Vetted Chief Technology Officers in the Los Angeles Metro

“Engineering/technology leader with experience tying roadmaps to OKRs/KPIs, scaling cross-functional engineering teams, and driving go-to-market execution for Managed IT Services revenue growth. In an early-stage company setting, personally stood up core systems (CRM, lead gen, website) and multi-cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS) while building investor materials (pitch deck, VDR, financials), resulting in an investor LOI within 8 months. Also led an on-prem deployment architecture redesign for a network monitoring (NPM) product to improve compatibility, scalability, and security.”

“Hands-on architect/executive who built a virtual sales platform from scratch with real-time video delivery and autoscaling global video nodes, while also operating at the stakeholder/roadmap level. Previously scaled IT as Arbonne grew from ~$11M to $1B in annual sales and led large digital transformation efforts including a 70-person team for princesshouse.com; also advises startups (e.g., SocialBud) on product expansion and roadmaps.”

“Engineering/technology leader (CTO-style) with experience scaling orgs and running distributed teams across four continents for over a decade. Led a high-stakes modernization of a securities trading platform at Wedbush—migrating from monolith to microservices on AWS with zero-downtime constraints—driving 45% execution performance improvement and enabling 25% market share growth. Emphasizes business-aligned roadmaps, build-vs-buy rigor, and scalable engineering practices/culture.”

“Engineering/product leader who builds business-aligned technology roadmaps and scales pod-based orgs with strong delivery discipline (OKRs, CI/CD, QA automation). Led a SaaS supply-chain application adopted by Fortune 100 customers, citing ~$4M MRR and ~87% gross profit, and has hands-on experience standardizing LLM + cloud/MLOps architectures with security/compliance guardrails. Also created the PISEK methodology and used it to run distributed innovation sprints (e.g., an AI ETA predictor moved from pilot to production).”

“Gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership of a computer-vision body-tracking system that powered Dance Break, a full-body dance game shipped across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android and used at large live events like EDC Las Vegas and Alibaba CoCreate. Particularly strong in performance-sensitive Unity systems, cross-platform optimization, and multiplayer architecture decisions, with experience spanning mobile, VR, and deterministic networking.”

“Engineering leader who grew from Lead Developer to CTO at Clips4Sale, scaling the org to around 30 people while restructuring engineering around revenue-driving initiatives like search, payments, reliability, and creator tools. Also built AI-powered event discovery and chatbot systems at FOSH using Claude, combining human feedback, prompt evaluation, and product simplification to improve output quality and user experience.”

“Entrepreneur/fintech product builder who raised a $100K pre-seed from ex-Google/Microsoft execs and built a real-time, direct-to-vendor bill pay micropayments platform. Previously helped scale Norton LifeLock to 1M users (2003) and also created Karma LA, a fraud-resistant, verified donation system (including VA veteran verification) aimed at improving trust and conversion in giving.”

Mo Arab

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Executive Technology Leader specializing in Cloud, Managed Services & AI/LLM integration

Los Angeles, CA25y exp

“Engineering/technology leader with experience at Evocative and through a merger with Hivelocity, aligning tech roadmaps to managed services growth. Led multi-region self-hosted cloud and automation initiatives that cut delivery time from days to hours/minutes and informed cost-saving infrastructure decisions (reported $500K OPEX savings). Known for scaling teams with pod ownership, agile/intake governance, and disciplined rollout practices that protect uptime and security.”