Vetted Sprint Planning Professionals

Kaushik Balakesavalu

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Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in enterprise SaaS and FinTech

Fairfax, VA5y exp

“Software engineer with fintech/retirement-fund domain experience who led an internal dashboard consolidating fund transactions, approvals, and reporting into a single workflow tool. Strong in full-stack delivery (React + REST APIs + DB optimization) and in scaling/cleaning messy operational data via modular ETL pipelines (Python/Node), iterating post-launch with performance improvements like caching, pagination, and enhanced filtering.”

Bobby Sanders

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Mid-level Game Designer specializing in systems and gameplay

Anaheim, California6y exp

“Game QA tester/designer hybrid with hands-on Unreal Engine 5 technical debugging experience, focused on NPC AI navigation and performance. At Lantern Tower Games (Telmahre), owned end-to-end quality for an NPC system (dynamic navmesh, moving platforms, EQS, actor pooling), using Unreal Insights and asset reference refactors (hard->soft + async loading) to resolve critical memory/performance issues while collaborating closely with engineering and level design in Scrum.”

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership of both a real-time community Q&A platform and a production payroll reorder batching system. Stands out for combining backend architecture, React frontend work, and pragmatic performance improvements, including a 2-3x speed gain through batching and thoughtful UI/UX refinements that reduced user errors.”

“Developer with a pragmatic, disciplined approach to AI-assisted coding: uses tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini to speed up debugging, optimization, unit testing, and documentation while maintaining ownership of design and code quality. Interested in expanding from single-agent workflows into multi-agent setups for larger coding tasks and stays current through hands-on use and AI ecosystem updates.”

Antonio Pavicevac-Ortiz

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React/Next.js for FinTech and media

11y exp

“Built Hillfinder, a self-directed terrain-aware navigation app for cyclists, runners, and skaters, using React, Next.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, and Mapbox. Stands out for owning a complex browser-based geospatial UI and solving tricky async state and loader synchronization issues with event-driven architecture while emphasizing polished, trustworthy UX.”

“PMP-certified project/program manager with 13 years of experience leading high-stakes federal intelligence and law enforcement technology programs. Has owned a $15M+ portfolio spanning AI/ML analytics platforms, AWS/Azure cloud initiatives, and enterprise data integrations, with active Secret Clearance and a track record of improving executive visibility and reducing escalations in compliance-heavy environments.”

Brent Cook

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Director-level product leader specializing in AI-powered search and discovery

Seattle, WA21y exp

“Former high school teacher turned product leader with deep experience in EdTech, scholarly search/discovery, and mobile content platforms. They’ve led complex end-to-end launches, including a direct-to-consumer app storefront delivered on a 7-month timeline and AI-powered research discovery features for a 5-billion-record search platform, while bringing a strong human-centered, accessibility-first perspective to AI products.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with 7 years of Python experience who has worked on data-heavy products in both healthcare and social media intelligence. Particularly notable for driving Elasticsearch-based search improvements on a B2B social media analytics platform and for building secure healthcare APIs using Flask/Django with OAuth, JWT, and multiple databases.”

“Private capital operator turned founding AI product manager, with experience spanning capital deployment strategy, digital transformation, and AI product prototyping. Helped grow deployed capital from $2M to $100M at Leadership Capital Partners, then led an AI-driven product repositioning in transportation logistics at Canopy, combining strategic thinking with hands-on product execution.”

“Healthcare-focused product leader with hands-on experience building and deploying regulated digital solutions at scale. Most notably led a diabetes engagement app for uninsured patients that saved $1.2M in seven months and was later acquired by HCA for rollout across 164 hospitals, while also driving large EMR transformations and AI-assisted workflow improvements.”

“Robotics software developer with hands-on ROS experience building a timer-driven closed-loop controller for a differential-drive robot in Gazebo, including square/figure-8 trajectory planning and RViz/rqt_graph-based debugging. Currently extending the system with LiDAR-based obstacle detection, safety overrides, and reactive velocity arbitration for collision-free motion.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Vanguard, PNC, and Humana building customer-facing investment/banking flows and internal ops tools using Angular/React/TypeScript with Spring Boot microservices. Strong in shipping time-sensitive changes safely via automated testing/CI (JUnit/Mockito, Jenkins, SonarQube) and in operating event-driven microservices with Kafka (idempotency, retries, correlation IDs). Improved internal tool adoption by responding to ops/support feedback with query optimization and clearer search results.”

