Vetted Sprint Planning Professionals

“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.”

Marc de Vinck

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in AI, edge hardware, and SaaS platforms

Kinnelon, NJ24y exp

“Product leader from Deep Sentinel with a strong track record in security tech, AI-enabled video monitoring, and cross-functional execution. He rescued a long-stalled product by redefining the core problem, launched it in 6 months, and has also driven edge-AI threat detection, rapid UX-led web app delivery, and strategic decisions to avoid costly commodity hardware bets.”

“Full-stack engineer who independently built and still operates a live e-commerce clothing site, owning everything from frontend UX to GraphQL backend, auth, and Stripe payments. Also helped ship an AI-powered survey follow-up product using GPT-4.1, with hands-on experience in prompt design, Lambda-based architecture, and pragmatic LLM integration in an early-stage startup environment.”

“Product leader with 6+ years driving digital transformation and healthcare-focused delivery, including founding RemiMinderAI, an AI-powered app for older adults and caregivers. Combines enterprise modernization experience with hands-on AI prototyping using Flutter, Firebase, Vertex AI, and Gemini, and has delivered measurable outcomes like 40% faster onboarding and 30% higher delivery throughput.”

“Product manager with 4 years of PM experience and an earlier software engineering foundation, spanning enterprise healthcare, operations platforms, and AI products. Most notably, they founded and shipped a GenAI app builder SaaS, built evaluation and reliability layers for production use, and exceeded first-quarter adoption targets by 35%.”

“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.”

Manoj Manjunatha

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems and applied AI

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built the backend for “codeGuard,” an AI-powered static code analysis platform, using FastAPI and Docker. Structured the system into API/service/execution layers and addressed heavy-workload container resource/cleanup issues via strict CPU/memory limits and a queued execution model.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup experience building real-time collaboration and meeting platforms for enterprise customers. Has worked across product ownership, React/TypeScript frontends, Go and Node.js backend services, PostgreSQL data modeling, and production performance optimization in B2B SaaS environments.”

“Engineering director and hands-on architecture leader who combines people management with strong systems design depth across performance optimization, serverless event-driven platforms, and developer-facing AI tooling. Notable wins include cutting API latency 30%, reducing shipping time 20%, and refactoring a product into a Claude Code-native workflow optimized for token efficiency and developer context management.”

“Product leader behind eXp Realty's Doc AI, a GPT-powered document intelligence platform that transformed compliance review for real-estate transactions. Drove rollout across all 50 states and Canadian provinces within months and reduced manual effort by 85% in many workflows, with a strong focus on trustworthy AI, exception-based review, and rapid prototyping.”

“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).”