Vetted SQL Professionals

“Senior engineering/technology leader who has defined and delivered a multi-year roadmap to modernize platforms and embed AI, leading global teams through cloud-native and microservices migrations on AWS/Azure. Demonstrated measurable outcomes including 99.99% uptime, 40% fewer incidents, 25% faster delivery, 5x scalability, and $30M in new business opportunities, while scaling a 100+ person distributed org with strong OKR-driven execution and mentorship culture.”

Bryan Wang

Screened

Senior Business Operations & Chief of Staff specializing in growth and GTM for tech startups

New York, NY7y exp

“Chief of Staff at a high-growth startup who helped scale the company from Seed through Series B while owning fundraising/investor & board relations and building an enterprise GTM motion. Led the first enterprise launch by aligning CEO/CTO priorities under severe engineering constraints, then helped scale an enterprise account to 10-figures in GTV within six months. Known for executive leverage (CEO proxy), company-wide planning/communication systems, and operationalizing enterprise CS/AM processes.”

“Early-stage founder building a service business targeting small clinics, already with one client. Identified the opportunity by helping a family member and then validating needs through direct client conversations; uses AI (including AI agents) for content generation and plans deeper workflow automation to scale cost-effectively.”

“ML/LLM engineer who built and shipped an LLM-powered internal knowledge assistant at Meta, focusing on production-grade RAG to reduce hallucinations and improve trust. Deep experience with scaling and serving (FSDP/DeepSpeed/LoRA, Triton, Kubernetes autoscaling) and reliability practices (Airflow retraining, MLflow versioning, monitoring with rollback), including sub-100ms latency and ~35% GPU memory reduction.”

“ML/NLP engineer with experience at NVIDIA and Cruise building production-grade AI systems across genomics/biomedical research and autonomous vehicle data. Has delivered multimodal LLM pipelines, large-scale entity resolution, and hybrid semantic search (BERT embeddings + FAISS + Elasticsearch), with measurable impact (≈40% accuracy/retrieval gains; ≈30% data consistency improvement) and strong MLOps practices (Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLflow, Prometheus/Grafana).”

“Fintech product builder focused on AI-native opportunities; recently helped their company operationalize LLMs in customer service and bank ops by creating systems to continuously improve prompts and evaluations. Also drove growth by identifying hooks in a major American retailer distribution channel and integrating into the retailer’s payment flows to become a key part of the user funnel.”

Brian Gomez

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in AI/ML, NLP, and computer vision

United States12y exp

“McKinsey & Company ML/NLP practitioner who builds production-grade AI systems across sectors (notably healthcare and finance), including RAG/LLM solutions, entity resolution pipelines, and embedding-powered search with vector databases. Demonstrated measurable impact (40% reduction in data duplication) and strong MLOps/data workflow practices (Airflow, MLflow, Spark, AWS/GCP, Prometheus, CI/CD).”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience at Uber building a near real-time driver rewards service on AWS (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis) with strong reliability and concurrency controls. Also delivered AWS Lambda/ECS containerized deployments with GitHub Actions CI/CD and cost governance, built AWS Glue ETL with schema-evolution handling, and drove a ~10x SQL performance improvement while owning incident response via CloudWatch.”

“Cross-functional operator with experience coordinating a medical device build across functions and time zones, emphasizing executive alignment and decision sign-off. Has also standardized customer-site product deployment processes and streamlined investment screening/reporting using Bloomberg and Excel automation to enable faster executive decision-making.”

Sri Yogesh Dorbala

Screened

Engineering Manager / Tech Lead specializing in large-scale distributed systems

Seattle, WA8y exp

“Software engineer focused on personalization and data/ML infrastructure who built a GenAI/LLM-driven carousel ranking system end-to-end, delivering a reported 6–7% order-rate lift. Also designed large-scale personalization ETL (15PB for ~100M users) and created a custom Airflow operator to integrate with Databricks under enterprise version constraints, with hands-on on-call and data-quality reliability improvements.”

“Entrepreneurial healthcare operator currently serving as investor, co-founder, and COO of Mednevo, a startup combining AI with physician oversight rather than replacing doctors. Brings experience from 8 startups, prior capital raising, and a practical approach to healthcare AI trust, including doctor-controlled AI shutoff, HIPAA-minded compliance, and physician validation of LLM outputs.”

