Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals in the Bay Area

“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.”

Mayank Gulati

Screened

Director-level B2B SaaS growth marketer specializing in demand gen and RevOps

San Francisco, CA11y exp

“Fractional CMO / first-marketing-hire profile with strong B2B SaaS growth and RevOps depth, especially in mid-market and enterprise motions. Stands out for combining strategic repositioning, SEO/content experimentation, ABM, and channel partnerships with hands-on systems building in HubSpot and analytics tooling—driving outcomes like $250k ARR, 50+ qualified leads, and 12-35% sales velocity gains.”

Tony Barreto

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in modern web apps

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“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.”

Rasheed Samady

Screened

Entry-level AI Engineer specializing in automation and ML platforms

San Francisco, CA0y exp

“Built a production Python lead intelligence pipeline that combined external APIs, website crawling, and automated opportunity brief generation, with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and recovery. Also has hands-on Playwright experience hardening flaky, dynamic web automations and reducing intermittent failures to under 5% through logging, screenshots, session management, and retry strategies.”