Vetted Cloud Infrastructure Professionals

Dan Gervais

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive technology leader specializing in big data, AI/ML, and SaaS platforms

Escondido, CA28y exp

“Hands-on IT/engineering executive who has led high-impact architecture changes and compliance-driven data systems. Notably built an internally developed columnar database at Troparé (with dual-support UI for legacy/new DBs) and shipped an MVP in 3–4 months with dramatic performance improvements, and previously delivered PCI/opt-out compliant deletion workflows while addressing DB performance and migrations.”

“Current CTO of an analytics company in the eye industry that was acquired by a larger organization, and now exploring building a new analytics platform for individual provider offices. Focused on helping practices grow revenue and improve the patient journey to drive long-term retention, with entrepreneurial motivation tied to building a legacy business for their family.”

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing a large-scale procurement platform at Jio Platforms by breaking a monolith serving 35 business units into Spring Boot microservices, improving uptime and cutting report latency ~30%. Also built high-concurrency FastAPI systems (200ms at ~500 concurrent users) with strong security (JWT/OAuth2/RBAC), event-driven Kafka integrations, and reliability patterns like exactly-once delivery for ~1M monthly triggers.”

“Startup builder (MagicSeven) who designed and implemented a browser-based, agentic video editor end-to-end, including an AWS event-driven multimodal LLM “indexing” pipeline and an orchestration LLM agent for searching and manipulating footage. Demonstrates deep video file/codec knowledge plus practical production hardening of LLM workflows (format validation, plan/execute, S3-based state for debuggability).”

James Fallon

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React, TypeScript, and enterprise web platforms

Westwood, MA18y exp

“Frontend engineer with unusually strong experience building visually sophisticated, performance-sensitive React applications, including a cinematic 3D showcase for an NBA Top Shot collections platform using react-three-fiber and Three.js. Also brings public-sector experience building map-based geographic data overlays in a Drupal application, showing range across immersive consumer experiences and operational data tools.”

“AI/ML infrastructure-focused engineer who has built production RAG systems from scratch (Supabase/pgvector + OpenAI embeddings) and iterated using formal eval metrics to improve retrieval quality. Also debugged real-time audio issues in a LiveKit-based pipeline by correlating packet loss with VAD behavior, and has deep experience building brittle, customer-specific financial platform integrations in Python/Playwright (2FA, redirects, token refresh, rate limits).”

“Built internal product features at Sysco's Collab Cafe across React/TypeScript frontend and Spring Boot/PostgreSQL backend, including a full project invite flow and an early AI-style project matching capability. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, improving React dashboard performance with profiling and component refactoring, and making pragmatic 0→1 tradeoffs to ship quickly.”

“Series A startup engineer with broad full-stack ownership across backend, data, and frontend, including a real-time ingestion platform that scaled to 10x higher daily volume without downtime while cutting latency from minutes to seconds. Brings strong fintech and B2B SaaS experience building auditable, high-throughput systems for analysts, operations, and compliance teams in regulated environments.”

“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.”

“Senior technology/executive leader with 30+ years building and scaling mission-critical platforms across blockchain, cloud, cybersecurity, and fintech, including leading 100+ person global teams and managing $100M P&Ls. Founded Pharus (2022) after driving Web2-to-Web3/DeFi/metaverse initiatives at SDK Co, using a first-principles, PoC-driven approach to deliver secure, compliance-aware transformations (GDPR/NYDFS) and multi-million-dollar optimizations, with a focus on quantum-resistant Web3 and ethical AI governance.”

Hetvi Shah

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in React/Angular and Node.js

Toronto, Ontario6y exp

“Frontend lead who owned architecture and quality for TELUS’s Next Generation Sales Platform, building a modular React+TypeScript experience that scaled across wireline/wireless products and channels. Experienced in hardening UIs against unreliable backend integrations (API abstraction, retries/fallbacks, caching, logging) and delivering real-time dashboards via WebSockets, with strong CI/CD testing and blue-green release practices for high-stakes launches like Black Friday.”