Vetted Incident Response Professionals

“Hands-on production engineer with deep Oracle tuning and observability-driven troubleshooting experience in a 24x7 healthcare system used by pharmacists across the U.S. While not yet hands-on with GCP databases, they bring strong transferable cloud and platform experience from AWS/Azure, including migration work, memory leak remediation, HA/DR operations, and end-to-end performance debugging across DB, JVM, and network layers.”

Vaughn Eugenio

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in distributed microservices and real-time systems

2y exp

“Software engineer with production experience at DraftKings and SRC, owning high-impact platform changes like early-start lineup validation fixes and a multi-service refactor to support dual-role players (e.g., Ohtani) using backward-compatible, feature-flagged rollouts. Has embedded onsite with military users to rapidly ship improvements to a COP/TAK mapping integration (TrackSync), and leverages AI tools (Claude) to accelerate learning and delivery in new domains (e.g., ESP32 smart deadbolt project).”

“Cloud infrastructure/SRE-style engineer with experience at TCS and ServiceNow focused on IBM Cloud and Linux/RHEL operations, security hardening, and automation in Python. Has led end-to-end production incident response (certificate expiry) and implemented preventive alerting adopted by 20+ teams, plus built Jenkins CI/CD with Vault-based secrets and Terraform-based AWS provisioning.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with Walmart and Dell experience who built and shipped a real-time engagement dashboard end-to-end (Kafka Streams, Spring Boot, React/TypeScript/D3) used daily by business teams, moving them from next-day reports to real-time decisioning. Strong in performance/reliability (Redis caching cut latency ~40%, 90%+ test coverage, Prometheus/CloudWatch monitoring) and production operations on AWS/EKS including handling a cascading failure from a memory leak with zero-downtime rollback and redeploy.”

“Infrastructure/Unix engineer with production PowerHA/HACMP operations experience (resource groups, service IPs, shared storage) who has executed planned failovers and recovered a real outage involving a SAN driver crash and manual Oracle recovery (restored service in ~15 minutes with zero data loss). Also supports cloud DevOps practices including CI/CD security scanning (SonarQube, Snyk), container registry/versioning, and Terraform Cloud-based IaC across AWS and GCP with PR/Jenkins-driven plan-and-apply workflows.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an enterprise search platform (Codlens) delivering natural-language Q&A over Jira/Slack using embeddings, vector DB search, re-ranking (RRF), and LLM responses with source grounding. Also designed and benchmarked a distributed IAM system with Postgres transaction-log replication and Raft-based quorum consistency, reporting ~253 TPS at ~60ms latency in a multi-node setup. Experience spans early-stage startups (Zetic AI, Sagwara Capital) and large-scale orgs (Akamai, Atlassian).”

Sandeep Mekala

Screened

Director-level Mobile Engineering Manager specializing in Generative AI and agentic mobile experiences

Remote13y exp

“iOS player-coach who led end-to-end development of real-time customer support chat and unified notification systems for T-Mobile’s iOS app using SwiftUI, Firebase, WebSockets, and Core Data (including offline handling). Drove measurable reliability/latency gains (~30%) through a major notification refactor and owned a high-severity push-notification incident from rollback through RCA and backward-compatible hotfix, while also scaling team process and people management.”

“Founder/CTO-type startup leader who has built cloud-native data and AI platforms from scratch while owning both technical vision and product direction. Brings rare end-to-end startup experience spanning zero-to-one building, growth-stage execution, and fundraising from early stage through exit, with a strong ability to translate technical complexity into clear investor narratives.”

“Backend engineer who led the end-to-end modernization of FleetView into a scalable, event-driven system supporting 1,000+ users and 13,000+ assets, cutting API latency by ~40%. Also built an AI-powered exit interview analytics pipeline on Azure using GPT-4o with strong guardrails, validation, and evaluation practices, showing a rare mix of production backend rigor and applied LLM workflow experience.”

“Built and deployed an AI-powered insurance claims fraud platform end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, OpenAI, pgvector, and AWS EKS. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG architecture with production-grade scalability and observability, delivering measurable impact including 62% less manual review, 40% better fraud precision, 37% higher throughput, and 99.95% uptime.”

“Senior engineering leader with VP-level scope who combines hands-on technical depth with large-scale org leadership. He led modernization of a legacy automotive ERP platform and architected OEM integration systems, while also scaling teams aggressively and translating enterprise customer needs into practical product and engineering plans.”

“Senior software engineer (5+ years) from Walmart Global Tech who owned and operated high-scale supplier inventory submission systems, including a microservice handling submissions up to 500k items and a data platform processing ~10TB/day. Strong in AWS/Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka/Spark streaming + batch pipelines, and production operations (on-call, metrics/alerting), with demonstrated performance wins (30% faster responses, 50% faster processing).”