Vetted Release Management Professionals

“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.”

Steve Van Treeck

Screened

Engineering executive specializing in SaaS platforms for transportation & logistics

Denver, CO18y exp

“Pragmatic, Lean Startup–oriented candidate who prefers validating ideas through barebones MVPs and direct customer feedback, especially when entering unfamiliar markets. Motivated to partner with visionary founders and scale accessible products by lowering barriers to entry, while maintaining financial sustainability.”

Waldorff Villacres

Screened

Healthcare technology executive and architect with 20+ years leading enterprise platforms and digital transformation.

Seattle, Washington, USA21y exp

“Healthcare-focused founder in the R&D stage building an EHR and clinical staffing startup centered on value-based care. They have already tested the concept with the market, are engaging Medicaid/Medicare leaders and industry conferences like ViVE and HIMSS, and are focused on early-signal detection to improve patient outcomes while lowering utilization costs.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused production engineer with experience running 99.95% uptime platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP. Strong in incident response and performance troubleshooting (including a 30% MTTR reduction), and in building secure CI/CD and Terraform-based IaC for AKS/GKE microservices with robust change controls and rollback practices. Notably does not have direct IBM Power/AIX/VIOS/HMC or PowerHA/HACMP ownership.”

Navindu Jayatilake

Screened

DevOps Technical Lead specializing in Kubernetes, AWS, and platform engineering

Colombo, Sri Lanka6y exp

“Sri Lanka–based DevOps/Platform engineer focused on Kubernetes and AWS who has led real production incidents and recoveries (network-policy-induced asymmetric routing; node pool failure due to CNI upgrade). Built production CI/CD with GitHub Actions (ephemeral self-hosted runners on EKS), ArgoCD, Vault, and Terraform, and led a phased ECS-to-EKS migration including Kafka consumers and MongoDB Atlas private endpoints.”

“QA leader with end-to-end ownership of a web-UI automated B2B pricing platform at Cargill, known for using defect trend analytics (Jira/Jira AI) to uncover systemic config/integration risks before UAT/production. Implemented durable CAPA controls (config-change impact assessment gates) and improved release transparency with Copilot-generated Confluence readiness dashboards; cites 15% logistics cost reduction and 60% operational efficacy improvement. Also coordinated cross-shore QA teams across multiple countries with structured cadences and escalation paths.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer with Blue Cross Blue Shield experience building a reactive, event-driven claims processing microservice platform on AWS (ECS, SNS/SQS) with Terraform-based IaC and strong observability (Dynatrace/CloudWatch). Demonstrated measurable production impact (32% less downtime, 24% higher processing efficiency) and deep database performance/migration expertise across MongoDB and Postgres.”

“Engineering/technology leader who stays hands-on while driving executive-level roadmap execution, with deep experience modernizing cloud-based LIMS/LIS platforms and building AI-driven lab analytics. Led a monolith-to-microservices cloud migration with containerization and CI/CD, and delivered a reported 30% reduction in lab turnaround time while strengthening compliance.”

“Product leader in talent assessment and interviewing technology who has shipped multilingual AI features at enterprise scale, including automated interview scoring designed to keep humans in the final decision loop. Brings a strong blend of AI product strategy, candidate experience redesign, and people leadership across both hands-on teams and senior product organizations.”

“Space/heliophysics ML engineer who built a PyTorch GRU model to propagate solar wind from L1 to the magnetopause with probabilistic outputs for uncertainty quantification, achieving ~25% better CRPS than standard approaches. Also developed production-grade Python ETL and an open-source telemetry processing package for a mission (LEXI), using Docker and GitHub Actions CI/CD and iterating with scientist/engineer stakeholders.”

“Operations/product-and-engineering leader who has repeatedly retooled early-stage/growing orgs (Open English, Metrc) to scale by implementing Scrum/Kanban, building metrics-driven decision systems, and upgrading teams with experienced product/engineering leadership. At Metrc, used data to drive executive alignment, established scrum teams and a 2-week cadence within 30 days, and helped burn down years of backlog/bugs while improving customer survey feedback within 3 months.”

Ravi Bijinepalli

Screened

Senior ADAS/Autonomous Vehicle Validation Engineering Manager

Columbus, Ohio8y exp

“Controls and automated-vehicle engineer from the EcoCar EV Challenge who led an 8-person team implementing ACC and lane-centering directly on a vehicle (1st place result). Strong in CAN-based debugging, simulation-to-real deployment (Simulink to C++/dSPACE), and distributed robotics communication using DDS, with additional exposure to multi-agent RL and control barrier functions for coordinated driving.”

