Vetted Chief Technology Officers

“Repeat early-stage startup CTO/first engineer who helped take Vettery from 0 to a $100M+ exit. Led product-oriented engineering with heavy investment in data science/ML, including a recommendations system and candidate evaluation model (90%+ predictive effectiveness), and scaled the modeling stack using parallel processing and Apache Airflow.”

“Founder of an LLC operating as a consulting firm providing fractional CTO services to startups, giving them parallel exposure to multiple early-stage companies. Has direct experience with MVP development, building org structures from scratch, and supporting early fundraising, and is exploring a pivot from consulting into a scalable product business while staying engaged with the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

“Insurtech R&D leader turned CTO with 25+ years across telecom, DoD, automotive, and commercial insurance. Built patented AI-driven insurance document ingestion (>95% accuracy with 1–3 samples) and led Azure-based backend/service development while managing up to 15 engineers at a commercial P&C MGA that reached a ~$60M book of business (~30 loss ratio) before run-off due to paper issues. Known for hands-on discovery (including field inspections) and rapid MVP delivery, including a risk-inspection iPad app that auto-generated draft reports.”

“Senior technology/executive leader with 30+ years building and scaling mission-critical platforms across blockchain, cloud, cybersecurity, and fintech, including leading 100+ person global teams and managing $100M P&Ls. Founded Pharus (2022) after driving Web2-to-Web3/DeFi/metaverse initiatives at SDK Co, using a first-principles, PoC-driven approach to deliver secure, compliance-aware transformations (GDPR/NYDFS) and multi-million-dollar optimizations, with a focus on quantum-resistant Web3 and ethical AI governance.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned a generative-AI pipeline end-to-end inside the Vibecut video editor using Next.js App Router/TypeScript, Gemini-based prompt routing, and Zustand state management, including concurrency-safe requests. Also integrated Python services to access newly released AI tooling, optimized Postgres/S3 data flows for thumbnails, and built Modal-to-Amplitude workflows for Reddit-driven sentiment/metrics in a pre-seed environment while also handling marketing.”

“Senior technology leader and hands-on builder spanning enterprise architecture and product/engineering leadership across healthcare and entertainment. Has led high-impact cloud and security architecture decisions (including establishing a private cloud to address scalability/security at massive scale) and scaled orgs 300% using pod-based team structures. Currently building an AI-supported hydroponics/vertical farming IoT framework (ESP32 + Azure) and a musician collaboration platform (React + Neo4j + AWS).”

Tuukka Luolamo

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI, cloud, and distributed platforms

Remote14y exp

“Engineering leader who stays hands-on in high-leverage technical areas (architecture, scalability, reliability) while operating at an executive level. Led StagePilot’s shift from a tightly coupled legacy system to a cloud-native, event-driven real-time platform proven at 1M+ concurrent users, and previously scaled multiple SRE teams at McGraw-Hill with SLOs, on-call, and blameless ops practices.”

Ramtin Kazemi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Django, AWS, and AI/ML

San Diego, California1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-powered personal statement editor in Next.js (App Router + TypeScript), including dynamic routing, server-side data fetching, and typed API route handlers. Post-launch, they handled production monitoring/debugging and shipped reliability/performance upgrades (rate limiting, retries, rollback, DB indexing), and report a 40% latency reduction using Suspense/streaming and React concurrency patterns. Also implemented a durable Temporal-orchestrated AI document workflow with robust retry/idempotency strategies.”

Mukundan Sridharan

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in IoT sensing, AI/ML, and RF/embedded systems

Rockville, MD22y exp

“Currently a startup CTO who thrives on building new technology stacks and rapidly turning technical ideas into products. Interested in partnering with a CEO/business team to commercialize embedded/edge concepts such as multi-sensor drone localization (video/audio/RF with SDR), low-cost solar+battery power nodes networked via LoRa, and an Amazon Sidewalk/LoRa connectivity device with cloud management.”

David Erickson

Screened

Executive Software Technology Leader specializing in enterprise supply chain and workforce optimization

Cary, NC36y exp

“Minority owner in a supply chain/logistics SaaS company (10 years operating) deployed in dozens of warehouses across enterprise and SMB customers. Known for turning technical pain points into business opportunities—previously created a paid performance testing services department leveraging OLTP/performance optimization expertise, generating new revenue while improving customer implementations. Demonstrates strong early-stage execution across product, coding, sales, and strategic pivots.”

