Vetted Confluence Professionals

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with Uber experience building real-time telemetry and safety signal pipelines. Strong in Kafka-based event-driven architectures, low-latency processing under peak load, and production reliability via monitoring, retries, and fallback logic; has Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD deployment experience.”

“Safety-critical firmware validation engineer with Tesla autonomous vehicle experience who built Python-based HIL/SIL automation and dashboards, cutting regression time by 30% while maintaining an auditable risk-tradeoff process with safety and engineering teams. Also deployed an inventory management system across 8+ R&D teams in 3 countries at FUJIFILM, troubleshooting a major cross-site sync issue to a timezone root cause with strong documentation and interim mitigations.”

Luke Akinsola

Screened

Senior Content & Digital Media Lead specializing in sports publishing operations

New York, NY8y exp

“NBA professional leading strategy for the league’s Future Starts Now platform, combining elite youth-basketball scouting and event coverage with content publishing to NBA App/NBA.com. Also brings global media partnerships sales experience (ad spots and sponsorship rights) and produces/publishes short- and long-form video (vertical and 16x9) across NBA social channels.”

“Meta engineer focused on reliability/operations tooling who built a unified real-time health dashboard and scalable telemetry pipelines (AWS + Datadog) for thousands of devices. Also shipped an internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant using RAG over wikis/runbooks/logs with strong guardrails and a rigorous eval loop that drove measurable accuracy improvements via automated doc ingestion and embedding updates.”

“Built GenMedX, a multi-module clinical AI system for emergency department decision support spanning triage prediction, diagnosis, medication Q&A, and visit summarization. Stands out for combining medical LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and rigorous evaluation/monitoring to drive a major triage recall improvement from 38.5% to 76.6%, with a strong focus on safety, edge-case detection, and production reliability.”

“Architect/engineering leader who built a multi-tenant AI platform end-to-end, including a secure FastAPI orchestrator (JWT, RBAC, tenant isolation, auditing) and an extensible MCP tool-routing layer, then productionized it via fully containerized microservices (Docker, Postgres/pgvector, Redis). Also has strong governance and compliance experience (ARB with security/privacy/SOX) and has owned high-severity incidents through mitigation and RCA/RCCA, plus prior high-volume payments/accounting data pipeline design with audit-grade integrity checks.”

“AppSec/customer security specialist with Atlassian enterprise cloud migration experience, advising on SSO and API token hardening and driving adoption through phased rollouts. Implemented Snyk (SCA) and SonarQube (SAST) in Bitbucket Pipelines with Jira-based vuln workflows, cutting critical vuln MTTR from 30 to 7 days for financial services customers. Strong in SSO troubleshooting (Okta/SAML) and secure AWS/EKS-based agent integrations with secrets management and Datadog observability.”

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.”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer who has shipped across console/PC/VR and mobile, including Ace Combat 7 (VR) and mobile titles. Built monetization-impacting gameplay systems (power-ups) and a full server-authoritative multiplayer architecture, and uses LLM-driven editor tooling and multi-agent workflows to rapidly prototype features while adding automated testing, benchmarking, dashboards, and CI/CD.”

Richard Ferguson

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in government, cloud, and cybersecurity

Reno, NV31y exp

“Founder with a bootstrapped startup who navigated early hiring and scaling by leveraging contractor talent before converting key contributors to full-time employees. Active in Northern Nevada's startup ecosystem through Generator and StartupNV, and notably declined angel/VC offers to preserve equity because of strong conviction in a differentiated product and its market fit.”

Chaithanya Konda

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in multi-cloud analytics platforms

Waltham, MA6y exp

“Data engineer with hands-on GCP platform experience spanning BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Dataflow, and Cloud Composer, including both production operations and cloud migration work. They led a migration from legacy SQL Server/Oracle systems to a cloud-native BigQuery architecture and cite measurable impact: processing reduced from hours to minutes, query latency improved 60%+, and ingestion time improved 40%.”

“Software engineer with practical, day-to-day experience embedding AI into development workflows across coding, testing, code review, and AWS data pipelines. Uses tools like Claude, Cline, JUnit, Mockito, and Amazon Bedrock, and stands out for having a realistic, mature view of agent limitations, hallucinations, and the need for strong prompting and human validation.”

Assaf Igell

Screened

Executive Product Growth & Marketing Leader specializing in B2B PLG and monetization

Los Angeles, CA14y exp

“Growth and brand marketing leader across web3/creator economy products, including film.io (decentralized filmmaking) and the 2021 launch of the DC Comics Digital Collectible Marketplace. Known for data-driven audience segmentation and integrated multi-channel campaigns (email, Twitter/X, influencers, events) that delivered outsized earned media and large-scale user onboarding, with rigorous cohort-based revenue tracking.”