“Maintained and improved a set of JavaScript packages at JPMorgan, including a major refactor of an event-emission layer used in LLM streaming that delivered ~20% runtime speedup with no API changes. Known for a measurement-driven performance approach (profiling + simplification + validation), strong backward-compatibility discipline, and documentation that accelerates internal adoption and reduces support questions.”

“Game designer from Turn 10 Studios who owned major Forza Motorsport multiplayer features end-to-end, including a refreshed competitive multiplayer mode built for live service (skill/safety ratings, rotating events, telemetry-driven tuning) and the post-launch return of Public Meetups shipped for the 20th Anniversary update under proprietary-engine/UI constraints. Also builds UE5 Blueprint prototypes (third-person action-adventure) with animation blueprints and data-table-driven randomized loot systems.”

Brigif Bagus Santoso

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Senior QA Engineer specializing in mobile and web application testing

Jakarta, Indonesia8y exp

“Console game QA tester with hands-on experience validating functionality, UI/controls, loading/performance, and payment-related features across multiple console platforms. Works from structured test cases in TestRail, manages daily QA readiness and regression cycles, and escalates issues quickly via Jira bug cards while coordinating prioritization with developers and PMs under tight submission deadlines. ISTQB CTFL certified and interested in high-impact, demanding projects.”

Razim Julianto

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Senior QA Engineer specializing in manual/automation testing for web and mobile products

Korea7y exp

“QA tester with experience at Tokopedia (major Indonesian e-commerce) handling concurrent web/Android/iOS releases, including regression testing, stakeholder coordination, and full bug-ticket lifecycle management. Has additional PC/mobile game testing exposure (personal/adhoc) and uses AI tools to generate edge test cases and detect bug patterns; interested in taking on heavy, high-impact projects.”

JiHeon Kim

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Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in Financial Services

Toronto, Canada4y exp

“Frontend engineer focused on React/TypeScript dashboards and end-to-end product delivery, including RBAC with JWT, Redux-based session persistence, and a centralized API layer with token injection. Has experience with real-time MongoDB-backed updates (shared across web and mobile) and has solved production-impacting issues like timezone inconsistencies using date-fns/UTC conversions, backed by Jest + manual QA and rollback-driven release practices.”

“QA leader with end-to-end ownership of a web-UI automated B2B pricing platform at Cargill, known for using defect trend analytics (Jira/Jira AI) to uncover systemic config/integration risks before UAT/production. Implemented durable CAPA controls (config-change impact assessment gates) and improved release transparency with Copilot-generated Confluence readiness dashboards; cites 15% logistics cost reduction and 60% operational efficacy improvement. Also coordinated cross-shore QA teams across multiple countries with structured cadences and escalation paths.”

Jaskirat Singh

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and data platforms

Eden Prairie, MN5y exp

“Infrastructure/data platform engineer with hands-on GCP production experience, especially Bigtable, who led a migration from Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API to Bigtable that removed throttling and cut costs by 50%+. Stands out for combining distributed data architecture, zero-downtime Kafka migration strategy, and Terraform/Python automation for deterministic multi-region GKE operations.”

“Product and UX leader with experience launching a new direct-to-consumer ecommerce channel inside an enterprise business and later optimizing it to double revenue and conversion. Also built early AI-assisted workflows in regulatory/risk software, with a strong emphasis on trust, human oversight, and adapting quickly to new domains through first-principles product thinking.”

Sanket Mungikar

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend and AI analytics platforms

California, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

“Built and owned Citigroup's ASTRA AI-powered test case generation platform end to end, from full-stack product experience to multi-agent LLM orchestration and RAG infrastructure. Drove test coverage from 40% to 95%, cut generation time from hours to minutes, and scaled the feature to 300+ daily users across 32 enterprise projects with sponsorship from Citi's CIO and Head of Engineering Excellence.”

rajasri mamidi

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Mid-level Frontend Engineer specializing in FinTech web applications

Jersey City, NJ5y exp

“Frontend-leaning product engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across AI support and real-time observability products. They combine React/TypeScript architecture depth with backend/API collaboration, deployment ownership, and measurable impact, including a 40% reduction in support-agent lookup time.”

Murali Marupudi

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Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in Python microservices and scalable systems

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping both secure platform features and production AI systems. They combine React/TypeScript, Flask/Node.js, and PostgreSQL fundamentals with practical LLM and NLP implementation, including retrieval, schema-validated outputs, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop safeguards. Notable impact includes cutting manual review by 40% and reducing post-update error rates by over 20%.”