“Has worked across multiple startup stages from pre-funding through Series D and emphasizes rigorous idea validation through direct conversations with both end users and purchasing decision-makers. Interested in applying NLP to automate summarization/abstracting of highly technical articles, with a balanced view of entrepreneurship that prioritizes health and family.”

Chakravarthy V P

Screened

Executive AI Consultant/CTO specializing in Agentic AI, GenAI, and cloud-native data platforms

Texas, USA21y exp

“Bootstrapped founder and CTO of C4Scale, a 2.5-year-old services-led company delivering MVP-to-scale product/platform builds for high-value clients across 5+ countries (10+ projects). Strong fit for roles blending scalable SaaS platform engineering, technical org leadership, and practical AI adoption, with clear awareness of the operational and GTM challenges of scaling into enterprise.”

Waldorff Villacres

Screened

Healthcare technology executive and architect with 20+ years leading enterprise platforms and digital transformation.

Seattle, Washington, USA21y exp

“Healthcare-focused founder in the R&D stage building an EHR and clinical staffing startup centered on value-based care. They have already tested the concept with the market, are engaging Medicaid/Medicare leaders and industry conferences like ViVE and HIMSS, and are focused on early-signal detection to improve patient outcomes while lowering utilization costs.”

Ronald Brockmann

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in cloud, AI, video, and embedded systems

San Francisco Bay Area, CA32y exp

“Serial startup founder with multiple prior ventures that raised capital, now building an AI supervision product focused on child safety in online gaming. Has repeatedly operated in new technology categories such as WiFi, video over IP, cloud gaming, and AI supervision, and approaches validation through customer interviews, industry research, and bootstrapped market proof.”

Chris Colinsky

Screened

Executive Technology Leader/CTO specializing in data platforms, AI agents, and e-commerce/payments

Los Angeles, CA23y exp

“Engineering leader with hands-on coding time who has driven major commerce and data-platform transformations: defined goop’s omnichannel strategy, unified payments to Square, and rebuilt real-time NetSuite inventory flows plus forecasting tools. Currently reorganized engineering into Product/Data/Support teams to hit aggressive seasonal roadmaps, and led a data-lake/medallion ELT refactor feeding embedded analytics (Tinybird) with improved reliability and cost efficiency; also accelerates onboarding via AI coding tools in a serverless, event-driven architecture.”

MATIAS JAUREGUIBERRY

Screened

Senior Unity Developer specializing in live mobile games and engine systems

Tandil, Argentina20y exp

“Game developer with hands-on ownership of major Unity/C# systems for Subway Surfers, including an Addressables migration and live game modes that became the most played in the title’s history. He ties feature work to business outcomes, citing major retention gains and a 3-4x revenue spike during a key anniversary event, and is now extending his work into AI-assisted live ops pipelines using LangChain and LLMs.”

“Built both traditional internal tooling and LLM-powered systems during an internship, including a React/Python/AWS calculator onboarding platform and a production-style ROS2 RAG assistant over 10K+ documents. Stands out for combining full-stack delivery, stakeholder coordination, and practical AI reliability work like retrieval tuning, source-grounded answers, and low-confidence fallbacks.”

“Operations/product-and-engineering leader who has repeatedly retooled early-stage/growing orgs (Open English, Metrc) to scale by implementing Scrum/Kanban, building metrics-driven decision systems, and upgrading teams with experienced product/engineering leadership. At Metrc, used data to drive executive alignment, established scrum teams and a 2-week cadence within 30 days, and helped burn down years of backlog/bugs while improving customer survey feedback within 3 months.”

“Former founding engineer and eventual CTO at 2Plus2 Partners (25 years ago) with additional experience in two private-equity-backed companies (apex analytix and HICX). Interested in helping build another company before retirement; comfortable with entrepreneurial risk but cannot self-fund significant capital.”

Keith Filzen

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in government/defense cybersecurity and cross-domain solutions

Caldwell, WV36y exp

“Former Cubic CTO with direct M&A experience on the company's sale to Veritas Capital, and prior investment analysis experience at In-Q-Tel. Brings a rare blend of executive technology leadership, compliance/security depth, and investment diligence expertise focused on government and military markets.”

Christopher Schmitt

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in FinTech & SaaS platforms

Atlanta, GA29y exp

“Startup-oriented technology leader with 13 years in early-stage environments, including serving as CTO through Series A and Series B fundraising. Has direct experience presenting to investors and a board of advisors, and is especially motivated by taking products from idea to first sale and scaling them into real businesses.”