Vetted Waterfall Professionals

“MBA-trained project manager with experience spanning retail, commercial real estate, payroll operations, and government compliance. Has served as an owner's representative at CBRE, managed contractor hiring and training at Gusto during peak volume, and now coordinates a complex Department of Defense healthcare initiative involving 40+ stakeholders and significant change management.”

Mithilesh Gaurihar

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and cloud-native systems

USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer (SAP Labs experience) who built an end-to-end, real-time fraud detection system on Java 11/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka event streaming and a React/Redux analytics dashboard with WebSocket updates. Demonstrated strong production ownership by diagnosing a critical memory leak with Prometheus/CloudWatch + heap dumps and improving performance with Redis caching (40% faster queries), while also modernizing deployments via Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, and Terraform.”

Niteesh Ganipisetty

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and Computer Vision

Grand Rapids, MI4y exp

“Built an LLM-powered learning assistant (EduQuizPro/EduCrest Pro) that uses RAG over URLs and PDFs to generate quizzes, notes, and explanations for students/professors. Emphasizes production robustness—implemented dependency fallbacks (FAISS/Sentence Transformers/Gradio), CLI-safe mode, and NumPy-based indexing—along with a custom orchestration layer to keep multi-step AI workflows reliable.”

Swathi Sankaran

Screened

Senior Python Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud, data engineering, and ML/GenAI

New York, NY10y exp

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI services on AWS and implementing strong reliability/observability (CloudWatch, ELK, correlation IDs, alarms). Has delivered serverless + container solutions with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform) and Jenkins CI/CD, and built AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution and data-quality safeguards; demonstrated large-scale SQL tuning (45 min to 3 min on a 500M-row workload).”

“Finance data and reporting professional with PwC experience who bridges accounting and technology, especially around GL-related reconciliations, reporting accuracy, and close support. While not a direct PeopleSoft GL owner, they bring strong SQL-driven troubleshooting, ETL/data mapping remediation, and process automation experience that helped shorten close cycles and improve audit readiness.”

“Seasoned ERP implementation leader with 14 full lifecycle deployments spanning Microsoft Dynamics, PeopleSoft, QAD, and SAP across 9 countries. Stands out for managing complex multinational rollouts, strong executive governance, and pragmatic decision-making—such as replacing a 600K EUR customization path with a lower-cost bolt-on that improved ROI across multiple South American deployments.”

“Seasoned enterprise program/project leader with 12+ years delivering complex technology initiatives in highly regulated federal, healthcare, and financial services environments. Stands out for managing portfolios of 6-7 concurrent modernization and operational transformation efforts, with strong governance, executive communication, and cross-functional coordination across engineering, security, and operations.”

“Seasoned project/program leader with 24 years of experience managing multiple concurrent enterprise software, infrastructure, and operational initiatives, often with portfolios exceeding $30M. Brings end-to-end ownership, strong governance discipline, and hands-on vendor and executive stakeholder management, including crisis-response leadership during a conflict-related facilities and systems security initiative.”

“Enterprise platform engineer/product owner who led end-to-end delivery of customer-facing ServiceNow Service Catalog/workflow solutions, emphasizing reliability, security, and fast iteration. Built React/TypeScript portals with Node.js and Spring Boot backends, and improved microservices reliability at scale using Kafka, monitoring, and robust retry/timeout patterns.”

“Built and deployed a secure, production LLM-based document summarization and risk-highlighting tool for financial auditors, running inside a private Azure environment to protect confidential data. Focused on reliability (hallucination mitigation via retrieval-based prompts and source citations) and validated performance through comparisons to auditor summaries plus a user pilot, cutting review time by about half.”

Samatha Amsala

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data warehousing and analytics

Omaha, NE6y exp

“Data engineer at American Express who owned end-to-end pipelines for transaction and customer data used in finance reporting and risk analytics, processing ~5–8M records/day. Built Airflow-orchestrated ingestion (including external APIs/web sources) with strong data quality controls, monitoring/alerts, and resilient backfill/retry patterns, and also shipped a versioned REST API serving aggregated metrics to analytics teams.”

