Vetted Cloud Computing Professionals

“Built and deployed a production NLP sentiment analysis system at Piper Sandler to turn noisy, finance-specific customer feedback into scalable insights. Demonstrates strong end-to-end MLOps: fine-tuning BERT, improving label quality, monitoring for language drift, and automating retraining/deployment with Airflow and Docker (plus Kubeflow exposure).”

“Founder of a consultancy for 14 years with extensive experience managing multiple clients and projects simultaneously. Interested in leveraging AI to solve operational challenges and is seeking exposure to the venture capital/studio/accelerator ecosystem despite no direct VC experience.”

Michael Knott

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in AI, FinTech, robotics, and regulated platforms

Singapore, Singapore20y exp

“CTO/co-founder who spent the last 6 years running a Singapore venture studio (Undercurrent Capital), performing technical and business due diligence and leading ventures from ideation through growth. Notably built a MAS-regulated bond issuance platform (Cache) for a commodities brokerage, integrating onboarding, back-office, margin calls, and regulated money flows, attracting $120M USD in the first month.”

“Cloud consulting veteran building DragnCloud, an agentic cloud infrastructure builder aimed at teams outgrowing Heroku/Supabase who need complex setups (data pipelines, custom LLM hosting, multi-tier apps) without hiring consultants. Has SaaS background and has served as a Fractional CTO for funded companies; currently focused on landing the first 20 customers and expanding automation into higher-value workflows.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building Python (FastAPI/Flask) data enrichment services secured with Okta OAuth2 and monitored via Splunk/Dynatrace. Has delivered AWS event-driven and data-migration solutions (Lambda + Kafka to EKS; Glue from on-prem Oracle to S3/data lake) and modernized Informatica match/merge logic to cloud services using parallel-run parity validation and stakeholder sign-off.”

“ML engineer with hands-on experience taking a Gaussian Process Regression-based intelligent survey timing system from build to real-world deployment, including a 3-week RCT on 120 participants and measurable improvements (15% response rate, 23% data quality). Also served as a key technical resource at CData for customer-facing demos and debugging hundreds of production issues, bridging engineering with Sales and Customer Success.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building data-intensive and 3D-processing web applications (React/Next.js/TypeScript + Node.js). Has worked in microservices using RabbitMQ for event-driven workflows and built an internal ops/engineering dashboard to monitor pipeline jobs, surface logs, and manage retries—improving visibility and reducing on-call/debug time.”

“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.”

“Built and deployed a production AI document Q&A (RAG) platform that lets non-technical users query hundreds of PDFs/Word files, cutting search time from hours to seconds. Experienced with scaling retrieval pipelines (chunking, embeddings, vector search, batching/caching) and orchestrating reliable workflows using AWS Step Functions/Airflow with robust retries, monitoring, and fallbacks.”

“Early-career candidate with customer service experience and a cybersecurity bootcamp background (vulnerability management). Undergraduate project focused on securing online exams during COVID using identity verification (facial recognition + email/phone code) and 360-degree monitoring to reduce cheating, and they navigated student pushback to enforce integrity.”