Vetted SDLC Professionals

“Commercial UNIX specialist and former tech lead for a UNIX-based telco appliance spanning 11 SPARC Solaris servers, with strong Solaris troubleshooting (truss/iostat/netstat/snoop) and extensive shell scripting automation for safer, more consistent operations. Has executed multiple Solaris major-version migrations (6→8→10→11) and brings broad cross-UNIX platform experience (Solaris/SunOS/HP-UX/IRIX/OSF/1), while actively looking to deepen hands-on AIX/IBM Power expertise.”

“Co-founded a Digital Loss Prevention (DLP) startup and raised $6M in seed funding by showcasing a controlled, laptop-based technology demo. Post-funding, drove MVP planning and execution by sequencing operations and assembling a team to build an appliance MVP, using an iterative build/evaluate/visualize approach.”

“Backend engineer who built a Python-based data profiling/statistics platform processing up to 50M rows and ~300 metrics, using a DAG execution model, multithreading, and smart caching to cut processing time by up to 70%. Also improved PostgreSQL query performance from 12s to 2s via indexing/query rewrites, integrated an LLM (LangChain + OpenAI) for explainable “chat with the pipeline” functionality, and designed an AWS EC2+SQS architecture for scalable, isolated per-user processing.”

“Appian consultant/engineer focused on insurance and financial services modernization and AI-enabled workflows. Built and productionized an AI-driven insurance submission intake system (email ingestion, classification/extraction, HITL review) cutting processing time from 2+ hours to under 10 minutes, and delivered semantic smart search with guardrails and UAT-driven ranking improvements. Also partnered with a global bank CTO org, running sessions with 200+ senior leaders to automate regulatory/board metric reporting via platform integrations and attestation.”

Thomas Majchrowski

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in SaaS, AI platforms, and M&A integration

Irvine, CA22y exp

“Entrepreneurial builder who created a SaaS system for insurance sales and developed in-house sales/marketing platforms, prioritizing a robust backend that drove over $500k in immediate sales before expanding features. Emphasizes lean, high-impact execution with strong focus on optimization, barrier management, and contingency planning.”

Cornelius O'Donnell

Screened

Director-level Engineering & Program Leader specializing in AI product platforms

San Diego, CA25y exp

“Technical Program Manager and one of three internal "founders" of HP’s Hardware-as-a-Service home printer subscription initiative, spanning DTC shipping, simplified setup, ink replenishment, and warranty coverage. Led roadmap definition/execution, scaled delivery rapidly to 15+ scrum teams (including vendors) with SAFe-like coordination and shared engineering standards, and drove key architecture trade-offs (building an interim subscription management service) to accelerate time-to-market by about a year.”

Rishitha Madipelli

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems and streaming data

Austin, TX7y exp

“Backend/product engineer with Tesla experience building and operating a real-time OTA update monitoring and fleet analytics platform at massive scale (telemetry from 3M+ vehicles). Delivered end-to-end systems across Kafka-based ingestion, TimescaleDB/Postgres analytics modeling, FastAPI/GraphQL APIs, and React/TypeScript dashboards, and handled production scaling incidents on AWS EKS during major rollout spikes.”

Sudhir Sagi

Screened

Executive technology and operations leader specializing in connected vehicle SaaS and IoT

Novi, MI28y exp

“Candidate indicated they do not have a business plan or startup, are not familiar with the venture capital/accelerator landscape, and explicitly requested to withdraw their application because the position does not seem like the right fit.”

“Full-stack engineer (~4 years) who has owned and shipped customer-facing SaaS onboarding and a role-based real-time analytics dashboard using TypeScript/React with a modular backend. Experienced in microservices with RabbitMQ and strong observability practices (correlation IDs, structured logging, queue metrics), and built an internal deployment tracker integrated with CI/CD that replaced manual spreadsheet/Slack processes.”