Vetted Cloud Computing Professionals

“Full-stack engineer with startup experience who owned an end-to-end rebuild of a production analytics page at VideoNest (Next.js/TypeScript frontend, FastAPI/Python backend, Postgres), including third-party data ingestion/sync and query/index optimization; the feature reached 2,500+ users and received positive feedback from large clients. Also built a habit/community mobile app (Celeri) with near-real-time step updates using polling and UI optimizations like pagination and selective re-rendering.”

Bhagyashree Patil

Screened

Intern Applied AI Engineer specializing in LLM systems and data engineering

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on production experience across both traditional SaaS and LLM-powered support tooling. They owned a real-time ecommerce order tracking dashboard that improved support response times by 40%, and helped ship an AI support assistant using the OpenAI GPT API that cut ticket handling time by 30% through strong prompt design, retrieval grounding, validation, and human-in-the-loop safeguards.”

Andrew Bartlett

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in SaaS, AI/ML, and digital transformation

Denver, CO25y exp

“Senior product leader with broad cross-industry experience spanning publishing, travel tech, recruitment tech, eCommerce, and industrial/facilities software. Has led major platform rebuilds, AI-enabled IoT products, and portfolio-level platform strategy across roughly 10 enterprise SaaS applications, while also managing large product/design organizations with a strong servant-leadership approach.”

Raj Kalantri

Screened

Intern-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack development

Kolkata, India1y exp

“Built a sophisticated AI career counselor as a full-stack web app for early-career students, integrating React, Flask, Pinecone, and LLM inference into a stateful conversational product. Stands out for combining hands-on debugging of retrieval/embedding pipelines with strong browser-performance instincts and pragmatic UX iteration based on real user testing.”

“Founder of Snazified Inc., a multi-tenant ATS startup, where they led a 5-person remote engineering team and built AI-powered workflow features that reportedly drove 75% sales growth and 90%+ customer retention. They also launched a separate subscription profile platform with React/Node, AI resume tools, and job aggregation, reaching 50 paying subscribers shortly after launch.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a production "Financial Insight" assistant dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, integrating a RAG pipeline (embeddings + ChromaDB + LLM) via route handlers and owning post-launch performance (latency, token cost, retrieval relevance). Also built/optimized Postgres-backed workflows for an outbound dialer and callback routing engine handling ~10,000 daily contacts, validating query performance with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS).”

“Founder building an enterprise AI SaaS platform for complex, asset-intensive industries, targeting fragmented-data and manual planning workflows with an AI-native, explainable scenario-analysis product. Bootstrapped to date with production platform in active enterprise trials/pilots and preparing for an institutional seed raise; emphasizes workflow integration, ROI proof points, and founder-led GTM.”

“Software engineer with experience across data engineering and backend/platform work: owned a Databricks/PySpark real-time pipeline powering customer dashboards with a 15-minute SLA, and helped modernize an investor web app from JSP to React/TypeScript with API + SQL/materialized-view performance improvements. Also contributed to breaking a Java monolith into microservices (Redis + gRPC on AWS EKS) and built an EC2-deployed Play Store/App Store crawler that reduced third-party data costs.”

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer with 14 years of cross-functional experience, leveraging SQL-driven segmentation and structured A/B/multivariate testing to optimize engagement and conversions. Has led coordinated national/regional launches for a hardware product and tracks impact through CRM campaign codes tied to closed sales.”

“Software engineer with BitSight experience owning and revitalizing a critical internal Entity Management Portal (Django/React), clearing 30+ backlog items and boosting internal workflow efficiency ~40% through performance re-architecture (Redis caching) and disciplined testing. Also built a collaborative chore management platform (React/FastAPI) emphasizing responsiveness (optimistic UI) and scalability (connection pooling, Docker), and improved microservices security by centralizing secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager across multi-cloud environments.”

“Built a live free-to-play web-based financial market simulation game (YouTube-channel stock market) as a hobby project, now serving 3000+ users. Implemented core F2P systems including gacha, timed progression gates, and analytics-driven monitoring of engagement and economy health using a TypeScript/Python stack with Redis and Postgres.”

“Built and deployed a production real-time voice AI support agent that answers inbound calls, identifies callers, troubleshoots via a knowledge base, and automatically creates/updates tickets with escalation to humans when needed. Demonstrates strong reliability/latency engineering (streaming, schema validation, idempotency, DB constraints) and uses LangGraph state machines plus OpenAI Agents SDK for multi-agent routing, with KPI-driven testing and monitoring.”

“Data scientist with hands-on experience building an XGBoost-based customer segmentation/churn risk scoring model used by sales and marketing teams. Emphasizes production-grade practices—efficient SQL for large-scale data pulls, rigorous data validation/testing, and scalable, modular Python code designed to support multiple customer types.”

