Vetted DevOps Professionals

“Development manager focused on developer productivity and platform enablement in a polyglot microservices environment. Drove ~50% productivity gains by evaluating and rolling out AI coding copilots with team training and cross-team demos, and designed a Disaster Recovery framework adopted by 50+ microservice teams. Also led edge-focused Python runtime optimization and relies on heavy test automation to safely execute large refactors during major platform upgrades.”

“Backend engineer focused on building production-ready Python services (Flask/FastAPI) with strong performance and scalability instincts—Celery/Redis background processing, robust multi-tenant isolation (Postgres RLS), and pragmatic CI/Docker operations. Demonstrated measurable DB optimization impact (cut a critical analytics query from ~1–2s to ~100–150ms) and has hands-on experience integrating LLM/ML workflows (OpenAI, LangChain, embeddings, Redis/FAISS vector stores) without degrading API responsiveness.”

“Hands-on technical professional experienced in taking LLM/AI-adjacent integrations from prototype to production, using customer observation to refine UX and uncover edge cases. Diagnoses workflow issues in real time using logs and Sankey-style workflow analysis, and communicates fixes with clear short/long-term plans plus proactive alerting. Also partners cross-functionally to drive adoption and cost savings, including a POC around IBM Sterling Integrator that reduced licensing costs by $30K/year.”

“CTO who ties technology strategy directly to business outcomes, building multi-year roadmaps with measurable ROI. Led major modernization (cloud, data platform, unified API, microservices + CI/CD) delivering 5x faster releases/deployments, 99.8% uptime, and 40% user growth without headcount increases, while scaling engineering from 15 to 80+ in ~18 months.”

“CTO candidate with experience supporting startups targeting Series A/Series B funding and a strong grasp of how funding choices affect ownership. Emphasizes building clean-slate architecture and organizations, and uses market/UX research plus AI-enabled rapid prototyping and architectural trade-off analysis to validate ideas quickly.”

Sudhan Louis

Screened

Director of Enterprise Architecture specializing in digital transformation, AI, and API strategy

Rolling Hills Estates, CA26y exp

“Hands-on architect/technology leader who builds prototypes (including Agentic AI wellness/biomarkers) and then scales teams to execute. Led a ~$400M global e-commerce transformation spanning 95 countries with active-active US/EU multi-region resilience, microservices/MFE (MACH), and strong security patterns (service mesh + API gateway + Ping Identity), plus modern data foundations (customer hub/MDM/Snowflake, data fabric/medallion).”

“Data engineer/backend developer who owned end-to-end pipelines and external data collection systems, including API ingestion and large-scale web scraping. Worked at ~50M records/month scale, improving processing speed by 20% and reducing reporting errors by 15%, and shipped a Rust-based internal data API with versioning, caching, and strong validation/observability practices.”

Biswajit Dash

Screened

Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer specializing in CI/CD and Observability

Milpitas, CA25y exp

“DevOps engineer focused on CI/CD who built and productionized LLM/MCP-based chat agents integrated into Cisco Webex to help developers troubleshoot PRs and pipelines via GitHub/Jenkins data. Strong in operationalizing agentic systems with observability (OpenTelemetry/Grafana), user-scoped rate limiting, and Kubernetes-based scaling, and has presented demos on agent SDK capabilities and DORA metrics dashboards.”

Adam Safran

Screened

Engineering Director specializing in platform modernization, microservices, and cloud reliability

Pleasant Hill, CA26y exp

“Former founder (ran a custom web development shop in Los Angeles) with extensive startup experience and a solid working understanding of the VC ecosystem. Helped build and scale a team at Turo from founding member to ~10 people, and is motivated by ownership, impact, and originating ideas—interested in the venture studio model and disciplined about rapid validation and execution.”

Kishore Koduri

Screened

Director-level Enterprise Architecture leader specializing in AI and platform transformation

Akron, OH29y exp

“Entrepreneurial candidate with deep technology expertise who has already acted as a founder/principal across a real estate venture and early-stage tech startups. Most notably, they raised approximately $1-2M for a real estate project and describe hands-on ownership from ideation and business case development through ROI validation and investor commitment.”

