Vetted REST Professionals

“Hands-on Engineering Manager at Hyper-Reach modernizing a mission-critical emergency alerts platform used by county emergency directors and first responders during live disasters. He led a phased migration from a 25-year-old JSP monolith to React, shipped in 5 months instead of an estimated 1.5 years, with zero regression incidents and clear customer and sales impact.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owns policy-lifecycle workflow microservices built in Python/FastAPI with async + DDD, Kafka event processing, SQLAlchemy, JWT/RBAC, and Redis caching (cut DB load ~40%). Experienced deploying Java and Python microservices to Kubernetes with Helm and GitOps (ArgoCD) plus Jenkins/GitHub Actions pipelines to AWS/ECR, and has supported phased on-prem-to-cloud migrations with dependency mapping and data consistency strategies.”

“Hands-on backend/AI engineer who solo-built two production Claude-based agent systems: an internal Slack RAG over Confluence/Jira/code/regulatory docs and a HIPAA/GDPR-compliant patient chatbot with embedding guardrails and expert-in-the-loop evals. Also architected a multi-region patient portal + microservices platform with Terraform/CI-CD and federated gateways, delivering major onboarding automation and strong reliability wins (PgBouncer, chaos/perf testing).”

“Backend engineer (Marsh McLennan) who evolved a high-volume claims automation pipeline in Python, emphasizing thin APIs with background job processing, strong validation/retries, and production-grade observability. Experienced in secure FastAPI API design (centralized JWT/RBAC), multi-tenant Postgres/Supabase-style row-level security, and low-risk refactors using parallel runs and feature flags; targeting founding-engineer scope roles.”

Robert Wheeler

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in cloud, AI/ML, and scalable product platforms

Manhattan, USA25y exp

“Technical leader and hands-on engineer with 20+ years of experience who has previously raised funding and exited a venture. Currently bootstrapping a new AI-direction startup with personal and family capital, leveraging structured financial planning and a relationship-driven approach to investor outreach.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has owned complex internal platforms end-to-end, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Flask/Redis backend systems, and relational data design. Particularly strong at turning technically dense workflows into intuitive user experiences, including a synthetic-imagery platform adopted by multiple Army research labs and a marketing analytics system with 99.99%+ uptime.”

“Multi-time founding team member who helped raise capital at HotSchedules and Axial Shift, contributing investor-facing narratives around cost to serve, technology vision, scalability, and market opportunity. Motivated by building companies from the ground up, they bring a hands-on zero-to-one mindset paired with a strong understanding of what angels and VCs need to see in a scalable, standards-compliant product.”

“Built an itinerary-planning startup MVP (LessGO) using React/TypeScript and a Node/Express backend integrating Google Maps and Gemini AI. Notably optimized Gemini latency from ~40 seconds to ~3 seconds through frontend caching, debugging, and model selection, and has TA experience supporting others with deployments and database connectivity.”