Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals

“Healthcare solutions architect with roughly 7 years at Mass General Brigham, evolving from application specialist to broad cross-functional architect supporting telehealth, digital health, conversational AI, generative AI, and legal workflow initiatives. Particularly strong at translating complex clinical and business problems into enterprise architectures, integrations, and stakeholder-specific demos across hospital leadership, clinicians, IT, and vendors.”

“Senior engineering/CTO-level leader with hands-on delivery of serverless, event-driven cloud governance platforms (deployed across multiple GE business units) and experience building adaptable usage-based billing at UserTesting. Has advised startups (including CaseText during YC) and supported fundraising and acquisition due diligence, including investor materials for a smart cooler custody management system presented to BARDA during Operation Warp Speed.”

“Cross-functional operations leader who managed six departments and led a first-time international expansion from Dubai into Riyadh, including hiring a Saudi GRO to navigate registrations/licensing and local requirements. Implemented a BI dashboard and later integrated it with an ERP to give executives real-time visibility into sales, project delivery, and finance, and stood up a PMO to improve delivery and collections while reducing sales-to-delivery friction.”

RajaSekhar Divakaruni

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in Payments and Financial Services

Edison, New Jersey21y exp

“Senior Director-level engineering leader from Zelle who built a multi-year cloud and use-case expansion roadmap (e.g., SMB and brokerage funding) aligned to an aggressive growth target (from $1.2T to $5T in 5 years). Experienced scaling an engineering org from ~25–30 people into domain-driven pods and leading audit/compliance remediation (OCC, SOC 2, PCI) through security and infrastructure reengineering, including multi-region/multi-zone architecture.”

Ashraf Jahangeer

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

Pleasanton, CA19y exp

“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.”

Bharti Prasad

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Executive growth and marketing leader specializing in consumer internet and gaming

Austin, TX15y exp

“Growth and GTM leader with end-to-end P&L ownership across e-commerce and real-money gaming, including scaling a fantasy sports product to the #4 player in its category and managing a 10M-user business. Particularly notable for launching a Tongits app in the Philippines remotely from India using self-directed market research, then doubling retention in 3 months and scaling it to #5 in the country.”

“Operations and technical project leader with experience spanning a boutique investment bank and a startup, focused on modernizing facilities, workplace, and real estate workflows. Stands out for spotting manual operational pain points, driving tools like ServiceNow and Nuvolo-style workplace systems from requirements through implementation, and improving scalability, visibility, and cross-functional coordination.”

“Operations/finance leader who built the internal infrastructure for a personal care company to sell into 35,000 retail stores, spanning contract manufacturing, warehousing/3PL, banking credit facilities, HR policies, marketing ops, and accounting systems (Great Plains, QuickBooks Online). Currently supports a music/entertainment organization, mentoring non-business creatives on business and finance while driving profitability and growth.”

Ryan Crabbe

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Junior Full-Stack/Mobile Engineer specializing in React Native and NestJS

Remote1y exp

“Built an AI-powered restaurant menu rewriting app that generates diet-constrained menus from photos, with a backend designed around bounded contexts and a lightweight CQRS approach. Demonstrates strong multi-tenant PostgreSQL design (RLS, tenant-scoped queries) and performance tuning (partitioning, keyset pagination, composite/partial indexes), plus AI workflow orchestration using Redis/BullMQ and Vercel AI SDK with structured outputs and evals; reduced p95 latency ~35–50% via racing LLM requests and caching.”

“Entrepreneur building a platform to turn clinically/technically validated medical device innovations (not yet commercialized in Western markets) into acquisition-ready companies by tightly controlling execution. Focuses on selecting technologies with execution risk (not clinical/technical risk) and running them through a structured program framework designed around acquisition criteria from day one.”

Erik Melanson

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Executive intelligence and cyber operations leader in defense and national security

Annapolis Junction, MD19y exp

“Aspiring founder in the early stages of shaping a startup concept, with a practical plan to refine the initial offering, sharpen the value pitch, and secure both investors and early client interest. Brings firsthand exposure to private-equity-backed companies, including experience seeing capital raising and board accountability from the operating side.”

Vela Sivasankaran

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Executive technology leader specializing in cloud, telecom, and digital transformation

Virginia, USA16y exp

“Former founder of a financial services technology startup that is currently on hold for family reasons. Has hands-on startup fundraising exposure from employee roles, including presenting proof-of-concept demos to venture capital firms, and brings a strong focus on fraud prevention, safeguards, and regulatory compliance.”

“Operations/program leader who partnered closely with a COO to drive transformation initiatives (compliance workflow automation and budgeting redesign), implementing governance cadences and executive dashboards to improve alignment and decision speed. Managed a $120MM operating budget and successfully delivered regulator-mandated resolution planning under tight timelines, while maintaining strict discretion during restructuring work involving sensitive HR data.”

Derek Tuggle

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Executive Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in industrial IoT controls

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“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.”

Jingyao Chen

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Junior Backend/Platform Engineer specializing in AI microservices and cloud-native systems

Pittsburgh, PA2y exp

“Cofounder at MeowyAI who shipped a production multimodal (vision/voice/text) AI task manager using Gemini, tackling real-world issues like hallucinations, tool-calling safety, and RAG-based preference memory. Also built a production multi-agent RAG system orchestrated with LangGraph (and contributes to LangChain), with strong emphasis on latency optimization, observability (OpenTelemetry), and rigorous testing/evaluation including A/B tests and adversarial prompting.”

Ching Pei

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Executive product leader specializing in B2B SaaS growth and portfolio integration

Remote11y exp

“Current VP of Product / Chief Product Officer who spent the last two years helping shape fundraising and exit strategy efforts at their company. They bring rare product-led storytelling experience across debt financing, pre-IPO roadshow preparation, and acquisition discussions with private equity and investors, paired with a clear interest in building something from scratch.”

“Founder of ThreatTape, a bootstrapped security consulting and software development company, funding growth through early client revenue rather than outside capital. They have gone through the Y Combinator process, spoken with angel investors in Atlanta, and built Ostraq, a secure online elections platform now being discussed with Georgia state officials for potential statewide adoption.”