Vetted Cross-Functional Collaboration Professionals

Pavan Devulapalle

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms and AI-integrated full-stack development

Seattle, WA3y exp

“Backend engineer who built Flask-based internal APIs supporting GenAI-driven provisioning/diagnostics (Outpost/AWS Outposts-like environment), with deep hands-on optimization across Postgres/SQLAlchemy (2s to <200ms endpoint improvement). Experienced integrating ML/LLM workflows via AWS SageMaker and Bedrock, and designing multi-tenant isolation plus high-throughput Redis-backed background task pipelines (minutes to seconds).”

Poorna Pedapudi

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend systems and cloud-native microservices

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Software engineer focused on data platforms and applied LLM systems: built an internal data quality monitoring layer to catch silent data drift and iterated post-launch after finding ~30% false-positive alerts, reducing noise via dynamic baselines and improved structured logging. Also shipped a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant over Jira/Confluence with citations, confidence-based fallbacks, and nightly automated evals to prevent regressions.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer (5+ years) with Shopify experience integrating LLM/RAG workflows into production APIs. Owned a Python TensorFlow Serving inference pipeline connected to Java microservices via gRPC, optimizing tail latency at ~10k concurrent load and improving retrieval relevance with embedding and evaluation work. Strong Kubernetes/EKS + GitOps/CI/CD background, including monolith-to-microservices migrations and event-driven streaming patterns.”

“Engineering/technology leader from Ticketmaster who drove a domain-driven modernization strategy for legacy commerce platforms while launching new revenue features (add-on sales like merch/parking/hotels). Rebuilt and scaled teams post-COVID by reorganizing around business domains and implementing federated architecture governance, including a distributed-saga-based order orchestration approach that improved resilience and enabled partial-order success.”

“Cross-functional marketing/media operations leader with experience orchestrating multi-agency, full-funnel ways-of-working for a large P&G client. Built a client Power BI performance dashboard with an offshore AI team to eliminate manual data stitching and enable near real-time reporting, and regularly drives on-time/on-budget delivery through RACIs, Gantt-based ownership, and centralized status tracking.”

Ruby Tugade

Screened

Executive Business Development & Strategic Account Leader in Enterprise Tech, Media, and Healthcare

15y exp

“Enterprise BD/sales professional spanning agencies and emerging tech (Indigo Slate, Modus Agency, HTC Vive) with strength in building repeatable outbound and GTM playbooks. Has closed $40K–$200K Fortune 500 deals for experiential/digital marketing programs and is comfortable navigating security/procurement/legal while aligning cross-functional teams to deliver ROI-tied solutions.”

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).”

Arnell Dandridge

Screened

Director of Talent Acquisition & People Operations specializing in global hiring and HR systems

Remote9y exp

“Global recruiting leader at a startup who manages up to 20 recruiters worldwide while personally owning executive searches. Known for fast, high-impact hiring (e.g., EVP Customer Success filled in ~21 days) and for building practical, low-cost recruiting operations improvements—contract-to-hire strategy with CFO, global scheduling governance with CEO support, and HRBP-led onboarding engagement to prevent post-offer drop-off.”

“Sole engineer on a large-scale authentication migration moving 350+ tenants from password-based auth to OAuth 2.0 client credentials, delivering zero downtime, full adoption, and no support tickets. Also has early hands-on experience with agentic LLM proof-of-concepts and has built structured workflow tooling to reduce ambiguity in customer-to-engineering handoffs.”

“Fleet and enterprise seller with experience at Tesla and Lucid, specializing in creating demand for EV solutions in low-inbound markets. Stands out for closing consultative, multi-stakeholder fleet deals by combining pilot programs, technical education, and outcome-driven messaging— including a 20-unit, ~$3M police department deal that helped them exceed quota.”

Vivian Liu

Screened

Senior Sales Manager specializing in B2B tech, FinTech, and marketplace growth

San Francisco, CA9y exp

“Enterprise fintech seller who helped launch a new API-based stored value product at Alipay/Alibaba HK in a highly ambiguous environment, defining the ICP, building outbound from scratch, and creating a repeatable sales motion. Closed self-sourced, compliance-heavy deals worth millions and partnered closely with product, engineering, legal, and commercial leadership to win complex enterprise accounts while the product was still evolving.”

“Growth and product marketing leader with experience building GTM systems from zero in high-ambiguity environments across SaaS, consumer tech, and esports. Has operated as a first PMM, built closed-loop acquisition-to-retention analytics, and delivered measurable outcomes including tripled freemium conversions, higher LTV at stable CAC, and major brand/sponsorship growth across multiple Asian markets.”

“Brand and growth marketer from True Religion who helped refresh the brand during a comeback period, driving 30%+ YoY DTC growth and positioning DTC as the top growth engine. Experienced leading seasonal multi-channel launches and scaling acquisition through creator-led social, email, and paid digital, with strong creator/talent deal negotiation and culture-driven storytelling.”

“Integration Management Office professional focused on M&A integration and human capital work, coordinating integration planning across 17 workstreams through deal close. Partners closely with executives (including a CHRO) by building practical tools like Excel workforce planning dashboards and establishing governance/SteerCo cadences, while operating with strong sign-to-close discretion and data privacy compliance.”

“Senior Engineering Manager with a player-coach style who stays technically engaged through heavy code reviews and pair programming. Led prioritization and stakeholder alignment for a scalable, resilient feature-flag evaluation service with strict sub-50ms latency goals, including a major caching-strategy redesign and incremental rollout approach. Experienced in incident response/retrospectives and in coaching engineers toward improved performance and promotions.”

“Robotics-focused candidate who built core software for a ROS2 pick-and-place arm that sorted colored cubes using an overhead camera and an AI color-recognition model. They owned arm modeling in ROS, motion logic (coordinate-to-IK-to-joint paths), and created a data-driven linear error-correction calibration to mitigate camera/AI coordinate bias, plus tuned motion speed to improve real-world repeatability.”

“Software/cloud engineer with PwC experience deploying a nationwide Australian Government Salesforce labor licensing platform used by 200k+ professionals, emphasizing safe integration, CI/CD, and UAT-driven quality improvements (40% defect reduction). Also built a Python/FastAPI RAG system with the U.S. Army to convert CONOP documents into risk assessments, adding human-in-the-loop and provenance features to address operator trust concerns.”

“Growth creative lead at Amazon who ran structured, incrementality-informed A/B tests for Prime acquisition on Amazon DSP. Produced a winning benefit-led video + social-proof framework that improved CTR/CVR while cutting CPA (-24%) and increasing ROAS (+32%), then scaled the approach across email and onsite placements for an additional 10–12% lift in Prime sign-ups.”

“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.”

“Real-time character animation/tech art specialist spanning Maya rigging/auto-rigging through UE5 Animation Blueprints, Control Rig (FBIK/IK), and motion matching. Has shipped performance-focused work on an FPS targeting 60 FPS with 20+ AI and motion matching, using Unreal Insights, URO, PCA, and gameplay-tag pruning. Also collaborated on a VR brain-surgery simulation, translating desired vascular behavior into procedural Control Rig spring-based animation via rapid prototyping.”