Vetted Agile Professionals

Umesh Toprani

Screened

Executive Cloud & Product Operations Leader specializing in SaaS transformation

26y exp

“Transformation leader brought into Barracuda Networks to orchestrate a founder-level shift from legacy software to SaaS across 14 product lines. Drove a metrics- and operating-margin-focused, multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/private cloud for DR) execution plan while aligning engineering, GTM, finance (subscription accounting), and support—contributing to nearly doubling revenue over ~4 years.”

Nagarjuna Vaddineni

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data pipelines

Seattle, WA6y exp

“Amazon backend engineer who built and operated high-scale Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS (EKS/EC2) handling millions of daily transactions, with deep experience debugging p95 latency and database/ORM bottlenecks. Shipped an AI-driven real-time personalization feature by integrating SageMaker model inference end-to-end with low-latency caching and graceful fallbacks, and designed robust order/payment orchestration with retries, compensations, and DLQ-based escalation.”

Shruti Krishnagiri

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader & Technical Founder specializing in AI automation platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California20y exp

“Founder/CTO who built and shipped a consumer subscription-bundling platform end-to-end (architecture, implementation, testing) and scaled it to thousands of customers and major partners. Previously led a major reliability overhaul at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a Google-Docs-like ed-tech product—boosted observability, introduced incident management, and migrated to a Docker-based scalable architecture. Heavy user of AI tools (Cursor/Claude) for development, testing, and code review, with a strong bias toward lightweight, fast-moving execution.”

Vivek Anand

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CIO/CTO/CDO) specializing in AI, cloud, and data strategy

Northbrook, IL20y exp

“Founder with an end-user-ready product who has self-funded/used angel investing but has not yet launched marketing in earnest. Motivated by identifying a market gap with a differentiated product and is now seeking value-add investors who can provide both capital and go-to-market expertise/connections.”

Sai Dinesh Pusapati

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI agents and LLM workflows

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“LLM/AI engineer with production experience building a retrieval-based document intelligence system that extracts information from PDFs/emails, backed by Python + Spark pipelines. Focused on reliability and cost/latency optimization (caching, batch processing) and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow (sensors, retries, alerts). Also partnered with business stakeholders to deliver customer feedback classification/summarization for faster sentiment insights.”

Amit Sharma

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI/LLM platforms, payments, and healthcare systems

San Francisco, CA25y exp

“Engineering player-coach who recently shipped an agent-based workflow to extract key info from unstructured web data (browser agents + CDP) and populate daily digests/calendars, owning architecture through testing. Also built a Flask-based LLM evaluation and regression testing system using G-Eval/Confident AI dashboards, and applies a rigorous, research-driven approach to selecting third-party tools with stakeholder buy-in; has healthcare ops/onboarding workflow experience at Vivio Health.”

Angie Fathalla

Screened

Mid-level Technical Consultant specializing in cloud infrastructure and enterprise automation

Clinton, NJ7y exp

“AI/LLM engineer focused on production-grade agent systems in high-stakes workflows, including a tax modernization initiative that automated tax form generation for 50,000 users. Demonstrates strong depth in reliability engineering, evaluation loops, and safe orchestration, with quantified improvements including pass-through gains from 62% to 94%, 30% lower token cost, and accuracy improvement from 88% to 99%.”

“ML/AI engineer with Goldman Sachs experience building production fraud detection and RAG-based trading insights systems end-to-end. Stands out for combining real-time ML infrastructure, GenAI retrieval systems, and compliance-aware design, with measurable impact including nearly 25% false-positive reduction and improved analyst productivity.”

Prakash Bhanu

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in cloud, platform, and FinTech systems

Sunnyvale, CA22y exp

“Senior software engineering leader with broad 0-to-1 product experience spanning web apps, microservices, monoliths, messaging platforms, ML/AI products, and large-scale distributed systems. Notable examples include building a payroll/finance product for cast and crew, a distributed messaging platform, and a Walmart application deployed across multiple CDNs and clouds handling hundreds of TPS, with personal ownership across architecture, design, coding, and support.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at AWS building a global alarm processing platform (Python, Lambda/SQS/DynamoDB) handling traffic spikes and reliability issues; resolved duplicate alerts and latency under load by fixing hot partitions and enforcing idempotency. Previously at Cognizant, built Java/PostgreSQL backend workflows for healthcare dashboards using pre-aggregated summary tables, strong SQL optimization, and state-driven job orchestration with ELK-based observability and production guardrails.”

