Vetted Co-Founders in the Greater Seattle

“Product leader focused on human-centered AI, with standout experience leading agentic AI strategy for Microsoft’s Cloud Supply Chain during a major GPU demand surge after the OpenAI partnership. They combined platform thinking, embedded AI UX, and influence-based leadership to drive adoption, cut manual effort by 40%, reach 2,000 MAU, and help protect $50M in at-risk revenue, while also building an AI quiz coaching tool for middle-school academic Olympiad students.”

Divyam Agrawal

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and NLP classification systems

Seattle, WA4y exp

“Internship experience building a production RAG+LLM pipeline to map messy card transaction descriptions to merchant brands, including a custom modified-ROUGE evaluation approach for weak/variant ground truth. Improved scalability and cost by moving from a managed LLM endpoint (e.g., Bedrock) to self-hosted vLLM, and orchestrated massive embedding backfills (5,000+ files, 10B+ rows) using an Airflow-triggered SQS + ECS worker architecture with robust retry/DLQ handling.”

Chuks Onwuneme

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in Healthcare IT, AI, and regulated SaaS

Seattle, WA24y exp

“Founder who raised friends-and-family capital in 2024, used it to build an initial product and develop patent-backed IP, then pivoted from AI impersonation detection to authorization and trust infrastructure for agentic workflows. Demonstrates strong strategic thinking around infrastructure products, customer-driven repositioning, and venture-backed startup dynamics.”