Vetted System Design Professionals

“Worked on an AWS DynamoDB Journal team project building internal operator dashboards end-to-end, creating Java/Spring Boot APIs and integrating them into a Spring Boot/Thymeleaf/JavaScript UI to speed up debugging workflows. Has experience with data-heavy web apps and performance techniques (load balancing, caching, pagination, compression) plus hands-on debugging across unit/integration/E2E tests; also maintained and enhanced a React website at Global Spark.”

Padmaja Tyada

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive engineering leader specializing in cloud, AI, and FinTech platforms

San Jose, CA25y exp

“Engineering leader with experience scaling teams from 25 to 60+ and delivering both enterprise platform modernization and AI-native product innovation. At Experian, he led an AWS transformation of a high-volume credit platform serving 250M+ consumers, achieving 10x performance gains and 30% cost reduction; at Channel Core, he built AI-powered creator tools using OpenAI and RAG that improved adoption and personalized outreach outcomes.”

Nicholas Ogura

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Platform & Security Engineering leader specializing in multi-cloud Kubernetes and FinTech

San Diego County, USA18y exp

“Startup-focused infrastructure/security leader who stepped into head of engineering and re-platformed an entire product end-to-end in 3 months to meet launch. In crypto/fintech, recognized the market-data system as an ETL/data product and rebuilt it as a separable, securely accessible platform—prompting inbound interest within a week—while advocating an open-source-first observability stack (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki) to avoid vendor lock-in.”

Denis Siminiuc

Screened

Junior Research Assistant specializing in LLMs, NLP, and data systems

Cambridge, MA3y exp

“Software-focused candidate who built a data monitoring pipeline during a hedge fund internship, integrating real databases and an email API to notify teams when data was ready. Comfortable working through legacy/scrappy code and uses LLMs to accelerate comprehension and delivery, with an emphasis on thorough testing and clear communication with stakeholders/customers.”

“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.”

Sahitya Thota

Screened

Staff/Tech Lead Software Engineer specializing in identity, data platforms, and cloud systems

Fremont, CA20y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who built and owned end-to-end sales-facing data products, including a 360° advertiser insights platform and a sales AI agent for natural-language access to insights. Demonstrated strong architecture and reliability chops (event-driven redesign to eliminate Hive-query throttling; batching/caching to reduce fan-out) plus incident ownership around ads attribution consistency. Also has 0→1 experience building graph-based recommendation/matching systems with explainability and tight user feedback loops.”

“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.”