Vetted SDLC Professionals

Ruthvik Bacha

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in financial data pipelines and reliability

North Carolina, USA7y exp

“Systems/robotics-oriented software engineer focused on real-time orchestration and reliability: built a central control layer coordinating multiple concurrent agents with safe state machines, failure isolation, and recovery. Has hands-on ROS/ROS 2 integration experience in simulation (DDS/QoS, lifecycle, nodes in Python/C++) and emphasizes observability (structured JSON logs, correlation IDs) and low-latency control-loop performance under load.”

Corey Bowlby

Screened

Executive Product & Technology Leader specializing in FinTech SaaS, core banking, and payments

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates23y exp

“Product/technology executive who has repeatedly built and scaled engineering organizations from early-stage startups to large enterprises (including Temenos with ~2,000 developers). Led major platform modernizations (monolith-to-microservices) to enable SaaS, resilience, and faster delivery, and launched an innovation hub to build proprietary neural-network biometric algorithms for a payments product enabling "wave of the hand" transactions.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience shipping production features in both networking (Cisco: ACL object groups, 3G/4G) and fintech/online banking (PLAID, Auto Pay, OLB, membership qualification). Works primarily with React/Java/Hibernate and REST/JSON, emphasizing caching/memoization for UI performance and strong testing/XP practices to maintain quality under faster release cycles.”

Saisureshreddy Challa

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in AI/ML, LLMs, and domain analytics

California, USA6y exp

“BlackRock AI/ML engineer who built and owned a production LLM document intelligence system for regulatory and investment analysis end-to-end. They combined RAG, multi-agent validation, strong evaluation/monitoring, and reusable Python services to process 50K+ documents, cut review time 40-50%, and improve decision accuracy by about 25%.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production GenAI and computer vision systems, spanning experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for shipping an enterprise RAG platform that cut manual review by 50% and a defect detection pipeline that reduced report generation from 15 minutes to under 1 second while maintaining high uptime and strong operational discipline.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong enterprise delivery experience across manufacturing and semiconductor use cases, owning deployments from discovery through post-launch support. Stands out for combining traditional product engineering with applied GenAI workflows and data pipeline reliability work, including a manufacturing app that reportedly saved a Fortune 500 customer about $6M and an AI chat panel adopted by 70% of pricing analysts.”

“Built a production AI-powered insights platform for marketing teams analyzing large-scale social and news data, combining Java microservices, Kafka, Spark, React, and LLM-based retrieval workflows. Stands out for shipping customer-facing AI features with measurable gains in accuracy and latency, plus solid reliability practices for high-volume backend systems.”

“State Street engineer who identifies operational pain points and turns them into high-impact internal platforms, including a service-health monitoring system and a Databricks log standardization pipeline used by 200+ users. Also experiments with practical LLM workflows, having built a Claude-based AI host that dramatically reduced facilitation time for a growing book club.”

“Execution-oriented operator with experience spanning Credit Suisse digital assets leadership, Citi Wealth GenAI initiatives, and advisory work for founders and executives. Stands out for bridging strategy, governance, and hands-on execution across highly regulated financial services and emerging-growth environments, especially in blockchain and AI.”

“Full-stack/AI-focused builder who shipped a production Career Advisor app using LLMs + RAG + vector DB (React/Node/MongoDB/Claude API) and grew it to 2000+ users, handling real deployment issues and CI/CD on Vercel/Render. Also developing an AI-powered iOS “3D World Explorer” (text-to-3D) and has cloud experience across Azure and AWS (S3/SageMaker/EC2).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using embeddings, a vector database, and a RAG pipeline to reduce time spent searching PDFs/manuals. Experienced in orchestrating end-to-end LLM workflows with Airflow/LangChain, improving reliability via monitoring/error handling, and driving measurable quality through retrieval and hallucination-focused evaluation metrics.”

“Full-stack engineer with 3+ years using Java/Spring Boot (Citi) and React, who built a production observability dashboard monitoring 53 microservices across 17 clusters with real-time health/latency tracing and significant performance improvements (cut load time from ~10s). Also designed a serverless AWS face-recognition system (Lambda/S3/SQS) built to handle burst traffic (~1000 concurrent requests), demonstrating strength in scalable, event-driven architectures.”

“Engineering leader/CTO-type with deep experience building and scaling a vehicle routing platform at Transdev On Demand, including a nationwide rollout to 22 US airports ahead of schedule. Drove engineering best practices (CI/CD, high test coverage, pair programming, automated deployments) and led a multi-tenant architectural upgrade to expand the routing engine to additional business lines and external customers.”

