Vetted Version Control Professionals

Jack Oakley

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level VR Game Programmer specializing in Unity and QA leadership

Austin, TX15y exp

“Unity/VR gameplay engineer who has shipped full games and built a robust coin economy + massive gear customization system (over a million combinations) backed by a cloud service. Notably discovered and fixed a severe backend security flaw by adding proper authentication (security key + OAuth2), and has hands-on VR performance optimization experience (OVR Metrics, LOD/mipmaps, imposters) plus multiplayer sports sync design using Photon PUN2.”

“Unity/C# game developer who served as CEO and lead developer on the Unity 2D pixel RPG "Rum Runner's Revenge," owning technical direction, modular architecture, and core gameplay systems; the project earned a TIGA award nomination. Also shipped a commercial Unreal Engine title and built an adaptive difficulty system using player performance metrics, leveraging AI tools for rapid prototyping and debugging.”

Pranava Reddy Kothapally

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Data Engineer specializing in Azure, CRM data pipelines, and marketing personalization

Hyderabad, India2y exp

“LLM/AI engineer who has deployed production RAG conversational analytics and Text-to-SQL systems over Snowflake and curated data marts, emphasizing enterprise-grade guardrails for accuracy, security, and cost. Notable for a structured approach to reducing hallucinations (curated metric/table registry, SQL validation, RBAC, and citation-backed responses) and for building resilient, observable multi-step agent workflows using LangChain/LlamaIndex and Airflow.”

Tanya Parker

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Frontend Developer specializing in WebXR and Three.js

London, UK9y exp

“XR professional with 9 years in the industry and 3 years using Unity; built a solo Unity city-building/resource management game (BLEAK) inspired by Anno in a dystopian cyberpunk setting. Has shipped web-based XR experiences (not Unity headset titles) and emphasizes pragmatic scope control and production adaptability, honed further during time at Zappar.”

“ML/NLP practitioner who has delivered production systems in regulated domains, including a healthcare compliance pipeline using RAG (GPT-4/Claude) plus TF-IDF retrieval that increased document review throughput 4.5x. Also has hands-on experience improving fraud detection data quality via entity resolution (Levenshtein, Dedupe.py) validated with A/B testing, and building scalable, monitored workflows with Airflow, CI/CD, and AWS SageMaker.”

“Unity VR developer who improved engagement on a space-exploration KIDS VR title by tackling motion discomfort and unclear interaction flow—refactoring XR locomotion, rebuilding onboarding with a state machine, and optimizing rendering to sustain 72+ FPS on standalone headsets. Also brings Photon Fusion multiplayer experience with server-authoritative design, client-side prediction, and rollback-safe deterministic gameplay, plus strong cross-functional iteration with designers and artists.”

Ridwan Oladipupo

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in React, Node.js, and AWS

Halifax, Canada11y exp

“Frontend engineer who led the Dash Merchant App and Backoffice platform (React/TypeScript/Redux) supporting $50M+ in monthly transactions. Focused on scalable architecture and reliability—introduced typed API layers, centralized error handling, and performance optimizations (including ~40% load-time reduction) while driving team adoption through incremental refactors, templates, and pairing.”

Amanda Galvez

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Graphic Designer specializing in branding, print, and social media

Williams, Arizona6y exp

“Marketing/brand designer and media asset manager with deep beverage/craft beer experience, including leading a D9 Brewing brand refresh and producing conversion-driven creative at scale at Bevana Partners. Managed corporate + 18 partner brands/10 affiliates, maintained 73+ regulated product labels, and built Figma systems/templates enabling bulk edits across 200+ label variants and multi-format social video exports.”

“Unity gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership across core game systems, multiplayer, AI/LLM integration, and cross-platform XR/mobile shipping. Particularly compelling is their combination of deep runtime optimization and systems architecture: they cut match-3 cascade frame spikes by 40-50%, eliminated a class of production race-condition bugs, and also built a local-model FastAPI-backed AI prototype with structured evaluation and cost control.”

Katelyn Flores

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level XR Developer specializing in healthcare training simulations

6y exp

“XR Developer II at Orbis Education building multiplayer healthcare training simulations in Unity/C#. Shipped cross-platform experiences on Meta Quest 3 and iPad, including a new oxygen mask/tube simulation system that increased student engagement and learning feedback. Also built a capstone generative-AI patient interaction system replacing IBM Watson with an Ollama-based approach, evaluating cloud vs. self-hosting for latency/cost/reliability.”