Edward Diehl

Screened

Senior Technical Project Manager specializing in data, systems, and FinTech delivery

Morristown, NJ12y exp

“Enterprise implementation and modernization leader with 10+ years across JP Morgan, StoneX, and Majesco, delivering complex B2B/SaaS programs in highly regulated insurance and financial services environments. Has progressed from project coordination into full program ownership, managing $5M+ initiatives and portfolios of 4-6 concurrent enterprise implementations with executive-facing governance.”

“Built and owned major parts of a real-time distributed AI fraud-detection pipeline (ingestion, inference microservice integration, and automated action layer), optimizing latency and observability and reducing false positives by ~35%. Understands ROS/ROS2 concepts (nodes/topics/services) and planned hands-on ramp-up via ROS2 pub/sub exercises and Gazebo simulation, but has not worked on physical robots or ROS in production.”

“Windows/VMware infrastructure project lead with experience managing 3,000+ servers across large enterprise environments (mentions Pfizerco, American Express, and FedEx). Focused on performance troubleshooting and stability using monitoring tools, plus security hardening and dependency/latency evaluation during on-prem to AWS/Azure hybrid migrations.”

Ezekiel Homer-Williams

Screened

Senior QA/Test Engineer specializing in game quality assurance

Bellevue, WA9y exp

“Game QA professional with ~10 years in the SDLC and deep live-service experience, including owning QA for Destiny 2's Guardian Ranks progression system across multiple seasonal iterations. Experienced coordinating outsourced QA, building risk-based test coverage plans, and driving bug triage/verification loops end-to-end to protect player experience and sentiment.”

“Enterprise program/project leader with experience driving large-scale technology and operational initiatives across telecom, insurance, and tech. Most notably supported Zayo's Crown Castle acquisition through a complex Workday HRIS migration affecting 1,800 employees and a portfolio of 15 concurrent initiatives, with strong ownership of governance, executive reporting, vendor coordination, and risk management.”

“Execution-oriented operator with experience spanning Credit Suisse digital assets leadership, Citi Wealth GenAI initiatives, and advisory work for founders and executives. Stands out for bridging strategy, governance, and hands-on execution across highly regulated financial services and emerging-growth environments, especially in blockchain and AI.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using embeddings, a vector database, and a RAG pipeline to reduce time spent searching PDFs/manuals. Experienced in orchestrating end-to-end LLM workflows with Airflow/LangChain, improving reliability via monitoring/error handling, and driving measurable quality through retrieval and hallucination-focused evaluation metrics.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered SMS survey platform for a nonprofit serving at-risk communities (internet-limited users), using Cloudflare Workers + Twilio and a state-machine survey engine. Scaled it to ~10k active users with near-zero downtime, added English/Spanish support, and iteratively improved LLM behavior (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to handle nuanced, real-world SMS responses reliably.”

Srinivas Matta

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in cloud-native web platforms

Paducah, KY4y exp

“Software engineer at Capital One who owned and shipped AI-driven personalization and internal insights dashboards end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration with feature flags and tight user feedback loops. Built a TypeScript/React + Spring Boot/Python document automation platform with compute-heavy NLP microservices, async workflows, and production-scale reliability/performance practices (Kafka/RabbitMQ-style queues, Redis caching, tracing).”

Kevin Scharf

Screened

Senior Project Management & Compliance Professional in Aerospace & Defense

Englewood, CO8y exp

“Internal audit/GRC professional who partners closely with engineering on access controls, change management, and remediation—often translating "technically compliant" states into realistic threat scenarios and business impact. Has driven measurable reductions in privileged-access exposure through least-privilege resets and recurring reviews, and has hands-on experience troubleshooting real-world deployment/integration issues (including in a manufacturing environment) using logs/metrics and strong escalation documentation.”

“Candidate has a business plan and has been actively fundraising for about one month by reaching out to targeted VCs. They are early in learning the VC/accelerator landscape, pragmatic about entrepreneurship, and open to either founding their company if funded or joining an existing company if a strong opportunity arises.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

“Senior business analyst/project manager with broad enterprise implementation experience across multiple business functions and platforms, including ERP, custom web apps, AI chatbot deployment, and ITSM asset migration. Stands out for owning projects end-to-end, using iterative requirements workshops and visual process mapping, and finding practical configuration workarounds when out-of-the-box systems fall short.”