Vetted Cloud Infrastructure Professionals

“Candidate brings an operator-to-founder profile with leadership experience in IT and Business Systems and a strong grasp of how ideas become venture-backable products. They speak fluently about startup evaluation criteria such as TAM, technical defensibility, speed to scale, and AI differentiation, and appear especially motivated by building solutions end-to-end in startup or venture studio environments.”

“Product leader with a strong track record of modernizing legacy SaaS platforms, including an API-first rebuild that increased engagement by 40% and reduced support burden. Also led AI-powered workflow automation that delivered 80-90% time savings through human-in-the-loop design, showing a pragmatic, user-centered approach to applied AI.”

“Cloud-focused engineer experienced deploying and stabilizing complex production systems that span APIs, infrastructure, and automated workflows, with a strong observability and safe-release mindset (feature flags/canaries/rollbacks). Has hands-on, customer-facing incident leadership, including executing DR regional failover during an AWS us-east-1 outage to maintain service and reportedly save a client ~$10M.”

Vidhi Chhatbar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and FinTech

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience across enterprise (AIG, MSCI) and an early-stage startup (Job Map), owning production systems end-to-end. Built secure insurance microservices on Spring Boot with JWT/RBAC and AWS-based CI/CD/observability, plus Kafka streaming pipelines for financial data. Also shipped a GenAI personalization MVP using FastAPI and LLM APIs in a high-ambiguity startup environment.”

Javon Lee

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms and cloud-native systems

Baltimore, MD8y exp

“Engineer with startup CTO experience and recent hands-on full-stack work at Microsoft and Clarity, focused on compliance and AML workflow platforms for financial services. Stands out for building scalable data and audit systems that reduced manual processing and improved performance, while operating effectively in ambiguous early-stage environments.”

Henry nguyen

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and mobile platforms

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Built WalletBuddy, a personal credit card tracking app, end to end using React Native, TypeScript, Convex, and agent-based web research workflows to maintain a 130+ card catalog. Also operated as a solo lead in a constrained Citi environment, rapidly shipping Python/Postgres ETL pipelines for stakeholder reporting while making pragmatic decisions about where AI automation should and should not be used.”

“Founding engineer for an AI product (“world’s first funny AI”) who designed and implemented the full-stack architecture (React/TypeScript + Node) and migrated production from Vercel to AWS. Shipped a Lambda-based image pipeline that eliminated lag/missing images and brought page load times to under a second, and has hands-on experience integrating multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok) with structured-output and self-check reliability techniques.”

Nirmal Attarde

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in backend microservices and cloud

3y exp

“Software engineer with Oracle experience deploying a BioCatch fraud-detection integration into HDFC Bank’s core banking platform, using phased rollout and real-time monitoring and reporting ~80% fraud reduction. Also built a modular speech-to-text product (VocalSense AI) achieving ~95% accuracy and has strong production incident response skills (15-minute recovery) plus AWS serverless API hardening for messy inputs.”

“Built Bargain Bricks end-to-end as a solo creator, handling product ideation, design, backend, APIs, website, and native iOS/Android apps. They actively maintain and iterate on the product, which has over 1,000 downloads, and have improved conversion through UI changes that surfaced the best deal above the fold.”

“Previously founded and successfully exited a self-funded startup in the marine electronics and vessel monitoring/control space. Brings unusually broad end-to-end technical depth—from transistor-level design and firmware to Internet-connected systems and software—paired with a pragmatic founder mindset around market needs, differentiation, reliability, and product strategy.”

Farhan Shahbaz

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer with deep experience in security and access-management platforms at JPMorgan Chase, including owning automation for migrating 50+ engineering teams from CyberArk to HashiCorp Vault. Stands out for combining regulated-environment rigor, infrastructure automation, and production operations with practical AI integration in internal access workflows.”

