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Vetted Director of Engineerings in the Los Angeles Metro
Pre-screened and vetted in the Los Angeles Metro.
Sergey Pustovit
Director-level Data Platform & Analytics Engineering Leader specializing in distributed systems
“Entrepreneurially minded builder focused on proving architecture concepts via minimal demo prototypes for marketing. Has hands-on experience improving an A/B experimentation framework by interviewing stakeholders, identifying system limits and bottlenecks, and defining success criteria to scale experimentation and speed up analysis.”
Rich Cimino
Director-level Engineering & Operations leader specializing in aerospace/defense autonomy and systems delivery
Roger Obando
Executive Technology Leader (CTO/Fractional CTO) specializing in SaaS, cloud architecture, and startups
Mahesh Murthy
Executive Digital & Engineering Leader specializing in D2C omnichannel and AI transformations
Amit Masaun
Executive Engineering Leader specializing in AI-native healthcare platforms
Joshua Rhoades
Executive Technology Leader specializing in cloud transformation, compliance, and enterprise engineering
“Senior engineering leader with experience at Disney and BlackLine who drives business-aligned technology roadmaps through deep Product/Engineering partnership (two-in-a-box) and pragmatic prioritization frameworks. Has led major modernization initiatives—private-to-public cloud migration to GCP with multi-cloud evolution, data-layer performance improvements (Mongo/Redis, caching/query optimization), and tooling upgrades (VSS to GitHub)—while scaling teams with strong quality and accountability culture.”
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
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
Kevin Hamilton
Principal Software Architect specializing in FinTech and platform modernization
Hamed Azizadah
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in cloud-native SaaS and AI/ML
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
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.”
Hillel Wolin
Director of Engineering specializing in cloud platforms for healthcare, logistics, and FinTech
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