Vetted Cost Optimization Professionals

“Engineering leader who delivered a Magento-to-Shopify rebuild ahead of schedule while maintaining 100% team retention over 4 years at Hydrobuilder Holdings. Also built and ran a concert-listing platform (TourVolume) in production for 12+ years (Webby Honorable Mention) and later open-sourced the full codebase. Deep experience in auth/API platforms on AWS, including moving critical auth services from Lambda to ECS to eliminate cold-start latency.”

Eron Heard

Screened

Executive CEO and Founder specializing in SaaS, cybersecurity, and healthcare IT platforms

24y exp

“Founder building a healthcare infrastructure and delivery platform focused on military, tribal, rural, and underserved communities. The company is at TRL 6, has a $100M tribal healthcare contract, a $40M institutional investor LOI, HHS/CMS partnership traction, and a global channel network spanning 125 countries. Backed by 4 years of R&D, $2.3M invested, and a 30+ person elite healthcare and engineering team, this candidate stands out for combining mission-driven healthcare impact with unusually large early-stage commercial traction.”

“Sourcing/PD leader with 15+ years in home categories (home textiles, furniture, area rugs, home decor) who has owned end-to-end programs for major US retail, including vendor qualification across China/Vietnam and trade-risk mitigation by diversifying sourcing to Vietnam/Malaysia. Known for disciplined milestone tracking (T&A calendars, ETD/ETA) and rebuilding supplier relationships to restore sampling and drive order placement.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned an enterprise Django REST + PostgreSQL reporting backend and built Python ETL pipelines to normalize 3M+ legacy customer records, improving data reliability by 85%. Strong Kubernetes/GitOps practitioner (Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins/GitHub Actions) with real-world production debugging experience, plus Kafka streaming at 5M events/day and a zero-downtime monolith-to-event-driven microservices migration on AWS that cut infra costs by 42%.”

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.”

Eric Pearson

Screened

Director of Infrastructure Engineering specializing in AI automation and cloud transformation

Atlanta, GA18y exp

“Technology veteran (28 years) building a security/infrastructure/AI startup with a working prototype and no capital raised yet. Demonstrated practical ROI-driven execution by uncovering SaaS license waste via API integrations, then enabling cost reduction through IT support guides and AI-based automation, using phased production-readiness planning and free-tier cloud resources.”

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.”

“Cloud/Linux infrastructure engineer focused on high-availability AWS platforms (EKS/EC2) with strong observability and incident response ownership. Has hands-on experience building secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and Terraform-based IaC at scale, including resolving real production issues like peak-traffic latency and Terraform remote state locking; transparent about not having direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA production ownership.”

“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.”

“Works on clinical trial applications and data pipelines, including AWS Lambda-based file transfer workflows for clinical study metadata. Has hands-on experience hardening production systems by adding observability, SSH/auth exception handling (Paramiko), retries/timeouts, and validating changes across SIT/UAT/prod. Also supports adoption through tailored technical demos for new teams and vendor partners integrating into their workflows.”

“IT professional exploring a startup in digital transformation and IT security, motivated by repeated client needs around efficient resource utilization and better adoption. Emphasizes user-centric, iterative transformation with strong training and feedback loops, paired with security fundamentals like privacy and least-privilege access. Has limited familiarity with VC/accelerators and is not currently pursuing investment.”

“CTO-focused candidate motivated by aligning technology with business strategy and long-term growth. Previously addressed scaling-related performance issues by partnering with leadership to translate business goals into a multi-year technology roadmap.”

“ML engineer with hands-on experience building banking AI systems end-to-end, including a customer-targeting model that improved campaign response rates by about 10%. Also shipped a RAG-based banking FAQ/support feature with safety guardrails and production optimizations around retrieval quality, latency, and cost, plus reusable Python services that reduced duplicate work for other engineers.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner who has taken a support-ticket triage automation system from prototype to production, building the full pipeline (fine-tuned models, FastAPI inference services, vector storage, monitoring) and delivering measurable impact (~40% reduction in triage time). Demonstrates strong operational troubleshooting of LLM/agentic workflows (observability-driven debugging, fixing agent routing/looping) and supports adoption through tailored demos and sales-aligned technical communication.”