Vetted Automation Professionals

Charles Parsons

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive product leader specializing in SaaS growth and product strategy

Southbury, CT20y exp

“Product and UX leader who has both rebuilt a dated messaging platform through iterative releases and launched a new Salesforce version from scratch. They combine hands-on product management, UX design, and human-centered AI thinking—especially around blended automation/manual workflows—and have also built and mentored early-stage product and design teams in a startup environment.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across SDK tooling, APIs, and operations. At Statsig, built real-time SDK diagnostics spanning 16 SDKs and improved incident response (40% faster mitigation) with Datadog SLOs/alerting; also shipped an enterprise Console API + interactive OpenAPI-based docs with robust versioning/migration practices. Has early-stage startup experience at Layup Parts, translating AS-9100 compliance needs into production workflows under rapidly changing requirements.”

“Application Engineer supporting customers in a financial trading context, experienced in coordinating urgent patch upgrades and stakeholder communications to minimize downtime. Has hands-on production incident response experience troubleshooting a critical dashboard outage caused by a bad SQL execution plan, escalating with DBAs and deploying a fast fix, then documenting full RCA via problem tickets.”

“Enterprise/technical seller with ~2 decades of complex sales experience, focused on high-ACV AI/robotics-style deals. Self-sourced and closed a robotics opportunity into a $500K paid pilot that expanded to $1M, coordinating NDAs and multi-party integrations across NVIDIA GPU/CUDA, camera, and VMS stakeholders. Also founded a startup and built early pipeline from scratch, leading a small sales team to close initial deals in a pre-revenue MVP stage.”

Wright Beisel

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in reliability, automation, and energy systems

3y exp

“Customer-facing technical professional with experience at GE Vernova diagnosing turbine performance issues and translating vague "use AI" requests into concrete software/configuration changes. Brings a data-driven approach to LLM workflow troubleshooting (data quality + performance monitoring) and has led tailored technical workshops/demos using audience research and backup learning modules, with a strong focus on driving product adoption through usability and usage-data feedback loops.”

Amanda Melendez

Screened

Mid-level Customer Success Manager specializing in SaaS onboarding, adoption, and retention

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“Customer Success/implementation leader with enterprise experience at ADP managing payroll tax compliance for major brands (e.g., McDonalds, Staples, Williams Sonoma) and coordinating closely with product/compliance/engineering to reduce errors and escalations. Also led cross-functional operational rollouts at Starbucks, improving customer satisfaction by 27%, and currently at Together Groups influencing product roadmap via therapist/participant feedback to lift onboarding engagement by 40%.”

Jaideep Jain

Screened

Executive Business, Product & Engineering Leader in SaaS, Data Platforms, and IoT

33y exp

“Serial entrepreneur (13 years) currently building a consumer-focused startup with an MVP completed and initial customers acquired. Has interacted with multiple VCs and is very familiar with the VC/accelerator ecosystem, with a near-term focus on scaling customer acquisition while iterating the product.”

“Founded the Advanced Technology Team at XPO Logistics, a Fortune 500 transportation and logistics company, and worked closely with the investment team on technology demos and presentations. Especially motivated by zero-to-one company building, with a clear framework for assessing new ideas through differentiation and fast validation.”

shivapriya pillalamarri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial analytics and production ML systems

Boston, MA4y exp

“Analytics candidate with experience in financial transaction and fraud detection projects, combining SQL data preparation, Python-based automation, and dashboarding. They have owned projects from stakeholder alignment and metric definition through rollout, with emphasis on reducing false positives, improving operational efficiency, and making analytics outputs easy for business teams to adopt.”

“Startup-oriented product/technology leader targeting CTO roles, with experience evaluating and scoping high-impact product expansions. At Crelate, helped assess and shape a contract timekeeping/invoicing initiative that expanded TAM by hundreds of millions and increased ACV 2-3x, contributing to successful market traction and the company’s path to Series C.”

Anuja Nayak

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and reliability

Seattle, WA3y exp

“Oracle engineer focused on reliability and internal platform tooling, with hands-on experience automating regional traffic failover and building an LLM-assisted incident investigation workflow. Stands out for owning production-impacting systems end-to-end and delivering measurable operational gains, including cutting failover recovery to under five minutes and reducing incident triage from hours to minutes.”

