Vetted Automation Professionals

Tashkeel Shah

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Technical Artist specializing in real-time XR performance and rendering systems

10y exp

“UE5 gameplay/tech designer focused on VR and performance, with shipped systems spanning networked energy-driven Niagara VFX for a mobile VR live-concert MMO and an end-to-end performer avatar builder supporting editor/runtime and JSON-serialized UGC workflows. Known for deep profiling/debugging (Unreal Insights, Niagara CPU vs GPU emitter behavior) and for refactoring/optimizing animation and rendering across PC and mobile VR constraints.”

Mohan Pushadapu

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Mechatronics Engineer specializing in robotics, embedded firmware, and autonomous systems

Baltimore, MD4y exp

“Robotics/embedded engineer with hands-on firmware ownership for closed-loop motor/vision systems and strong ROS1 navigation experience (move_base, gmapping, robot_localization), including EKF sensor fusion to eliminate localization drift to sub-10cm accuracy. Also brings IoT distributed pub/sub expertise (30+ devices over MQTT, 99% uptime) plus Unity AR/VR simulation and computer-vision test automation that saved 100+ hours.”

Naveen Chokkakula

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Senior Golang Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native microservices

Texas, USA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at UWorld and Infosys, focused on full-stack product delivery and backend reliability. Stands out for owning analytics/onboarding experiences end-to-end while also building resilient distributed systems, reusable service primitives, and safe multi-tenant configuration guardrails.”

“Built and continuously ships AI features for a recipe website, including a production workflow that ingests Instagram reels via webhooks, extracts/transcribes content, and converts it into structured recipe data. Also brings enterprise async/backend experience from Dot Foods, where they work with Azure Service Bus, Cosmos DB, and a pre-production Teams bot for logistics stakeholder questions.”

Dewayne DeRozzo

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Strategy & Operations Leader specializing in SaaS, AI, and GTM transformation

New York, NY13y exp

“Ops/tech program leader who supported the national rollout of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by building an enterprise OKR system and implementing Asana + real-time dashboards across technology, operations, clinical support, and communications. Has led a 15-person team and repeatedly improves executive productivity through pragmatic tool rollouts (HubSpot, SharePoint/Confluence, Slack/Zoom) and lightweight integrations.”

“Healthcare analytics professional with hands-on experience turning messy claims, eligibility, and utilization data into validated BI-ready models using SQL and Python. They combine strong data engineering and KPI design skills with stakeholder-facing delivery, including Power BI prototyping, retention metric operationalization, and analyses that supported care management interventions and cost-control decisions.”

“Growth-creative and paid social marketer who runs funnel-informed creative experiments across Meta/LinkedIn (and adapts learnings to TikTok/YouTube), optimizing beyond CTR/CPL to MQL and qualified CPA. Demonstrated measurable impact by using modular creative systems, rigorous tracking (pixels + CRM events), and structured creator/editor direction to improve lead quality and downstream conversion.”

“Backend/data engineer who built an enterprise LLM assistant (AI Genie) at Broadband Insights using a LangChain + GPT-4 + Pinecone RAG pipeline to automate broadband analytics reporting. Developed Python/Dagster ETL processing 10M+ records/day and improved data freshness by 60%, with production-grade scalability patterns (async workers, containerized microservices, Kubernetes) and strong multi-tenant isolation practices.”

“Paid media specialist with nonprofit/fundraising experience at Keelworks Foundation, running high-spend acquisition across Google, Meta, and LinkedIn (and familiar with TikTok). Uses CRM-driven funnel segmentation and disciplined A/B testing across ads, landing pages, and email flows; has recovered stalled performance and delivered ~10% donation growth while tracking deep donor-quality KPIs (lead-to-donor, retention, avg gift).”

“Quality/process professional with hands-on supplier quality experience across consumer hardware (electric skateboards) and construction/field services. Uses rigorous statistical and root-cause methods (Ishikawa, 5 Whys) to drive CAPA closure with overseas suppliers, adding inspection gates and IQC, and validating fixes through multi-month sampling follow-up.”

“IT professional exploring a startup in digital transformation and IT security, motivated by repeated client needs around efficient resource utilization and better adoption. Emphasizes user-centric, iterative transformation with strong training and feedback loops, paired with security fundamentals like privacy and least-privilege access. Has limited familiarity with VC/accelerators and is not currently pursuing investment.”

Blessing Alfred

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Senior Frontend & Mobile Engineer specializing in React, Vue, and TypeScript

Lagos, Nigeria5y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end builds of both e-learning and e-commerce platforms in Next.js/React + TypeScript, with a strong focus on scalable component architecture, pragmatic state management (Redux/Zustand), and quality enforcement (linting, conventions, Cypress). Notably pivoted from NextAuth to a custom server-auth flow to support backend-introduced 2FA, and has experience executing fast hotfix rollouts including urgent third-party provider switches.”