Vetted Automation Professionals

“Bootstrapped founder of ByteThirst, a launched browser extension and CLI that monitors and estimates the environmental cost of LLM usage. They are targeting a niche climate-tech/AI space with support for 14 platforms, a freemium subscription model, and a first-mover thesis backed by market research, market sizing, and profit projections.”

“Commercial UNIX specialist and former tech lead for a UNIX-based telco appliance spanning 11 SPARC Solaris servers, with strong Solaris troubleshooting (truss/iostat/netstat/snoop) and extensive shell scripting automation for safer, more consistent operations. Has executed multiple Solaris major-version migrations (6→8→10→11) and brings broad cross-UNIX platform experience (Solaris/SunOS/HP-UX/IRIX/OSF/1), while actively looking to deepen hands-on AIX/IBM Power expertise.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built an internal wiki LLM chatbot end-to-end using FastAPI, Kubernetes, and ChromaDB vector search, including frontend integration. Also has strong DevOps/migration experience—automating large work-item and repo migrations (Jira/FogBugz/ADO on-prem to cloud) via Python scripts, JSON mappings, REST APIs, and validation test suites.”

“Appian consultant/engineer focused on insurance and financial services modernization and AI-enabled workflows. Built and productionized an AI-driven insurance submission intake system (email ingestion, classification/extraction, HITL review) cutting processing time from 2+ hours to under 10 minutes, and delivered semantic smart search with guardrails and UAT-driven ranking improvements. Also partnered with a global bank CTO org, running sessions with 200+ senior leaders to automate regulatory/board metric reporting via platform integrations and attestation.”

Cornelius O'Donnell

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Director-level Engineering & Program Leader specializing in AI product platforms

San Diego, CA25y exp

“Technical Program Manager and one of three internal "founders" of HP’s Hardware-as-a-Service home printer subscription initiative, spanning DTC shipping, simplified setup, ink replenishment, and warranty coverage. Led roadmap definition/execution, scaled delivery rapidly to 15+ scrum teams (including vendors) with SAFe-like coordination and shared engineering standards, and drove key architecture trade-offs (building an interim subscription management service) to accelerate time-to-market by about a year.”

“Engineering leader who has led 100+ engineers at Sainsbury’s Tech and previously scaled an org from 6 to 60+ at AND Digital. Drove a high-impact modernization of a pricing/decisioning platform serving 1,700 stores—moving from batch monolith to real-time Kafka-based event-driven microservices with MLOps, IaC (Terraform), and zero-trust—delivering £18m+ annual profit uplift and 10+ deploys/day.”

“At Citi, helped lead the productionization of an internal LLM-driven automation workflow into a production-ready developer platform, focusing on determinism/reproducibility, security, and cost controls. Implemented prompt versioning/registry, JSON schema validation, sanitization, and deep telemetry (including manual edit-distance) plus human-in-the-loop review and phased rollout—driving major SDLC efficiency gains (e.g., test script creation cut from ~1 week to ~1 day).”

“Game QA Lead/embedded QA with live production experience supporting a public alpha, owning narrative/early-game content quality and quest progression stability. Known for driving rapid resolution of high-impact blockers via consistent repros, cross-discipline coordination, and data-backed reporting (including bot-based success/failure measurement), while maintaining sprint-aligned test plans and documentation in JIRA/Confluence and leading developer playtests for gameplay feel/polish.”

Justin Wisnicki

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Senior Engagement Manager specializing in private equity advisory operations

New York, NY6y exp

“Executive/business operations professional supporting a Managing Partner, with hands-on experience implementing BD tracking and productivity systems across three offices. Has managed a 5-person team while prioritizing 36 clients and 500 BD leads, delivering 4 trial-to-retained conversions and a 30% revenue increase, and building KPI/dashboard-driven accountability for senior-leader initiatives in confidential, private-equity-adjacent environments.”

Sam McKenzie

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Mid-level Business Operations & FP&A professional specializing in RevOps automation and GTM strategy

Remote7y exp

“At BuildZoom, led cross-functional alignment to launch a new product (Data Explorer) and grew it from $0 to $1.3M ARR in 12 months. Leverages analytics and BI tooling (HubSpot, Looker, Tableau, Sisense) to build executive dashboards and drive strategic decisions, including redesigning sales incentives to emphasize recurring revenue.”

Alex Vo

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Staff Backend Software Engineer specializing in telemetry pipelines and observability

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Backend engineer from VMware focused on proprietary enterprise systems (monitoring tools, data pipelines, and APIs). Drove a ClickHouse migration POC (local to remote host) using a dual-write/cutover approach and source-level debugging across Node/driver differences during a Node 12→20 upgrade, and delivered measurable performance gains (~20% CPU/memory improvement) through batching and streaming ingestion.”

Umesh Toprani

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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.”