Vetted Incident Response Professionals

“Strategy & operations leader with senior roles at OnDeck, BlockFi, and Protocol Labs who owned founder-level initiatives end-to-end. Notably launched the first crypto credit card, driving 150k first-year sign-ups (vs 30k target) and boosting adoption of other offerings, and later cut time-to-hire from ~6 months to ~6 weeks while rebuilding GTM and operating frameworks.”

“Customer-facing technical support/solutions professional with experience at Stripe and Intuit helping developers take payment API and webhook integrations from testing to production. Uses Datadog and AWS CloudWatch to diagnose real-time production issues (e.g., webhook signature validation errors causing retries/delays) and unblocks customer deployments through hands-on, developer-oriented guidance.”

Kunal Singh Pundir

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud microservices and GenAI systems

USA, USA5y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end AI-driven decisioning platform at Uber, combining LLM orchestration with typed tool contracts and a Snowflake-based RAG pipeline to make decisions fully auditable. Delivered large-scale measurable impact (120k requests/day, 18k cases auto-resolved/month) while improving ops SLA from 3 days to 6 hours and cutting incident response time nearly in half. Previously led a high-risk strangler-fig modernization of a legacy insurance platform across 120+ microsites at Accenture, coordinating across multiple squads with feature-flagged parallel cutovers.”

Lamar Petty

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Product Engineer specializing in data-driven web apps and healthcare systems

San Francisco, CA13y exp

“Full-stack engineer with production experience shipping a healthcare-focused web app (Pregnancy-Pal) using Next.js/TypeScript on GCP, integrating a Python/Flask middleware and FHIR server for patient/practitioner dashboards and messaging. Former Wikimedia Foundation Android engineer who led the end-to-end 'Year in Review' feature and built robust automated testing/CI practices (Espresso, GitHub Actions matrix). Strong emphasis on reliability via rigorous validation, comprehensive Postman testing, and detailed API documentation.”

“Data/ML backend engineer with hands-on production experience spanning RAG services (LlamaIndex/OpenAI) and AWS data platforms. Has delivered Terraform-managed AWS architectures (Lambda + ECS Fargate) with secure secrets handling, built Glue-to-Redshift ETL with schema evolution controls, modernized SAS reporting into Python microservices, and achieved major Redshift query speedups (2+ hours to under 15 minutes).”

“Software engineer focused on reliability and scalable systems: built React/TypeScript dashboards backed by Java/Spring Boot APIs and designed Kafka-based microservices with strong contract/versioning discipline. Known for shipping incremental improvements with tight feedback loops and for creating internal observability tools that streamline on-call and incident diagnosis under high-traffic conditions.”

“Search/backend engineer with hands-on experience improving Apache Solr-based search systems end-to-end (indexing strategy changes, ETL updates, and Java/Spring Boot Search API work). Demonstrated production rigor with QA partnership, A/B testing, and rollback-safe kill switches, plus measurable product impact (e.g., +1.5% add-to-cart) and operational troubleshooting including traffic/security mitigation.”

“Customer support professional with Scrum Master and Product Owner certifications who has handled high-stakes account security incidents (including locking down an account to protect over $200k) and troubleshot live data feed integrations (XML/socket) by identifying IP whitelisting mismatches. Emphasizes transparent stakeholder communication, escalation, and building internal wiki documentation to prevent repeat issues.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across edtech, logistics, and AWS internal systems—owned a production course recommender end-to-end (model serving + APIs + caching/observability), delivering +30% CTR and -20% latency. Has scaled real-time delivery visibility/rerouting on Kubernetes/EKS to sub-200ms P95 during demand spikes and built billion-events/day telemetry pipelines on AWS (Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, S3, Redshift) with schema evolution, dedupe, and replay support.”

“Backend/LLM engineer who built a production-critical Amazon Bedrock + RAG correction and compliance layer for employee communications, integrating tightly with existing Spring Boot/AWS microservices to reduce manual review while keeping outputs explainable and auditable. Also designed an event-driven system processing 10M+ events/day (SQS/Lambda/DynamoDB/Elasticsearch) and handled on-call incidents with strong observability and reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, hotspot mitigation).”

“Backend/ML systems engineer with Stripe payments experience who built an asynchronous processing upgrade handling millions of API requests, cutting peak latency ~20–25% while preserving strict financial consistency via idempotency-safe retries and robust validation/fallbacks. Also built scalable ETL pipelines for messy CSV/Excel/API data with strong observability (structured logging/monitoring) and reliability mechanisms.”

Jignesh Desai

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in fraud detection and payments platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA26y exp

“Engineering manager/player-coach who focuses on laying technical foundations and improving team execution: kickstarted Visa standard UI library adoption, standardized API exception handling, and introduced a test automation framework that enabled a shift from quarterly to monthly releases. Led a phased latency/throughput initiative that doubled throughput, and owned a production incident caused by a dependency’s expired certificate, driving monitoring and certificate-expiry notification improvements across dependent systems.”

