Vetted Scalability Professionals

Prayasha Chaudhary

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Engineering Leader specializing in cloud architecture and AI-powered data platforms

Remote5y exp

“Hands-on startup operator with experience across three startups, including companies built from inception and a PEAK6-backed environment. Particularly compelling for early-stage roles: they have rebuilt technical foundations, scaled platforms during growth, and pair strong product ownership with a practical, user-validation-first approach to building scalable systems.”

“Built and shipped production RAG/agentic systems in high-stakes domains (biomedical and legal), including an enterprise biomedical document retrieval platform over ~10k scientific docs and a multilingual African-law assistant at the World Bank. Deep hands-on experience with LangChain/LangGraph/LlamaIndex and evaluation tooling (LLM-as-a-judge, safety/hallucination detection), with measurable gains in retrieval quality and hallucination reduction.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience leading architecture and quality practices for React/Angular apps, including design system selection, code review/branching workflows, and Jest-based unit testing with a 100% coverage target. Built a React + TypeScript financial tool using Zustand/React-Redux, improved performance via lazy loading, and implemented input-sanitization utilities. Has managed fast-paced releases with Rally-based defect tracking and resolved a production deployment issue via rollback and YAML configuration fixes.”

“Data engineer in a banking context who has owned end-to-end Azure lakehouse pipelines ingesting financial/vendor data from APIs, Azure SQL, and flat files into Databricks/Delta (bronze-silver-gold). Emphasizes production reliability via schema-drift validation, data quality controls, monitoring/alerting, retries/checkpointing, and Spark/Delta performance tuning, with outputs served to BI/reporting teams (e.g., Tableau).”

“Engineering/technology leader (CTO-style) with experience scaling orgs and running distributed teams across four continents for over a decade. Led a high-stakes modernization of a securities trading platform at Wedbush—migrating from monolith to microservices on AWS with zero-downtime constraints—driving 45% execution performance improvement and enabling 25% market share growth. Emphasizes business-aligned roadmaps, build-vs-buy rigor, and scalable engineering practices/culture.”

“ML/NLP engineer with experience at Charles Schwab building an NLP + graph (Neo4j) entity-resolution system to unify fragmented user/device/transaction data and improve downstream model quality and analyst querying. Has applied embeddings (SentenceTransformers + FAISS) with domain fine-tuning to boost hard-case matching recall by ~12% while maintaining precision, and has a track record of hardening scalable Python/Spark pipelines and productionizing fraud models via A/B tests and shadow-mode monitoring.”

keerthana s

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in Python/FastAPI on AWS

Los Angeles, California4y exp

“Backend engineer with healthcare domain experience building AI-driven radiology workflow systems. Evolved tightly coupled APIs into secure, reliable FastAPI-based services by moving heavy imaging/data processing into idempotent asynchronous pipelines with retries, feature-flagged incremental rollout, and strong data-integrity controls (constraints, backfills, validation). Strong focus on defense-in-depth security for sensitive patient data (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, and database-level protections).”