Vetted Release Management Professionals

Joshua Smith

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI automation and enterprise transformation

Banks, OR23y exp

“Technology leader with deep accelerator and zero-to-one product experience across the Department of Defense, Fortune 100 enterprises, academia, and GovTech. Most notably, they built a seven-tier solution that generated over $10M in first-year savings and was adopted by 300+ DoD organizations, positioning them as a strong CTO-type operator for mission-driven startups and complex enterprises.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning a small healthcare startup and Groupon-scale personalization systems. Stands out for building HIPAA-compliant healthcare workflows end-to-end while also shipping recommendation and LLM-enabled platforms used by millions, with strong depth in React/Next.js, Node.js, Python, AWS, and scalable event-driven architecture.”

“Implementation project manager with 10+ years delivering complex SaaS programs in healthcare and fintech, including payment integrations, onboarding, migrations, and operational/clinical workflow initiatives. Has owned 4-6 concurrent enterprise implementations at CVS and Fiserv, with strong executive reporting, governance, and cross-functional delivery through go-live.”

Victor Perez

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Customer Success leader specializing in PropTech and FinTech

San Francisco, CA10y exp

“Customer Success / product-facing account owner in a property management/rent payments platform, managing enterprise onboarding, adoption, and subscription conversion. Strong track record using CSAT/NPS and direct customer feedback to influence roadmap (e.g., shipping UX fixes within a sprint and reducing closed accounts ~10%), plus experience implementing AI chatbot/agentic workflows to improve support and drive upsell into partner services like mortgages and insurance.”

“Cloud-native integration engineer (Oracle/OCI) with strong production deployment and incident-response experience, including API gateway rollouts, observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and multi-layer debugging for payments systems. Built Python/FastAPI microservices and automation for customer-specific reporting and data sync, and has delivered major performance gains (45 min to <10) plus reliability improvements (MTTD reduced 40%+) through monitoring, playbooks, and resilient integration patterns (streaming/queuing, retries, secure tokens, VPC peering).”

“Azure cloud platform engineer with strong enterprise Linux operations background who designs multi-region HA/DR on Azure (and AWS) using Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, AKS autoscaling, and geo-replicated Azure SQL. Built secure Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for .NET/Python microservices to AKS/VMs and provisions full environments via Terraform modules with remote state, drift checks, and staged rollouts; has not directly owned IBM Power/AIX at scale.”

“Cross-functional product/engineering leader with startup and enterprise experience (Whimstay, Wells Fargo, Leap AI Technologies). Has owned end-to-end delivery including UI and payment architecture—built a multi-customer reservation payment flow using pre-auth plus event/timer-driven reminders and handled tricky edge cases like date changeover. Also introduced lightweight process (Jira, sprints, team/module structuring) to increase delivery speed in an early-stage AI document-matching startup.”

“Cloud-focused platform/infrastructure engineer centered on AWS and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience building EKS environments via Terraform/Terragrunt, bootstrapping clusters with Cilium and ArgoCD, and integrating persistent storage and backup tooling like EFS/EBS CSI and Velero. While no longer focused on on-prem or hybrid operations, they also bring prior VMware/Hyper-V and migration-to-AWS experience, making them strongest in modern cloud platform engineering roles.”

“Salesforce developer with hands-on ownership of a complex Live Chat to Enhanced Chat migration, including LWC pre-chat forms, Apex/API integrations, Omni-Channel, Flow-based routing, and production rollout. Stands out for solving a difficult transcript-delivery requirement by designing an alternate conversation retrieval approach using Messaging Session, Apex callouts, and scheduled jobs.”

“Built Nexthire-AI, shipping an end-to-end LLM-powered resume–job description matching product (React + Node.js) using embeddings and retrieval to generate match scores and skill-gap recommendations. Improved post-launch engagement by making feedback cleaner and more actionable, and added production guardrails (validation, timeouts, fallbacks) to handle messy resume formats and AI API instability.”

Robbie Harol

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Principal Product Leader specializing in AI-native, civic, and climate tech

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“Product leader with unusually broad experience spanning adtech startups, consumer rewards, political-tech nonprofits, and consulting for operational automation. Stands out for pairing strong UX and monetization instincts with practical AI product work, including building a RAG-based chatbot and consistently using user research to drive measurable outcomes like 400% conversion growth, higher satisfaction, and faster onboarding.”

