Vetted Kanban Professionals

“Co-founded a Digital Loss Prevention (DLP) startup and raised $6M in seed funding by showcasing a controlled, laptop-based technology demo. Post-funding, drove MVP planning and execution by sequencing operations and assembling a team to build an appliance MVP, using an iterative build/evaluate/visualize approach.”

Vismay Patel

Screened

Senior AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, GenAI, and MLOps

Berkeley, CA7y exp

“ML/GenAI practitioner with healthcare domain depth who built and deployed a production cervical-cancer EMR classification system using a hybrid rules + medical BERT approach, optimized for high recall under severe class imbalance and PHI constraints. Experienced running end-to-end production ML/LLM pipelines with Apache Airflow (validation, promotion/rollback, monitoring, retraining) and partnering closely with clinicians to calibrate thresholds and implement human-in-the-loop review.”

“Backend engineer focused on cloud/distributed systems, deploying Java 17/Spring Boot microservices on AWS EKS with RDS and Kafka. Demonstrated strong production readiness work (DB lock mitigation, Kafka idempotency, gradual rollouts) and delivered a major latency improvement (~400ms to ~100ms). Also has proven cross-layer troubleshooting skills, isolating intermittent API timeouts to a specific Kubernetes node’s network interface issue, and partners closely with ops teams to build dashboards and workflow automation (including Python scripts).”

“Built a hackathon "Patient Summary Assistant" backend focused on healthcare workflows, combining RAG-based summarization with HIPAA-minded privacy controls (NER redaction + encryption). Demonstrated strong infra skills by deploying on Kubernetes with Helm/HPA and GitOps (ArgoCD), plus migrating from OpenAI to an on-prem Llama 3 stack (vLLM, quantization, shadow-mode testing) and adding real-time Kafka ingestion for patient vitals/anomaly alerts.”

“Senior data engineer with experience in both healthcare (CVS Health) and financial services (Bank of America), building large-scale Azure lakehouse pipelines (30+ EHR sources, ~5TB) and real-time streaming services (Event Hubs/Kafka) for patient vitals. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (Great Expectations, monitoring/alerting, schema drift automation), with measurable outcomes like 50% runtime reduction and 99%+ uptime for regulatory reporting pipelines.”

Mark Krawczuk

Screened

Senior Program & Project Leader specializing in digital transformation and cross-functional delivery

New York, NY30y exp

“Cross-functional operator with experience at Rippling and Twitter, known for building lightweight but rigorous communication and reporting systems (shared notes, weekly updates, exec decks, issue-tracker velocity) to keep teams and executives aligned. Emphasizes psychological safety and early conflict resolution, and has supported senior leaders managing high-volume creative/media output through concise, proactive executive briefings.”

Shruti Krishnagiri

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader & Technical Founder specializing in AI automation platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California20y exp

“Founder/CTO who built and shipped a consumer subscription-bundling platform end-to-end (architecture, implementation, testing) and scaled it to thousands of customers and major partners. Previously led a major reliability overhaul at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a Google-Docs-like ed-tech product—boosted observability, introduced incident management, and migrated to a Docker-based scalable architecture. Heavy user of AI tools (Cursor/Claude) for development, testing, and code review, with a strong bias toward lightweight, fast-moving execution.”

“Brazil-based startup CTO who raised $3M and spent 5 years building an agri-fintech credit origination tool for farmers, including going through Y Combinator and fundraising via Demo Day and Brazilian VCs. Ultimately shut the company down due to market shifts (rising interest rates and farmer delinquency), demonstrating pragmatic judgment and deep exposure to credit-market dynamics.”

“Built and shipped open-source LLM/RAG systems, including a generative AI assistant grounded on ~30,000 scraped university web pages, improving response accuracy ~30% by moving from TF-IDF-only retrieval to a hybrid sentence-transformer approach with fallback controls. Also partnered with non-technical leadership at Securi.ai to deliver real-time predictive analytics dashboards (Elasticsearch + Jira/ServiceNow) that reduced project overhead by 18%.”

“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.”

Akshaya Rajagopalan

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud SaaS and accessible web apps

Waterloo, Canada6y exp

“Frontend engineer who leads end-to-end delivery of complex workflow-driven React + TypeScript products on top of Rails/GraphQL backends, with a strong emphasis on typed API contracts, scalable architecture, and automated quality gates. Shipped major features (e.g., inventory reservation at Jobber) using feature-flagged rollouts, close QA collaboration, and performance-focused iteration.”