Operator Roster

Vetted by
shipping,
not by deck.

Every operator on Sparki has passed our three-step vetting: live problem solve, code/work-sample audit, and a reference call with a former client.

Priya Raghavan
Strategy
98

Priya Raghavan

AI strategy · former CDO @ Mid-Market Industrials Inc.

Chicago, IL
Priya spent eight years inside a $400M industrial operator running their AI portfolio before joining Sparki. Her superpower is killing the wrong AI bets before they reach the board.
Exp
13y
Rate
$360/hr
Shipped
18
Maya Iyer
Workflow Auto
97

Maya Iyer

Workflow automation lead · ex-UiPath · ex-Anthropic Solutions

Austin, TX
Maya has shipped 14 production AI workflow automations across finance, healthcare claims, and logistics. She specialises in the messy middle — where an LLM, an RPA bot, and three legacy systems all need to agree on what just happened.
Exp
11y
Rate
$285/hr
Shipped
14
Aiden Wong
Strategy
97

Aiden Wong

AI strategy advisor · former McKinsey AI partner

London, UK
Aiden ran AI engagements at a top-three strategy firm for nine years before deciding the work needed actual operators in the room, not just slides. He still writes the best one-pagers in the marketplace.
Exp
14y
Rate
$380/hr
Shipped
21
David Park
Workflow Auto
96

David Park

Workflow automation · RPA → LLM hybrid · ex-Automation Anywhere

Seattle, WA
David has rescued more than one mid-market RPA program from total replacement, by surgically inserting LLM steps where deterministic bots break down. Expert in change management and exception design.
Exp
12y
Rate
$280/hr
Shipped
16
Marcus Chen
Prototyping
95

Marcus Chen

Principal ML engineer · LLM evals · ex-Scale AI

San Francisco, CA
Marcus builds eval-first LLM systems. He treats every prototype as a falsifiable claim: if it can’t be measured by week three, it shouldn’t be funded into week four.
Exp
9y
Rate
$310/hr
Shipped
11
James Okafor
AI Implementation
94

James Okafor

MLOps & platform · ex-Databricks · ex-Stripe

Toronto, ON
James is the engineer you bring in when the pilot worked but the production rollout keeps falling over. Specialises in observability, drift detection, and the bureaucracy of getting AI past a mid-market security review.
Exp
10y
Rate
$295/hr
Shipped
13
Sophia Bennett
Prototyping
93

Sophia Bennett

Senior product engineer · AI prototyping · ex-OpenAI Solutions

Brooklyn, NY
Sophia ships demos that survive contact with the buyer’s real data on day one. She refuses to build prototypes that can’t be evaluated end-to-end before the second sprint review.
Exp
7y
Rate
$270/hr
Shipped
10
Elena Vasquez
Data Eng
92

Elena Vasquez

Data engineering · schema design · ex-Snowflake

Miami, FL
Elena untangles the data plumbing that quietly kills mid-market AI projects. If your CRM, ERP, and product analytics don’t agree on what a customer is, she’s the fix.
Exp
8y
Rate
$250/hr
Shipped
9

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