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Vetted Director of Engineerings in California
Pre-screened and vetted in California.
Bhupen Patel
Director-level Software Engineering Leader specializing in cloud-native data platforms and ad-tech
Parminder Sahi
Executive CTO / VP Engineering specializing in AI/ML and cloud-native SaaS platforms
Jones Pavan
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in platform modernization and AI integration
“Engineering leader from Blackline who has repeatedly rescued and delivered high-visibility products by resetting roadmaps, tightening execution (better specs/estimation), and accelerating team velocity. Scaled a distributed org from ~20 to ~40 engineers by building a new India team with strong hiring rubrics and governance-as-code/SDLC consistency. Also modernized legacy systems into microservices (Kafka/Kubernetes/Apigee) and drove hackathon-to-production innovation using Google Vertex AI.”
Shawn Souto
Director of Engineering specializing in GenAI and scalable enterprise platforms
Sar Perlman
Director of Engineering specializing in AI/ML products and cloud data platforms
“Hands-on engineering leader who has scaled teams quickly (hired 20 engineers in 4 months) and led major architecture shifts including monolith-to-microservices and serverless, async AI-driven medical data ingestion/search. Also drove a versioned-inventory redesign with auditability and rollback that reduced operational errors by 22%, and demonstrates strong incident response with clear stakeholder communication.”
Kurt Pickle
Executive Operations Leader specializing in manufacturing, biotech, and commercial growth
“Operations and manufacturing leader with experience acting as an internal CEO to build a new business inside IDEX Corp from a $15M budget, owning P&L and a 3-year plan through product launch. At Planet Innovation, used Lean/DMAIC-style value stream mapping to 4x production throughput (400 to ~1600 units/month), exceeding a customer’s 1200/month scaling target. Strong in building teams and operational systems (product development, quality, supply chain) and coaching non-ops founders using structured frameworks.”
Deep Dhanasekaran
Director of Engineering specializing in AI and geospatial SaaS platforms
David Smith
Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in e-commerce, marketplaces, and retail platforms
Francois Dellea
Executive Technology Leader (CTO/VP Engineering) specializing in cloud, SaaS, and AI/ML
Hamed Azizadah
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in cloud-native SaaS and AI/ML
Kevin Hamilton
Principal Software Architect specializing in FinTech and platform modernization
Oleg Kozlov
Principal Software Engineer & Architect specializing in cloud-native platforms and AI/LLM systems
Alex Baeza
Executive Engineering Leader specializing in data platforms and SaaS
Christopher Changchien
Director of Engineering specializing in healthcare compliance and scaling startup platforms
Yana Esterleyn
Executive Renewable Energy & Infrastructure Development Leader (Solar, Storage, Data Centers)
Anthony Blackwell
Executive Engineering Leader (CTO/Director) specializing in product platforms and AI systems
Ken Sherman
Executive VP of Engineering specializing in cloud SaaS, AI/ML, and global org scaling
Vivek Patel
Director of Engineering specializing in cloud-native SaaS and distributed systems
“Engineering leader for a facial-recognition edge platform who drove a full-stack modernization to scale from ~100 edge devices to thousands of locations. Led a major distributed-systems re-architecture (NATS streaming), database migration (MongoDB to PostgreSQL + TimeScaleDB), and UI/API modernization (React), while scaling the team 5→15 and implementing CI/CD + automated QA to improve release velocity and reliability.”
Greg Springer
Executive CTO/VP of Engineering specializing in full-stack hardware, embedded, and connected devices
Hillel Wolin
Director of Engineering specializing in cloud platforms for healthcare, logistics, and FinTech
sachin maharjan
Director of Engineering specializing in subscription commerce platforms and cloud modernization
David Bigelow
Executive Technology Leader specializing in AI-native cloud platforms and enterprise systems
Nick Kutovyy
Executive Engineering Leader (CTO/SVP) specializing in high-load platforms and GenAI/LLM systems
Thomas Winter
Principal Software Engineer & Product Leader specializing in distributed systems and agentic platforms