Vetted Sprint Planning Professionals

Naveen Chokkakula

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Senior Golang Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native microservices

Texas, USA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at UWorld and Infosys, focused on full-stack product delivery and backend reliability. Stands out for owning analytics/onboarding experiences end-to-end while also building resilient distributed systems, reusable service primitives, and safe multi-tenant configuration guardrails.”

“DevSecOps/AWS infrastructure engineer at Madison Logic who owns a 15-account AWS footprint and treats nearly all AWS resources as code (Terraform/CloudFormation). Led a CI/CD platform migration (Bitbucket → GitLab + GitHub Actions) supporting WordPress and containerized microservices, improving release frequency to weekly/daily, and has hands-on production incident response experience on ECS Fargate using Datadog with fast rollback via immutable ECR tags and task definition revisions.”

“Growth-creative marketer in the dental/clinic space who runs offer-led, multichannel acquisition campaigns (Google Ads + paid social + email/SMS) to lift bookings and lower CPA across underperforming locations. Builds flexible, location-specific frameworks and iterates modular creative (hooks/offers/CTAs) using platform-specific performance signals; has also directed video/landing-page creative tied to improved reviews and referrals.”

“Frontend lead on an SME CRM for a bank, building a scalable multi-country/multi-product React/Next.js platform with a config-driven onboarding workflow and multi-role permissions. Emphasizes quality and maintainability through CI gates, a full testing pyramid, and disciplined server-state caching with RTK Query, plus feature-flagged rollouts and data-driven iteration from pilot user feedback.”

fahliyanto prasetyo

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Mid-level QA Engineer specializing in digital banking mobile and web testing

East Jakarta, Indonesia8y exp

“QA professional with experience spanning mobile/web applications plus API and backend behavior testing, using Jira and TestRail along with exploratory/regression and compliance-focused verification. Describes a structured approach to meeting tight deadlines by breaking work into modules, estimating test execution timelines, and using AI tools to accelerate documentation and analysis when test case volume is high. No direct console testing or TRC/XR/LOT certification experience yet, but has a compliance-testing foundation.”

Joey Mule

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Technology executive and engineering leader specializing in Automotive SaaS

17y exp

“Engineering leader who built the MVP and scaled iService Auto into a fixed-ops platform for dealership groups, aligning a dealer-driven roadmap to churn/revenue outcomes and preparing the company for strategic acquisition. Led a major modernization from a legacy Symfony monolith to a React frontend with a Symfony JSON API using feature-flagged incremental migration, while growing and retaining a ~20-person engineering team through the acquisition.”

Alexander Mammele

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Senior Technical Designer/Engineer specializing in Unreal Engine and AR/VR interactivity

Manchester, NH9y exp

“UE5 Blueprint-focused gameplay developer who shipped a VR rhythm title (Starwave), owning the player-facing star-hit interaction/feel and iterating heavily through playtests without dedicated QA. Also designed a modular tutorial/quest system by decomposing quests into reusable components so writers could assemble content independently, and has experience debugging Unreal Nav Mesh pathing issues that impacted gameplay and load times.”

“Engineer with experience in regulated healthcare and financial systems, including a United Health healthcare service migration to AWS. Built documentation-as-code for CI/CD (Jenkins/Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform + GitHub Actions) that accelerated release cycles from 3 weeks to 4 days and tied security configuration (Spring Security/OAuth2/JWT) directly to HIPAA/GDPR compliance. Strong in observability-led incident response (ELK/Prometheus/Grafana) and performance tuning (PostgreSQL, async processing), citing MTTR reduction from 3 hours to 50 minutes and support for 250K+ concurrent users.”

“Backend developer (recent co-op at Ticker) building and architecting financial backend services with near real-time data needs, including third-party API integrations. Improved performance and reliability via Redis caching (tiered refresh + TTL) and PostgreSQL query tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE + composite indexes), and has exposure to AI-agent/RAG concepts for validating stock-market information against trusted sources.”

Jason Sipula

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Executive Technology Leader & Strategic Architect specializing in cloud-native platforms

Sacramento, CA15y exp

“Technology leader with experience driving multi-year transformations at Jewelry Supply, including migrating a legacy custom e-commerce platform to SaaS and leading a 3-year ERP program from requirements through implementation and training. Also led a major architecture shift from self-hosted virtualized infrastructure to cloud Kubernetes with a strong DevOps/DevEx focus, emphasizing stakeholder buy-in and scalable processes for distributed engineering teams.”

Anupam Sistla

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development, cloud, and automation

2y exp

“Robotics software engineer who built an autonomous debris-clearing rover software stack end-to-end using ROS 2, Python/OpenCV, and YOLOv3, with strong emphasis on real-time reliability (latency instrumentation, stale-data handling, watchdog fail-safes). Also implemented a Docker CI/CD deployment system for remote Raspberry Pi timelapse devices, distributing updates via AWS S3 to handle intermittent connectivity.”

Tracy Nguyen

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Front-End Web Development

Toronto, Canada3y exp

“Frontend engineer with React + TypeScript experience building internal dashboards and a nonprofit festival website delivered end-to-end in 6 weeks. Emphasizes scalable quality practices (documentation ownership, code reviews, CI/CD, testing) and user-centered delivery, including accessibility, multilingual support, and enabling non-technical stakeholders to update content.”

Mikhail Sharapov

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Senior Game Designer specializing in gameplay systems, progression, and mobile core loops

Buenos Aires, Argentina8y exp

“UE5 gameplay/animation scripter who built a shipped, data-driven modular third-person locomotion framework primarily in Blueprints, owning animation blueprint logic, movement-state architecture, and designer-facing tunables. Addressed shipping-quality issues like animation popping/state desync under rapid direction changes and network-latency simulation using buffered transitions, velocity smoothing, and debug visualization, while aligning data flow/ownership with engineering, animation, and QA.”

Kingsley Torlowei

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and data platforms

Remote8y exp

“Built and productionized LLM agents that ingest multi-source workplace data (Slack, meetings, calendars, PM tools) to extract entities (tasks/decisions/risks/initiatives) and generate customer insights like risk alerts, deadline-miss prediction with evidence, and workload overload detection. Also architected a graph-DB-backed multi-step agent using LangChain + Pydantic with async queue/worker execution and LLM-as-judge evaluation plus human review loops.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

“Game design capstone project owner who built and tuned a full steal/sell/upgrade progression economy for a house-robbery game, including item weight/value balancing, upgrade pacing, and difficulty gates (police/NPC detection). Iterated via playtests and basic telemetry signals (purchase rates, item selection) and implemented a code-driven item attribute system to speed tuning, while also negotiating scope tradeoffs with the team around adding minigames.”

Sangat Shah

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and React/Node.js

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a serverless AWS platform for large-scale live screening events with real-time chat/feedback and streaming (API Gateway/Lambda/DynamoDB/WebSockets/IVS, IaC via Pulumi). Led production refactors and phased migrations using feature flags and dual-write strategies, and has hands-on experience implementing JWT auth, RBAC, and database-enforced row-level security for multi-tenant systems.”