Vetted Teaching Assistants in the NYC Metro

“Backend engineer who built and evolved the real-time networking/messaging backend for a cross-platform professional networking app (Make Connexions), optimizing for low-latency delivery, privacy, and strong consistency. Experienced scaling Python/FastAPI APIs with async + Redis, and leading safe refactors via versioned endpoints, feature flags, and backward-compatible migrations; strong production auth/RLS expertise including refresh-token rotation edge cases.”

“Cross-functional operator at Andium who led founder-level initiatives spanning next-gen product launch + legacy sunset, built decision-driven operating cadences (dashboards, memos, blocker tracking), and drove international expansion after a Series B led by Saudi Aramco. Also supported a $6M strategic opportunity in Australia by coordinating pricing, product feedback loops, and internal alignment across an AI-enabled SaaS + hardware business.”

“UE5 gameplay scripter who built a player-facing skill tree for a third-person shooter end-to-end (icons in Illustrator, UI animations, Blueprint behaviors, HLSL shader effects) and migrated the system from Data Assets to Data Tables to improve maintainability and designer-friendly balancing. Also implemented modular weapon logic via base classes, playtest-driven tuning, and refactored broken UI flows into a centralized UI manager with QA-focused debug unlock flags.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a production expense management platform built on Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Stands out for solving real production scale issues—optimizing 2M+ record query performance, redesigning cross-database sync with an outbox/event-driven approach, and cutting API latency from 2-3 seconds to under 300 ms.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including an AI request-routing service (FastAPI + BART MNLI + OpenAI/Gemini) that improved accuracy ~25% after launch via eval-driven prompt/category iteration. Also built an enterprise document intelligence/RAG platform on Azure (Blob/SharePoint/Teams ingestion, OCR/NLP chunking, embeddings in Azure Cognitive Search) with PII guardrails (Presidio), confidence gating, and scalable event-driven pipelines handling millions of documents.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who discusses building production React features integrated with backend APIs, Redux, and Algolia search. Shows strong awareness of maintainability and release safety through TypeScript modeling, feature flags, Sidekiq for async processing, and post-launch monitoring of traffic and pod memory.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer who built and deployed two end-to-end projects: TrekTale, a travel story management app, and PromptCraft Finance, an AI-powered financial assistant using multiple open-source LLMs. Particularly strong in turning ambiguous product ideas into modular, production-oriented systems with typed frontend/backend contracts, multi-model inference pipelines, structured outputs, and monitoring for latency, reliability, and regressions.”