Vetted Sprint Planning Professionals

“Product/design leader with founder and product director experience spanning AI advertising and enterprise cybersecurity. They’ve shipped automated ad-generation products, worked on MITRE ATT&CK integration for Cisco SecureX, and bring a distinctly human-centered view of AI that emphasizes usability, analytics, and augmentation of human decision-making.”

Meeri Chang

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Senior Product Manager specializing in education technology and enterprise SaaS

Oakland, CA10y exp

“Product leader with 9 years spanning high-growth SaaS and mission-driven education, including early product leadership at Everlaw during growth from $1M ARR to $10M+. Combines 0-to-1 ML product experience, people management, and pragmatic internal platform building for large-scale education programs serving 13,000+ students nationwide.”

“McKinsey data/ML practitioner who led production deployment of an entity resolution + semantic search platform for unstructured finance and healthcare data, integrating with legacy systems under HIPAA constraints. Deep hands-on stack across transformers (spaCy/HF BERT), embeddings + FAISS, and production MLOps/workflow tooling (Airflow, Docker, CI/CD, Prometheus/Grafana), with reported gains of +30% decision speed and +25% search relevance.”

Naga Manasa Bandaru

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Mid-level Frontend Software Engineer specializing in React, Next.js, and TypeScript

Dallas – Fort Worth, TX4y exp

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with FedEx experience building an internal logistics dashboard for near real-time shipment status and performance metrics using Next.js App Router + TypeScript. Strong in production ownership and performance work—uses React Profiler/Chrome DevTools to eliminate expensive re-renders and applies Postgres indexing/query tuning validated via EXPLAIN ANALYZE to improve dashboard responsiveness.”

Shangyi Chen

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java and Angular web applications

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of an internal, customer-facing data visualization product and helped build a data modification pipeline used across the organization for data integrity/governance. Demonstrates pragmatic MVP-driven delivery within sprints and makes performance-oriented architectural decisions (e.g., batching API calls to reduce frontend request volume) in TypeScript/React systems.”

Amit Dharam

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Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud deployment

Tempe, AZ3y exp

“Built multiple end-to-end automation and data systems, including an Accio RAG pipeline combining PDF parsing, FastAPI, Neo4j, and vector search, plus Selenium-based scraping for a virtual try-on product. Stands out for reliability-minded engineering: automated testing, structured logging, validation layers, and a data-driven approach to debugging flaky automation that improved CI pass rates to over 98%.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built end-to-end apps and internal tools spanning React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres. Stands out for pragmatic shipping under ambiguity, creating reusable platform primitives like a centralized notification API, and designing safe multi-tenant configurable dashboards with schema validation.”

“Product/UX leader with deep agency and enterprise experience, including leading a major Synchrony domain consolidation and flexible design system build that withstood a mid-project brand refresh. Blends strategic design leadership with practical AI usage—using Gemini for research synthesis and building a synthetic user testing engine—while maintaining a strong human-centered, ethics-driven perspective on technology.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

“Senior business analyst/project manager with broad enterprise implementation experience across multiple business functions and platforms, including ERP, custom web apps, AI chatbot deployment, and ITSM asset migration. Stands out for owning projects end-to-end, using iterative requirements workshops and visual process mapping, and finding practical configuration workarounds when out-of-the-box systems fall short.”

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise banking experience at Citi and hands-on production AI agent work, including a multi-agent incident analysis pipeline using LangGraph, RAG, and LangSmith. Also built a zero-to-one healthcare operations dashboard spanning hospital workflows and AI-assisted clinical features, suggesting a blend of strong systems engineering and product-minded execution.”

“Frontend-focused product engineer with experience at IBM and Intel building internal enterprise platforms, especially incentive and employee operations workflows. They repeatedly describe owning both UX/design decisions and the React frontend implementation, with strong emphasis on reusable components, API integration, and shipping ambiguous workflow products into production.”

