Vetted User Research Professionals

“Product leader with experience driving a major international digital platform overhaul at ESPN, unifying fragmented sports properties and delivering a 30% retention lift. More recently, they have been building a human-centered AI mental health product focused on provider-guided follow-up, and they bring a personal, long-standing commitment to educational equity through tutoring and community math programs.”

“Startup product designer with a CS background who operates at the intersection of UX, product strategy, and implementation. They have owned 0-to-1 design systems, led a research-backed pivot of Fluffle from a solo job tracker to a multiplayer productivity app, and specialize in trust-building UX for AI-native products while working closely enough with engineers to influence production quality.”

Tiffany Utvaer Gasser

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Mid-level Software Developer specializing in FinTech

Foster City, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with experience in a large financial institution, including ownership of an internal queue-based service and upgrades to an online credit dispute flow. Stands out for combining backend reliability work, stakeholder collaboration with bank operations staff, and a pragmatic focus on validation, monitoring, and developer experience.”

“Product/UX designer with experience building an end-to-end AI campaign/session platform that converted an engineer-led, code-heavy workflow into a self-serve marketer product using a target/act/schedule interaction model, progressive disclosure, and real-time previews. Also redesigned monitoring for Informatica’s enterprise data platform after field research with data engineers, shifting the UI toward lifecycle views and failure-state observability.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered mental health therapy assistant at AppHealth that segments users by stress level and delivers personalized, non-medical guidance. Implemented healthcare-focused safety guardrails (secondary LLM output filtering) and a multi-agent router workflow validated via statistical tests and therapist review, then scaled training/inference on AWS (EC2/Lambda/DynamoDB) with Kubernetes.”

“Growth/partnerships operator in the creator ecosystem who runs creator-led GTM launches and brand collaborations (not yet a traditional gaming studio partnership). Has executed a baby wellness program launch using Facebook/TikTok/Instagram plus live Zoom Q&As and co-branded partnerships, and designed outcome-based email re-engagement loops to improve repeat engagement; helped drive a campaign that led to a SEA creator award.”

Andres Patiño

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Mid-level Game & Interactive Software Developer specializing in Unreal Engine and Unity

Medellin, CO6y exp

“Game developer/designer building an open-world MMO/RPG largely solo in Unreal Engine 5, combining Blueprints and C++ and integrating Steam plus AWS/Amazon GameLift. Demonstrates strong playtest-driven iteration, including major redesigns to PvP balance and inventory/progression systems, and uses disciplined design documentation (rules, states, tuning tables) with Agile/Scrum practices.”

“Director-level product leader with experience spanning SaaS platform rebuilds, pricing strategy, and AI-native workflow design. At Skykit, they led a major self-serve/PLG account management transformation across multiple teams, and they also built an AI sales quoting tool using a multi-stage RAG pipeline that reached 100% quote accuracy in user testing.”

Ron Lei

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Junior QA Automation Engineer specializing in Playwright E2E and API testing

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“QA automation-focused engineer who hardens production CI/CD by integrating and stabilizing end-to-end automated tests (tackling async UI flakiness, resilient assertions/selectors, and controlled test data). Demonstrates strong cross-layer troubleshooting by correlating logs and system metrics to resolve intermittent service reachability, then adding monitoring/alerts and documentation. Also partners directly with operators to improve real-world workflows by enhancing validation logic and error messaging.”

Clea Ramos

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Junior UX/UI Designer and Front-End Engineer specializing in accessible web products

Pennsylvania, USA4y exp

“UX/UI designer and frontend engineer with hands-on project leadership experience, including leading a 6-person engineering team to deliver an accessible video conferencing system for older adults in senior care. Particularly compelling for mission-driven or health-adjacent products: they combined stakeholder research, WCAG-minded design, frontend implementation, and post-launch testing to improve usability and cut system cost by 40%+.”

