Vetted Incident Response Professionals

“Former CTO at Enodo who led development of programmatic parsers to extract unstructured data from real-estate financial documents (rent rolls and T12s), validating with users via prototypes before productionizing. Emphasizes accuracy-driven engineering and scalable test-suite growth based on real user samples, and has experience scoping complex product ideas (e.g., browser-based narrative editor) down to an MVP.”

Sandhya Yadavalli

Screened

Mid-level Cybersecurity Analyst specializing in SIEM, incident response, and Zero Trust

Remote, USA3y exp

“Cybersecurity/SOC-focused engineer with hands-on production experience integrating and tuning Splunk Enterprise Security for a zero-trust program, including CIM normalization, correlation/risk-based detection tuning, and performance optimization via forwarder-level filtering and index strategy. Has cross-disciplinary incident troubleshooting experience spanning SIEM, networking, and hardware, and has automated customer/team-specific security workflows using Python in Splunk playbooks; collaborated on-site with HSBC IT/SOC teams to deliver dashboards and security policies.”

“Founder of pre-revenue cybersecurity startup Ceyepher Security; has already set up lead-intent sourcing, automated pipeline/CRM analytics, and outbound marketing. Plans to raise capital after landing first clients to demonstrate value via revenue, whitepapers, and customer testimonials; interested in studio support to accelerate sales. Mentions a disability that has enabled significant time honing computer science skills and is open to joining innovative work even outside their own company.”

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.”

Lavrenti DeLavrenti

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Technology Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms, AI/ML, and SaaS

Remote15y exp

“Engineering leader (Director/VP level) who has repeatedly aligned product and engineering through ROI-driven quarterly roadmaps and strong stakeholder communication, including board presentations. Built a parallel cloud team to migrate an on-prem product to the cloud, credited with delivering $9M ARR, and led a Python monolith-to-serverless event-driven microservices transformation. Currently manages distributed teams across Mexico, India, and the US using pod-based structures, clear KPIs, and a supportive accountability culture.”

“Built and launched an internal AI troubleshooting assistant focused on safe, retrieval-first root cause analysis for enterprise systems, with strong attention to monitoring, fallback behavior, and post-launch iteration. Also owns full-stack product work across React and Java/Spring Boot, including high-volume financial operations workflows, and reports measurable LLM improvements such as ~30-40% latency reduction.”

“Fintech startup veteran (8+ years) building TrustRelay, a control-plane product between ERPs and banks to verify vendors, enforce pre-flight payout policies, automate reconciliation, and produce deterministic audit evidence. Currently at MVP stage and planning to pursue Founders Institute Boston Sprint 2026 while lining up design partners and raising pre-seed/seed.”

“Operations/GTM/P&L/M&A leader and long-time product advisor exploring entrepreneurship; has conducted market research and is evaluating a cybersecurity concept focused on preventing Business Email Compromise (BEC). Demonstrated ability to turn an $80K consulting assessment into $1.4M in integration revenue and a $500K ARR follow-on by identifying target-state integration needs and building an MSP to sustain outcomes.”

“Deloitte engineer who built and shipped AI-powered, Kafka-driven workflow automation for transportation/document processing, including LLM-based semantic search. Strong in production reliability (idempotency, offset management, retries), observability (Datadog/CloudWatch), and database performance tuning (PostgreSQL/Flyway), with measurable latency improvements.”

“Cloud/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of AWS EKS Kubernetes platforms built and upgraded via Terraform, including AWS networking/security, EBS/EFS/S3 storage integration, and reliability validation through CloudWatch plus Prometheus/Grafana. Also has on-prem VMware/vSphere administration experience and day-to-day hybrid on-prem-to-AWS operations (VPN/Direct Connect), with examples of resolving pod instability from an application memory leak and fixing a production connectivity drop via routing/firewall troubleshooting.”

Sravanti Dandu

Screened

Mid-level Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS & Azure infrastructure automation

Arizona, USA6y exp

“Backend/platform engineer (American Express) who built a Flask-based orchestration layer to automate infrastructure provisioning and integrated Azure AD/JWT RBAC security. Strong in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance optimization (70%+ query-time reduction) and scalable async/event-driven architectures, including ML inference pipelines (SageMaker/Azure ML/Hugging Face) and high-throughput job queues (Celery/Redis) with reliability patterns like DLQs and idempotency.”

