Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in the Bay Area

Pre-screened and vetted in the Bay Area.

MK

Director-level engineering leader specializing in FinTech, AI, platforms, and mobile

Mountain View, CA21y exp
IntuitIllinois Institute of Technology
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JG

Executive technology leader specializing in AI, LLMs, search, and platform engineering

San Francisco, CA18y exp
FreelanceMaulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal
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DM

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI automation and LLM-powered products

SF Bay Area, CA6y exp
University of California, BerkeleyStanford University
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Kapil Sharma

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Executive engineering leader specializing in AI platforms, LLMs, and healthcare SaaS

San Francisco, CA15y exp
DriveHealth.aiDominican University

Senior engineering leader in healthcare AI who combines org scaling with deep hands-on architecture work. At DriveHealth.ai, they helped evolve isolated workflows into a production-grade intelligent platform, standardizing a shared RAG+DCE architecture while leading teams of 50+ across engineering, AI, platform, QA, and DevOps.

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Dipesh Valia

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Director of Engineering specializing in cloud platforms and enterprise SaaS

San Jose, CA24y exp
IvantiCarnegie Mellon University

Engineering leader focused on large-scale enterprise SaaS and MDM platforms, with experience modernizing monoliths into microservices, improving reliability, and scaling systems to support 15M devices across AWS and Azure. Stands out for combining deep platform architecture work with strong org-building: managed teams up to 45 globally and built a 0-to-1 platform services team to 22 people in under a year.

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VH

Mid-level investment analyst specializing in technology and AI research

San Francisco, CA5y exp
ZenDraftUSC

Built ZenDraft and brings an operator's lens to founder sourcing and evaluation. Demonstrated ability to run structured outbound, convert cold outreach into product-shaping conversations and pilot introductions, and manage an early-stage investment-style pipeline with clear decision frameworks.

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Nilesh Dixit - Executive AI engineering leader specializing in agentic AI and enterprise platforms in San Francisco, CA

Nilesh Dixit

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Executive AI engineering leader specializing in agentic AI and enterprise platforms

San Francisco, CA24y exp
Zeehub AICentre for Development of Advanced Computing

Bay Area engineering leader and startup co-founder with a rare mix of deep hands-on architecture experience, large-scale people leadership, and cross-functional product ownership. He helped launch GE Digital's industrial IoT efforts, holds multiple patents in the space, has scaled teams to 60-70 people, and has led both enterprise platform modernization and AI startup product development.

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Inman Breaux - Executive SaaS & AdTech CEO specializing in AI attribution and mobile growth in San Francisco, CA

Inman Breaux

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Executive SaaS & AdTech CEO specializing in AI attribution and mobile growth

San Francisco, CA17y exp
HyrosUSC

Mobile-tech entrepreneur building AppQ (mobile.appq.ai), an agentic mobile SDK that optimizes mobile UX in real time to improve Day 1/Day 7 retention by adjusting levers like ad frequency, difficulty, messaging, and artwork. Previously co-founded an SDK-led mobile ad network (invented push notification ads), scaled to 300K+ SDK integrations, and grew revenue from $7M in 10 months to $50M the following year before exiting in 2020.

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Nergal Issaie

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Director of Engineering specializing in AI/ML platforms and cloud systems

San Jose, CA20y exp
IBMSan Jose State University

Senior engineering leader from IBM who has built and scaled enterprise AI/GenAI platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, combining executive-level org leadership with hands-on debugging of production distributed systems. Particularly compelling for Director/VP roles needing someone who can unify architecture, platform strategy, and engineering execution across multiple teams.