Scott Beck

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Director-level product leader specializing in AI-powered learning and FinTech SaaS

Washington, DC18y exp

“Product leader in financial education and behavior-change products who challenged a gamification-heavy market and built Everfi's action-oriented Achieve Tools platform as a core differentiator. Also has experience shipping AI-enabled coaching for active traders and leading complex, accessibility-driven initiatives like the U.S. Treasury Direct Express education experience, with a clear human-centered view of AI in learning.”

paul mack

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Senior Product Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS, AI, and digital transformation

Detroit, MI18y exp

“Product leader with an unusual blend of AI product building, social work training, and hands-on education experience. Built an AI-powered relationship coaching app from scratch, led IAM product strategy in fleet SaaS, and previously taught biology/AP Biology through Teach For America and helped found a high-performing Detroit charter school.”

Lavanya Chand

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Mid-level Frontend Software Engineer specializing in web development and AI-enabled platforms

St. Louis, MO4y exp

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building and optimizing a React Native property search app, including a shared wishlist system that stayed synchronized across results, map, and detail views. Stands out for practical performance work in production React apps, using profiling, selective subscriptions, and memoization to eliminate unnecessary re-renders and improve UX.”

“Creator-led growth and digital marketing professional with experience as a media team lead and agency-side marketer (Furst spark), sourcing and negotiating creator partnerships for events, fintech apps, and lifestyle subscription launches. Runs data-driven, cross-platform campaigns (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Twitter/X) with trackable links and rapid optimization; reports doubling engagement rate in a fintech acquisition experiment and driving repeat creator collaborations.”

“Built and owned end-to-end TypeScript/React dashboards with a Node.js backend, including post-launch additions like role-based access and new reporting views enabled by modular architecture and clean API boundaries. Also created an internal real-time operations/engineering dashboard that replaced spreadsheets and reduced manual tracking, iterating quickly based on direct team feedback.”

Mohith Venkata

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native APIs and data workflows

Tukwila, WA4y exp

“Built and owned end-to-end ordering and inventory/order management systems for a wholesale distributor, delivering an MVP quickly and iterating based on direct observation of daily users. Experienced with TypeScript/React + Node.js layered architectures and microservices using RabbitMQ, including real-world scaling issues (duplicates, backpressure) and observability practices (correlation IDs, structured logging).”

Bhoomi Parikh

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Junior Product Manager specializing in AI-enabled analytics products

Mountain View, CA2y exp

“Product/full-stack engineer with analytics-dashboard experience at Kantar, owning features end-to-end from React/Next.js UI through Postgres data modeling and query optimization. Built a multidimensional filters/tags module that cut analyst discovery time by ~60% and also implemented durable backend workflows for bulk report generation with retries and idempotency, validated via EXPLAIN ANALYZE and production monitoring.”

PAVEL A ASPIAZU

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Senior Paid Media (SEM/PPC) Manager specializing in Google Ads and Meta performance marketing

McLean, VA26y exp

“Paid media performance marketer with agency experience owning a high-spend account for ArcPoint Labs, running multi-channel Google Ads (search/display) and Meta campaigns to drive medical testing appointments and sales. Reported lifting ROAS from ~2x to ~6–7x within ~18 months while supporting expansion from 30 to 60 U.S. locations, using disciplined attribution, constant A/B testing, and structured campaign health audits.”

Anirudh Venkatesh

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Mid-level XR/Unity Developer specializing in AR/VR and immersive applications

Riverside, CA5y exp

“Unity developer with hands-on experience across VR, AR, multiplayer, and AI-driven gameplay systems. They’ve owned end-to-end interaction architecture for VR cognitive testing focused on accessibility, integrated Gemini-based command systems into gameplay, and shipped cross-platform immersive applications spanning Magic Leap 2, iOS, and Photon-powered multiplayer experiences.”

“Marketing/visual designer with government/energy experience, including leading DOE infographic work translating highly technical industrial decarbonization content into clear, accessible narratives. Builds scalable template systems (infographics and InDesign fact sheets) for high-volume output, and produces social video content using Adobe Express with custom Illustrator iconography and Adobe Stock backgrounds.”

“UX designer (3 years) with a UI engineering background who has built an end-to-end accessible STEM learning experience for blind/visually impaired students, including a MathML-to-MathSpeak parsing solution and multimodal feedback (screen reader, braille keyboard, haptics). Also simplified an AI-driven scoring/onboarding workflow at Founderway.ai using progressive disclosure and iterative usability testing tied to measurable improvements.”