Vetted Data Governance Professionals

Travoy Spelling

Screened

Senior Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and NLP

Texarkana, TX10y exp

“ML/NLP engineer focused on production GenAI and data linking systems: built a large-scale RAG pipeline over millions of support docs using LangChain/Pinecone and added a LangGraph-based validation layer to cut hallucinations ~40%. Also built scalable PySpark entity resolution (95%+ accuracy) and fine-tuned Sentence-BERT embeddings with contrastive learning for ~30% relevance lift, with strong CI/CD and observability practices (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana).”

Melissa Douros

Screened

Executive Product & Operations Leader specializing in FinTech, governance, and digital transformation

Buffalo Grove, IL25y exp

“Operations/product transformation leader with experience driving customer-centric operating model changes at Discover, shifting from a centralized PMO/SAFe to a Product Delivery + Scrum structure aligned to customer journeys. Cites measurable outcomes including a 54% reduction in compliance issues and 20% new product revenue growth, and currently advises a startup board mentoring a first-time founder on org structure, roadmap, and governance-focused decision-making.”

Vismay Patel

Screened

Senior AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, GenAI, and MLOps

Berkeley, CA7y exp

“ML/GenAI practitioner with healthcare domain depth who built and deployed a production cervical-cancer EMR classification system using a hybrid rules + medical BERT approach, optimized for high recall under severe class imbalance and PHI constraints. Experienced running end-to-end production ML/LLM pipelines with Apache Airflow (validation, promotion/rollback, monitoring, retraining) and partnering closely with clinicians to calibrate thresholds and implement human-in-the-loop review.”

Sudhir Sagi

Screened

Executive technology and operations leader specializing in connected vehicle SaaS and IoT

Novi, MI28y exp

“Candidate indicated they do not have a business plan or startup, are not familiar with the venture capital/accelerator landscape, and explicitly requested to withdraw their application because the position does not seem like the right fit.”

“Full-stack engineer (~4 years) who has owned and shipped customer-facing SaaS onboarding and a role-based real-time analytics dashboard using TypeScript/React with a modular backend. Experienced in microservices with RabbitMQ and strong observability practices (correlation IDs, structured logging, queue metrics), and built an internal deployment tracker integrated with CI/CD that replaced manual spreadsheet/Slack processes.”

“AI/LLM engineer at Capital One who deployed a production RAG-powered fraud analysis and document intelligence platform using LangChain, OpenAI, Pinecone, Kafka, and AWS. Focused on reliability in real-time investigations via hybrid retrieval, schema-validated outputs, and LLM verification loops, reporting review-time reduction from hours to minutes and ~99% fraud detection precision.”

“Built a hackathon "Patient Summary Assistant" backend focused on healthcare workflows, combining RAG-based summarization with HIPAA-minded privacy controls (NER redaction + encryption). Demonstrated strong infra skills by deploying on Kubernetes with Helm/HPA and GitOps (ArgoCD), plus migrating from OpenAI to an on-prem Llama 3 stack (vLLM, quantization, shadow-mode testing) and adding real-time Kafka ingestion for patient vitals/anomaly alerts.”

“Engineering leader who has led 100+ engineers at Sainsbury’s Tech and previously scaled an org from 6 to 60+ at AND Digital. Drove a high-impact modernization of a pricing/decisioning platform serving 1,700 stores—moving from batch monolith to real-time Kafka-based event-driven microservices with MLOps, IaC (Terraform), and zero-trust—delivering £18m+ annual profit uplift and 10+ deploys/day.”

“Senior data engineer with experience in both healthcare (CVS Health) and financial services (Bank of America), building large-scale Azure lakehouse pipelines (30+ EHR sources, ~5TB) and real-time streaming services (Event Hubs/Kafka) for patient vitals. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (Great Expectations, monitoring/alerting, schema drift automation), with measurable outcomes like 50% runtime reduction and 99%+ uptime for regulatory reporting pipelines.”

“Data/Backend engineer with experience at Naukri building large-scale analytics products over a 130M+ user base, including Spark/Airflow pipelines and Kafka-based clickstream validation with Confluent Schema Registry. Also built an audience segmentation backend (Athena/S3 + Spring Boot APIs) for non-technical internal teams and recently shipped a GenAI customer data audit system (FastAPI/Postgres/Llama) that cut sales-planning validation from ~3 months to ~1 week.”

Vivek Anand

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CIO/CTO/CDO) specializing in AI, cloud, and data strategy

Northbrook, IL20y exp

“Founder with an end-user-ready product who has self-funded/used angel investing but has not yet launched marketing in earnest. Motivated by identifying a market gap with a differentiated product and is now seeking value-add investors who can provide both capital and go-to-market expertise/connections.”

