Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in the Bay Area

“Senior operations leader with hands-on experience removing major scale blockers in high-volume operations, including building a scalable end-to-end chain-of-custody workflow validated through time studies, throughput testing, and client-facing demonstrations. Partners directly with sales from site walks through RFPs to win enterprise clients against far larger incumbents, and drives market-level gross margin improvement through P&L-driven metric selection and controllable levers like overtime.”

“Repeat founder/CTO with hands-on experience raising capital from friends and family, angels, corporate sources, federal grants, private equity, and venture capital. Built a startup in a software business incubator, later sold the company, and went on to serve as an Engineering Manager at the acquirer inside the Plug and Play accelerator ecosystem.”

“Silicon Valley operator with ~30 years of experience as a board member, advisor, VC, founder, and turnaround executive, claiming 50+ venture-backed turnarounds. Has driven outsized outcomes including a $1B Nokia spinout and a 9-figure Jaspersoft exit to TIBCO, and is known for pragmatic, people-and-financials-first operational diagnosis (including CRM forensics) and rapid team scaling via structured hiring pipelines.”

“Marketing designer with hands-on experience delivering high-impact physical brand experiences, including end-to-end trade show booth/space design for Payactiv across 5+ events (booth layouts, walls, print collateral, and swag) with heavy cross-functional and vendor coordination. Also builds scalable Figma systems for frequent landing-page production and produces lightweight marketing videos in CapCut using templates, AI background removal, and platform-specific exports.”

“Engineering leader who modernized infrastructure by migrating a ~100-server co-location setup to AWS/GCP with IaC, auto-scaling, and fault-tolerant design, reducing hardware upgrade burden. Also led a key analytics architecture shift from MySQL to ClickHouse to enable highly granular ad revenue attribution and profitability insights, while scaling the dev org from 2–3 to ~12 with stronger CI/testing and review processes.”

“Co-founder at Skarbe who built “Oskar,” an autonomous sales agent that handles inbound email, lead qualification, and automated follow-ups using a multi-agent architecture (OpenAI Agents SDK) with a human-in-the-loop learning phase for reliability. Also owned scaling and reliability of Gmail/Outlook sync, including a Node.js-to-Rails migration and incident response during a Product Hunt launch that generated hundreds of signups and a ~2M-email queue.”

Oleksandr Andriyanov

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Director-level Technical Architect specializing in AI, spatial computing, and industrial platforms

Pleasant Hill, CA20y exp

“Senior engineering/product leader with startup-oriented experience spanning mobile apps, SaaS, ML systems, and full-stack architecture. They combine executive-level product/architecture thinking with hands-on debugging and a strong point of view on scaling engineering teams, while also actively using AI copilots and agentic workflows to accelerate software delivery.”

“Engineering leader in the railroad industry who has grown from hands-on software engineering into leading four development teams across mission-critical products, while staying deeply involved in architecture and modernization. Particularly strong in transforming legacy, multi-customer enterprise systems using Java/Spring Boot, React, PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD without sacrificing delivery stability.”