Vetted Confluence Professionals

Ramesh Ramanathan

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive HR and IT consultant specializing in talent, operations, and AI-enabled business functions

Chantilly, VA20y exp

“High-volume full-desk recruiter who specializes in driving difficult searches to close with tight process discipline. In one standout example, they filled a highly niche Swahili-speaking video journalist role in DC by moving beyond job boards and networking into diaspora communities nationwide, ultimately relocating and closing a candidate from Maine.”

Nicholas Pinero

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Unity XR/VR training simulations

Remote, USA8y exp

“Unity/C# VR developer who owned a next-gen replay/review system end-to-end, improving determinism so recorded actions (e.g., shots) replayed consistently. Also built a Jenkins-triggered GameDriver-based VR QA automation suite that ran nightly builds and cut manual QA effort by ~75%, and contributed to Photon PUN multiuser mode with hands-on network debugging.”

“Seasoned project/program leader with roughly 20 years of experience spanning financial services, healthcare, and nonprofit technology, with a career arc from Waterfall into Agile leadership. She has operated fluidly as PM, Product Owner, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, and business analyst, and stands out for combining delivery governance with practical process innovation like Power Automate intake workflows and ChatGPT-assisted story creation.”

“QA professional from fintech/SAP security and complex identity systems who has owned end-to-end testing across the SDLC, including being the sole QA on a high-risk payment platform carrier migration. Demonstrated strength in integration testing, data integrity validation, and diagnosing calculation/automation defects using controlled test data and scripted date emulation; experienced with JIRA/TestRail and Selenium-based regression coverage.”

“Operations/people-ops leader who helped an industrial fabrication company (Carlucci) scale through a major contract by standardizing operations, rolling out iPad + barcode workflows, and building workforce planning/onboarding/succession systems—doubling headcount. Uses a structured 100-day diagnostic and KPI-driven operating cadence (dashboards, AOP, goal deployment, 9-box, DISC) and mentors founders/executives by translating operational detail into strategic decision-making.”

“Operations/program leader with experience supporting CEOs and scaling organizations through rapid expansion and multi-team initiatives. Implemented RACI + Asana-based execution systems and built board/KPI reporting cadences that improved executive decision speed and visibility across departments. Has worked across startups and in a foundation environment in C-suite-adjacent roles.”

“Product engineer/designer with founder mindset who shipped a blockchain-enabled investor group/governance platform using Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, Prisma/Postgres, and Temporal. Emphasizes auth-centric onboarding (SSO + embedded wallet) to make dApp UX feel more like SaaS, and brings strong reliability practices (idempotent retries, reconciliation) plus experience demoing to investors and operating in seed-stage teams (ex-Vouched).”

Kris Wen

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AdTech and AI-enabled web engineering

San Francisco Bay Area, CA4y exp

“Software engineer at American Express who built a zero-to-one first-party cookie tracking architecture as the industry moved away from third-party cookies, combining frontend, backend, CI/CD, and AI-assisted QA automation. Particularly strong in developer tooling and workflow automation, with measurable impact including 70% less manual QA, 8+ critical errors caught pre-production, and PR cycles reduced from 48 hours to under 8.”

Phanindra Satya Tharun Gunturi

Screened

Mid-level DevOps/SRE Engineer specializing in cloud CI/CD, IaC, and Kubernetes

Nashville, TN5y exp

“Infrastructure engineer with deep production IBM Power/AIX experience (AIX 7.2/7.3, HMC, dual VIOS, PowerHA) supporting ~25–30 LPARs and handling live DLPAR tuning, HA failovers, and Power7→Power9 migrations. Also builds modern cloud delivery platforms—Azure DevOps CI/CD deploying Dockerized microservices to Kubernetes with Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure, strong controls around secrets, drift, and safe rollouts.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned an end-to-end financial data ingestion and validation system (Python/Django/FastAPI, Postgres, AWS), including large-file performance tuning, auditability, and CI/CD. Strong Kubernetes/EKS + ArgoCD GitOps practitioner and has delivered both Kafka-based real-time transaction streaming and a legacy on-prem stack migration to AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS, S3, Secrets Manager) with controlled cutovers and data consistency validation.”

“Backend-focused engineer who stepped into a brand-new product and built most of a Go-based backend from scratch in a 3-7 person team, initially as the only backend developer. He designed core security and access-control systems like MFA and role-based authorization, owned complex workflow features such as seat licensing, and helped deliver a B2B SaaS dashboard that earned very positive client feedback.”

“Backend/platform engineer in healthcare and consulting (Molina Healthcare, TCS) who productionized real-time eligibility/authorization and care navigation workflows with strong reliability and HIPAA security. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (≈40% latency reduction, ~99% uptime) using Spring Boot APIs, SQS decoupling, Redis caching, and deep observability, and regularly leads technical demos that accelerate client adoption.”

Viacheslav Bulba

Screened

Senior QA Automation Engineer specializing in UI/API test automation and CI/CD

Las Vegas, Nevada15y exp

“QA professional with 15+ years testing a variety of applications (not games), experienced partnering with developers/designers/product owners across the feature lifecycle. Brings a disciplined, methodology-driven approach to test design, regression coverage, and high-quality defect reporting using tools like Jira, TestRail, qTest, and HPQC; targeting ~100K base (flexible based on total package).”

“Backend-heavy engineer with deep experience building enterprise and real-time systems across healthcare, operations monitoring, e-commerce, and 911 call center domains. He has led and personally coded greenfield and customer-facing platforms, including cloud/on-prem integrations, custom workflow tooling, and microservices architectures, while now independently upskilling into modern TypeScript/React-based frontend technologies.”