Vetted Operations Professionals in the Bay Area

“Engineering leader who drove Lightroom Mobile’s roadmap at Adobe by enforcing reuse of Photoshop imaging tech to deliver RAW, non-destructive mobile editing with full Creative Cloud compatibility. In startup environments, has repeatedly scaled and professionalized engineering orgs (career ladders, evaluation systems, delivery process) and led high-stakes cloud/platform transformations—migrating off Heroku and consolidating fragmented AWS/GCP usage into a single GCP platform—improving reliability, deploy speed, and cutting cloud costs by 20%+.”

“Backend engineer who helped redesign and refactor Forma’s backend during an app rewrite, emphasizing modularity, maintainability, and A/B testing support while delivering feature parity on a quarter-long timeline. Led a careful database migration using parallel databases with schema differences, validating integrity via staging and SQL checks, and has experience debugging subtle computer-vision overflow edge cases.”

“Led the end-to-end pilot of Microsoft Viva Insights at Mars Inc., combining executive stakeholder management, IT/technical coordination, and data-analysis-driven rollout to drive adoption and expand the pilot into broader implementation. Also set up PMO and cross-functional operating rhythms for a multi-geography manufacturing transformation, including surfacing and resolving critical trade compliance risks.”

Neeraj Sadarjoshi

Screened

Director of BizOps & Strategy specializing in e-commerce delivery and operations scaling

San Bruno, CA13y exp

“Ops/strategy leader with 10+ years in analytics, operations, and strategy (MBA) who has launched and scaled on-demand/express delivery capabilities in large retail ecosystems. Led complex, cross-functional initiatives including a 30-minute white-label delivery pilot for an automotive parts client and express delivery expansion for Sam’s Club across 800+ locations, with strong emphasis on driver supply, incentives, and on-time performance.”

Karan Mehta

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Business Operations & GTM Strategy leader specializing in analytics and performance

Foster City, CA9y exp

“ZS consultant/product owner who repeatedly turns vague GTM performance goals into decision-centric analytics products and operating rhythms. Has scaled analytics initiatives from pilots into $1M+ platforms with 100+ leader adoption, and tied measurement tools to material business outcomes (e.g., $10M+ incremental revenue impact) through change management and cross-functional alignment.”

“Real Estate & Construction professional at Analog Devices who built a cross-functional "single source of truth" system (Excel to Smartsheet) integrating tools like CoStar and Conga. Previously co-founded a Shanghai-based communications coaching consultancy serving eBay middle managers, handling incorporation, branding/marketing (including WeChat), office negotiation, and growth through increased class frequency and mentoring.”

Donnell Mata

Screened

Director-level Strategy & Operations leader specializing in GTM, product, and operating cadence systems

San Francisco, CA22y exp

“Operator/strategy leader with experience driving digital transformation and building executive operating systems in high-noise environments. At a legacy B2C brand, created a prioritization framework and exec alignment process that cut 100+ initiatives to 16 and lifted execution from 12% to 81%. At Point B, owned a $20M delivery budget while shifting the firm to a tech-forward practice, implementing OKR/KPI cadences and AI-enabled workflows (n8n, LLMs, gamma.ai) that materially improved executive productivity.”

Daniel Bernhard

Screened

Director-level Manufacturing Operations leader specializing in electromechanical, MEMS, and biotech production

Emeryville, CA11y exp

“Operations/manufacturing leader who owned post-acquisition integration end-to-end, including site consolidation, technical transfer, and business systems alignment—delivering a 15-month multimillion-dollar program on time and 10% under budget. Experienced scaling a company from ~30 people to ~10x growth and driving public-company operational readiness; partnered with the CAO and external auditors to improve controls and remove quarterly shutdowns, increasing manufacturing capacity ~10% without added headcount.”

Michelle Lu

Screened

Senior Customer Success Manager specializing in B2B SaaS retention and expansion

Pleasanton, CA8y exp

“Enterprise CSM with martech/market-intelligence background (Pulse and Gartner context) who owns accounts end-to-end from onboarding through renewal and expansion. Known for executive-level value narratives (e.g., CPO using benchmarks in a board deck), multi-threading across Product and Legal, and using usage/segmentation analytics plus activation tactics (A/B testing, targeted messaging) to drive adoption and renewals.”