Vetted Software Engineering Professionals

Dan Gervais

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive technology leader specializing in big data, AI/ML, and SaaS platforms

Escondido, CA28y exp

“Hands-on IT/engineering executive who has led high-impact architecture changes and compliance-driven data systems. Notably built an internally developed columnar database at Troparé (with dual-support UI for legacy/new DBs) and shipped an MVP in 3–4 months with dramatic performance improvements, and previously delivered PCI/opt-out compliant deletion workflows while addressing DB performance and migrations.”

“Current CTO of an analytics company in the eye industry that was acquired by a larger organization, and now exploring building a new analytics platform for individual provider offices. Focused on helping practices grow revenue and improve the patient journey to drive long-term retention, with entrepreneurial motivation tied to building a legacy business for their family.”

“Former CTO at Enodo who led development of programmatic parsers to extract unstructured data from real-estate financial documents (rent rolls and T12s), validating with users via prototypes before productionizing. Emphasizes accuracy-driven engineering and scalable test-suite growth based on real user samples, and has experience scoping complex product ideas (e.g., browser-based narrative editor) down to an MVP.”

“AI/ML Engineer (TCS) who built and deployed a production LLM-powered audit transaction validation service to reduce manual review of unstructured transaction records and comments. Implemented a LangChain/Python pipeline for extraction/normalization and discrepancy detection, with strong production reliability practices (decision logging, dashboards, labeled eval sets) and a human-in-the-loop auditor feedback loop to improve precision/recall under strict data-sensitivity and near-real-time constraints.”

Alexander Meyer

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior/Lead Game Developer specializing in Unity and cross-platform multiplayer games

Paphos, Cyprus28y exp

“Veteran Unity game developer with extensive multiplayer networking experience (Photon PUN2/Quantum/Fusion, Unity Netcode), including work on Payday: Crime War and an in-development arena battler using Invector + PUN2. Also builds cloud backends for Unity titles (Azure/PlayFab/Firebase, SQL, CI/CD) and actively uses multiple AI assistants to speed up architecture and implementation.”

“Repeat early-stage startup CTO/first engineer who helped take Vettery from 0 to a $100M+ exit. Led product-oriented engineering with heavy investment in data science/ML, including a recommendations system and candidate evaluation model (90%+ predictive effectiveness), and scaled the modeling stack using parallel processing and Apache Airflow.”

“Co-founded a healthcare AI startup building and deploying software directly with end users, emphasizing rapid shipping, deep user interviews, and workflow-first adoption. Has hands-on production deployment experience on AWS (including diagnosing a silent AWS App Runner failure caused by an ARM vs amd64 Docker build mismatch) and is motivated by customer-facing, travel-heavy roles to keep engineering tightly connected to real-world usage.”

Jaideep Jain

Screened

Executive Business, Product & Engineering Leader in SaaS, Data Platforms, and IoT

33y exp

“Serial entrepreneur (13 years) currently building a consumer-focused startup with an MVP completed and initial customers acquired. Has interacted with multiple VCs and is very familiar with the VC/accelerator ecosystem, with a near-term focus on scaling customer acquisition while iterating the product.”

Priyanshi Sharma

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech full-stack and backend systems

Parsippany, NJ4y exp

“Built and productionized a GenAI prompt-engineering solution to retrieve prevailing wages based on job/location selections, emphasizing accuracy through stricter prompt templates and validation. Hands-on in real-time production debugging using Splunk (callback tracing, verbose logging, header inspection) and experienced running developer-facing demos/workshops that helped drive marketplace API adoption.”

Shane Howard

Screened

Executive technology and operations leader specializing in consulting, SaaS, and digital transformation

Salt Lake City, UT32y exp

“Serial operator and founder with four exits, including a recent business sale after raising $750K, and experience leading 17 acquisitions. Has held CEO, CIO, and global delivery/operations leadership roles across VC-backed, PE-backed, and high-growth companies, with a strong track record in GTM, operational scaling, and building repeatable cross-functional systems for growth and exit.”

“Wayfair ML/AI engineer who has shipped and operated production LLM systems for both internal analytics and customer-facing assistants. Stands out for combining strong RAG/retrieval engineering with production-grade platform work—improving trust, reducing latency by ~30%, and cutting ad hoc reporting demand by ~50%.”

“Master’s CS candidate with backend internship experience modernizing live operational workflows at NatWest/NetWess, focusing on reliability improvements, safer CI/CD deployments, and incremental refactors using feature flags and rollback paths. Built FastAPI-based APIs with strong security patterns (JWT + 2FA/TOTP, centralized authorization, RLS) and demonstrated attention to edge cases like idempotency and data consistency in a Netflix-clone project.”

“Insurtech R&D leader turned CTO with 25+ years across telecom, DoD, automotive, and commercial insurance. Built patented AI-driven insurance document ingestion (>95% accuracy with 1–3 samples) and led Azure-based backend/service development while managing up to 15 engineers at a commercial P&C MGA that reached a ~$60M book of business (~30 loss ratio) before run-off due to paper issues. Known for hands-on discovery (including field inspections) and rapid MVP delivery, including a risk-inspection iPad app that auto-generated draft reports.”