Vetted Problem Solving Professionals

Mark Connolly

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level UX and design systems leader specializing in enterprise platforms

Remote, USA28y exp

“Frontend architecture leader with deep browser-platform expertise who led the UI for Fidelity's next-generation account optimization platform and built a framework-agnostic web component ecosystem before Fluent existed. Particularly strong in semantic component design, event-driven architecture, performance tuning at scale, and highly disciplined testing, with recent hands-on work in GIS/map-based visualization prototypes.”

Jeremy Rothman

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director of Photography specializing in broadcast, corporate, and documentary video production

Dunstable, MA

“Metro Boston-based director of photography and production company owner with 20+ years of experience shooting high-profile corporate and broadcast work, including lighting/shooting Bank of America’s president/CEO and contributing DP work to an Emmy-winning National Geographic Ebola documentary. Has extensive international documentary experience (German/French/British TV) and deep hands-on proficiency with Sony cinema cameras, Ronin gimbals, Autel drones, and pro audio workflows.”

“CRM and lifecycle marketing analyst with 4+ years of experience spanning Accenture client work and Walmart-focused CRM, loyalty, and eCommerce analytics. Strongest in segmentation, campaign measurement, and A/B testing, with reported impact including 14% higher response rates, 8% repeat order growth, 9% CTR lift, and 7% conversion improvement.”

“Early hire at FullCycle who owned high-trust fund operations initiatives spanning tax (K-1) process redesign, investor communications, and executive support. Known for building scalable systems (including an executive communication framework adopted as a team best practice) and for driving complex logistics like getting a team to Davos while keeping core fund operations running.”

Priyanshu Maurya

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in insurance, finance, and healthcare analytics

New York, NY3y exp

“Built and productionized LLM-driven sentiment scoring for earnings call transcripts at Goldman Sachs, replacing legacy NLP to deliver a cleaner trading signal while managing latency/cost via batching, caching, and distilled models. Also implemented an Airflow-orchestrated fraud modeling pipeline at MetLife with drift-based retraining and SageMaker deployment, and has a disciplined evaluation/rollout framework for reliable AI workflows.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech and AI product experience: built HuddleAI end-to-end on Firebase/React, including a serverless LLM meeting-intelligence pipeline (FFmpeg + Google Speech-to-Text + GPT-4 with schema validation) and Slack notifications. At Gemini, owned a Postgres/Scala workflow change for wire deposit approvals that cut blocked registrations by 60% and emphasized correctness/compliance in UK/EU transaction-state UI.”

Afra Ali

Screened

Senior Technical Program Manager specializing in infrastructure and systems delivery

Worcester, MA10y exp

“Program/design management professional with architectural and operations experience who has supported highly complex infrastructure environments, including Houston Airport System's $1.5B International Terminal Redevelopment Program. Stands out for bridging technical teams and executive stakeholders, building real-time governance tools, and coordinating multilingual client engagement across large-scale design and construction programs.”

“Game designer focused on mobile/PC action gameplay who owned end-to-end mode design and tuning on "Thrud: Broken Heaven" (3rd-person aerial shooter). Notable for telemetry-driven iteration across CBT1-3, rapid UE5 Blueprint prototyping, and building a reusable in-battle tutorial framework that improved onboarding clarity and reduced frustration while preserving challenge.”