Vetted Cloud-Native Architecture Professionals

“Engineer with banking and industrial/IoT experience who has deployed a payment-processing microservice with zero downtime, handling Protobuf schema evolution and sensitive data migration via dual-write/checksum techniques. Demonstrates strong cross-stack troubleshooting (pinpointed intermittent distributed timeouts to a failing ToR switch port) and customer-facing Python ETL customization using plugin-based parsers and Pydantic validation, plus hands-on monitoring/alerting improvements with operators.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using embeddings, a vector database, and a RAG pipeline to reduce time spent searching PDFs/manuals. Experienced in orchestrating end-to-end LLM workflows with Airflow/LangChain, improving reliability via monitoring/error handling, and driving measurable quality through retrieval and hallucination-focused evaluation metrics.”

“McKinsey data/ML practitioner who led production deployment of an entity resolution + semantic search platform for unstructured finance and healthcare data, integrating with legacy systems under HIPAA constraints. Deep hands-on stack across transformers (spaCy/HF BERT), embeddings + FAISS, and production MLOps/workflow tooling (Airflow, Docker, CI/CD, Prometheus/Grafana), with reported gains of +30% decision speed and +25% search relevance.”

“Built Laborate.app, a full-stack lab notebook and inventory product for scientists, largely solo using Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Postgres, Prisma, and AWS S3. Stands out for combining product ownership with practical concerns like encrypted data storage, autosave reliability, caching, tenant isolation, and scalability planning.”

“Built a production internal RAG-based Q&A assistant at Huawei for ~4,000 engineers over a 12M-document Elasticsearch corpus, replacing link-only search with synthesized answers and achieving 87% user acceptance while keeping hallucinations under 0.4%. Pairs rigorous offline benchmarking (RAGAS, PR-gated F1 improvements) with human A/B testing and OpenTelemetry-based production monitoring, and also has strong Kubernetes/SRE experience orchestrating 50+ gRPC services with major MTTR and pager-fatigue reductions.”

“Backend engineer focused on building production-ready Python services (Flask/FastAPI) with strong performance and scalability instincts—Celery/Redis background processing, robust multi-tenant isolation (Postgres RLS), and pragmatic CI/Docker operations. Demonstrated measurable DB optimization impact (cut a critical analytics query from ~1–2s to ~100–150ms) and has hands-on experience integrating LLM/ML workflows (OpenAI, LangChain, embeddings, Redis/FAISS vector stores) without degrading API responsiveness.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure, including real-time systems (Kafka/Postgres) and observability (Datadog). Built and productionized an AI-native RAG support assistant (OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone) with prompt/guardrail design, achieving 48% agent adoption and 30% faster responses. Experienced in legacy modernization and reliability work using feature flags, event/transaction replay, and rapid embedded delivery.”

“Built and shipped production LLM/RAG systems at Mayo Clinic, including a conversational AI assistant for patient pre-consultation and a clinical-trial matching tool for doctors. Implemented HIPAA-compliant de-identification and guardrails, plus real-time feedback logging and fine-tuning that improved response accuracy by 15% and reduced admin workload by 25%.”

Sanat Ahuja

Screened

Senior Engineering Manager specializing in platform, data/ML, and identity/access systems

Los Angeles, CA16y exp

“Senior engineering leader from Goodyear’s AndGo startup-like division who scaled the org from 12 to 30+ across pod-based teams and introduced an Architect Guild/ARD governance model. Led a 4-month Europe launch requiring AWS regional infrastructure, GDPR compliance, i18n/l10n, and new EMEA reporting pipelines, and has hands-on depth in API performance, incident response, and GraphQL/Hasura adoption to boost product velocity.”

Ravi Ada

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in digital health platforms, cloud & AI, and FHIR/HL7 interoperability

Carrollton, TX22y exp

“Healthcare diagnostics/health tech founder building Casandra.ai, an API-driven lab test catalog and ordering platform designed to standardize fragmented test catalogs and integrate into provider workflows via FHIR. Bootstrapped and built a deploy-ready product, drawing on prior startup experience and accelerator participation (Health Box, DreamIt Ventures).”

Joe Brannon

Screened

Executive IT & PMO leader specializing in digital commerce and enterprise transformation

Baton Rouge, LA19y exp

“IT leader with hands-on M&A integration experience (including day-one readiness) across notable brands (e.g., Billabong, Marucci Sports) and product-focused organizations (Oakley). Brings broad IT domain expertise (AI, business systems, digital sales technologies) and has worked with multiple startups; interested in joining an existing startup to help it scale rather than founding a new company.”

Arpan Acharya

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in healthcare IT, cloud platforms, data and AI

Pittsburgh, PA16y exp

“Healthcare technology executive with over a decade in the space who has repeatedly built startup-like businesses inside established companies. As Omnicell's VP of Engineering, Data Analytics & AI, they led platform and cloud transformation efforts, including building the company's first SaaS solution and reshaping business operations beyond engineering. Motivated by high-impact AI and platform opportunities tied to real patient and caregiver pain points.”

Kishore Koduri

Screened

Director-level Enterprise Architecture leader specializing in AI and platform transformation

Akron, OH29y exp

“Entrepreneurial candidate with deep technology expertise who has already acted as a founder/principal across a real estate venture and early-stage tech startups. Most notably, they raised approximately $1-2M for a real estate project and describe hands-on ownership from ideation and business case development through ROI validation and investor commitment.”

Akhil Nakka

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full Stack Engineer in fintech (JPMorgan) who owns products end-to-end across React UIs and Spring Boot/Kafka backends, with a strong track record of shipping quickly while maintaining reliability via testing, monitoring, and feature flags. Has hands-on experience scaling microservices for high-volume transactions and debugging production latency using ELK/CloudWatch, plus built an internal Python/Flask automation tool adopted by backend engineers to speed API validation and debugging.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM feature that converts natural-language search requests into Lucene queries for OpenSearch-backed device event data, improving usability for non-technical users. Brings hands-on experience across the full stack of agentic systems: model training, FastAPI/React integration, Kubernetes deployment on AWS, event-driven orchestration with NATS/Kafka, and production-grade evaluation/observability.”

Martin Bliss

Screened

Executive Technology & Architecture Leader specializing in DevOps, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Plano, TX14y exp

“Startup-minded product builder with consulting experience in Oil & Gas who formed an LLC to design and deliver a modern project-controls software platform, replacing Excel-heavy workflows with scalable web-based calculations. Strong in pragmatic tech-stack decisions, talent matching, and shipping MVPs despite shifting stakeholders; sees marketing (pitching/networking) as a growth area and has evaluated partnership/investment offers for balanced support.”