Vetted Documentation Professionals

Reza Mawardana

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software QA Engineer specializing in Insurance and HRIS, transitioning to SDET

7y exp

“QA-minded candidate with unusually deep, self-driven experimentation in game mechanics (RNG and EXP optimization) using emulators and save-state methodology, translating that same rigor into production release verification and bug triage practices. Has experience in embedded QA and proactively proposed a centralized QA model with sharing sessions to improve coverage during absences; uses AI tools to speed up Jira documentation and test case creation.”

Vaishnavi Kashyap

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web platforms and sustainability analytics

1y exp

“Full-stack/backend engineer who owned a production digital assembly planning platform at Saint Gobain end-to-end (React/Node/Postgres), maintaining 99.9% uptime across 5 factory sites and driving a reported 90% improvement in factory-floor coordination. Also built and operated BigQuery + Vertex AI (ARIMA) forecasting/data pipelines processing 1M+ datapoints daily, with strong emphasis on idempotency and data-quality validation to prevent incorrect outputs.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping production computer vision and GenAI systems, including a fabric defect detection platform that combined vision models with agentic LLM workflows to reach 89% human-inspector agreement at 200 ms latency. Also built a RAG-based code QA tool for developers and emphasizes production monitoring, evaluation, caching, and reusable Python service design.”

Ashwith Poojary

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software & AI Engineer specializing in Robotics, LLMs, and Reinforcement Learning

4y exp

“Robotics/AI Master's thesis researcher building an LLM-driven workflow to generate and evaluate robot policies before running them in an environment. Also built a local LLM-based real-time target-tracking robot using a pan-tilt camera with LangChain + Ollama, and has hands-on ROS 2/Gazebo experience including URDF-based simulation and a TurtleBot multi-agent chase project.”

“Operator/program leader from Keyo who builds the “operating backbone” for fast-moving teams—OKRs/KPIs, dashboards, SOPs, and tight decision cadences. Led end-to-end initiatives spanning supply/delivery stabilization, finance reporting/forecasting inputs, vendor alignment, and company-wide SOC 2 Type II compliance with centralized audit evidence.”

Rachel Downey

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-Level Game Designer specializing in systems and economy design

Livermore, California4y exp

“Game economy/progression designer with hands-on ownership of end-to-end systems and live-ops tuning on major mobile titles (Star Trek Fleet Command, Marvel Contest of Champions). Builds spreadsheet-based simulations and telemetry-driven tuning loops to prevent inflation and reduce progression friction, including a multi-iteration optimization that lifted D7 retention ~7% while maintaining monetization targets.”

Anthony Hernandez

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Game Designer specializing in systems, balance, and live updates

Los Angeles, CA6y exp

“Game designer currently leading design on a Mario Party-like party game, owning mode design, economy, and meta-progression. Uses playtests and A/B tests to tune fairness-focused systems (e.g., dynamic power-ups accounting for player standing and turn order) and prototypes quickly in UE5 Blueprints. Previously shipped a mixed-reality version of Knockout League’s Knockout Alley mode for a Quest 3-aligned release.”

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.”

“Startup operator with experience spanning Series D scale-up GTM strategy at Motive and earlier-stage marketplace operations at Fleek and BridgeLinx. Stands out for building operating infrastructure, redesigning sales compensation, and automating leadership reporting with measurable impact, including 12% sales efficiency gains, 40% less reporting overhead, and 9% better rep performance.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an internal analytics dashboard for sales (React/TypeScript + Node/Express + NoSQL), delivering it two weeks early with zero production issues and a reported 10% sales-efficiency lift. Experienced with microservices and async messaging patterns (retries/DLQs/idempotency), and emphasizes rapid iteration with strong CI/CD and automated testing plus user-driven adoption.”

“QA automation engineer who built and maintained a Selenium WebDriver + Java hybrid framework (data/keyword-driven) using POM, TestNG, and Maven, and integrated it into CI with PR gating and nightly regression. Strong focus on stabilizing flaky tests (wait strategies, locator robustness, test data control) and caught a critical UI/backend mismatch that could have caused duplicate money transfers before release.”

“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.”

“QA automation engineer who owned and transformed a JavaScript/WebdriverIO UI automation suite into a reliable CI release gate by refactoring to POM, adding API validations, cross-browser coverage, and aggressively reducing flakiness. Demonstrated strong security mindset by uncovering a critical RBAC gap where restricted users could trigger billing actions via direct API calls, and helped reshape product requirements early through detailed acceptance-criteria questions (e.g., CSV upload partial failures).”

