Vetted Stakeholder Communication Professionals

Tashkeel Shah

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Technical Artist specializing in real-time XR performance and rendering systems

10y exp

“UE5 gameplay/tech designer focused on VR and performance, with shipped systems spanning networked energy-driven Niagara VFX for a mobile VR live-concert MMO and an end-to-end performer avatar builder supporting editor/runtime and JSON-serialized UGC workflows. Known for deep profiling/debugging (Unreal Insights, Niagara CPU vs GPU emitter behavior) and for refactoring/optimizing animation and rendering across PC and mobile VR constraints.”

“Three-time founder operating at the intersection of startups, venture, and private equity, with hands-on experience building outbound engines, fundraising, and sourcing proprietary deals. Most recently built an M&A deal execution platform and now works as an independent sponsor supporting PE firms and family offices with deal flow, diligence, and modeling. Brings a rare blend of healthcare, fintech, sales, and buy-side transaction experience.”

Dhruv Kamalesh Kumar

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in LLM agents and RAG applications

Boston, MA4y exp

“GenAI builder and technical lead with ~2 years of hands-on production experience, including GENIE (a GenAI sandbox for ~44,000 Massachusetts public-sector employees) and A-IEP, a multilingual platform helping parents understand complex IEP documents (cut processing from ~15 minutes to ~2 and used by 1,000+ parents). Strong in RAG/agentic architectures, AWS serverless + Step Functions orchestration, and rigorous evaluation/guardrails for reliable real-world deployments.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building Python (FastAPI/Flask) data enrichment services secured with Okta OAuth2 and monitored via Splunk/Dynatrace. Has delivered AWS event-driven and data-migration solutions (Lambda + Kafka to EKS; Glue from on-prem Oracle to S3/data lake) and modernized Informatica match/merge logic to cloud services using parallel-run parity validation and stakeholder sign-off.”

“Full-stack engineer who has spent 7 years growing with a small B2B SaaS startup from 9 employees to roughly 30–40, taking ownership of major CRM features across frontend, backend, APIs, and database migrations. Particularly compelling for startup teams: they’ve repeatedly navigated poor documentation and high ambiguity, shipped frequent production changes, and delivered measurable UX and performance improvements for supplier/dealer users in a 3D configurator platform.”

“UNIX infrastructure engineer with hands-on AIX 7.x and Solaris 11.4 operations, including high-severity Oracle/NFS I/O incidents resolved via MTU/Jumbo Frame tuning and performance tooling (iostat/vmstat/top/fio). Experienced in IBM Power (P5–P9) environments with VIOS/LPAR and PowerHA/HACMP (up to 8-node clusters), plus legacy Sun/Oracle SPARC and AIX migrations using custom Bash/Python discovery scripts and rsync-based cutovers.”

Nash Boisvert

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in web, mobile, and cloud platforms

Edmonton, Canada5y exp

“Frontend engineer who built a live sports games hub end-to-end: ingesting and normalizing data from 4 external APIs, populating a high-volume live table, and delivering a real-time WebSocket-driven React/TypeScript dashboard. Strong on scalable architecture (SOLID, layered design, queues), performance/load testing with Docker, and startup-style ownership across code review, QA, and staged rollouts to web and app stores.”

Meng Yang

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and IoT

Columbus, OH21y exp

“CTO/Chief Architect who rebuilt an IoT platform from a fragile legacy stack into an AWS-based, multi-tenant cloud-native system supporting 50k+ connected devices and 10M+ monthly events, then layered in real-time data pipelines and ML anomaly detection. Known for tightly aligning roadmaps and OKRs to business KPIs (onboarding speed, uptime, velocity) and for scaling teams into domain-focused pods; previously led a shift from LAMP to event-driven Node.js microservices using MQTT and message queues.”

Nidhi Sharma

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI, and cloud infrastructure

Noida, India2y exp

“Built multiple AI-heavy systems with a strong engineering lens on observability, reliability, and real-world usability, including an LLM gateway for auditability/failure isolation and Allyvision, an accessibility tool for visually impaired users. Also owned an end-to-end warehouse shipment tracking dashboard at Addverb Technologies that drove measurable operational gains, combining backend/data depth with frontend product execution.”

“Veteran software development PM with 20+ years spanning custom development, COTS implementations, governance, and modernization in complex public-sector environments. Recently led a 12-month consolidation of three NRC legacy systems into a single Microsoft Power Platform workflow and helped the IRS stand up portfolio governance and executive reporting for IRA-funded initiatives using JIRA Align.”

