Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in the Bay Area

Pre-screened and vetted in the Bay Area.

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Executive Asset Management & Operating Partner specializing in energy and infrastructure

San Francisco, CA23y exp
Generate CapitalUC Berkeley
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CZ

Mid-level AI Solutions Architect & Product Leader specializing in enterprise GenAI systems

Santa Clara, CA3y exp
Dell TechnologiesUC Berkeley
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JC

Executive GTM & Customer Success leader specializing in AI, robotics, and enterprise SaaS

San Francisco Bay Area, CA23y exp
RIOSIvey Business School
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Ali Rezafard

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Director of Engineering specializing in cybersecurity SaaS platforms and cloud-scale backend systems

San Francisco, CA14y exp
ProofpointUniversity of Waterloo

Director of Engineering at Proofpoint for 8 years, leading architecture and integration of Java microservices within a detection platform. Demonstrates pragmatic delivery leadership—incurring short-term cost to meet launch deadlines, then systematically paying down technical debt and optimizing AWS spend—plus a disciplined, long-horizon approach to backward-compatible API/schema evolution across many dependent services.

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Dimple Joseph

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Director of Engineering specializing in cloud-native SaaS, e-commerce search, and AI personalization

Redwood Shores, CA25y exp
OracleThe University of Texas at Arlington

Engineering leader (12+ years Director, 17 years lead) focused on developer productivity and platform/framework work across Oracle, PlayStation, Workday, and CafePress. Notable for building distributed teams from scratch and delivering high-impact platform architecture—e.g., re-architected PlayStation’s upload pipeline to support 500GB–5TB submissions using browser-to-AWS chunked uploads with SNS/SQS and deduplication/resume support.

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Gaurav Narasimhan - Executive AI platform leader specializing in autonomous agent systems for enterprise SaaS in Redwood City, CA

Executive AI platform leader specializing in autonomous agent systems for enterprise SaaS

Redwood City, CA26y exp
OracleUC Berkeley

Real estate entrepreneur who has previously raised capital from friends and family and has engaged directly with VC firms including A16z. Demonstrates unusually strong founder commitment, having worked two full-time jobs for the past six years while pursuing entrepreneurial goals, with hypothesys.ai described as the outcome.

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Frank Goodman - Executive Engineering & Product Leader specializing in Cloud/SaaS observability and security in San Jose, CA

Frank Goodman

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Executive Engineering & Product Leader specializing in Cloud/SaaS observability and security

San Jose, CA31y exp
GigamonUC Berkeley

Product/technology leader with deep security and cloud infrastructure expertise who drove a major shift from hardware-based networking/security appliances to cloud-native capabilities, growing cloud revenue from $0 to $400M in 4.5 years. Led an innovative eBPF-based approach (“precryption”) to enable lightweight cloud TLS interception/decryption, and has hands-on coding interest (recent Rust work on a personal cybersecurity identity/trust platform).

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Bhavik Vasha

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Director of Global Operations specializing in manufacturing, supply chain, and digital transformation

San Jose, CA15y exp
The Partner CompaniesUCLA

Led an end-to-end regional sourcing strategy at AMAT for consumables and high-value critical parts, including risk/mitigation planning, cross-functional execution, and executive-level reporting. Successfully influenced internal business unit leaders to shift procurement away from captive suppliers by validating and improving regional supplier capability and reliability, while building a repeatable playbook for the team.

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Arumugam Alwarappan - Director-level engineering leader specializing in AI-powered cloud-native SaaS platforms in Dublin, CA

Director-level engineering leader specializing in AI-powered cloud-native SaaS platforms

Dublin, CA25y exp
AledadeUniversity of Illinois Springfield
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NS

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in cloud-native enterprise platforms and developer tooling

Palo Alto, CA20y exp
SAP AribaUC San Diego
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Gautam Priya - Executive Technology Leader (CTO/Principal Engineer) specializing in cloud-native platforms and AI in Foster City, CA

Executive Technology Leader (CTO/Principal Engineer) specializing in cloud-native platforms and AI

Foster City, CA21y exp
Perthera AIIIT Kharagpur
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JL

Executive Business Operations & Strategy Leader in AI SaaS, Commerce, and Corporate Development

