Vetted Problem Solving Professionals

PremKumar Gandla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and scalable model deployment

Texas, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production autonomous AI data analyst agent (LangChain + GPT + Streamlit on AWS) that turns natural-language questions into validated SQL, visualizations, and insights, cutting manual analysis time by ~50%. Emphasizes reliability and MLOps: schema-aware validation/guardrails to prevent hallucinations, scalable large-data processing, and Azure DevOps CI/CD + MLflow for automated deployment and experiment tracking.”

“Beauty merchandising/category professional with hands-on ownership of brand launches, assortment strategy, subscription participation, and eCommerce growth across 40+ brand partners. Stands out for combining strong vendor relationship management with retail math and negotiation discipline—driving outcomes like 3% of sales from subscription shortly after launch, double-digit YoY growth on a renegotiated top brand, and triple-digit YoY growth after expanding a body care assortment.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building and maintaining a React accessibility utility/component library (open-source-style) used across university portals, emphasizing WCAG 2.2 compliance, robust focus/keyboard behavior, and Jest/React Testing Library coverage. Also built and maintained .NET Core microservices at the Florida Department of Transportation, including integrating AI-driven features, with strong ownership around observability, incident response, and performance-focused refactoring.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based AI assistant for sales reps to unify access to product info, pricing, and internal documents across multiple systems. Implemented ETL pipelines for normalization/chunking/embeddings, integrated the assistant into internal React/TypeScript UIs with user-specific context, and enforced security with private vector storage and permission-filtered retrieval.”

“Backend/data engineer who builds Python (FastAPI) data-processing API services for internal analytics/reporting, emphasizing modular architecture, async performance tuning, and reliability patterns (health checks, retries, observability). Also migrated legacy on-prem ETL pipelines to Azure using ADF/Data Lake/Functions and implemented a near-real-time ingestion flow with Event Hubs plus watermarking to handle late events and deduplication.”

“AI engineer with production experience building a LangGraph-based, stateful multi-agent system at MetLife to automate complex insurance claims adjudication, integrating document discovery, Azure Document Intelligence OCR/extraction, and health data analysis. Strong in agent orchestration and production deployment (Docker + FastAPI REST APIs), with a structured approach to reliability, evaluation, and stakeholder-driven requirements.”

“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.”

Hiteksha Godhani

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in microservices and cloud-native web apps

Canada6y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led customer-facing web products end-to-end, with strong emphasis on scalable component architecture, design systems, and automated quality gates (CI + unit/integration/E2E). Experienced building complex React+TypeScript dashboards with thoughtful state separation and shipping fast via feature flags/canary releases while monitoring and optimizing real-world performance issues.”

Santhoshi Priya Sunchu

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP and predictive modeling

Massachusetts, USA5y exp

“AI/ML practitioner in healthcare/insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield) who built and deployed a production NLP system to classify patient risk from unstructured clinical notes. Experienced in end-to-end pipeline orchestration (Airflow, AWS Step Functions/Lambda/SageMaker) and real-time optimization (BERT to DistilBERT on AWS GPUs), with strong clinician collaboration to drive adoption.”

Larry Tuck

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO/VP) specializing in Healthcare IT, Security & Enterprise Integrations

Palmer, AK19y exp

“Candidate indicated they have an existing startup but have not raised capital. They expressed strong concerns about AI-enabled social engineering and ended the screening due to perceived irrelevance of the startup-focused questions to the job.”

Freddy Hajas

Screened

Principal Gameplay Designer/Programmer specializing in FPS/TPS systems and AI

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil28y exp

“Long-time Call of Duty mod/game-mode creator (Call of Duty Frontlines/Rio) who designed 40+ gametypes, including “Swarm” later released officially as MW3’s Team Defender. Known for deep tuning/balance iteration and for overcoming engine constraints (e.g., expanding limited model slots via load-time model merging to ship large amounts of new weapons/vehicles/enemies). Currently building an UE5 game (Comando Rio) on Lyra, implementing custom audio systems and camera/movement features, collaborating with Gooseman (Counter-Strike creator).”

