Vetted Engineering Managers

Ashutosh Srivastava

Screened

Senior Engineering Manager specializing in AI platforms and cloud-native backend systems

Sunnyvale, CA11y exp

“Player-coach engineering leader who stayed hands-on (coding/reviews) while leading delivery, including designing an event-driven AI workflow engine with explicit state modeling and robust retries. Built near real-time enterprise analytics for campaign measurement and drove reliability/process improvements (observability, incident runbooks, release management). Introduced lightweight CI/CD and automated testing to cut release time by ~40% while maintaining quality.”

Kingsley Torlowei

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and data platforms

Remote8y exp

“Built and productionized LLM agents that ingest multi-source workplace data (Slack, meetings, calendars, PM tools) to extract entities (tasks/decisions/risks/initiatives) and generate customer insights like risk alerts, deadline-miss prediction with evidence, and workload overload detection. Also architected a graph-DB-backed multi-step agent using LangChain + Pydantic with async queue/worker execution and LLM-as-judge evaluation plus human review loops.”

Hammad Ur Rahman

Screened

Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD

Boston, Massachusetts11y exp

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a 150+ LPAR AIX 7.x estate with VIOS/HMC/vHMC and PowerHA in production, including real outage and failover recoveries. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built Jenkins pipelines deploying to AKS and implemented Terraform on AWS with remote state, locking, and drift management.”

“India-based engineering leader/player-coach managing ~20 people and three products, while still shipping hands-on in Python/Golang across 8–10 microservices deployed on GCP (Kubernetes) and AWS (ECS). Has led end-to-end delivery (design through QA) and owned production reliability improvements (including building a Slack alerting bot). Strong domain exposure in utilities (MDM/meter readings, billing/rate calculations) and financial integrations (GL code tagging), plus side projects in Golang around LLM API cost-optimization.”

“Operations/IT leader who has supported venture capital firms by rebuilding and consolidating their tech stacks and improving internal technology usage through training. Previously served as VP of Operations/IT at a VC (AlliedUP), owning IT plus HR and payroll and communicating tech improvements to investors; motivated to found a company and committed to entrepreneurship.”

“Serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of professional software engineering experience who co-founded Food Truck Stars, initially a food-truck search engine and later pivoted into a catering marketplace to overcome adoption barriers. Validated the model by prototyping at car enthusiast events across the U.S. and turning a profit, using hands-on customer discovery with low-tech, time-constrained operators.”

“Entrepreneurially minded technology-focused candidate who has built a full business plan (including business continuity planning) and successfully raised $65,000 by pitching to the SBA and angel investors. Identified a market gap in small businesses lacking IT staff and developed a remote IT support method to address it.”

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.”