“Founding Principal Engineer/Head of Engineering at Amberflo (Seed $5M Homebrew; Series A Norwest) who built and shipped an AI Gateway + real-time LLM cost metering/pricing MVP end-to-end (control plane/data plane, AWS infra, CI/CD). Known for extremely fast MVP cycles (often 1–2 weeks), scaling teams (50–60 hires), and driving major pivots (usage-based billing to FinOps) by repurposing an existing metering/pricing platform; based in Chicago and has led a Silicon Valley startup remotely with frequent Bay Area travel.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based Python services and data pipelines: built a Django/DRF user management/auth platform deployed with serverless AWS (Lambda/API Gateway) and event-driven workflows (Step Functions/EventBridge), with CloudFormation + Jenkins for automated delivery and Secrets Manager/Parameter Store for secure config. Also delivered AWS Glue ETL from S3 to RDS with schema evolution controls and incident-driven improvements, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (minutes-to-seconds).”

Meghana Madi

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Mid-level Product & UI/UX Designer specializing in AI, cybersecurity, and SaaS

Remote, USA4y exp

“Product/UI-UX designer with hands-on experience owning end-to-end web and e-commerce flows, from problem discovery and information architecture through Figma design and implementation support. They stand out for translating rough concepts into production-ready, scalable interfaces with reusable components, polished interaction states, and measurable usability improvements.”

“Analytics professional with experience across retail and healthcare, including Kroger and CVS Health. They have built SQL and Python workflows to clean and operationalize messy data, and have owned patient adherence/retention analytics projects that informed targeted interventions and improved refill and retention reporting.”

Vamsi Reddy

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare and financial ML systems

Nashville, TN5y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping both predictive healthcare models and clinical GenAI assistants into production. They combine strong MLOps depth across Azure and AWS with healthcare-specific safety thinking, including PHI guardrails, retrieval grounding, and production monitoring, and they also built internal Python tooling for fraud ML workflows at Capital One.”

“Built production-scale dashboards and real-time data systems across fintech and autonomous driving, with hands-on ownership from React frontend architecture through Python/Kafka/Elasticsearch backend pipelines. At Zoox, led development of an automated safety signal attribution platform that replaced manual engineering calculations and surfaced trends through dashboards.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM feature that converts natural-language search requests into Lucene queries for OpenSearch-backed device event data, improving usability for non-technical users. Brings hands-on experience across the full stack of agentic systems: model training, FastAPI/React integration, Kubernetes deployment on AWS, event-driven orchestration with NATS/Kafka, and production-grade evaluation/observability.”

“Product leader working at the intersection of AI, data governance, and industrial/energy operations. They have led a major finance-platform rewire for solar and wind asset forecasting at NextEra and previously built an AI-assisted field service app for fire alarm technicians across four business units, showing unusual depth in both enterprise data architecture and safety-critical mobile workflows.”

Ben Ayed

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Executive product leader specializing in AI, security, and connected devices

Fremont, CA22y exp

“Product leader with hands-on experience building and scaling a production Voice AI Assistant for automotive dealerships, combining LLMs, speech technologies, workflow orchestration, and system integrations. Stands out for balancing AI capability with trust, UX, and operational ROI—shipping a system that answered over 90% of incoming calls while improving conversion, reducing workload, and augmenting rather than replacing human staff.”

Mark Parolisi

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Executive technology leader specializing in digital publishing and media platforms

Greater New York City Area, NY18y exp

“Engineering leader in digital media/news with 8 years leading globally distributed teams supporting 24+ consumer and internal web applications. Distinguishes himself as a hands-on player-coach who standardized tooling across teams, built an in-house authentication and entitlements platform, and led AI systems for newsroom draft generation and taxonomy workflows that improved efficiency and engagement.”

Ilya Kravchenko

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Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and internet-scale platforms

Thousand Oaks, CA20y exp

“Engineering leader with a rare blend of SaaS, robotics, and AI systems experience, most recently leading a 21-engineer org under the CTO. They pair strong people/process leadership with hands-on architecture depth, driving dramatic delivery improvements while also building grounded LLM support tooling for warehouse operations where accuracy directly impacts physical execution and customer outcomes.”

Keerthana Kondabathini

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in healthcare and financial platforms

5y exp

“Software engineer with experience spanning healthcare platforms at UnitedHealth Group/Optum and B2B SaaS systems at Zoho. Has worked on a startup-like internal product for intelligent medical document processing using microservices on Azure, while also building React dashboards, backend APIs, and Python automation to support clinical and business operations.”