Vetted Sprint Planning Professionals

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer in lending/financial services (Kotak Mahindra Bank Autos360; currently at Ally Financial) working on Spring Boot microservices with React dashboards. Has built reliability improvements for credit-bureau integrations (Experian) and created an internal monitoring/reporting platform that aggregates metrics/logs/ETL across services, cutting troubleshooting by ~40%.”

“Open-source JavaScript library contributor/maintainer focused on performance and usability—uses profiling and user feedback to optimize large-dataset processing and modernize abstractions. Refactored a nested-callback event handling system into an observer-pattern dispatcher with batched event queues, reducing CPU usage and improving maintainability; also handles community-reported crashes by reproducing issues, fixing memory leaks, and updating docs.”

“Data/ML practitioner with experience at Airtel and Lincoln Financial delivering measurable business outcomes: improved retention 15% via NLP sentiment analysis and cut response time ~25% using sentence-BERT + FAISS semantic linking. Strong in data quality/identity resolution (SQL + fuzzy matching) and in building production-grade Python workflows orchestrated with Airflow/AWS Glue, including validation and dashboard integration in Power BI.”

“Data/QA-focused professional with experience at Lonza and Jio Platforms, owning end-to-end data reliability work for QC forecasting (SAP/LIMS) and driving root-cause/corrective actions for recurring environment configuration issues. Strong in SQL-based data standardization/validation, requirements tightening for API consistency, and coordinating multi-workstream delivery using Jira/Azure DevOps.”

Pravalika Badam

Screened

Mid-level QA/SDET Automation Tester specializing in UI, API, mobile, and cloud testing

Houston, TX5y exp

“SDET focused on end-to-end quality for web applications, owning UI/API/regression automation from framework design through CI/CD integration. Notably prevented a production payment/checkout incident by adding API validations that caught incorrect tax calculations (rounding logic) during CI before release, and has a track record of stabilizing flaky Cypress tests via robust selector and wait strategies.”

“Healthcare AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production ML and LLM systems at McKesson, spanning clinical risk prediction and RAG-based documentation tools. Stands out for combining deep clinical-data experience, HIPAA-aware deployment practices, and measurable impact through reduced readmissions, clinician workflow gains, and 20% to 30% faster ML delivery for engineering teams.”

“Automation-focused engineer with hands-on experience building production Python integrations, maintaining 60+ Jenkins pipelines across six product lines, and hardening CI systems in real-world environments. Most notably, they turned a tribal-knowledge Windows server maintenance process into a production workflow across nine servers, saving about 500 engineering hours annually.”

“Cross-functional operator who regularly leads globally distributed work and acts as a bridge between product, UX, and analytics. Has driven reporting/dashboard and workflow automation initiatives with senior leadership, using data-backed communication and quick wins to improve adoption and efficiency.”

“Engineering/technology leader (CTO-style) with experience scaling orgs and running distributed teams across four continents for over a decade. Led a high-stakes modernization of a securities trading platform at Wedbush—migrating from monolith to microservices on AWS with zero-downtime constraints—driving 45% execution performance improvement and enabling 25% market share growth. Emphasizes business-aligned roadmaps, build-vs-buy rigor, and scalable engineering practices/culture.”

“Engineer with Deloitte experience building real-time analytics products and scalable Kafka/Go/Postgres pipelines, plus production LLM features using RAG and embeddings. Demonstrates strong focus on performance, reliability, and guardrails/evaluation loops to reduce hallucinations and improve real-world AI system quality.”

“Financial data engineer who has built and operated high-volume batch + streaming pipelines (200–300 GB/day; 5–10k events/sec) using AWS, Spark/Delta, Airflow, Kafka, and Snowflake, with strong emphasis on data quality and reliability. Demonstrated measurable impact via 99.9% SLA adherence, major reductions in bad records/nulls, MTTR improvements, and significant latency/runtime/query performance gains; also built a distributed web-scraping system processing 5–10M records/day with anti-bot and schema-drift defenses.”

“Built and launched a personalized sprint-planning dashboard to reduce recurring planning friction, choosing a simple, reliable scoring approach over a complex model. Iterated based on team feedback (more control, dependency clarity, performance), achieving a reported 20% drop in task spillovers; transparent about not yet shipping production LLM/RAG features but actively learning.”

“Implementation/CS professional with enterprise account ownership in fintech/payments and ERP-integrated workflows (NetSuite, QuickBooks), including complex hybrid AP/mass pay setups and bidirectional sync challenges. Partners closely with Product/Engineering on integration plans and sandbox validation, and has driven expansion by upselling REST API automation beyond initial iFrame/ERP scope.”

“Frontend-focused software developer with experience building analytics software and web-based process control systems. Has worked with TypeScript, MVC architecture, Redux, and Redux Toolkit, including handling state management challenges in a real-time analytics application.”

“Healthcare analytics professional with Cigna experience turning complex claims, eligibility, and provider data into trusted reporting layers using SQL, Python, and Power BI. Stands out for combining deep data-quality rigor with end-to-end ownership of operational analytics projects, including standardized retention/churn metric design and automated reporting workflows.”

“QA automation engineer with hands-on ownership of Selenium (C#) and Cypress (JavaScript) suites, including CI integration in GitLab with PR smoke gating and nightly regressions with JUnit reports/screenshots. Drove a reported ~60% reduction in manual effort, improved suite maintainability through reuse/merging tests, and proactively shaped requirements/acceptance criteria in sprint planning to prevent defects (including claims calculation and server/log-related issues).”

Andrea Scherle Alleyne

Screened

Senior Project Manager specializing in industrial construction and energy projects

20y exp

“Project/operations leader who helped a growing company (2023–2024) overhaul its internal delivery operations by standing up a PMO and customizing PMI-based project management frameworks end-to-end (requirements, sprint cadence, bug handling, dashboards/KPIs). Strong in diagnosing operational inefficiencies through current/future-state analysis and advising founders/executives with a servant-mentor style grounded in deep listening and candid feedback.”