Vetted Incident Response Professionals

Tina Nguyen

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in iOS and full-stack development

Sunnyvale, CA3y exp

“Cross-platform (web + mobile) product engineer working on coupon clipping experiences. Built and shipped category-based filtering informed by external market data (Rakuten/Honey) and internal user-journey analytics, validated via A/B testing and resulting in a 30% traffic lift. Experienced handling on-call production incidents, including rapid root-cause analysis and hotfixing a mobile crash that was blocking a release.”

“Candidate is not pursuing a startup and is actively seeking employment, but brings several years of experience from a late-stage, well-funded startup. They show some familiarity with startup culture, especially the urgency, energy, and focus on creating value and demonstrating progress in real time.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience building and evolving financial-services workflow systems where correctness, data integrity, and reliable state transitions outweigh raw throughput. Emphasizes idempotent, contract-driven FastAPI APIs with defense-in-depth security (JWT + row-level security) and careful, low-blast-radius migrations using feature flags, dual writes/shadow reads, and incremental rollout.”

“Hands-on architect/executive who built a virtual sales platform from scratch with real-time video delivery and autoscaling global video nodes, while also operating at the stakeholder/roadmap level. Previously scaled IT as Arbonne grew from ~$11M to $1B in annual sales and led large digital transformation efforts including a 70-person team for princesshouse.com; also advises startups (e.g., SocialBud) on product expansion and roadmaps.”

“Built a college AI chatbot during a master’s program, owning the full Python/Flask backend plus Google Gemini integration and a Postgres persistence layer (course info + conversation history), including caching/performance tuning. Also deployed and migrated ETL/ELT workloads from AWS Lambda into Kubernetes/EKS with GitHub Actions-based GitOps CI/CD, IRSA permissions, and Secrets Manager/S3/Postgres connectivity.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who has owned a large AIX 7.x/VIOS/HMC estate (hundreds of LPARs), handling provisioning, patching, tuning, and incident response. Demonstrated high-availability and recovery leadership with PowerHA failovers and SAN-path RCA/resiliency improvements, plus successful AIX 7.1→7.3 migrations with minimal downtime/no data loss. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience (Jenkins + Vault, Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform on Azure) with a focus on secure, repeatable deployments and drift control.”

“Financial data engineer who has built and operated high-volume batch + streaming pipelines (200–300 GB/day; 5–10k events/sec) using AWS, Spark/Delta, Airflow, Kafka, and Snowflake, with strong emphasis on data quality and reliability. Demonstrated measurable impact via 99.9% SLA adherence, major reductions in bad records/nulls, MTTR improvements, and significant latency/runtime/query performance gains; also built a distributed web-scraping system processing 5–10M records/day with anti-bot and schema-drift defenses.”

Subhash Krishnamoorthy

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in digital transformation, headless e-commerce, and cloud architecture

Chesterfield, VA25y exp

“Technology leader focused on business-aligned roadmaps and integration-heavy ecommerce platforms. Recently delivered an on-time launch for lutusooking.com (a premium Hamilton Beach brand) by coordinating UX/UI, component-based middleware, BigCommerce, Algolia search, personalization/recommendations, payments, and supply chain integrations, and later improved scalability via a Jitterbit iPaaS approach proven during Black Friday/Cyber Monday traffic.”

Ryan Echols

Screened

Senior Workforce Analytics & WFM Leader specializing in contact center operations

Marietta, GA8y exp

“Operations-focused team lead currently managing 20 coordinators, with strong workforce management experience spanning forecasting, scheduling, KPI/staffing reporting, and executive-facing data presentations. Led a cross-functional Salesforce implementation and redesigned forecasting/workflow to support a newly created internal-promotion department, improving flexibility in coverage planning.”

SreeHarsha Kelam

Screened

Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure

Atlanta, GA5y exp

“GCP-focused database/platform engineer with hands-on production experience operating Cloud SQL at scale, especially around performance tuning, reliability, and day-2 operations. Has supported migration from a single-instance database setup to a more scalable GCP architecture and built Terraform/Python automation for provisioning and recovery workflows.”

Cia Hang

Screened

Executive IT and Operations leader specializing in digital transformation and security

Chicago, IL13y exp

“Candidate is very familiar with the venture capital and broader investment landscape, but is not interested in founding a company. They have worked with several TPG-backed or TPG-owned organizations, helping drive business scaling, cost reduction, and execution against investor governance requirements.”

