Vetted DevOps Professionals

“Has worked across multiple startup stages from pre-funding through Series D and emphasizes rigorous idea validation through direct conversations with both end users and purchasing decision-makers. Interested in applying NLP to automate summarization/abstracting of highly technical articles, with a balanced view of entrepreneurship that prioritizes health and family.”

“Built and deployed a GenAI-powered PhD career intelligence platform at NYU that maps academic backgrounds to career paths and converts long academic CVs into job-ready resumes. Stands out for treating LLM systems as structured production pipelines—combining NLP extraction, embeddings, orchestration, and AWS deployment—to improve recommendation quality and cut resume preparation time by 70%.”

Waldorff Villacres

Screened

Healthcare technology executive and architect with 20+ years leading enterprise platforms and digital transformation.

Seattle, Washington, USA21y exp

“Healthcare-focused founder in the R&D stage building an EHR and clinical staffing startup centered on value-based care. They have already tested the concept with the market, are engaging Medicaid/Medicare leaders and industry conferences like ViVE and HIMSS, and are focused on early-signal detection to improve patient outcomes while lowering utilization costs.”

“Candidate explicitly stated they do not have production agentic/LLM or generative AI experience, aside from spending a few hours becoming familiar with the process. Compensation expectation stated as 225,000.”

“Senior engineering executive with 8+ years leading large-scale SaaS modernization across AI, compliance, ecommerce, streaming, IoT, and travel. Has led a 150+ global engineering org, modernized seven cloud-native platforms for a $400M business, and consolidated travel systems processing $1B+ annually while staying hands-on in architecture, incident response, and AI integration.”

“Entrepreneur building an applied-AI tool for geological resource exploration (critical minerals, oil & gas) that overlays proprietary and public data from reports/logs/maps to generate evidence-based greenfield profiling insights. Has spent ~2 years on industry research, built a POC, validated demand with purchasing signals, and developed partnerships/network including USGS, DARPA, and ESRI.”

“Full-stack engineer with Bank of America experience modernizing a large-scale financial reporting platform. Built React frontends and Java/Spring Boot microservice APIs end-to-end, optimized data-heavy SQL performance (indexing/caching/pagination), and implemented an AI feature for forecasting and anomaly detection using Python/scikit-learn, with deployments supported on AWS.”

“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.”

“Providing technical guidance to a small team exploring a biomedical startup focused on earlier disease detection, including for remote/underserved areas. The venture is in ideation with initial research completed and is moving toward prototyping while exploring initial investment/support.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused production engineer with experience running 99.95% uptime platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP. Strong in incident response and performance troubleshooting (including a 30% MTTR reduction), and in building secure CI/CD and Terraform-based IaC for AKS/GKE microservices with robust change controls and rollback practices. Notably does not have direct IBM Power/AIX/VIOS/HMC or PowerHA/HACMP ownership.”

“Engineering Manager/player-coach leading Data Infrastructure, ML/DS, and AI Engineering pods who recently shipped multiple production agentic GenAI features. Built privacy-preserving LLM workflows (PII redaction via Microsoft Presidio) and drove an AI expense-approval agent from ambiguous ask to GA, cutting approval time from ~2.5 days to <4 hours with >85% accuracy. Also owned a major LLM cost overrun incident and implemented cost observability plus circuit breakers to prevent runaway agent loops.”

Chris Colinsky

Screened

Executive Technology Leader/CTO specializing in data platforms, AI agents, and e-commerce/payments

Los Angeles, CA23y exp

“Engineering leader with hands-on coding time who has driven major commerce and data-platform transformations: defined goop’s omnichannel strategy, unified payments to Square, and rebuilt real-time NetSuite inventory flows plus forecasting tools. Currently reorganized engineering into Product/Data/Support teams to hit aggressive seasonal roadmaps, and led a data-lake/medallion ELT refactor feeding embedded analytics (Tinybird) with improved reliability and cost efficiency; also accelerates onboarding via AI coding tools in a serverless, event-driven architecture.”

SNEHA KUSUMA

Screened

Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in banking and telecom platforms

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer with experience at T-Mobile and U.S. Bank who maintained a TypeScript utility library (types, tests, build pipeline, and docs) adopted by multiple teams, and improved React workflow performance by refactoring components and optimizing data fetching. Known for pragmatic cross-team support—reproducing issues quickly, shipping well-tested fixes, and managing changes carefully to avoid breaking downstream apps.”

