Vetted SQL Professionals

“Candidate brings a mix of business development and investment-style diligence experience across a crypto startup, healthcare software analysis, and US market-entry work. They have built outbound pipelines from scratch, supported diligence by benchmarking metrics and surfacing risks, and synthesized customer and market insights into actionable updates for senior teams.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building credit/fraud enrichment services and checkout pipelines on AWS (EKS + Lambda) using FastAPI, Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, with a strong focus on reliability patterns (timeouts/retries/circuit breakers) and observability. Has also built AWS Glue/PySpark ETL into S3/Redshift with schema evolution and data quality controls, and modernized legacy credit decisioning into Java/Node microservices with parallel-run parity validation and feature-flag rollouts.”

“Robotics/computer-vision engineer with industrial safety monitoring experience, building real-time pose estimation (TRTPose) and 2D-to-3D localization and optimizing pipelines to sustain 30+ FPS under heavy multi-entity load. Also brings edge-to-cloud distributed systems work (HoloLens + Google Vision/Translation) and production ML deployment experience using Docker/CI/CD across finance and edge camera environments.”

“Technology leader with experience owning enterprise roadmaps and executing large-scale platform standardization during rapid M&A—most notably driving a tech roadmap across a 37-company portfolio at Regent, tackling technical debt and security gaps via unified cloud-native architecture, IAM/logging, CI/CD, and a global SRE model. Previously scaled an Adobe engineering org from 8 to 40+ across four regions, implementing clear org design, KPIs, and an extreme-ownership culture to support 24/7 operations and enterprise needs.”

“Backend-focused engineer with hands-on experience modernizing a legacy SNMP/PNM data collection system at CableLabs into a cloud-accessible Kubernetes pipeline, feeding Prometheus-formatted metrics into VictoriaMetrics and visualizing real-time network health in Grafana for 100+ modems. Also built a FastAPI + Supabase appointment booking portal for a clinic with encryption and phone-number-based auth, and has frontend experience debugging S3-based HEIF image rendering issues.”

“Built and shipped production improvements to a Paylocity RAG-based AI assistant, redesigning retrieval into a hybrid HNSW + keyword pipeline and using tuned RRF to fuse rankings—cutting latency by ~2s and reducing token usage by ~5000. Previously spearheaded Apache Airflow integration across ETL pipelines at Acuity Knowledge Partners, creating reusable templates and automated triggers to reduce manual job monitoring.”

Matthew Cason

Screened

Senior Strategy & Venture Investing Professional specializing in deep tech and energy

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Operator/Chief-of-Staff-style leader with experience spanning a seed-stage aerospace startup, Capital One, and Oasis Financial. Has led multiple executive-driven cross-functional initiatives, built hiring and data/dashboard systems (Tableau) to increase executive leverage, and managed strategic product transformation work alongside day-to-day operational execution.”

“Financial systems engineer who built an automated rebalance-day order reporting and analytics tool on kdb+ pipelines, cutting a high-visibility manual process from 2–3 hours to ~2 minutes and expanding it from North America to EMEA/APAC. Also proposed an early production RAG-based incident knowledge assistant trained on ServiceNow postmortems, with guardrails to scope retrieval by application.”

“IBM engineer who shipped an LLM-powered knowledge transfer platform (Transition Engine) for federal contract handoffs, deployed on a production OpenShift cluster in AWS GovCloud with FedRAMP-aligned compliance and strict data-boundary constraints. Led retrieval strategy, prompt engineering, and production deployment (PostgreSQL/Milvus/Keycloak), driving a reported 50% reduction in contract transition ramp-up time and positioning the tool for revenue-critical federal deals.”

Kyle Bashy

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in cloud security platforms and enterprise applications

Remote, USA22y exp

“Owner and service provider of an IT practice exploring a transition into startup founding. Has spent ~15 years researching the VC/studio/accelerator landscape and evaluates new ideas through forecasting and stakeholder conversations, with a current focus on improving prospecting and qualified lead generation.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience shipping production Python integrations and designing for reliability from day one, including idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, contract checks, and full observability. Also brings web automation experience with Puppeteer and has implemented high-availability failover using load balancer liveness checks, backup environments, and cold standby architecture.”

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer with nearly 7 years at ABC Television, owning end-to-end email execution at high volume while also supporting Braze-based multi-channel programs across email, in-app, and push. Brings strong entertainment/streaming domain experience, using behavioral personalization and A/B testing to improve CTR, watch time, and ultimately ad revenue per user.”

“Primary engineer at Customer Insights AI who built an end-to-end Python pipeline for 340B drug pricing compliance, using ML to detect suspicious pharmaceutical claims and benefit diversion. Stands out for combining healthcare compliance domain knowledge with production reliability practices, and for turning ambiguous analyst-driven review processes into automated workflows that cut manual review by 70%.”

“Internship experience at TikTok and nCino, with hands-on work spanning production Python data pipelines, recommendation-system feature workflows, Salesforce Apex automation, and flaky UI automation for a live stock recommendation platform. Stands out for a reliability-focused approach: anticipating failure modes, instrumenting observability, and turning ambiguous business processes into maintainable automated systems.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered support systems at Uber, including real-time feedback analysis, ticket summarization, and retrieval-grounded knowledge systems. Stands out for combining fine-tuning, RAG, safety evaluation, and production optimization to drive measurable support outcomes like faster handling times, better resolution rates, and lower latency/cost.”

Rucha Joshi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and backend development

Austin, TX2y exp

“Builder of multiple zero-to-one consumer applications, including an anonymous writing feedback tool with a Gemini-powered chatbot, a dietary-profile recipe product using LLM-based substitutions, and a live-updates Sports Hub. Stands out for hands-on full-stack execution, iterative AI experimentation, and a quantified 80% reduction in time users spent finding recipe-compatible ingredients and options.”

Jiajun Huo

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI, data infrastructure, and LLM systems

Urbana, IL4y exp

“Built end-to-end data and automation systems at Sonic SVM, spanning Python/FastAPI/Kafka/Spark ingestion pipelines, warehouse analytics, and Playwright automation for brittle SSO-protected dashboards. Stands out for combining backend/data engineering with strong observability and reliability practices, plus a pragmatic ability to turn messy manual business processes into measurable self-serve workflows.”

Christopher Kirby

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in platform engineering, AI systems, and SaaS

Detroit, MI24y exp

“Senior engineering executive who has repeatedly rebuilt and scaled product engineering organizations in high-growth environments, including restarting Rocket Auto’s stack from scratch and hiring 100+ engineers during StockX’s hypergrowth phase. Particularly differentiated by being unusually hands-on for an executive leader, with active open source work and a strong focus on AI-native engineering workflows, developer automation, and modern architecture transformation.”

Jahnavi Rao

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech

USA5y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with Bank of America experience building production internal payment operations dashboards and modernizing legacy service integrations. Stands out for owning both design and implementation, from React/TypeScript UI architecture to Spring Boot APIs, with strong attention to performance, reliability, and production observability in complex financial systems.”