Vetted Cybersecurity Professionals

Brian Carroll

Screened

Principal Cybersecurity & Network Infrastructure Leader specializing in cloud, zero trust, and SIEM

Bakersfield, CA20y exp

“Founder of a self-funded IT management consulting practice specializing in security, compliance, and risk engineering for highly regulated sectors (banking/finance, healthcare, energy, defense, telecom). Uses consulting engagements to build repeatable “military-grade” security foundations and identify recurring pain points, with a longer-term goal of transitioning from consulting into a sustained internal team role for deeper impact.”

“Cybersecurity leader with 13 years in IT/cyber and 8 years in management, currently managing ~200 people while innovating explainable AI (XAI) for military/high-stakes decision-making. Experienced with large budgets, resource allocation, and investor engagement, and is motivated to build a proactive, future-focused cyber company centered on Zero Trust and human-overseen XAI.”

“Built a demo-live LangGraph/LangSmith LLM agent that translates natural language into SQL against a self-built MLB statistics database, using a vector-store knowledge base of example queries. Focused on predictable orchestration via conditional nodes, YAML-driven behaviors, and tool-gated function calling, with testing via LangSmith and Python scripts.”

Chandana Arikacherla Nagendran

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Java, Spring Boot, and Angular

Columbus, Ohio4y exp

“Full-stack engineer who modernized mission-critical legacy COBOL/AS400 systems into a Java + Angular/TypeScript web application, owning backend APIs, UI, database performance tuning, and JWT security end-to-end. Built and transitioned an internal docketing/hearing scheduling system with complex business rules, emphasizing smooth adoption, performance, and quality through phased agile delivery.”

PAVEL A ASPIAZU

Screened

Senior Paid Media (SEM/PPC) Manager specializing in Google Ads and Meta performance marketing

McLean, VA26y exp

“Paid media performance marketer with agency experience owning a high-spend account for ArcPoint Labs, running multi-channel Google Ads (search/display) and Meta campaigns to drive medical testing appointments and sales. Reported lifting ROAS from ~2x to ~6–7x within ~18 months while supporting expansion from 30 to 60 U.S. locations, using disciplined attribution, constant A/B testing, and structured campaign health audits.”

Ashutosh Meena

Screened

Junior Embedded Software Engineer specializing in IoT and microcontrollers

Chicago, IL2y exp

“Embedded/software engineer with hands-on Raspberry Pi work building a WhatsApp-controlled camera/servo system using TCP/IP plus Selenium automation of WhatsApp Web. Brings production DevOps experience from Infosys (Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, microservices, Kafka) and a methodical hardware/software debugging workflow using lab tools like oscilloscopes and multimeters.”

“Outbound-focused SaaS seller with a track record of creating pipeline in ambiguous/early-stage environments and closing complex deals. Notably sourced a New Zealand opportunity via LinkedIn, convinced the account to reopen a closed RFP, ran demos/POC, and closed a $1.8M deal over ~7 months; also experienced in security/legal redlines and multi-stakeholder consensus building (including winning over a resistant VP of IT).”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (Spring Boot/Django + React/TypeScript) with deep experience building multi-tenant, enterprise workflow and supply-chain/order-tracking systems. Owned an end-to-end Workflow SLA Breach Prediction & Alerting feature integrating Azure ML for a cloud workflow platform used by ~10,000 enterprise users, and has hands-on AWS operations experience resolving real production latency/scaling incidents via query optimization and Redis caching.”

“Software engineer who built and open-sourced reusable React/Node.js modules (chat, auth, caching) from an AI education platform, emphasizing intuitive APIs and strong documentation. At TCS, improved a healthcare scheduling platform by diagnosing SQL/server bottlenecks and redesigning database + caching, cutting appointment load times by ~40% and reducing support complaints.”

“Frontline support engineer in IT infrastructure monitoring (Micro Focus/HPE, now OpenText) who evolved into a hybrid support/TAM role. Experienced advising security-conscious customers (government/banking) on TLS upgrades and vulnerability response, coordinating dev and sales to meet regulatory deadlines while providing practical interim mitigations and clear customer communications.”

Leonard Payne

Screened

Senior Performance Marketing Leader specializing in paid media, lifecycle/CRM, and analytics

Detroit, MI23y exp

“Performance marketer managing high-spend, multi-platform paid media for major brands (e.g., Navistar, Buick), with end-to-end ownership from strategy to reporting. Uses multivariate testing and trend-based budget reallocations to drive measurable lifts (27–60% KPI improvements) and significant outperformance (2.8x vs forecast), and has experience removing conversion friction by replacing lead forms with landing page + chat-based flows.”

Subhash Chandra

Screened

Senior AI/ML & Robotics Research Engineer specializing in SLAM and multi-modal perception

Norman, OK8y exp

“Robotics engineer who built a smart campus tour robot on a Kobuki Turtlebot using ROS 1, implementing a full navigation stack (semantic world model, A* planner, tour executor, path follower) and integrating SLAM (gmapping) plus a hybrid reactive safety controller. Experienced taking systems from Gazebo simulation to real hardware, including extensive real-world debugging and Docker-based development to handle ROS/Ubuntu version constraints; planning a move to ROS 2 on Turtlebot 4.”