Vetted Site Reliability Engineering Professionals

“Backend engineer who built an Emergency Alert System with Virginia Tech for the City of Alexandria, focusing on real-time ingestion, secure dashboards, and AI-assisted prioritization. Emphasizes high-stakes reliability with guardrails (hybrid rules+LLM, confidence-based fallbacks), scalable async processing, and defense-in-depth security (JWT/RBAC plus database row-level security).”

“Engineering leader/player-coach who redesigned A/B testing and observability infrastructure for real-time audio/video features at 90M+ DAU scale, using Kafka-based ingestion and horizontally scalable aggregation for near real-time metrics. Managed 10–15 engineers, drove >20% infrastructure cost reduction without user-experience regressions, and led major peak-traffic incident response with lasting reliability improvements (load testing, capacity planning, alerting, pre-mortems).”

“Independent product builder with several live startups spanning transit, gaming, and SaaS/API tools. Notably built a Cyprus bus routes app before transit data was broadly available on Google Maps, and is currently maintaining products like CountriesDB and HolidayDB while pursuing SEO-led growth and validating ideas solo before expanding.”

“Built a production LLM/RAG document extraction and game/quiz content workflow using LLaMA 2, LangChain/LangGraph, and FAISS, achieving ~94% accuracy and reducing turnaround from hours to minutes. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps/orchestration (CI/CD, MLflow, Databricks/PySpark), robust handling of noisy/variable document layouts (layout chunking + OCR fallbacks), and practical reliability practices (human-in-the-loop routing, drift monitoring, A/B testing).”

Srinivasan Gomadam Ramesh

Screened

Mid-level AI/Data Engineer specializing in agentic AI and data platforms

Redmond, WA7y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production resume-parsing and candidate-matching platform at Quadrant Technologies, combining agentic LangChain workflows, VLM-based document template extraction (~85% accuracy), and a hybrid RAG backend for resume-to-JD search. Notably integrated automated LLM evals and metric-based CI/CD quality gates to catch silent prompt/model regressions, and led a 3-person team across frontend/backend/testing.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“AIX/IBM Power Systems engineer with hands-on production performance troubleshooting (NMON) and operational administration across VIOS/HMC/LPAR/DLPAR. Has implemented enterprise patching and security remediation using NIM (e.g., OpenSSH vulnerability) and built automation to generate and curate weekly AIX images for the NIM environment.”

“Cloud/infrastructure engineer with strong production operations background across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes, supporting 30+ enterprise workloads for ~40,000 users. Demonstrated incident leadership (hybrid AKS-to-AWS routing outage) with a reported 60% MTTR reduction, plus hands-on CI/CD (Jenkins) and Terraform-based IaC for AWS (VPC/EC2/EKS). Lacks direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience but emphasizes transferable ops and troubleshooting skills.”

“Cloud-focused application security practitioner with hands-on AWS and Kubernetes experience, including securing a manufacturing monitoring platform (API auth, least-privilege IAM, CI/CD security checks) and troubleshooting a production data-ingestion outage caused by an overly restrictive IAM change. Experienced in implementing cloud-native security tooling (IAM Access Analyzer, Inspector, CloudWatch) and deploying monitoring/security agents via Kubernetes sidecars with Helm, Prometheus/Grafana, and Jenkins-driven CI/CD.”

Nidhi Sura

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure

Dublin, CA1y exp

“Software engineer with limited robotics background but deep experience building end-to-end document ingestion and image understanding systems, including a CAD-specific pipeline using a custom model to extract components and bounding boxes for user-facing visualization and Q&A. Also brings strong infrastructure/DevOps skills (Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Terraform) with emphasis on reliability, cost optimization, and uptime.”

Alex Lopez

Screened

Executive AI product and platform leader specializing in FinTech

New York City, NY11y exp

“Founder and CTO of Relish who scaled the company through Series A and B, raising over $35M, while building an enterprise AI invoice-processing platform for major customers including Apple and PayPal. Combines deep technical fluency in LLM/OCR orchestration and ERP integrations with strong product and UX judgment, including a redesign that improved NPS by roughly 20 points. Also brings a university teaching background that informs a distinctly human-centered view of AI.”

Max Bachaud

Screened

Senior Systems Architect specializing in AI infrastructure and LLM platforms

Pleasanton, CA13y exp

“Hands-on hardware operations and support professional with experience spanning tracking systems, OBD devices, custom PC builds, and field deployment design. Particularly strong in identifying failure modes early, building practical RMA/diagnostic processes, and balancing unit economics against real-world reliability in deployed hardware products.”

“Backend engineer experienced in evolving high-scale legacy on-prem systems into cloud-native, event-driven microservices on AWS/Kubernetes (noted peak traffic ~1.5M QPS). Strong focus on reliability engineering and operational excellence—SLO-driven observability, GitOps/canary rollouts, chaos testing, and preventing cascading failures (e.g., retry-storm mitigation).”

“Built and owned invoice automation and alerting products at Neuralix, automating multi-site electricity invoice ingestion from PDFs into validated JSON with strict schema enforcement and LLM-based validation (reported ~98% compliance). Delivered zero-manual processing at 200+ invoices/month and ~5x faster throughput, and designed a domain-driven alert lifecycle to reduce noisy notifications and improve operational response.”

Arpit Singh

Screened

Director-level Head of Technology specializing in e-commerce platforms and digital transformation

Dubai, UAE13y exp

“B2B product builder with prior experience taking products from 0-1 and scaling to revenue; previously implemented e-commerce search and turned it into a monetized paid-results/bidding platform requiring architectural changes and GTM alignment. Now exploring a startup idea focused on retention and upsell for B2B companies, targeting the underserved long-tail partner segment and already validating the gap with industry leaders and POC conversations.”

Oleksandr Andriyanov

Screened

Director-level Technical Architect specializing in AI, spatial computing, and industrial platforms

Pleasant Hill, CA20y exp

“Senior engineering/product leader with startup-oriented experience spanning mobile apps, SaaS, ML systems, and full-stack architecture. They combine executive-level product/architecture thinking with hands-on debugging and a strong point of view on scaling engineering teams, while also actively using AI copilots and agentic workflows to accelerate software delivery.”

“Head of Engineering and former long-time development agency owner (~10 years) pursuing CTO roles, with a strong 0-to-1 mindset focused on PMF/TAM and rapid MVP delivery. Led a 3-person team to design and ship a simplified website builder in one month (2023) that is now growing 10–15% YoY, and advocates for agentic AI/spec-driven development (BMAD principles, Claude Code) to help small teams move faster than traditional larger orgs.”

“Serial entrepreneur with multiple exits, including leading a startup to a full acquisition underwritten by Deloitte. Currently runs a highly efficient automotive marketing business leveraging dealer relationships and paid acquisition expertise, generating roughly $30k/month with minimal time commitment. Motivated less by necessity than by finding a high-impact team where results are tangible and rewarded.”