Vetted Cybersecurity 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.”

Sanjana Chowdary

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web applications and AI

New York, NY2y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience both using AI coding agents in production and building AI systems, including chatbot development and BERT fine-tuning at Atos. At Groupr, they applied strong systems judgment to live operational workflows, validating concurrency decisions manually for an admin portal supporting 500+ orders per day.”

“Entry-level software engineer with hands-on experience building a GPA predictor web app in a school project, focused on React/TypeScript frontend, authentication, and UX for AI-driven syllabus parsing. Stands out for translating ambiguous product ideas into a usable MVP, improving onboarding flow, and adding resilient loading/error states for unreliable parsing and API behavior.”

“Master’s CS candidate with backend internship experience modernizing live operational workflows at NatWest/NetWess, focusing on reliability improvements, safer CI/CD deployments, and incremental refactors using feature flags and rollback paths. Built FastAPI-based APIs with strong security patterns (JWT + 2FA/TOTP, centralized authorization, RLS) and demonstrated attention to edge cases like idempotency and data consistency in a Netflix-clone project.”

“Senior technology/executive leader with 30+ years building and scaling mission-critical platforms across blockchain, cloud, cybersecurity, and fintech, including leading 100+ person global teams and managing $100M P&Ls. Founded Pharus (2022) after driving Web2-to-Web3/DeFi/metaverse initiatives at SDK Co, using a first-principles, PoC-driven approach to deliver secure, compliance-aware transformations (GDPR/NYDFS) and multi-million-dollar optimizations, with a focus on quantum-resistant Web3 and ethical AI governance.”

Ti Wu

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in web apps and reinforcement learning

Hsinchu, Taiwan1y exp

“Built an AI basketball shooting coach that analyzes player form against NBA players and recruited 30+ beta users via Reddit to drive iterative UI/workflow improvements. Also has internship experience building an administrative server and coordinating API/database compatibility with another client server, emphasizing communication and integration quality.”

“Built production LLM agents at Hivenue and Amazon, spanning consumer booking automation and internal data-query/reporting workflows. Stands out for combining conversational UX with strong reliability engineering—strict tool use, state machines, schema validation, idempotency, and evaluation pipelines—and can point to measurable impact including a 21% reduction in time to book and a 12% conversion lift.”

“Senior technology leader and hands-on builder spanning enterprise architecture and product/engineering leadership across healthcare and entertainment. Has led high-impact cloud and security architecture decisions (including establishing a private cloud to address scalability/security at massive scale) and scaled orgs 300% using pod-based team structures. Currently building an AI-supported hydroponics/vertical farming IoT framework (ESP32 + Azure) and a musician collaboration platform (React + Neo4j + AWS).”

“Federal Reserve System leader who drove a multi-year rollout of a new internal mobile service in a highly federated environment, requiring buy-in from all 12 Reserve Bank presidents and ongoing executive briefings. Deep experience in mobile device/security management (including iOS release readiness), rigorous change control, and handling highly restricted information (FOMC/classified data) with Secret-level clearance and audit-backed compliance.”

“Built an autonomous decision analytics LLM agent for end-to-end tabular binary classification, using RAG (FAISS) to retain context across multi-step queries. Deployed as a FastAPI service with production-style reliability features (schema-aware validation, fallbacks, retries, structured outputs) plus offline/online evaluation and monitoring to reduce analysis time and improve consistency versus stateless approaches.”

Anthony Ngumah

Screened

Junior Embedded Software Engineer specializing in robotics, firmware, and AI-enabled systems

Boston, MA4y exp

“Robotics-focused engineer with co-op experience building and debugging embedded C++/Python drivers for time-of-flight sensing on a Flex Stacker product, plus automation of large-scale test data collection via Google Drive/Sheets APIs to enable parallel robot testing. Also has ROS2 sensor-driver experience (GPS/RTK/IMU with custom messages/ROSbags) and is building a side project integrating Whisper-based live transcription with chunked abstractive summarization in a latency-aware pipeline.”

Ramtin Kazemi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Django, AWS, and AI/ML

San Diego, California1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-powered personal statement editor in Next.js (App Router + TypeScript), including dynamic routing, server-side data fetching, and typed API route handlers. Post-launch, they handled production monitoring/debugging and shipped reliability/performance upgrades (rate limiting, retries, rollback, DB indexing), and report a 40% latency reduction using Suspense/streaming and React concurrency patterns. Also implemented a durable Temporal-orchestrated AI document workflow with robust retry/idempotency strategies.”

