Vetted Version Control Professionals

Ivaylo Ivanov

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Senior Unity Engineer specializing in XR and real-time 3D applications

5y exp

“Unity lead developer/project manager who builds VR storytelling and training simulator experiences, including hand-tracking-driven interactions and custom rendering (Shader Graph, forward rendering, occlusion culling). Created an educational Unity game (Bed Time Hunter) spanning gameplay, VFX/shaders, terrain/lighting, and Photon multiplayer, and built a VR office simulator that targets both Quest standalone and SteamVR while streaming cloud IoT sensor data.”

“Full-stack Java developer from Cognizant who built a real-time transaction monitoring and tracking platform for operations and customer visibility. Stands out for combining Spring Boot, React/TypeScript, Kafka, and CI/CD tooling to ship near real-time dashboards, while also working directly with users to refine requirements and improve performance in high-volume transaction environments.”

“AI Engineer Co-Op at Northeastern University who built a production Patient Persona Chat Bot to help nursing students practice clinical interactions, fine-tuning Llama 3 and integrating a LangChain + Pinecone RAG pipeline deployed on Amazon Bedrock. Emphasizes clinical accuracy and reliability with guardrails, retrieval filtering, and continuous evaluation, and also brings strong data engineering/orchestration experience (Airflow, EMR/PySpark, ADF, dbt, Databricks, Snowflake).”

“UE5 UI/tools-focused developer who emphasizes production-ready, designer-friendly workflows: built a C++ enemy-spawn timeline actor with Slate-driven editor customization and memory-efficient event storage. Implemented an Enhanced Input keybinds menu (two keys per action) using MVVM-style separation and event dispatchers for low coupling and testability, and uses Unreal Insights to drive performance fixes (including refactoring tick-heavy plugin work and batching data queries to prevent UI hitches).”

Luis Felipe Tovar Bardales

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Mid-level Video Game Producer with QA and game engine (Unity/Unreal) background

Madrid, Spain6y exp

“Core QA team member at 2K Madrid who supported AAA titles including The Quarry, WWE 2K22, and NBA 2K22. Specialized in high-risk online/co-op testing (multi-device, parallel playthroughs) and complex narrative decision-tree validation, while acting as a key communication bridge across QA teams in China and the US using Jira/Confluence/Kanban.”

Sanjana Akula

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

New York, NY5y exp

“Front-end engineer with experience at Optum and Wells Fargo maintaining internal React/Angular component libraries and design-system-aligned UI modules used across multiple apps. Known for stabilizing shared libraries via semantic versioning, Jest test automation, and high-quality documentation, plus measurable performance wins (≈40% faster dashboard loads) through profiling-driven React and API optimizations.”

Sivapriya Rachakonda

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices on AWS and Kubernetes

Remote, USA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built a stateless Python/Flask service supporting a healthcare-document ETL pipeline, offloading heavy processing to Celery workers and adding strong observability (metrics, structured logs, audits). Demonstrates practical performance/reliability work: batch chunking, priority queues, autoscaling by queue depth/CPU, DLQ routing, and PostgreSQL tuning (indexes, pagination) to cut slow API responses. Also has experience deploying real-time ML classification via TensorFlow Serving behind a FastAPI wrapper and integrating models via REST/gRPC.”

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.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end fintech product, FinSight, for bank statement analysis and financial Q&A using a production-style RAG architecture. Stands out for combining FastAPI, OpenAI embeddings, FAISS, hybrid SQL/vector retrieval, and practical reliability work like chunking optimization, validation, and low-latency performance tuning.”

“Backend-focused engineer with banking-domain deployment experience who has owned releases end-to-end, from discovery and API/database implementation through post-launch stabilization. Brings a reliability-first mindset across distributed systems, incident response, and messy real-world data handling, and has also applied that foundation to retrieval-based LLM workflows in production-oriented cloud environments.”

“Unity/C# developer focused on Meta Quest VR simulations and indie game development; built a factory onboarding VR experience largely solo, including modular scenario orchestration, interaction systems, and branching NPC dialogue. Also created multiple Unity games in the last year and built reusable internal packages (game management + UI/screens), while using an AI-driven pipeline for rapid prototyping and 3D asset generation.”

“Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services with hands-on ownership of enterprise logistics microservices (Spring Boot) using Kafka integrated with Azure Event Hubs, including partitioning strategies and operational handling of consumer lag/duplicate events. Also built a full-stack road-accident blackspot detection application using Python-based spatial clustering and model evaluation with a JavaScript/Mapbox frontend.”

“Software/ML engineer who built a production automated job-finding and cold-email personalization system for Fortune 500 outreach, using JobSpy for dynamic scraping, LangChain orchestration, and LLM+vector DB semantic search with grounding/relevance metrics and guardrails. Also delivered a predictive investment analytics platform for financial advisors, communicating results via Tableau dashboards and portfolio KPIs like Sharpe ratio and drawdowns.”

“Worked on large financial analytics datasets combining complaint text, transaction logs, and demographics; built end-to-end NLP/ML pipelines (TF-IDF + Random Forest) and data integration in BigQuery with Tableau reporting, citing ~95–98% accuracy. Also implemented entity resolution with fuzzy matching and semantic linking using BERT sentence-transformer embeddings stored in FAISS, including fine-tuning on labeled pairs to improve search/linking relevance.”

“Startup and early-internet product leader with repeated experience building in new companies and executing pivots. Helped transform a web-based calendar business into a CMS + RBAC platform that became best-in-breed for US K-12 organizations within about three years, emphasizing ROI-driven prototyping and market validation to conserve resources.”

Ponugoti Sushma

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Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in IoT, edge AI, and enterprise ML

Texas, USA5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM/RAG question-answering service over technical documentation, focusing on retrieval quality (reranking + IR metrics), latency, and scaling. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end ETL/ML workflows with Airflow/Prefect/AWS Step Functions and improving reliability via parallelism, retries, and shadow testing. Also delivered an explainable healthcare risk-flagging classifier with a stakeholder-friendly dashboard for a non-technical program manager.”

Alexander Morillo

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Senior QA Analyst specializing in video game LiveOps and release quality

Santiago, Chile7y exp

“Game QA professional with ~5 years experience spanning ed-tech games (Osmo) and a Lead QA role at Gala Games, working on large-scale multiplayer/live-update projects with AAA-like production rigor. Strong in proactive QA involvement from feature kickoff through release, owning multiplayer sync/persistence and exploit risks, and known for detailed Jira reporting with video/log evidence plus rigorous verification and regression practices.”

Juan Mendez

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Senior Game/Graphics Software Developer specializing in Unity and C++

12y exp

“Self-taught Unity developer who implemented multiplayer using Photon PUN, replacing a custom PHP request-based approach and improving stability (especially around accidental disconnects). Learns new networking frameworks quickly (reported ~2 weeks to pick up and implement PUN) and uses AI selectively to identify better library-driven solutions.”

“Senior product leader who helped transform Submittable from a single-program grant tool into a multi-program impact platform, driving ARR from $20M to $70M+ while improving retention and margins. Particularly strong in enterprise platform strategy and human-centered AI, with a clear philosophy of using AI to augment expert judgment rather than replace it.”

“Operator with an unusually cross-disciplinary background spanning an AI-native fintech, global offshore wind operations, DoD-focused media, a lean creative agency, law school, and a Master's in Business Intelligence. They position themselves as a Chief of Staff-style partner who brings order to messy, regulated, high-growth environments by translating across legal, technical, and business teams and building scalable workflows.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who builds modular Flask services on AWS and specializes in performance/scalability work across data-heavy APIs. Has concrete wins in query optimization (1.5s to <200ms) and high-throughput async processing (Celery+Redis, ~40% throughput gain), plus experience serving scikit-learn text classification models via containerized REST services and designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies.”

“Python backend engineer who owned an end-to-end Django/DRF authentication and account-management module (JWT, RBAC, email verification) and optimized token validation performance. Has hands-on Kubernetes + Helm delivery with GitOps via ArgoCD (multi-environment app-of-apps, drift detection/rollback) and has supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration using staged testing and phased cutover. Also built and scaled a Kafka-based real-time user activity tracking pipeline with reliability and backpressure controls.”

“Software engineer with healthcare domain experience (patient monitoring and provider systems) who improves reliability and performance in complex React/Flask applications. Led API standardization for shared internal React utilities using an RFC + deprecation strategy, and optimized a live WebSocket dashboard to handle 3000+ concurrent clinics while reducing client CPU usage. Strong in production debugging, data ingestion validation, and operational improvements like structured logging and alerting.”