Navindu Jayatilake

Screened

DevOps Technical Lead specializing in Kubernetes, AWS, and platform engineering

Colombo, Sri Lanka6y exp

“Sri Lanka–based DevOps/Platform engineer focused on Kubernetes and AWS who has led real production incidents and recoveries (network-policy-induced asymmetric routing; node pool failure due to CNI upgrade). Built production CI/CD with GitHub Actions (ephemeral self-hosted runners on EKS), ArgoCD, Vault, and Terraform, and led a phased ECS-to-EKS migration including Kafka consumers and MongoDB Atlas private endpoints.”

Sreelekha Vuppala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms

USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”

“Data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines processing a few million records/day, using Python/Airflow/SQL/PySpark with Snowflake serving to BI (Power BI). Built resilient external web data collection systems (anti-bot, schema-change detection, backfills) and shipped versioned REST APIs for internal consumers, improving pipeline success rates to 99% through monitoring, retries, and idempotent design.”

John Patton

Screened

Executive Atlassian and Agile transformation leader specializing in AI-enabled enterprise collaboration

Aberdeen, NJ6y exp

“Product leader with hands-on experience modernizing enterprise internal tooling and shipping AI-enabled support workflows. At Peloton, they led the end-to-end migration of Jira, Confluence, and JSM from on-prem Data Center to cloud; at Atlas Vega, they implemented a RAG-based Slack/JSM support assistant with strong governance, data hygiene, and measurable support outcomes.”

“Engineering/technology leader who stays hands-on while driving executive-level roadmap execution, with deep experience modernizing cloud-based LIMS/LIS platforms and building AI-driven lab analytics. Led a monolith-to-microservices cloud migration with containerization and CI/CD, and delivered a reported 30% reduction in lab turnaround time while strengthening compliance.”

“Backend engineer who designed and evolved an AWS-based event-processing system in Python/PostgreSQL, achieving a 60% p95 latency reduction while improving reliability during traffic spikes. Led a zero-downtime migration from a monolithic Django app to FastAPI microservices using feature flags, strong testing, and cross-team coordination, with production-grade observability (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch) and security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered clinical note summarization system used by care managers to speed review of 5–20 page unstructured medical records. Implemented safety-focused validation (prompt constraints, rule-based and section-level checks, human-in-the-loop) to reduce hallucinations while maintaining low latency and meeting privacy/regulatory constraints, integrating via APIs into existing clinical tools.”

“Robotics software engineer who led development of a vision-based end-effector stability/vibration analysis tool using phase-based motion magnification and frequency-domain analysis (FFT/Bode) to uncover resonances missed by motor-only diagnostics. Experienced with ROS 2 C++ perception/navigation (ArUco + PnP) and real-time industrial integration, including optimizing a 1 kHz EtherCAT/Beckhoff PLC/Modbus TCP diagnostic pipeline and designing deterministic interfaces across heterogeneous subsystems.”

Yuvraj Singh Chauhan

Screened

Entry-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and DevOps automation

Bangalore, India1y exp

“Built and owned a production-scale AI-driven software release/version intelligence platform orchestrated via GitHub Actions that tracks 1000+ upstream repositories and automatically generates SLA-bound JIRA upgrade tickets for hardened container images. Replaced brittle regex/PEP440 parsing with an LLM-based semantic filtering layer plus deterministic validation to handle noisy/inconsistent GitHub tags at scale, with monitoring for coverage, latency, and correctness validated against upstream ground truth.”

Shweta Gupta

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices, Kafka, and AWS

Seattle, WA6y exp

“AI engineer who shipped a production chat assistant for a storage company by building the underlying RAG-style knowledge base (document ingestion, chunking/embeddings, FAISS vector store) and an admin update interface to keep content current. Also has full-stack delivery experience (Python REST APIs + React/TypeScript UI) and AWS operations using Terraform/Jenkins, including handling a real production performance incident by optimizing DB queries and adding auto-scaling.”

Kiran M

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data platforms

Bentonville, AR5y exp

“Backend/ML integration engineer with experience at Accenture and Walmart building Flask-based analytics and prediction APIs on PostgreSQL/MySQL. Strong focus on performance and scalability—uses precomputed aggregates, Redis caching, query tuning (indexes/partitioning/EXPLAIN), and async/background processing; also designs secure multi-tenant isolation with JWT and schema/db-per-tenant strategies.”