Vetted Cost Optimization Professionals

Peeyush Dyavarashetty

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and agentic RAG systems

Miami, FL2y exp

“AI/LLM practitioner who built a GPT-2-like language model from scratch at the University of Maryland using PyTorch and multi-GPU distributed training, with experiment tracking in Weights & Biases. As an AI Operations intern at ScaleUp360, delivered multiple production-style AI agent automations (Gmail classification and Fireflies-to-Claude workflows that extract and assign CEO tasks) and set up measurable evaluation using test cases and classification metrics.”

“Operations and product strategy leader with experience helping the Lincoln brand scale rapidly in China, using digitally driven product development (digital twins/simulations) plus customer demand mapping and human-centered design to differentiate luxury experiences. Strong in diagnosing operating-model inefficiencies (decision rights, process flows, KPIs) and building scalable, platform-based systems while mentoring leaders through question-led advisory support.”

“Data engineer focused on large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines across cloud stacks (GCP and AWS), including Spark-based transformations and orchestration with Airflow. Has experience loading up to ~2TB per BigQuery target table and designing atomic loads to multiple downstream systems (Elasticsearch + Kafka), with Kubernetes deployment and Jenkins CI/CD.”

“Platform/infra engineer with strong ownership of Kubernetes on VMware and day-to-day hybrid on-prem-to-AWS operations. Has hands-on experience automating infrastructure delivery with Terraform/Ansible/CI-CD, and has resolved real production issues spanning CSI storage reattachment during upgrades, vSphere storage-latency performance degradation, and hybrid connectivity/routing failures with improved validation, monitoring, and failover.”

Shuju Sun

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in real-time data pipelines and ML deployment

PA, USA4y exp

“Ticketmaster data engineer who built CDC-driven Kafka pipelines feeding Snowflake for analytics and data science teams. Hands-on in production operations—scaled Kafka during sudden playoff-driven transaction spikes and improved monitoring for preemptive scaling. Known for using small-batch experiments and quantitative metrics to align stakeholders and drive cost-saving architecture changes (e.g., buffering to reduce AWS Lambda invocation frequency).”

Rina Thakker

Screened

Executive Product & Technology Leader specializing in consumer digital platforms and media

Darien, CT21y exp

“CTO at Grand Slam Track (track & field league) for ~2 years, owning a broad technology portfolio across digital marketing tech, IT, broadcast technology, and athlete/data management systems. Entrepreneurial operator with repeated experience assessing product-market fit using user sentiment, demand data, demographic targeting, and A/B testing; familiar with VC mechanics and looking to deepen hands-on fundraising experience via a large network and board connections.”

“Backend engineer from Palantir who built and productionized an enterprise LLM-based document intelligence/search platform, evolving it into a hybrid lexical+vector retrieval system. Emphasizes reliability and cost control via strict LLM gating, robust fallback paths, and evaluation frameworks (e.g., MMLU/BLEU), plus disciplined migration practices (feature flags, dual-writes, shadow reads) to ship changes safely at scale.”

“RevOps/strategy operator at Cognitiv reporting directly to the President, owning 30+ measurable outcomes across 8 corporate objectives. Known for building executive operating rhythms (Slack-driven weekly business pulse reporting) and driving cross-functional alignment across Sales, CS, Marketing, Product, and Finance. Delivered measurable growth impact (20% lift in auto growth progress in 8 weeks) by using red-teaming insights to reallocate marketing investment.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX administration (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, RMC) and PowerHA cluster failover experience, plus modern DevOps tooling across CI/CD, Kubernetes/Helm, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible). Emphasizes controlled change management, drift prevention via Git-as-source-of-truth, and observability practices using Prometheus/Grafana.”

Manjory saran

Screened

Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

5y exp

“LLM infrastructure engineer who built a production-critical real-time personalization and memory retrieval system for a user-facing product, adding <100ms P99 latency while improving relevance ~20–25% and holding SLA through 3x traffic. Experienced designing tiered retrieval backends (Redis + vector store), deploying on Kubernetes with autoscaling/circuit breakers, and running rigorous observability, incident response, and agent evaluation (shadow traffic, A/B tests, regression/replay).”

Alan Nguyen

Screened

Director-level HR & People Operations leader specializing in global people strategy and HR analytics

Fort Worth, TX12y exp

“Talent/People Operations leader who has managed 5–8 person teams and repeatedly rebuilt recruiting operations in high-volume, fast-growth environments. Known for implementing structured intake, interview SOPs/SLAs, and rubric-based evaluation inside ATS/HRIS systems—cutting time-to-fill from 30+ days to under 20—while also leading enterprise-wide systems rollouts like Lattice with strong cross-functional change management.”

Mayuna Gupta

Screened

Senior Data Scientist specializing in computer vision and medical imaging

San Diego, CA4y exp

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered RAG system (PubChemRAG) for a 4D Mitospace project to compare mechanisms across a ~100-drug glossary and surface expected pathway/phenotypic differences in mitochondrial imaging. Worked closely with biochemistry and microscopy experts to design tiered evaluation benchmarks, iterating on prompts, retrieval quality (corpus hygiene, chunking strategy), and model outputs under GPU constraints using LangChain.”

Matthew Cason

Screened

Senior Strategy & Venture Investing Professional specializing in deep tech and energy

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Operator/Chief-of-Staff-style leader with experience spanning a seed-stage aerospace startup, Capital One, and Oasis Financial. Has led multiple executive-driven cross-functional initiatives, built hiring and data/dashboard systems (Tableau) to increase executive leverage, and managed strategic product transformation work alongside day-to-day operational execution.”