Vetted Data Analytics Professionals

“Merchandising/sourcing professional from World Market with deep experience building and optimizing home/fashion partnerships end-to-end—using tariff-driven margin pressure to shift sourcing outside China while maintaining design elevation. Highly metrics-driven across OTB, SKU productivity, margin/IMU, full-price sell-through, attachment rate, and digital conversion, and comfortable managing 50+ vendor negotiations simultaneously.”

Lavrenti DeLavrenti

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Technology Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms, AI/ML, and SaaS

Remote15y exp

“Engineering leader (Director/VP level) who has repeatedly aligned product and engineering through ROI-driven quarterly roadmaps and strong stakeholder communication, including board presentations. Built a parallel cloud team to migrate an on-prem product to the cloud, credited with delivering $9M ARR, and led a Python monolith-to-serverless event-driven microservices transformation. Currently manages distributed teams across Mexico, India, and the US using pod-based structures, clear KPIs, and a supportive accountability culture.”

Mandy Anger

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive product leader specializing in EdTech and AI-powered learning products

Idaho Falls, ID16y exp

“Education-focused product leader with a career spanning Waterford, WGU, ETS, Stukent, and Accelo, combining zero-to-one AI product building with portfolio-scale operating rigor. Particularly compelling for mission-driven edtech roles: they launched an AI-powered K-12 product line with five state agency partnerships in under a year and consistently frame AI as a tool to amplify, not replace, educator and tutor judgment.”

“Brand and growth marketer with experience refining Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s brand across 62+ mall locations, using family-focused event programming to increase attendance and tracking results via ticket sales and website sign-ins. Brings 15 years in the entertainment/music/creator ecosystem, including artist representation and label deal experience, and applies that partnership mindset to multi-channel campaigns (owned web + third-party sites) and SEO-driven acquisition.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based document Q&A system on Azure OpenAI to help business teams search thousands of PDFs/Word files, using Qdrant vector search, MongoDB, and a Flask API. Demonstrates strong production engineering (streaming large-file ingestion, parallel preprocessing, monitoring/retries) plus systematic prompt/embedding/chunking experimentation to improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations, and has hands-on orchestration experience with ADF/Airflow/Databricks/Synapse.”

“Former Head of Growth & Strategy at a digital identity company (pre-MBA in Boston) who ran multiple cross-functional initiatives across sales, product, and finance. Delivered measurable outcomes including raising sales conversion from 70% to 83% in 30 days, achieving 17% profitability via a new pricing model, and launching a new onboarding platform GTM on time.”

Aarush Monga

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Intern Portfolio Strategy & Sourcing professional specializing in supply chain analytics

New York, USA3y exp

“Sourcing/NPI leader with hands-on expertise in should-cost modeling and contract negotiations (including exclusivity and lifecycle cost-downs), leading supplier onboarding through industrialization and SOP. Demonstrated proactive trade/duty risk mitigation by driving a phased localization plan that reduced part costs by 15% then an additional 20%, and has a track record of turning around underperforming suppliers to stabilize samples and improve OTD.”

Hsi-Chun Wang

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Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in LLM development and scalable ML pipelines

Remote4y exp

“Built and deployed production LLM pipelines for evidence-based scoring in two domains: biomedical literature mining (scoring ~2700 drug compounds vs gene targets/mechanisms) and long-horizon news analytics (35 years of Chinese articles). Emphasizes reliability at scale (retries/checkpointing/validation), rigorous empirical model benchmarking (GPT-4o/mini/5), and translating results into stakeholder-friendly visual narratives.”

Dylan Zhu

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Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and generative AI

Hoboken, NJ7y exp

“Built and deployed an LLM/RAG system that uses differential privacy and distributional similarity checks to transform private data into a non-sensitive knowledge base while preserving utility. Also has experience demonstrating adversarial ML concepts (FGSM) to non-technical audiences by focusing on observable model behavior rather than implementation details.”

Priyanshi Sharma

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech full-stack and backend systems

Parsippany, NJ4y exp

“Built and productionized a GenAI prompt-engineering solution to retrieve prevailing wages based on job/location selections, emphasizing accuracy through stricter prompt templates and validation. Hands-on in real-time production debugging using Splunk (callback tracing, verbose logging, header inspection) and experienced running developer-facing demos/workshops that helped drive marketplace API adoption.”

“Salesforce developer with hands-on ownership of a complex Live Chat to Enhanced Chat migration, including LWC pre-chat forms, Apex/API integrations, Omni-Channel, Flow-based routing, and production rollout. Stands out for solving a difficult transcript-delivery requirement by designing an alternate conversation retrieval approach using Messaging Session, Apex callouts, and scheduled jobs.”