“Game developer/team lead on the FPS zombie project "Dreadful" who wore many hats (project management, systems/level/UI design, AI assist, QA) and iterated heavily via playtests and heatmap data. Built and tuned UE5 Blueprint-based crowd-control/gravity abilities with cooldowns and actor filtering, and made scope-smart feature swaps by reusing existing systems to hit deadlines.”

Cary Burdick

Screened

Senior Data Scientist specializing in data engineering and analytics

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Data/NLP practitioner with experience in both financial services (Truist) and government (USDA), including an NLP-driven analysis of EU regulations to anticipate US regulatory focus and a major redesign/cleaning of complex pathogen lab-test public datasets. Built production data-quality pipelines with Dagster, Pandera, and Azure Synapse, and is comfortable validating hypotheses with historical backtesting and SME-driven quality controls.”

Diana Ramirez

Screened

Director of Customer Success specializing in enterprise SaaS implementations and AI platforms

San Francisco, CA25y exp

“Enterprise CSM/program lead specializing in AI-powered search and workflow automation, who owned an end-to-end generative AI chatbot rollout that replaced manual Excel-based RFP processes and achieved 4.5/5 CSAT. Leveraged outcomes to expand the account into two additional use cases (tripling ARR) and has a track record of influencing product priorities (UI personalization) and driving Voice AI expansions tied to operational support workflows.”

Ashley Borges

Screened

Senior Solutions Engineer specializing in mobile SDK integrations and AdTech

Alameda, CA13y exp

“Customer-facing technical professional with hands-on ad tech experience enabling a non-SDK header-bidding integration by analyzing APIs/SDK behavior, documenting end-to-end requirements, and guiding the customer through release. Strong at tailoring technical demos for mixed executive/engineering audiences and partnering with sales on metrics-driven launches and beta rollouts. No direct on-the-job LLM/agentic systems experience yet, but interested in moving into that space.”

“Built and shipped LLM-powered agents including a production RAG research assistant that cut research lookup time from ~20 minutes to ~10–20 seconds using caching, retrieval thresholds, and citation-enforced grounded answers. Also designed multi-step, tool-calling workflows with stateful critique/revision loops and pragmatic monitoring (retry/schema-failure/low-confidence signals) plus normalization/validation layers for messy notes/spreadsheet-style data.”

“Builder-minded founder who co-started Renew-IQ, an insurtech company that landed successful pilots with major insurance brokerages and wholesalers without raising capital. Demonstrated practical enterprise product judgment by overcoming adoption challenges through integration with required compliant systems, improving user satisfaction, communication, and efficiency.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a Python/FastAPI results API and deployed it on Kubernetes with Helm and GitHub Actions-driven CI/CD. Demonstrates strong production operations mindset across performance tuning, monitoring, safe rollouts/rollbacks, and phased migrations, plus hands-on Kafka streaming experience focused on ordering and idempotency.”

Jared Alonzo

Screened

Mid-level Customer Engineer specializing in enterprise search and technical delivery

New York, NY7y exp

“Search-focused technical consultant/customer success engineer with 6+ years in B2B SaaS, supporting government, higher ed, mid-market, and enterprise customers including Fortune 500 brands like Mondelez, Hasbro, and Sanofi. Particularly strong in enterprise search architecture, personalization data design, and expansion use cases, with hands-on experience shaping solution decisions for retailers such as Snipes and Rue Gilt Groupe.”

Harry Hollines

Screened

Executive strategy and corporate development leader specializing in AI-native operations and M&A

14y exp

“Two-decade executive operator who has repeatedly served as the CEO’s right hand inside PE-backed, VC-backed, and growth-stage companies, spanning corporate development, operations, fundraising, and strategy. Particularly differentiated by combining end-to-end M&A execution—including a 6-acquisition roll-up and a $25M PE exit—with AI-native platform building, most recently launching a nationally used proprietary diagnostics platform and a new entrepreneurship business line at the Latino Leadership Institute.”

“Longform YouTube editor currently serving as Food52’s sole editor for YouTube episodes, with prior experience at Maul Media, PES Group/Skypunch Creative, Tubi, and Food52. Has led consistency and quality across series by managing and giving notes to an overseas postproduction agency, and brings a retention-driven approach (cold opens, pacing, music, b-roll, and motion/typography) through final color, mix, and QA.”

“Customer Success leader with deep ad tech expertise who owned enterprise accounts end-to-end, including Bank of America, driving ad fraud down from ~8–10% to <1% in ~3 months and resolving spikes through data-driven investigations. Experienced partnering cross-functionally as a PM to build analytics dashboards and using user stories to align Product/Engineering/Sales and influence roadmap priorities; also supports land-and-expand via paid benchmarking/industry data upsells.”