Vetted Release Management Professionals

Jeff Cushler

Screened

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in Healthcare IT, SaaS, and Cloud Transformation

Austin, TX30y exp

“Startup product/enterprise-stack builder who helped take Ventric Health from R&D to a market-launched healthcare product in 2024, operating in a $34M-raised, revenue-generating model leveraging Medicare C reimbursement through providers. Previously drove adoption of an integrated K-12 digital learning platform distributed to 100+ institutions over two years, with reported improvements in test scores.”

Sri Harshitha Yannam

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud platforms

Austin, TX2y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who shipped a production "Memory Assistant" at HydroX AI, building a LangChain/LlamaIndex RAG memory pipeline on ChromaDB/FAISS with robust fallbacks (BERT/BART), prompt-injection mitigation, and 99.9% uptime monitoring. Also built a multi-step customer support agent using Rasa + OpenAI Assistants API with structured tool calling, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop escalation, and has experience hardening agents against messy ERP data via Pydantic validation, idempotency, and transactional outbox patterns.”

Cassandra Pizarro

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in frontend and integrations

Mountain View, CA7y exp

“Frontend-leaning product engineer with strong ownership in fintech integrations, including leading the first global PayPal integration on QuickBooks and enabling 20,000+ non-U.S. users across UK, Canada, and Australia. Brings a mix of React/TypeScript architecture, API collaboration, and domain depth in accounting workflows like VAT and Chart of Accounts mapping.”

Wei Jiang

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in MLOps and statistical modeling

Greenwood, SC3y exp

“Integration engineer at ES Foundry who led deployment of ELsentinel, a production EL image-based solar cell quality monitoring system using a Swin Transformer classifier (>0.8 F1 across 15+ classes) plus a live real-time prediction dashboard. Strong in solving messy labeling/data-quality problems with process-team collaboration and shipping ML systems despite limited compute/infrastructure.”

Richard Wilson

Screened

Senior IT Project Manager specializing in Agile delivery and migration programs

Greensboro, NC19y exp

“Project manager with 16+ years of experience leading enterprise implementations across software, e-commerce, and financial services environments. Stands out for coordinating complex multi-country launches involving legal, creative, development, QA, and executive stakeholders, while also bringing regulated-environment experience through FINRA compliance and administration system modernization.”

“Veteran software engineer with an unusual path from founding a game development company and shipping dozens of games to rebuilding a B2B product data platform after bankruptcy reduced engineering to a two-person skeleton crew. Particularly strong in legacy modernization, data synchronization, enterprise UI/backend architecture, and customer-safe migrations where old and new systems must coexist in production.”

“Product leader with 10 years in regulated life sciences who has moved from building compliant manufacturing and validation capabilities at Illumina to shipping live AI products. Unusually combines deep FDA/EU MDR/ISO 13485 domain knowledge, hands-on scientific research experience, and practical RAG-based product development for regulatory and manufacturing workflows.”

“Game QA professional with live production experience owning QA strategy for a cross-platform seasonal loadout system in a live server shooter. Works in Agile/Scrum with CI/CD, using Jira + TestRail (including two-way sync) to drive traceable test coverage and fast triage via evidence-rich bug reports. Emphasizes risk-based coverage, regression discipline across builds, and converting gameplay feel into actionable design/engineering feedback.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX experience (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) managing ~15–25 LPARs across production and DR, including live DLPAR changes and structured performance troubleshooting. Also hands-on with PowerHA/HACMP incident recovery and failover testing, plus broader DevOps delivery building Jenkins CI/CD for containerized microservices and Terraform/Ansible IaC across AWS and Azure, and leading Solaris SPARC to x86 migration cutovers.”

Sanat Ahuja

Screened

Senior Engineering Manager specializing in platform, data/ML, and identity/access systems

Los Angeles, CA16y exp

“Senior engineering leader from Goodyear’s AndGo startup-like division who scaled the org from 12 to 30+ across pod-based teams and introduced an Architect Guild/ARD governance model. Led a 4-month Europe launch requiring AWS regional infrastructure, GDPR compliance, i18n/l10n, and new EMEA reporting pipelines, and has hands-on depth in API performance, incident response, and GraphQL/Hasura adoption to boost product velocity.”

Biswajit Dash

Screened

Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer specializing in CI/CD and Observability

Milpitas, CA25y exp

“DevOps engineer focused on CI/CD who built and productionized LLM/MCP-based chat agents integrated into Cisco Webex to help developers troubleshoot PRs and pipelines via GitHub/Jenkins data. Strong in operationalizing agentic systems with observability (OpenTelemetry/Grafana), user-scoped rate limiting, and Kubernetes-based scaling, and has presented demos on agent SDK capabilities and DORA metrics dashboards.”

Chuks Onwuneme

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in Healthcare IT, AI, and regulated SaaS

Seattle, WA24y exp

“Founder who raised friends-and-family capital in 2024, used it to build an initial product and develop patent-backed IP, then pivoted from AI impersonation detection to authorization and trust infrastructure for agentic workflows. Demonstrates strong strategic thinking around infrastructure products, customer-driven repositioning, and venture-backed startup dynamics.”

Ilya Kravchenko

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and internet-scale platforms

Thousand Oaks, CA20y exp

“Engineering leader with a rare blend of SaaS, robotics, and AI systems experience, most recently leading a 21-engineer org under the CTO. They pair strong people/process leadership with hands-on architecture depth, driving dramatic delivery improvements while also building grounded LLM support tooling for warehouse operations where accuracy directly impacts physical execution and customer outcomes.”

“Product leader with standout experience rebuilding the National Debt Relief customer portal into a reassurance-first self-service experience, reversing roughly $60MM in annual churn and improving NPS by 36+ points. Brings a strong blend of customer research, UX judgment, experimentation, and cross-functional leadership, plus hands-on experience applying AI personalization in conversion funnels. Particularly compelling for mission-driven products where trust, emotional context, and human-centered AI matter.”

“Banking infrastructure engineer who owns large-scale IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) environments with hundreds of LPARs and deep PowerHA/SAN recovery experience. Also builds modern cloud delivery platforms—Azure DevOps/Jenkins CI/CD and Terraform for AWS/Azure (EKS/AKS, networking, security)—bridging legacy mission-critical systems and cloud-native automation.”

“Builder/technical leader who was brought into Finicity to turn a credit-improvement concept into a viable product—architected, staffed, and launched what became Experian Boost. Delivered a major North American product launch in ~6 months, scaling to ~50,000 new users per day at launch and solving complex ML classification and distributed processing/order-of-operations challenges on AWS.”

“Senior product leader with deep payroll/HCM experience across ResNav, Paycom, Paylocity, and Namely, known for rebuilding broken systems, creating product process from scratch, and influencing boards and executives on major platform decisions. She combines hands-on prototyping, strong engineering partnership, and customer-driven iteration, with examples ranging from an ML-based approvals workflow that reached 100% client opt-in to stabilizing a troubled time-off platform and reducing churn risk among major revenue clients.”