“Product leader with a rare mix of healthcare, HR tech, mobile, and AI experience. They rebuilt UPMC's member app for 3M members while pioneering a product-based funding model inside a large enterprise, and later drove 80%+ revenue growth at JazzHR by reshaping marketplace UX for SMB buyers. Their AI work is notably human-centered, with explicit fairness, compliance, and approval guardrails.”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer (Vidmob) focused on AWS + containers, owning GitLab CI/CD and Terraform-managed environments. Led a high-impact CI incident by correlating runner queue time, Docker pull latency, and NAT egress; implemented ECR pull-through caching and VPC endpoints to restore performance and then standardized the fix in Terraform for future scale-ups.”

“QA professional from enterprise SaaS/cloud environments (Exeter; previously Boeing programs) with strong UI and end-to-end workflow testing experience. Known for rigorous defect investigation and validation across UI/API/DB layers (including SQL checks) and disciplined tooling/workflow in Jira/Azure DevOps/ALM Octane; has QA lead experience supporting release readiness and go/no-go decisions. No professional game studio/AAA shipping experience yet, but experience maps to complex, high-pressure release cycles.”

Austin Patten

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Senior Unity Engineer specializing in mobile games and interactive apps

Erie, CO13y exp

“Lead engineer at PeopleFun who owned a data-driven limited-time event system for Wordscapes Search, using Addressables and asset bundles to ship new live content without app updates. Their work was tied to improved retention and stronger player engagement, and they also bring pragmatic AI-assisted development practices plus early VR/Meta Quest prototyping experience.”

Mohit Sharma

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Principal Salesforce Architect specializing in healthcare and patient engagement

Ewing, NJ15y exp

“Salesforce lead architect working on a large J&J healthcare implementation, with hands-on ownership of security architecture, identity modernization, and Experience Cloud design in a HIPAA-sensitive environment. Particularly notable for leading a SAML-to-OpenID Connect rollout and driving reusable LWC architecture across patient and provider portals while coordinating closely with identity, DevOps, QA, and business stakeholders.”

“Engineering leader with 11 years at Nokia/Janus International scaling an engineering organization from 3 to roughly 50 people, plus recent startup experience building an AI-powered virtual property manager platform. Particularly compelling for roles needing a rare mix of hands-on architecture depth, people leadership, and cross-functional execution across backend, web, mobile, QA, and even hardware-integrated products.”

Joseph Selby

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Senior Product Leader specializing in EdTech and digital assessment

Remote, USA17y exp

“Edtech product leader with deep experience across Pearson, SMART, and Promethean, spanning legacy platform modernization, classroom engagement tools, and early AI in education. Particularly compelling for roles at the intersection of product, pedagogy, and human-centered AI: they rebuilt SMART's 29-year-old Notebook platform and have repeatedly designed products around real teacher and student needs.”

Rutuja Sanjay Risbood

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Senior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in enterprise web and mobile applications

San Jose, CA8y exp

“Front-end engineer with unusually deep browser-systems knowledge, having built and owned a real-time merchant analytics platform for financial analysts handling millions of live transactions. Stands out for combining low-level performance engineering, typed React architecture, and expert-user UX polish, with strong measurable outcomes across speed, usability, and maintainability.”

Sharath Amula

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech

Dallas, TX2y exp

“Frontend engineer with experience in both healthcare and financial services, building high-stakes production interfaces such as AI-powered clinician care planning workflows and real-time fraud investigation dashboards. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript performance optimization with strong UX thinking in regulated, data-dense environments.”

“Healthcare product leader with substantial experience in clinical software, medical devices, analytics, and AI/ML-enabled workflows. They have led a cloud analytics platform for hospital systems, managed a machine-learning insulin dosing product in a safety-critical environment, and driven UX modernization of clinician-facing applications while coordinating deeply across engineering, QA, data science, DevOps, and customer success.”

“Engineer with experience in small, high-pressure innovation environments and enterprise healthcare platforms, spanning distributed systems, search, and database optimization. At RJ Lee Group, he helped pivot an Air Force document-processing platform from Pig/MapReduce to Apache Storm, enabling near-real-time results, and also built a full-stack natural-language search application that cut analyst investigations from months to weeks or days.”

“Worked at AMD on Vivado tool releases, focusing on adding and integrating new IP/SoC functionality into the Vivado flow and validating expected behavior through testing. Comfortable engaging with customers and open to travel for hands-on customer-facing work.”

“Data/MLOps engineer (Cognizant background) who owned an AWS/Airflow/Snowflake healthcare transactions pipeline processing ~8–10M records/day and cut pipeline/data-quality incidents by ~33%. Also built and deployed a production FastAPI model-inference service on Kubernetes (Docker, HPA) with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana), versioned endpoints, and resilient backfill/idempotent external data ingestion patterns.”