a turn-based soccer game largely solo, including scalable UI, complex move-calculation systems using the command pattern, and enemy AI, and proactively brought in external AI specialists to tackle hard algorithmic challenges.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who shipped a civic-tech Next.js/TypeScript app (Boston Police Index) with SSR, dynamic routing, and server-side data fetching, then iterated post-launch with UX and performance improvements. At Walmart (Seller Center micro-frontends), drove large-scale React/TypeScript refactors—standardizing state management, improving hook usage, and cutting type errors ~50%—and earned trust to serve as a code reviewer enforcing quality standards.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience building and owning high-traffic e-commerce checkout flows in Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript across microservices (REST/GraphQL). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (30% checkout improvement; 85% initial load reduction at 20th Century FOX) and strong production rigor (APM/logs, CloudWatch, Postgres indexing + EXPLAIN ANALYZE), including offloading PDF generation to AWS Lambda.”