Vetted Scalability Professionals

Danny Beck

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology Leader (CTO/Head of Engineering) specializing in platform rebuilds, AI, and Web3

California, USA11y exp

“Startup leader with 15+ years of experience, including lead engineer and founding CTO roles across 5 companies from pre-seed to Series A. Actively develops personal venture ideas by creating product specs/SLAs/business plans and engaging in investor pitch sessions and incubators, with a strong focus on early product-market fit via validated learning and data-driven pivots.”

varsha viswanathan

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and FinTech

Fremont, CA1y exp

“Software engineering intern experience at Zoho Corp and Zeus Desk building and deploying customer-facing systems. Delivered a real-time booking platform backend that stayed stable for 1,000+ users by optimizing MySQL queries/indexing and shipping hotfixes during production latency incidents. Also integrated financial operations APIs across 50+ small-bank partners by creating a normalization/validation layer to handle inconsistent partner data and prevent integration breakages.”

Naveen Chokkakula

Screened References

Senior Golang Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native microservices

Texas, USA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at UWorld and Infosys, focused on full-stack product delivery and backend reliability. Stands out for owning analytics/onboarding experiences end-to-end while also building resilient distributed systems, reusable service primitives, and safe multi-tenant configuration guardrails.”

Preet Talati

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in .NET Core and React

2y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped end-to-end, customer-facing features in an education/student-population context, including an authorized incident-reporting workflow with RBAC and a PostgreSQL-backed data model. Has 0→1 React+TypeScript/Redux product experience (CTO at Jiffur) and hands-on production operations with CI/CD (Azure Pipelines/GitHub Actions), including resolving a real CPU-saturation outage via operational mitigation and scaling changes.”

“Silicon Valley operator with ~30 years of experience as a board member, advisor, VC, founder, and turnaround executive, claiming 50+ venture-backed turnarounds. Has driven outsized outcomes including a $1B Nokia spinout and a 9-figure Jaspersoft exit to TIBCO, and is known for pragmatic, people-and-financials-first operational diagnosis (including CRM forensics) and rapid team scaling via structured hiring pipelines.”

“CTO-focused candidate motivated by aligning technology with business strategy and long-term growth. Previously addressed scaling-related performance issues by partnering with leadership to translate business goals into a multi-year technology roadmap.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience modernizing a provider credentialing/compliance platform with multiple upstream/downstream integrations. Focused on building predictable, scalable REST APIs (primarily ASP.NET Core; framework-agnostic approach applicable to FastAPI), improving performance via DB/query optimization, and hardening workflows with idempotency, transactions, feature flags, and strong auth/RBAC patterns.”

“Analytics candidate who has built full-stack data products end to end: from cleaning 1M+ retail transactions in MySQL to Python-based market basket analysis, churn segmentation, and Streamlit dashboards with Gemini-powered business recommendations. Also built a reproducible predictive modeling workflow for concrete strength forecasting, showing a blend of SQL, machine learning, and stakeholder-friendly delivery.”

“Strategic enterprise sales leader at TTM Technologies with a background in complex national and global account management rather than traditional public sector sales, but with highly transferable experience in large-scale, multi-stakeholder environments. Has managed over $100M in annual revenue exposure, delivered double-digit growth including roughly 30% account expansion, and led cross-functional coordination across manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, and executive teams in high-value technology infrastructure programs.”

Chukwunonso Azuka

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in secure backend systems and re-engineering

Remote16y exp

“Founder of LexaBooks, an active bootstrapped startup being built with scalability, recurring revenue, and investor readiness in mind. Participated in the 2024 Startup Wise Guys accelerator and has continued training across SaaS, AI, and fintech, giving them a strong understanding of early-stage growth and venture dynamics.”

“ML/computer-vision practitioner who shipped a CycleGAN-based bilingual handwriting translation demo (English↔Telugu) for low-resource scripts using unpaired datasets, focusing on preserving handwriting style and real-time deployment via Gradio. Also delivered a medical imaging pipeline by fine-tuning ResNet-50 and ViT-B/16 for pneumonia detection, emphasizing reproducibility, measurable evaluation, and stakeholder-friendly iteration.”

“Startup-focused tech leader with 20+ years of experience who has led engineering teams across multiple startups and pitched inside VC firms. Currently building infrastructure for managing physical wealth—creating a canonical data layer that integrates with wealth management systems to account for precious metals and other tangible assets—and is prepared to raise capital to align with the right partners.”

Brad Marshall

Screened

Executive Technology Consultant specializing in Microsoft BI and Azure cloud migrations

29y exp

“Has experience working with venture capital firms evaluating target companies for potential acquisitions, focusing on technology maturity, technical stack, and team/human resources assessment.”

“Unity mobile game developer (10+ years) who has shipped 15+ iOS/Android titles (including Word Collect, Trivia Start, Word Nut, Hot Las Vegas Slots). Built a large-scale adventure/quest progression feature with 1000+ quests using procedural map generation, UI virtualization for mobile memory constraints, and a server-driven, spreadsheet-importable configuration system that became a reusable standard across games. Based in San Diego (PST) and targeting $155k USD; open to contract or full-time.”

“Candidate is targeting a CTO Venture Studio role and positions themself as a technical partner to founders rather than a founder personally. They demonstrate strong fluency in early-stage startup evaluation, especially around validating whether a product truly tests the business hypothesis and whether the underlying technology can scale significantly.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at Ramp, Easebuzz, and George Mason University, spanning data pipelines, workflow automation, and production reliability. Stands out for quantifiable performance gains, strong debugging instincts in distributed job systems, and translating ambiguous finance operations processes into measurable automation outcomes.”

“India-based engineering leader/player-coach managing ~20 people and three products, while still shipping hands-on in Python/Golang across 8–10 microservices deployed on GCP (Kubernetes) and AWS (ECS). Has led end-to-end delivery (design through QA) and owned production reliability improvements (including building a Slack alerting bot). Strong domain exposure in utilities (MDM/meter readings, billing/rate calculations) and financial integrations (GL code tagging), plus side projects in Golang around LLM API cost-optimization.”

Tanisha Dalwadi

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Product Engineer specializing in TypeScript and React

Arizona, USA4y exp

“Software engineer and co-founder with 0-to-1 SaaS experience who built and owned an end-to-end reporting/analytics dashboard on Next.js App Router + TypeScript, including Postgres schema design, aggregation query optimization, and post-launch performance/monitoring. Has delivered measurable React dashboard performance gains (~35% improvement in time-to-insight) and built durable, idempotent job/state-machine workflows using serverless functions and Postgres.”