Vetted Release Management Professionals

Emily Hottal

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI, data, and customer engagement SaaS

Stow, MA17y exp

“Senior product leader at Airship driving both major platform modernization and the company's AI transformation. They led a contact-centric rebuild touching nearly the entire customer engagement platform, then built an AI recommendations product on Vertex/Gemini with a design-partner rollout model. They also bring rare depth across analytics, experimentation, personalization, and email marketing, plus experience rebuilding PM teams and shaping product strategy with executive leadership.”

“Frontend engineer who built the full frontend for gameofstreaks.com using React/Next.js with an emphasis on responsive design, accessibility, SEO, and performance profiling. Has experience refactoring legacy HTML/CSS/JS sites into reusable React components and shipping quickly with unit tests, CI/CD, and branch-based deployments; also collaborates with designers in hackathon settings (e.g., an AI interview practice app).”

Kim Janney

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive PMO & Agile Transformation Leader specializing in enterprise delivery and release governance

Roanoke, VA21y exp

“Operations and agile enablement leader currently shaping internal operations at KlariVis (rapidly growing, founder-led company). Implemented Scrum, quarterly planning, cross-functional ways of working, executive dashboards, and org-wide training while also improving release management, bug prioritization, and go-to-market workflows; blends strategic structure with hands-on execution and change adoption through iterative feedback.”

Deeksha V

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and FinTech payments

Atlanta, GA4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on financial systems, having evolved payments and reconciliation platforms using Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL with an emphasis on idempotency, validation, and consistency. Has led monolith-to-services migrations using feature flags and shadow traffic, and implements defense-in-depth security (OAuth2/JWT plus DB-level row security) for multi-tenant environments.”

“Cheryl Fernandez is a frontend/platform engineering leader who has built complex real-time products in highly regulated healthcare and enterprise investigation environments. She combines deep React/TypeScript and streaming architecture expertise with cross-functional ownership across APIs, infrastructure, device behavior, and product strategy, including modernizing FDA-audited remote patient monitoring systems and adding AI-assisted workflows at EY.”

Sai Haritha Sardena

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web, cloud, and AI/ML

Remote, USA7y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Wipro and Tylmen Tech owning customer-facing onboarding and real-time features end-to-end (React + Spring Boot) and building TypeScript/React apps backed by Node.js microservices (MongoDB, RabbitMQ). Strong in production reliability and fast iteration: feature-flagged rollouts, idempotent APIs/consumers, DLQs, and SLO-driven incident tooling, including an internal QA & release dashboard adopted by engineering and support teams.”

“Healthcare product leader who rebuilt the NextCare Anywhere urgent care platform across mobile and web, dramatically improving booking conversion from 2% to 34% by simplifying the patient journey and fixing key caregiver workflows. Also brings emerging AI leadership in regulated environments, having helped define AI policy and pilot human-supervised workflows that delivered 30-40x documentation gains with 100% first-pass approval.”

Trevor Peace

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Healthcare IT

San Francisco, CA27y exp

“Founding/sole engineer who has built multiple healthcare products from scratch, spanning medical billing, cardiology triage, and cardiac device monitoring. Particularly compelling for healthtech and AI roles: they combine full-stack TypeScript/AWS execution with strong product judgment in regulated settings, including shipping voice-enabled RAG workflows and rejecting unsafe AI automation when simpler human-in-the-loop UX was the right answer.”

Vigneshwari Shankiri

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

5y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led enterprise-scale UI delivery end-to-end on a microservices platform, designing modular Angular SPAs (v12-17) tightly aligned to Spring Boot REST APIs. Emphasizes quality and release velocity through layered testing (Karma/Jasmine), CI/CD automation (Jenkins/Azure DevOps), performance tuning with RxJS/lazy loading, and incremental rollouts with close product/design/QA collaboration.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-driven document verification workflow for a construction firm’s submittals process, moving from a Vercel/Next.js prototype to a FastAPI + LangChain/LangGraph backend with background workers and multi-server deployment. Uses LLM tools (e.g., OpenAI Codex/Cloud Code) for rapid development and log-driven root cause analysis, and partners with customer teams on evaluation metrics and iterative improvements.”

“Healthcare-focused software engineer/lead who has delivered customer-facing portals and internal call-center tools, including rebuilding a legacy Adobe Flash call center app into a modern TypeScript frontend with NgRx state management. Experienced leading onshore/offshore teams, integrating healthcare APIs, and driving adoption by visiting call centers to capture user workflows and bake them into regression testing—work that proved especially valuable during COVID-era shifts to video appointments.”

Reza Mawardana

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software QA Engineer specializing in Insurance and HRIS, transitioning to SDET

7y exp

“QA-minded candidate with unusually deep, self-driven experimentation in game mechanics (RNG and EXP optimization) using emulators and save-state methodology, translating that same rigor into production release verification and bug triage practices. Has experience in embedded QA and proactively proposed a centralized QA model with sharing sessions to improve coverage during absences; uses AI tools to speed up Jira documentation and test case creation.”

Vaishnavi Kashyap

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web platforms and sustainability analytics

1y exp

“Full-stack/backend engineer who owned a production digital assembly planning platform at Saint Gobain end-to-end (React/Node/Postgres), maintaining 99.9% uptime across 5 factory sites and driving a reported 90% improvement in factory-floor coordination. Also built and operated BigQuery + Vertex AI (ARIMA) forecasting/data pipelines processing 1M+ datapoints daily, with strong emphasis on idempotency and data-quality validation to prevent incorrect outputs.”

Lavrenti DeLavrenti

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Technology Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms, AI/ML, and SaaS

Remote15y exp

“Engineering leader (Director/VP level) who has repeatedly aligned product and engineering through ROI-driven quarterly roadmaps and strong stakeholder communication, including board presentations. Built a parallel cloud team to migrate an on-prem product to the cloud, credited with delivering $9M ARR, and led a Python monolith-to-serverless event-driven microservices transformation. Currently manages distributed teams across Mexico, India, and the US using pod-based structures, clear KPIs, and a supportive accountability culture.”

Rob Wlaschin

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in AI platforms, FinTech, and Healthtech

Santa Clara, CA24y exp

“Serial entrepreneur building three distinct products: a context-aware AI chatbot, a connected TV companion-screen platform with an implementation client, and gamerogue.net, a mobile-optimized web-based virtual tabletop marketplace currently seeking funding. Brings hands-on fundraising experience, familiarity with the VC/accelerator ecosystem including YC, and a notably pragmatic approach to validating ideas based on existing market demand rather than speculative adoption.”

Cassie Sanborn

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Product Leader specializing in consumer growth and digital platforms

Rio Dell, CA13y exp

“Product leader with strong consumer and education-oriented product experience, including personalization, trust/safety moderation, and AI-enabled workflows. Stands out for pairing user research with measurable outcomes—such as boosting Spanish review output by 165% through AI translation—and for a thoughtful philosophy that AI should amplify human judgment and support rather than replace it.”