“Current Riveron professional with prior startup experience at Quizlet who performs M&A security assessments for VC-backed acquisitions, while also co-founding a private company on the side. Particularly notable for attracting a16z investment interest but intentionally declining funding to preserve equity, board control, and product vision.”

Akhil Nakka

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full Stack Engineer in fintech (JPMorgan) who owns products end-to-end across React UIs and Spring Boot/Kafka backends, with a strong track record of shipping quickly while maintaining reliability via testing, monitoring, and feature flags. Has hands-on experience scaling microservices for high-volume transactions and debugging production latency using ELK/CloudWatch, plus built an internal Python/Flask automation tool adopted by backend engineers to speed API validation and debugging.”

“Entrepreneur building a bootstrapped AI-native manufacturing company that combines agentic AI, LLM-assisted CAD/CAM, and in-house CNC machining to speed up hardware iteration. Comes from an early-stage enterprise SaaS background and evaluates opportunities like an angel investor, with strong fluency in VC dynamics and founder-market-team fit.”

Arpan Acharya

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, data platforms, and healthcare SaaS

Pittsburgh, PA21y exp

“Senior product and platform engineering leader with experience spanning startup-style incubation and large-scale enterprise transformation at Omnicell. Led architecture used by 400+ engineers, scaled a new data-focused team from 10 to 60, and drove an inventory optimization platform that helped secure the company’s first $100M+ multi-product contract.”

“Hands-on engineering leader who has scaled teams quickly (hired 20 engineers in 4 months) and led major architecture shifts including monolith-to-microservices and serverless, async AI-driven medical data ingestion/search. Also drove a versioned-inventory redesign with auditability and rollback that reduced operational errors by 22%, and demonstrates strong incident response with clear stakeholder communication.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned an AI-powered HTTP monitoring dashboard end to end, from Node.js/MongoDB backend and dashboard UI through deployment and reliability controls. Particularly strong in turning raw technical signals into usable AI-assisted product experiences, with concrete impact including ~60% faster anomaly detection and meaningful AI cost optimization.”

“Software engineer with experience at Coinbase and Gol Airlines, leading full-stack and backend-heavy systems in high-scale, high-compliance environments. Stands out for owning ambiguous projects end to end, improving internal support workflows with measurable impact, and designing reliable integrations for both customer-facing and government-critical systems.”

“Former psychiatrist and educator turned product leader with a strong human-centered AI philosophy. Has led AI-native SaaS and mobile products, managed large cross-functional orgs, and brings distinctive edtech experience including reducing tutor rematch rates by 52% while protecting the tutor-student relationship.”

Martin Bliss

Screened

Executive Technology & Architecture Leader specializing in DevOps, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Plano, TX14y exp

“Startup-minded product builder with consulting experience in Oil & Gas who formed an LLC to design and deliver a modern project-controls software platform, replacing Excel-heavy workflows with scalable web-based calculations. Strong in pragmatic tech-stack decisions, talent matching, and shipping MVPs despite shifting stakeholders; sees marketing (pitching/networking) as a growth area and has evaluated partnership/investment offers for balanced support.”

“CTO-for-equity founder who partners with non-technical co-founders to bring AI-powered product ideas to market, emphasizing financial viability and go-to-market planning over "just an MVP." Currently working with two other founders (CEO/Sales and CPO/industry expert) to launch a SaaS platform, leveraging AI coding tools (Cursor/Windsurf) for extremely fast, production-ready iteration with daily releases.”

“Built and owned end-to-end production Conversational AI and RAG systems at Nike for customer support and product search, with strong evidence of measurable impact. Combines LLM product thinking with solid platform engineering, including evaluation pipelines, monitoring, safety controls, and reusable FastAPI frameworks that improved both user outcomes and team velocity.”