“NVIDIA engineer who built and shipped a production LLM-powered enterprise knowledge system (summarization, transcription, and Q&A) that cut document retrieval time ~30%. Deep hands-on experience with RAG (FAISS/Pinecone), GPU-accelerated microservices on AWS, and reliability/safety practices (Guardrails AI, prompt A/B testing, canary releases) plus strong MLOps orchestration across Airflow, Step Functions, and Kubernetes GitOps.”

Maria Li

Screened

Entry-Level Firmware Engineer specializing in embedded–cloud systems

New York, NY2y exp

“Backend engineer at Samsara with prior Amazon internship experience; built an internal Python chatbot for documentation discovery with a full security model (authn/authz and credential-based response filtering) in a sensitive environment. Currently works on dashcam/device-backend systems, including feature-flagged migrations for audio alert behavior and resilient real-time gRPC streaming under unreliable cellular connectivity, while actively monitoring Buildkite/Toolshed CI/CD rollouts.”

Chang Qian

Screened

Senior Backend/Infrastructure Engineer specializing in large-scale integrity and content systems

Menlo Park, CA10y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built Bilibili’s "Avalon" content moderation platform from a vague CEO mandate into a company-wide service (Go, gRPC, Kafka), including on-call, metrics, transparency tools, and multi-site resiliency work. More recently at Meta, scaled a high-traffic mistake-prevention platform by introducing capacity levers (prefiltering, caching, log sampling, fanout limits) and navigating org-wide constraints, including debugging a rule-engine threading bottleneck.”

“Founder building an enterprise agentic AI startup who has already raised about $100K (friends & family plus self-funding). Has prior and current experience engaging VCs (including outreach to both large and small firms) and emphasizes demo-driven pitching, enterprise customer validation, and targeting billion-dollar market opportunities.”

Sai Anirudh Kondaveeti

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Azure cloud, identity, and networking

Redmond, WA7y exp

“Backend/cloud engineer with deep Azure and distributed-systems experience: owned an end-to-end Python multi-orchestrator config generator (Contrail) spanning OpenStack/vCenter/OpenShift/Kubernetes via a translation-layer approach. Built GitOps-style ARM-template infrastructure and CI/CD with automated testing, including a zero-downtime Databricks-to-Synapse migration using parallel production validation. Worked on Microsoft Azure Identity gateway (reverse proxy for auth) and executed ring-based deployments for major platform migration.”

David Lapsley

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in AI infrastructure and cloud platforms

Tampa, FL14y exp

“Founder building Shipkode.ai, an enterprise SaaS product using generative AI to automate the front half of the software development lifecycle—from idea and customer feedback to engineering-ready specifications—with a beta planned for the first week of April. Has spoken with 24+ VCs over two years and mentors cybersecurity startups through the Tampa Bay Wave accelerator, emphasizing rigorous customer discovery to avoid misaligned product development.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer with experience building large-scale systems on Salesforce and eBay, including a sharded Oracle-backed personalization store used by millions of sellers and a Spring Boot microservice that executes scheduled payouts at high volume. Emphasizes production readiness via state-machine-based idempotency, strong observability (Splunk/Elasticsearch/PagerDuty), and extensive Selenium/Sauce Labs automation.”

Chavez Yi Wei Cheong

Screened

Mid-level analyst and software engineer specializing in AI, distributed systems, and product delivery

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Engineer with end-to-end shipping experience spanning large-scale infrastructure at Meta and scrappy startup automation work. Built a C++ streaming platform for Facebook Marketplace with canary and chaos testing, and also created Selenium-based scraping and GTM automation workflows under ambiguous, real-world conditions.”

“Backend/AI engineer currently at Stripe building Minions, an internal LLM-based developer agent that automates code generation, bug fixes, and PR creation. They combine strong production LLM architecture skills with reliability engineering, having improved routine PR merge times by ~40-45%, lowered post-merge bug rates by 12%, and previously built an invoice-processing pipeline that achieved 91% straight-through processing in a B2B payments context.”