Vetted Site Reliability Engineering Professionals

“Senior engineering leader with experience across cybersecurity, retail commerce, consulting, and media platforms, combining large-scale org leadership with hands-on architecture depth. Notable for driving measurable cloud modernization outcomes—multi-million-dollar cost savings, major latency and MTTR reductions, and compliance-heavy transformations—while also leading AI/NLP and consumer product simplification initiatives.”

Matthew Allyn

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive engineering leader specializing in enterprise architecture, cloud, AI, and FinTech

Rolesville, NC24y exp

“Engineering leader with experience modernizing e-commerce platforms and leading product strategy for data-driven franchise growth tools. Notable for scaling distributed teams, making pragmatic build-vs-buy and architecture decisions, and delivering measurable business impact including dramatically faster checkout performance and revenue gains.”

“Engineering leader (12+ years Director, 17 years lead) focused on developer productivity and platform/framework work across Oracle, PlayStation, Workday, and CafePress. Notable for building distributed teams from scratch and delivering high-impact platform architecture—e.g., re-architected PlayStation’s upload pipeline to support 500GB–5TB submissions using browser-to-AWS chunked uploads with SNS/SQS and deduplication/resume support.”

Jared Hoffen

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and ML infrastructure

Las Vegas, USA12y exp

“Production-focused AI/ML engineer who has owned LLM agent and RAG systems end-to-end, from experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for building evaluation and observability layers around GenAI systems and delivering measurable gains in task success, regression detection speed, and token efficiency in production.”

“Engineer with experience at Reddit working on high-scale backend and infrastructure problems, including API redesign for products serving 150M+ daily active users. They also built a production AI agent for automated bug triage with 97% accuracy and substantial time savings, and have hands-on full-stack/AI side-project experience using React, TypeScript, Supabase, and LLMs.”

“Graphics software engineer with academic robotics/HRI experience at Oregon State University under Dr. Heather Knight, leading a ROS+Python physical robot and Unity/C# VR system to study how motion/texture/collisions are perceived in VR (2 papers + thesis). Also built ROS-based Wizard-of-Oz TurtleBot study systems and multi-robot coordination experiments, plus industry experience with Docker/Kubeflow ML tooling and Azure DevOps CI/CD automation.”

Rohini Rajagopalan

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS, Cloud Migration, and Cybersecurity

Santa clara, CA8y exp

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Cisco, Amazon, and startup Shopkick, operating at high scale (e.g., Secure Web Gateway handling ~40M QPS). Known for measurable impact across reliability and cost (85% efficacy improvement; Datadog spend cut from ~$500k/month to ~$15k/month) and for leading complex platform modernization (1-year monolith-to-microservices/event-driven migration with zero customer impact) plus compatibility-focused API design that cut device onboarding from a month to a day.”

Shady Ashkar

Screened

Executive Technology & Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS, FinTech and HealthTech

Orange County, CA30y exp

“Engineering leader (Octane) who drove business-aligned technology roadmaps and scaled a fully distributed engineering org from 35 to 150 in 9 months using a rigorous ownership model (OARP). Led a greenfield architecture for a new vertical (AWS Lambda/ECS, Python/JS/React) that delivered an MVP in 3 months while cutting per-service cloud OPEX from ~$300+ to ~$20/month, with 15+ years of remote-first leadership experience.”

Gregory Walton

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in SRE, cloud automation, and reliability tooling

Sunnyvale, CA11y exp

“Technically oriented builder focused on taking ambiguous LLM/agentic workflow needs from scoped problem definition to iterative prototypes, with emphasis on edge cases and customer feedback. Has hands-on experience debugging RAG/agent systems, including resolving a real integration issue involving search query quoting differences between manual search and an API, and is comfortable fielding deep developer Q&A in demos.”