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BA

Director-level Technology Leader specializing in IoT, cloud platforms, and wireless networking

Palo Alto, CA42y exp
SAPUniversity of Chicago
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Scott Melman - Executive Business Operations & Chief of Staff specializing in finance, data operations, and cost optimization in San Francisco, CA

Executive Business Operations & Chief of Staff specializing in finance, data operations, and cost optimization

San Francisco, CA18y exp
Canopy Technology Corp.NYU
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Eric Carrasquilla - Executive SaaS CEO and operator specializing in AI-first growth and Rule of 40 performance in San Jose, CA

Executive SaaS CEO and operator specializing in AI-first growth and Rule of 40 performance

San Jose, CA31y exp
Nextstep Consulting PartnersSanta Clara University
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TC

Mid-level Product Marketing leader specializing in AI, gaming, and community growth

Santa Clara, CA6y exp
ROVR NetworkUC Berkeley
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Ganesh Betageri - Executive engineering leader specializing in FinTech, blockchain, and AI in Danville, CA

Executive engineering leader specializing in FinTech, blockchain, and AI

Danville, CA21y exp
Breach InsuranceQuantic School of Business and Technology
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DS

Director-level product engineering leader specializing in enterprise cloud transformation

San Francisco, CA20y exp
SlalomDuke University
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SS

Director of Engineering specializing in cloud, microservices, and data-intensive platforms

San Ramon, CA31y exp
StealthIIT (BHU) Varanasi
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SP

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in data pipelines and applied AI

Santa Cruz, CA2y exp
AmazonUC Santa Cruz
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KM

Executive technology leader specializing in AI, cloud, and healthcare transformation

San Francisco, CA26y exp
eGlobalDoctors
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TE

Principal software engineer and technical founder specializing in AI platforms

San Jose, CA23y exp
Adrenal AI
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Shruti Krishnagiri - Executive Engineering Leader & Technical Founder specializing in AI automation platforms in San Francisco Bay Area, California

Executive Engineering Leader & Technical Founder specializing in AI automation platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California20y exp
BundledStanford University

Founder/CTO who built and shipped a consumer subscription-bundling platform end-to-end (architecture, implementation, testing) and scaled it to thousands of customers and major partners. Previously led a major reliability overhaul at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a Google-Docs-like ed-tech product—boosted observability, introduced incident management, and migrated to a Docker-based scalable architecture. Heavy user of AI tools (Cursor/Claude) for development, testing, and code review, with a strong bias toward lightweight, fast-moving execution.

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Prakash Bhanu - Director of Software Engineering specializing in cloud, platform, and FinTech systems in Sunnyvale, CA

Prakash Bhanu

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Director of Software Engineering specializing in cloud, platform, and FinTech systems

Sunnyvale, CA22y exp
Cast & CrewSofia University

Senior software engineering leader with broad 0-to-1 product experience spanning web apps, microservices, monoliths, messaging platforms, ML/AI products, and large-scale distributed systems. Notable examples include building a payroll/finance product for cast and crew, a distributed messaging platform, and a Walmart application deployed across multiple CDNs and clouds handling hundreds of TPS, with personal ownership across architecture, design, coding, and support.

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Michael Yudanin - Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and enterprise software in San Ramon, CA

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and enterprise software

San Ramon, CA19y exp
eGainPurdue University

Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience who still codes daily, currently directing AI-driven knowledge management systems at eGain. He stands out for combining large-scale people leadership with deep technical ownership of LLM/NLI pipelines and for a track record of turning complex operational problems into high-impact systems, including a manufacturing platform that boosted throughput 4x and expanded across 11 plants.

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ABHIJOY SARKAR - Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, agentic systems, and MLOps in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, agentic systems, and MLOps

San Francisco Bay Area, CA8y exp
FlipkartIIT Ropar

Built and shipped PromptGuard, a production middleware proxy that secures GenAI RAG/agent systems against prompt injection and unsafe tool use using risk scoring, graded policy actions, and least-privilege tool gating. Also replaced LangChain abstractions with a custom state-machine runner for a production voice agent to reduce latency and improve traceability, and delivered a clinic call assistant by converting front-desk/doctor requirements into scenario-based guardrails and measurable evals.

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