Vetted Technical Leads

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.”

Žarko Petrović

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Director-level Unity Engineer specializing in multiplayer, WebGL/WebGPU, and XR

Stockholm, Sweden15y exp

“Lead Unity engineer who shipped a Meta Quest VR free-to-play poker title, tackling hand-tracking controls, physics-driven chip interactions, and large-room multiplayer with anti-cheat needs. Also independently built a mobile real-time multiplayer racing game through beta, including backend, progression, on-demand track delivery, and a custom car physics engine.”

“Unity/C# tech lead specializing in multiplayer systems and networking reliability: built a transaction/prediction-based multiplayer inventory system using snapshots/deltas that eliminated duping and supports very large item transfers via RPC. Also implemented an LLM-driven localization pipeline (SGLang on DGX Spark with Gemma Translate) with automatic OpenAI fallback and human QA, and has shipped VR work on Meta Quest 3 with cross-platform input abstraction (mobile/VR/web).”

“Engineering/CTO-style leader with hands-on architecture experience who has driven end-to-end modernization of a manual antiques auction operation—building centralized web-accessible data systems, digitizing historical records via OCR/freelancers, and defining profitability-focused KPIs with an eye toward predictive modeling. Emphasizes provider-agnostic, containerized SaaS architecture to avoid vendor lock-in and has experience scaling a small engineering team with ownership-based culture and lightweight processes.”

“Frontend tech lead for a university e-signature platform (Next.js/React/TypeScript) replacing paper-based signing. Built a trustworthy multi-signer PDF signing workflow with backend-as-source-of-truth state handling, strong quality gates (typed contracts, linting, pre-commit, PR reviews), and performance work like Web Workers for heavy PDF operations.”

Sviatoslav Boichuk

Screened

Executive CTO / Engineering Leader specializing in Full-Stack Architecture and Cloud Delivery

Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine11y exp

“Founder building a hiring-focused startup who has engaged with venture investors but is prioritizing direct end-user traction through email marketing and other outreach before returning to raise a seed round. Has experience working with startups that have already raised seed funding and demonstrates a structured approach to market validation (customer conversations, landing pages) prior to heavy development.”

Michael Bunch

Screened

Senior Unity Developer specializing in multiplayer, performance optimization, and VR

Cincinnati, OH17y exp

“Game QA professional who also operates as a developer/lead on a passion project (DCGO), building internal tools and processes that make testers more effective and reduce dev/test bottlenecks. Has shipped enterprise/VR training experiences and created a structured approach to testing procedural generation (flowcharts + scenario clustering), achieving 0 client-reported issues post-launch for a key feature; also drove a Tilt Five SDK rendering fix through detailed reporting.”

“Founder/operator of an AI services firm that has not raised outside capital; exploring executive technology leadership roles due to a major partner stepping down. Familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape through research and direct experience working in and with venture-backed startups, and is motivated by shaping market forces and driving business outcomes.”