Vetted Release Management Professionals

“Engineering leader who drove TiVo IPTV’s client-facing API modernization from a monolith to AWS-based microservices (API Gateway, Lambda, EKS, Kafka, DynamoDB/RDS), including phased/blue-green production routing of millions of calls. Emphasizes org scaling through skill-based hiring, mentorship, and a you-build-you-run ownership culture, while balancing technical leadership with executive stakeholder communication and budgeting.”

Sudhir Sagi

Screened

Executive technology and operations leader specializing in connected vehicle SaaS and IoT

Novi, MI28y exp

“Candidate indicated they do not have a business plan or startup, are not familiar with the venture capital/accelerator landscape, and explicitly requested to withdraw their application because the position does not seem like the right fit.”

Sai Dinesh Pusapati

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI agents and LLM workflows

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“LLM/AI engineer with production experience building a retrieval-based document intelligence system that extracts information from PDFs/emails, backed by Python + Spark pipelines. Focused on reliability and cost/latency optimization (caching, batch processing) and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow (sensors, retries, alerts). Also partnered with business stakeholders to deliver customer feedback classification/summarization for faster sentiment insights.”

Vivek Anand

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CIO/CTO/CDO) specializing in AI, cloud, and data strategy

Northbrook, IL20y exp

“Founder with an end-user-ready product who has self-funded/used angel investing but has not yet launched marketing in earnest. Motivated by identifying a market gap with a differentiated product and is now seeking value-add investors who can provide both capital and go-to-market expertise/connections.”

Umesh Toprani

Screened

Executive Cloud & Product Operations Leader specializing in SaaS transformation

26y exp

“Transformation leader brought into Barracuda Networks to orchestrate a founder-level shift from legacy software to SaaS across 14 product lines. Drove a metrics- and operating-margin-focused, multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/private cloud for DR) execution plan while aligning engineering, GTM, finance (subscription accounting), and support—contributing to nearly doubling revenue over ~4 years.”

Atulya Bist

Screened

Junior Data Scientist / Software Engineer specializing in LLM analytics and robotics

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“Robotics/ML engineer who implemented TD3 and PPO in PyTorch to solve the challenging OpenAI Gymnasium humanoid-v5 MuJoCo task, including custom networks, rollout logic, and training scripts. Also has hands-on robotics coursework experience with ROS-based RRT motion planning on a real robotic arm, plus practical CI/CD and containerization experience (Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions). Currently exploring world models (VAE + sequence generator) using Euro Truck Simulator data.”

Angie Fathalla

Screened

Mid-level Technical Consultant specializing in cloud infrastructure and enterprise automation

Clinton, NJ7y exp

“AI/LLM engineer focused on production-grade agent systems in high-stakes workflows, including a tax modernization initiative that automated tax form generation for 50,000 users. Demonstrates strong depth in reliability engineering, evaluation loops, and safe orchestration, with quantified improvements including pass-through gains from 62% to 94%, 30% lower token cost, and accuracy improvement from 88% to 99%.”

“Strategy & operations leader with senior roles at OnDeck, BlockFi, and Protocol Labs who owned founder-level initiatives end-to-end. Notably launched the first crypto credit card, driving 150k first-year sign-ups (vs 30k target) and boosting adoption of other offerings, and later cut time-to-hire from ~6 months to ~6 weeks while rebuilding GTM and operating frameworks.”

“Strategy/finance leader with experience spanning wealth management, London Stock Exchange, and a voice AI startup. Led an ESG product launch supported by market research/ROI modeling that generated $5M+ over five years, and has hands-on PMO capability (Jira, SQL/Excel, Power BI) plus change-management experience aligning sales teams with executive digital transformation initiatives.”

Kiran Kumar

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring and React with GenAI automation

USA4y exp

“Software engineer (4+ years) with hands-on production GenAI experience: built an AI incident triage assistant that summarizes production logs for on-call engineers and iterated it using real incident metrics (time-to-signal, triage duration). Also shipped a RAG-based customer support knowledge assistant using embeddings + vector retrieval with strong guardrails (relevance thresholds/abstain, sanitization, auditing) and a formal eval loop (500-query gold set) that drove measurable retrieval improvements.”

colton childrey

Screened

Senior QA Leader specializing in AAA games, XR platforms, and backend systems

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Game/interactive software QA professional with experience spanning AAA titles (Activision Black Ops 3; Halo 4/Forge) and VR at Meta (The World Beyond). Notable for modernizing QA operations at Lego BrickLink Studio by implementing Testmo and dramatically increasing test coverage and user satisfaction, plus quickly diagnosing and unblocking a critical public-launch issue caused by misconfigured gatekeeper flags.”

Harshana Ragipindi

Screened

Mid-level Support/Software Engineer specializing in incident response, automation, and AWS monitoring

USA4y exp

“Built and owned end-to-end travel booking and baggage fee calculation platforms used by both customer support and customers, emphasizing fast iteration with automated guardrails and production visibility. Experienced designing TypeScript/React systems and operating RabbitMQ-based microservices at scale, including disciplined event contracts, idempotent consumers, and schema evolution strategies. Also created an internal real-time troubleshooting/pricing console that replaced fragmented tools and improved support resolution workflows through pilot-led adoption.”

“End-to-end deployment owner for Oracle document delivery/print services in a hospital-like production environment, focused on reliability/performance at scale (thousands of systems). Also describes implementing event-driven RAG/agentic LLM workflows with attention to embeddings/index consistency, latency, and measurable improvements in response relevance and operational efficiency.”

Velusamy Ramasamy

Screened

Principal Software Architect specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and enterprise security

Seattle, WA29y exp

“Engineering leader with experience defining solutions from business requirements through detailed specifications and implementation, emphasizing cost-aware technology selection. Has led architectural changes including adding IBM Cloud alongside AWS for budget reasons and integrating caching/messaging to improve availability and performance, and describes scaling distributed teams via experienced DevOps/QA hires and structured evaluation.”

Jignesh Desai

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in fraud detection and payments platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA26y exp

“Engineering manager/player-coach who focuses on laying technical foundations and improving team execution: kickstarted Visa standard UI library adoption, standardized API exception handling, and introduced a test automation framework that enabled a shift from quarterly to monthly releases. Led a phased latency/throughput initiative that doubled throughput, and owned a production incident caused by a dependency’s expired certificate, driving monitoring and certificate-expiry notification improvements across dependent systems.”

“Applied ML/LLM engineer currently building AppleCare’s production chat recommender, owning the full lifecycle from transcript cleaning and fine-tuning through distributed deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Their work delivered >10% copy-count improvement, 5% lower modification rate, 60% cost reduction, and $1.1M profitability in 2025, and they also created a reasoning-data generation approach that enabled a reasoning model and a judge model that cut eval time by over 99%.”