Hassan Iftikhar

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Unity/VR Developer specializing in gameplay systems and multiplayer networking

Lahore, Pakistan4y exp

“Unity developer who has built a Meta Quest 3 VR game as a solo developer, handling everything from VR setup and UI to gameplay and builds, including accessibility-focused mechanics for blind users. Also developed the full base-system module for the shipped mobile game "Death Travelers," implementing 30+ rooms with distinct economy and progression functionality (resource conversion, storage, shop).”

“Frontend engineer who leads high-impact refactors and rebuilds end-to-end, including migrating a legacy Next.js frontend to React + Vite and consolidating fragmented styling into a single MUI Joy design system. Has deep experience improving performance and maintainability in complex, data-heavy UIs (orders/financial pages, multi-step editing flows) through modularization, query optimization, and shared context patterns, with strong QA discipline for sensitive financial actions.”

Jordan Dunaway

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Junior Game Developer specializing in gameplay systems and cross-engine development

Lenexa, KS3y exp

“Game-focused QA tester with a developer background who routinely validates builds in player-like environments (including VMs), documents test coverage rigorously, and provides high-signal bug reports with reproducible steps and video evidence. Has partnered closely with designers and engineers on issues like level-loading resource management and prioritizes defects based on player progression and immersion impact; has not shipped a AAA title.”

“Backend engineer focused on real-time, event-driven distributed systems (Node.js/TypeScript) with strict latency and reliability requirements. Deep hands-on experience debugging concurrency issues and designing resilient workflows (idempotency, circuit breakers, compensating actions) with strong observability; familiar with ROS/ROS2 concepts and confident ramping into robotics integrations.”

“Backend engineer who rebuilt and refactored high-traffic systems at Phenom using Java/Spring Boot/Play and also designs Python/FastAPI services. Focused on measurable reliability and performance gains through DB/query optimization, async processing, and strong observability, with disciplined rollout practices (feature flags, parallel runs, rollback) and security patterns including token auth and row-level security.”

“QA Automation Engineer with hands-on ownership of an end-to-end Selenium-Java/TestNG suite for an e-commerce platform, integrated into Jenkins with PR smoke and nightly regression gating. Notably caught and validated (via SQL/API checks) a critical defect where checkout reported success but orders were not persisted, preventing customer-impacting production issues; also has Cypress experience stabilizing flaky UI tests using robust selector and wait strategies.”

“Data/ML practitioner who has built a production RAG-based knowledge assistant integrated into Microsoft 365/internal dashboards to help employees query internal documents in plain English. Experienced orchestrating and hardening ETL pipelines with Airflow and Azure Data Factory (validation, retries, monitoring) and running end-to-end model evaluation and production performance tracking via Power BI.”

Kinga Zawarty

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Mid-Level Game Programmer specializing in Unity and gameplay systems

Gothenburg, Sweden5y exp

“Unity developer with ~5 years of professional experience who served as the main developer on a shipped Meta Quest VR game (Smash Therapy), handling most of the code and tackling key VR challenges like UI/UX and standalone performance optimization. Also builds AI-driven gameplay systems (e.g., minimax-based unbeatable tic-tac-toe) and leverages AI assistants to speed up routine implementation and brainstorming.”

CalvinMatthew Nava

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Senior Unity Developer specializing in games, AR/VR/XR, and interactive mobile experiences

Germany11y exp

“Unity generalist with VR-focused optimization experience who replaced a bloated third-party IK/rigging plugin by building a custom DOTS/Burst multithreaded system, reporting ~200% performance gains and a noticeably smoother VR experience. Has multiplayer experience with Unity Netcode (and some Photon Fusion exposure) and uses AI tooling (Rider AI) to speed up refactoring and documentation.”

“UK-based Unity developer who has shipped three Meta Quest VR simulation applications as the sole developer/lead at Atticus Digital (clients include PASMA, Welsh Water, and Saudi Aramco). Also built and shipped a fully solo 3D action-adventure platformer for Nintendo Switch (The Bee Hive, Nov 27, 2025), demonstrating end-to-end ownership across engineering and design under tight hardware constraints.”

“Unity gameplay programmer with experience on TT Games' LEGO Star Wars Battles, including adding full controller support to a touch-first unit deployment system and implementing new networked unit mechanics in a Photon-based multiplayer layer. Has worked in client-server architectures (including Metaplay-backed servers), with a focus on refactoring for reusable combat/damage code and scalable analytics instrumentation.”