“Veteran software engineering leader who started as an early internet engineer in the mid-1990s and has since grown into Director/VP-level leadership across legacy web platforms, logistics systems, and modern data engineering. Particularly compelling for companies needing a hands-on leader who can modernize complex Perl/UNIX monoliths, manage large cross-functional teams, and deliver operational systems in warehouse, marketplace, and reverse-logistics environments.”

“Healthcare operator/strategic program lead currently at Time Care working directly with national health insurance payer partners to translate executive priorities into operational initiatives (e.g., patient marketing, data interoperability, in-home member access). Previously led the build-out and day-to-day execution of a new value-based performance risk division at Stellar Health, combining metrics-driven operations with long-term strategy and executive alignment.”

“LLM-focused customer-facing technical leader with experience productionizing LLM workflows in financial services (State Street), including guardrails, retrieval tuning, and reliability improvements. Also partners closely with sales and executives—at Payoneer helped drive enterprise-wide adoption for a $10M ARR global account through technical discovery, demos, and pilots.”

Prachika Agarwal

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Senior Solutions Architect and Data Analyst specializing in cloud data platforms and experimentation

New York, NY4y exp

“Software engineer who built and scaled an internal automation/auditing tool for analyzing Google and Adobe tagging containers, adopted by 13 internal clients and saving ~15 hours per audit. Has experience shipping containerized, Kubernetes-orchestrated systems and integrating OpenAI APIs into an agentic chatbot feature (plus prior NLP chatbot work during a Cyber Peace Foundation internship).”

Mohan Naik Megavath

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Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in real-time pipelines and cloud data platforms

Remote, USA4y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building secure Python/Flask services (sessions, JWT, RBAC) and optimizing PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance, including custom SQL using CTEs/window functions profiled via EXPLAIN ANALYZE. Also integrates LLM features via OpenAI/Azure into backend systems and improves scalability with RabbitMQ-driven async processing, caching, and multi-tenant data isolation patterns.”

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent conversational AI platform (Monitor agent + RAG + 4 additional agents) with enterprise REST APIs, using ChromaDB-grounded WCAG knowledge to keep responses accurate while varying tone via personality modes and conversation memory. Has experience at LinkedIn delivering technical demos and pre-sales guidance to both engineering teams and C-level stakeholders, acting as a translator between sales and technical teams to drive adoption.”

Marty Schneider

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Executive Operations & GTM Leader specializing in startups across logistics, esports, and civic tech

Redwood City, CA15y exp

“Founder/CEO who built Hometown Heart from the ground up—creating SOPs and standing up hiring, GTM, finance, and investor/government relations—scaling from 6 employees and $100K debt to 350 employees and $40M in annual revenue in 3 years. Led expansion into San Francisco County, proactively managing compliance/licensing and municipal stakeholders to secure early approvals and drive major revenue growth.”

Yijun Chen

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Senior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in IoT and cloud systems

Toronto, ON4y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer who built a full movie recommendation system from concept to production, comparing classic collaborative filtering with LLM-based recommendation approaches on AWS. Emphasizes scalable architecture, strict TypeScript data contracts, and high-quality Next.js/React UI patterns (defensive states, scoped state management, performance optimization) with disciplined QA and feature-flagged rollouts.”

Eugene Nelepko

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Executive growth leader specializing in AI-powered SaaS, marketplaces, and e-commerce

San Francisco, CA13y exp

“Growth leader with strong zero-to-one and systems-building experience across e-commerce and retail media. Most notably, they proposed and launched a new retail media division from scratch, presold demand before product build, and scaled it to $1.5M ARR with 85% margin, while also building data-driven lifecycle and acquisition systems that materially improved activation and CAC efficiency.”

Hilary Lutz

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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.”

“PMP-certified project/program manager with 13 years of experience leading high-stakes federal intelligence and law enforcement technology programs. Has owned a $15M+ portfolio spanning AI/ML analytics platforms, AWS/Azure cloud initiatives, and enterprise data integrations, with active Secret Clearance and a track record of improving executive visibility and reducing escalations in compliance-heavy environments.”

“Small-team builder of Promethium’s “Mantra” next-gen agentic text-to-SQL engine, using vector DB + LangGraph tooling and SQL validation/evaluation to improve query accuracy. Experienced in diagnosing production LLM workflow failures via LangSmith traces and in running hands-on developer workshops and pre-sales POCs with live debugging and real customer data.”

“Game designer from Turn 10 Studios who owned major Forza Motorsport multiplayer features end-to-end, including a refreshed competitive multiplayer mode built for live service (skill/safety ratings, rotating events, telemetry-driven tuning) and the post-launch return of Public Meetups shipped for the 20th Anniversary update under proprietary-engine/UI constraints. Also builds UE5 Blueprint prototypes (third-person action-adventure) with animation blueprints and data-table-driven randomized loot systems.”