Vetted Cloud Infrastructure Professionals

“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.”

“Entrepreneur and technical architect who built and ran an MSP with over 200 clients, and previously architected systems for a company as it scaled from 50 to 500 employees. Also consulted for another fast-growing company on architecture and cloud migration, bringing a practical operator's perspective on scaling businesses and evaluating ideas based on real problem-solving.”

Alban Delamarre

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Unity Developer specializing in AI-driven gameplay and VR systems

Washington, DC10y exp

“Unity/C# developer focused on mission-driven interactive products spanning mobile, VR, and AI-powered learning experiences. They have shipped educational and healthcare simulations, including a grocery-skills game for autistic users with 10k+ users and VR nurse-training/de-escalation scenarios, while also building LLM-driven avatar systems for career exploration and mock interviews.”

Meng Yang

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and IoT

Columbus, OH21y exp

“CTO/Chief Architect who rebuilt an IoT platform from a fragile legacy stack into an AWS-based, multi-tenant cloud-native system supporting 50k+ connected devices and 10M+ monthly events, then layered in real-time data pipelines and ML anomaly detection. Known for tightly aligning roadmaps and OKRs to business KPIs (onboarding speed, uptime, velocity) and for scaling teams into domain-focused pods; previously led a shift from LAMP to event-driven Node.js microservices using MQTT and message queues.”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a startup data-processing backend (Express.js/MySQL) handling millions of user data points, with a microservices pipeline integrating multiple social media APIs. Emphasizes reliability and security through comprehensive testing, robust error/retry handling for sequential pagination constraints, and tight IAM/JWT/OAuth-based access controls.”

Michael St.Claire

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Chief Architect specializing in microservices, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI agents

Idaho, US22y exp

“Startup-focused engineering leader applying for a CTO role; previously served as founding CTO of a tech startup and held engineering/architecture roles across several others. Evaluates new ventures through market research and market demand, and emphasizes building from the ground up with strong teams (has not personally participated in fundraising).”

Vladimir Novick

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CTO and Software Architect specializing in AI systems and cloud platforms

Israel, Israel22y exp

“Startup-minded technical founder currently running Novicklabs and building Itervox.dev, an AI agent orchestration platform for developer teams. Previously served as CTO at EventLoop and shows strong insight into multi-agent tooling, observability, security, and the open-source-to-cloud path for developer infrastructure products.”

“Works on clinical trial applications and data pipelines, including AWS Lambda-based file transfer workflows for clinical study metadata. Has hands-on experience hardening production systems by adding observability, SSH/auth exception handling (Paramiko), retries/timeouts, and validating changes across SIT/UAT/prod. Also supports adoption through tailored technical demos for new teams and vendor partners integrating into their workflows.”

“Software developer with EdPlus experience building pragmatic internal tools (Next.js/TypeScript) and cloud automations (AWS) that feed Google Sheets and Looker Studio dashboards for operational visibility across 30+ student workers. Also worked on an IEEE Xplore-published missing-person tracker using a SPARQL graph database on Azure with a TypeScript/React frontend, and has experience navigating legacy access constraints (OpenVPN) while enabling remote VR previews via ngrok.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on ROS 2 multi-robot coordination, having built task allocation and reliable inter-robot communication for simulated TurtleBot3 fleets. Demonstrates strong integration/debugging skills across Nav2 + gmapping (SLAM drift, TF tree, odometry/sensor fusion) and pairs it with production-minded tooling—Docker/Kubernetes deployments and CI/CD simulation testing via GitHub Actions.”

“End-to-end engineer focused on AI-native enterprise systems, including a production generative knowledge platform using RAG + semantic search over internal documentation (React, Python/Flask, GPU-hosted NLP models, Pinecone) with strong CI/CD and observability. Reports concrete outcomes including 40% faster knowledge access and ~75% employee adoption, and has led incremental cloud-native modernization using feature flags, parallel runs, canary releases, and regression testing.”

“AI engineer focused on production-grade LLM systems rather than prompt-only solutions, with hands-on experience building citation-grounded RAG products and multi-agent workflows. Most notably built a financial document intelligence system for SEC filings and contracts that achieved ~92% recall@5, cut latency below 2 seconds, reduced hallucinations, and turned analyst research from hours into seconds.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience modernizing a provider credentialing/compliance platform with multiple upstream/downstream integrations. Focused on building predictable, scalable REST APIs (primarily ASP.NET Core; framework-agnostic approach applicable to FastAPI), improving performance via DB/query optimization, and hardening workflows with idempotency, transactions, feature flags, and strong auth/RBAC patterns.”

Joseph Hanna

Screened

Executive IT Leader specializing in digital transformation, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity

Irvine, CA20y exp

“IT/technology leader (mentions VP of IT) with experience modernizing legacy environments, implementing ERP and dashboarding, and migrating on-prem infrastructure to Microsoft Azure to support remote operations. Has worked in a context described as an acquired company and focused on scaling via automation, analytics, and cross-functional alignment with marketing around lead-generation metrics.”

Chukwunonso Azuka

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in secure backend systems and re-engineering

Remote16y exp

“Founder of LexaBooks, an active bootstrapped startup being built with scalability, recurring revenue, and investor readiness in mind. Participated in the 2024 Startup Wise Guys accelerator and has continued training across SaaS, AI, and fintech, giving them a strong understanding of early-stage growth and venture dynamics.”

“Paid media performance marketer managing $50K+/month spend across Meta and Google for eCommerce and lead-gen, with a strong creative-testing orientation (UGC/video vs static) that produced ~25–30% lower CPA and ~35% higher ROAS when scaled. Builds full-funnel systems across Meta/TikTok (demand gen) and Google Search/PMax (high-intent capture), using marginal ROAS/CPA, frequency-based fatigue signals, and statistically grounded testing to scale or cut campaigns.”

“Founder/CTO-type candidate with deep exposure to the VC/accelerator ecosystem (Open Angel Forum; HAX/SOSV) and a track record of raising capital, including a $1M seed round in 2017. Built ventures spanning IoT wearable/HUD SaaS for industrial hygiene monitoring and institutional Bitcoin mining/distributed compute infrastructure, and ran a venture from 2017–2025.”

“Project manager at Cognizant with hands-on experience leading cloud migration and infrastructure modernization initiatives through structured governance gates from planning to production rollout. Stands out for building disciplined review, comment-tracking, and change-control processes that reduced rework, recovered slipping workstreams, and improved delivery quality across cross-functional teams.”

Ethan Ligi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web and cloud applications

Prospect, CT2y exp

“Frontend developer who described building a security-conscious admin dashboard login and event management interface using React, TypeScript, Astro Islands, Tailwind, and an AWS serverless stack. Notable for combining SEO-friendly frontend architecture with budget-aware infrastructure choices for a small-usage business application.”