Srinivas Matta

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in cloud-native web platforms

Paducah, KY4y exp

“Software engineer at Capital One who owned and shipped AI-driven personalization and internal insights dashboards end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration with feature flags and tight user feedback loops. Built a TypeScript/React + Spring Boot/Python document automation platform with compute-heavy NLP microservices, async workflows, and production-scale reliability/performance practices (Kafka/RabbitMQ-style queues, Redis caching, tracing).”

Frank Meadows

Screened

Senior QA Analyst specializing in streaming video, Connected TV, and data annotation

Remote10y exp

“QA professional with experience across e-commerce and video streaming/gaming-style applications, including migrating/duplicating features with feature flags and managing regression across builds. Emphasizes device/hardware constraints, strong defect evidence collection (ADB/logs/video), and proactive test-data governance to avoid real-world vendor/production impact while coordinating with offshore/onshore teams.”

Rayhaan Mohamed

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI and full-stack development

Alpharetta, GA1y exp

“Early-career software engineer with internship experience at CirrusLabs building a voice-enabled CRM workflow that integrated Google Text-to-Speech and GPT-based processing for automated deal creation. Stands out for a reliability-focused approach to AI integrations, including validation, structured logging, prompt refinement, and hardening asynchronous API/UI behavior in real-world application flows.”

“UC Berkeley CS–trained hands-on engineering leader with executive experience spanning fundraising and board/customer communication. Led architecture and roadmap for AI-driven fintech platforms (including portfolio data, market signals, document processing, and Bitcoin trading), scaling global orgs (~100 people) and driving modular API-based designs that improved reliability, onboarding speed, and customer retention.”

“Senior business analyst/project manager with broad enterprise implementation experience across multiple business functions and platforms, including ERP, custom web apps, AI chatbot deployment, and ITSM asset migration. Stands out for owning projects end-to-end, using iterative requirements workshops and visual process mapping, and finding practical configuration workarounds when out-of-the-box systems fall short.”

“C-suite operator across multiple private-equity portfolio companies now raising capital for a thesis focused on meeting AI datacenter energy demand via AI-driven monitoring/inspection and condition-based maintenance for nuclear and natural gas generation. Has early traction with PE firms and is engaging target acquisition candidates, aiming to serve as an operating partner or CEO to execute the value-creation plan. Previously delivered a mobile-enabled workflow improvement for mutual fund valuation using HTML5 responsive design and CAB-driven agile development.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based Python services and data pipelines: built a Django/DRF user management/auth platform deployed with serverless AWS (Lambda/API Gateway) and event-driven workflows (Step Functions/EventBridge), with CloudFormation + Jenkins for automated delivery and Secrets Manager/Parameter Store for secure config. Also delivered AWS Glue ETL from S3 to RDS with schema evolution controls and incident-driven improvements, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (minutes-to-seconds).”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership of search and listing systems (React/TypeScript frontend with Node.js + Spring Boot backends), focused on shipping fast while managing risk via feature flags, testing, and metrics. Demonstrated measurable UX/performance wins (reduced latency and search abandonment) and built internal observability tooling (dashboard + alerts) that improved incident response. Experienced with microservices reliability patterns including idempotency and dead-letter queues.”

“Part-time founder building a bootstrapped IT startup in the R&D phase, running multiple product iterations and cost/benefit analyses to validate uniqueness and monetization potential. Has prior experience working for venture capital firms and is familiar with how accelerators operate, with a strong focus on finding investors who can be true thought partners for rapid pivots.”

Pedro Cutino

Screened

Executive Product Management leader specializing in B2B SaaS, cloud, AI and FinTech

Holmdel, NJ25y exp

“Operations/product leader with experience integrating product organizations after acquisitions, standardizing Agile/PDLC and RACI to remove ambiguity and enable on-time launches. Hands-on in implementing Jira-based execution frameworks and mentoring exec teams on KPI/OKR operating cadence, including adopting a Product/Engineering/UX triad model to reduce rework and improve customer alignment.”

HEMANTH KUMAR KOTTAPALLI

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GPU-accelerated LLMs and MLOps

GA, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered decision-support system for supply-chain planners that explains demand forecast changes using grounded retrieval from sales, promotion, inventory, and supplier data. Implemented strict anti-hallucination guardrails and latency optimizations, deployed as a real-time AWS API with monitoring, and reported ~15% forecast accuracy improvement and ~12% supply-chain risk reduction. Experienced orchestrating data/ML/LLM workflows with Airflow, LangChain/LangGraph-style patterns, and AWS Step Functions while partnering closely with non-technical business users via demos and example-based requirements.”