Vetted Performance Testing Professionals

“Full-stack/backend engineer with healthcare and enterprise experience: built and secured AWS-hosted services for a clinical EHR product that redacts/transforms hospital patient records for pharma customers (e.g., AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson). At Cisco, led an incremental Ruby-to-Python/Django migration for a compliance backend, and has deep multi-tenant security experience using Postgres RLS tied to JWT plus DLQ patterns to harden data pipelines.”

“Candidate brings an operator-to-founder profile with leadership experience in IT and Business Systems and a strong grasp of how ideas become venture-backable products. They speak fluently about startup evaluation criteria such as TAM, technical defensibility, speed to scale, and AI differentiation, and appear especially motivated by building solutions end-to-end in startup or venture studio environments.”

Denvinn Magsino

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Development Engineer in Test specializing in CI/CD and web automation

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“QA automation engineer with ad-tech domain experience (Prebid.js wrapper-based services) who built an end-to-end Python automation framework using Playwright to validate wrapper settings, auction request/response, and analytics payloads. Uses Jenkins-driven CI reporting and feature-categorized regression runs to quickly isolate revenue-impacting defects and coordinate fast fixes with developers.”

“Game QA professional who shipped AAA (Overwatch 2) as quality feature owner for Campaign missions, owning high-risk areas like mission progression stability and preventing soft-lock/state desync issues. Also shipped Stormgate and caught a critical Steam achievement integration failure near RC by recreating the issue in an anti-cheat, live-mirroring environment and driving it through fix + regression verification.”

Emmett Ding

Screened

Senior Strategy & Operations professional specializing in climate tech commercialization and investing

New Brunswick, NJ8y exp

“Strategy consulting and business operations professional with climate-tech and climate VC experience (Avnos, Earth Foundry, Strategy&). Led cross-functional work to update a techno-economic analysis and produce a pilot proposal for direct air capture, contributing to a won engagement; also served as Chief of Staff to GPs, streamlining diligence, dealflow, CRM, and LP reporting to boost executive productivity.”

“Engineering leader with experience owning product engineering strategy, architecture, and org scaling across hospitality/workforce management and insurance startup environments. They describe being brought in to help Fourth Inc. revamp engineering for large-scale enterprise customers, while also scaling teams at The Zebra and staying hands-on with production monitoring, performance analysis, and cross-team architectural execution.”

“Frontend architecture leader with experience at Citi and Warner Bros. Discovery, building high-performance browser UIs for demanding enterprise and media workflows. Stands out for combining design-system standardization, deep browser performance optimization, and measurable impact: ~50% frontend improvement and 40% faster feature delivery across a 20+ engineer team.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Comcast and in healthcare/pharmacy automation (PrimeRx), building Python/Flask services that orchestrate large-scale batch workflows (Airflow) and high-throughput event processing (Kafka). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (cut provisioning latency to ~150–200ms) and strong multi-tenant isolation strategies (Postgres RLS, partitioning), plus practical integration of ML model outputs into production systems with validation and fallback controls.”

Manasa Mangipudi

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and computer vision

3y exp

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered resume-to-job matching and feedback product using RAG, with a strong focus on latency, hallucination control, and scalable deployment. Experienced orchestrating ML inference and backend services on Kubernetes and applying rigorous evaluation/guardrail practices; also partnered with business/product stakeholders at Walmart to improve an NLP-based supplier support system.”

“Built and owned "Cortex," an AI agent that helps users understand large GitHub repositories by mapping architecture and relationships between files/folders in minutes. Implemented an agentic, multi-stage prompt decomposition approach and validated it across open-source repos, while also doing legacy service modernization work involving dependency upgrades and refactors.”

Kanaka Chalam Volety

Screened

Staff DevOps/SRE Engineer specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Infrastructure-focused engineer with Vonage experience modernizing early-stage cloud architecture (Terraform modularization, blue-green deployments, containerization, and zero-downtime database migration planning to Aurora). Also built a local end-to-end side project, Vastu AI, combining a custom-trained YOLO model (Roboflow-labeled data) with a locally hosted LLM via Ollama to generate a vastu compliance report from floor-plan images.”

“Built Laborate.app, a full-stack lab notebook and inventory product for scientists, largely solo using Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Postgres, Prisma, and AWS S3. Stands out for combining product ownership with practical concerns like encrypted data storage, autosave reliability, caching, tenant isolation, and scalability planning.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”