Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

Sandeep Gandhi

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in FinTech, identity, and AI-native platforms

San Ramon, CA26y exp

“Current CTO of Idmission leading a 150+ person engineering organization, with deep experience scaling delivery, CI/CD, and architecture modernization. Combines executive leadership with hands-on technical depth across microservices, Kubernetes, and AI systems, including a RAG support platform that reduced resolution time by 50% and passive liveness technology that improved client acquisition by 20%.”

shelly tomar

Screened

Mid-level Founding Engineer specializing in agentic AI for healthcare

null4y exp

“Founding engineer at Grosha who built and operated the backend from scratch, helping scale the product to 65+ countries in a fast-moving startup environment. Also brings healthcare AI experience from United Health Group, where they built backend pipelines for ambient AI scribing using transcription APIs and LLM orchestration with custom validation layers for clinical reliability.”

“Built and owned an enterprise AI document-processing deployment at an automotive tech startup, taking it from discovery to stabilization. Strong in production LLM/RAG systems and backend reliability, with measurable impact including 8,000+ documents processed monthly and turnaround time reduced from nearly 24 hours to about 3 hours.”

“Backend engineer with experience in fraud reporting and billing systems, building Java/Spring Boot services behind a React frontend and improving performance 40%+ with caching and SQL optimization while maintaining 99.9% uptime. Has hands-on experience migrating a monolith to microservices with incremental rollout, clear data ownership boundaries, and production-grade API reliability/security practices (JWT/OAuth, RBAC, row-level scoping).”

“Software engineer (Yellow.ai) who built and productionized an AI-driven resume tailoring system using embeddings + Chroma RAG + QLoRA fine-tuning, deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD on a CPU-only Oracle VM. Demonstrates strong reliability/evaluation rigor (custom hallucination/coverage/relevance metrics) and measurable business impact, including a 60% user satisfaction lift from improving chatbot intent accuracy with product and support teams.”

“Robotics/perception engineer focused on production-grade, real-time systems—optimized self-supervised segmentation on Jetson Nano from ~6–10 FPS to ~20–25 FPS and scaled experimentation/deployment by unifying 15+ edge models in a modular PyTorch Lightning framework. Experienced integrating distributed LiDAR-camera fusion via gRPC/protobuf into mission planning, migrating ROS1→ROS2 Foxy for multi-drone perception, and adding Prometheus-based observability for long-running deployments.”

“Software engineer with connected-car/automotive production experience who owned an end-to-end remote door lock/unlock feature and introduced unit testing (GTest) plus rig/simulator validation. Also built and productionized an AI-native AWS cloud cost assistant (Lex + GPT-based LLM + Lambda + RAG/vector DB) with guardrails and achieved 94% evaluation accuracy. Helped replace a third-party solution with an in-house build, saving the company ~€9M.”

“Exited Founder-CEO with deep-tech experience who raised capital and built a venture around making end-to-end encryption with cloud-level performance and data sovereignty feasible. Demonstrated first-principles technical rigor (network/TCP analysis) to prove scientific feasibility, then progressed from proof of concept to prototype and eventual exit, with a strong bias toward ultra-lean, customer-paid MVPs.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on application-layer product work (70–75%), with production experience building real-time operational dashboards (React/TypeScript + Node/Express + WebSockets + Postgres) and measurable impact (50% reduction in data entry time). Also owned a Flask backend for a SaaS product with token auth/RBAC, versioning, observability, and performance tuning, and has operated containerized apps on AWS (EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, API Gateway) including handling a real latency/scaling incident end-to-end.”

Paul Tran

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in SaaS, federal consulting, and digital transformation

Tysons Corner, VA31y exp

“Former CEO of GravyWork with hands-on experience building an org-wide strategic plan and modernization roadmap for a growing company. Uses Michael Gerber’s innovation/orchestration/quantification framework and structured as-is/gap/to-be analysis to drive cost reduction, automation/outsourcing decisions, and leadership alignment through change.”

Harshini Jonnala

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud microservices

Hyderabad, India2y exp

“Backend engineer with NTT Data experience building Java/Spring Boot services for product-data ingestion, including Kafka-based asynchronous pipelines and Redis read-through caching. Also built a personal RAG system deployed on Google Kubernetes Service using FastAPI, LangChain, and Pinecone with multi-tenant data isolation; holds a Master’s background in Machine Learning.”