Vetted Co-Founders in Remote

“Engineering/product leader with repeated experience defining roadmaps and delivering platform migrations across SaaS and enterprise contexts. Scaled an education system from two districts to 2M+ students statewide, and led an Elasticsearch-based architecture for an internal Disney product serving ~100K employees. Known for rigorous execution (RAID/OKRs/sprints), strong stakeholder communication (weekly AI summaries), and empowering teams via end-to-end ownership and customer-connected development.”

“Co-founded academic-index (10,000+ users) and built a full-stack Next.js 14 document upload + client-side OCR + Gemini-powered analysis pipeline with strong production reliability (custom monitoring, retries, quality gates) and measurable gains (accuracy ~94%→98.5%, failures down ~60%). Also owns end-to-end biometric data visualization and a data-driven brand/UX overhaul at pre-seed health/performance startup Absolute Rest, with a background running a multi-client dev studio (Zen Digital).”

Polat Akbiyik

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and trading systems

Remote4y exp

“Full-stack builder with strong product and AI systems ownership, spanning data infrastructure, React/TypeScript apps, and LLM-powered agents. Particularly notable for building a crypto analytics MVP with catalog-driven ETL, config-based charting, and AI-generated dashboards, plus an options-strategy agent and an ops automation tool that cut a 10-minute workflow down to 10 seconds.”

Sam McKenzie

Screened

Mid-level Business Operations & FP&A professional specializing in RevOps automation and GTM strategy

Remote7y exp

“At BuildZoom, led cross-functional alignment to launch a new product (Data Explorer) and grew it from $0 to $1.3M ARR in 12 months. Leverages analytics and BI tooling (HubSpot, Looker, Tableau, Sisense) to build executive dashboards and drive strategic decisions, including redesigning sales incentives to emphasize recurring revenue.”

Samantha Pinheiro

Screened

Mid-level Growth & Business Development Operator in Financial Services and Defense Tech

Remote3y exp

“Sales/business development operator who has repeatedly built outbound motions from scratch—most recently launching a B2B recruiting GTM at Pinnacle Private Credit, generating 50+ relationships, a $50K+ pipeline in 5 weeks, and closing 7 enterprise agreements with C-suite financial services stakeholders. Also co-founded a defense tech startup (multi-sensor aerial threat detection), led investor outreach to 100+ investors, and applies AI/ML both for outreach personalization (ChatGPT/Claude) and product work (sensor fusion/threat detection).”

“Frontend product engineer with hands-on experience designing and building trust-sensitive web experiences in blockchain and consumer flows. Shipped token management UX at Chia and an experimentation-driven registration change at The Black Tux that improved conversion by about 30%, showing a strong mix of product sense, frontend depth, and measurable business impact.”

Jalaan Fields

Screened

Mid-level finance and strategy analyst specializing in valuation and performance analytics

Remote7y exp

“Co-founder of ATW Labs who built a consulting and analytics pipeline from scratch, selling into middle-market companies and converting outreach into repeat client engagements. Brings a blend of founder empathy, executive-facing business development, and early conviction around practical generative AI use cases, with experience translating ambiguous client needs into high-ROI recommendations.”