Yuvraj Singh Chauhan

Screened

Entry-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and DevOps automation

Bangalore, India1y exp

“Built and owned a production-scale AI-driven software release/version intelligence platform orchestrated via GitHub Actions that tracks 1000+ upstream repositories and automatically generates SLA-bound JIRA upgrade tickets for hardened container images. Replaced brittle regex/PEP440 parsing with an LLM-based semantic filtering layer plus deterministic validation to handle noisy/inconsistent GitHub tags at scale, with monitoring for coverage, latency, and correctness validated against upstream ground truth.”

Vishal Kodakanchi

Screened

Director of AI Platforms & Architecture specializing in enterprise GenAI and AI Centers of Excellence

Mountain View, CA20y exp

“Software industry veteran (20 years) pursuing entrepreneurship; currently building an MVP software product aimed at solving specific finance and accounting problems for nano, micro, and small enterprises. Plans to run a metrics-driven pilot to validate demand before refining the product and raising capital; leveraging Google for Startups and exploring AWS for Startups.”

Rami Jaloudi

Screened

Senior Applications Engineer specializing in legal technology and eDiscovery

New York, NY16y exp

“Early-stage founder candidate exploring an AI-enabled legal tech startup focused on document intelligence, secure workflows, and enterprise automation. Brings a rare blend of technical architecture fluency and product/business thinking, with clear firsthand insight into legal and document-heavy operational pain points.”

“Founding engineer at an edtech startup who combines hands-on engineering leadership with advanced AI-native development workflows. They’ve built an AI grading pipeline and a multi-agent SDLC tool, and stand out for treating AI agents like an engineering team with planning, parallel execution, QA, and rigorous validation.”

“Built an employee payroll and leave management system end to end at Northwest Missouri State University, owning stakeholder discovery, UI design, frontend implementation, backend APIs, and payroll business logic. Also has experience modernizing legacy transaction processing with an incremental migration approach from COBOL-based batch systems to Spring Boot services.”

“Backend-focused engineer with production experience across finance and healthcare, currently building real-time payment microservices at JPMorgan Chase handling 3M+ transactions daily and 100k TPS peak. Stands out for combining high-scale distributed systems design, measurable database and ETL performance wins, and strong compliance-minded architecture in regulated domains.”

Kal Yimer

Screened

Mid-level Java Application Engineer specializing in FinTech backend systems

Silver Spring, MD3y exp

“Banking-focused software engineer with hands-on experience modernizing legacy systems and building internal full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, SQL, and MongoDB. Stands out for reliability-minded engineering in financial environments, including a scheduling system that handled Daylight Saving Time correctly, reduced manual work, and protected downstream processing.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI APIs secured with JWT and delivering AWS-based data processing solutions using Lambda and ECS Fargate. Has worked with Snowflake/third-party API sources and targets including DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Redshift, and Glue, and uses CloudWatch/X-Ray for monitoring and troubleshooting. Seeking ~$65/hr and is open to onsite work in Bethesda, MD.”

Dean Jackson

Screened

Mid-level Game Developer specializing in Unity and VR

4y exp

“Unity lead game developer who shipped two games to Steam for Windows and ported them to Android. Hands-on with gameplay mechanics plus coordinating freelance model/animation work and integrating assets into the game, and uses AI tools to speed up debugging and navigating large codebases.”

Sean O'Dea

Screened

Executive CTO and software architect specializing in scalable SaaS and cybersecurity

Las Vegas, NV19y exp

“Repeat founder and operator who has built multiple startups, including a social platform, and chose to bootstrap after learning firsthand that investor demand was centered on distribution rather than technology. Brings a candid operator-side understanding of VC, term sheets, and fundraising dynamics, plus experience shipping against real scale at Parlement.”

“Product leader with deep recruiting-tech and HR-tech experience, including leading an end-to-end ATS rebuild and shipping AI-powered candidate matching across tens of millions of profiles. Stands out for turning ambiguous, spreadsheet-level asks into scalable products, improving user efficiency by 40%, and aligning engineering, design, legal, HR, and global stakeholders around clear delivery.”

“Senior project/program leader with 19+ years of experience delivering enterprise B2B and SaaS implementations across highly regulated and operationally complex industries. Brings broad cross-domain expertise spanning CRM, IAM, IoT/fleet, data migration, and platform modernization, with repeated ownership of multi-project portfolios, executive governance, and go-live readiness for high-visibility enterprise releases.”