“Infrastructure-leaning engineer who has built real-time ML systems end-to-end: a Jetson-deployed adaptive Whisper ASR service (Flask + WebSockets, React/TS UI) and a high-throughput Postgres schema for live transcription. Also delivered customer-facing AI billing/OCR improvements for a dental startup (Dentite), boosting OCR performance by 38%, and has experience instrumenting open-source ML deployment stacks to add infrastructure visibility.”

Jhansi Bendi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and event-driven systems

Antioch, CA18y exp

“Senior engineer/tech lead with 18+ years building large-scale distributed applications, specializing in performance and reliability improvements. Recently owned multiple apps on an email personalization team, shipping major optimizations (including a push-update feature and audience-count architecture redesign) that reportedly lifted system performance from ~50% to ~99% while also leading code standards, reviews, and mentoring.”

Corey Bowlby

Screened

Executive Product & Technology Leader specializing in FinTech SaaS, core banking, and payments

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates23y exp

“Product/technology executive who has repeatedly built and scaled engineering organizations from early-stage startups to large enterprises (including Temenos with ~2,000 developers). Led major platform modernizations (monolith-to-microservices) to enable SaaS, resilience, and faster delivery, and launched an innovation hub to build proprietary neural-network biometric algorithms for a payments product enabling "wave of the hand" transactions.”

“State Street engineer who identifies operational pain points and turns them into high-impact internal platforms, including a service-health monitoring system and a Databricks log standardization pipeline used by 200+ users. Also experiments with practical LLM workflows, having built a Claude-based AI host that dramatically reduced facilitation time for a growing book club.”

Jeff Craven

Screened

Director-level delivery executive specializing in enterprise SaaS, telecom, and platform deployments

Gainesville, GA37y exp

“Enterprise SaaS implementation leader with broad cross-functional ownership spanning project management, sales engineering, customer success, and technical account management. Has delivered complex migrations and multi-release portfolios across 40+ enterprise customers, including utilities, telecom, and municipal environments, with strong experience coordinating high-stakes cutovers, integrations, and executive stakeholder communication.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on AI/ML systems experience spanning production inference infrastructure and consumer-facing LLM products. At Jio, they led a 17-person AI features team and delivered measurable execution gains, including 40% faster deployments and 35% lower prediction latency, while also building an end-to-end RAG-based meal recommendation product using OpenAI and Gemini.”

Justin Edwards

Screened

Senior Product Manager specializing in GTM systems and data infrastructure

New York, NY14y exp

“Solutions-oriented technical consultant with enterprise experience spanning Bank of America cloud migration and large-scale marketing architecture redesigns at Disney Streaming and SiriusXM. Stands out for combining pre-sales solutioning, compliance-heavy enterprise integration, and hands-on building—including a self-built gen AI child nutrition app that evaluates 1.4 trillion meal combinations in about 4 seconds.”

“AI/ML engineer who has built a production text-to-image generation system in PyTorch with an AWS-backed inference setup, focusing on GPU-efficient training and embedding-space architectural choices inspired by recent research (e.g., Meta VL-JEPA). Uses both metric-based evaluation (FID) and human testing to validate real-world visual quality, and can translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.”

“Backend/automation engineer who led the design of an OOP Python test automation framework for AWS infrastructure (Behave + Jenkins), cutting regression effort from weeks to a 3–4 hour run. Has hands-on cloud and DevOps experience across AWS (boto3, ECS, AMI automation via GitHub Actions) plus data/migration work including on-prem-to-cloud Oracle Retail DB migration with rollback planning and a Kafka + ML fraud-detection streaming pipeline.”

“Hands-on technical professional experienced in taking LLM/AI-adjacent integrations from prototype to production, using customer observation to refine UX and uncover edge cases. Diagnoses workflow issues in real time using logs and Sankey-style workflow analysis, and communicates fixes with clear short/long-term plans plus proactive alerting. Also partners cross-functionally to drive adoption and cost savings, including a POC around IBM Sterling Integrator that reduced licensing costs by $30K/year.”