Tara Worrell

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI/LLM integration, and cloud infrastructure

Brooklyn, NY6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience in highly regulated and high-stakes systems, including an airline crew messaging platform requiring near-zero-error real-time operations and a HIPAA-compliant mental health application built from an early-stage concept. They also show strong operational maturity, having owned a GoDaddy production incident through resolution and then led deployment pipeline improvements that reduced build failures by 40% and doubled deployment frequency.”

Adhiraj Chadha

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, data, and full-stack applications

Amherst, MA3y exp

“Builder with a mix of backend engineering, product instinct, and startup execution: they shipped a legal BI platform from scratch that handled 1,000+ cases, cut reporting time 80%, and saved $30K annually. They also move quickly in ambiguous environments, from launching a roommate app across iOS/Android after user discovery to building a RAG system with a 50+ case evaluation suite and a cloud dev environment in under 48 hours.”

“Veteran IT operations and security professional with 30+ years of experience keeping companies safe from attacks. They are developing a business plan centered on restoring human oversight in heavily automated operations environments, with the goal of creating a simple, repeatable model that can scale across states and potentially serve both private and public-sector security needs.”

Chinmay Warang

Screened

Senior Audio Software Engineer specializing in real-time audio ML systems

Somerville, MA5y exp

“Startup backend engineer with unusually deep end-to-end ownership of real-time audio/ML systems. At Modulate, they rebuilt the core Audio Intelligence API used by enterprise customers like Activision, cutting latency 70% and eliminating session loss, and also independently created a data labeling platform that powered the company’s model training during a major product pivot.”

“Backend engineer who architected and owned a mission-critical outage management/decision-support platform, replacing a legacy system that failed under load. Emphasizes auditability, deterministic validation, and server-side concurrency controls (section locking, scoped autosaves), plus redundancy/load balancing and monitoring to keep the system stable for 24/7 operations handling 1,500+ weekly outage events.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with logistics domain experience (DHL) who shipped a real-time shipment status update system using Spring Boot + Kafka and a performance-tuned PostgreSQL tracking schema. Also has AWS production operations experience (ECS/Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible) and has handled peak-load incidents end-to-end by tracing Kafka lag to database bottlenecks and resolving via query/index optimization plus scaling.”

“Full-cycle sales professional focused on IT hardware/infrastructure, prospecting into SMB through enterprise and engaging C-level stakeholders. Reports consistent outbound output (5–10 meetings/week, ~75% conversion) and experience growing large accounts, including expanding a public-company data center initiative into a $2.1M account.”

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of on-prem OpenStack/VMware and Kubernetes clusters deployed via Kubespray, including OpenStack-integrated networking and Ceph-backed storage. Built a GitOps-style Terraform delivery model in GitLab with CI/CD and security scanning (SAST/DAST/Checkov), and operated a hybrid on-prem/AWS ecommerce architecture with PCI-segmented payment systems over site-to-site VPN.”

Abi Olatunji

Screened

Senior DevSecOps/SRE Engineer specializing in secure AWS & Azure cloud platforms

Dallas, TX9y exp

“Senior production infrastructure/SRE-style engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX (7.2/7.3) ownership at scale (40+ LPARs) supporting SAP/Oracle, including live DLPAR changes and PowerHA clustering. Also brings modern cloud/DevOps experience—Azure DevOps CI/CD secured with Key Vault and Terraform-based Azure provisioning—bridging legacy enterprise platforms with cloud automation.”

Harshith Jaladi

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech distributed systems

Chennai, India1y exp

“Game developer with early-stage startup experience who worked directly with a CEO to integrate an AI-based API into Skyrim Elder Scrolls V, helping showcase the product and win Riot Games as a client. Currently owns multiple financial reporting ingestion workflows and has driven meaningful time savings through cross-functional execution, combining gaming/AI experience with operational impact in fintech.”

kartikeya tiwari

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and platform engineering

Bangalore, India6y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with experience owning production systems in fintech and product startups, including a predictive scaling platform that cut AWS spend by 40% and an ambiguous social-intelligence feature that doubled MRR from $50K to $100K. Also building AI search and document-processing workflows, with reported 99.7% extraction accuracy and hands-on use of both classical forecasting and modern LLM stacks.”

“Backend/cloud engineer who built an AWS serverless IoT system that computes Bluetooth beacon locations from telemetry using heavy scientific Python (NumPy/SciPy/pandas) packaged as Dockerized Lambda, integrated with Java microservices and scheduled batch orchestration. Has deep AWS delivery experience (CI/CD with Code* tools, CloudFormation, cost controls) and has led high-severity incident response including CloudTrail forensics and infrastructure recovery after a compromised-keys crypto-mining attack.”