Vetted Incident Response Professionals

“Full-stack Java developer (~4 years) who built a telecom asset management system end-to-end with React and Spring Boot, and led/participated heavily in migrating it from a monolith to Spring Cloud-based microservices. Experienced with high-volume, data-driven workloads using Kafka (partitioning, batching, resilient consumers) and production observability via centralized logging with ELK and Splunk.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer with hands-on production experience across Power8/Power9 frames, VIOS and HMC, including resolving a production LPAR outage caused by vFC mapping issues. Has operated PowerHA clusters for critical finance workloads, running quarterly failover tests and handling an unplanned failover triggered by a network adapter failure, then improving resilience with redundancy and monitoring automation.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who has owned a sizable production estate (50 Power servers / ~200 LPARs) spanning VIOS/HMC, SAN/NFS, and PowerHA clusters. Demonstrates strong incident leadership (LPAR outage + split-brain recovery) and a process-improvement mindset with measurable reductions in recurrence/MTTR, while also bringing modern DevOps/IaC experience (Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, security scanning, canary/blue-green).”

“Cybersecurity leader with 13 years in IT/cyber and 8 years in management, currently managing ~200 people while innovating explainable AI (XAI) for military/high-stakes decision-making. Experienced with large budgets, resource allocation, and investor engagement, and is motivated to build a proactive, future-focused cyber company centered on Zero Trust and human-overseen XAI.”

“Former Cloud Engineer at Indivior (laid off in January) now focused on entrepreneurship; owns multiple businesses including a SaaS product with iOS and Android apps (strive.gifts). Has not raised funding yet and is considering raising working capital to hire full-time backend and UX/UI developers.”

Aditya Rajendra

Screened

Mid-level Product & Program Associate specializing in sourcing, pricing, and analytics

Orange, CA3y exp

“Sourcing professional who led Home Depot WPC flooring launches and custom direct-ship container projects, combining landed-cost/tariff modeling with hands-on supplier onboarding and third-party testing coordination. Known for data-driven negotiations (e.g., securing a 30-point margin and winning price concessions that drove repeat 20-container orders) and for streamlining cross-functional onboarding via Jira to cut cycle time by 25%.”

Branden Lee

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React/TypeScript and Spring/Go

6y exp

“Software engineer/SME who owned customer-facing features in a tanker planning/scheduling domain, spanning UI, database migrations, and REST APIs. Drove major performance improvements by shifting complex pairing logic from a React/TypeScript frontend into a backend BFF (cutting load time from ~3 minutes to ~30 seconds) and led cross-team event-driven integrations using RabbitMQ and hexagonal architecture. Also built an internal OpenLayers-based mapping library adopted across multiple apps via Nexus.”

Erico Rahmad Darmanto

Screened

Mid-level QA Engineer specializing in test automation and cybersecurity testing

Yogyakarta, Indonesia5y exp

“Early-career QA tester (no professional game studio experience yet) demonstrating a structured, systems-oriented approach to testing complex state logic. Has hands-on experience using Jira and TestRail and provides detailed defect reports (timing conditions, unstable network scenarios, logs/video) that help engineering diagnose async state-validation issues and verify fixes via regression.”

“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.”

“Backend-focused engineer with banking-domain deployment experience who has owned releases end-to-end, from discovery and API/database implementation through post-launch stabilization. Brings a reliability-first mindset across distributed systems, incident response, and messy real-world data handling, and has also applied that foundation to retrieval-based LLM workflows in production-oriented cloud environments.”

“Full-stack/backend-leaning engineer with hands-on experience building transaction-processing systems using React, TypeScript, Node.js, MySQL, and Spring Boot microservices. They have owned services in production on AWS EKS, diagnosed peak-traffic failures via CloudWatch, and driven architectural modernization to Kafka-based microservices that improved scalability, deployment speed, and reliability.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (Spring Boot/Django + React/TypeScript) with deep experience building multi-tenant, enterprise workflow and supply-chain/order-tracking systems. Owned an end-to-end Workflow SLA Breach Prediction & Alerting feature integrating Azure ML for a cloud workflow platform used by ~10,000 enterprise users, and has hands-on AWS operations experience resolving real production latency/scaling incidents via query optimization and Redis caching.”

Haritha Peddi

Screened

Mid-level SOC Analyst specializing in SIEM detection, threat hunting, and incident response

USA5y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with production experience in payments/reporting systems and high-scale Node/NestJS services on AWS (ECS/ALB) using PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Prisma, and Datadog. Shipped applied AI features including a Zendesk-embedded support copilot (summarization, draft replies, internal doc retrieval, playbook next steps) and an LLM-driven ops workflow agent with robust error taxonomy, retries/escalation rules, and auditability.”