“Analytics professional with hands-on experience spanning enterprise supply chain data and workforce analytics. They’ve worked on a Manhattan Active WMS implementation for a pharmaceutical client integrating MAWM, JD Edwards, and Boomi, and also built SQL/Python/Tableau solutions for BankUnited/FIU to standardize retention and engagement reporting. Strong fit for roles requiring messy data wrangling, KPI operationalization, and stakeholder-trusted dashboards.”

“Works on clinical trial applications and data pipelines, including AWS Lambda-based file transfer workflows for clinical study metadata. Has hands-on experience hardening production systems by adding observability, SSH/auth exception handling (Paramiko), retries/timeouts, and validating changes across SIT/UAT/prod. Also supports adoption through tailored technical demos for new teams and vendor partners integrating into their workflows.”

Pranathi Kamisetty

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Intern AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, NLP, and conversational search

Chicago, Illinois1y exp

“Student building a production trip-planning LLM agent (LangChain + Streamlit) that routes user queries across multiple tools (maps/places/Wikipedia). Implemented zero-shot multi-label intent detection with priority rules to handle multi-intent requests, and collaborates with a startup product manager to shape tone, features, and user experience.”

William Roy

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive sales leader with 13 years in SaaS, technology, and consultative growth

South Bend, IN13y exp

“Sales and operations leader who helped take Executive Career Partners from $2M and in the red to $4M in sales, while owning roughly $1M personally/team-wide and modernizing CRM, reporting, training, and pricing operations. Unusually hands-on across both frontline selling and back-office systems, with additional experience in government proposals, SaaS line creation, ecommerce integrations, and company-wide rebranding.”

Rebecca Johnson

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Product Manager specializing in AI workflows and healthcare SaaS

Remote, USA8y exp

“Homegrown product/program leader with 8 years of experience who has repeatedly found high-cost operational pain points and turned them into scalable product wins. Most notably, they built an address-validation and fraud-prevention system in non-emergency medical transportation that produced multi-million-dollar savings, and previously led an AI-assisted OCR workflow that raised accuracy to 98.6% and drove major efficiency gains.”

“Data scientist at Guardian Airwaves building a RAG-powered quiz generator using Grok AI, with hands-on experience solving hard document-ingestion problems (PDFs with images/tables) via unstructured.io and LlamaIndex. Has deployed production systems on AWS EC2 and brings a pragmatic approach to agent reliability (human-in-the-loop, LLM-based eval, latency/cost metrics) while effectively translating RAG concepts to non-technical stakeholders.”

“Frontend engineer who led end-to-end architecture and implementation at Hostclass (startup) using Next.js/TypeScript/Twilio, including a distinctive live-session page with a 3-way screen-sharing capability. Experienced improving messy production codebases by consolidating duplicated workflow logic into reusable hooks and shipping high-risk real-time features with targeted QA and incremental rollouts under tight startup constraints.”

“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.”

“Game/VR simulation developer who built and shipped multiple VR training levels (e.g., nursing and scientific method) at VXR Labs, owning level implementation and backend logic. Experienced in Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints prototyping (including a horde mode) and in designing tightly gated, step-based educational experiences while collaborating closely with educators/subject-matter experts to balance realism with VR feasibility.”

Deva Sai Kumar Bheesetti

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in data automation, cloud & AI

Lowell, MA5y exp

“JavaScript engineer who effectively "maintains" an internal open-source-style React/Node.js shared library used by multiple teams—owning API stability, semantic versioning, CI/testing, logging, and documentation. Demonstrates strong cross-team debugging and change-management skills (schema-driven refactors, feature flags, validation layers) to ship new features without breaking existing workflows, plus a profiling/benchmarking-driven approach to performance.”

Kelly-Lee Dodge

Screened

Senior Marketing & Media Strategist specializing in brand communications and executive messaging

Cambridge, Canada16y exp

“Creator/partnerships-led growth marketer who drove Westfalia’s North America launch using creator-integrated campaigns, delivering a reported 566% quarterly sales uplift and 3M+ organic views. Builds creator-led GTM and acquisition loops, then optimizes with engagement/click data (e.g., reallocating budget, extending timelines, refining CTAs) while maintaining long-term creator relationships and onboarding emerging talent.”