Vetted Confluence Professionals

Shane Howard

Screened

Executive technology and operations leader specializing in consulting, SaaS, and digital transformation

Salt Lake City, UT32y exp

“Serial operator and founder with four exits, including a recent business sale after raising $750K, and experience leading 17 acquisitions. Has held CEO, CIO, and global delivery/operations leadership roles across VC-backed, PE-backed, and high-growth companies, with a strong track record in GTM, operational scaling, and building repeatable cross-functional systems for growth and exit.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who built internal product capabilities at Mercedes-Benz R&D, including a vehicle exploration platform, test drive booking flow, and a 0→1 vehicle comparison feature. Stands out for combining strong React architecture and performance optimization with practical backend/API ownership in Node/Express and MongoDB.”

Anudeep Eloori

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in full-stack enterprise applications

USA3y exp

“Software engineer with experience building and iterating high-volume Spring Boot microservices on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes) and integrating with React front-ends. Also delivered an LLM-powered document summarization system using embeddings + retrieval (RAG) with grounding/guardrails and built evaluation loops that directly drove retrieval and chunking improvements. Has scaled Kafka-based pipelines processing millions of messy financial/infrastructure records with reliability and cost/latency tradeoff management.”

“Backend-oriented software engineer who uses AI as a disciplined engineering accelerator rather than a replacement for judgment. They have hands-on experience coordinating multiple AI tools/agents across code generation, testing, debugging, and review, with strong emphasis on security, scalability, and human validation before production use.”

Robbie Harol

Screened

Principal Product Leader specializing in AI-native, civic, and climate tech

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“Product leader with unusually broad experience spanning adtech startups, consumer rewards, political-tech nonprofits, and consulting for operational automation. Stands out for pairing strong UX and monetization instincts with practical AI product work, including building a RAG-based chatbot and consistently using user research to drive measurable outcomes like 400% conversion growth, higher satisfaction, and faster onboarding.”

“Product leader with a rare mix of healthcare, HR tech, mobile, and AI experience. They rebuilt UPMC's member app for 3M members while pioneering a product-based funding model inside a large enterprise, and later drove 80%+ revenue growth at JazzHR by reshaping marketplace UX for SMB buyers. Their AI work is notably human-centered, with explicit fairness, compliance, and approval guardrails.”

Michael Zhu

Screened

Mid-level Frontend Software Engineer specializing in React and e-commerce UI

West Hollywood, CA5y exp

“Frontend engineer with strong React/TypeScript depth who has shipped reusable CMS-driven UI architecture and improved production performance by eliminating inefficient per-component API calls. Particularly strong in maintainable component design, pagination/state management, and practical UX optimization using tools like Chrome DevTools and Theme UI.”

Priyadarshini Vykuntapu

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in full-stack systems for FinTech and industrial platforms

USA3y exp

“Enterprise full-stack engineer with experience at Honeywell and Wells Fargo, spanning real-time telemetry dashboards and digital banking systems. Stands out for owning production systems end to end, improving performance in high-scale environments, and driving architectural modernization that reduced release times and improved reliability.”

“Backend-focused engineer at Wells Fargo owning production payments features end-to-end, including Spring Boot REST services, CI/CD + containerized AWS deployments, and CloudWatch-based observability. Has hands-on experience stabilizing high-traffic transaction workflows and building reliable ingestion/integration flows using idempotency, retries/backoff, and reconciliation.”

“LLM/RAG engineer with production deployments in highly regulated domains (Frost Bank and GE Healthcare). Built secure, explainable document-grounded Q&A systems using LoRA fine-tuning, strict RAG with confidence thresholds, and citation-based responses; also established evaluation/monitoring (golden QA sets, hallucination tracking, drift) and achieved ~40% latency reduction through retrieval/prompt tuning.”

“Backend engineer who built an e-commerce order processing service in Python/Flask with PostgreSQL, focusing on correctness and reliability (idempotency, Redis locks, async payment processing with circuit breakers). Also integrated an ML recommendation system as a separate FastAPI inference service with caching and async embedding updates, reporting ~25% CTR lift, and has experience with multi-tenant isolation using PostgreSQL row-level security.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on enterprise, cloud-native microservices—building Spring Boot backends and React/Angular front ends with strong security (OAuth/JWT), AWS infrastructure (RDS/S3), and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes). Has delivered data-heavy order/account/transaction platforms and healthcare solutions including EHR integrations for secure patient data exchange, with emphasis on testing, performance tuning, and reliability (load testing).”