Serge Ahranovich

Screened

Executive CTO / Platform Architect specializing in IoT, telematics, and EV charging infrastructure

Los Angeles, CA20y exp

“Founder of TimeTick (timetick.io), an AI-powered diagnostics platform for IoT combining device simulation, automated testing, and real-time monitoring—initially focused on EV charger diagnostics. Former VP of Engineering with a track record of building IoT systems from scratch and applying AI to detect protocol-failure patterns that drive downtime; currently supporting existing customers and converting pilots (with leads like Siemens and ABB) into paid subscriptions.”

“Data engineer focused on large-scale financial data platforms, with hands-on ownership of an AWS + Databricks + Snowflake pipeline processing ~2TB/day. Strong in data quality (Great Expectations), schema drift automation, and production reliability (99.9%), plus measurable performance/cost wins (4h→1.2h, ~25% cost reduction). Also built an async Python crawling/ingestion framework with anti-bot mitigation, retries, and Airflow-driven backfills.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of a production POS platform, including architecture, CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment, and live incident handling. Also built a RAG-based document Q&A system using OpenAI/Anthropic with hybrid retrieval, evaluation metrics, and fallback logic, showing both traditional backend depth and practical applied AI experience.”

“Senior product leader who helped transform Submittable from a single-program grant tool into a multi-program impact platform, driving ARR from $20M to $70M+ while improving retention and margins. Particularly strong in enterprise platform strategy and human-centered AI, with a clear philosophy of using AI to augment expert judgment rather than replace it.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building real-time sensor telemetry platforms: FastAPI + PostgreSQL services with strong observability, plus AWS serverless and Glue-based ETL into Redshift. Has modernized legacy SAS pipelines into Python microservices and delivered measurable performance wins (Postgres query latency cut to <1 minute and ~60% DB CPU reduction) while owning incident response and reliability improvements.”

“Cloud-native infrastructure and application security practitioner focused on AWS multi-account environments, partnering with engineering teams on threat modeling, secure architecture reviews, and secure SDLC alignment. Has implemented IaC-driven centralized logging/SIEM and improved IAM and logging redundancy to strengthen both security posture and operational resilience, plus maintained secure CI/CD pipelines with integrated security scanning and release guardrails.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who owned a very large production estate (12 Power9 E980 frames and 400+ AIX 7.2 LPARs) with deep hands-on expertise in VIOS/vHMC, DLPAR, and PowerHA. Demonstrated strong incident response (zero-downtime DLPAR fix; split-brain prevention during storage failure) and modernization skills spanning Jenkins/Ansible CI/CD and Terraform automation for IBM Power Virtual Server/PowerVC.”

Xin Li

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and high-concurrency APIs

Santa Clara, CA17y exp

“Full-stack engineer in an insurance + telematics org who built a 0→1 multi-agent, AI-driven mobile regression execution system integrating Jira and n8n, emphasizing determinism (schema-validated outputs), traceability (state-machine style step archives), and scalable device scheduling. Also designed an event-driven microservices architecture using Kafka with standardized API/event contracts and has hands-on incident response experience improving resilience via rate limiting, circuit breaking, caching, and idempotency.”

Umair Khokhar

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI Platforms for Enterprise B2B SaaS

San Francisco, CA15y exp

“Technical leader/player-coach who architected and shipped an end-to-end computer vision pricing system for a major North American auto seller, using Go + Ray + AWS SageMaker in a low-latency distributed inference architecture. Strong in production governance (logs/tracing/guardrails/AppSec), reliability incident ownership (DNS limits affecting 20% traffic), and measurable delivery acceleration (deployment cycle 16→4 days; delivery speed 5→2 days) through process optimization and AI-assisted enablement.”

Emmanuel Bakwowi

Screened

Senior DevSecOps Engineer specializing in multi-cloud Kubernetes and CI/CD automation

New York, NY10y exp

“Cloud/DevOps engineer operating across AWS and Azure, running Kubernetes workloads with secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps) and Terraform IaC. Has supported AIX/PowerHA systems in hybrid environments—handling failover testing, incident recovery, and performance troubleshooting (including multipath/storage-path issues)—and has led cutovers by managing dependencies, rollback, and stabilization.”

“Built a production AI stylist agent for retail store associates that pulls customer loyalty, address, and purchase-history data to generate in-store product recommendations. Demonstrates hands-on experience across agent orchestration, MCP-based tool integration, Vertex AI/GCP deployment, observability, resilience patterns, and pragmatic production tradeoffs like using PostgreSQL with pgvector instead of a standalone vector database.”