Vetted Agile Professionals

William Elderton

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in FinTech, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Austin, TX26y exp

“Seasoned operator with 30 years of experience at multiple startup companies, primarily in venture-backed environments, plus some exposure to private equity-backed firms. The candidate is highly familiar with the VC and accelerator ecosystem, though they clarified they were pursuing a CTO role rather than actively planning to found a startup.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production document intelligence and GenAI systems, spanning model experimentation, AWS deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for turning document-heavy workflows into reliable, near real-time products with measurable gains in accuracy, latency, and manual-effort reduction, while also shipping citation-grounded RAG features that drove user trust and adoption.”

“Engineering leader focused on large-scale enterprise SaaS and MDM platforms, with experience modernizing monoliths into microservices, improving reliability, and scaling systems to support 15M devices across AWS and Azure. Stands out for combining deep platform architecture work with strong org-building: managed teams up to 45 globally and built a 0-to-1 platform services team to 22 people in under a year.”

“Backend/data engineer from ASML who modernized a legacy SAS-based statistical processing system into a cloud-native AWS platform (Lambda/FastAPI, Step Functions/EventBridge, Glue, S3/RDS) with strong reliability and data-quality practices. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (RDS query reduced from 90+ seconds to <5 seconds) and hands-on incident ownership for production ETL pipelines.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/FastAPI services and AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, ECS) delivered via Terraform and GitHub Actions. Built Glue-to-Redshift ETL pipelines with Step Functions retry/catch patterns, schema evolution safeguards, and data quality checks; also modernized a legacy SAS monthly reporting system into Python microservices with rigorous side-by-side parity validation. Demonstrated strong SQL tuning skills with a reported improvement from 5 minutes to 15 seconds.”

“Amazon experience integrating LLM-powered chat automation into Amazon Connect contact-center workflows, taking prototypes to production with compliance-minded guardrails, schema/policy validation, and robust fallbacks. Regularly supports rollout and adoption via developer workshops, integration guides, and customer calls, with strong production triage and observability practices.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Amazon building an API-driven service (APS) for large-scale prompt optimization jobs using AWS Step Functions, Batch/Fargate, DynamoDB, and S3, emphasizing idempotency, observability, and secure execution boundaries. Also led a multi-tenant enterprise policy/configuration backend refactor at MAMIT Cyber with versioned schemas, shadow writes, feature-flagged rollout, and PostgreSQL RLS-based tenant isolation.”

Sarthak Gupta

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, NLP, and real-time AI systems

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer who built a real-time pipeline for recording, transcribing, and analyzing audio from 400+ news radio stations, scaling Whisper on an HPC cluster with 7 H100 GPUs. Has strong performance optimization experience (30% latency reduction via SQL/query design; 50% DB call reduction via Redis caching) and has implemented region-based data isolation and PII protections in a regulated environment (JP Morgan Chase).”

“ML/AI engineer focused on production-grade model reliability: built a monitoring and validation framework to detect drift, trigger anomaly alerts/retraining, and maintain consistent performance for device intelligence workflows at scale. Strong MLOps background with Python pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, Airflow orchestration, and real-time monitoring dashboards; experienced partnering with product managers to deliver business-facing insights.”

“Analytics professional with experience at McKinsey & Company and Dell Technologies, focused on turning messy operational and business data into trusted dashboards and decision tools. They combine SQL, Power BI, and Python to solve data quality issues, define metrics like retention, and deliver measurable impact such as a roughly 30% reduction in manual reporting time.”

“Compensation and payroll professional with hands-on ownership of end-to-end U.S. payroll and compensation cycle support. Stands out for using compa-ratio, market benchmarking, and Excel-based reconciliation tools to catch data issues, influence salary decisions, and strengthen payroll controls.”

“Salesforce-focused candidate with hands-on experience delivering Service Cloud automation, including entitlement/SLA escalation workflows, and building multi-component Lightning UI frameworks. Brings a mix of native-platform design, custom Apex extension, LWC architecture, and legacy Aura maintenance experience.”