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.”

“Candidate explicitly stated they have no experience working with football athletes or athlete sourcing/conversion and withdrew from the application process when informed those were job requirements.”

“Seasoned startup operator with 20 years of experience working with startups and small businesses, especially in early-stage environments. Familiar with the VC/accelerator ecosystem and has participated in board meetings with investors, bringing an execution-focused, problem-solving mindset to entrepreneurial opportunities.”

“Performance marketer with 5+ years of deeply hands-on experience across Meta, Google, YouTube, and full-funnel growth systems for e-commerce, supplements, CPG, and lead-gen businesses. Stands out for combining strategy, execution, tracking, and client communication—highlighted by scaling Gaspari Nutrition from under $10K/month to over $250K/month and helping REDCON1 triple revenue while managing $100K+/month in ad spend.”

“Startup recruiting operations professional from Harvey (Series G legal tech) who owned end-to-end candidate scheduling and helped scale hiring from a narrower customer success scope to broad GTM and G&A coverage across multiple global time zones. Stood out for driving ModernLoop adoption, creating recruiter-coordinator operating cadence, and preserving a high candidate-experience bar during rapid hiring growth.”

“Software engineer with MERN stack experience who says they have built enterprise and SaaS products, set up CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins, and created reusable UI components across an application. They also referenced using AI tools like Claude, GPT, Codex, and Cursor with agentic AI concepts, plus CloudWatch-based tracing and crash monitoring.”

“Built a production LLM-RAG system at McKesson to let internal healthcare operations teams query large volumes of unstructured operational documents via natural language with source-backed answers, designed with HIPAA/FHIR compliance in mind. Demonstrated strong production engineering across hallucination mitigation, retrieval quality tuning, and latency/scalability optimization, using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow plus rigorous evaluation/monitoring practices.”

“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.”

“Full-stack developer with strong cloud/on-prem focus (AWS, VPC networking) who has improved production reliability by bringing manually created IAM/security group resources under Terraform and standardizing environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting across app + infrastructure + networking (traffic capture revealed proxy response truncation) and delivered Python-based monitoring/reporting enhancements that improved ops visibility and turnaround.”

“Worked on large financial analytics datasets combining complaint text, transaction logs, and demographics; built end-to-end NLP/ML pipelines (TF-IDF + Random Forest) and data integration in BigQuery with Tableau reporting, citing ~95–98% accuracy. Also implemented entity resolution with fuzzy matching and semantic linking using BERT sentence-transformer embeddings stored in FAISS, including fine-tuning on labeled pairs to improve search/linking relevance.”

“Full-stack engineer in healthcare and enterprise analytics who has shipped event-driven, near-real-time systems (Spring Boot microservices + Kafka + AWS) and large-scale patient/provider portals (50k+ users). Strong in production reliability and performance—measurably reduced claims latency (27%), cut support tickets (25%), and handled real AWS scaling incidents end-to-end. Also built a Python REST control plane for SDN routing integrated with external reinforcement learning agents.”

Ponugoti Sushma

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in IoT, edge AI, and enterprise ML

Texas, USA5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM/RAG question-answering service over technical documentation, focusing on retrieval quality (reranking + IR metrics), latency, and scaling. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end ETL/ML workflows with Airflow/Prefect/AWS Step Functions and improving reliability via parallelism, retries, and shadow testing. Also delivered an explainable healthcare risk-flagging classifier with a stakeholder-friendly dashboard for a non-technical program manager.”

Dhokhiy Mustofa

Screened

Mid-level FP&A and QA Analyst specializing in SAP BPC and financial planning

8y exp

“QA tester with a primary background in software/system testing who has supported console game testing on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, focusing on gameplay stability, UI behavior, save/load, and platform-mode performance differences. Has hands-on experience identifying a timing-specific PS freeze and supporting TRC/XR/LOT certification prep via checklist verification and blocker documentation, and uses AI to summarize regression logs for faster team decisions.”