Vetted Root Cause Analysis Professionals

“Candidate comes from SaaS and healthcare analytics rather than game development, but has strong end-to-end ownership experience building real-time, high-availability systems in Python/AWS. They highlight measurable impact across performance, throughput, uptime, and cost reduction, including queue optimization and predictive ICU utilization pipelines, and are looking to transfer that systems engineering foundation into Unity/gameplay work.”

Vaughn Eugenio

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in distributed microservices and real-time systems

2y exp

“Software engineer with production experience at DraftKings and SRC, owning high-impact platform changes like early-start lineup validation fixes and a multi-service refactor to support dual-role players (e.g., Ohtani) using backward-compatible, feature-flagged rollouts. Has embedded onsite with military users to rapidly ship improvements to a COP/TAK mapping integration (TrackSync), and leverages AI tools (Claude) to accelerate learning and delivery in new domains (e.g., ESP32 smart deadbolt project).”

“Supply chain/sourcing professional focused on semiconductor tooling NPI ramp-ups, owning vendor selection through production and delivery. Demonstrates strong cost and trade-risk mitigation (e.g., avoided 25% Section 301 tariff via HTS/landed-cost analysis) and measurable supplier performance turnarounds (OTD improved to 95%) using SAP MRP, shortage analysis, and structured supplier governance.”

“Supply chain/procurement professional (Maersk) who leads end-to-end freight sourcing initiatives using heavy analytics (SAP/SQL/Python/Excel) to drive measurable savings. Known for automating sourcing workflows (60% faster bid evaluation) and building Power BI dashboards to monitor contract compliance and supplier performance post-implementation.”

“People/HR leader with strong change management and employee relations experience, including implementing an internal mobility policy to improve fairness and transparency. Uses people analytics (exit interviews, engagement surveys, Five Whys/root-cause diagrams) to drive measurable outcomes—cut frontline turnover ~25–26% by improving onboarding and advancement pathways. Also coaches leaders to improve team engagement and mediates cross-functional conflict (clinical vs. administrative) during critical workflow changes.”

“Automotive embedded product leader (player-coach/product-functional engineering) who helped ship a cybersecurity gateway ECU into production, owning architecture decisions, critical module reviews, and delivery. Demonstrated hands-on security/diagnostics expertise (ADA, RSA) and production defect ownership, plus experience tailoring quality-gate processes to speed variant delivery without sacrificing quality.”

“Game QA professional who shipped AAA (Overwatch 2) as quality feature owner for Campaign missions, owning high-risk areas like mission progression stability and preventing soft-lock/state desync issues. Also shipped Stormgate and caught a critical Steam achievement integration failure near RC by recreating the issue in an anti-cheat, live-mirroring environment and driving it through fix + regression verification.”

“Infrastructure/Unix engineer with production PowerHA/HACMP operations experience (resource groups, service IPs, shared storage) who has executed planned failovers and recovered a real outage involving a SAN driver crash and manual Oracle recovery (restored service in ~15 minutes with zero data loss). Also supports cloud DevOps practices including CI/CD security scanning (SonarQube, Snyk), container registry/versioning, and Terraform Cloud-based IaC across AWS and GCP with PR/Jenkins-driven plan-and-apply workflows.”

“Sourcing/procurement professional with Accenture experience supporting telecom infrastructure expansion, owning RFQs through delivery and managing 12+ vendors. Known for strong supplier performance management (scorecards, KPIs, corrective actions) delivering ~97% on-time material delivery while cutting expedited freight 13% and avoiding ~AUD 500K in delay costs; also brings supplier onboarding and capability/capacity assessment experience from Nestlé and Accenture.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an enterprise search platform (Codlens) delivering natural-language Q&A over Jira/Slack using embeddings, vector DB search, re-ranking (RRF), and LLM responses with source grounding. Also designed and benchmarked a distributed IAM system with Postgres transaction-log replication and Raft-based quorum consistency, reporting ~253 TPS at ~60ms latency in a multi-node setup. Experience spans early-stage startups (Zetic AI, Sagwara Capital) and large-scale orgs (Akamai, Atlassian).”

