Vetted Co-Founders

“Operations and quality leader who co-founded and scaled a patented-product business in the retail paint industry to $400k+ revenue with ~50% gross margin, while maintaining perfect delivery and quality-return records through a disciplined supplier audit system. Former global quality leader at Novelis who used collaborative self-assessment frameworks to drive ~65% reduction in customer claims and mentor non-operations teams (including sales) in practical quality tools and loss reduction.”

“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.”

“Video editor/post-production specialist with deep Premiere Pro expertise and strong After Effects capability, currently editing for the USGA YouTube channel (features/tributes/hype content). Built the Midnight Sun Company channel from scratch starting in 2013, including a music video that surpassed 5M views, and has experience leading and mentoring a small team of editors.”

“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.”

“Startup founder who co-founded Boogy, an LLM-based professional matchmaking product that scaled to 37k+ users in under 7 months by shifting GTM from individual onboarding to accelerator/VC partnerships (driving 5x engagement). After Boogy was acquired, joined Dossy as co-founder, hiring global growth interns and running LinkedIn-led GTM while fundraising.”

“Operator who took a seed-funded university spin-off in cybersecurity from zero revenue and heavy losses to profitability and industry leadership, while building the full internal ops stack (HR/payroll/benefits/401k) and the initial GTM engine (Salesforce/HubSpot, SPIN + MEDPICC). Personally led fundraising across 30+ VC pitches, raising $11.2M total and delivering $98M returned to investors to date, with additional upside from a subsequent spin-off.”

“Operations/program leader with experience at Open Core Ventures driving cross-functional initiatives across content/engineering and legal/tax operations. Built systems-heavy process improvements (public handbook + SOP frameworks, DRI accountability) and delivered measurable outcomes like +30% Hacker News front-page frequency and ~80% faster company formation.”

“Software Engineer at Armstrong Robotics building multithreaded C++ perception/planning/control software for robotic arms running commercial dishwashers deployed across multiple restaurant sites (up to ~2,000 dishes/day per installation). Strong in production operations: on-call debugging with deep logging/video analysis, rapid hotfixes, Datadog-based monitoring, and a Three.js calibration tool plus large regression test suite to de-risk live deployments.”

“Technology executive (VP/SVP Engineering, CTO/co-founder) with ~17 years of roadmap execution and the last 7 in senior exec roles. Notably led an AI-first strategic pivot when generative AI emerged—creating the AI product strategy, reskilling teams, and shipping initial AI features—while also scaling engineering orgs using SPACE metrics and driving major architecture decisions (custom reporting with React + Redshift) to close competitive gaps.”