Vetted Technical Leads in New York

“Fintech product builder focused on AI-native opportunities; recently helped their company operationalize LLMs in customer service and bank ops by creating systems to continuously improve prompts and evaluations. Also drove growth by identifying hooks in a major American retailer distribution channel and integrating into the retailer’s payment flows to become a key part of the user funnel.”

“Deloitte consultant who led cross-functional teams delivering a Snowflake/AWS data ingestion, warehousing, and analytics platform, with a strong track record of executive alignment and risk mitigation. Built reusable business-development accelerators (including an end-to-end Appian app and a Java integration-config tool) credited with helping secure $75M+ in contracts, and has high-confidentiality experience consulting for DoD and FDA.”

“Healthcare data platform builder with experience at Aetion delivering a rule-based EMR/EHR ingestion and validation framework that cut onboarding from 8–10 weeks to hours and unlocked $30M+ in revenue over ~3 years. Motivated to found an AI/agent-driven healthcare solution, with a specific interest in using PET scans, doctor notes, and treatment data with LLMs to help predict cancer progression and guide next-step treatments.”

“QA leader with end-to-end ownership of a web-UI automated B2B pricing platform at Cargill, known for using defect trend analytics (Jira/Jira AI) to uncover systemic config/integration risks before UAT/production. Implemented durable CAPA controls (config-change impact assessment gates) and improved release transparency with Copilot-generated Confluence readiness dashboards; cites 15% logistics cost reduction and 60% operational efficacy improvement. Also coordinated cross-shore QA teams across multiple countries with structured cadences and escalation paths.”

Gabriel Fagundes

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML & Backend Engineer specializing in AI platforms and computer vision

New York, New York6y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building real-time, low-latency systems: owned the Python backend for a real-time crowd-monitoring product (top 5% at HackHarvard 2025) using OpenCV, GPU YOLO inference (PyTorch), WebRTC, and OAuth. Also has production Kubernetes/GitOps experience (Helm/Kustomize, GitHub Actions, Argo CD), Kafka-based event pipelines, and executed a minimal-downtime on-prem PostgreSQL migration to AWS EC2.”