Nilesh Dixit

Screened

Executive AI engineering leader specializing in agentic AI and enterprise platforms

San Francisco, CA24y exp

“Bay Area engineering leader and startup co-founder with a rare mix of deep hands-on architecture experience, large-scale people leadership, and cross-functional product ownership. He helped launch GE Digital's industrial IoT efforts, holds multiple patents in the space, has scaled teams to 60-70 people, and has led both enterprise platform modernization and AI startup product development.”

“Backend engineer from Palantir who built and productionized an enterprise LLM-based document intelligence/search platform, evolving it into a hybrid lexical+vector retrieval system. Emphasizes reliability and cost control via strict LLM gating, robust fallback paths, and evaluation frameworks (e.g., MMLU/BLEU), plus disciplined migration practices (feature flags, dual-writes, shadow reads) to ship changes safely at scale.”

“Software/cloud engineer with PwC experience deploying a nationwide Australian Government Salesforce labor licensing platform used by 200k+ professionals, emphasizing safe integration, CI/CD, and UAT-driven quality improvements (40% defect reduction). Also built a Python/FastAPI RAG system with the U.S. Army to convert CONOP documents into risk assessments, adding human-in-the-loop and provenance features to address operator trust concerns.”

“Growth creative lead at Amazon who ran structured, incrementality-informed A/B tests for Prime acquisition on Amazon DSP. Produced a winning benefit-led video + social-proof framework that improved CTR/CVR while cutting CPA (-24%) and increasing ROAS (+32%), then scaled the approach across email and onsite placements for an additional 10–12% lift in Prime sign-ups.”

“AI engineer at Anote.ai who built and shipped a production multi-agent LangGraph/LangChain/Ray RAG platform for enterprise search and workflow automation, supporting 3 commercial products and 100+ developers. Drove measurable gains (30% accuracy improvement, lower latency) and improved reliability with Redis-based state checkpointing, message-queue synchronization, and Milvus retrieval optimizations, while partnering with PMs/clients to add transparency features like confidence scores and real-time logs.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX administration (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, RMC) and PowerHA cluster failover experience, plus modern DevOps tooling across CI/CD, Kubernetes/Helm, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible). Emphasizes controlled change management, drift prevention via Git-as-source-of-truth, and observability practices using Prometheus/Grafana.”

“Active in the venture ecosystem as a Rogue Women's Fund fellow and angel investor, with memberships in Gaingels and Angel Squad (HustleFund). Interested in founding a company to leverage extensive experience, and evaluates ideas through market need and economic viability of the target population.”

Sumaya Shakir

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, data ecosystems, and product engineering

24y exp

“Technology leader who drove end-to-end modernization at Dogtopia—building a proprietary SaaS POS/CRM and operations platform plus an AI-powered customer app—using OKR-driven roadmaps and Agile/DevOps delivery. Previously at GE, led a cloud-native AWS data fabric re-architecture with strong security/governance (RBAC, classification, encryption, lineage, virtualization), cutting processing time 60%+ and enabling AI workloads tied to $400M in business value.”

Akhilaa Sonduri

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in SaaS and AI-powered web apps

Cambridge, MA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience at HubSpot, Accolite, and an early-stage USC alumni startup (Workup). Built and shipped end-to-end workflow automation features (dynamic input configuration with strict schema validation) driving ~25% faster configuration, and delivered an AI interview customization feature in a high-ambiguity startup setting that increased adoption by ~40%. Comfortable operating production systems on AWS with CloudWatch observability and CI/CD, and has built real-time web apps with caching/indexing for performance.”

Feras Alsaiari

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AWS data platforms and event-driven systems

4y exp

“Capital One engineer leading the architecture and delivery of a large-scale AWS Glue/Spark/Delta Lake batch messaging pipeline that decoupled batch from real-time flows, added multi-region failover and automated retries, and delivered ~40% AWS cost savings with ~3x performance gains. Currently building an LLM-powered Slack bot using RAG to automate message investigations by querying CloudWatch, Snowflake, and internal documentation with privacy-aware masking of NPI/PII.”

Paiman Nodoushani

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in AI-powered transformation for enterprise SaaS

New York, NY35y exp

“Former Cisco professional who successfully pitched and got funding for adding virtualization to access routers to enable third-party application development, framing the opportunity with clear revenue upside and risk management. Highly interested in AI—especially agent-based development—and believes it lowers the barrier to building and shipping new products with small, high-caliber teams.”