“Built an end-to-end Alexa smart-home IoT application controlling a Wi-Fi bulb, including ESP32 firmware (MQTT) and an AWS serverless backend (IoT Core/Device Shadow, Lambda, DynamoDB) with a REST API. Demonstrates strong real-time scalability patterns (streaming ingestion, stateless processing, partition-key design) and full-stack delivery with Spring Boot + React (JWT auth, CORS, data-heavy dashboards).”

“Backend engineer who has delivered large, measurable performance wins (10x throughput, 67% latency reduction) by combining Flask microservices, Redis caching, and AWS autoscaling/observability. Has hands-on depth in SQLAlchemy/Postgres optimization and production scaling pitfalls (cache consistency, connection exhaustion), plus experience deploying real-time ML inference (XGBoost) on AWS Lambda and building secure multi-tenant Kubernetes isolation.”

“Enterprise IT operations and identity governance professional (Atlassian) who partners closely with security teams to reduce risk through RBAC/Conditional Access automation, endpoint compliance, and vulnerability remediation workflows. Demonstrated ability to balance strict security controls with engineering productivity via phased rollouts, pilots, and KPI-driven stakeholder alignment, plus hands-on troubleshooting of complex Azure AD authentication failures and secure AWS integration design.”

“Full-stack Java developer with IBM and Epic Systems experience modernizing legacy enterprise apps into microservices and delivering customer-facing healthcare claims workflows at very high scale (2M+ transactions/day). Strong blend of product engineering (APIs + React/TypeScript UI) and production operations on AWS, including performance incident remediation via query optimization, indexing, and autoscaling.”

“QA Automation Engineer with 7+ years building dependable enterprise automation suites across UI, API, and database layers using Selenium (Java), Playwright, Karate, and Cypress. Integrates smoke/regression suites into CI/CD (GitLab/Jenkins/GitHub Actions) with reporting and notifications, and has prevented production issues by catching silent backend failures and high-impact payment defects through end-to-end validation and strong root-cause evidence.”

“Built and deployed a production compliance automation RAG system (at Citi) that generates citation-backed, schema-validated risk summaries for regulatory document review. Emphasizes regulated-environment reliability with retrieval-only grounding, abstention, confidence thresholds, and immutable audit logging, plus orchestration using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow. Reported ~60% reduction in compliance review effort while maintaining high precision and traceability.”

“QA professional from enterprise SaaS/cloud environments (Exeter; previously Boeing programs) with strong UI and end-to-end workflow testing experience. Known for rigorous defect investigation and validation across UI/API/DB layers (including SQL checks) and disciplined tooling/workflow in Jira/Azure DevOps/ALM Octane; has QA lead experience supporting release readiness and go/no-go decisions. No professional game studio/AAA shipping experience yet, but experience maps to complex, high-pressure release cycles.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned end-to-end production systems in financial/claims domains, including a transaction analytics microservice platform processing ~10M daily operations and cutting latency from ~150ms to <70ms. Also productionized an LLM-powered monitoring/alerting capability (Llama 3 + FastAPI) with prompt design, guardrails, and production evaluation, and led monolith-to-microservices modernization on AWS using feature flags and parallel runs.”

“Data engineer (Charles Schwab) who took ownership of an unstable, ambiguous nightly financial data pipeline and rebuilt it into a reliable, incremental AWS Glue/Airflow/Redshift system feeding Power BI. Created a custom Python data-quality framework with hard-stop gating and schema drift detection, improving integrity (99.9%), cutting runtime (~20%), and reducing incidents/tickets (35% fewer schema-related dashboard incidents; 30% fewer investigations).”

Yaswanth Thota Thota

Screened

Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in financial risk and healthcare analytics

AZ, USA4y exp

“AI/ML engineer focused on real-time, production-grade LLM systems, with a robotics-adjacent mindset around latency/accuracy tradeoffs and modular pipelines. Built a scalable RAG-based assistant orchestrated as microservices on Kubernetes with Kafka async messaging, ONNX/quantization optimizations, and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), citing a ~35% hallucination reduction; has also experimented with ROS Noetic/Gazebo to understand ROS concepts.”

Goutami Amara

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in FinTech and Healthcare platforms

Memphis, TN6y exp

“Software engineer who built internal operations/monitoring dashboards for real-time trading and money-movement systems, emphasizing auditability and rapid iteration. Deep experience with microservices on Azure using Kafka/RabbitMQ, plus strong testing discipline (JUnit/Mockito/Testcontainers, contract/E2E) and observability patterns (correlation IDs, centralized logging, distributed tracing) to reduce incident triage time and improve resilience.”