Farzam Ebadypour

Screened

Senior Security Sales Engineer specializing in AI security and edge WAF/API protection

San Jose, CA34y exp

“Enterprise customer success / technical sales professional with strong security and fintech account experience, owning onboarding through renewal for a ~5k-employee rollout. Demonstrated measurable outcomes including 80%+ adoption, 3-year renewal with expansion, CSAT 9/10 and NPS 69, plus a reported 60%+ reduction in security analyst review time; experienced driving SIEM/ticketing integrations and influencing product roadmap from customer feedback.”

Utkarsh Chandel

Screened

Senior Security Engineer specializing in detection engineering, cloud security, and DFIR

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“LLM workflow/agentic systems practitioner who has helped customers harden an LLM-based incident triage prototype into a trusted daily-use production system by adding observability, audits, confidence gating, and deterministic fallbacks. Brings an SRE-style approach to real-time debugging (trace replay, rollback/canary, safe toggles) and is experienced running developer-centric demos/workshops and partnering with sales on technical qualification and security/architecture artifacts.”

“Veteran software/security operator with ~45 years in the industry who has served as CRO/COO/CEO and worked closely with multiple VC firms. Known for disciplined execution and being brought in to turn around struggling companies—citing turnaround work at Counterpane and CEO roles at Bayshore Networks and Constella Intelligence leading to successful exits. Strong lens on product viability through buyer budget priority (CTO/CISO) and deployment/installation friction, including AI and legacy-code constraints.”

Hilary Lutz

Screened

Intern IT and cybersecurity professional with data and Python skills

Philadelphia, PA5y exp

“Internship experience at Arkema and Proscia focused on improving onboarding and internal automation workflows. Built SQL-based processes for computer onboarding and security compliance checks, redesigned cybersecurity onboarding for different departments, and created templated setup instructions with GitHub-based review safeguards.”

“Senior public sector enterprise sales leader with experience across RedSeal, eIQ, Reconnex, Dhaani Systems, Tufin, and Skybox, specializing in cybersecurity and regulated infrastructure accounts. Stands out for leading multi-region government territories, ranking #1 in 13 of 16 quarters, and winning complex seven-figure deals by tying security and technology investments to compliance, operational resilience, and measurable ROI.”

Sreelekha Vuppala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms

USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”

Jeremiah Ginn

Screened

Executive infrastructure and cybersecurity leader specializing in AI and enterprise networking

Sherman, TX28y exp

“Former Executive Product Manager at AT&T who says he transformed a failing product into a $968M portfolio. He has experience building companies and working on M&A, and is now developing a pre-revenue startup focused on an autonomous performance-based company that combines autonomous agents with human customer success support.”

“Built a web-based online Sudoku game in JavaScript (multiplayer format supporting up to 6 teams with up to 5 players each) and demonstrates strong product/analytics orientation. Uses a KPI-driven approach (DAU/WAU, ARPU, session duration, LTV) and structured prioritization methods (MoSCoW, story mapping, cost of delay, DFV) to iterate toward targets; seeking a remote role around $70k/year.”

“Executive-operations/program leader who supports senior leadership through multiple concurrent, high-visibility initiatives (tech rollout, cost optimization, growth strategy). Known for creating portfolio dashboards, operating cadences, and decision logs that reduce initiative sprawl, accelerate executive decision-making, and keep cross-functional teams aligned while maintaining strict confidentiality during sensitive changes like leadership restructures.”

“Backend/API engineer with ~4 years experience building production services in .NET Core/PostgreSQL/Redis/Docker and optimizing real-world latency issues (claims ~60% response-time improvement). Also built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI assistant using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and Pinecone, plus agentic workflows with reliability guardrails (retries, confidence thresholds, monitoring). Currently pursuing a master’s degree and targeting a $150k base salary.”

Keith Filzen

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in government/defense cybersecurity and cross-domain solutions

Caldwell, WV36y exp

“Former Cubic CTO with direct M&A experience on the company's sale to Veritas Capital, and prior investment analysis experience at In-Q-Tel. Brings a rare blend of executive technology leadership, compliance/security depth, and investment diligence expertise focused on government and military markets.”

“Software engineer with unusually mature AI-native development practices, using Claude/GPT/Copilot across requirements, implementation, testing, and documentation. At Anzenna, they effectively acted as a tech lead for a multi-agent setup spanning four repos, creating specialized agent workflows and maintaining top-level cross-repo documentation to coordinate complex work.”