Vetted Visual Studio Professionals

Alok Kumar

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Director-level Product Management leader specializing in cybersecurity, cloud, and AI governance

Atlanta, GA24y exp

“Senior product leader with substantial end-to-end build experience across Microsoft, Amazon, NCR, and a current AI startup. Particularly notable for creating a machine-readable compliance platform at Microsoft, shipping AI-enabled support workflows, and combining enterprise-scale product rigor with a human-centered view of personalized AI.”

“Operator-turned-aspiring founder with experience building CI, cloud, and AI businesses at Harness, including P&L ownership and 0-to-1 execution. Exploring an AI-native infrastructure/control-plane thesis focused on moving enterprise workflows from AI assistance to execution, with a strong emphasis on ROI, coordination gaps, and durable moats.”

“Software engineer with a rare mix of early startup product-building and large-scale enterprise data platform work. At a 40-person digital signage startup, they wrote much of the customer-facing software, and later at Qualtrics built Go and Python ETLs, internal configuration tools, and B2B data products supporting survey analytics and custom data science workflows.”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with rare depth at the intersection of MR, multiplayer, and generative AI, including work on Meta Quest experiences such as First Encounters. They have architected real-time AI content pipelines, integrated LLM/VLM systems into Unity via Python/REST orchestration, and solved hard production problems around Quest performance, networking, and player experience.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer with experience building large-scale systems on Salesforce and eBay, including a sharded Oracle-backed personalization store used by millions of sellers and a Spring Boot microservice that executes scheduled payouts at high volume. Emphasizes production readiness via state-machine-based idempotency, strong observability (Splunk/Elasticsearch/PagerDuty), and extensive Selenium/Sauce Labs automation.”

“Google backend engineer with strong experience in large-scale identity, membership, and access-control systems. Notable work includes reconciling customer IDs across 2B+ roster records and leading a 0-to-1 Drive sharing feature to classify external users as crossover members, with a strong emphasis on correctness, rollout safety, and low-latency service design.”

Sona Petrosyan

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in Identity & Access Management

San Ramon, CA20y exp

“Senior engineering leader with 20+ years of experience spanning hands-on engineering and 7+ years of management across startups and enterprise, including Salesforce/MuleSoft, Airbnb, and Insightly. Particularly strong in platform security and IAM, with a track record of leading high-scale foundational services, simplifying complex cross-platform trust models, and driving security-critical migrations across dozens of teams.”

Peter Gluck

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Principal Software Engineer specializing in scalable, secure multi-platform systems

La Crescenta, CA14y exp

“Engineering leader and former CTO/Disney|ABC engineering manager who built white-label mobile app architecture that supported a branded app and successful exit, and later scaled Disney Channel brand app teams across iOS/Android/web and major OTT platforms. Led kid-safety architecture for DisneyNOW (“Junior mode” with PIN) and partnered with product/legal on COPPA compliance, emphasizing maintainable tech choices and strong execution processes.”

“Game UI engineer with shipped experience on Paladins (Unreal Engine 3/C++), including an in-game store with automated grid-based recommendation layout and an inventory UI built for PC/PlayStation/Xbox/Switch. Emphasizes production readiness through clean separation of UI/data, strong documentation for engineering and content workflows, and memory-conscious UI patterns (pooled entries/paged navigation) for constrained platforms like Switch.”

Mike Henniger

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Staff Software Engineer specializing in scalable backend and full-stack web systems

Burlingame, CA32y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack product engineer with IMVU experience who designed both user-facing flows and the production telemetry behind them. Most notably, they built a JavaScript crash detection system using signature-based aggregation and Redis that helped reduce crash volume from millions per day to tens of thousands, and they pair that reliability mindset with reusable UI architecture and onboarding design for consumer social products.”

“SharePoint specialist with 10+ years delivering end-to-end business process solutions (forms, workflows, pages) and leading on-prem to SharePoint Online migrations. Has hands-on experience building SPFx React + TypeScript dashboards integrated with Nintex workflows, and has solved scale issues in large libraries (50k+ items) by redesigning permission architecture and archiving content. Also partners with product/design on Power BI dashboards, creating layered executive-to-operator UX with drill-through detail.”

Aniket Singhal

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in AWS-based distributed systems and FinTech platforms

Seattle, WA8y exp

“Backend engineer with Amazon experience building large-scale, automated financial/accounting and pricing systems on AWS. Designed a fault-tolerant Step Functions + DynamoDB workflow platform handling 100K+ messages/sec to compute fair values and generate journal entries in under 3 seconds, and led safe API refactors using shadow mismatch testing. Also uncovered a major legacy pricing bug (tax vs non-tax swap) that cut mismatch rates from 5–10% to ~0.5% and materially improved price acceptance/business outcomes.”

Ollie Jones

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Executive Unity/XR Engineer specializing in real-time mocap and volumetric streaming

8y exp

“Technical Director/Unity Lead who has shipped multiple Meta Quest immersive experiences and built custom Unity editor tooling to solve content-heavy pipeline constraints, enabling artists to push content directly into a Unity sandbox. Also prototyped a Unity restaurant simulation where an LLM drives NPC reasoning and state machines, using RAG and memory augmentation to reduce hallucinations and stuck behaviors.”