Vetted Ruby Professionals

“Commercially minded candidate with exposure to private equity firms as sales targets and experience building partnerships around venture-backed company ecosystems. They appear more inclined to join an existing company than found one, bringing a metrics-driven, process-oriented approach and creative execution style with a strong focus on clear growth paths and capital stability.”

“Full-stack engineer with ~20 years of experience (including 5–6 years in consultancy) who has shipped and operated production systems across a wide range of stacks. Recently owned an end-to-end receipts feature integrating Stripe, generating PDFs, and sending HTML emails, deployed via GitHub Flow to AWS ECS; handled real-world performance issues (oversized merchant images) with compression and server tuning.”

“Backend engineer with cloud-native Python/Flask experience building high-throughput financial platforms (loan origination intelligent document processing and real-time fraud detection). Has scaled microservices on AKS with event-driven Azure messaging, delivered measurable performance gains (e.g., 700ms→180ms query latency; ~40% API improvements), and implemented strong security controls (OAuth2/JWT, Azure AD RBAC, audit logging, AES-256/TLS) for sensitive regulated data.”

Tyler Stroud

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in AdTech and scalable cloud platforms

Miami, FL15y exp

“Engineering leader with experience in small, bootstrapped startups and exposure to VC environments, currently pursuing CTO-level opportunities. Thrives in fast-iterating, high-uncertainty settings and emphasizes data-driven clarity plus strong problem/market validation when evaluating new ventures.”

Naveen K

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered backend systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a real-time analytics and alerting dashboard built with React/TypeScript, Node.js, Kafka, Redis, and PostgreSQL. Also contributed to an internal LLM-powered support automation system, focusing on backend orchestration, RAG-based reliability, and Kubernetes deployment. Stands out for combining product-minded zero-to-one execution with strong distributed systems and AI integration experience.”

Serge Ahranovich

Screened

Executive CTO / Platform Architect specializing in IoT, telematics, and EV charging infrastructure

Los Angeles, CA20y exp

“Founder of TimeTick (timetick.io), an AI-powered diagnostics platform for IoT combining device simulation, automated testing, and real-time monitoring—initially focused on EV charger diagnostics. Former VP of Engineering with a track record of building IoT systems from scratch and applying AI to detect protocol-failure patterns that drive downtime; currently supporting existing customers and converting pilots (with leads like Siemens and ABB) into paid subscriptions.”

“AAA sports game QA tester who supported full development through launch and live updates, owning gameplay stability/regression risk. Experienced in triage-driven prioritization and in diagnosing complex crash issues (including thread synchronization) using evidence-backed Jira reports, then hardening coverage with stress/concurrency/soak and CI-integrated regression suites.”

Rupini Polavarapu

Screened

Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD automation

Atlanta, GA10y exp

“AWS platform/infra engineer with hands-on ownership of EKS cluster lifecycle (upgrades, node scaling, networking/ingress, and EBS-backed stateful storage) and reliability validation using Datadog plus CI/CD smoke tests. Also supported on-prem VMware environments and operated a hybrid on-prem-to-AWS setup over site-to-site VPN, including incident response and implementing change-controlled firewall processes and proactive connectivity health checks.”

Joshua Caito

Screened

Director-level SRE leader specializing in cloud reliability and DevSecOps

Omaha, NE16y exp

“Engineering leader in insurance/enterprise environments who currently runs SRE and Level 2 operations at Mutual of Omaha with 11 direct reports. Combines people leadership with hands-on systems design, AI-enabled incident tooling, and observability workflow simplification; also has a track record of rescuing a major client upgrade project that was two years behind and delivering it roughly three months early.”

Luke Evers

Screened

Director-level engineering leader specializing in full-stack product and e-commerce systems

Remote12y exp

“Candidate is an aspiring founder currently exploring startup ideas and potential collaborators, with firsthand experience as an early employee at VC-backed companies, including joining a current company shortly after seed funding. They have not raised capital themselves but bring early-stage operating exposure and a strong desire to build something they own with a high-trust team.”