Vetted Agile Professionals

“Operator/consultant with ~25 years of experience who co-founded and scaled a startup from “two people and a PowerPoint” to a $10M raise and eventual merger exit, building the full operational stack (HR, support, FP&A, investor relations) and scaling to 30+ employees plus 25–30 contractors. Has led rigorous compliance programs (HITRUST, SOC 1/2, PCI, HIPAA) and applies structured methodologies (Miller Heiman, Lean, Agile) while advising founders across sectors including defense tech, blockchain/Bitcoin, and food safety.”

“Engineering manager/player-coach in the Alexa media ecosystem who led delivery of a Tier-1 gateway service enabling third-party providers (e.g., Spotify/Pandora) to control playback across users’ Echo devices, driving 10–15% lifts in engagement metrics. Deep in API design, AWS infrastructure choices (EC2 vs Fargate), OAuth/LWA auth flows, and production rigor (security reviews, load testing, feature-gated dial-ups), with demonstrated incident ownership and operational automation wins.”

“Chief of Staff / PMO leader at CAIS who built a firm-wide product & technology roadmap and delivery governance from the ground up, partnering directly with the executive committee to define OKRs and prioritization. Led cross-functional GTM readiness tracking and delivered major platform modernization (monolith to microservices) plus trade lifecycle automation in the alternative assets/independent financial advisor space, while also instituting financial discipline and vendor negotiations that saved millions.”

“Senior engineering/technology leader who has defined and delivered a multi-year roadmap to modernize platforms and embed AI, leading global teams through cloud-native and microservices migrations on AWS/Azure. Demonstrated measurable outcomes including 99.99% uptime, 40% fewer incidents, 25% faster delivery, 5x scalability, and $30M in new business opportunities, while scaling a 100+ person distributed org with strong OKR-driven execution and mentorship culture.”

“ML/LLM engineer who built and shipped an LLM-powered internal knowledge assistant at Meta, focusing on production-grade RAG to reduce hallucinations and improve trust. Deep experience with scaling and serving (FSDP/DeepSpeed/LoRA, Triton, Kubernetes autoscaling) and reliability practices (Airflow retraining, MLflow versioning, monitoring with rollback), including sub-100ms latency and ~35% GPU memory reduction.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience at Uber building a near real-time driver rewards service on AWS (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis) with strong reliability and concurrency controls. Also delivered AWS Lambda/ECS containerized deployments with GitHub Actions CI/CD and cost governance, built AWS Glue ETL with schema-evolution handling, and drove a ~10x SQL performance improvement while owning incident response via CloudWatch.”

“Engineering/tech leader with experience spanning major platforms (mentions Microsoft and AWS) and leading ML-driven product architecture (ranking systems). Describes driving a shift to a layered, API-standardized service architecture (including vector database components) that materially increased delivery speed (weeks to hours) while improving scalability and security, and emphasizes rigorous execution reviews (QDR/OKRs) plus transparent remote-team operating rhythms.”

“NVIDIA engineer who built and shipped a production LLM-powered enterprise knowledge system (summarization, transcription, and Q&A) that cut document retrieval time ~30%. Deep hands-on experience with RAG (FAISS/Pinecone), GPU-accelerated microservices on AWS, and reliability/safety practices (Guardrails AI, prompt A/B testing, canary releases) plus strong MLOps orchestration across Airflow, Step Functions, and Kubernetes GitOps.”

“Backend engineer at Samsara with prior Amazon internship experience; built an internal Python chatbot for documentation discovery with a full security model (authn/authz and credential-based response filtering) in a sensitive environment. Currently works on dashcam/device-backend systems, including feature-flagged migrations for audio alert behavior and resilient real-time gRPC streaming under unreliable cellular connectivity, while actively monitoring Buildkite/Toolshed CI/CD rollouts.”

“Player-coach engineer/leader with experience at Twist Bioscience and Series B startup Vida Health, owning high-impact platform work across frontend and backend. Delivered a large-scale permissions migration to Okta affecting ~100,000 users and led reliability/process improvements (weekly releases, dedicated QA/dev environments, incident response with RCA) in high-growth environments.”

“Engineering leader with a hands-on developer background who has launched and scaled cloud services at AWS (CloudShell) while also leading AWS Cloud9. Built multi-year roadmaps and cross-org stakeholder alignment (product/marketing/mobile), and has a track record of scaling teams (3x growth) by implementing operational excellence, automated quality gates, and security champion programs; advocates serverless architectures to minimize maintenance and accelerate global expansion.”

“Engineering leader with experience across MSCI (Index business), Microsoft Teams (callings/meetings), and MSN Weather. Has led business-aligned roadmaps, scaled orgs (including an ~80-person Teams org during COVID demand surge), and delivered Azure-based, multi-region architectures achieving ~2000 RPS and 99.9% availability with improved RTO/RPO.”