Vetted Co-Founders in the Los Angeles Metro

“Engineering/product leader with experience at ABC News and AWS who built newsroom collaboration and internal tooling initiatives into a full department, aligning roadmaps to business outcomes and navigating Disney-scale bureaucracy. Demonstrates hands-on architectural depth in serverless systems (Lambda/SQS/Parquet) and strong distributed-team operating cadence (Kanban/Asana, Jira/GitHub, Zoom/Slack), including leading while frequently traveling to evangelize and test products across bureaus.”

“Entrepreneurial builder who created a SaaS system for insurance sales and developed in-house sales/marketing platforms, prioritizing a robust backend that drove over $500k in immediate sales before expanding features. Emphasizes lean, high-impact execution with strong focus on optimization, barrier management, and contingency planning.”

“Apparel product developer/sourcing manager at Linkwear Limited who led high-risk, low-MOQ launches (down to 50 pcs/style) by reverse-engineering samples into tech packs, aggressively vetting/negotiating suppliers, and managing production through QC and shipping. Demonstrated trade-risk hedging (Section 301) via parallel sourcing and hands-on supplier recovery by traveling to Wuxi to resolve a mill bottleneck.”

“Full-stack/product-leaning engineer who owned an end-to-end AI Tutor feature (Claude-powered) shipped simultaneously to iOS/Android/web via Expo, with Cloudflare Workers backend and PostHog analytics. Built the company’s GitHub-based CI/CD to coordinate app store releases with backend blue/green deployments. Also has significant data engineering experience (including ~8TB/day workloads) using dbt/Fivetran plus sharding and hashing-based diffing for correctness.”

“Video editor/producer with a storytelling-first approach to longform YouTube, spanning both documentary-style musician content (travel/writing songs) and punchy corporate marketing for startups. Has led and mentored remote overseas freelance editors as a marketing content manager at BCG Attorney Search using rubrics/style guides, and has on-set experience as camera operator/DP for The Shade Room and Viacom YouTube content.”

“Growth creative marketer at Ampure focused on paid efficiency for portable EV chargers; ran a controlled Meta creative test reframing spec-heavy messaging into real-world EV use cases, delivering ~22% lower CPA and ~28% higher ROAS. Operates with a modular, rapid-iteration creative system across Meta/TikTok/YouTube and provides tight, performance-driven briefs to creators/editors.”

“Performance marketer managing a housing fintech’s $1M/month spend across Google, Microsoft, Meta, and TikTok, with deep emphasis on attribution and rigorous A/B testing. Drove a major efficiency gain by cutting MQL cost from ~$700 to ~$489 via event optimization, demographic/income targeting, ad copy overhaul, and landing page tests, and has hands-on experience recovering accounts after tracking breaks during site migrations.”