Vetted Problem Solving Professionals

Saicharitha Yanamandala

Screened

Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in Java, Cloud, and Microservices

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend/Python engineer who owned an end-to-end FastAPI + AWS internal natural-language document Q&A system (Textract extraction, embeddings/vector DB, LLM integration) with strong focus on reliability and latency. Hands-on with Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD, Helm, rolling updates/auto-rollback) and built/optimized Kafka streaming pipelines using Prometheus/Grafana. Also supported a zero-downtime on-prem to cloud migration with parallel run and gradual traffic cutover.”

Helgi Oskarsson

Screened

Director-level VFX & Technical Animation Leader specializing in 3D animation and post-production

Phuket, Thailand18y exp

“Senior editor/motion graphics artist with 20+ years across commercials, social, TV/news, and longform YouTube—combining an old-school film editing sensibility with modern trend-aware pacing. Uses the full Adobe Creative Suite (plus DaVinci Resolve as primary NLE) and delivers end-to-end post including motion graphics, 3D/compositing, audio, and color. Has supervised and mentored a team at Disney Animation and has worked on videos for Corridor Crew.”

Melissa Floyd

Screened

Senior Lifecycle & CRM Marketer specializing in email/SMS automation and retention

Costa Mesa, CA12y exp

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer from 5.11 Tactical who uses CDP-driven segmentation and rigorous testing to unlock incremental revenue and retention. Built post-purchase triggers that generated ~6,000 incremental repeat buyers and ~$1M in incremental revenue in a month, and proved the value of an underserved women’s segment (higher AOV/CTR) to secure increased investment and enable dynamic personalized email content.”

Keith Filzen

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in government/defense cybersecurity and cross-domain solutions

Caldwell, WV36y exp

“Former Cubic CTO with direct M&A experience on the company's sale to Veritas Capital, and prior investment analysis experience at In-Q-Tel. Brings a rare blend of executive technology leadership, compliance/security depth, and investment diligence expertise focused on government and military markets.”

“Healthcare-focused data analyst with hands-on experience at Molina Healthcare building SQL and Python workflows for retention and churn analytics. They combined enrollment, CRM, and claims data into Power BI reporting, automated predictive churn analysis, and tied their work to measurable outcomes including faster processing, better reporting accuracy, and reduced churn.”

“AI/LLM-focused builder with internship experience at Curated, where they owned a voice AI support deployment end-to-end and built a RAG-based internal knowledge assistant. They pair practical production instincts with measurable outcomes, including a 30% reduction in human-handled support tickets, a 20-point NPS improvement, and a 40% reduction in manual document search across five teams.”

“Software engineer with unusually mature AI-native development practices, using Claude/GPT/Copilot across requirements, implementation, testing, and documentation. At Anzenna, they effectively acted as a tech lead for a multi-agent setup spanning four repos, creating specialized agent workflows and maintaining top-level cross-repo documentation to coordinate complex work.”

“Data science and AI professional with Capital One experience building churn prediction and GenAI-powered document intelligence solutions. Stands out for pairing hands-on technical depth in NLP, LLMs, and analytics with strong business communication, including driving adoption across teams and contributing to a 25% reduction in customer churn.”

“Product leader with deep healthcare experience who has shipped 50+ products, including a mobile app platform adopted by 120+ health plan clients and AI-enabled pharma tools that moved from plan-level to patient-level insights. Former high school science and math teacher who brings a distinctly human-centered, emotionally aware approach to product design, while also driving Agile transformation, mobile-first/API-first modernization, and scalable operational change.”

Arya Thorat

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed cloud-native FinTech systems

Texas, USA5y exp

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep experience building real-time fraud and credit-risk systems. Shipped an event-driven fraud monitoring platform (Kafka→MongoDB/Redis→WebSockets) delivering sub-200ms updates to 3000+ concurrent internal users, and built a Java/Spring Boot credit risk decisioning API that improved turnaround time by 30–40%. Strong AWS production operations (ECS Fargate/RDS/Redis) with proven incident response and performance tuning.”

“Backend and full-stack engineer with experience spanning an academic collaboration platform and Comcast voice services. Stands out for measurable performance wins across the stack—30% faster page loads, 40% better throughput, and 25% lower server load—while working on reliability-sensitive production systems handling live voice traffic.”

Brett Futral

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in healthcare enterprise platforms

Portland, OR20y exp

“Engineer with experience building foundational systems in healthcare and other production environments, including an early-stage Electronic Auths initiative inside Cambia where they helped define requirements and delivered the Intake API on time and under budget. Their background spans serverless Python on AWS, full-stack Drupal/PHP work for confidential genetic testing delivery, and Cassandra-backed API design for Choice Hotels.”