“Cloud-focused platform/infrastructure engineer centered on AWS and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience building EKS environments via Terraform/Terragrunt, bootstrapping clusters with Cilium and ArgoCD, and integrating persistent storage and backup tooling like EFS/EBS CSI and Velero. While no longer focused on on-prem or hybrid operations, they also bring prior VMware/Hyper-V and migration-to-AWS experience, making them strongest in modern cloud platform engineering roles.”

Carl Kibler

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI and Healthcare IT

Salt Lake City, UT13y exp

“Senior technical leader pursuing CTO roles who combines deep engineering breadth with strong product instincts and direct investor-facing startup experience. Has represented engineering, security, and IT in diligence processes, built investor-prep materials, and thinks strategically about AI-forward products, pivots, and market fit without falling into hype.”

“Startup-oriented product/technology leader targeting CTO roles, with experience evaluating and scoping high-impact product expansions. At Crelate, helped assess and shape a contract timekeeping/invoicing initiative that expanded TAM by hundreds of millions and increased ACV 2-3x, contributing to successful market traction and the company’s path to Series C.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Visa and Ansel, owning cloud-native, event-driven microservices end-to-end in high-volume and business-critical environments. Stands out for combining scalable Java/Spring/Kafka architecture with strong production rigor, incident ownership, and a pragmatic approach to AI workflow integration that emphasizes guardrails over blind model trust.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python REST APIs and PostgreSQL, plus AWS containerized deployments using CloudFormation, Jenkins CI/CD, and CloudWatch monitoring/autoscaling. Has built data validation/ETL-style workflows with schema/version checks and targeted reprocessing, modernized legacy batch processing into Java services with phased parallel migrations, and delivered measurable SQL performance gains (~50% query runtime reduction).”

“Data engineer (Charles Schwab) who took ownership of an unstable, ambiguous nightly financial data pipeline and rebuilt it into a reliable, incremental AWS Glue/Airflow/Redshift system feeding Power BI. Created a custom Python data-quality framework with hard-stop gating and schema drift detection, improving integrity (99.9%), cutting runtime (~20%), and reducing incidents/tickets (35% fewer schema-related dashboard incidents; 30% fewer investigations).”

Goutami Amara

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in FinTech and Healthcare platforms

Memphis, TN6y exp

“Software engineer who built internal operations/monitoring dashboards for real-time trading and money-movement systems, emphasizing auditability and rapid iteration. Deep experience with microservices on Azure using Kafka/RabbitMQ, plus strong testing discipline (JUnit/Mockito/Testcontainers, contract/E2E) and observability patterns (correlation IDs, centralized logging, distributed tracing) to reduce incident triage time and improve resilience.”

Dan Sorensen

Screened

Executive CISO specializing in cybersecurity strategy, AI governance, and enterprise risk

Denver, CO10y exp

“Founder of Nexus Security Advisors, an early-stage cybersecurity consulting firm focused on supporting small and mid-sized businesses with practical security needs. Brings cybersecurity leadership plus AI governance and compliance focus, and has experience designing and delivering hands-on cyber threat intelligence training by validating needs with leadership and partnering to build a practical curriculum.”

Mike Khorrami

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in enterprise SaaS and cloud-native platforms

Woodland Hills, CA25y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who modernized a legacy C#/SQL Server system to Snowflake + Python on GCP, enabling ~30x scale and supporting hundreds of millions of transactions per day per customer. Strong in architecture tradeoffs (Snowflake vs Databricks), production reliability (New Relic, logging/alerting), and lightweight process improvements like a rigorous Definition of Done and structured PR reviews.”

Harshitha Parupalli

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in multi-cloud real-time and batch data pipelines

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Data engineer with healthcare domain experience who owned 100M+ record pipelines end-to-end (Kafka/Kinesis/ADF → PySpark/dbt validation → Spark SQL transforms → Snowflake/Power BI serving). Built production-grade reliability practices (Airflow orchestration, CloudWatch/Grafana monitoring, pytest + contract/regression tests, idempotent ingestion/backfills) and delivered measurable improvements: 35% lower latency and 40% better query performance.”

“SRE-oriented infrastructure engineer who built an internal Vertex AI/Gemini knowledge chatbot to centralize product and development documentation, cutting routine support questions from 10+ daily to roughly 2. Also brings hands-on experience debugging Kubernetes production incidents and monitoring ETL/data-quality issues in Dataflow-based pipelines.”