Vetted Sprint Planning 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.”

“Technical Product Manager with hands-on experience shipping and running live free-to-play games (including Cartoon Network BMX Champions) across web and mobile, with exposure to Roblox and some console. Focuses on data-driven live ops—daily rewards, streaks, push notifications, and limited-time events—paired with A/B testing and funnel/retention analytics to improve engagement and IAP performance.”

Aldric Pinto

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level AI product and data lead specializing in analytics and healthcare AI

New Haven, CT4y exp

“Product-minded software engineering lead with a blend of backend, data engineering, cloud observability, and AI product experience. They’ve owned systems end-to-end, from ETL job builders that cut setup time 70% to hybrid-cloud observability workflows that reduced monitoring effort 80%, and also drove an AI marketing feature that improved conversion from 2% to 6%.”

“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.”

“Backend-focused engineer with healthcare and finance experience (Cardinal Health, JPMorgan) who has owned end-to-end data flows powering dashboards, emphasizing strong validation/data quality and measurable frontend performance gains. Has shipped Spring Boot REST APIs with versioning and Swagger docs, and has stood up an MVP task management system with GitHub Actions CI/CD, Docker, and AWS EC2 deployment.”

“Full-stack product engineer who owned a live-events digital ticketing platform end-to-end, including blockchain-based ticket validation and high-traffic booking flows. Stands out for combining Angular/React frontend work with Java/Spring Boot backend architecture, plus strong production reliability practices around concurrency control, queues, observability, and UX optimization.”

Anthony Odinukwe

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React/Next.js web applications

Calgary, Canada6y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer who has led end-to-end delivery for an ecommerce web app and built complex React + TypeScript dashboards with real-time data and multi-step workflows. Strong in scalable architecture (typed API layers, shared hooks, design systems), quality at scale (Jest/RTL + Playwright), and performance optimization (virtualization, lazy-loading, memoization). Experienced shipping high-impact checkout changes via feature-flagged rollouts with metric/error monitoring and rapid iteration.”

Reza Mawardana

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software QA Engineer specializing in Insurance and HRIS, transitioning to SDET

7y exp

“QA-minded candidate with unusually deep, self-driven experimentation in game mechanics (RNG and EXP optimization) using emulators and save-state methodology, translating that same rigor into production release verification and bug triage practices. Has experience in embedded QA and proactively proposed a centralized QA model with sharing sessions to improve coverage during absences; uses AI tools to speed up Jira documentation and test case creation.”

Rob Wlaschin

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in AI platforms, FinTech, and Healthtech

Santa Clara, CA24y exp

“Serial entrepreneur building three distinct products: a context-aware AI chatbot, a connected TV companion-screen platform with an implementation client, and gamerogue.net, a mobile-optimized web-based virtual tabletop marketplace currently seeking funding. Brings hands-on fundraising experience, familiarity with the VC/accelerator ecosystem including YC, and a notably pragmatic approach to validating ideas based on existing market demand rather than speculative adoption.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher focused on perception, SLAM, and sensor fusion, with hands-on experience taking systems from simulation to embedded/real-time deployment. Led transparent-surface (glass) detection using GDNet and achieved a major real-time speedup (~7–9 FPS to ~30 FPS) while preserving >90% recall, and has built ROS-based EKF GPS-IMU fusion plus profiled/optimized Visual SLAM for performance and memory stability. Also brings production-style deployment skills via Docker/Kubernetes orchestration of ML inference services with autoscaling and model update rollouts.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with production experience in both healthcare (claims enrichment/interoperability at Abacus) and finance (Goldman Sachs pricing/risk APIs + React dashboards). Built an event-driven AI grading platform using Postgres Debezium CDC + Kafka + FastAPI on AWS that cut manual grading ~70% and served 1000+ students, with strong emphasis on reliability, testing, and performance tuning.”

“QA automation engineer who owned and transformed a JavaScript/WebdriverIO UI automation suite into a reliable CI release gate by refactoring to POM, adding API validations, cross-browser coverage, and aggressively reducing flakiness. Demonstrated strong security mindset by uncovering a critical RBAC gap where restricted users could trigger billing actions via direct API calls, and helped reshape product requirements early through detailed acceptance-criteria questions (e.g., CSV upload partial failures).”

Kalyan Reddy

Screened

Mid-level QA Engineer specializing in manual, mobile, and API testing

Alabama, US4y exp

“QA automation engineer who owned end-to-end test automation for a web-based enterprise application, building and scaling suites in Selenium/Java/TestNG and Cypress/JavaScript. Strong in CI/CD integration with PR gating and actionable reporting, and has prevented high-severity auth/session regressions by catching role-based login/token issues early via automated CI runs.”

Sundarajan Swaminathan

Screened

Senior Product Marketing Leader specializing in GTM strategy and RevOps analytics

Dallas, TX7y exp

“Growth creative/performance marketer from BYJU'S (India) who runs disciplined creative experimentation across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Notably shifted messaging from feature-led to outcome/testimonial-led creative, delivering CPA down 27%, ROAS up 35%, and +11% trial-to-paid conversion, and has experience leading a small creative pod (editors + writer) with a rapid-iteration production system.”

Mahima Baddur

Screened

Mid-level Business Analyst specializing in data analytics and enterprise operations

5y exp

“Business/data analyst with Johnson & Johnson supply chain experience, focused on turning messy SAP, legacy, and Excel data into validated reporting datasets and Power BI dashboards. Stands out for combining SQL and Python automation with strong KPI design around inventory planning, inventory turnover, and demand analysis in a complex enterprise environment.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Visa and Ansel, owning cloud-native, event-driven microservices end-to-end in high-volume and business-critical environments. Stands out for combining scalable Java/Spring/Kafka architecture with strong production rigor, incident ownership, and a pragmatic approach to AI workflow integration that emphasizes guardrails over blind model trust.”