Vetted DevOps Professionals

“Current CTO of an analytics company in the eye industry that was acquired by a larger organization, and now exploring building a new analytics platform for individual provider offices. Focused on helping practices grow revenue and improve the patient journey to drive long-term retention, with entrepreneurial motivation tied to building a legacy business for their family.”

“Unity VR senior developer with ~8 years in VR and ~3 years focused on Meta Quest, building multiplayer training/digital-twin style experiences. Strong Photon (PUN/Fusion) background, including solving tricky networked object attachment/jitter issues via ownership and local-physics strategies. Demonstrated hands-on performance turnarounds in VR scenes using Mesh Baker, LODs, and impostors, plus experience shipping social multiplayer VR activities with Photon Voice.”

Mounika Nadendla

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

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

5y exp

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade data systems end-to-end: batch and real-time pipelines (Airflow/Kafka/Spark) with strong data quality, monitoring/alerting, and incident response. Has experience integrating external API/web data with retries, throttling, and schema-change handling, and serving curated datasets to analytics (Power BI) and backend consumers with performance optimizations like Redis caching.”

Mark Thomas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level software architect specializing in cloud, distributed systems, and healthcare IT

McCalla, AL20y exp

“Startup veteran with experience at seven companies since 2004 and direct exposure to Birmingham's Innovation Depot accelerator through three different startups. Has worked closely with investment teams on MVPs and pitch decks and brings a pragmatic lens to evaluating ventures through need, margins, burn rate, cash position, and sales growth strategy.”

“Built and operates a production LLM agent for enterprise IT operations that triages and drafts resolutions for high-volume ServiceNow tickets using LangChain + RAG (Pinecone/pgvector) and AWS Bedrock/OpenAI. Emphasizes reliability with schema-validated stages, offline eval datasets from real tickets, and CloudWatch-driven monitoring/guardrails; system scales to 40K+ tickets/month and cut resolution time ~28%.”

James Fallon

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React, TypeScript, and enterprise web platforms

Westwood, MA18y exp

“Frontend engineer with unusually strong experience building visually sophisticated, performance-sensitive React applications, including a cinematic 3D showcase for an NBA Top Shot collections platform using react-three-fiber and Three.js. Also brings public-sector experience building map-based geographic data overlays in a Drupal application, showing range across immersive consumer experiences and operational data tools.”

“Checkout-focused engineer with hands-on experience integrating many dependent microservices and Kafka event flows, including managing SLA/timeout issues with partner teams. Led a PayPal Braintree SDK migration across iOS/Android/web with strong testing discipline, and built an AWS Lambda automation to clean up stale CloudFormation test stacks to reduce monthly AWS spend.”

“Backend engineer who replaced an Excel-heavy forecasting workflow with a secure, auditable FastAPI system (React UI + relational model + async workers), emphasizing deterministic processing, idempotency, and versioned ledger-style ingestion. Led a monolith-to-FastAPI migration at Bounteous using a strangler approach, feature-flagged incremental rollout, and data reconciliation/shadow-compare to protect integrity while scaling onboarding workflows.”

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.”

“Engineering leader managing two 6-person teams across internal tools and 14+ public brand websites, while staying hands-on in architecture and system design. Particularly interesting for teams exploring AI-assisted software delivery: they implemented a customizable multi-agent BMad workflow with human review gates across PM, architecture, development, QA, and DevOps.”

Joshua Smith

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI automation and enterprise transformation

Banks, OR23y exp

“Technology leader with deep accelerator and zero-to-one product experience across the Department of Defense, Fortune 100 enterprises, academia, and GovTech. Most notably, they built a seven-tier solution that generated over $10M in first-year savings and was adopted by 300+ DoD organizations, positioning them as a strong CTO-type operator for mission-driven startups and complex enterprises.”

Guillermo Salas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive software engineering leader specializing in AI-augmented Healthcare SaaS platforms

Elm Grove, WI15y exp

“VP-level software engineering leader in a private-equity-backed company, overseeing a 50+ person org through aggressive growth and operational efficiency goals. Particularly strong in building the operating system around engineering—product-to-engineering governance, AI-augmented SDLC practices, ADRs, and feature-flag-driven delivery—to reduce ambiguity, dependency on institutional knowledge, and cycle time.”

“Co-founder and employee #1 who built Reva, a vertically integrated conversational CRM for multifamily leasing and resident services, leading product, engineering, and design from inception through acquisition. Combines deep enterprise product leadership with early AI experience, including a pre-LLM chatbot that drove a 400% lift in lead conversion and prior edtech work where AI-enabled learning tools improved struggling students by a full letter grade on average.”

“Fintech startup veteran (8+ years) building TrustRelay, a control-plane product between ERPs and banks to verify vendors, enforce pre-flight payout policies, automate reconciliation, and produce deterministic audit evidence. Currently at MVP stage and planning to pursue Founders Institute Boston Sprint 2026 while lining up design partners and raising pre-seed/seed.”

“Repeat early-stage startup CTO/first engineer who helped take Vettery from 0 to a $100M+ exit. Led product-oriented engineering with heavy investment in data science/ML, including a recommendations system and candidate evaluation model (90%+ predictive effectiveness), and scaled the modeling stack using parallel processing and Apache Airflow.”

“Backend engineer with recent Barclays experience building a Python asyncio + Kafka risk reporting service for trading desks, including a major refactor from blocking batch processing to event-driven incremental pipelines to restore intraday/EOD performance. Also shipped an applied AI feature using OpenAI fine-tuning to classify risk-breach severity and generate trader/risk-manager summaries with robust retry/fallback handling, plus demonstrated strong database/query optimization (triggers, materialized views, partial indexes) in a risk-limits/breaches domain.”

“Founder of an LLC operating as a consulting firm providing fractional CTO services to startups, giving them parallel exposure to multiple early-stage companies. Has direct experience with MVP development, building org structures from scratch, and supporting early fundraising, and is exploring a pivot from consulting into a scalable product business while staying engaged with the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

“Application Engineer supporting customers in a financial trading context, experienced in coordinating urgent patch upgrades and stakeholder communications to minimize downtime. Has hands-on production incident response experience troubleshooting a critical dashboard outage caused by a bad SQL execution plan, escalating with DBAs and deploying a fast fix, then documenting full RCA via problem tickets.”

“Currently at Huntington Bank, built a production-grade RAG system that helps business/operations teams get grounded answers from large volumes of internal enterprise documents. Owns ingestion and FastAPI backend, tuned hybrid BM25+vector retrieval and chunking for relevance, and evaluates reliability with metrics and observability (LangSmith, CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana) while partnering closely with non-technical stakeholders.”

Arjun Masadi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and Healthcare platforms

Remote, USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer (3+ years) who owned an AI-powered customer financial health dashboard end-to-end at Regions Bank, combining React/Java Spring Boot with LangChain + Pinecone for personalized insights. Strong production operations experience on AWS EKS with CI/CD and observability (OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana), delivering measurable outcomes including 22% support reduction and 99.9% uptime, plus robust third-party financial/clinical integrations.”