“Candidate participated in Launch Factory's venture studio selection process, which introduced them to a formalized startup methodology, and then went on to found and recently exit their own business. They are highly motivated to keep building companies, with a clear emphasis on creating products that serve a community and validating market need through product-market fit.”

Cia Hang

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Executive IT and Operations leader specializing in digital transformation and security

Chicago, IL13y exp

“Candidate is very familiar with the venture capital and broader investment landscape, but is not interested in founding a company. They have worked with several TPG-backed or TPG-owned organizations, helping drive business scaling, cost reduction, and execution against investor governance requirements.”

Yashodhar Pansuria

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Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in capital markets and trading systems

East Windsor, NJ12y exp

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in payment initiation/processing services built in Python/FastAPI, emphasizing reliability patterns (JWT/RBAC, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers). Has delivered AWS deployments on ECS (ALB, autoscaling, CI/CD to ECR) plus Lambda-based reporting, and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines with schema evolution and CloudWatch monitoring. Also modernized a legacy SAS reporting platform to Python/PostgreSQL with regression parity testing and parallel-run migration, and achieved a 70% SQL performance improvement.”

“Yogesh is an AI/full-stack engineer from LangChain who says he was the sole developer and core maintainer of OpenSWE/OpenSpeed, an asynchronous coding agent in LangSmith Cloud that turns requests from Slack, Linear, and GitHub into reviewable PRs. He emphasizes production-grade agent infrastructure: event-driven workflow design, typed run states, observability, retries, and latency improvements via pre-warmed sandboxes.”

“Engineering/product leader who builds business-aligned technology roadmaps and scales pod-based orgs with strong delivery discipline (OKRs, CI/CD, QA automation). Led a SaaS supply-chain application adopted by Fortune 100 customers, citing ~$4M MRR and ~87% gross profit, and has hands-on experience standardizing LLM + cloud/MLOps architectures with security/compliance guardrails. Also created the PISEK methodology and used it to run distributed innovation sprints (e.g., an AI ETA predictor moved from pilot to production).”

“IBM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM assistant using LangChain/FAISS with a fine-tuned LLaMA model, served via FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes, achieving 99%+ uptime. Demonstrates strong practical expertise in reducing hallucinations (semantic chunking + metadata-driven retrieval) and managing latency, plus mature MLOps practices (Airflow/dbt pipelines, MLflow tracking, monitoring, A/B and shadow deployments) and effective collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Built a production multimodal LLM-based vendor risk assessment platform that ingests SOC reports and other documents, uses a strict RAG pipeline with grounded evidence (page/paragraph citations), and dramatically reduces analyst review time. Experienced with LangGraph/LangChain/AutoGen for stateful, fault-tolerant agent workflows, and emphasizes reliability (schema validation, guardrails) plus low-latency delivery (~1–2s) through hybrid retrieval, reranking, caching, and model tiering.”

“Infrastructure engineer with hands-on ownership of a scaled IBM Power/AIX estate (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC; 2 frames/20+ LPARs) supporting critical middleware and database workloads, including live DLPAR changes and VIOS/SAN outage recovery. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience building GitHub Actions pipelines for Docker/Kubernetes deployments and provisioning AWS environments with Terraform (EKS/RDS/VPC/IAM) using modular, review-driven workflows.”

“Research Assistant at the University of Houston who built and live-deployed a production RAG system for 1000+ research documents, using hybrid retrieval (dense+BM25+RRF) with cross-encoder reranking and RAGAS-based evaluation; reported 66% MRR, 0.85+ faithfulness, and 68% lower LLM inference costs. Also built a deployed LangGraph multi-agent research system (Researcher/Critic/Writer) with tool integrations (Tavily, arXiv) and dual memory (ChromaDB + Neo4j), plus freelance automation work delivering a WhatsApp chatbot and n8n workflows for a wholesale clothing business.”

Ishaan Umesh Mandliya

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud-native systems

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“At BondiTech, built and deployed customer-facing backend improvements for enterprise dashboards handling 1M+ records, redesigning a .NET/Entity Framework API with server-side pagination/filtering and feature-flagged rollout to cut latency from ~15s to ~2s. Experienced integrating customer systems into existing APIs, including stabilizing a legacy CRM sync by normalizing inconsistent IDs, handling strict rate limits with batching, and adding DLQs plus reconciliation reporting.”

Sanskruti Raut

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML & Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM agents and medical RAG systems

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup building an agentic AI application for enterprise systems, combining customer-facing Next.js/React UI work (30% faster load times) with backend/workflow orchestration using FastAPI + n8n, Redis, and RabbitMQ. Previously at Deloitte USI, built BDD Selenium/Java automation and managed 200+ defects end-to-end using JIRA/JAMA to support on-time production releases.”