Vetted Cloud-Native Architecture Professionals

Jingyao Chen

Screened

Junior Backend/Platform Engineer specializing in AI microservices and cloud-native systems

Pittsburgh, PA2y exp

“Cofounder at MeowyAI who shipped a production multimodal (vision/voice/text) AI task manager using Gemini, tackling real-world issues like hallucinations, tool-calling safety, and RAG-based preference memory. Also built a production multi-agent RAG system orchestrated with LangGraph (and contributes to LangChain), with strong emphasis on latency optimization, observability (OpenTelemetry), and rigorous testing/evaluation including A/B tests and adversarial prompting.”

“Technical lead who shipped a production GPT-4-powered customer support agent for Square, serving a large fintech customer base through a React chat interface with tool-using orchestration, guardrails, and live handoff paths. Brings strong real-world experience in agent reliability, evaluation, observability, and workflow orchestration using Temporal, Sidekiq, Pinecone, Datadog, and Snowflake.”

“Senior engineering executive and former VP of Architecture at Expedia who led a small, high-leverage architecture organization supporting an 8,000-person global engineering org. Brings a rare mix of executive people leadership and hands-on AI systems work, including OpenAI plugin integration, multi-agent booking architecture, and agentic fraud workflows that materially improved execution, automation, and customer-facing outcomes.”

Andrew Hoyt

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in SaaS, cloud platforms, and enterprise engineering

Atlanta, GA14y exp

“Enterprise software CTO with rare breadth across deep architecture, large-scale org leadership, and AI transformation. He has led 250+ teams at Aderant and previously a 2000-person global engineering org at NCR, while still personally driving re-architecture, prototyping, debugging, and AI-native product innovation across legal, retail, and restaurant platforms.”

“Front-end engineer focused on complex, data-heavy browser UIs, with hands-on ownership of a pharmaceutical sales analytics dashboard used by sales reps and managers. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript architecture with browser-level performance tuning and usability improvements for power users.”

Jay Desai

Screened

Executive Technology Architect specializing in FinTech, AI platforms, and cloud modernization

California, USA24y exp

“Entrepreneur building an early-stage community food-sharing, network-effects platform positioned as an alternative to restaurant-centric delivery models (e.g., DoorDash/Uber Eats) by enabling homeowners to act as micro-entrepreneurs. Has been piloting a local community program for nearly a year and uses experiments and customer feedback to validate hypotheses and assess scalability.”

Yashwanth J

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack systems

Seattle, WA4y exp

“Engineer with Apple experience building LLM-powered internal workflow orchestration systems using Python, LangGraph, FastAPI, Redis, vector search, and Kubernetes. Stands out for a highly pragmatic, production-focused approach to agentic systems: deterministic state management, strong guardrails, observability, and human review for high-risk actions.”

Raghu Prabhudeva

Screened

Staff Embedded/Automotive Systems Architect specializing in IVI, ADAS, and digital cockpit platforms

USA

“Robotics-adjacent software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 experience building and integrating sensor nodes (IMU, GNSS, wheel encoder) and working with distributed pub/sub concepts via ROS IDL and DDS. Also has Gazebo exposure through Udacity coursework and uses Docker as a core development/deployment tool, with related experience in automotive camera-based solutions.”

“Engineering leader with experience at CBS Interactive and Paramount who scaled a web engineering team from 4 to 30+ (adding QA/PMO/mobile) while instituting strong agile and code-quality processes. Led a major architectural shift to a generic content API that decoupled web/mobile experiences from niche publishing systems, reportedly cutting developer onboarding time by ~50% and enabling some day-one production commits.”

Josh Rhoades

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and regulated platforms

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Disney and BlackLine who drives business-aligned technology roadmaps through deep Product/Engineering partnership (two-in-a-box) and pragmatic prioritization frameworks. Has led major modernization initiatives—private-to-public cloud migration to GCP with multi-cloud evolution, data-layer performance improvements (Mongo/Redis, caching/query optimization), and tooling upgrades (VSS to GitHub)—while scaling teams with strong quality and accountability culture.”