San Francisco, CA19y exp
Cohezion.aiUSC
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CM

Executive Product Development & Operations leader in life sciences and diagnostics

Emeryville, CA20y exp
Slingshot BiosciencesJohns Hopkins University
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PL

Executive business and technology leader specializing in growth strategy and digital transformation

Los Altos, CA27y exp
Waldorf School of the PeninsulaNational Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse
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JJ

Director of Operations & Engineering specializing in advanced manufacturing and EV production

San Leandro, CA15y exp
Energy RecoveryUniversity of Michigan
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JM

Executive Operations Leader specializing in mobility, logistics, and tech scale-ups

San Francisco, CA10y exp
LimeCalifornia State University, Northridge
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AP

Director-level AI and Software Engineering leader specializing in enterprise platforms

San Ramon, CA28y exp
RivianUniversity of Chicago
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NB

Executive Product & Technical Services Leader specializing in AI, Crypto, and FinTech

San Francisco, CA17y exp
Blink AI
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Ashraf Jahangeer - Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, SaaS, and large-scale platform transformation in Pleasanton, CA

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, SaaS, and large-scale platform transformation

Pleasanton, CA19y exp
BlueCargoUC Davis

Senior engineering executive with 20+ years of experience scaling and restructuring product engineering organizations across startups and larger companies. Over the last 8 years, they grew teams significantly at Stitch Fix and EasyPost, led monolith-to-microservices modernization, and launched products associated with 50M-100M+ ARR. Currently a hands-on VP Engineering at BlueCargo, combining executive leadership with direct technical contribution when customer-critical issues arise.

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Derek Tuggle - Executive Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in industrial IoT controls in San Francisco, CA

Derek Tuggle

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Executive Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in industrial IoT controls

San Francisco, CA6y exp
Axiom CloudGeorgia Tech

VP of New Product Development at Axiom Cloud who built and scaled a "Virtual Battery" product that used supermarket frozen inventory as thermal energy storage—personally prototyped core control/safety logic in Python and led the engineering buildout through deployment and operations. Combines real-world industrial controls and edge deployment experience (LonWorks/Modbus, Docker/CI/CD) with an MS in CS focused on robotics, perception, and ML, including ROS 2 and YOLO-based perception.

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BW

Executive Operations & Supply Chain Leader specializing in multi-site fulfillment networks

East San Francisco Bay Area, CA15y exp
RevivnAmerican Military University

Operations leader with Amazon experience owning a founder-level initiative during national supply chain Regionalization, building and scaling a "Stack-to-Light" operating mechanism to standardize non-sortable FC execution with instrumentation and balanced-scorecard metrics. Later joined Revivn to stabilize an underperforming operation by developing frontline leaders and aligning ops with finance and GTM through clear KPIs and operating cadence.

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Ofir Baharav - Executive Chairman/CEO specializing in hardware, SaaS, and industrial technology turnarounds in Los Altos Hills, CA

Ofir Baharav

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Executive Chairman/CEO specializing in hardware, SaaS, and industrial technology turnarounds

Los Altos Hills, CA26y exp
Nano DimensionWarwick Business School

Two-decade CEO/EVP Product operator with multiple founder-level and public-company turnarounds, known for implementing an AOP-driven execution cadence and rigorous decision documentation. Delivered outsized outcomes including 5x trade show performance gains, major reliability improvements (DOA down to ~1–2%), and an 18-month transformation of a shrinking product into the company’s highest-growth/highest-margin line that remained an industry leader for a decade.

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Megan Lie

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web, e-commerce, and game development

San Francisco, CA4y exp
Grublify Inc.UC Berkeley

Bootstrapped-startup CTO and former founding engineer who has built products end-to-end as a solo developer across web and games. Led Grublify’s Next.js/TypeScript site (Strapi + Shopify), including a blog that reached ~5k monthly visitors and performance work like progressive loading/infinite scroll. Also implemented a resilient USDA nutrition ingestion pipeline with retries, partial-failure handling, and computed nutrient metrics.

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Surendra Devarashetty - Executive engineering leader specializing in B2B SaaS, platforms, and AI-driven products in San Francisco, CA

Executive engineering leader specializing in B2B SaaS, platforms, and AI-driven products

San Francisco, CA24y exp
ReviIowa State University
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