Vetted Team Leads in the Bay Area

“Engineering/data platform leader from FLYR (airline ML forecasting and automated pricing) who built scalable ingestion/ETL and a canonical data model to onboard airlines with highly heterogeneous source systems. Created a golden-metrics layer for airline KPIs and implemented monitoring/backfill capabilities, cutting onboarding time by 50%+ while improving SLA performance and controlling cloud/ML training costs through stronger data quality gates.”

“Biopharma R&D product leader with 6-8 years building enterprise data, analytics, and AI products for drug discovery and biologics research. Notably led a multi-site biosample discovery platform that became an enterprise-wide capability at Bristol Myers Squibb and also drove an AI-powered scientific insight platform using RAG/LLM approaches to reduce time-to-insight for researchers.”

Kanaka Chalam Volety

Screened

Staff DevOps/SRE Engineer specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Infrastructure-focused engineer with Vonage experience modernizing early-stage cloud architecture (Terraform modularization, blue-green deployments, containerization, and zero-downtime database migration planning to Aurora). Also built a local end-to-end side project, Vastu AI, combining a custom-trained YOLO model (Roboflow-labeled data) with a locally hosted LLM via Ollama to generate a vastu compliance report from floor-plan images.”

“Worked at easybee ai building a production-grade "voice of the customer" LLM intake agent, hardening a fragile sandbox prototype with JSON-schema constrained outputs, Python/FastAPI validation middleware, and automated retries. Strong in real-time debugging of agentic workflows (snapshot isolation, modular tracing) and in implementing safety/compliance guardrails like a content-moderation middleware to support enterprise adoption.”

Sandeep Gandhi

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in FinTech, identity, and AI-native platforms

San Ramon, CA26y exp

“Current CTO of Idmission leading a 150+ person engineering organization, with deep experience scaling delivery, CI/CD, and architecture modernization. Combines executive leadership with hands-on technical depth across microservices, Kubernetes, and AI systems, including a RAG support platform that reduced resolution time by 50% and passive liveness technology that improved client acquisition by 20%.”

“Software engineer with a graphic design/marketing background who led a 4-month U.S. Department of State Diplomacy Lab project delivering a proprietary React/Electron + Flask + PostgreSQL scheduling app, including OKTA SSO integration under strict government confidentiality constraints. Also has hands-on production web experience fixing a broken WordPress/Elementor content system by scripting automated recategorization and date corrections.”

Nechar KC

Screened

Entry-level AI Engineer specializing in full-stack LLM applications

Hayward, CA1y exp

“Built an AI-powered lecture-to-notes web app from personal pain at university, combining Spring Boot, React, PostgreSQL, and Python AI services for transcription and summarization. Also led architecture for FishBowl, a multi-agent Shark Tank-style pitch practice tool using GPT-4o, Perplexity, and ElevenLabs that won 1st place in the AI & Entrepreneurship track at HackHayward.”