Shyaam Sundhar Rajamadam Srinivasan

Screened

Director-level Cybersecurity Architect specializing in cloud security, threat detection and incident response

Reston, VA18y exp

“Entrepreneur building an AI-enabled platform to help tradespeople (e.g., plumbers/carpenters) find customers, currently moving from ideation toward MVP and user launch. Previously founded Votimo (2012), an early philanthropy/donation-transparency platform, raised ~ $2M in angel funding, and implemented the system before strategic drift from leadership/vision changes.”

Abraham Musa

Screened

Senior Solutions Architect specializing in cloud AI infrastructure and security

Union City, NJ9y exp

“Cloud-native architect focused primarily on AWS, with experience designing Kubernetes and AI/ML infrastructure for customers rather than owning day-to-day operations. Particularly interesting for AI platform roles: they described using Amazon Bedrock to analyze Terraform and automatically generate compliant IaC templates and runbooks for new multi-cloud AI environments.”

Krishna Guda

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI-native FinTech systems

Mountain View, CA23y exp

“Fintech product engineer working on a large-scale credit monitoring platform (tens of millions of users) with deep experience in regulated banking integrations, PII security, and step-up/MFA flows. Has shipped customer-facing React/TypeScript experiences driven by Optimizely experimentation and built reliable partner-facing microservices/SDKs on AWS, including resolving production traffic loss caused by edge security (DataDome/CAPTCHA) conflicts with payment providers.”

“Healthcare IT engineer with deep observability, backend, and database expertise who built mission-critical monitoring solutions across major enterprise transitions including Siemens, Cerner, and Oracle. Stood out by creating a DoD-deployed observability platform for 10,000+ HL7 interfaces and by automating hospital financial day-end workflows, cutting issues by 90% and freeing up 14 FTEs.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on compliance and statistical processing systems on AWS, building containerized FastAPI services plus event-driven async workflows (Step Functions/EventBridge) with strong reliability patterns (JWT auth, idempotency, structured logging). Has modernized SAS-based batch pipelines into modular Python/AWS services with parallel-run parity validation, and has demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (40+ min to <10 min) and hands-on incident ownership using CloudWatch-driven detection and prevention.”

“Backend/platform engineer building HIPAA-compliant, real-time healthcare systems: owned a Python/Flask API layer for an AI-enabled patient engagement and risk scoring service, implemented PHI-safe logging and cross-service auditability, and delivered Kubernetes microservices via ArgoCD GitOps. Also has experience with Kafka streaming pipelines and hybrid cloud-to-on-prem migrations in regulated healthcare/fintech environments.”

“AI/full-stack engineer with experience delivering production-critical healthcare AI at Roche (digital pathology imaging platform using Microsoft Gigapath for cancer diagnosis) and building scalable LLM-backed products. Strong in designing async AI backends (Django/Celery/Postgres/Redis on GCP), reliability engineering (Datadog, incident response), and agent-style document analysis workflows with evaluation loops.”

Geetha Sri Kasu

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS

5y exp

“Software engineer who owned an end-to-end self-service reporting workflow (secure APIs, async/batched processing, and React UI), improving report generation performance by ~30–40% and reducing manual support effort. Also built a RAG/embeddings prototype over internal docs and service logs with grounding-focused guardrails, and has a strong reliability/observability mindset (retries, DLQs, CI/CD validation, dashboards/tracing) for distributed workflows.”

Eric Low

Screened

Principal Engineering Leader specializing in platform, product, and AI advisory

14y exp

“Fractional CTO/lead engineer who shipped an end-to-end Next.js + FastAPI product experience (login, data processing results, chatbot Q&A) with an architecture designed to support future ML model integration. Has led large-scale engineering enablement (continuous delivery across ~150 devs/200 systems), owned production incident response with lasting test/contract improvements, and delivered a 3x productivity gain by fixing debugging/tooling bottlenecks while mentoring junior teams into independent delivery.”

Nicholas Johnson

Screened

Senior Recruiting Operations & Analytics professional specializing in high-volume technical hiring

Brentwood, CA10y exp

“Full-cycle recruiter who recently led a hard-to-fill technical search at AMS.net, driving the process from hiring manager intake through offer acceptance. Leverages market data and compensation benchmarks to realign stakeholders, optimize title/JD and outreach messaging, and keep pipelines moving with tight feedback SLAs and metric-driven cadence.”

Mustafa Ali

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI

Boston, MA4y exp

“Founding/early backend engineer at ATICA Global who built the company's core hotel property management platform from an empty repo into a production system used by 500+ hotel clients. Combines strong backend architecture with pragmatic product execution, including a dynamic pricing engine that increased partner revenue 17% YoY and an AI-powered sentiment pipeline processing 200K+ reviews/month.”

“Wi-Fi firmware engineer building a Linux host-based AI diagnostic agent that ingests TLV telemetry from firmware modules (scan/datapath/security/roam/low power) to detect anomalies and automatically push mitigations. Delivered measurable production impact (27% reduction in field issues) and improved performance by replacing netlink with shared memory (+30% kernel-layer improvement), while also driving customer-facing demos and instituting release-gating controls after a factory-line crash incident.”