Vetted Technical Documentation Professionals

Kim Janney

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive PMO & Agile Transformation Leader specializing in enterprise delivery and release governance

Roanoke, VA21y exp

“Operations and agile enablement leader currently shaping internal operations at KlariVis (rapidly growing, founder-led company). Implemented Scrum, quarterly planning, cross-functional ways of working, executive dashboards, and org-wide training while also improving release management, bug prioritization, and go-to-market workflows; blends strategic structure with hands-on execution and change adoption through iterative feedback.”

“Technical Product Manager with hands-on experience shipping and running live free-to-play games (including Cartoon Network BMX Champions) across web and mobile, with exposure to Roblox and some console. Focuses on data-driven live ops—daily rewards, streaks, push notifications, and limited-time events—paired with A/B testing and funnel/retention analytics to improve engagement and IAP performance.”

THAMES HARRISON

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Engineering Manager specializing in enterprise SaaS, cloud architecture, and AI/ML

Gainesville, FL17y exp

“Senior engineering manager who stays hands-on (~50/50) while leading teams through design reviews, code reviews, and production issue triage. Shipped scalable platform features (notifications, user action tracking via microservices) with strong quality/performance practices (TDD, high-load testing). Owned a complex cross-system SSO/IdP incident end-to-end, identifying a SameSite+iFrame root cause and delivering a configurable product fix plus support documentation.”

“Unity VR senior developer with ~8 years in VR and ~3 years focused on Meta Quest, building multiplayer training/digital-twin style experiences. Strong Photon (PUN/Fusion) background, including solving tricky networked object attachment/jitter issues via ownership and local-physics strategies. Demonstrated hands-on performance turnarounds in VR scenes using Mesh Baker, LODs, and impostors, plus experience shipping social multiplayer VR activities with Photon Voice.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI Python APIs and AWS-native platforms (Lambda/API Gateway, SQS, ECS Fargate) with Terraform + GitHub Actions CI/CD and strong reliability practices (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts, structured errors/logging). Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines (S3/RDS to curated S3/Athena) with schema evolution and data quality controls, modernized legacy processing via parallel-run validation and phased cutovers, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (seconds to <200ms) plus incident ownership for batch pipeline SLAs.”

“Recruiting/Talent Operations leader who managed 6–12 person teams across two office locations and drove measurable process improvements. Standardized onboarding (cut ramp time by 2–3 weeks) and redesigned interview scheduling to move candidates forward within 24–48 hours, while leveraging Workday/Lever reporting and leading a GoodTime rollout with HR/IT/HRIS.”

Mark Thomas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level software architect specializing in cloud, distributed systems, and healthcare IT

McCalla, AL20y exp

“Startup veteran with experience at seven companies since 2004 and direct exposure to Birmingham's Innovation Depot accelerator through three different startups. Has worked closely with investment teams on MVPs and pitch decks and brings a pragmatic lens to evaluating ventures through need, margins, burn rate, cash position, and sales growth strategy.”

“Backend-focused engineer with healthcare and finance experience (Cardinal Health, JPMorgan) who has owned end-to-end data flows powering dashboards, emphasizing strong validation/data quality and measurable frontend performance gains. Has shipped Spring Boot REST APIs with versioning and Swagger docs, and has stood up an MVP task management system with GitHub Actions CI/CD, Docker, and AWS EC2 deployment.”

Nithin Reddy

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in distributed systems and event-driven architectures

Santa Clara, California4y exp

“Built and maintained an internal JavaScript/React real-time event monitoring UI used by multiple Goldman Sachs teams (e.g., Private Wealth Management and Bulk Trading Systems). Focused on scaling performance under hundreds of events/sec—using profiling, memoization, batching, and debouncing—and paired it with strong internal documentation and disciplined incident diagnosis via synthetic load testing and logs/metrics.”

“Backend engineer who replaced an Excel-heavy forecasting workflow with a secure, auditable FastAPI system (React UI + relational model + async workers), emphasizing deterministic processing, idempotency, and versioned ledger-style ingestion. Led a monolith-to-FastAPI migration at Bounteous using a strangler approach, feature-flagged incremental rollout, and data reconciliation/shadow-compare to protect integrity while scaling onboarding workflows.”

