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.”

“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.”

“Product-focused full-stack builder who has shipped and operated multiple production apps from scratch, including an e-commerce bakery delivery scheduler (with concurrency controls and timezone handling) and a real-time passenger music-request system for Lyft rides that hit and resolved YouTube API rate-limit scaling issues via debouncing and caching. Strong in React+TypeScript and Node.js/TypeScript backends, with solid PostgreSQL/PostGIS data modeling and performance tuning.”