Vetted API Design Professionals

“Product leader focused on human-centered AI, with standout experience leading agentic AI strategy for Microsoft’s Cloud Supply Chain during a major GPU demand surge after the OpenAI partnership. They combined platform thinking, embedded AI UX, and influence-based leadership to drive adoption, cut manual effort by 40%, reach 2,000 MAU, and help protect $50M in at-risk revenue, while also building an AI quiz coaching tool for middle-school academic Olympiad students.”

“Fintech product builder focused on AI-native opportunities; recently helped their company operationalize LLMs in customer service and bank ops by creating systems to continuously improve prompts and evaluations. Also drove growth by identifying hooks in a major American retailer distribution channel and integrating into the retailer’s payment flows to become a key part of the user funnel.”

“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.”

Sri Yogesh Dorbala

Screened

Engineering Manager / Tech Lead specializing in large-scale distributed systems

Seattle, WA8y exp

“Software engineer focused on personalization and data/ML infrastructure who built a GenAI/LLM-driven carousel ranking system end-to-end, delivering a reported 6–7% order-rate lift. Also designed large-scale personalization ETL (15PB for ~100M users) and created a custom Airflow operator to integrate with Databricks under enterprise version constraints, with hands-on on-call and data-quality reliability improvements.”

“Veteran product leader with nearly two decades spanning enterprise software, AI SaaS, and connected consumer hardware. Led the award-winning launch of Siftio’s second-generation gaming cubes and later ran product/design for Captricity’s AI platform that automated handwritten insurance application processing for major global insurers. Brings a distinctive human-centered AI perspective shaped by both regulated-industry product work and education/workforce development experience in Cambodia and Namibia.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer with experience building large-scale systems on Salesforce and eBay, including a sharded Oracle-backed personalization store used by millions of sellers and a Spring Boot microservice that executes scheduled payouts at high volume. Emphasizes production readiness via state-machine-based idempotency, strong observability (Splunk/Elasticsearch/PagerDuty), and extensive Selenium/Sauce Labs automation.”

“Product leader at Intuit/QuickBooks Workforce who built an AI-powered conversational agent for payroll and time entry, a high-stakes workflow where mistakes directly affect whether workers get paid correctly. Stands out for combining multimodal AI, RAG, and human-in-the-loop confirmation with strong UX judgment, delivering measurable outcomes including a 60% drop in worker complaints and a 30% faster path to action.”