“Project/operations leader who has grown from owning small implementation projects to running PMO governance on a multi-year SAP migration at Accenture, and now independently delivers end-to-end automation, CRM, and workflow projects for 4-5 freelance clients across varied industries. Stands out for blending hands-on systems building with strong executive reporting, risk management, and client enablement.”

“Enterprise platform engineering leader who identified platform engineering as a major opportunity at Kyndryl and built an entire internal practice around it by codifying the offering and evangelizing it across leadership. Now exploring founding an agentic AI developer platform aimed at reducing variance and improving consistency in building/deploying cloud-native applications; has not raised capital yet.”

“Global talent acquisition/executive search leader from FIS Global who managed a distributed recruiting org and partnered closely with HRBPs and C-suite leaders. Has driven enterprise-wide recruiting lifecycle improvements (including onboarding programs to reduce attrition) and engaged in strategic initiatives like an AI council tied to product roadmap decisions.”

“Operations leader specializing in building scalable internal systems for startups, from being Spoonflower’s first ops hire (5th employee) to launching its first international Berlin/EMEA office from scratch. At bookingkit, drove measurable operational improvements by implementing a customized OKR framework (+18% goal achievement) and deploying automation/AI tools like Contractbook and kapa.ai to eliminate manual work and save engineering time.”

“Enterprise IT operations and identity governance professional (Atlassian) who partners closely with security teams to reduce risk through RBAC/Conditional Access automation, endpoint compliance, and vulnerability remediation workflows. Demonstrated ability to balance strict security controls with engineering productivity via phased rollouts, pilots, and KPI-driven stakeholder alignment, plus hands-on troubleshooting of complex Azure AD authentication failures and secure AWS integration design.”

“Healthcare analytics candidate with hands-on experience turning messy claims data in Redshift and S3 into validated reporting tables, plus automating KPI workflows in Python. They’ve owned end-to-end operational analytics projects, including a claims delay analysis that improved processing efficiency by about 20%, and have experience driving stakeholder adoption of standardized metrics across dashboards.”

“Analytics professional with experience at Franklin Templeton and IQVIA India, focused on turning messy cross-system data into trusted reporting and actionable business insights. Stands out for combining SQL, Python, AWS ETL, and BI dashboards to solve data quality issues, improve investor engagement analysis, and standardize commercial reporting in financial services and pharma contexts.”

“SRE-oriented infrastructure engineer who built an internal Vertex AI/Gemini knowledge chatbot to centralize product and development documentation, cutting routine support questions from 10+ daily to roughly 2. Also brings hands-on experience debugging Kubernetes production incidents and monitoring ETL/data-quality issues in Dataflow-based pipelines.”

“Early-career solutions engineer with experience spanning Dell Technologies and insurance operations, combining enterprise hybrid cloud pre-sales exposure with hands-on AI and API integration work. Completed a master's at Illinois Institute of Technology while building customer-facing experience in technical discovery, POCs, security/compliance discussions, and workflow automation.”

“Database/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of large-scale GCP data systems in financial services, including customer-facing SaaS investment products with strict SLAs. Stands out for leading an on-prem-to-GCP modernization using Spanner, AlloyDB, Bigtable, and BigQuery, and for building Terraform/Python automation that cut provisioning time by ~70% while improving reliability and self-service.”

“Customer-facing leader with a nearly 20-year foundation spanning sales, account management, customer experience, and customer success. Has built functions from the ground up in both established and high-growth private equity-backed software environments, including scaling enterprise success during a period of 3x headcount growth and nearly 6x revenue growth while driving retention and expansion programs.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer with hands-on ownership across compute and SAN, including resolving a high-severity ERP latency incident by tracing it to SAN slow-drain on Cisco switches and orchestrating a port redistribution fix. Experienced running production HA/DR with HACMP and LPAR mobility (quarterly failover tests plus annual SunGard DR simulations) and building Bash-based monitoring/alerting automation to prevent outages.”

“Backend-focused engineer with financial domain experience who built Java REST APIs for data entry/validation and implemented strong testing, alerting, and rollback practices for production reliability. Has hands-on experience automating legacy manual processes with Ansible and troubleshooting AWS EKS/OpenShift deployments via CloudFormation in a permission-constrained enterprise environment; comfortable with occasional onsite meetings in Bethesda, MD.”