Sandeep Mekala

Screened

Director-level Mobile Engineering Manager specializing in Generative AI and agentic mobile experiences

Remote13y exp

“iOS player-coach who led end-to-end development of real-time customer support chat and unified notification systems for T-Mobile’s iOS app using SwiftUI, Firebase, WebSockets, and Core Data (including offline handling). Drove measurable reliability/latency gains (~30%) through a major notification refactor and owned a high-severity push-notification incident from rollback through RCA and backward-compatible hotfix, while also scaling team process and people management.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered “Vet agent” that automates pet symptom intake across multimodal inputs (images/files/text/speech) and provides analysis/home-care guidance, reaching thousands of daily active users within two months. Demonstrates strong agent engineering fundamentals: state-machine orchestration with structured JSON, tool/schema validation, high-availability routing/failover, and rigorous offline/online evaluation loops with trace-driven reliability improvements.”

“Analytics-focused candidate with hands-on experience building SQL data pipelines and Python-based forecasting workflows for inventory and planning use cases. They emphasize data quality, stakeholder trust, and operational adoption, citing a 19% forecast accuracy improvement and strong experience translating analytics into dashboard-ready business metrics.”

Bhaskar Reddy

Screened

Junior Business & Data Analyst specializing in analytics and BI

Fairfield, CT2y exp

“Analytics-focused candidate with hands-on experience building SQL and Python workflows that turn messy multi-source data into reporting assets and dashboards. They show strong practical judgment around data quality, table grain, validation, and performance tuning, and they described an education-focused engagement project that reportedly improved course completion by 15% through targeted interventions and metric-driven stakeholder alignment.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end AV operations automation and dashboarding platform for USC event operations, used daily to coordinate hundreds of live events. Delivered a React/TypeScript full-stack system integrating Smartsheet APIs with strong reliability practices (typed contracts, validation/fallbacks, safe rollouts) and experience with queue-based microservice patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQs, monitoring).”

“Finance data and reporting professional with PwC experience who bridges accounting and technology, especially around GL-related reconciliations, reporting accuracy, and close support. While not a direct PeopleSoft GL owner, they bring strong SQL-driven troubleshooting, ETL/data mapping remediation, and process automation experience that helped shorten close cycles and improve audit readiness.”

“Analytics candidate with hands-on experience turning messy pricing and competitor data into reporting-ready SQL tables, plus building Python automation workflows that replaced manual processing across 40,000 images at roughly 89% accuracy. They also led a price elasticity analysis that informed differentiated pricing strategies and supported reporting through Power BI dashboards.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning an SEL internship and Walmart, combining backend/data pipeline work (Python, Kafka, relational DBs) with DevOps practices (Docker, Grafana, GitHub/Jenkins CI/CD, GitOps). Notably contributed to a REST-to-GraphQL migration aimed at reducing cloud utilization and implemented testing strategies to validate the transition.”

“Analytics professional with Deloitte experience building SQL and Python workflows for revenue, pipeline, and opportunity analytics at scale. They combine strong data engineering and modeling skills with business-facing delivery, citing impacts including 8-10% conversion improvement, ~$700K revenue protected, 12% YoY project acquisition growth, and 15% retention improvement in financial services.”

“Senior software engineer with hands-on experience leading multi-agent AI workflows in financial trading infrastructure. Most notably, they applied a specialized agent setup on a high-frequency trading backend to cut delivery time from three weeks to ten days while improving validation against risk, performance, and compliance requirements.”

“Operator-founder currently building two apps to MVP, handling everything from market research and test-user feedback to hands-on product changes in FlutterFlow and Visily. In a prior large-scale portfolio environment, they brought order to a highly disorganized 100+ person, 26-value-stream delivery organization by standardizing Jira workflows, creating stakeholder cadences, and lifting predictability from 30% to 86%.”

“Backend engineer with Citigroup experience who built and evolved a self-service user provisioning/identity backend, cutting onboarding from 45 minutes to under 2 minutes. Demonstrates strong production-grade integration and reliability practices (isolated integrations, retries, rollback logic, heavy logging) plus secure API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth scope-based authorization and incremental, low-risk rollout strategies.”

“Backend/platform engineer from Fanatics sportsbook core team with deep experience in real-time ingestion systems (Kafka) and high-throughput performance optimization. Delivered an 87% latency reduction on a Java API handling hundreds of thousands of updates per second, and improved reliability of shared internal libraries via deterministic recovery logic, strong testing, and feature-flagged rollouts.”