Vetted SDLC Professionals

Pavan Devulapalle

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms and AI-integrated full-stack development

Seattle, WA3y exp

“Backend engineer who built Flask-based internal APIs supporting GenAI-driven provisioning/diagnostics (Outpost/AWS Outposts-like environment), with deep hands-on optimization across Postgres/SQLAlchemy (2s to <200ms endpoint improvement). Experienced integrating ML/LLM workflows via AWS SageMaker and Bedrock, and designing multi-tenant isolation plus high-throughput Redis-backed background task pipelines (minutes to seconds).”

Poorna Pedapudi

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend systems and cloud-native microservices

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Software engineer focused on data platforms and applied LLM systems: built an internal data quality monitoring layer to catch silent data drift and iterated post-launch after finding ~30% false-positive alerts, reducing noise via dynamic baselines and improved structured logging. Also shipped a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant over Jira/Confluence with citations, confidence-based fallbacks, and nightly automated evals to prevent regressions.”

“Full-stack web developer with hands-on ownership of products from requirements through launch and maintenance, building across React and Node.js. Stands out for balancing product usability with technical performance, including API/database optimizations that improved performance by about 30% and shipping real-time dashboard features with scalable frontend/backend tradeoffs.”

Varshitha Macherla

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in Java microservices and cloud platforms

Overland Park, KS2y exp

“Full-stack engineer (~2.6 years) with strong Java/Spring Boot backend experience and React/Angular frontend exposure, who has worked on enterprise-scale systems at Dell processing ~1.8M daily transactions/events. Built secure, partner/internal-facing APIs (OAuth2/JWT) across 14 integrations and implemented Kafka-based order/payment workflows with idempotency and sub-700ms processing targets, plus CI/CD and Selenium-based release validation.”

Harsh Sanas

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and distributed systems

Los Angeles, CA2y exp

“Full-stack product engineer who has designed and shipped production web experiences in EV charging, trading, automotive companion apps, and AI systems. Stands out for owning user-facing React experiences through backend integration and production monitoring, with a strong bias toward reliability in real-time and high-stakes workflows. Also has early-stage Scale AI experience building a Text-to-SQL agent stack with Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and AWS.”

“Bootstrapped founder building a cybersecurity framework for cloud-native applications and startups, differentiated by significantly faster end-to-end cloud environment delivery than traditional consulting. Has experience navigating pricing models (fixed price vs time & materials) using MVP and phased delivery, and has strong familiarity with the VC/accelerator landscape with interest in healthcare (details under NDA).”

Rina Thakker

Screened

Executive Product & Technology Leader specializing in consumer digital platforms and media

Darien, CT21y exp

“CTO at Grand Slam Track (track & field league) for ~2 years, owning a broad technology portfolio across digital marketing tech, IT, broadcast technology, and athlete/data management systems. Entrepreneurial operator with repeated experience assessing product-market fit using user sentiment, demand data, demographic targeting, and A/B testing; familiar with VC mechanics and looking to deepen hands-on fundraising experience via a large network and board connections.”

“Compensation and payroll professional with hands-on ownership of end-to-end U.S. payroll and compensation cycle support. Stands out for using compa-ratio, market benchmarking, and Excel-based reconciliation tools to catch data issues, influence salary decisions, and strengthen payroll controls.”

“Salesforce-focused candidate with hands-on experience delivering Service Cloud automation, including entitlement/SLA escalation workflows, and building multi-component Lightning UI frameworks. Brings a mix of native-platform design, custom Apex extension, LWC architecture, and legacy Aura maintenance experience.”

“Engineering leader with experience rebuilding a 35-person organization after acquisition, spanning operations, QA, and multiple software teams. Combines hands-on technical judgment in areas like search, AI chatbot integration, and AWS operations with strong organizational leadership, including process modernization, quality embedding, and customer-feedback-driven AI product improvement.”

“Backend engineer from Palantir who built and productionized an enterprise LLM-based document intelligence/search platform, evolving it into a hybrid lexical+vector retrieval system. Emphasizes reliability and cost control via strict LLM gating, robust fallback paths, and evaluation frameworks (e.g., MMLU/BLEU), plus disciplined migration practices (feature flags, dual-writes, shadow reads) to ship changes safely at scale.”

“Software/cloud engineer with PwC experience deploying a nationwide Australian Government Salesforce labor licensing platform used by 200k+ professionals, emphasizing safe integration, CI/CD, and UAT-driven quality improvements (40% defect reduction). Also built a Python/FastAPI RAG system with the U.S. Army to convert CONOP documents into risk assessments, adding human-in-the-loop and provenance features to address operator trust concerns.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX administration (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, RMC) and PowerHA cluster failover experience, plus modern DevOps tooling across CI/CD, Kubernetes/Helm, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible). Emphasizes controlled change management, drift prevention via Git-as-source-of-truth, and observability practices using Prometheus/Grafana.”

Sumaya Shakir

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, data ecosystems, and product engineering

24y exp

“Technology leader who drove end-to-end modernization at Dogtopia—building a proprietary SaaS POS/CRM and operations platform plus an AI-powered customer app—using OKR-driven roadmaps and Agile/DevOps delivery. Previously at GE, led a cloud-native AWS data fabric re-architecture with strong security/governance (RBAC, classification, encryption, lineage, virtualization), cutting processing time 60%+ and enabling AI workloads tied to $400M in business value.”

“Entrepreneur building a bootstrapped AI-based personal agent (inspired by Claude desktop) aimed at making AI assistance accessible to non-technical users. Motivated by improving individuals' daily lives by helping them organize their day and offload simple, repeatable tasks; plans to explore VC/accelerator options but has not raised capital yet.”