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Vetted Director of Engineerings in the Bay Area
Pre-screened and vetted in the Bay Area.
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in mobile, video, and consumer platforms
Executive Technology & IP Attorney specializing in AI, privacy, and complex transactions
Andrew Coven
Executive Software Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML products and large-scale platforms
“Engineering leader who drove Lightroom Mobile’s roadmap at Adobe by enforcing reuse of Photoshop imaging tech to deliver RAW, non-destructive mobile editing with full Creative Cloud compatibility. In startup environments, has repeatedly scaled and professionalized engineering orgs (career ladders, evaluation systems, delivery process) and led high-stakes cloud/platform transformations—migrating off Heroku and consolidating fragmented AWS/GCP usage into a single GCP platform—improving reliability, deploy speed, and cutting cloud costs by 20%+.”
Executive engineering leader specializing in enterprise SaaS, cloud platforms, and FinTech
Jim Woodroffe
Executive Engineering Leader (CTO/VP) specializing in scaling platforms, AI, and cloud infrastructure
“Entrepreneurial operator who previously built an AI context layer for personal communication/relationships and has worked with a New York-based venture group to evaluate early-stage ideas from both technical and business angles. Currently exploring broad startup opportunities and collaborating with 2–3 early-stage companies, with a structured approach to assessing market outcomes, competition, and team fit.”
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in personalization platforms, MLOps, and GenAI
Joshua Outwater
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI platforms and FinTech systems
“Fintech and AI product engineer who has owned major production rollouts, including Lending Club's banking-arm launch, and has since built LLM-powered decision systems for finance and climate use cases. Particularly strong in combining stakeholder management with pragmatic architecture choices like observability, deterministic pipeline design, RAG, and document-to-structured-data workflows.”
Philip Kearney
Executive engineering leader specializing in embedded systems, IoT, and wireless networking
“Former Apple employee who worked with Steve Jobs in the early 2000s and is now looking to join startups as a CTO partner to non-technical founders. Brings a thoughtful, skeptical lens on VC-backed startup execution, emphasizing technical feasibility, real product-market fit, and mission-driven teams solving meaningful problems.”
Executive Engineering Leader specializing in AI, SaaS, and high-traffic consumer platforms
Engineering leader specializing in data platforms and distributed systems
Executive engineering leader specializing in enterprise SaaS, AI, and platform development
Executive engineering leader specializing in capital markets, risk systems, and FinTech
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, cloud architecture, and SRE
Ali Rezafard
Director of Engineering specializing in cybersecurity SaaS platforms and cloud-scale backend systems
“Director of Engineering at Proofpoint for 8 years, leading architecture and integration of Java microservices within a detection platform. Demonstrates pragmatic delivery leadership—incurring short-term cost to meet launch deadlines, then systematically paying down technical debt and optimizing AWS spend—plus a disciplined, long-horizon approach to backward-compatible API/schema evolution across many dependent services.”
Dimple Joseph
Director of Engineering specializing in cloud-native SaaS, e-commerce search, and AI personalization
“Engineering leader (12+ years Director, 17 years lead) focused on developer productivity and platform/framework work across Oracle, PlayStation, Workday, and CafePress. Notable for building distributed teams from scratch and delivering high-impact platform architecture—e.g., re-architected PlayStation’s upload pipeline to support 500GB–5TB submissions using browser-to-AWS chunked uploads with SNS/SQS and deduplication/resume support.”
Sterling Campbell
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect specializing in multi-cloud, DevOps, and AI/ML platforms
“Engineering leader (Director of Development) with hands-on cloud and product experience who builds business-aligned technology roadmaps and scales teams. Delivered an enterprise cloud-migration enabler at UHG by implementing AD authentication and Terraform-based IaC for custom VM images while meeting 90-day InfoSec patch/rotation requirements, and drove a 20% lift in user consumption/retention by designing an interactive branded media portal experience for Sunkist.”
Director-level engineering leader specializing in FinTech, AI, platforms, and mobile
Kapil Sharma
Executive engineering leader specializing in AI platforms, LLMs, and healthcare SaaS
“Senior engineering leader in healthcare AI who combines org scaling with deep hands-on architecture work. At DriveHealth.ai, they helped evolve isolated workflows into a production-grade intelligent platform, standardizing a shared RAG+DCE architecture while leading teams of 50+ across engineering, AI, platform, QA, and DevOps.”
Executive engineering leader specializing in FinTech, blockchain, and AI
Director of Engineering specializing in cloud, microservices, and data-intensive platforms
Director of Engineering specializing in cloud platforms and enterprise SaaS
Shruti Krishnagiri
Executive Engineering Leader & Technical Founder specializing in AI automation platforms
“Founder/CTO who built and shipped a consumer subscription-bundling platform end-to-end (architecture, implementation, testing) and scaled it to thousands of customers and major partners. Previously led a major reliability overhaul at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a Google-Docs-like ed-tech product—boosted observability, introduced incident management, and migrated to a Docker-based scalable architecture. Heavy user of AI tools (Cursor/Claude) for development, testing, and code review, with a strong bias toward lightweight, fast-moving execution.”