Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in the Bay Area

“Startup builder (MagicSeven) who designed and implemented a browser-based, agentic video editor end-to-end, including an AWS event-driven multimodal LLM “indexing” pipeline and an orchestration LLM agent for searching and manipulating footage. Demonstrates deep video file/codec knowledge plus practical production hardening of LLM workflows (format validation, plan/execute, S3-based state for debuggability).”

Emmanuel Ngalima

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in geospatial AI and cloud security automation

San Ramon, CA5y exp

“Cloud engineer and cloud OS SME (Chevron) who productionized large-scale security remediation—using Tanium and Ansible to address CIS benchmark noncompliance across 5,000+ servers with robust logging and RCA handoffs. Also drives adoption of a geospatial AI refinery inspection product by consolidating siloed imagery into an enterprise geospatial database, and presents internally on agentic/LLM tooling (LangChain/LangGraph, LangSmith observability).”

“Chief of Staff to the family of Kevin Scott (CTO of Microsoft), serving as the first CoS to unify previously siloed teams and build an operating cadence for executive decision-making. Experienced running high-stakes, high-security events including a Presidential fundraiser/President Biden visit, coordinating with the presidential advance team and Secret Service while protecting principal priorities and privacy.”

“Cross-functional product/engineering leader with startup and enterprise experience (Whimstay, Wells Fargo, Leap AI Technologies). Has owned end-to-end delivery including UI and payment architecture—built a multi-customer reservation payment flow using pre-auth plus event/timer-driven reminders and handled tricky edge cases like date changeover. Also introduced lightweight process (Jira, sprints, team/module structuring) to increase delivery speed in an early-stage AI document-matching startup.”

Farzam Ebadypour

Screened

Senior Security Sales Engineer specializing in AI security and edge WAF/API protection

San Jose, CA34y exp

“Enterprise customer success / technical sales professional with strong security and fintech account experience, owning onboarding through renewal for a ~5k-employee rollout. Demonstrated measurable outcomes including 80%+ adoption, 3-year renewal with expansion, CSAT 9/10 and NPS 69, plus a reported 60%+ reduction in security analyst review time; experienced driving SIEM/ticketing integrations and influencing product roadmap from customer feedback.”

Ronald Brockmann

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in cloud, AI, video, and embedded systems

San Francisco Bay Area, CA32y exp

“Serial startup founder with multiple prior ventures that raised capital, now building an AI supervision product focused on child safety in online gaming. Has repeatedly operated in new technology categories such as WiFi, video over IP, cloud gaming, and AI supervision, and approaches validation through customer interviews, industry research, and bootstrapped market proof.”

“Operations-focused leader/consultant who has built corporate teams from scratch and redesigned customer success vs. implementation workflows for scalable new-client onboarding. Uses structured operational audits (tools, contracts, process mapping) to identify redundancies and automation opportunities, then drives adoption through team buy-in. Also mentors cross-functional leaders and has been retained for post-acquisition systems integration.”

“LLM/agent builder who has shipped production AI systems in the wellness space, including an LLM-powered food tracking product used by 5000+ users and a voice/call-routing onboarding workflow using LangGraph/LangChain with LiveKit and Twilio. Strong focus on practical reliability work: latency reduction, retrieval/embedding tuning, and CI-driven evaluation with simulations and metrics.”

“Former founder with a successful exit who has since built multiple zero-to-one enterprise platforms across IoT, NLP, and healthcare AI, each cited as generating $1B+ in revenue. Also a Stanford and Alchemist Accelerator mentor, known for using ethnographic research to find product-market fit and for selling multi-million-dollar MVP business cases to C-level executives.”