Vetted Release Management Professionals

Osvaldo Calles

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in developer tools, cloud automation, and generative AI

Redmond, WA13y exp

“Built and deployed a production chatbot on osvaldocalles.com and iterated through real-world LLM engineering issues: model quota/cost tradeoffs (migrating to Nova Pro), RAG accuracy via semantic chunking, AWS IAM/guardrail/security pitfalls, and Lambda/API Gateway streaming constraints (prefers JS for streaming layer). Experienced with agent orchestration using Strands SDK (AWS-focused) and LangGraph (Vercel/container deployments), plus evaluation pipelines using LLM-as-evaluator, dashboards, and staged model rollouts.”

“Senior engineering leader with experience at ActiveProspect, Broadlume, and Zume, leading multidisciplinary orgs across growth and M&A while standardizing delivery, architecture, and quality practices. Stands out for combining executive-level roadmap, budget, and compliance ownership with hands-on prototyping and architectural intervention on mission-critical platforms, including AI-enabled testing and quality systems.”

Frank Goodman

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Executive Engineering & Product Leader specializing in Cloud/SaaS observability and security

San Jose, CA31y exp

“Product/technology leader with deep security and cloud infrastructure expertise who drove a major shift from hardware-based networking/security appliances to cloud-native capabilities, growing cloud revenue from $0 to $400M in 4.5 years. Led an innovative eBPF-based approach (“precryption”) to enable lightweight cloud TLS interception/decryption, and has hands-on coding interest (recent Rust work on a personal cybersecurity identity/trust platform).”

“Built and operationalized an internal LLM/RAG system for engineering specs—starting with an at-home prototype using real ERP documents, then securing hardware, standing up a GPU/software stack, and deploying through UAT to production. Identified organizational gaps (no shared spec repository) and created a queryable RAG database that reportedly cut document discovery from days/weeks to minutes, while also resolving retrieval issues via improved PDF-aware chunking.”

“Product leader with experience rebuilding AI-enabled products in healthcare and other domains, including a major Lingraphica mobile experience redesign for people with aphasia that improved NPS by 20% and increased usage while reducing support burden. They emphasize empowered PM/UX/engineering triads, discovery-led decision making, and mentoring product talent into leaders. Also brings a human-centered AI lens shaped by current team leadership, prior work at Intradiem, and a patent related to just-in-time learning.”

“Product and engineering leader with experience spanning Mozilla, CDW, Interac, and EdTech, including launching Firefox Translations as a privacy-preserving on-device AI feature that reached 1M+ DAU in four weeks. Has also driven $21M in quarterly revenue through AI-powered enterprise device refresh programs and managed 3 cross-functional teams across product, design, QA, and engineering. Brings a distinctive mix of AI product execution, security/identity experience, and a human-centered mission orientation shaped by EdTech work and a Master's in Technology and Social Change.”

“Engineering leader in cloud security at SysTech with player-coach experience spanning cross-team data/ownership standardization and reporting platform user-journey improvements. Stays technically deep through observability (SLA/SLOs, dashboards, alerting), rigorous code reviews (including AI-assisted coding), and end-to-end incident ownership in IAM/agentless cloud event collection. Targeting $270K–$300K base plus bonus/equity.”

“Enterprise product leader focused on rebuilding complex operational platforms and AI-assisted workflow systems for support and operations teams. Particularly strong in messy, cross-functional transformation work—aligning engineering, design, operations, leadership, and compliance around measurable outcomes—and brings a clear human-centered AI philosophy centered on augmenting expert judgment rather than automating it away.”

“Engineering Manager/Tech Lead on Grindr’s monetization team who helped ship an AI-powered conversation summary feature (A-list), contributing across Android freemium implementation and backend LLM workflow service architecture/reviews. Demonstrated strong operational ownership by leading a Boost production incident from detection through rollback and prevention, and improved team throughput by introducing a lightweight end-to-end delivery process in a high-growth environment.”

Deekshit Myakala

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud automation and data/ETL platforms

Arlington, Virginia6y exp

“Backend engineer with AWS multi-region production experience building APIs and workflow automation for data center/storage hardware operations (firmware orchestration, maintenance checks, ticketing, dashboards). Also shipped an internal AI chat tool that parses hardware runbooks and incorporates user feedback to retrain the model, and has a strong testing/quality discipline (95%+ coverage) plus database performance tuning via indexing and query monitoring.”

“Product leader focused on POS and merchant payments who spent the last 6+ years helping build an in-house, PCI-compliant platform for small business and enterprise merchants across retail, restaurant, and services. Brings a strong mix of payments domain expertise, regulated-environment decision-making, and practical AI prototyping, including competitive pricing features embedded directly into merchant inventory workflows.”

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with hands-on experience running production and non-production Amazon EKS clusters, including upgrade processes and reliability monitoring via Prometheus/Grafana. Also administered on-prem VMware vSphere/vCloud Director and handled a significant vSwitch/VLAN outage, and uses Terraform + Terragrunt with S3 remote state and release-based drift detection across dev/stage/prod.”