“ML/AI engineer with Goldman Sachs experience building production fraud detection and RAG-based trading insights systems end-to-end. Stands out for combining real-time ML infrastructure, GenAI retrieval systems, and compliance-aware design, with measurable impact including nearly 25% false-positive reduction and improved analyst productivity.”

“Compensation and payroll professional with hands-on experience owning U.S. payroll validation, reconciliation, and exception management, plus supporting compensation cycles across base pay, bonuses, and incentives. Stands out for building Excel-based audit and validation tools, resolving HRIS/payroll/finance data mismatches, and strengthening controls to improve payroll accuracy and compensation consistency.”

“Built and owned end-to-end production systems for a healthcare platform, including a predictive task recommendation feature (React + FastAPI + ML on AWS ECS) that cut backlog 20% and saved coordinators ~10 hours/week. Also productionized an AI-native RAG system (vector DB + LLM) delivering 40% faster query resolution, and led phased modernization of a monolithic FastAPI service into async microservices using feature flags and canary releases.”

Sai Karthik Chittamuru

Screened

Senior Salesforce Developer specializing in AI systems and enterprise cloud solutions

Pittsburgh, PA15y exp

“Salesforce-focused engineer with hands-on experience building Sales Cloud and Service Cloud solutions, including a Zoho billing integration for quote/contract workflows and a multi-panel LWC case management dashboard. Stands out for making practical architecture decisions around middleware vs. custom REST, handling idempotency with upsert patterns, and modernizing legacy Aura patterns with Lightning Message Service.”

“Strategy & operations leader with senior roles at OnDeck, BlockFi, and Protocol Labs who owned founder-level initiatives end-to-end. Notably launched the first crypto credit card, driving 150k first-year sign-ups (vs 30k target) and boosting adoption of other offerings, and later cut time-to-hire from ~6 months to ~6 weeks while rebuilding GTM and operating frameworks.”

“Data/analytics professional with experience across manufacturing and enterprise environments (Wisconsin School of Business project with CNH Industrial; roles/projects at Ascensia Technologies, S&C, and Adobe). Has hands-on work combining warranty/lifecycle tables with technician free-text notes using TF-IDF + tree models (XGBoost/Random Forest), and deep experience in entity resolution/reconciliation across mismatched financial systems using Python/SQL and fuzzy matching, with production-grade pipeline practices in Azure Data Factory/Databricks.”

“AppSec-focused customer advisor with hands-on experience integrating SAST/DAST/SCA into production CI/CD (Azure DevOps) and designing secure agent/scanning deployments in AWS (least-privilege IAM, private subnets, VPC endpoints). Demonstrates strong incident troubleshooting using logs/metrics/traces to diagnose load-related failures (timeouts/retry storms) and drive durable fixes, while tailoring risk/tradeoff communication across engineering, security, and leadership stakeholders.”

“Founder of an algorithmic trading startup who reports raising $25M+ over roughly the last three years. Has spent several years working closely with VC funds, focusing on fundraising and lead generation with VC/PE firms, and is strongly committed to entrepreneurship and scaling new technologies.”

“Software engineer with experience at Striim and Amazon who ships end-to-end production systems across UI, backend, ML, and operations. Built a real-time PII detection capability for a streaming data platform by integrating Python ML inference into a Java monolith via gRPC sidecars, achieving ~3M events/hour throughput and ~93% accuracy, and helped drive enterprise adoption (Fiserv, CVS). Also modernized internal Amazon tooling for multi-region scale with modularization and fully automated deployments.”

Bhanu Chander

Screened

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

New York, NY6y exp

“Data engineer focused on reliability and observability, building end-to-end pipelines processing millions of records/day from sources like S3 and Kafka. Has hands-on experience with Airflow-based data quality automation, PySpark/Databricks transformations, and shipping versioned Python REST APIs deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD (Jenkins) and monitoring (CloudWatch/Azure Logs).”

Blake Thomas

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI and EdTech platforms

San Mateo, CA21y exp

“Has been on the receiving end of a VC investment and took responsibility for significant parts of the diligence process, drawing parallels to hands-on work with security compliance and auditors. Approaches entrepreneurship and idea selection with a structured framework (leverage, resources/runway, passion) and a sustainability-first mindset around risk and personal/family well-being.”

“Data engineer with experience at Expedia building SQL Server and Azure Data Factory pipelines for business reporting and analytics. Stands out for pragmatic end-to-end pipeline ownership in ambiguous environments, with a strong emphasis on data quality, rerunnability, query performance, and making downstream datasets reliable for other teams.”