Vetted Cloud-Native Architecture Professionals

Michael Asadoorian

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in cloud-native SaaS, multi-cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML

Los Angeles, CA28y exp

“Hands-on infrastructure and engineering leader (Director of Global Infrastructure / CTO) who has run double-digit multi-million dollar data center expansion and cloud migration programs and scaled teams rapidly (including offshore/nearshore). Strong AWS and microservices background (Lambda/SQS/SES), with experience balancing deep technical architecture work alongside investor/VC communications and fundraising-related responsibilities.”

Ashutosh Srivastava

Screened

Senior Engineering Manager specializing in AI platforms and cloud-native backend systems

Sunnyvale, CA11y exp

“Player-coach engineering leader who stayed hands-on (coding/reviews) while leading delivery, including designing an event-driven AI workflow engine with explicit state modeling and robust retries. Built near real-time enterprise analytics for campaign measurement and drove reliability/process improvements (observability, incident runbooks, release management). Introduced lightweight CI/CD and automated testing to cut release time by ~40% while maintaining quality.”

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.”

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.”

“DevSecOps/AWS infrastructure engineer at Madison Logic who owns a 15-account AWS footprint and treats nearly all AWS resources as code (Terraform/CloudFormation). Led a CI/CD platform migration (Bitbucket → GitLab + GitHub Actions) supporting WordPress and containerized microservices, improving release frequency to weekly/daily, and has hands-on production incident response experience on ECS Fargate using Datadog with fast rollback via immutable ECR tags and task definition revisions.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who owned high-traffic internal services end-to-end (FastAPI/Django) including REST/GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL optimization, async task processing via SQS, and full CI/CD. Strong Kubernetes-on-EKS and GitOps (ArgoCD + Helm) experience, plus Kafka real-time streaming work and phased cloud-to-on-prem migration support.”

Frank Albanese

Screened

Executive CTO & Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and distributed systems

New York, NY10y exp

“Founder of Essence, a wisdom and memory preservation platform with early testing indicating mental health benefits and positive impact for hospice patients. Has raised $25K to date and reports prior capital-raising experience through Y Combinator and the Berkeley Angel Network, with a GTM plan starting in hospice and expanding to the general public.”

Tanisha Pradeep Bhola

Screened

Mid-level Software Development Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and microservices

Dayton, Ohio4y exp

“Accenture engineer with hands-on experience taking an NLP sentiment analysis system from prototype to production, emphasizing robustness to noisy data, scalability, and observability (dashboards for latency/error/throughput). Also supports customer-facing teams with demos and PoCs, translating client requirements into secure, scalable architectures and troubleshooting LLM/agent workflows via logs and step-level traces.”

Sai Prudhivi

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in full-stack microservices and cloud platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with experience building high-volume policy management and enterprise pricing systems, including Django/FastAPI/Flask services, Kafka-based async workflows, and Prometheus/Grafana observability. While they have not yet shipped a customer-facing AI agent or production LLM integration, they bring strong cloud, API, reliability, and scalable system design fundamentals that translate well to responsible AI infrastructure work.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong production experience across Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, API Gateway, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrates reliability and incident ownership (rate limits, retries/circuit breakers, monitoring) and has delivered measurable SQL performance gains (12–15s to <800ms, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking fully remote work and not open to relocation/onsite meetings.”

Jason Sipula

Screened

Executive Technology Leader & Strategic Architect specializing in cloud-native platforms

Sacramento, CA15y exp

“Technology leader with experience driving multi-year transformations at Jewelry Supply, including migrating a legacy custom e-commerce platform to SaaS and leading a 3-year ERP program from requirements through implementation and training. Also led a major architecture shift from self-hosted virtualized infrastructure to cloud Kubernetes with a strong DevOps/DevEx focus, emphasizing stakeholder buy-in and scalable processes for distributed engineering teams.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup (AirKitchenz) who owned the hourly booking/availability and first paid booking flow end-to-end—React/TypeScript frontend, Node backend, Postgres modeling, and Stripe payments/webhooks. Experienced operating production on AWS (EC2/Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, RDS, CloudWatch) and building reliable, idempotent integrations while iterating quickly in a pre-PMF environment through direct host/renter feedback.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in financial payroll, tax, and compensation platforms, building Python microservices and AWS-based data pipelines for high-volume, peak-driven workloads. Strong reliability focus (OAuth2 auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, incident response) and proven performance wins, including cutting complex report queries from ~8 minutes to under 30 seconds.”

Anudeep Reddy Veerla

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and shipped both a solo real-time multiplayer Spades game (TypeScript monorepo with shared client/server engine) and a production internal LLM-powered document Q&A tool for a SaaS company. Demonstrates strong RAG pipeline design (Pinecone + embeddings + reranking), rigorous eval/regression practices, and pragmatic data ingestion/observability work across Confluence, Notion, and messy PDFs/OCR—backed by clear metric improvements (P@1 61%→78%, escalations 40%→22%).”