Vetted Technical Leads

“Engineering leader in fintech/digital banking who built a development organization from zero and shipped a branchless banking platform in 18 months. Brings hands-on architecture depth in event-driven, multi-tenant banking systems plus practical AI product experience, including an OpenAI-powered transaction explanation agent and onboarding improvements that cut onboarding time by 30%.”

Lavrenti DeLavrenti

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Technology Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms, AI/ML, and SaaS

Remote15y exp

“Engineering leader (Director/VP level) who has repeatedly aligned product and engineering through ROI-driven quarterly roadmaps and strong stakeholder communication, including board presentations. Built a parallel cloud team to migrate an on-prem product to the cloud, credited with delivering $9M ARR, and led a Python monolith-to-serverless event-driven microservices transformation. Currently manages distributed teams across Mexico, India, and the US using pod-based structures, clear KPIs, and a supportive accountability culture.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production content-generation system for nursing education, combining multimodal RAG over proprietary PDFs (including images) with structured Cosmos DB data and external sources. Strong focus on production reliability—prompt-chaining with LangChain, validation/guardrails, and Azure-based monitoring/observability—plus experience designing Azure AI agents with tool integrations like Bing Search.”

Kyle Wilson

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Senior Technical Lead specializing in accessible, scalable web applications

Waterloo, Canada10y exp

“Frontend lead who shipped an enterprise social feed, insights dashboard, and a net-new communications platform using React + TypeScript. Known for building scalable quality practices with QA (including automated test suite alignment), introducing RTK Query org-wide, and managing phased, feature-flagged rollouts while coordinating closely with product/design and senior engineering stakeholders.”

Steve Van Treeck

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Engineering executive specializing in SaaS platforms for transportation & logistics

Denver, CO18y exp

“Pragmatic, Lean Startup–oriented candidate who prefers validating ideas through barebones MVPs and direct customer feedback, especially when entering unfamiliar markets. Motivated to partner with visionary founders and scale accessible products by lowering barriers to entry, while maintaining financial sustainability.”

Ivan Kadyka

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Staff Technical Lead specializing in Unity and .NET

Warsaw, Poland11y exp

“Unity/gameplay engineer (Playtika) who built a state-machine/ECS-driven slot/bonus engine in a client-server setup, focusing on consistent outcomes under latency and highly engaging reward sequences. Also implemented server-authoritative real-time challenges/contests via an event-driven messaging system (SignalR-like) across iOS/Android/WebGL/UWP, and validates impact through retention/session/engagement analytics.”

“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.”

Keith Filzen

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Executive CTO specializing in government/defense cybersecurity and cross-domain solutions

Caldwell, WV36y exp

“Former Cubic CTO with direct M&A experience on the company's sale to Veritas Capital, and prior investment analysis experience at In-Q-Tel. Brings a rare blend of executive technology leadership, compliance/security depth, and investment diligence expertise focused on government and military markets.”

“Engineering leader with 8+ years across IoT, emergency messaging, and political campaign data science, including operating a massive IoT microservices platform at several million devices and roughly 200 million requests per minute. Particularly strong in retrofitting legacy systems for modern observability using OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, and Grafana LGTM, while also managing distributed international teams and developing engineers into senior and tech lead roles.”

Brett Futral

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in healthcare enterprise platforms

Portland, OR20y exp

“Engineer with experience building foundational systems in healthcare and other production environments, including an early-stage Electronic Auths initiative inside Cambia where they helped define requirements and delivered the Intake API on time and under budget. Their background spans serverless Python on AWS, full-stack Drupal/PHP work for confidential genetic testing delivery, and Cassandra-backed API design for Choice Hotels.”