Vaishnavi Kashyap

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web platforms and sustainability analytics

1y exp

“Full-stack/backend engineer who owned a production digital assembly planning platform at Saint Gobain end-to-end (React/Node/Postgres), maintaining 99.9% uptime across 5 factory sites and driving a reported 90% improvement in factory-floor coordination. Also built and operated BigQuery + Vertex AI (ARIMA) forecasting/data pipelines processing 1M+ datapoints daily, with strong emphasis on idempotency and data-quality validation to prevent incorrect outputs.”

“AI engineer who built a production e-commerce system that analyzes product images alongside sales and demographic data to generate actionable creative recommendations, now used by 20+ clients. Also built orchestrated document/agent pipelines (Airflow, LangGraph) including a compliance drift detector auditing 401 compliance documents, with an emphasis on traceability, logging, and production integration.”

Rachel Downey

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-Level Game Designer specializing in systems and economy design

Livermore, California4y exp

“Game economy/progression designer with hands-on ownership of end-to-end systems and live-ops tuning on major mobile titles (Star Trek Fleet Command, Marvel Contest of Champions). Builds spreadsheet-based simulations and telemetry-driven tuning loops to prevent inflation and reduce progression friction, including a multi-iteration optimization that lifted D7 retention ~7% while maintaining monetization targets.”

Anthony Hernandez

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Game Designer specializing in systems, balance, and live updates

Los Angeles, CA6y exp

“Game designer currently leading design on a Mario Party-like party game, owning mode design, economy, and meta-progression. Uses playtests and A/B tests to tune fairness-focused systems (e.g., dynamic power-ups accounting for player standing and turn order) and prototypes quickly in UE5 Blueprints. Previously shipped a mixed-reality version of Knockout League’s Knockout Alley mode for a Quest 3-aligned release.”

“AI/ML infrastructure-focused engineer who has built production RAG systems from scratch (Supabase/pgvector + OpenAI embeddings) and iterated using formal eval metrics to improve retrieval quality. Also debugged real-time audio issues in a LiveKit-based pipeline by correlating packet loss with VAD behavior, and has deep experience building brittle, customer-specific financial platform integrations in Python/Playwright (2FA, redirects, token refresh, rate limits).”

“Backend engineer with Walmart experience owning Python data-processing/integration services alongside ASP.NET Core. Has deployed containerized services to Kubernetes via OpenShift with Jenkins CI/CD and GitOps-style config management, and has led phased migrations modernizing VB6/classic ASP apps to ASP.NET Core on OpenShift/Azure. Also implemented Kafka-based real-time pipelines with a focus on reliability, idempotency, and observability.”

Ashank Dsouza

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Node.js/React and cloud DevOps

Bengaluru, India4y exp

“Software engineer with startup and capstone experience who improved an ~8-hour database refresh workflow by moving API calls to asynchronous execution and then addressing API rate limits via throttling. Emphasizes performance profiling/logging, strong developer onboarding documentation practices, and disciplined Agile/Jira bug triage and expectation-setting with stakeholders.”

Cary Burdick

Screened

Senior Data Scientist specializing in data engineering and analytics

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Data/NLP practitioner with experience in both financial services (Truist) and government (USDA), including an NLP-driven analysis of EU regulations to anticipate US regulatory focus and a major redesign/cleaning of complex pathogen lab-test public datasets. Built production data-quality pipelines with Dagster, Pandera, and Azure Synapse, and is comfortable validating hypotheses with historical backtesting and SME-driven quality controls.”

Edward Yu

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in FinTech, payments, and authentication

Sunnyvale, CA8y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Dollar Shave Club and Mudflap, focused on user-driven product delivery and cross-team alignment. Built an Okta SSO-based internal portal (React/Node) centralizing access to org services, and has hands-on experience diagnosing LLM/agent workflow issues via instrumentation and systematic triage. Known for translating between product/customer needs and engineering tradeoffs to ship quickly while planning stabilization and scalability.”