Harsh Sanas

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI systems and cloud applications

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“AI/LLM engineer focused on shipping production-grade agents that automate support, sales intake, and ERP-connected workflows. Stands out for combining strong orchestration and guardrails with measurable business outcomes, including 45% faster support handling, ~$1.2M annual savings, 18% higher customer satisfaction, and 99.5%+ reliability in production.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved an internal multi-agent AI research platform (Electron + FastAPI) integrating OpenAI, focused on fast, reproducible experimentation with strong observability and run metadata for debugging. Has led incremental backend refactors with feature flags and parallel validation, and brings production-grade access control expertise from ServiceNow (table/field ACLs and row-level-style enforcement).”

“CMU candidate with hands-on experience taking LLM concepts from research prototypes toward production-ready designs (structured outputs, guardrails, failure-scenario evaluation). Also partnered with sales/customer teams at Mazecare to drive adoption with Dontia Alliance (largest dental clinic chain in Singapore) and engaged Singapore government stakeholders, bridging clinical workflow needs with IT security/integration concerns.”

“Strategy & operations leader with senior roles at OnDeck, BlockFi, and Protocol Labs who owned founder-level initiatives end-to-end. Notably launched the first crypto credit card, driving 150k first-year sign-ups (vs 30k target) and boosting adoption of other offerings, and later cut time-to-hire from ~6 months to ~6 weeks while rebuilding GTM and operating frameworks.”

“Product/UX designer with hands-on experience designing AI-driven products end-to-end, including an AI shopping assistant (Stylaire) with multimodal conversational search (text/voice/image). Uses rapid prototyping and usability testing to simplify complex flows (e.g., reducing filter overload via progressive disclosure) and collaborates closely with engineers with working knowledge of HTML/CSS and component systems.”

“AI engineer with production experience building a high-accuracy (98%) fraud detection system operating at real-time latency (1–2s) over millions of transactions, using a multi-model pipeline approach to meet performance constraints. Also implemented Airflow-orchestrated workflows (DAGs, retries, alerts) to replace brittle cron scripts and is currently pursuing a master’s project on real-time ASL-to-text conversion.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with e-commerce and analytics experience who modernized synchronous order workflows into a Kafka-based event-driven architecture (Java/Spring Boot) to reduce checkout latency and peak-traffic failures. Has built production FastAPI services with JWT/RBAC and strong testing/observability, delivered React+TypeScript reporting dashboards, and handled AWS scaling incidents end-to-end (RDS read latency mitigated with read replicas and query tuning).”

“Full-stack engineer with Cisco supply-chain and Wipro internal platform experience, focused on customer-facing UI performance and secure backend services. Built a bulk Excel inventory upload feature (Spring Boot/Apache POI) that cut manual effort ~80%, and delivered high-scale Angular/React dashboards with strong reliability/observability (FastAPI, JWT, Docker, AWS, AppDynamics).”

“QA professional with ~7 years of experience working in Scrum teams, involved from requirements and user story creation through test strategy/planning, execution, defect triage in Jira, and verification. Highlighted catching multiple issues early on an AI-driven project to avoid production regressions and escalating a blocker where a frequently used UI was broken to get it fixed quickly. Has not shipped an AAA game title.”

“Founder of an algorithmic trading startup who reports raising $25M+ over roughly the last three years. Has spent several years working closely with VC funds, focusing on fundraising and lead generation with VC/PE firms, and is strongly committed to entrepreneurship and scaling new technologies.”

“Built and productionized an AI extension for JetBrains IDEs providing coding assistance, testing, security sweeps, and documentation generation using both an internal LLM and third-party models (e.g., Gemini, Claude). Experienced in diagnosing customer issues in real time (Slack) with structured follow-through (GitHub Issues) and driving adoption through developer-oriented walkthroughs and video demos.”

“Brazil-based startup CTO who raised $3M and spent 5 years building an agri-fintech credit origination tool for farmers, including going through Y Combinator and fundraising via Demo Day and Brazilian VCs. Ultimately shut the company down due to market shifts (rising interest rates and farmer delinquency), demonstrating pragmatic judgment and deep exposure to credit-market dynamics.”

“Candidate does not currently have a business plan or startup and has not raised capital. They have not worked directly in VC/studio/accelerator settings but report being familiar through friends/family and personal interest in joining that ecosystem; they are not committed to entrepreneurship at all costs.”

“LLM/agent engineer who has shipped multiple autonomous, multi-step agents to production (document-to-SOP conversion, test generation, code generation) using a custom Python DAG orchestrator with persistent state, tool-calling permissions, and structured outputs (Pydantic/JSON Schema). Demonstrates strong production hardening practices—semantic contracts, golden-dataset prompt regression tests, circuit breakers, and multi-level monitoring—and delivered large productivity wins (34 hours of manual writing reduced to ~20 minutes review; ~15–20 engineering hours/week saved).”